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Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (28 Jan 2016)

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 Waiting Lists (28 Jan 2016)

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: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Jan 2016)

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: HSE Properties (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive (HSE) operates a protocol for the disposal of surplus property assets. This protocol sets out three options. - Does a State Agency require the property? - Open market sale, subject to favourable market conditions. - Community / voluntary use will be considered only if points 1 and 2 above do not materialise. The Health Service Executive is required to obtain value...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: A range of initiatives have been implemented to address ED overcrowding and waiting times in Emergency Departments over the last number of months. Significant additional resources, €117m, additional beds and staffing have been put in place to address these problems consisting of measures to reduce numbers coming into hospital, measures to expand capacity and change work practices in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Informed by the published HIQA investigation reports on various hospital services and based on analysis and discussions on patient safety priorities, I came to the conclusion that providing a national focus for patient safety is best achieved by strengthening the priority attached to patient safety and complaints handling within the delivery system, concentrating HIQA’s regulatory...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Data (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The information requested by the Deputy is presented in a table. Data refers to reports commissioned from March 2011 to December 2015. Year Organisation/ Consultants Name of Report Current status Cost December 2015 2015 Amarach Research Alcohol Labelling Research Report being drafted. €86,138 2015 NUIG Suite of Literature Reviews to support National Clinical Guideleines Work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Inquiries (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The detailed information requested by the Deputy is not immediately available. Data will be collated and forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I have referred this matter to the HSE 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I have referred this matter to the HSE 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Allowances (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of expenses paid to me is set out below. All payments in respect of travel and subsistence are based on rates approved by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Paid in Year Mileage Paid Other Expenses Total 2014 €6,328 €558 €6,886 2015 €14,065 €835 €14,900 2016 €1,095 €0...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The information sought by the Deputy is set out below. 2015 - €28,179 2014 - €20,135 2013 - €17,993 2012 - €19,807 2011 - €18,709

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Future investment at Beaumont Hospital must be considered within the overall acute hospital sector infrastructure programme, and also within the overall capital envelope available to the health service. Future development at the Beaumont site must also be considered in the context of the establishment of hospital groups. Each hospital group will be required to develop a strategic plan to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I am adopting a phased approach to the regulation of healthcare. My Department continues to progress the Patient Safety Licensing Bill and has established a Working Group to engage with the Health Service Executive, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) and the independent healthcare sector to inform the finalisation of the General Scheme of the Bill prior to its consideration...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Identifiers Act 2014 provides for the establishment of systems of identifiers for clients and for healthcare providers, both professionals and organisations. The relevant provisions to establish the Individual Health Identifier Register were commenced in September 2015 to allow for Individual Health Identifiers to be assigned to individuals and to establish the related governance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Your question regarding revenue raised from charges for private patients in public beds and the number of procedures has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. 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: Health Services Staff Data (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up on the matter with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Draft Regulations on the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The joint committee is being asked to consider motions that both Houses of the Oireachtas approve the draft regulations to protect the title of "optician" by confining its use to registrants of the register of optometrists. These regulations are consequential to the transfer of the regulation of the professions of optometrists and dispensing opticians from the Opticians Act 1956 to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Draft Regulations on the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Essentially, what this proposal does is create clarity as to what the different professions do. The dispensing optician is the person who dispenses a person's glasses, whereas an optician, which is a variant of the term "optometrist", is the person who carries out eye examinations and produces prescriptions, which use figures such as -1.00 or -4.50 to indicate whether dioptres of...