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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: Almost 130,000 people work full-time or part-time in our public health services. In recent years, the Government's ongoing high level of investment in health has achieved and maintained significant increases in the numbers of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has also invested heavily in the education and training of...

Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: Policy in the delivery of health services has been determined by Government as the development of health services in all regions of the country, capable of providing safe, high-quality services that achieve the best possible outcomes for patients in primary care settings or when accessing a hospital service. My Department has developed a broad range of strategy documents and associated...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: As the Health Service Executive has the operational and funding responsibility for the medical card benefit, it is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has therefore requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to address this matter and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: A Working Group,which includes the social partners, was established to progress Action 80 of the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008 in relation to potential synergies between the areas of alcohol and drugs. The Working Group has had four meetings to date. The Working Group has considered a discussion paper prepared by its secretariat as well as number of submissions — including one from the...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: A core function of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is to set standards on safety and quality of health services and to monitor enforcement of those standards in an open and transparent way. The Health Act 2007 gives HIQA strong powers in this area in relation to services provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and bodies funded by the HSE to provide services on...

Written Answers — European Directives: European Directives (25 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: All EU Directives issued since 1973 relevant to this Department have been transposed and implemented into national legislation with the exception of the following Directives: Directive 2003/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the advertising and...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (26 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jun 2008)

Mary Harney: A grant-in-aid differs from other voted grants in that any unexpended balance of the sums issued is not liable to surrender to the Exchequer at the end of the financial year. Officials within my Department have confirmed that there are no grants in aid for the period in question for Votes 39 & 41.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office is an independent office established to provide an appeals service to those who wish to appeal the decision of the Scheme Administrator under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. The Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office has advised my Department that as of 6 June 2008, nine appeals have been lodged with the Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: One of the key challenges facing the health service is the need to ensure that services are planned and provided in line with the clinical needs of the patient. A number of experimental initiatives have been put in place by the Health Service Executive with a view to providing care in community based rather than hospital based settings where clinically appropriate. The "Hospital in the Home"...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: Section 53 of the Health Act, 1970, (as amended by the Health (Amendment) Act, 2005) provides, inter alia, for the levying of a charge where in-patient services have been provided for a period of not less than 30 days or for periods aggregating not less than 30 days within the previous 12 months. The Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005 in keeping with Section 53 of the...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: Directive 2005/36/EC provides for the mutual recognition of qualifications of nationals of member states in respect of a broad range of regulated professions, including a number of regulated health professions. This new Directive makes specific provision — in Articles 28, 29 & 30 — for training in general medical practice. The specific qualifications for general medical practice are...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 193 to 203, inclusive, and 205 to 210, inclusive, together. The Deputy's questions relate to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have...

Written Answers — Drugs-related Deaths: Drugs-related Deaths (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The information sought by the Deputy is not available in full. However, between January 1998 and December 2001 the Dublin City and County Coroner's Office investigated 332 opiate-related deaths in Dublin. Two-thirds of the opiate users who died tested positive for three or more drugs while just over eleven per cent tested positive for one drug. Methadone was detected in 189 of the 332...

Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The Government's sustained high level of investment in healthcare has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors. This year, under the National Development Plan, capital funding of approximately €594m has been provided to the Health Service Executive. Responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (1 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004. It is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The...