Results 12,761-12,780 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: My Department has not acquired any buildings in the last twelve months. As management of the health property portfolio is a service issue, your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct response
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- General Practitioner Services (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I apologise for interrupting. There is a lot of noise coming from the background and I cannot hear the speakers.
- Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: Medical cardholders are required to pay a 50 cent charge for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by community pharmacists, subject to a cap of â¬10 per month for each person or family. Charges are not payable in respect of items supplied under the long-term illness scheme. Prescription charges do not apply to children in the care of the HSE or to methadone supplied to...
- Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I thought my answer was clear on how the situation had changed. However, the old saying comes to mind, "There are none so blind as those who will not see and none so deaf as those who will not listen." The reality is that not alone were the coffers empty when we arrived in government but there was a stack of IOUs in them as well. The money is not there to do what I wanted to, as already...
- Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I have just signalled very clearly that in the future I hope to be able to introduce the repeal of these charges as the economy improves and we make savings in health as we have done to date. Last year, through the new clinical programmes and the special delivery unit in conjunction with front-line services, we saved 70,000 bed days at a value of â¬63 million to the State. That money has...
- Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: As we are having a little history lesson, may I remind the Deputy that I was only in the door as Minister for Health when I gave that interview on prescription charges and that I had not had the opportunity to examine every cupboard? I certainly was not given the opportunity to check behind all the radiators where certain other reports had been lost. The Deputy might ask his leader about...
- Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: It is not budget neutral at all. It brings in â¬27 million per annum, and I would dearly love to find that money elsewhere. I will continue to seek it elsewhere so that I can fulfil that promise. I, along with many other people in the country, was not aware of the depth of the destruction the Deputy's Government wreaked on the country until we got a complete look at what was going on in...
- Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: Exactly. Who are the Greens?
- Hospital Services (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I am aware that Deputy Kelleher has claimed there may be some issues with trolley counts in some hospitals. I draw the Deputy's attention to the statement issued by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, acknowledging and confirming the reduction by 17% overall in the numbers of people on trolleys in accident and emergency departments in the first four months of 2012 compared with...
- Hospital Services (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I am glad the Deputy qualified his statement. If there is a question, as has been suggested by some, that patients are being hidden around hospitals, it will be fully investigated. I would be pleased to deal with anybody engaging in that practice. There is absolutely no question that international information shows very clearly the patient is better off in a ward than in an accident and...
- Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: The Health (Amendment) Act, HAA, card is given to men, women and children who contracted hepatitis C from the administration within the State of blood or blood products. Under the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 the entitlement of an individual to an HAA card and to related services is decided by the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive. The latter is bound by the definition...
- Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I too send my best wishes to anybody who is acutely ill at this time. I realise the difficulties attaching to this issue and am sympathetic to the plight of those involved. However, as I said in my reply, in the absence of some other method of defining the cause of illness, it is very difficult, under the legislation, to deal with the cases outlined. The Deputy observed that a very small...
- Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I will certainly undertake to consult again on this matter. There are specialists particularly proficient in this area who would be of assistance to us. I do not mean this as a defence, but the Attorney General must be consulted in this matter lest it create a precedent which might cause problems. The primary objective must be to support any woman who...
- Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I am pleased to confirm that a decision has been made to make boceprevir, marketed as Victrelis, and telaprevir, marketed as Incivo, which are hepatitis C protease inhibitor drugs, available within the hospital system for the treatment of hepatitis C. The new treatments have been found to be effective in treating adult patients with hepatitis C genotype 1 infection who have compensated liver...
- Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I have discussed this issue with Dr. Barry White, national director of clinical strategy and programmes with the Health Service Executive. He is very much involved in this area as somebody who treats patients with haemophilia, many of whom contracted hepatitis C through contaminated blood products. There are medical protocols around this, which I will not go into, because there is a...
- Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: Those who have been assessed and are on the drug will progress quickly, while others must go through the process to ensure they are suitable. With regard to meeting Transfusion Positive-----
- Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)
James Reilly: I am sorry. I have met Transfusion Positive and have no problem meeting representatives of Positive Action.
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (15 May 2012)
James Reilly: I am very disappointed that insurers have introduced co-payments for procedures that primarily affect older people and I will be considering what measures might be available to me to address this issue. The example used by the Deputy of a â¬2000 co-payment relates to a company policy of one particular insurer. It is important to note that different insurers also offer plans which provide...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 May 2012)
James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.