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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: As this question relates to a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: As this question relates to a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Promotion (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: My Department is finalising Nutrition Standards for School Meals, a cross- sectoral and cross- departmental collaboration on healthy eating and healthy lifestyles with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection; the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. These Nutrition Standards will be published later this month. My...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: The budget allocation for the Tallaght Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force from the Drugs Initiative of the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive in each of the years referred to by the Deputy is set out in the following table: 2011 DOH 2012 DOH 2013 DOH 2014 DOH 2014 HSE Tallaght €1,281,356 €1250,347 €1,262,837 €452,712 €782,240 Total...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: My Department and the Health Service Executive have a range of mechanisms for sharing information about the drugs situation with An Garda Síochána, including the Early Warning Emerging Trends Committee (EWET) and the HSE Public Alert System for adverse events due to drugs. The EWET provides a forum for representatives from my Department, An Garda Síochána, the Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs-related Deaths (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: The National Drug Related Deaths (NDRDI) index is an epidemiological database administered by the Health Research Board which records cases of death by drug and/or alcohol poisoning and deaths among drug users and those who are alcohol dependent. The Health Research Board published a report on the NDRDI in December 2016, which shows deaths up to 2014, the latest year for which data is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: The Department of Health allocated an additional €3m to the HSE for drugs-related measures in 2017. It is intended that this additional funding will be used to: establish a pilot supervised injecting facility in Dublin city centre during 2017; increase access to buprenorphine/naloxone and buprenorphine products as an alternative treatment for the identified cohorts of patients for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: Funding for “Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery – a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025” will be addressed every year as part of the estimates process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Perinatal Data (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Consumption Data (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: The Health Research Board (HRB) is the lead agency in Ireland responsible for supporting and funding health research, information and evidence. The HRB has informed the Department that they do not collate data on alcohol consumed by tourists visiting Ireland. The table below sets out national alcohol consumption figures for those aged 15 and over, as requested by the Deputy. Year...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: I have not had a formal meeting request to meet with the head of a programme in the UK on this occasion.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: I have no plans to introduce legislation prohibiting the use of e-cigarettes in public places. The introduction of workplace smoking ban was based on clear and unequivocal evidence that second hand smoke is harmful to non-smokers. That evidence base does not exist for the aerosol generated from e-cigarettes. However, individual organisations/companies are free to introduce an e-cigarette...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: The 2016 Healthy Ireland survey indicates that 23% of the population aged 15 years and older are current smokers i.e. 19% smoke daily and 4% smoke occasionally. This compares with 2007 SLÁN data which indicated that 29% of Irish adults were smokers. Data from the 2017 Health Ireland Survey will be published in the near future. In relation to children, rates of smoking are relatively...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: The Department of Health and the Health Service Executive (HSE) are totally committed to increasing breast feeding rates in Ireland. National health policy, including the Healthy Ireland Framework, the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026, the National Obesity Policy and Action Plan 2016-2025 and the recently published National Cancer Strategy 2017-2026 all emphasise the importance of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Injecting Facilities (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: On 25 August 2017, the HSE published an invitation on the Government's eTenders website for suitably qualified and experienced service providers to submit tenders to provide a medically supervised injecting centre in Dublin City Centre area on a pilot basis. Tenders must be submitted to the HSE by 25thSeptember 2017. The HSE anticipates that the contract will be awarded by 1st November 2017....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: As these are service matters, they have been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Rehabilitation Clinics (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Byrne: Funding for obesity and chronic disease prevention is distributed across a number of departmental and agency programmes and initiatives that may both directly and indirectly relate to such prevention and public health. The prospect of classifying expenditure along the lines requested by the deputy is remote in the absence of being able to precisely disaggregate spending wholly related to...