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Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (11 Jan 2012)

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

Written Answers — Health Practitioners' Qualifications: Health Practitioners' Qualifications (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: Registration of medical practitioners is a matter for the Medical Council. Your query has been forwarded to the Medical Council for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: The decision to increase the higher rate of VAT from 21% to 23% was already agreed with the IMF and the European authorities, although it was originally intended to increase VAT by 1 per cent in 2013 and 1 per cent in 2014. The Government has decided, in the context of the budgetary challenges, to bring forward this measure, whilst committing not to increase the VAT rate past 23% during the...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: I am determined to address the issues which cause unacceptable delays in patients receiving treatment in our hospitals. In this regard I have established the Special Delivery Unit (SDU), which will work to unblock access to acute services by dramatically improving the flow of patients through the system, and by streamlining waiting lists, including referrals from GPs. The SDU is working...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 985 and 987 together. My Department has asked the HSE for the detailed information sought by the Deputy and I will be in further communication with him when it is to hand.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: Up to 2011 information on the numbers of agency nursing staff employed across the public health sector was not routinely collected. However, since the introduction of new agency contracts early in 2011, information on the number of agency nursing hours worked has been collated in respect of the HSE services. From 14th March - 30th November 2011 (the latest date for which information is...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: The total number of nurses (other than agency nurses) employed in the public health service (by contract type), as at November 2011 (latest data), is as follows: Nurses employed in the public health service WTE Permanent Full-Time WTE Permanent Part-Time WTE Fixed-Term Full-Time WTE Fixed-Term Part-Time WTE Spec. Purpose Full-Time WTE Spec. Purpose Part-Time Total WTE excl. Career Break...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: Under the provisions of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 the Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible, in cooperation with the medical training bodies and after consultation with the Higher Education Authority, for undertaking appropriate medical workforce planning for the purpose of meeting specialist medical staffing and training needs of the health service on an ongoing basis....

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 Jan 2012)

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

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: In my reply to the Deputy on 24 November 2011, I provided the average salaries paid to medical consultants under the 2008 Contracts. The average salary paid to consultants who are working under the 1997 contract is €160,246. The Health Service Executive has advised that there are also 6 consultant psychiatrists working in the public health service under a Geographical Wholetime Equivalent...

Written Answers — Health Service Properties: Health Service Properties (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: Estate management of the Health Service Executive property portfolio is a service matter. Therefore your question has been referred to the Executive for direct reply. The information is being collated and will be provided as soon as possible.

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: There are currently 10 State agencies financed by the Exchequer, the details of which are set out below. Any expenses incurred as a result of attendance at Board meetings are governed by the Travel and Subsistence Circulars issued by the Department of Finance and paid where appropriate. In relation to Boards and their members under my Department's remit, responsibility for the administration...

Health Services (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: I said the Government's health policy would be based on evidence based information. I challenge the Deputy to go to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation trolley count site and measure the results. The figures indicated have been agreed by the organisation and us. There is a dispute in one or two areas because, as happened today in particular, there was an alarming difference between...

Insurance Industry (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: As part of budget 2012, the Government agreed a number of changes to charges for patients who chose to be treated on a private basis in public hospitals. These changes will have no impact on public patients who comprise the vast majority of those treated in public hospitals. When individuals elect to be treated privately, they agree to meet the consultants' fees and the hospitals'...

Insurance Industry (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: I remind the Deputy that his party's policy was to charge the full economic cost.

Insurance Industry (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: The Deputy is not.

Insurance Industry (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: I am saying that increases in charges will hurt families; there is no question about that. Why was no effort made over the 50 years of monopoly, most of them under Fianna Fáil Governments, particularly over the past 12 years, to address the costs of medical care here? Why is it possible for an individual to make €1 million out of a single company? Too much has clearly been paid for the...

Insurance Industry (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: We do not have to go too far back in history to find that rises in premiums in recent years were the most astonishing rises of all. I want a situation where the costs to the insurers are examined and reduced in a meaningful way and, therefore, the cost of premiums should be reduced as well. I do not suggest that some of the changes we have made will not cause upward pressure, I say that...

HSE Senior Management Remuneration (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: As a step toward achieving this goal, I will bring legislation forward involving significant changes in the governance of the HSE. The legislation will abolish the board of the HSE and will replace the board structure with a directorate structure. The purpose of the new directorate structure is to drive greater transparency, accountability and efficiency, and to reshape the system to better...

HSE Senior Management Remuneration (11 Jan 2012)

James Reilly: I assure the Deputy that he will have plenty of opportunity to discuss this in coming weeks. I intend to introduce the legislation at the earliest possible time - probably towards the end of next month. As I said in my original response, we are doing this because I want much clearer sight of money. We know what happened during the fair deal issue when moneys were put aside to accommodate...