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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 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 provision of services at Cork University Hospital. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 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 transplant services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the director of the national hospitals...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (24 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: There is a common list of reimbursable medicines for the general medical services and drug payment schemes. This list ensures equity between the schemes in relation to the range of medicines paid for by the State. The list is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the common list, it must comply with a published...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, purchases procedures from private and public hospitals in Ireland. Where it is not possible to treat patients within a reasonable period in Ireland, either in public or private hospitals, arrangements can be made to refer the public patients for treatment abroad, having regard to quality, availability and cost. My Department has been informed by the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 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 provision of health centres. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The question of providing after care for patients who have had their treatment arranged by the national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, outside the State is a matter for the fund. My Department has, therefore, asked the acting chief executive of the NTPF to reply directly to the Deputy on the matters raised.

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (24 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department is studying the Supreme Court judgment in detail and will take on board all the consequences for policy and law arising from it. A special Cabinet sub-committee comprising the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, the Attorney General, Mr. Brady, and myself has been established to consider the issue of repayment in light of the judgment. Persons...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (24 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department is studying the Supreme Court judgment in detail and will take on board all the consequences for policy and law arising from it. A special Cabinet sub-committee comprising the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, the Attorney General, Mr Brady, and myself has been established to consider the issue of repayment in light of the judgment. Full...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (24 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: In submissions for the Supreme Court's consideration of the constitutionality of the Health (Amendment) No. 2 Bill 2004, my Department provided estimates of the overall amounts deducted from people in publicly funded long-term residential places since 1976, based on the information available at the time. The amount estimated in relation to all relevant charges since 1976, a sub-set of which...

Written Answers — Community Welfare Officers: Community Welfare Officers (1 Mar 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 provision of accommodation for community welfare officers. Accordingly, my Department has requested...

Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The statutory basis for the fluoridation of public piped water supplies is the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act 1960 and various regulations made under the Act. The Act provides for the making by health authorities of arrangements for the fluoridation of water supplied to the public by sanitary authorities through pipes. The Act also provides that the amount of fluorine to be added...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (1 Mar 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 provision of ambulance services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Mar 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 Louth, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's north eastern area to...

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: There is a common list of reimbursable medicines for the general medical services and drug payment schemes. This list ensures equity between the schemes for the range of medicines paid for by the State. The list is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the common list, it must comply with a published list of...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department has been advised by the Health Service Executive that owing to the urgency in filling its senior management posts the interim Health Service Executive awarded a contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers, following a tendering process, to manage the recruitment competition. The statutory instrument under which the interim HSE was established did not require it to recruit employees...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: As the detailed information requested by the Deputy for Kildare and west Wicklow is not available in my Department, my Department has forwarded the Deputy's request to the chief officer of the south western area of the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: As the detailed information requested by the Deputy on the number of speech therapists employed by the Health Service Executive in the Kildare and west Wicklow area is not available in my Department, my Department has forwarded the Deputy's request to the chief officer of the south western area of the HSE for attention and direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: Statutory responsibility for organisational and staffing structures underpinning the delivery of health and personal social services rests with the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005 under the Health Act 2004. My Department has therefore asked the interim chief executive officer of the HSE to investigate the specific matters raised by the Deputy on Kildare and...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take QuestionsNos. 148 and 149 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. Accordingly,...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 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. General practitioners who provide services to people who are medical card holders under the general medical services scheme hold...