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Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (5 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (5 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (5 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (5 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (5 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I introduced a policy for the Reimbursement of Expenses of Living Kidney Donors with effect from 12 November 2014. The policy provides for the reimbursement of accommodation and travel expenses incurred by living kidney donors up to a maximum of €6,000. Any loss of earnings incurred by the donor for up to 12 weeks after the donation takes place will also be eligible for reimbursement,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him. 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: Treatment Abroad Scheme (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) as provided for in EU Regulations and Department of Health Guidelines, does not include a provision for travel and subsistence expenses for patients or their relatives travelling abroad to avail of approved treatments. However the HSE, subject to available funding, under the Treatment Abroad Scheme Travel Policy, may provide assistance towards reasonable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Methadone maintenance treatment is a critical stabilising treatment that enables the people involved to counter their drug problem use and to rebuild their lives. The latest figures from the Central Treatment List at the end of January 2015 indicate that over 9,900 clients were receiving methadone maintenance treatment, of which 14 people were in the age range 16 to 19. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE has noted a recent increase in referrals to the Methadone Treatment Clinic in Galway, but has not seen any evidence of an increase in heroin use among young people. The HSE has approved additional clinic hours to cater for the increase in client numbers. Over €500,000 has been allocated by the HSE this year to the Jigsaw programme in the Western Regional Drug and Alcohol Task...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has advised that there is no investigation being carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As I mentioned in my previous response, the scheduling of appointments for individual patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred taking into account his or her clinical need. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Marriages (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Civil Registration Service is operated by the Health Service Executive on behalf of the General Register Office under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection. The cost of this service is met from within the HSE's budget, with some income generated through registration fees and the issuing of certificates for life events. However, this income did not meet the economic cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (5 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Mortality Rates (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Healthcare Quality Reporting System is published today, 5 March 2015. It is accessible on the Department of Health's website (www.health.gov.ie).

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (5 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: 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 with them.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: "The spirit of self is a great evil; the love of superiority is a great evil. The liberty which I look for is that which would increase the happiness of mankind." So wrote Daniel O’Connell in the late 1790s. He was just 21 years old and about to embark on the career that would make him a national hero and an international champion of the weak and oppressed. Two hundred and forty...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am presenting the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015 to the House today as an emergency measure on foot of a judgment earlier today by the Court of Appeal on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. I would like to express my appreciation to Whips and the House for agreeing to deal with this Bill at such short notice. The ruling by the court today...