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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 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, the Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 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 HSE to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (28 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. This includes responsibility for the provision of the housing aid scheme for the elderly, on behalf of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Accordingly, the Department has requested...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 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 HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I join the Taoiseach, the leader of Fine Gael and the leader of the Labour Party in expressing my sympathy and that of the Progressive Democrats to the family of the late Ruairí Brugha. I had the pleasure of serving in the Seanad for four years, between 1977 and 1981, with Ruairí Brugha and that was when I got to know him. As others have said, he was a real gentleman. He had an enormous...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I am happy to confirm the position as set out in my answer of 7 March last and to clarify that, under the long-term illness scheme, the Health Service Executive may arrange for the supply, without charge, of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances to people with cystic fibrosis for the treatment of that condition.

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: For the sake of clarity, avian flu, H5N1, is primarily a disease of birds. To date, there have been a very small number of human cases of H5N1 infection documented in situations where there has been very close contact with infected birds. There is no evidence of human to human transmission. The Department of Agriculture and Food is responsible for controlling avian flu in birds and mammals...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 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 to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006 was published on 16 March 2006 and will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas in the coming weeks. This Bill will provide the statutory basis for a national repayment scheme for the repayment of long stay charges for publicly funded residential care to those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged. Under the scheme, all those fully...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to human resource management within the Health Service Executive. As this is a matter for the Executive under the Health Act 2004, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have it investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy. I recognise the valuable role of the home help service in enabling...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Following the publication of the report of the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital inquiry, I have discussed its findings with Patient Focus, the National Hospitals Office of the Health Service Executive, HSE, and the Medical Council. As the Deputy is aware, the Medical Council is the body with statutory responsibility for issues relating to fitness to practice of medical practitioners and I have no...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (29 Mar 2006)

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

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: In the context of the decision to be taken on the possible relocation of the facilities at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, I asked the Health Service Executive to undertake a review of tertiary highly specialised paediatric services to ensure that they are planned and provided in the most efficient and effective manner. On 3 February last, the Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Under the terms of the general medical services scheme, GMS, contract, participating GPs undertake to provide a range of treatments and general practitioner services for the patients on their GMS panel. Their GMS contract obliges them to provide the first and last certificates to explain work absence for their patients. All other requested certificates, such as those in respect of...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 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. This includes responsibility for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. Accordingly, my Department is requesting the parliamentary affairs division of the...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 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. This includes responsibility for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. Accordingly, my Department is requesting the parliamentary affairs division of the...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The issues raised by the Deputy are matters for BreastCheck. My Department has requested the director of BreastCheck to examine the matters raised and to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Department of Health and Children has been informed by the parliamentary affairs division of the Health Service Executive that a reply has now issued to the Deputy on the matter.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, for which the Health Service Executive is responsible under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange for this matter to be investigated and a reply to be issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Service Projects: Health Service Projects (29 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I have been advised by the Health Service Executive that it has not yet concluded its deliberations on the course of action it proposes to pursue to allow the PPARS project to recommence. A recommended action plan which will seek to leverage the investment made to date will be submitted to the HSE's chief executive officer shortly. The action plan will have to take on board last December's...