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Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the HSE 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 nursing home subvention in the County Kildare area. Accordingly, my Department has requested...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: At the time of the meeting mentioned by the Deputy, the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with responsibility for services for older people was Deputy Ivor Callely and the Health and Children (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2002 conferred upon him powers and duties under sections 6, 7 and 10 of the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990. As the Deputy...

Written Answers — Health Care Funding: Health Care Funding (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 allocation of funding in the Dublin 12 area. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Food Safety Authority: Food Safety Authority (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: The Food Safety Authority of Ireland, (FSAI), operates a "name and shame" policy in accordance with the provisions of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998. Under the Act the authority is empowered to issue three different types of enforcement orders for breaches of food safety legislation: improvement notices, closure orders, and prohibition orders. Food premises served with...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 nursing home subvention scheme in the Kildare area. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 addiction counselling services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Health Service Executive to...

Written Answers — Alzheimer's Disease: Alzheimer's Disease (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 patients with Alzheimer's disease. Accordingly, my Department has requested the national director of...

Written Answers — Food Safety: Food Safety (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: I propose to take Questions Nos. 169 and 170 together. Sudan Red 1 has been banned as a food colourant throughout the European Union since 2003 due to concerns about its potentially carcinogenic properties. On 18 February 2005 the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, FSAI, issued a public warning about food products that contained Sudan Red 1. The authority's warning followed the receipt of...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions. : Nursing Home Subventions. (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: My Department is studying in detail the Supreme Court judgement on the repayment of charges for publicly funded long-term residential care and will take on board all the consequences for policy and law arising from the judgement. A special Cabinet sub-committee comprising the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, the Attorney General, Mr. Brady, and me has been established to...

Written Answers — Food Safety: Food Safety (1 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: A number of food ingredients have been prohibited from sale across the European Union in recent years. In May 2003 the problem of Sudan Red 1 in a dried hot chilli product was identified by the French authorities and notified to the European Commission. As a result of concerns about the potentially carcinogenic properties of the contaminant, the European Commission set controls on three...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Order for Second Stage. (2 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (2 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce the Bill, which provides for the amendment of the Health Act 1970 to address two substantive matters: the provision of a legal framework for the charging of patients for the maintenance element of inpatient services in publicly funded long-term care residential units and the introduction of doctor visit medical...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the creation of 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 have delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. Its responsibilities include the provision of palliative care. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer...

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (2 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: In Ireland responsibility for food safety is shared across a number of Departments and agencies. For example, the Department of Agriculture and Food is responsible for policy matters in relation to food of animal origin while the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources is responsible for policy aspects of fishing and aquaculture. My Department has policy responsibility for...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (3 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: As the Deputy is aware, responsibility for the administration of the Nursing Home (Subvention) Regulations, 1993 rests with the Health Service Executive. There are currently three rates of subvention payable under the regulations, €114.30, €152.40 and €190.50 for the three levels of dependency which are medium, high and maximum. Under Article 10.6 of the Nursing Homes (Subvention)...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 funding of projects relating to drug treatment services. Accordingly, the Department has requested...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 palliative care. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 the home care grant scheme in the Cork area. Accordingly, my Department has requested...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (3 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: 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 health services in the Maynooth community care unit. Accordingly, my Department has...

Seanad: Food Safety: Statements. (3 Mar 2005)

Seán Power: The recent widely reported contamination of food products with an industrial dye — Sudan Red 1 — has given rise to legitimate concerns in the minds of consumers regarding the safety of food sold in our shops and served by restaurants and other cateringoutlets. As has been widely reported, Sudan Red 1 is a synthetically produced red dye normally used for colouring solvents, oils, waxes,...