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Written Answers — Health Services: Health 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. Mayo General Hospital commenced the provision of an elective orthopaedic service at the beginning of September 2004. This elective...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (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. This includes responsibility for orthopaedic services at Mayo General Hospital. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (17 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I am confident that the target date of 2007 for the commencement of the roll-out of BreastCheck to the remaining regions of the country will be met. The national roll-out of the programme is a major priority in the development of cancer services. This will ensure that all women in the relevant age group of 50 to 64 years in every county will have access to breast screening and follow-up...

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

Mary Harney: With regard to the disposal of assets classified as land and buildings, no transactions for their sale have occurred over the past ten years. All land and buildings for use by my Department are owned and managed by the Office of Public Works, OPW, and in that time period there has been only one property transaction involving my Department, made between the OPW and the former South Eastern...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (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 County Mayo, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Patient Statistics: Patient Statistics (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. Services at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Tallaght, are provided under an arrangement...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (18 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 services at Kerry General Hospital. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Psychological therapies, including psychotherapy, are currently provided within the health service by a range of health professionals. As there is no national grade of psychotherapist within the public health service, the health service personnel census does not capture the specific employment information requested by the Deputy. The Deputy will wish to know, however, that a working group was...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 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 Services: Hospital Services (18 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 Westmeath, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's midland area to...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 204 and 205 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. Services at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children's...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The application of EU Directive 93/16/EEC, as it effects the general medical services, GMS, scheme, was agreed with health boards in 1994 following consultation with the representatives of the Medical Council, the Irish College of General Practitioners and the Irish Medical Organisation. With effect from 1 January 1995, doctors entering the GMS scheme are required to have graduated from a...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (18 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 person social services. This includes responsibility for the funding of industrial relations settlements involving health service staff. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long stay charges for publicly funded long term 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 provide for repayments to the estates of those who died...

Written Answers — Cancer Incidence: Cancer Incidence (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Statistics on cancer incidences and cancer deaths are collated by the National Cancer Registry. My Department has asked the director of the registry to examine this matter and to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Survivors of Symphysiotomy: Survivors of Symphysiotomy (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: My predecessor, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, met with the group, Survivors of Symphysiotomy, in late 2003 and agreed that a range of measures would be put in place to support it. My Department is advised by the Health Service Executive that the position in this regard is as follows. The former health boards and the relevant voluntary hospitals have...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy will appreciate that I can have no function in this matter as responsibility rests in this instance with the Health Service Executive — north-western area. My Department has therefore asked the chief officer to investigate this matter and I have been advised that an update has already issued to the Deputy on this issue.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive 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 cancer services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the interim chief executive officer of...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (19 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 Donegal, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's north western area...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (19 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I understand the Deputy is referring to the number of additional staff in the former North-Eastern Health Board, now the Health Service Executive north-eastern area, as compared to the number of additional staff on a national basis. The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. It is estimated that 64% of health services personnel formally classified as...