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Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The revocation of the relevant statutory instrument will require a draft resolution to be brought before both Houses of the Oireachtas. A number of complex issues have had to be considered in relation to this matter. These issues are now approaching finalisation and discussions have taken place with a number of parties involved. I am not in a position to outline the course of action which the...

Written Answers — Civil Registration Act: Civil Registration Act (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: An tArd-Chláraitheoir, Registrar General, is responsible for the registration of all life events, including births. Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheoir has received correspondence from a person in Dublin 9 concerning a submission to amend the provisions of the Civil Registration Act 2004. The submission is mainly concerned with the issues of re-registration in cases involving unmarried parents and...

Written Answers — Inter-Church Marriage: Inter-Church Marriage (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: An tArd-Chláraitheoir, Registrar General, is responsible for the registration of all life events, including marriages. I have made inquiries with him concerning this matter and the position is set out below. The position under current legislation, primarily contained in sections 38 and 39 of the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law Ireland (Amendment) Act 1870, is that a marriage may be...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for all funding, capital and revenue, voted for the executive. Under section 34 of the Act, the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I take this opportunity to offer my sincere condolences to the family on their tragic loss. As the Deputy may be aware, the Medical Council is the independent authority charged with primary responsibility for the registration and regulation of medical practitioners in the State. The function of the Medical Council is to protect the public through implementing appropriate controls on the...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. The HSE service plan for 2005 was recently approved by me and, as required by relevant legislation, laid before the Houses of the...

Written Answers — An Bord Altranais: An Bord Altranais (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: An Bord Altranais is the statutory body which provides for the registration, control and education of nurses and midwives and for other matters relating to the practice of nursing and midwifery. The issue raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for An Bord Altranais, and I suggest that the Deputy should contact the board directly about this matter.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy on steering and advisory groups in each of the Health Service Executive areas is a matter for the executive. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief executive officer of the executive to arrange to have the relevant information compiled and provided directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of renal transplant services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the director of the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Mayo, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I am not aware of any direct contact between my Department and the firm that markets this drug.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The supports which the Government put in place in 2004 with the objective of keeping the cost of professional indemnity cover for consultants' private practice at an affordable level remain. These supports mean that most consultants need only purchase indemnity cover for the first €1 million of the cost of any one claim against them. In the case of consultant obstetricians the limit is set...

Written Answers — Clinical Indemnity Scheme: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: As far as my Department is aware only one organisation, the Medical Protection Society, is at present offering professional indemnity cover to consultant obstetricians in full or part-time private practice. The only other provider of this type of cover, the Medical Defence Union, has not offered it to obstetricians since 2003. It is obviously not ideal that doctors should have to rely on a...

Written Answers — Clinical Indemnity Scheme: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The agreements entered into in 2001 and 2002 with the Medical Protection Society were necessary at the time to avert a serious threat to the continuity of obstetric services in public and private hospitals. The period covered by these arrangements is from 1 March 2001 to 1 February 2004. As very few claims have yet emerged from this period it is difficult to come up with an accurate estimate...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: There are currently no plans to amend the list of eligible conditions for the long-term illness scheme, LTI. Under the 1970 Health Act, the Health Service Executive may arrange for the supply, without charge, of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances to people with a specified condition, for the treatment of that condition through the long-term illness scheme. The conditions...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Kildare, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern regional...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of services at acute hospitals. Accordingly, my Department has requested the director...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Sligo, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's north-western area to...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Sligo, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's north-western area to...