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Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: General practitioners who choose to participate in the general medical services, GMS, scheme hold contracts with the Health Service Executive to provide services for the eligible patients on their GMS patient panel. Any person, regardless of age, who wishes to be assessed as eligible for a medical card must apply to the Health Service Executive. They must choose a doctor with whom they wish...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Decisions on applications for medical cards are by legislation a matter for the HSE. It is understood that in examining such applications an assessment is made of the income of the applicant, and...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Registration of Nurses: Registration of Nurses (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: Under the Nurses Act 1985, An Bord Altranais is the statutory body which provides for the registration, control and education of nurses and midwives and for other matters relating to the practice of nursing and midwifery. The Minister has no statutory role in the matter of processing of applications for registration in the register of nurses. The issue raised by the Deputy is an operational...

Written Answers — Consultant Appointments: Consultant Appointments (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have these matters investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 296, 297 and 302 together. The Health Service Executive, HSE, was established on 1 January 2005 under the Health Act 2004. Under that Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the making of payments, including payments under...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Consultant Appointments: Consultant Appointments (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. This includes responsibility for the out of hours co-operatives which operate to provide general practitioner services outside of normal surgery hours free of charge to medical card holders. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: Cannabis is a schedule 1 controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977 and 1984. It is also one of the controlled drugs which has been designated for the purpose of section 13 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. The nature of the controls provided under the Misuse of Drugs Acts are those which according to current UN conventions on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, must be...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. This includes responsibility for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. Accordingly, my Department is requesting the parliamentary affairs division of the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive, HSE, which has statutory responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, has provided the following information regarding the administration of the MMR vaccine. The HSE sends all parents a detailed information booklet when they are invited to contact their general practitioner for their first immunisation appointment. This...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 311, 324 and 325 together. Under the 1970 Health Act, the Health Service Executive may arrange for the supply, without charge, of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances to people with a specified condition, for the treatment of that condition, through the long-term illness scheme. The LTI scheme does not cover general practitioner fees or...

Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 312 to 314, inclusive, together. On 1 September 2004, following an examination of the work of all inquiries by the Attorney General, the Government decided that the post mortem inquiry should furnish its final report not later than 31 March 2005 and that the inquiry would then cease to exist. The chairman of the inquiry, Ms Anne Dunne, SC, was so advised and...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.