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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Roscommon, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Mayo, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the issue raised by the Deputy rests with the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services, including services for patients with cystic fibrosis. Services at St. Vincent's Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy on health service staff is set out in the following table for the years 1990 to the end of 2004. Comparable data for previous years is not available. The significantly increased staffing levels over this period must be viewed in the context of the substantial service developments which have occurred, particularly in the areas of child protection and...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the 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 human resource management. My Department has, therefore, requested the executive's national director of...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 135 and 137 together. The proposed new facilities at University College Hospital, Galway, and South Infirmary-Victoria Hospital, Cork, for the national expansion of BreastCheck are included in the health capital investment framework 2005-09. The necessary capital funding has been indented for these developments. My Department recently gave approval to...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I offer again my sincere condolences to the families, relatives and friends of the deceased and wish the injured continued recovery. I acknowledge the major role of health service personnel in responding to this terrible accident and the part played by the fire service, the Garda, the Air Corps, which provided helicopter assistance, and the voluntary personnel involved. The Deputy will be...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department does not collate hospital level information relating to the cost and use of the drug mentioned. As operational issues regarding the services provided by acute hospitals now rests with the Health Service Executive, my Department has asked the director of the National Hospitals Office to reply directly to the Deputy regarding the information requested. Information regarding the...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 164 together. MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, is a resistant form of staphylococcus aureus. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, formerly known as the National Disease Surveillance Centre, collects data on MRSA bacteraemia, also known as bloodstream infection or "blood poisoning", as part of the European Antimicrobial...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Services at St. James's Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer of...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 141, 159 and 160 together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the 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 the provision of acute hospital services. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 to 147, inclusive, together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the 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 school health checks. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: As I indicated to the Deputy in my reply dated 5 May 2005, my predecessor, Deputy Martin, met the Survivors of Symphysiotomy, SOS, group in late 2003 and agreed that a range of measures would be put in place to support the group. In respect of the particular matters raised by the Deputy, my Department is advised by the Health Service Executive, HSE, that the current position is that it is...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the 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 audiology services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officers of the HSE areas to...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Where blood tests are indicated as necessary as part of recognised treatment of an ongoing medical condition of a patient, it should be provided free of charge to medical card holders.

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: EU member states and the European Commission agreed in 2004 to engage with the pharmaceutical industry concerning vaccines and antivirals. A working document on a possible public private partnership on European pandemic influenza vaccines will be discussed at the Health Council this week. Following consideration of advice from the influenza pandemic expert group, I decided at the beginning of...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the 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 assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 156 and 157 together. Patients in the north west are being referred for radiation oncology treatment to the recently commissioned radiation oncology department at University College Hospital Galway, UCHG, and also to St. Luke's Hospital, Dublin. A consultant radiation oncologist with significant sessional commitments to the north-western area has recently been...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is that a committee of inquiry to investigate the alleged misconduct of a consultant anaesthetist has been established with an estimated total cost of €20,000. Although no costs have been incurred in 2005, it is expected that the €20,000 will be paid this year. A second committee to inquire into the proposed removal of an officer of a health board...