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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 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: Health Services (14 Jul 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 Groups (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Midland Regional Hospital at Mullingar (MRMH) is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group. The other hospitals in this Group are Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; St Vincent's University Hospital; St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; Wexford General Hospital; National Maternity Hospital; Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; St Columcille's Hospital; St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The St Loman's campus contains six separate building blocks which are occupied as follows: -The acute mental health admissions and rehabilitation building; -The TUSLA operated child and family centre building; -The Intellectual Disabilities operated Springfield Centre building; -The primary care building occupied by the Community Healthcare Organisation support services; -Currently the St...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 Jul 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: Hospitals Building Programme (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply as the delivery of the healthcare facilities is a service matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office who will follow up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Mortality Rates (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular query raised, 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: Departmental Staff Data (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tabular statement. YEAR Average Age of Staff 2008 46.1 2011 46.9 Date 2015 48.6 I have asked that the HSE respond to you directly on the aspect of the question that relates to their public sector employees. In relation to Non-Commercial State Agencies under the remit of the Department, this information is being sought and will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have been informed by Mr Simon Coveney, T.D., Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine that the regulatory system for plant protection products is designed to ensure a very high level of protection for humans, animals and the environment. Therefore only products that can be used safely, without any unacceptable risks to human health or the environment are authorised for use. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases and is part of the Health Service Executive. The HPSC works in partnership with health service providers and organisations in Ireland and around the world to collate, interpret and disseminate data and information on communicable diseases. As the information...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Homes (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 707 and 708 together. In accordance with the Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934, local authorities, as defined under the Act, were the registration authority for maternity homes. Records which were required to be kept at maternity homes included: - (a) every reception into such home; - (b) every discharge from such home; - (c) every confinement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (14 Jul 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 Services (15 Jul 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: Health Services Staff (15 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Medical Practitioners Act 2007 provides that nationals of a non EEA country are registered in the Trainee Specialist Division of the Medical Council's Register if they have passed the Council's Pre-Registration Examination System (PRES) (or are exempt in line with legislation), have an approved training post and have been granted in a third country a document which, in the opinion of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Food (15 Jul 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 Services (15 Jul 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: Nursing Education (15 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The delays in responding to your representations are regretted. The Department has, to date, received in excess of 130 reps in relation to nursing and midwifery matters which require input from State Agencies and in many cases, the matter would be required to be researched in order to provide a comprehensive reply. I have arranged that a reply to the reps referred to in your question be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Application Numbers (15 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I regret the delay in responding to the Deputy's representations regarding an application for a National Lottery grant for Act for Meningitis, Tuam Road, Galway. The matter was receiving attention and I am pleased to inform you that I have approved a once-off grant of €50,000 from the National Lottery to fund a national support and awareness campaign. I recently wrote to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (15 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Exchequer funding provided in 2015 provided a more realistic funding level for the health services and was very welcome as part of a two year programme to put the health services on a more sustainable financial footing. However, pressures are arising in a number of areas, particularly in relation to expenditure on acute hospital services, demand led schemes and legal settlements. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In Ireland, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the regulatory authority for medicines in Ireland. Gardasil®is a medicinal product which has been authorised for use across the European Union since September 2006. While no medicine including vaccines is entirely without risk, the safety profile of Gardasil®has been continuously monitored. Up to the 8 June 2015, the...