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Written Answers — Health Reports: Health Reports (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: The Emergency Medicine Programme report, which I launched on 19 June this year, sets out a vision for the development and delivery of emergency medical services in the State. The programme document will be hugely valuable. It is clinically led and is one of the key clinical programme documents. As for the other clinical programmes, it is a policy document, and there are areas still for...

Written Answers — Tobacco Control Measures: Tobacco Control Measures (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: My Department has not conducted or commissioned studies specifically relating to plain or generic packaging of tobacco products. It is recognised that in an environment of increasing prohibition of tobacco advertising and sponsorship worldwide, the cigarette pack has become a key marketing tool for the tobacco industry to promote their products. I am aware that before the UK make any...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: The management and delivery of the health capital programme is a service matter. Therefore your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply

Written Answers — Cosmetic Surgery: Cosmetic Surgery (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: Health care professionals, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists etc. employed by Cosmetic Surgery Clinics in Ireland are required to be registered with their relevant professional regulatory body. Much of the legislation governing healthcare professionals has been extensively updated and amended in recent years with the publication of a number of relevant Acts including...

Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) is working to unblock access to acute services by improving the flow of patients through the system, and by streamlining waiting lists, including the management of referrals from GPs by hospitals. The SDU is working closely with its partner agencies - mainly the HSE and the NTPF. As a priority, public hospitals were instructed to ensure that, by the end of...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) is working to unblock access to acute services by improving the flow of patients through the system, and by streamlining waiting lists, including the management of referrals from GPs by hospitals. The SDU is working closely with its partner agencies - mainly the HSE and the NTPF. As a priority, public hospitals were instructed to ensure that, by the end of...

Hospital Services (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. The Strategy for Cancer Control in Ireland 2006 recommends that all major cancers, including oesophageal and stomach cancers, be treated in designated centres where patients are managed by multidisciplinary teams, in accordance with the best standards of cancer diagnosis, treatment and care. The HSE's national cancer control programme,...

Hospital Services (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: The arrangements are as I have stated. That is the plan and those are the arrangements that have been put in place. I welcome the Deputy's comments. We want all citizens with oesophageal cancer and upper gastrointestinal cancer to get the best treatment. Like the Deputy, I believe that where possible we must have the volume of patients going through to maintain the expertise....

Employment Rights (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: I am taking this on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection, who is on EU business in Cyprus. Legislation governing employment rights is primarily a matter for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation who advises that in general, the employment rights legislation administered by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation does not contain an upper age limit. In...

Employment Rights (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: The underlying and fundamental issue is demographic. The OECD put this conundrum well when it stated, "Policy makers are facing the challenge of providing a short-term response to the crisis without losing sight of the longer-term structural reforms needed to put pension on a solid footing in light of population ageing." Addressing this demographic problem is what lies behind the changes to...

Employment Rights (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: I hear what the Deputy is saying. The core principle of sustainable social protection systems in advanced economies is that citizens receive benefits in proportion to their contributions. This has been always part of our pension system and changes to State pension provision which were announced recently put an increased emphasis on this as the system had not maintained a sufficient link...

Suicide Prevention (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: I thank Deputy Neville for raising this important issue. The Deputy is known to be a great champion of the cause of suicide prevention. The suicide rate in Ireland gradually declined between 2003 and 2007 from 497 to 458. However, this trend has reversed and evidence supports a link between the economic downturn and the increase in the rate of suicide. A recent CSO report indicates an...

Suicide Prevention (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: I thank Deputy Neville for raising this important issue. I recognise, as he does, that the figures we have for suicide could in fact be an awful lot higher if single vehicle accidents were considered. We have seen some tragedies, including one more recently in a foreign clime involving an Irish couple who ended up losing children as a consequence of a man with suicidal intent. I would like...

Acute Hospital Services (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The Government is committed to ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of care in the appropriate settings be they acute, community or residential. The traditional focus on the institution rather than the patient must be changed. To this end, we support older people to live at home and in their communities for as long as possible. This...

Acute Hospital Services (12 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: There is no question or doubt but that patients from Roscommon have been for a long time opting to go to Mayo General Hospital, Sligo General Hospital, Portiuncula Hospital and Galway University Hospital. A survey taken a couple of years ago indicated that only 9% of people with an address in Roscommon were attending the hospital in Roscommon, with the remainder attending other hospitals....

Personal Explanation by Minister (11 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to make a personal explanation, arising from questions raised in the House yesterday, which will outline the circumstances by which my name came to appear in Stubbs Gazette. I believe this explanation will show fellow Deputies that I have at all times acted with complete propriety and that the problem stems from complicated litigation...

Written Answers — Health Care Infrastructure: Health Care Infrastructure (11 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: As investment in health care infrastructure is a service matter, your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — European Court of Human Rights Rulings: European Court of Human Rights Rulings (11 Jul 2012)

James Reilly: On foot of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the A, B and C v Ireland case, and to fulfil a commitment included in the Programme for Government, on 13th January the Government established an Expert Group, drawing on appropriate medical and legal expertise, with a view to making recommendations on how this matter should be properly addressed. The membership of the Expert...