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Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long stay charges. All those who were illegally charged for publicly funded long-term residential care and are alive and the estates of all those who were charged and died in the six years prior to 9 December 2004 will have the charges repaid in full. The scheme will not provide for repayments to the estates of those...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 124 and 136 together. The number of persons covered by a medical card at June 2005 by county is set out in the table. County No. of persons covered by a medical card Dublin 274,452 Kildare 36,709 Wicklow 27,665 Laois 16,960 Longford 12,444 Offaly 19,440 Westmeath 21,314 Clare 30,901 Limerick 49,010 Tipperary North 19,065 ...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 to 130, inclusive, together. Details of the number of admissions to Irish psychiatric units and psychiatric hospitals for alcoholic disorders are contained in the Activities of Irish Psychiatric Services from the Health Research Board. The most recent report is for 2003. The data show that 258 persons under the age of 25, representing 12% of all...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: On foot of the commitment in the health strategy, funding has been provided to open an additional 900 inpatient beds and day places in acute hospitals. Health agencies have informed my Department that on 17 June 2005, 780 beds were in place. The Health Service Executive has informed my Department that the remaining 120 beds or places will come on stream during 2005. In addition, extra beds...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Quality and Fairness — A Health System for You, published in November 2001, provided a blueprint to guide planning and activity in the health system over the next seven to ten years. A key objective of the strategy is the training and recruitment of health professionals for the development and expansion of health services. Action 101 of the strategy stated that the extra number of required...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The health strategy document Quality and Fairness: a Health System for You stated that there would be substantial increases in the number of consultant posts. The number and location of these posts would later be determined by taking account of the recommendations of the national task force on medical staffing. Its report was published in 2003 and recommended that in order to meet the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Jun 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. The HSE has placed advertisements providing details of the application process in the national press and intends to place further advertisements in the regional press over the coming week. Those people whom...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Preliminary talks were held in 2003 between management and the medical organisations to discuss the commencement of negotiations on a new contract for hospital consultants. Unfortunately, the opposition of these organisations to the extension of the clinical indemnity scheme to cover claims against consultants led to a decision by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, not to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The health strategy, entitled Quality and Fairness, acknowledged the central role of primary care in a modern health service. In recognition of this central focus on primary care services a separate strategy document, entitled Primary Care: A New Direction, was published in November 2001. The strategy sets out the Government's vision for integrated team based primary care services and...

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: In response to the Deputy's Question of 25 May 2005, I advised that the Health Service Executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services, including responsibility for the provision of hospital services for people who have suffered strokes, and that my Department had requested the director of the executive's...

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (30 Jun 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 again 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 — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: I understand that the Health Service Executive has now provided the Deputy with the information required in respect of Galway Regional Hospital and Roscommon County Hospital. My Department has asked the Health Service Executive to provide the information requested in respect of Mayo General Hospital as a matter of urgency.

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (30 Jun 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 — Health Services: Health Services (30 Jun 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 is requesting 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 — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (30 Jun 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 — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (30 Jun 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 — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: I assume the Deputy is referring to infectious diseases screening for asylum seekers. Since May 2000, screening in respect of specific infectious diseases has been offered to asylum seekers on a voluntary and confidential basis, free of charge, shortly after their arrival in this country. The purpose of screening is to detect and treat certain infectious diseases in the interests of the...

Written Answers — Health Sector Reports: Health Sector Reports (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: This matter is not within the remit of my Department. There are a number of organisations which may be able to provide information on this topic, including the National Medicines Information Centre, the National Centre for Pharmaco-economics, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association, the Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Ireland, the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: A range of dental services for adult medical card holders is available under the dental treatment services scheme, DTSS, from participating dentists holding contracts with the Health Service Executive, HSE. The treatments provided include examinations, prophylaxis, fillings, extractions, dentures and x-rays. The scheme is administered by the HSE primary care reimbursement service on behalf of...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Jun 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.