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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: I am examining the issue of available data and I will be in further contact with the Deputy as soon as it becomes available.

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (15 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: The report of the National Substance Misuse Strategy Steering Group is close to completion. I expect to receive proposals in the coming months and I will then brief my colleagues in Government on these.

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (15 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: The management of hospital services generally, including outpatient waiting lists, is a matter for the Health Service Executive and the individual hospitals concerned. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the case investigated...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: The following table shows the wholetime equivalent number of staff by grade category employed in the health sector from the end of 2004 to October 2011. As the table shows, the Management/Administration, and total employment across all grades, was at its highest at December 2007. Since then, management/administration has reduced by almost 2,000, or 11%. This compares to a reduction in numbers...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Dec 2011)

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

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: It is difficult to predict with certainty the likely impact of any reduction in the uptake of private health insurance (PHI) on the demand for public hospital services. Much depends on the numbers of people who reduce the level of cover offered by their PHI plans, and on the numbers who might stop purchasing PHI altogether. There is no doubt that public hospital services will face an...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: Under the HSE's National Cancer Control Programme (HSE-NCCP), cancer surgery and diagnosis are undergoing a process of consolidation into eight centres (and one satellite centre), while radiation oncology services are provided in a limited number of centres. Consequently, patients may need to travel for treatment. There are a number of systems of support in place for these patients...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (15 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: There are some 13,000 acute hospital beds, including some 1,800 day beds, in the Irish public acute hospital system. The exact number available for use at any one time varies according to a number of factors, including planned levels of activity, refurbishment and infection control. Beds are also closed to control expenditure because, like all other public agencies, hospitals have to...

Written Answers — Health Service Contracts: Health Service Contracts (15 Dec 2011)

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

Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: Responsibility for the enforcement of food labelling legislation rests with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) and its official agents, which include the Health Service Executive (HSE), the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Local Authorities (LAs) and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA). In 2008 the HSE, carried out 18,068 food labelling inspections...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Dec 2011)

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

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Dec 2011)

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

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: Management of the Health Service Executive property portfolio is a service matter: therefore, your question has been referred to the Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: The Press and Communications Office of my Department liaise with the media on behalf of the Department as well as all Ministers and do not use the services of a PR company. However, my Department has availed of these services in areas such as health promotion campaigns including, inter alia, smoking cessation, alcohol awareness, men's health, obesity and breast feeding. Work carried out by...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to my Department to the end of 2010 is set out as follows. Details in respect of 2011 are not readily available at this time. They will be compiled and forwarded to the Deputy. Year Amount € 2006 1,375,000 2007 48,400 2008 62,315 2009 115,003 2010 155,280 Responsibility for many advertising and promotional campaigns transferred...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: There is no doubt that there are challenges facing the mental health, disability and childcare services as a result of reduced resources by way of an additional efficiency target of €50m in 2012. This target is in addition to savings in employment and procurement costs which are required of the health services as a whole next year. The precise levels of savings required will vary...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: The gross current budget for the Health Sector for 2012 is €13,644m. An additional €79m is to be raised through a number of measures to increase the level of income from private patients treated in public hospitals and also to improve the collection rate of these charges. When account is taken of the Government's target savings, the need to meet unavoidable cost pressures and priority...

Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: The amount of capital reserves required by the VHI would fall to be determined by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) in the context of its role under the European Communities (Non-Life Insurance) Framework Regulations, 1994. In assessing an application for authorisation by an insurer, the CBI takes account of the three year business plan submitted, using optimistic, realistic and pessimistic...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Dec 2011)

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 Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: There are no proposals at present to reduce the remuneration of hospital consultants. My immediate priority is to achieve more effective implementation of the existing contract so that patients get faster access to services and achieve better outcomes within the budgets available to hospitals. I believe there is plenty of scope under the existing contract and the Croke Park agreement to...