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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 155 and 156 together. I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on these matters. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up these matters with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Data (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: There are currently 35 people under the age of 35 working in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In February of this year I received Government approval to draft the General Scheme of a Bill for assisted human reproduction, which will include provisions relating to surrogacy and the assignment of parentage in such cases. Drafting is at an early stage and the General Scheme is not expected to be completed before the end of the year. The General Scheme will provide for welfare of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. This information has been taken from Revised Estimates Volumes 2006-2015. The Net Current Health Service Expenditure represents the provisional outturn position for the Health Group of Votes for each year. From 2008 - 2010 the Health Group of Votes included the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Year...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (17 Jun 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 (17 Jun 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: Cancer Services (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy's questions relate 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 my officials will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy. 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: Health Services (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the issue raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply. I have noted the point raised in the question relating to the correspondence previously received by the Deputy, and have asked the HSE to clarify this matter in its further response. If you have not received a reply within 15 working days, please contact my private...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is the statutory body responsible for planning, designing, building and equipping the new children's hospital. The new hospital will be co-located with St. James's Hospital, and ultimately tri-located with a maternity hospital to be developed on campus. In addition to the main hospital, the project includes two satellite centres at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (17 Jun 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: Epilepsy Incidence (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The resolution concerned of the World Health Organisation is largely encompassed in the aims and work of the HSE's National Clinical Programme for Epilepsy (NCPE). This has been in operation since 2010. Its main objective is to provide the best value, safe care for all people with epilepsy in the right place, at the right time by sharing the best available information. Under the first...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The nursing home public and private sectors are collaborating with the Department of Health and the HSE in sourcing several solutions to meeting the issues arising in relation to nurse recruitment and retention. Currently, there are two areas under active review in relation to these recruitment and retention issues. Firstly, there is the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Jun 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: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 180 and 181 together. The EU Directive on the application of patient’s rights in cross-border healthcare seeks to ensure a clear and transparent framework for the provision of cross-border healthcare within the EU and is designed to clarify patients' rights to access safe and good quality treatment across EU/EEA Member States. The Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (17 Jun 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 Waiting Lists (17 Jun 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.

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the House for inviting me to speak to it about obesity and the measures being adopted by my Department to prevent its spread and reduce the size of this problem. Before I start, I will to put the issue of obesity in context. As the House will be aware, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and I set out 25 actions for this year which are organised under five themes: Healthy...

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Senators for the invitation to be here. I have had the opportunity to listen to some of their statements and points of view and in many ways, this is part of the consultation on the obesity policy and action plan announced earlier. In that regard the debate is very helpful. I agree with Senators' sentiments that the consultation should not go on forever - it will not - and it is my...

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: There were crisps on the top rung but the rest of it was okay. It is not that we cannot have vending machines but a case of what is put into them. The school food programme is coming up a lot in discussing the obesity policy and we hope to address matters such as food poverty, the healthy provision of food in schools and the education of children. We will engage with the Department of...