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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (29 Mar 2017)

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: Voluntary Sector Funding (29 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: My Department administered a National Lottery Discretionary Fund for the years 2011 to 2016 from which once-off grants were paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. Total funding amounted to €3.286m per year. A list of all the organisations that received lottery funding in each of the years from 2011 to 2016 is available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (29 Mar 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (29 Mar 2017)

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: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Mar 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Mar 2017)

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: Departmental Contracts Data (29 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I can confirm no private investigation firms were hired by my Department up to the end of 2015. My officials are reviewing records for 2016 and to date in 2017 and will advise the Deputy of any further relevant information; however, to my knowledge the Department of Health does not use the services of private investigation firms.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has advised that a Satellite Haemodialysis Unit will be developed in Wexford town. It will be under the clinical governance of the Haemodialysis Unit at University Hospital Waterford. I have been informed that an earlier tender process for this project could not be completed as the successful tenderer was refused planning permission for the intended site. I understand that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: In relation to the particular query raised, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 to 200, inclusive, 213 and 214 together. The Independent Review of Maternity and Gynaecology Services in the Greater Dublin Areawas commissioned by the HSE and published in 2008. That review identified St Vincent's University Hospital as the most appropriate location for the redevelopment of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH). The site was at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Mar 2017)

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 National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cancer Strategy Publication (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 203 and 224 together. The development of a new National Cancer Strategy is nearing finalisation. I intend to bring the Strategy to Government in the coming weeks, following which it will be published.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Mar 2017)

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: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Mar 2017)

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: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (30 Mar 2017)

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 Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: Reducing waiting times for the longest waiting patients is one of this Government's key priorities. Consequently, Budget 2017 allocated €20 million to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, rising to €55 million in 2018. In December 2016, I granted approval to the NTPF to dedicate €5m to a daycase waiting list initiative with the aim of ensuring that no patient...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. In line with the 2013 Act, if a company would like a medicine to be reimbursed by the HSE pursuant to the community drug schemes or as a hospital medicine, the company must first submit an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Historical Records (30 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934, required maternity homes to maintain certain birth and death 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Mar 2017)

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...