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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (5 Dec 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (5 Dec 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 335 and 339 to 342, inclusive, together. As these questions relate to service matters, I have arranged for them to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (5 Dec 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: Medicinal Products Regulation (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: As the HSE has responsibility for this matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to you on this issue.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (5 Dec 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: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 353 and 354 together. The HSE ICT Capital allocation for 2018 is €60m, which represents an increase of €5m on the allocation of €55m in 2017. Increasing the 2018 capital allocation of €60m by 2% would amount to an additional €1.2m.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 355 and 356 together. I presume by pre committed spend for the roll out of electronic health records in future years, that the Deputy is referring to the HSE’s plans for the phasing in of a national Electronic Health Record (EHR). The scale of the task to implement a national electronic health record programme is very large, challenging and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: The Health Act 1970 (as amended) provides that all people ordinarily resident in the country are entitled, subject to certain charges, to public in-patient hospital services including consultant services and to public out-patient hospital services. Under the Health (In-Patients Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2008, a person who has been referred to a hospital for an in-patient...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 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 National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: In February 2017 the Department published a progress report on the National Rare Disease Plan and this is available on the Department’s website at: . It provides an update on all 48 recommendations as outlined in the Plan and progress to date. One of the principal recommendations in the Plan was the establishment of a National Clinical Programme for Rare Diseases which is responsible...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: The number of Freedom of Information requests received, to date in 2017, is 335. Of those completed: 49 were granted in full; 98 were part-granted and 69 were refused.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)
Simon Harris: The number of Freedom of Information requests received in my Department, to date in 2017, is 335. The Department's Freedom of Information request Tracker System does not currently generate reports setting out the number of requests which have been completed within the legislative time-frame. Neither does it generate the number of requests on which Section 14 extensions were sought. I...