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Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: It refers specifically to Galway. With regard to what was mentioned by other Deputies, it is important to bear in mind that the staff who refused to work this morning left the night shift in situ, and they would have been on for 12 hours at that stage.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: That is something that needs to be borne in mind. That is not a course of action that I hope any of us here condone in that the shift already on were left in situ.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: For the information of other Deputies, I have worked in an emergency department. An emergency department is a place where one is at risk of assault and it is a place where staff do get assaulted by violent people and by drunks, and I turned up for work on every occasion that I worked in an emergency department. However, procedures are put in place to minimise risk and deal with assaults...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy cannot submit something with one or two hours notice and then go into detailed questions that were not even mentioned in the question.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: It is a pity we have got to the stage in this Parliament that Members put down debates at short notice. Ministers are very happy to turn up and deal with debates at short notice but Members then raise issues that were not referred to specifically in their questions, and then try to shout down the Minister when the Minister tries to-----

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am happy to withdraw the term "opportunistic" if it offends the Deputy but what he specifically mentions is Galway and other major problems, particularly in the area of youth mental health. If we want to have a serious Parliament and we want to hold Ministers to account, we really need to raise issues-----

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: -----with adequate notice so that it is possible for us to give comprehensive responses to the questions. There is little point in putting down a question about services in Galway and then raising questions about Dún Laoghaire if the Deputy expects to get an answer.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Before I start, I extend a very special welcome to Mr. Mark McQuillan, who is job shadowing me today as part of a programme of the Irish Association of Supported Employment. He is in the Visitors' Gallery. I thank Deputies for their contributions on the Bill. As Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, said in her opening statement on the Bill, the Government is committed to...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Referral to Select Committee (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Health pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1).

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this 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: Diabetes Strategy (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 109 and 110 together. 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. An organisation wishing to apply for National Lottery Funding must complete and submit a formal application. The closing date for receipt of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Managing a heart attack is very different today to ten or twenty years ago. There are now interventions that can limit the damage to the heart such as thrombolysis (clot busting drugs) and Primary PCI (a type of heart procedure to remove the blockage in the arteries). Primary PCI is done on STEMI heart attacks (that’s about 20% of heart attacks) and is done in a specialist centre...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (23 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Deputy Ó Fearghaíl for raising this issue and for giving me the opportunity to address the matter in the House. The national kidney and pancreas transplant programme is currently provided at Beaumont Hospital. In 2014 Beaumont carried out 192 kidney transplants, including 152 from deceased donors and 40 from living donors, as well as six pancreas transplants. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (23 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: This current issue relates to pancreas transplantation, not kidney transplantation. Dialysis is for kidney treatment and not pancreas problems. The renal unit seems to be working relatively well in Beaumont. Certainly, it has not been the case that any kidneys that could have been transplanted in Ireland were exported or anything like that. I am not involved in recruitment to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Apr 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.