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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: A report arrived just yesterday from the State Claims Agency on that. We have not looked at it yet, but we will.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: Very simply, we thought that periodic payment orders would be introduced. Had they come in, the awards of €7 million, €10 million and €13 million would have been divided by 20. We had thought the periodic payments legislation would have been enacted by now but it has not been. It will be, however, in the next few months.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: The main certainty it would bring about, which would be good for everyone, would be the implementation of annual payments which can then be reviewed as needs change. There are two sets of oddities. Even though an award may be very high, the person may run out of money or sometimes a person may get a huge award and, very sadly, pass away shortly afterwards leaving a huge amount of money...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: Was it €160 million?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: I would like to make a correction for the purposes of clarity. I think I mentioned the Mater and Beaumont hospitals earlier under subhead I2. I should have mentioned them under subhead I5. The Genio project and all of that is relatively new. It is the responsibility of the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. Of course I am aware of it. I think it holds a great deal of potential...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: I reiterate that if the extension of these cards to those under the age of six and over the age of 70 is the only thing we do, it will not be worth doing. It was never intended to be anything other than a first step. One of the first steps towards universal health care in Ireland was taken in the late 1940s and 1950s, when efforts were made to introduce the mother and child scheme. It is a...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: We have a common view on that. All of those things. That is one of the things being discussed now. I would like to have that agreed as soon as possible and then be able to commit to its implementation in the programme for Government, but my concern is that we will not be able to agree the contract until after the new Government is formed, and then we have to go looking for the money for...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: The GP would still get the fee, even if they never attended.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: I would not rule it out, actually. Until we get rid of means tests or sickness tests altogether, which is what we should be trying to do, there is no right answer to this. We specifically asked the clinical advisory group to examine that and it did not recommend it, but it did recommend that action on cancer.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: It will never be stood down, because we are never going to get this exactly right. It meets periodically to consider, not individual cases, but instances in which a set of hard cases arises, and then it makes recommendations to the director general.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: I apologise for that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: Approximately €330 million was spent between 2009 and 2014 on replacing and upgrading some of these community nursing units, district hospitals and so on. The facility I am most familiar with in my constituency is St. Mary's Hospital in the park, which has now been replaced by a fabulous community nursing unit. An additional €200 million is to be spent in the coming years...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: I hope they went to Cork University Hospital and not the Bons Secours Hospital. The issues are similar elsewhere. In the case of another graduating class, three quarters chose to stay and one quarter decided to go.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: I do not have a breakdown of the detail. However, the general backdrop is an international shortage of nurses. The reason Irish nurses are in Canada and the Middle East and the reason Filipino nurses are in Ireland is because there is an international shortage. There is no surplus of nurses in the world. We are all begging from each other. Moreover, for a period during the recession we...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: Yes, we have received it.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Leo Varadkar: I am unsure whether it was changed from sterling in the transfer, but we have it.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Health Services (9 Dec 2015)
Leo Varadkar: School Health services remain an important component of child health services. All children, for example, have their vision and hearing checked as part of the service with referrals onwards to specialist services occurring as required. Like any service, there is a continual need to examine the evidence for effectiveness of what we do. There are variations across the country in how services...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Dec 2015)
Leo Varadkar: In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, 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 Provision (9 Dec 2015)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him. 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: Tattooing and Body Piercing Regulation (9 Dec 2015)
Leo Varadkar: On 7 December, my Department published a draft document "Tattooing and Body Piercing Infection Control Guidance". The consultation document is available on the Department's website and will remain open until 15 January 2016. Tattooing and body piercing is performed without incident in the vast majority of cases, but it is important that customers understand the nature of procedures, and that...