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Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As Hospital Groups are implemented, of key importance will be the early demonstration of progress towards a more a co-ordinated approach to the planning and delivery of services, including emergency services, within and across the hospital groups, with an increased focus on networks of service provision with smaller hospitals managing routine urgent or planned care locally and more complex...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 May 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 (12 May 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. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (12 May 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 (12 May 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: Addiction Treatment Services (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The provision of services to prevent and treat addiction to alcohol is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive and as such, I have referred this question to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office who will follow up the matter with them. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Quality (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is responsible for policy and legislation in relation to drinking water quality. Since 1 January 2014 Irish Water has statutory responsibility for the provision of public water services. The EU (Drinking Water) Regulations 2014 require that where Irish Water or a local authority, having consulted with and subject to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The new Lifetime Community Rating system, which came into operation on 1 May 2015, is designed to encourage people to join the private health insurance market at an earlier age and thus support affordable community-rated premiums for everyone who wishes to purchase insurance. Since 1 May, ‘late entry loadings’ apply for those aged 35 and over who did not purchase health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Insurance Authority, as the statutory regulator of the health insurance market, maintains the "The Register of Health Benefits Undertakings". In order to carry on the business of health insurance in Ireland, it is necessary for health insurers to be registered and to obtain a certificate of registration from the Authority under Section 14 of the Health Insurance Act, 1994. There...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The exact information for the years requested by the Deputy is not readily available. However work done by the Department of Health last year showed that for the health services as a whole, the estimated additional demographic cost pressure in expenditure ranged from €180 million to €201 million per annum, from 2014 to 2015. It is important to emphasise that this projection in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Shared Services (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In March 2013 the Health Service Executive established a separate division with specific responsibility for the development and delivery of a portfolio of support services using a shared services delivery model. The division called “Health Business Services” or HBS provides national focussed management to services including Financial Services, Human Resources, Procurement,...

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption in Ireland: Statements (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the House for raising this issue and giving me the opportunity to discuss it. I apologise to Members for being late and thank them for their patience, but I had to take a debate on Portlaoise hospital in the Dáil and given the day that was in it I thought I should respond to it myself. Before I start I wish to put the issue of alcohol in context. At the moment, the Department...

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption in Ireland: Statements (12 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Senators for having this timely and important debate on alcohol. I particularly thank them for their kind words about me and my performance as Minister for Health. To be honest, some days I do not feel I am achieving an awful lot. There is so much going on in any given day, so many moving parts and so many different interest groups, that it is really difficult to get a grip on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (13 May 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: Health Insurance (13 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government is undertaking fundamental reform of the health service in order to ensure we deliver one that is more efficient, effective and of a higher quality. A major costing exercise, involving my Department, the ESRI, the Health Insurance Authority and the HSE, is currently underway to establish the cost to the individual, household and to the State of the introduction of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 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 (13 May 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: National Cancer Strategy Implementation (13 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 157 and 158 together. A Cancer Strategy Steering Group is being established to provide guidance and advice to my Department in formulating a new Cancer Strategy for the period 2016-2025. It is envisaged that the Steering Group will submit a draft Cancer Strategy for consideration by me before the end of 2015 with a view to the new strategy being ready for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Incidence (13 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Cancer Registry is the statutory body with responsibility for, inter alia,the collection and analysis of information relating to the incidence of cancer and related tumours in Ireland. My Department has asked the Registry to respond directly to the Deputy in relation to the number and types of cancer diagnosed each year.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (13 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As previously advised in my reply of 6 May 2015, policy responsibility with regard to planning and the legislative framework in relation to the siting of wind turbines rests with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and my Department provides advice from time to time when requested by the above mentioned Department. My Department has not carried out any research...