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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 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 audiology services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 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 — Benchmarking Awards: Benchmarking Awards (24 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The current phase of performance verification for the health sector is the fourth phase of the process set out in the Sustaining Progress agreement. The public service pay agreement provides that the final two phases of the benchmarking increases and the general round increases are dependent on verification of satisfactory achievement of the provisions on co-operation with flexibility and...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 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 audiology services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I met a delegation from Dundalk Town Council and local Oireachtas Members on 18 May last, at which a number of service issues relating to Louth County Hospital were raised and discussed. Subsequent to the meeting, the Department apprised the Health Service Executive, north eastern area, with regard to the issues discussed. As the Deputy will be aware, the Health Service Executive is required...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (24 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 Peamount Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 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 cancer services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the director of the national...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (25 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 Leitrim, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's north western area...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 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 Laois, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's midland area to...

Written Answers — Alternative Medicine: Alternative Medicine (25 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I am conscious that complementary therapy is of increasing interest to the public and that more people are now attending complementary therapists. However, while the practice of conventional medicine and health care in this country is controlled and regulated, complementary health care has not been subject to the same level of oversight. Standards of education, professional qualifications and...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I understand from the Health Service Executive, HSE, that the person referred to by the Deputy has had surgery and is currently an inpatient at St. James's Hospital. I also understand from the HSE that a reply has issued to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (25 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that my Department issued approval to BreastCheck on 5 May 2005 to initiate the selection process for a design team for these projects and the placing of a notice in this regard in the EU Journal.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 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 hospital services for people who have had a stroke. Accordingly, my Department has...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 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 cancer services, including responsibility for decisions on the referral of patients for...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 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 out of hours services and the geographical areas to be covered. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (26 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The HSE, established on 1 January 2005, is the national body with statutory responsibility for the delivery and management of health and personal social services. Accordingly, matters raised in parliamentary questions which relate to local or individual cases are referred to the executive for reply to the Deputy concerned. This is essentially a continuation of the practice which was followed,...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (26 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Under the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001, any employee whose normal hours of work constitute at least 20% of the normal hours of a comparable full-time employee is entitled to be treated no less favourably than the comparable full-time employee. My Department has been informed by the Health Service Executive that pension arrangements for home helps employed in the health...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 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 of the executive's eastern regional area to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Following an agreed assessment process, a further 81 names have been added to the list of chiropodists considered eligible to practise in the public health service. My Department is currently liaising with the relevant professional bodies in regard to the development of the assessment system, building on the work carried out to date for the preparation of the statutory registration of...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 May 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department does not collect or collate data on waiting times for tests in respect of the specialties mentioned. The length of time involved for patients requiring tests is dependent on a number of factors such as the patient's condition, the particular test required, the demand for such tests and the capacity of individual hospitals to carry out particular tests. Operational issues for the...