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- Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The practice of pharmacy is governed by the Pharmacy Acts 1875 to 1962. I am aware that the current fitness to practice provisions in these Acts are inadequate for the modern practice of pharmacy. On foot of the recommendations of the pharmacy review group I obtained Government approval in June 2005 to commence the process of drafting, as a priority, new pharmacy legislation to allow, among...
- Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 44, 60, 96 and 133 together. On foot of the recommendations of the pharmacy review group, approval was given in Government decision S180/20/10/0831 of 21 June 2005 to allow my Department commence drafting new pharmacy legislation by way of two pharmacy Bills. The first Bill is to deal with fitness to practice provisions for pharmacists, the removal of the...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 48, 54 and 83 together. I want to assure the Deputy that the publication of a new medical practitioners Bill is regarded as a priority task in my Department for the current year. Officials are currently considering a number of policy issues, and appropriate consultations are taking place with the Medical Council. Once those policy issues are settled,...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The general practice information technology project, GPIT, was a joint project undertaken between the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, and my Department with the objective of promoting the development of information technology in general practice. The project achieved significant progress in its core remit as well as in a number of related areas, including messaging standards and...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The issue raised in 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 (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I wish to see significant improvement in the level of services available to persons with cystic fibrosis. I am aware of the current service deficits in this area which are widely acknowledged and which have been identified most notably in the Pollock report, and by the Health Service Executive working group which is looking at this issue. As part of the overall funding for health services in...
- Written Answers — Hospital Hygiene Audit: Hospital Hygiene Audit (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The first ever national hygiene audit took place last year. The results of this audit will form the basis for the changes that are required in both work environments and work practices so as to meet the highest possible standards of cleanliness in hospital settings. The second national hygiene audit of acute hospitals has commenced and will assess the extent of the improvements made at...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: Work has commenced on a new legislative framework to provide for clear statutory provisions on eligibility and entitlement for health and personal social services. The aim is to produce a clear set of statutory provisions that ensure equity and transparency and to bring the system up to date with developments in service delivery and technology that have occurred since the Health Act 1970....
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy's question relates to human resource management issues which are a matter for the Health Service Executive, the parliamentary affairs division of the executive has been asked to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter. While information on vacancies in health and social care professional, paramedic grades, is not collected as a matter of routine in my Department,...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The number of patients and the waiting times for patients awaiting admission at Tallaght Hospital is a matter of concern. My Department has been briefed by the executive on the position at the hospital and is advised that the executive is in discussion with the hospital on a number of measures designed to achieve improvements in accident and emergency services. I also met the chairman and...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 63 and 88 together. On 3 February last, the Health Service Executive published a report on the delivery of tertiary paediatric services. Commissioned by the HSE at my request and prepared by McKinsey & Company, the report recommends that best outcomes for children should be provided by one national tertiary paediatric centre, which would also provide all...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long-stay charges for publicly funded residential care. All those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged and are alive and the estates of all those who were wrongly charged and died since 9 December 1998 will have the charges repaid in full. Draft heads of a Bill for a repayment scheme were submitted to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I made available an additional â¬9 million to the Health Service Executive for the development of cancer services in 2006. The Deputy's question concerning the allocation of funds relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Deputy will appreciate that the management and delivery of services at the hospital is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive in the first instance. As Minister, I am aware of the position regarding certain operational matters affecting the delivery of hospital services in different areas. With regard to Kerry General Hospital I have not been in formal contact recently with...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)
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.
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: Implementation of the European working time directive will necessitate the following reductions in the working hours of all doctors: a maximum of 58 hours per week on average from 1 August 2004; a maximum of 56 hours per week on average from 1 August 2007; and a maximum of 48 hours per week on average from 1 August 2009. The national task force on medical staffing was charged with examining...
- Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (2 Mar 2006)
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 a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: On 1 February I and the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, announced details of a major reform programme in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training, based on the recommendations in the report of the working group on undergraduate medical education and training, chaired by Professor Pat Fottrell, and the report of the postgraduate medical education and...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: As part of the Estimates for health services in 2006, additional funding of â¬3 million was allocated specifically for the further development of neurology and neurophysiology services. This funding was provided to allow the Health Service Executive to further progress the implementation of the recommendations made by the former Comhairle na nOspidéal in respect of these services. The...
- Written Answers — Hospital Reports: Hospital Reports (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department is advised by the Health Service Executive that the process mapping report referred to by the Deputy is currently at draft stage. The executive has established a group, chaired by the temporary director of the National Hospitals Office, to evaluate the report, its implications and its implementation. The date of publication of the report will be decided shortly.