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Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (20 Feb 2007)

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 reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Medical cards are made available to persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services. In 2005 the GP visit card was introduced as a graduated benefit so that people on lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who do not qualify for a medical card would not be deterred on cost grounds from...

Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The material safety data sheet for fluorosilicic acid, as requested by the Deputy, is available on the fluorosilicic acid supplier's website: http://www.chemifloc.ie/msds/MSDS The Deputy's question about the cost of water fluoridation in 2006 relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular question raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs...

Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: When Ms Anne Dunne SC presented her report on post mortem practice to me in March 2005, I was advised by the Attorney General that it could not be published for legal and natural justice reasons. Some sections of the report were released on 18 July 2006 in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Acts from Parents for Justice. However, in the light of the legal advice available...

Written Answers — Drug Safety: Drug Safety (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Depo Provera (medroxyprogesterone acetate) has been authorised as a contraceptive medicinal product in Ireland since 1996. The Irish Medicines Board considers that the overall benefit/risk profile for Depo Provera is favourable, in the context of its recommended use. Benefit/risk assessment for specific patients must of course also be considered on an individual basis, taking account of any...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Ophthalmic services are provided free of charge to certain groups of people, including medical card holders and primary school children, under Section 67 of the Health Act, 1970. These services are provided from a variety of locations including health centres and clinics. As the Health Service Executive has the operational and funding responsibility for Primary Care services, including eye...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 359 and 371 together. There has been a significant increase in acute bed capacity in recent years. The average number of in-patient beds and day places in public acute hospitals has increased by approximately 1,200 since 2001, the year of the publication of the Health Strategy. The increase is continuing. For example, in the current year the Health Service...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

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 — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: A combination of agency nurses and overtime working provides an additional input of nursing resources to cope with difficulties arising in the provision of services while employers continue the recruitment process to fill vacancies. Agency workers are used to cover unplanned leave e.g. sick leave, force majeure leave, "special" patients (one to one nursing care to manage acute episodes) and...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: I would like to put on record that I hold the nursing and midwifery professions in high esteem and view the care they provide to patients as a critical component of our health services. In recent years the role of nurses and midwives has expanded to meet the needs of health service users. Over the last decade the pay of nurses and midwives has increased significantly as the role of the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: There is not a large scale exodus of Irish trained nurses from the profession. Health service employers have been successful in recruiting and retaining additional nurses in recent years. The number of nurses and midwives employed in the public health service is at an all time high. The most recent personnel census found that there were 36,730 whole time equivalent nurses and midwives in the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Primary Care Strategy aims to develop services in the community to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, home helps, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others. It has been estimated that up to 95% of people's health and social services needs can be properly met within a primary care setting and the establishment of...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: As part of the ongoing roll out of the Health Reform Programme, my Department has divested itself of involvement in the operational delivery of health and personal social services. It is now responsible for overall organisational, legislative, policy and financial accountability for the health sector. The Health Service Executive (HSE) was established in January, 2005 and is responsible for...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

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 — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Primary Care Strategy aims to develop services in the community to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, home helps, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others. It has been estimated that up to 95% of people's health and social services needs can be properly met within a primary care setting and the establishment of...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (20 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Under the decentralisation programme twenty nine civil servants have transferred to other Government Departments from my Department to date. Of those six transferred directly to offices outside Dublin. As the Deputy will be aware my Department is not one of the Departments earmarked for decentralisation under the Civil Service Decentralisation Programme.