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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014,has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: This question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Lottery (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The establishment of a health lottery as outlined by the Deputy is not within my remit as Minister for Health. However, as the Deputy will be aware, National Lottery funds, administered by my Department, are available annually to provide once-off grants to organisations providing a range of health related services to specific clients groups e.g. disability, elderly, mental health. Further...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The target for urgent colonoscopy is 4 weeks. Since 2011 there has only 1 patient has been in breach of this target, in August 2014. This patient was prioritised and dealt with in September 2014. With regard to general waiting lists, it is a key part of HSE Waiting List policy to treat patients in chronological order, unless clinical need dictates otherwise. The HSE is currently undertaking...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: There is a need for much greater cost control in the private health insurance industry so that premiums are affordable for as many people as possible. My Department and the Health Insurance Authority (HIA) monitor the factors that contribute to costs on an ongoing basis. The cost of private health insurance is influenced by issues such as the number of persons and the age profile of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: No new statutory bodies have been established under the aegis of my Department since 2011.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I very much welcome the opportunity to address Members of this House on the 2015 Department of Health budget and my priorities for the health sector next year. Since my appointment as Minister for Health, I have said on more than one occasion that it is my first priority to achieve a realistic budget for the health service. I firmly believe we have achieved that in budget 2015, with an...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: How much time do I have?

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I will respond to two Adjournment debate matters following the conclusion of this business. I will try to cover as much as I can. A number of questions were asked about national policy issues and many others about individual persons or facilities, which could perhaps be better dealt with by correspondence or by means of an Adjournment debate than a debate on health policy and budgets. I am...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Could the Senator repeat that please?

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I was going to point to the obvious flaw in that policy which is that if Sinn Féin were to pursue it, we would probably have no consultants in the country at all.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I did miss that detail although I had a good look at the policy.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: If the Senator asserts that is the policy then I believe him but ---

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: --- if one believes in a good public service, one must pay people well across the entire public service. If the Senator thinks that it would only be for hospital consultant posts that we would have problems recruiting the highest quality staff, in the context of a salary cap of €100,000 or a tax rate of 68%, then he is quite wrong. We would struggle to find ---

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: We would struggle to find good IT managers, accountants, financial services personnel and so forth. That is already happening across the public sector now. We are struggling to fill the top posts because of the caps on ----