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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: Medicines play a vital role in improving the overall health of Irish patients. Securing access to medicines in a timely manner is a key objective of the Irish Health Service. However, the challenge is delivering on this objective in an affordable and sustainable way. The new four-year Framework Agreement on the Supply and Pricing of Medicines, signed in July 2016 is an agreement between...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: Arrangements are currently in place to provide for a small number of paediatric radiology interventions to be carried out by an adult radiologist and some of the paediatric radiologists on a case-by-case basis. However, the HSE acknowledges there is a need to further develop these services in Ireland. The development of the new children’s hospital and the two OPD and Urgent Care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Funding (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: My Department is not undertaking a national review of accident and emergency departments. The Deputy may wish to note that the Smaller Hospitals Framework defines the role of smaller hospitals and outlines the need for smaller hospitals and larger hospitals to operate as Hospital Groups. It identifies the activities that can be performed in smaller, or Model 2, hospitals in a safe and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Reimbursement Agreements (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: 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 HSE is the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: 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 Facilities (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As the HSE has responsibility for this matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this issue.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE Primary Care Reimbursement Service is responsible for reimbursing GPs for a range of services they provide to medical card and GP visit card holders. I have therefore arranged for this question to be referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I acknowledge that waiting times are often unacceptably long and I am conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. Reducing waiting times for the longest waiting patients is one of this Government's key priorities. Consequently, Budget 2017 allocated €20 million to the NTPF, rising to €55 million in 2018. Budget 2018 allocated additional funding in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 to 146, inclusive, together. The gross public non capital, capital and total expenditure on health in each of the budget years 2007 to 2018 is set out below in tabular form. From 2007 to 2014 the expenditure represents the aggregate of expenditure on the Vote of the Office of the Minister for Health & Children and the Vote of the Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 147 and 148 together. The new Capital Envelope announced in the context of Budget 2018 is being used by the HSE to revise the Capital Plan and also in preparing the National Service Plan for 2018. Therefore I am not in a position to say what projects will be funded next year.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: Adjuvants (immune potentiators or immunomodulators) have been used for decades to improve the immune response to vaccine antigens. The incorporation of adjuvants into vaccine formulations is aimed at enhancing, accelerating and prolonging the specific immune response towards the desired response to vaccine antigens. Advantages of adjuvants include the enhancement of the immunogenicity of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: 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 the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: In 2014 HIQA published a health technology assessment on providing defibrillators in public spaces. They found that, based on available evidence, none of the public access defibrillation programmes that were assessed were considered cost-effective using conventional willingness to pay thresholds. Following on from this, early this year, the Health Service Executive established an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: 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 Equipment (26 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive for a direct response