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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 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 Dublin, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern regional area to...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: By way of background I should point out that civil registration was first introduced in the Ireland in 1845, initially for the civil registration of non-Roman Catholic marriages. The system was extended in 1864 to include the registration of births, deaths and Roman Catholic marriages. The General Register Office is responsible for the administration of the civil registration system...

Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The forum on fluoridation was established to review the fluoridation of public piped water supplies in Ireland. The forum consisted of people with expert knowledge spanning the areas of public health, biochemistry, dental health, bone health, food safety, environmental protection, ethics, water quality, health promotion and representatives from the consumer and environmental areas. The...

Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department has no record of receiving a request from the Irish Doctors Environmental Association under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 for minutes of the Irish expert body on fluorides and health. My office received a written request from the association for the minutes of the meetings of the Irish expert body on fluorides and health under EU Regulations 90/313/EC and 2004/4/EC and SI...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101 and 102 together. 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 services at Kerry General...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for establishment of the Health Service Executive 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 Dublin, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern regional area to...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 109, 110, 111 and 138 together. 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 by implementing appropriate regulation of the medical profession. All doctors practising medicine in Ireland,...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 and 115 together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the establishment of the Health Service Executive 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 Monaghan General...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the establishment of the Health Service Executive 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 centres. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the establishment of the Health Service Executive 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. Responsibility for the issue raised by the Deputy rests with the national hospitals office of the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long stay charges for publicly funded residential care. All those who were charged and are alive and the estates of all those who were charged and died in the six years prior to 9 December 2004 will have the charges repaid in full. The scheme will not allow for repayments to the estates of those who died more than six...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The general medical services contract which general practitioners participating in the GMS hold with the local area of the Health Service Executive provides for the issue of first and final certificates to explain work absence free of charge for medical card holders regardless of age. General practitioners are not obliged to provide examinations and certificates in respect of requirements of...

Written Answers — Patient Discharges: Patient Discharges (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the establishment of the Health Service Executive 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. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the Health Service Executive to reply to the Deputy in relation to the...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the establishment of the Health Service Executive 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 delivery of hospital services, including the filling of consultant posts. Accordingly, my Department...

Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Government approved the appointment of Dr. Deirdre Madden BL on 3 May to complete a final report on post mortem practice and organ retention and submit this to me by 21 December 2005. Dr. Madden is drawing up the terms of reference for her work in consultation with my Department and these will be presented to Government for approval as quickly as possible.

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health and Safety Authority recommended that the Health Service Executive determine on a hospital-by-hospital basis, having undertaken the necessary risk assessment and staff consultation, whether extra capacity can be achieved within existing units. The national hospitals office has asked hospital managers to examine the potential for using the total hospital capacity including inpatient...

Written Answers — Irish Blood Transfusion Service: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Irish Blood Transfusion Service transferred the operation of its donor clinic in Dublin from Mespil Road to D'Olier Street in November 2000. A significant number of people did not to continue to donate due to the change of location to the city centre. Research undertaken by the IBTS found that one of the most quoted reasons for not returning to donate was the length of time donors had to...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: There have been no assets held by my Department worth in excess of €100,000 which were sold since 1997 and consequently no proceeds from sale were received in that time period.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is not available. While there will always be attrition from the nursing profession for a variety of reasons, including retirement, changing occupation, migration and family reasons, the current vacancy rate now stands at 2.25%, which could be considered a normal frictional rate. Government policy over the past number of years has been to ensure the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Available statistics do not include data on the movement of nursing staff between the public and private health sector. However, I can inform the Deputy that over the past five years an additional 7,269 nurses, whole time equivalent, were employed in the public health service. The figure of 34,313 nurses and midwives employed at the end of 2004 represents a 26% increase on the 1999 figure and...