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Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (30 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 is requesting 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 — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: I propse to take Questions Nos. 200 and 201 together. As responsibility for the matters raised in these parliamentary questions rests with the Health Service Executive, my Department had requested the Health Service Executive to investigate the matters raised and to respond directly to the Deputy. I understand from the executive that replies to Questions Nos. 62, 71 and 72 of 21 April 2005...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (30 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 is requesting 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 (30 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 (30 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (30 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 is requesting 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 — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (30 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 — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 238 and 239 together. Information on membership vacancies in statutory bodies where appointments are made by the Minister for Health and Children is shown in Table 1. However, the Deputy will wish to be aware in the context of the table that in some instances the relevant legislation may provide for a maximum number of members rather than setting an exact...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Following the publication of the Pollock report, which reviewed the existing hospital services for person with cystic fibrosis, the Health Service Executive established a working group to examine cystic fibrosis services. The working group is multi-disciplinary in its composition and includes representation from the Cystic Fibrosis Association. The terms of reference of the working group is...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including responsibility for the provision of decompression chambers, 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...

Written Answers — National Learning Network: National Learning Network (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The service provided by the national learning network and funded by the Health Service Executive is rehabilitative and is not work. Rehabilitative training focuses on the enhancement of an individual's core functional skills, life skills and social skills. All trainees participating on rehabilitative training programmes retain their primary and secondary benefits and also receive a weekly...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 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 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 222, 399 and 423 together. The recent report by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children is a follow up to its earlier report of 2002, The Orthodontic Service in Ireland. As the committee makes clear, the report should be read as an appendix to the 2002 report. I am pleased to advise the Deputy that a number of measures have been adopted to...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The common list of reimbursable medicines for the general medical services and drug payment schemes is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the list, it must comply with published criteria, including authorisation status as appropriate, price and, in certain cases, the intended use of the product. In addition,...

Written Answers — Crisis Pregnancies: Crisis Pregnancies (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Crisis Pregnancy Agency, CPA, has compiled figures for Ireland on the number of teenage pregnancies to females aged 15 to 19 years per 1,000 females in the same age group. This is known as the teenage pregnancy rate and is an aggregate of the births and abortions in this age group. The figures show that the teenage pregnancy rate increased from 21.17 in 1991 to 25.67 in 2001 but the rate...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 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 — Food Industry: Food Industry (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The public has been alerted on two occasions about possible links between blood transfusion and vCJD. The National Haemophilia Council held a press conference on 20 September 2004 to inform the public that two cases of vCJD in the UK were possibly linked to blood transfusion. As a result of the cases, persons who had received clotting factor concentrates manufactured from blood products and...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The general medical services scheme, under which medical cards are distributed, gives persons with full eligibility an entitlement to general practitioner services from GPs who hold general medical service contracts. They are also entitled to a range of approved prescribed medicines free of charge. Acupuncture is not covered under the general medical services scheme. I have no plans for it or...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to human resource management issues within the Health Service Executive. As such issues are matters for the executive under the Health Act 2004, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Civil Registration: Civil Registration (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: An tArd-Chláraitheoir, or the Registrar General, is the person with statutory responsibility for civil registration in Ireland. I have made inquiries of the Registrar General and will set out the position as it stands. Section 65 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 makes provision for the holding of an inquiry by the Registrar General about whether a particular life event has been registered...