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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: Improving access to hospital treatment is a key priority for Government. It is acknowledged that cataract surgery is among the most common surgical procedures carried out in the Ophthalmology specialty. It was in this knowledge that when proposals for the joint HSE/National Treatment Purchase Fund Inpatient and Day Case Action Plan were under development last year, I sought a particular...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Crisis Pregnancy Services (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: As the Deputy's question concerns a service issue, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: As the Deputy will be aware, the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act was passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas on 13 December 2018 and enacted signed by the President on the 20 December 2018. The service for termination of pregnancy was introduced on 1 January 2019. Conscientious objection is covered under Section 22 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: I wish to advise the Deputy that, in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2014 and the Data Protection Acts, Ministerial Diaries are published retrospectively on a quarterly basis. With regard to the Deputy's specific query, the individual in question was a member of an Irish College of General Practitioners delegation who met with me on 15 January 2018 as part of my engagements on...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) is the pharmacy regulator in Ireland and is responsible for regulating pharmacists and pharmacies in the public interest. Several of the PSI’s functions under the Pharmacy Act 2007 relate to education, including promoting and ensuring the highest standards in education and training for the qualification to practise as a pharmacist, and make...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Health Services (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Data (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) , the number of people that have died due to epilepsy in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon for the most recent available years 2016 and 2017 is outlined in table 1: Table 1 Number of deaths in selected counties for epilepsy (ICD-10 Codes G40 & G41), 2016-2017* - 2016 2017* Galway 2 4 Mayo 8 8 Roscommon 0 1 Total 10 13 It is not...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: As this is an operational issue, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Ambulance Service (15 Jan 2019)
Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Jan 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...