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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Feb 2019)

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: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: The breakdown of capital expenditure on the new children's hospital project from 2013 to 2018 is as follows: 2013 €1.70m 2014 €6.93m 2015 €20.77m 2016 €30.64m 2017 €67.75m 2018 €107.85m Total €235.64m As previously advised to the Deputy the total expenditure at September 2018 was €197.80m and the above expenditure is to the end of 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: Smear test samples must be sent to the laboratory and made into slides within six weeks of the smear test date. After six weeks, the sample is deemed expired and cannot be processed. Although every effort is made to avoid these situations from happening, it is inevitable that cervical screening programmes will sometimes encounter these issues; in some cases, the increased volume of smear...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: In May 2018, I asked CervicalCheck to make the necessary arrangements to provide that any woman who had had a CervicalCheck smear test, and whose GP considered that they should have a further test, to access such a further test without charge. This decision was made in good faith to address the considerable fears of the many anxious women in Ireland as a result of significant media coverage...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Feb 2019)

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: Disabilities Assessments (12 Feb 2019)

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: National Children's Hospital (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: The new children’s hospital project includes a hospital on the St James’s campus and two outpatient and urgent care centres on the campuses shared with Connolly and Tallaght Hospitals. Together, they will provide all secondary, or less specialised, acute paediatric care for children from the Greater Dublin Area. Furthermore this hospital will also be the single national...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: In relation to maternity co-location, as has been outlined already, it is proposed to relocate the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital to the St James's Hospital campus, thereby achieving tri-location of adult, paediatric and maternity services. A site for the proposed maternity hospital is identified in the Site Master Plan, and the new children's hospital design has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: The Health Service Executive is currently developing its Capital Plan for 2019. The HSE Capital Plan will determine the projects that can progress in 2019 and beyond having regard to the available capital funding, the number of large national capital projects currently underway and the relevant priority of each project. The requirements of the new children's hospital and other health capital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 514 and 515 together. Last autumn I announced that a modular ward block would be built at University Hospital Limerick to provide interim patient accommodation. This 60 bed ward block will have 3 wards comprising of 20 single room occupancy with en-suite facilities, two of which will be full isolation facilities. The additional 60 beds will also directly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Cases (12 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: The current limitation period, in respect of a clinical negligence action, is 2 years from the date of incident giving rise to the claim or the date of knowledge i.e. when the injured person first learnt that his/her injury was related to the clinical negligence event. I understand that Part 15 of the Legal Services Regulation Act, 2015, which provides for a pre-action protocol for...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, will respond to the question on the pay commission and his engagement and on the issue of the negotiations. On Deputy Pringle's question regarding the comment in my opening statement about the need to do more to keep our student nurses, on becoming graduate nurses, in this country, we have taken a number of steps, which have been acknowledged by the nursing...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I believe it is possible to find a resolution to this dispute if all parties to it work innovatively within the confines of the Public Service Stability Agreement. We have consistently spoken about it, as have the general secretaries of ICTU and the INMO. Everyone has said it. There is a duty on us to show how it can happen. We want to engage within those confines. Will I pick up the...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I am answering the Deputy's question. She is using my time now.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: If the Deputy is looking for a signal from Government, perhaps she should allow me to speak. The signal from Government is clear. We want to find a resolution and believe it is possible to do so within the Public Service Stability Agreement. Other parties to the dispute have said that. We will only do it through intense engagement, which I hope can start imminently and that everybody can...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: Regarding the question from Deputies Boyd Barrett and Bríd Smith about safe staffing levels, I am pleased that we ended the embargo on recruitment and are recruiting more nurses and midwives but I accept and do not dispute that we have a way to go. The Deputies are right. We have agreed a task force on safe staffing and skill mix, which the unions have accepted, which is the framework...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I do.