Results 15,001-15,020 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (30 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: Ambulance Service Response Times (30 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: Ambulance Service Provision (30 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 Procedures (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 434 to 439, inclusive, together. 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 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. In relation to your...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Accommodation (30 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: Ambulance Service Staff (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the 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: Health Services (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: Neither I nor my officials have discussed any specific cases in recent times in relation to the clinic mentioned by the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, 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. Funding in 2015 amounts to €3.286m. My Department has received a large number of applications under the National Lottery Discretionary Fund which are currently being...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 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: Treatment Abroad Scheme (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (30 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: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Review (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy might be aware, the first annual report on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas as required under Section 20 of the Act yesterday. The report covers the period from 1 of January 2014 until the 31 of December 2014. The report shows that 26 terminations were carried out under the Act in 2014. Fourteen of these arose from a risk...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 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 National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: The BCG vaccine is currently part of the primary childhood immunisation schedule and is provided by the HSE. The vaccine is given to protect babies against Tuberculosis (TB). In Ireland the number of cases of TB has been falling and there were no cases in young children in 2014. The HSE has a contract with a Danish supplier for the procurement of BCG vaccine. BCG vaccine must be...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (30 Jun 2015)
Leo Varadkar: The Department of Health’s Breastfeeding Strategic Action Plan (2005) has as its mission statement 'to improve the nation’s health by ensuring that breastfeeding is the norm for infants and young children'.The protective role of breastfeeding extends beyond childhood and is important in the prevention of obesity, and chronic diseases in adulthood including hypertension and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 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 Appointment Status (30 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 National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (30 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 Appointment Status (30 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...