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Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Seanad for the speed and efficiency with which it has completed Committee, Report and Final Stages of this Bill. I did not think we would get through it so quickly. I recognise that Senator Colm Burke took the lead on this important patient safety legislation some time ago. This Bill, which will require all doctors who are registered in the State to be appropriately insured and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ambulance Service Provision (5 Nov 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Process (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The legislative proposals to support open disclosure give effect to the recommendations of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance. The recommendations state that legislation be enacted to provide legal protection for open disclosure undertaken in good faith and in compliance with national standards. The proposals take account of the National Policy on Open Disclosure and the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Open Disclosures Policy (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter the question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy. If no reply has been received from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with the Executive.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Relocation (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Civil Servants who are interested in transfers to regional offices can seek such transfers through the Departmental Transfer Lists or the Central Applications Facility which was maintained in the context of the decentralisation programme. In addition Civil Servants can also seek transfers through their Staff Association for head to head swaps. More recently staff have also had the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ambulance Service Provision (5 Nov 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Appointment Status (5 Nov 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Appointment Status (5 Nov 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Appointment Status (5 Nov 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Patient Transport (5 Nov 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Substance Misuse (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The provision of services to treat alcohol-related illness is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive and as such, I have referred this element of the question to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply. 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. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Vaccination Programme (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In Ireland, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the regulatory authority for medicines in Ireland. There are 2 licensed HPV vaccines available in Ireland (Gardasil®and Cervarix®). Gardasil®is the vaccine used by the HSE in the School Immunisation Programme. The vaccine protects against two high risk types of HPV (16 & 18) that cause 73% of all cervical...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Vaccination Programme (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and 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.

Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (10 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I want to thank Deputy Kitt for the opportunity to address the issue of the school dental service in Gort and south Galway. I am taking this debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, who is in the Seanad at present. Dental services for children up to 16 years of age and people of all ages with special needs are provided by the public dental service...

Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (10 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for his comments and interest in this issue. More than 300 dentists - down from 312 at its peak - 500 nurses and 600 hygienists work in the salaried public dental service. The budget is a little more than €60 million. The Merlin Park clinic has been renovated and plans for Shantalla are under way. Consideration is being given to Tuam, Roscommon and Boyle as well....

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “acknowledges: — that improving waiting times in Emergency Departments (EDs) is a key priority for Government; — the wide-ranging set of actions which are being put in place by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to achieve improvements in the delivery...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Nov 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: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Nov 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: Hospital Equipment (10 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If he has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days he should contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Services (10 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Individuals with an addiction to drugs and alcohol access the full range of general health services including primary care, secondary care, social care and mental health services. There are also specific services for addiction. Health Service Executive funding of €109 million is provided for alcohol and drug addiction services in 2015. People who present for alcohol addiction...