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Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (14 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The decisions made on which medicines are reimbursed by the taxpayer, are not political or ministerial decisions. These are made on objective, scientific and economic grounds by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and often on the advice of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics. With regard to the drug Eculizumab, in 2010 following prolonged discussions and in the absence of sufficient...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (14 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The policy proposals to be brought for Government's consideration of the drafting of primary legislation for a new travel subsidy scheme for people with severe disabilities are currently under consideration in the Department of Health.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (14 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The HSE controls the release of funding for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme in order to stay within budget and to balance activity over the full course of the year. All applicants for participation in the Scheme are, when approved, put on a national placement list in strict order of their approval date. The funding issues to applicants in this chronological order so as to ensure equity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (14 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The HSE operates a national placement list for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme to enable it to operate within budget. All applicants who are approved for funding are put on the placement list in chronological order by the date of determination of their application, and funding issues to applicants in this chronological order to ensure equity nationally. Funding is released by the HSE on a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (14 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I did not want to prevent the new Deputy from speaking. However, as it would not have been his maiden speech, he was in danger of being heckled. I would not do it and he is very welcome to the House. To start, I would like to tell Deputy McConalogue about detail and budgets. I sat on the benches opposite for a long number of years. While Fianna Fáil sat on this side of the House...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Everyone up in the Press Gallery was flicking through the budget while the democratically elected Members of the Opposition did not have it. It was only after the Press Gallery had enough time to peruse it that Fianna Fáil then deemed it all right for the democratically elected Members to see it. I will tell the Deputy something else. Despite the conditions in which the country finds...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: We are always a disgrace, it is never good enough and it is always the task of the next impossible thing. That is Sinn Féin policy. There is no detail, that is just the policy.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The script is given to each Member as he or she goes in the door. I have seen it. Every morning the line is sent out and they all, like choirboys, stick rigidly to it.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy should not accuse anyone else of spin unless he can take it back. I would love to see him come in here without notes to give an unscripted speech that is not detail free. Before I go on to my particular area, I must point out that when I examined the health element of the Sinn Féin's pre-budget submission, I found no reference to either the further €35 million or the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: It contained no reference to older people, which is amazing when one considers our increasing age demographic. Disability funding was not cut last year, but Sinn Féin claimed that in its document. There is no reference to the €12 million allocated for disability services for school leavers or the €6 million for therapy services for children up to 18 years of age. Neither...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Fluoride is already widely available in the environment; soil contains fluoride, and the oceans of the world are fluoridated, having twice the concentration of fluoride as has fluoridated drinking water. The question of wider environmental effects of fluoridation was considered by the EU Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risk (SCHER) Review in 2011. It found that fluoridation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: When the Nursing Homes Support Scheme commenced, a commitment was made that it would be reviewed after three years. The reason for allowing this period to elapse was to ensure that the Scheme had bedded in and that established trends would be available in order to inform the work of the Review. The Review is being carried out by my Department in collaboration with the HSE, with analysis and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Statistics (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The National Intellectual Disability Database and the National Physical & Sensory Disability Database are managed by the Health Research Board on behalf of the Department of Health. The Databases are sets of information which outline the specialised health services currently used or needed by people with an intellectual or physical & sensory disability. Participation in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (15 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.