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Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The legislation applies to those in public institutions or beds that have been contracted by public institutions.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Clare, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's mid-western area to...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. The periodic review of eligibility and the frequency...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for chiropody services. The provision of chiropody services is a matter for the local areas of the HSE....

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78, 87 and 106 to 108, inclusive, together. The details requested by the Deputies are set out in the following table:

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The number of persons 70 years and over in possession of a medical card who were or are at the higher capitation and at the lower capitation rate is set out in the following table:

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: Information from the Health Services Executive shared services' primary reimbursement service for February 2005 indicates that 766,342 cards are in circulation and that the number of eligible persons covered is 1,142,618, or 1.49 persons per card. A more detailed breakdown of the total figure, in the manner specified in the question, has been requested from the HSE and will be forwarded to...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I have not met the Coeliac Society of Ireland. However, the question of funding for the society is receiving early consideration by my Department.

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 91 to 101, inclusive, together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of ambulance services....

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The health information strategy published in 2004 provides for the introduction of a system of unique identification of health service clients and patients which will be based on the PPS number. This will be critical to the reliable identification of patients which is an essential element in the safe transfer of electronic patient records between health care providers. The question of the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Services at the National Maternity Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the executive. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for diabetic services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive, which has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services, recently met the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland and has agreed to its request to establish a working group to consider the recommendations in the report. The report provides an assessment of need for current and future cystic...

Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. The information requested by the Deputy is not routinely collected by my Department. Therefore, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: An ex gratia payment scheme was initiated by the Government as a goodwill gesture, as it believed that some form of repayment should be made to those with full eligibility who had paid long stay charges. Therefore, a decision was taken to make repayments to people with full eligibility who had paid charges and who were alive on 9 December 2004, the date on which the health agencies were...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for orthodontic services. I am pleased to advise the Deputy that a number of measures have been adopted...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (22 Feb 2005)

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 conditions are: mental handicap, mental illness, for people under 16 only, phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, spina...

Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The forum on fluoridation was established to carry out a review of the fluoridation of public water supplies in Ireland. The forum consisted of people with expert knowledge spanning the areas of public health, biochemistry, dental health, bone health, food safety, environmental protection, ethics, water quality, health promotion and representatives from the consumer and environmental areas....