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Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is an operational matter I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy with the detailed information required. However, on the more general issue, I can confirm that the population of Wexford have access to a Catherisation Laboratory in University Hospital Waterford (UHW), or St James's or St Vincent's Hospitals in Dublin. The Deputy will, of course, be aware that an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts Data (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: With regards to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter I have asked the HSE to reply directly to you.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Long stay charges for in-patient services apply to the further provision of inpatient services, other than acute services and nursing home services in public nursing homes supported under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Fair Deal) to persons who have already received at least 30 days of in-patient services during the immediately preceding 12-month period, irrespective of where those 30 days...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Our Lady’s Hospital Navan is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group. Hospital Groups must increasingly focus on networks of service provision with smaller hospitals managing routine, urgent or planned care locally, more complex care managed in the larger hospitals and better linkages with primary, continuing and social care. A number of developments at the hospital have been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (3 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The following are Medical Card and General Practitioner Visit Card figures as of 1 October 2016, as requested by the Deputy: Card Type Total Cards Medical cards 1,705,791 of which granted involving discretion 111,904 GP Visit cards 463,901 of which granted involving discretion 44,320

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 290 and 291 together. The starting salary for staff nurses and midwives as and from 1 January 2010 was €30,234, for mental health staff nurses the starting salary as and from 1 January 2010 was €30,937. The corresponding salaries as and from 1 November 2016 are €27,483 and €28,122. This reflects the 10% reduced new entrant scales...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Data (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. Funding in 2016 amounts to €3.286m. The closing date for receipt of applications for 2016 was the 6th May.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934, required maternity homes to maintain certain birth records. These records were kept at the home. Given the passage of time, I am not sure if all records relating to the private maternity home in question still exist. I am, however, aware that some historic maternity records are held by the National Archives. Accordingly, it might be worth...