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Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Social Charge Application (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Health is undertaking a major costing exercise to estimate the cost of Universal Health Insurance (UHI) for individuals/households and the Exchequer, and is working closely with the ESRI and the Health Insurance Authority on this. The exercise will also take account of administrative costs associated with the model of UHI as set out in the White Paper. The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Applications for National Lottery grants far exceed resources and as the funds available for 2014 have been disbursed it is not possible, unfortunately, to assist in this particular case. However, if funding for this project is required in 2015, the organisation may wish to apply for a grant from the 2015 National Lottery allocation. Details of which will be put on the Department's website...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (15 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 Waiting Lists (15 Jan 2015)

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: National Lottery Funding Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 173 together. My Office has recently received a meeting request from this organisation and it is currently being considered.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 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: Vaccination Programme (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The number of cases of Meningitis B in County Kerry on a yearly bases by age is not held by my Department. I have asked the Health Service Executive to collate this information and send directly to the Deputy. The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC).The NIAC is a committee of the Royal College of Physicians of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (15 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: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government regards trolley waits of over 9 hours as unacceptable and acknowledges 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. Beaumont Hospital acknowledges and regrets the difficult conditions experienced by patients and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Jan 2015)

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 Waiting Lists (15 Jan 2015)

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: HSE Properties (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply as the management of the health property estate, including title issues, is a service matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office who will follow up on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (15 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: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Voluntary Health Insurance Board is the only semi state company under the aegis of my department. The Chief Executive of this company did not receive any performance related awards in 2013 and 2014.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have not provided the committee with a formal opening statement for a number of reasons. This matter was discussed in a Topical Issue debate in the Dáil yesterday and is also the subject of the Private Members' motion in the Dáil this week. At present, the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, is covering for me for the second part of the Private Members' motion debate in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: We are due to finish for a vote at a certain time, so I would like to reply to some of these points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I will let Mr. O'Brien speak about the more operational areas, but I will make a few responses. Deputy Kelleher suggested a few times that I was well capable of delivering a lecture. He is quite good at it himself, so congratulations on that. One of the difficulties is that health care in Ireland is too politicised. If there is a problem with a hospital in France, the people in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: What the Vice Chairman says is only partly true. An alternative access point is the day hospitals. I previously worked in a day hospital which provided in-house services for the elderly. The Smithfield unit has a dedicated frail elderly service. There are proposals under the national clinical programmes to do something significant around streaming frail elderly services separate from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: It is a good idea but it is a staff matter and I will ask Mr. O'Brien to comment on it further. The emergency department task force will bring a set of proposals to us before the end of the month. It is not an emergency task force, rather it is an emergency department task force. In terms of what is happening in the immediacy, issues such as community intervention teams, CITs, community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Which question do you want me to answer?