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Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Health and Health Service Executive regard trolley waits as unacceptable and acknowledge the difficulties which the current surge in ED activity is causing for patients, their families and the staff who are doing their utmost to provide safe, quality care in very challenging circumstances. It is anticipated that the figures will continue to fluctuate, but the collaborative...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has approved an extensive package of measures to deal with alcohol misuse to be incorporated in a Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. These measures are based on the recommendations contained in the Steering Group Report on a National Substance Misuse Strategy,2012. The package of measures to be implemented will include provision for minimum unit pricing, regulation of the marketing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (14 Jan 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am aware that some nursing homes are experiencing difficulties in recruiting nurses reflecting to a degree the fact that opportunities within the Acute sector have improved. Historically a large number of Irish graduate nurses have found posts in acute hospitals in Ireland or abroad more attractive and the sector has relied on attracting nurses from abroad to fill these posts. The six...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (14 Jan 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 686 and 688 together. As these are service matters, 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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Consultancy : Engaged during 2014 Fees paid during 2014 € Milliman Ltd 1,135 Metis Consulting Ltd 12,915 Dr Barry Gibson 10,005 Trutz Haase 11,562 Mr Paul Batchelor OCC Ltd 7,996 Dr Mary O'Riordan 62,501 National University of Ireland Galway 23,935 University College Cork 12,428 Dublin City University...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jan 2015)

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. In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jan 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 700 and 707 together. The HSE's Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland (ODTI) has convened a working group to progress a strategy for public awareness of the importance of organ donation and the huge benefits of organ transplantation for individuals and their families. The group includes representatives of the HSE, the Irish Kidney Association, Cystic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (14 Jan 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The transfer of the child and family services function to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs did not impact on the expenditure of my Department. In 2014 Vote 38 (Health) provided for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health and certain other services administered by that Office, including grants to research, consultative and advisory bodies. The Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular patient query raised by you, 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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (14 Jan 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 710 to 713, inclusive, together. It is important that newly qualified doctors can be retained within the public health system and measures are in train to support consultant and NCHD retention. One of the key recommendations from the Working Group chaired by Prof MacCraith, DCU, was that the relevant parties commence a timetabled IR engagement of short...

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is pro-active in monitoring transposition of EU Directives. Transposition is monitored through a central tracking system and monitoring of transpositions carried out by the Department of An Taoiseach. Information for the period up to the end of 2015 is being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 717 and 718 together. Ten Bills initiated in my Department have been published since September 2013. Information sought by the Deputy on those Bills is set out in the table below. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children held a series of public hearings on the general scheme of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 719 to 721, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy in respect of secondment positions is detailed in the following table. - 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Position as at 14 January 2015 Secondments to External Private Companies from the Department of Health 2 2 2 3 3 2 Secondments into the Department of Health from External Private...