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- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) undertook a national review of Neurology Services in Ireland. The review was completed some time ago and the resulting report was submitted to the National Hospitals Office. Following consideration of the report it was decided to seek an external expert opinion on the model of care proposed to ensure that the recommendations were properly aligned with the...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: As the information requested by the Deputy involves a level of detail that is not held by my Department, I have asked the Chief Executive of the Fund to reply directly to the Deputy in this regard.
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The person concerned is a patient in a private hospital. I understand that discussions are ongoing between the person concerned, her family, the private hospital and the Health Service Executive in relation to her future care.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The Department of Health and Children has engaged the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) to develop a written communications training programme for delivery to its staff following an open tendering process via eTenders. Each programme run costs â¬4,350, (a total of â¬17,400 for the maximum of four runs sought in the tender) and runs for three days. The award amount was inadvertently...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Where a person aged 70 or over does not qualify for a medical card after 1 January, by virtue of their gross income being over the thresholds of â¬700 per week for a single person or â¬1,400 per week for a couple, the Health Service Executive (HSE) may grant a medical card or GP visit card under the existing net income thresholds, which allow for medical, nursing and other expenses to be...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005 have provided for two different classes of person for the purpose of levying a charge. Class 1. Class 1 refers to persons in receipt of in-patient services on premises where nursing care is provided on a 24 hour basis on those premises. The new rate of charges for Class 1 will be a weekly charge of â¬153.25 or the weekly income...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: As the Health Service Executive has the operational and funding responsibility for the medical card benefit, it is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has therefore requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to address this matter and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Voluntary Sector Funding: Voluntary Sector Funding (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The specific question raised by the Deputy relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the HSE under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this regard.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Based on the National Quality Assurance Standards for Symptomatic Breast Disease Services, and the fact that the BreastCheck screening programme will significantly reduce the number of symptomatic breast cancer presentations, the Health Service Executive (HSE) determined that we require a total of eight specialist breast cancer centres nationally. It is important to clarify that this is not...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004. It is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme, section 11 of the 1989 Capitation Contract states: "The Medical practitioner shall: furnish to a person whom he has examined and for whom he is obliged to provide services (or, in the case of a child, to his parent) a certificate in relation, to any illness noticed during the examination which is reasonably required by him or by the parent as...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including ambulance services, is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all such services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (27 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: The community rating levy announced by the Government as part of the interim solution to protect the policy of community rating in the private health insurance market will be charged to the health insurance companies. The companies concerned, those in the open market, will be required to pay an annual levy to the Revenue Commissioners in respect of each insured person. The levy will be...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (26 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services is provided in its annual vote. Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the HSE has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. Therefore the...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme, section 11 of the 1989 Capitation Contract states: "The Medical practitioner shall:â furnish to a person whom he has examined and for whom he is obliged to provide services (or, in the case of a child, to his parent) a certificate in relation, to any illness noticed during the examination which is reasonably required by him or by the parent...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (26 Nov 2008)
Mary Harney: Under the Health Act 1970, statutory responsibility for the provision of public ambulance services rests with the Health Service Executive. As permitted under the relevant legislation, the HSE (and, prior to 2005, its predecessor bodies) has arranged with Dublin City Council for the provision by that body of emergency ambulance services in Dublin. This arrangement applies only in Dublin....