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Written Answers — Winter Vomiting Bug: Winter Vomiting Bug (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. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's southern area to reply to the Deputy directly with the...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (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. This includes responsibility for services at Letterkenny General Hospital. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: We will have the debate before the glacier arrives.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 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 — Occupational Therapists: Occupational Therapists (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy may wish to note that three new occupational therapy courses commenced in the 2003-04 academic year in University College Cork, the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Limerick. In total, these courses provide an additional 75 training places in occupational therapy. This expansion in training numbers has been identified in the report commissioned by my...

Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I presume the Deputy is referring to charges raised on foot of the Health (In-Patient Charges) Regulations 1987, S I 116 of 1987. Where a person is maintained as an inpatient for a single period of more than one day, no account shall be taken of the final day. The effect of this is that the charge applies per day with no charge for the day of discharge or, effectively, the charge applies per...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (31 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 arrangement of office accommodation for staff within the HSE, including the former General Medical...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The general medical services contract which general practitioners participating in the GMS scheme 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...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 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 Roscommon, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 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 — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (31 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. Responsibility for the issue raised by the Deputy rests with the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 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, including services for patients with cystic fibrosis. Services at St. Vincent's Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy on health service staff is set out in the following table for the years 1990 to the end of 2004. Comparable data for previous years is not available. The significantly increased staffing levels over this period must be viewed in the context of the substantial service developments which have occurred, particularly in the areas of child protection and...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (31 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 human resource management. My Department has, therefore, requested the executive's national director of...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 135 and 137 together. The proposed new facilities at University College Hospital, Galway, and South Infirmary-Victoria Hospital, Cork, for the national expansion of BreastCheck are included in the health capital investment framework 2005-09. The necessary capital funding has been indented for these developments. My Department recently gave approval to...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I offer again my sincere condolences to the families, relatives and friends of the deceased and wish the injured continued recovery. I acknowledge the major role of health service personnel in responding to this terrible accident and the part played by the fire service, the Garda, the Air Corps, which provided helicopter assistance, and the voluntary personnel involved. The Deputy will be...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department does not collate hospital level information relating to the cost and use of the drug mentioned. As operational issues regarding the services provided by acute hospitals now rests with the Health Service Executive, my Department has asked the director of the National Hospitals Office to reply directly to the Deputy regarding the information requested. Information regarding the...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 164 together. MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, is a resistant form of staphylococcus aureus. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, formerly known as the National Disease Surveillance Centre, collects data on MRSA bacteraemia, also known as bloodstream infection or "blood poisoning", as part of the European Antimicrobial...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (31 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 St. James's Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer of...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 141, 159 and 160 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 the provision of acute hospital services. Accordingly, my...