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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The table below identifies the amounts invoiced for air travel by the travel company currently holding the contract for Civil Service Departments and the amounts paid by the Department in the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and to the 9th November, 2007. The differential between the amounts invoiced and the amounts paid is due to the timing difference between receipt and payment of invoices.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is as follows: Service Spent to date in 2007 â'¬ Couriered Documents 13,829 Registered Post 11,513 Standard Post 154,666

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The scheme of performance related awards in my Department relates to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and the Chief Medical Officer only. The Committee for Performance Awards oversees the scheme, monitors its application and brings independent judgement to bear in approving objectives for the officers concerned and in approving recommendations for awards. Details of awards to individual...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the following table: 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 to date Total Resigned 13 6 9 7 7 42 Retired 3 9 6 11 8 37 Transferred on Promotion 2 4 8 6 8 28 Transferred not on Promotion 6 8 2 8 5 29 Decentralised under current Government Programme 0 0 3 25 21 49 Total 24 27 28 57 49 185

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: I am advised that my Department's Human Resources Unit has not received any allegation of victimisation for whistleblowing since 1 January 2007.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Under the 1970 Health Act, the Health Service Executive may arrange for the supply, without charge, of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances to people with a specified condition, for the treatment of that condition, through the Long Term Illness Scheme (LTI). The LTI does not cover GP fees or hospital co-payments. The conditions are: mental handicap, mental illness (for...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 212 and 213 together. Almost 130,000 people work full-time or part-time in our public health services. In recent years, the Government's ongoing high level of investment in health has achieved and maintained significant increases in the numbers of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: In accordance with Section 11 of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 a Repayment Scheme (Donations) Fund has been established for the purposes of utilising donated money to provide improvements in the public health services for dependent older persons and persons with disabilities. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has indicated that it will administer the Fund and absorb any associated...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The Executive...

Written Answers — Immunisation Programme: Immunisation Programme (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Ireland's recommended immunisation programme is based on the guidelines of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. These guidelines are prepared with the assistance of an active committee from associated disciplines in paediatrics, infectious diseases, general practice and public health. A vaccine to prevent against meningococcal...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: We have made substantial progress in cancer care for children and adolescents already and we are determined to build on that progress in the context of the National Cancer Control Programme. Prof. Tom Keane took up his position as interim Director of the National Cancer Control Programme last Monday. The HSE is putting arrangements in place to enable Prof. Keane to take control of all new...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 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 (27 Nov 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 (27 Nov 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 Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: My Department has been informed by the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Health Service Executive that it wrote, on 15th November 2007, to the Deputy in reply to his previous parliamentary question of 31st October 2007 about this case. The Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive has been asked by my Department to look into the further matters now raised by the Deputy in the case...

Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-Operatives: General Practitioner Co-Operatives (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Out of hours co-operatives allow general practitioners to put in place arrangements to provide services to their patients, while their surgeries are closed in the evenings, on weekends and bank holidays. The development of GP co-operatives is in line with the overall health service policy of strengthening primary care services and ensuring that to the greatest extent possible, people's care...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (27 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The Department of Health and Children and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform jointly asked the Health Research Board in 2005 to establish a National Drug-Related Deaths Index (NDRDI). This Index was established to comply with Action 67 of 'Building on Experience: National Drug Strategy 2001-2008'. The Index is a census of drug and alcohol-related deaths and deaths among...