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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of a medical card rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, rests with the executive. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Medical Practitioners: Medical Practitioners (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The responsibility for the registration and regulation of the activities of medical practitioners lies with the Medical Council under the Medical Practitioners Act 1978. I have responded to previous correspondence with the party mentioned and have advised him that without the written approval of the doctor concerned I cannot discuss the matter with any third party. This approval has not yet...

Written Answers — Registry Offices: Registry Offices (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of accommodation for registry offices for civil marriages rests with the executive. My Department has asked the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004, which was passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas on 17 December 2004, as well as providing a statutory basis for the imposition of charges on persons to whom long stay in-patient services are provided, irrespective of whether they are otherwise fully eligible for those services, also provides that a relevant charge levied under section 53 of the...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: A draft planning brief has been prepared on interim capital works at the National Maternity Hospital. The brief includes proposals designed to increase capacity in delivery rooms, theatres and neo-natal intensive care units, as well as providing improved post-natal facilities for mothers and babies. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I understand that the Deputy is referring to the number of health and social care professionals in each Health Service Executive, HSE, area. The number of these staff in each area in wholetime equivalence terms is as set out in the following table. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Naas General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has therefore asked the chief officer...

Written Answers — Health and Social Care Registration: Health and Social Care Registration (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: No detailed estimates are available at present for the costs of establishing the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. The Deputy may wish to note that, once operational, the system of statutory registration provided for under the Health and Social Care Professionals Bill will be self-financing, that is, funded from registration fees of professionals to be registered. Section 18 of...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Monaghan General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer of...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for Cork University Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's southern...

Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Services Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the imposition of charges in the case of individuals in hospitals in County Wexford rests with the executive. My Department has...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 183 together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the matters raised by the Deputy rests with the executive. My Department...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of hospital services rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Cancer Statistics: Cancer Statistics (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: Data concerning the number of deaths each year from lung cancer caused specifically by exposure to asbestos are not available. The number of deaths from selected causes for the period 1999 to 2003, as provided by the Central Statistics Office, is as follows: 1999 2000 2001 2002* 2003* Cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lung 1,449 1,568 1,478 1,474 1,587 Asbestosis 1 3 1...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of hospital services rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Mobile Telephony: Mobile Telephony (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 188 together. The current consensus of authoritative scientific literature is that there is no evidence of a causal relationship between exposure to radio frequencies, RF, from mobile phones and ill health. Furthermore, research to date indicates that RF fields do not possess sufficient energy to cause direct damage to DNA. The World Health...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Government is committed to making the full range of cancer services available and accessible to cancer patients throughout Ireland. To this end, we will provide considerable investment in radiation oncology facilities in the coming years. The Government in its decision on radiotherapy services remained open to the provision of a 'satellite' radiation oncology unit in Waterford. We are...

Written Answers — National Cancer Strategy: National Cancer Strategy (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190, 270 and 271 together. The National Cancer Forum is currently finalising a new national cancer strategy which is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2005. The forum is a multi-disciplinary group of experts and includes representatives of all modalities of cancer care. In developing the new strategy, the forum's considerations have been...

Written Answers — Diabetes Incidence: Diabetes Incidence (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: In recognition that diabetes is an important health condition, a national diabetes group chaired by the chief medical officer of my Department was established in January 2004 and has met on a regular basis since. The terms of reference of the working group included: the epidemiology of diabetes, health promotion and preventive initiatives, examination of services and the expansion of shared...