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Written Answers — Health Forums: Health Forums (4 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 included as a central part of the reforms accountability at all levels of the system. In respect of local representatives it specifically includes in Part 8 under section 42 provision for the establishment of a number of regional health forums. These forums will facilitate local representatives in raising issues of local concern in relation to health services within their...

Written Answers — Health Forums: Health Forums (4 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: Section 41 of the Health Act 2004 provides for the convening of a national health consultative forum to advise me, in my capacity as Minister, on matters relating to the provision of health and personal social services as defined in the Act. This forum will replace the national consultative forum on the health strategy which has been convened annually since 2002. The strategy forum will be...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The recent report by the Joint 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. The Deputy will be aware that under the Dentists Act 1985 the regulation of professional education and training in dentistry is statutorily vested by the...

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: Did the Deputy say folksy?

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: I wish to share time with the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, and Deputy Curran.

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: It is fair to say that financial expenditure and value for money issues have dogged the health system for many years. I wish to discuss another issue which is not directly relevant to the motion but which is topical and deals with value for money issues, namely, the PPARS system. This is the latest saga in respect of value for money in the health services. This summer, I became aware there...

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The statutory basis for the drug payment scheme, DPS, is section 59 (2) of the Health Act 1970. It states the Health Service Executive shall make arrangements to meet the balance of the cost, or a portion thereof for expenditure on drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances for the treatment of a person or his-her dependants. Family expenditure covers the nominated adult, his-her...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The implementation of the measures identified in the ten-point plan to improve the delivery of accident and emergency services is a matter for the Health Service Executive. These measures take a wide-ranging approach and are aimed at improving access to accident and emergency services, improving patient flows through accident and emergency departments, freeing up of acute beds and providing...

Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: Significant progress has been achieved in the implementation of the health service reform programme since it was announced by the Government in June 2003. The Health Service Executive was established on a statutory basis with effect from 1 January 2005 under the Health Act 2004. The executive took over responsibility for the management and delivery of health services from the Eastern Regional...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: Since 1997 there has been a cumulative additional investment of approximately €720 million in the development of appropriate treatment and care services for people with cancer. This investment has enabled the funding of more than 100 additional consultant posts in key areas of cancer care throughout the country. The funding has also provided for the appointment of an additional 245 cancer...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 164 and 165 together. Following the recent clarification issued by the Labour Relations Commission, there is full agreement between the parties and this will mean the Health Service Executive can proceed with the introduction of general practitioner visit cards to 200,000 people who will have free access to general practitioner services under the general...

Written Answers — Medical Inquiries: Medical Inquiries (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department is advised by the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital inquiry that its report is at an advanced stage and is completing a necessary legal process before it will be furnished to me. Last March I met with representatives of Patient Focus, a group representing a number of patients who attended the maternity unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. I advised the group that I would...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 188 and 189 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. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have these matters investigated and to have...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: As I have previously indicated to the House, I consider that appropriate transport arrangements for patients requiring radiotherapy should be made available, where necessary, by the Health Service Executive. My Department raised this matter with the HSE last May to ensure that appropriate transport arrangements are put in place on a national basis for patients who are required to travel to...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (5 Oct 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 a reply issued directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is being compiled by my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The National Drugs Strategy 2001-08 includes 36 actions which fall under the treatment, rehabilitation and risk reduction pillar. The delivery of services under this pillar involves a complex network of statutory and non-statutory agencies working in partnership. The principal agencies involved are the Department of Health and Children; the Health Service Executive, HSE; the Prison Service;...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Oct 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 with the information requested.

Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (5 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: On 1 September 2004, following an examination of the work of all inquiries by the Attorney General, the Government decided that the post mortem inquiry should furnish its final report not later than 31 March 2005 and that the inquiry would then cease to exist. The chairman of the inquiry, Ms Anne Dunne, SC, was so advised and requested to furnish her report to me on or before that date. She...

Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 16, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing for the period 2007-20 the specific programme 'Civil Justice' as part of the general programme 'Fundamental Rights and Justice'; and No. 16a. motion re "The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act"; No. 23, Criminal Justice Bill 2004 —...