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- Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (23 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: It is a condition of the drugs payment scheme, DPS, that no individual or family will pay more than the relevant monthly threshold of â¬85 in a calendar month. The primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, administers the payments process for the DPS. According to the PCRS, the payment of a second co-payment in one month, in one pharmacy, should only arise when a person is intentionally...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to human resource management matters in the home help service. As the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including related human resource issues, are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 159, 160, 181 to 183, inclusive, and 254 to 261, inclusive, together. I have seen the report which the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland commissioned from Dr. Ronnie Pollock. The report reviewed existing hospital services for people with cystic fibrosis in the context of accepted international standards and concluded that the services available for...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospitals Expenditure: Hospitals Expenditure (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 162 and 163 together. The Deputy's questions relate to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. This includes responsibility for collating the historic expenditure information sought by the Deputy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Equipment: Hospital Equipment (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: My Department is finalising a service level agreement with the Department of Defence to formalise arrangements for the future provision of an air ambulance service by the Air Corps. Officials from my Department met recently the Department of Defence to progress the agreement. The draft agreement has also been circulated to the Health Services Executive for comment. It is expected that the...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Government is committed to making the full range of cancer services available and accessible to cancer patients throughout Ireland. To this end, we will provide considerable investment in radiation oncology facilities in the coming years. The Government's policy on radiation oncology is based on the report on The Development of Radiation Oncology Services in Ireland. It is important to...
- Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. It is understood that the HSE has now made available application forms for the GP visit card. The HSE has placed advertisements providing details of the application process in the national press and...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The number of persons covered by a medical card in counties Roscommon and Leitrim for the dates requested are set out in the following table. County December 1997 December 2002 Roscommon 23,629 20,376 Leitrim 12,246 11,476 In 2005, additional funding of â¬60 million has been provided to allow the Health Service Executive, HSE, provide an additional 30,000 people with full...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The registration of nurses is the statutory responsibility of An Bord Ãltranais. I am informed that the registration section of the board is processing increased volumes of applications for registration, mainly from non-EU applicants applying through nursing recruitment agencies contracted by the health services to recruit nurses. The board is working closely with the nursing recruitment...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 173 to 175, inclusive, together. I and my colleague, the Minister for Finance, signed the Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations, 2005 on 14 June 2005, and these regulations reinstate charges for inpatient services. Section 53 of the Health Act, 1970, as amended by the Health (Amendment) Act 2005, provides, inter alia, for the levying of a charge...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: An Bord Ãltranais is the statutory body responsible for registration, control and education of nurses and midwives in Ireland. The board is responsible for the setting of requirements and standards in relation to the education programmes for registration, including registration in the public health nursing division of the register. In this regard, An Bord Ãltranais is in the course of...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. The determination of eligibility of applications for medical cards is statutorily vested in the Health Service Executive. In determining eligibility, the chief executive officer, or a delegated officer,...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The casemix adjusted base price for inpatients and day cases is the average cost of a case when all national data has been aggregated. The national base price is the national cost of treating a "standard" case with a complexity of 1. Data in relation to the national average base price for inpatients and day cases for 2003, the latest year for which information is available, is detailed in the...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The figures requested by the Deputy for 1998 to 2000 were not kept in this format by the Health Service Executive's primary care reimbursement service, formerly the GMS (payments) board. The number of persons with medical cards aged under 70 years from 2001 to date and the percentage of the relevant population this represents is set out in the following table: Year ended No. of persons...