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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (14 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Budget allocation and outturn figures for 2015 are set out in the HSE's December 2015 Performance Report (and are reprinted below for convenience). The 2016 budget figures are provisional. 2015 Outturn 2015 Final Budget Budget 2016** Acute Hospitals Division - 2015 Outturn & 2016 Budget €000s €000s €000s RCSI €655,413 €648,047...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Apr 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: Primary Care Centres Provision (14 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: As the information requested by the Deputy relates to service issues and is not routinely provided to my Department, I have asked the Health Service Executive to reply directly to the Deputy on these matters. 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: Health Services Provision (14 Apr 2016)

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: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Apr 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: Accident and Emergency Departments (14 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: In November 2015, in conjunction with the HSE Director General, I issued a National Emergency Department Escalation Framework to hospitals, on how best to manage hospital capacity and patient flow through the hospital at times when there is a surge in demand for emergency care. At times of surge, when there is significant demand for emergency care, the Escalation Framework envisages that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Apr 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 (14 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Long waiting times for scoliosis services are unacceptable and I have been clear in my determination that these waiting times are reduced, through additional resources and capacity. Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin is the largest provider of scoliosis surgery for children and young people. Funding was allocated in 2015 for additional consultant posts including two...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (14 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. If an organisation wishes to make an application for National Lottery Funding in 2016 it should submit a formal application. Detailed procedures along with the application form for 2016 are now available on...

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I welcome the opportunity to speak for the first time in the Thirty-second Dáil and to inform the House of the current state of our health service and, in particular, emergency department overcrowding and waiting lists, which I know are major concerns for Members. Meeting the ever-increasing demand for health care is particularly challenging. It arises from our growing and ageing...

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: How much time was I allocated?

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Is that for the entire debate?

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: That is not correct.

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I am putting it on the public record. It is not correct.

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Any decision is not one based on political deals. It is based on the recommendations of the national clinical programme for acute coronary syndrome and that is how it should be.

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The money can be made available if needs be but it will not be done as a political deal.

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I appreciate that we are trying new procedures in the Dáil, but this has been a four-hour debate, in which any number of speakers have made contributions totalling 225 minutes. To be brutally honest, it is not possible for me to do justice to those 225 minutes of speeches, all of which I was present for and all of which I listened to. In the spirit of the procedures we may develop in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts Data (20 Apr 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: Hospitals Data (20 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 and 262 together. 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.