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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The endoscopy unit project currently underway at Roscommon General Hospital also includes a decontamination unit. Any future investment at Roscommon County Hospital must be considered within the overall acute hospital sector infrastructure programme, within the overall capital envelope available to the health service and in the context of the establishment of hospital groups. In 2015,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the 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: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (11 Feb 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 Procedures (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The national renal transplant team in Beaumont Hospital carries out all kidney transplants in Ireland. The transplants are carried out by the Beaumont team at two locations - Beaumont Hospital for adults and the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, for paediatric patients up to the age of 19. The table below shows the kidney transplant details 2010-2014: Year Deceased...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the 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 Waiting Lists (12 Feb 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 Appointment Status (12 Feb 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Feb 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: Health Services Funding (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations, providing a range of health related services. If an organisation wishes to make an application for National Lottery Funding they should send in a formal application. Detailed procedures along with the application form will be available shortly on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Significant steps have been taken to make savings from hospital consultants pay in recent years. The salary scales for new entrant consultants' were reduced by 10% with effect from 1st January 2011. A further reduction of 30% was applied to these scales for those interviewed for posts on or after 1st October 2012. In addition, on 1st July 2013 consultants' pay was reduced in line with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Feb 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: Health Services Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Total health expenditure for each of the last 5 years, by both public and private, are detailed in the following table. Figures are presented in millions of Euro. Estimates of private health expenditure are compiled by the Central Statistics Office and include health expenditure by private insurance and out-of-pocket payments by households. Table: Total Health Expenditure in Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I, along with the Chief Nursing Officer met with the President, Vice-President and Chief Executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland on the 29th January 2015 to discuss the current dispute over the registration fee. I again requested that the Board of NMBI re-engage in discussions with the staff associations, as a matter of urgency. I expressed my concern regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department flies the National and EU flags in accordance with the Protocol set by the Department of the Taoiseach. My Department will consider this request in accordance with this Protocol.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 as amended, prohibits smoking in the workplace which includes indoor areas in schools. Currently there is no legislative basis for prohibiting smoking on school grounds. In practice, however, many schools have adopted no smoking policies on school grounds. Tobacco Free Ireland,the national tobacco policy, contains the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (12 Feb 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: Health Services Funding (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. My Department has no record of receiving an application for lottery funding for this particular project in 2014. I have ask the Health Service Executive to check if it received such an application and to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Feb 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: Health Insurance Levy (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The interim scheme of Age-Related Tax Credits and Community Rating Levy (ARTC) was in operation from 2009-2012. The Department of Finance has advised that the total Stamp Duty levied on health insurance products for the specified years is as follows: YEAR ARTC SCHEME 2011 €347m 2012 €437m The interim scheme was replaced by a permanent Risk Equalisation Scheme from 1...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I assume the Deputy is referring to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s National Drug Strategy Household Survey detailed report 2013,published last November. The report has been misrepresented in some quarters, quoting a finding that between 2010 and 2013 there appeared to be a slight rise in the proportion of people aged 12–17 smoking daily. However, the report...

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