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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 Staff (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 1970, as amended, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible for assessing an individual's entitlement to a medical card and a GP visit card. Section 45 of the Act provides that adult persons who, in the opinion of the HSE are unable, without due hardship, to arrange general practitioner medical and surgical services for themselves and their dependents are deemed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: While the Government's objective is to deliver a high quality, integrated and cost-effective health care system, the mechanism and timescale for delivery of primary care infrastructure is dependent on a number of factors. Regardless of the delivery mechanism, all potential primary care infrastructure is subject to suitable locations being offered/provided/available, to successful planning...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Government approved the publication of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill and the introduction of the Bill in the Houses of the Oireachtas on 8 December 2015. The Bill completed Second Stage in the Seanad on 17 December 2015. As you are aware, the last Dáil was dissolved on 3 February 2016. Bills that were before the Oireachtas lapsed on the dissolution of the Dáil. It is open...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: In Ireland, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the regulatory authority for medicines in Ireland. While no medicine (including vaccines) is entirely without risk, the safety profile of Gardasil has been continuously monitored since it was first authorised both nationally and at EU level. As part of its monitoring of the safety of medicines, the HPRA operates an adverse...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: While no specific decisions have been made as a result of the meeting referred to by the Deputy, I have been assured, by the Director of the National Ambulance Service (NAS), that ambulance services in west Connemara are kept under review by the Chief Ambulance Officer for the western region. Achieving response times in rural settings is difficult for any ambulance service and requires...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The gross current estimate for the Health Sector for 2016 is €13.195 billion, an increase of €900 million (7%) on the revised estimate for 2015. In addition, potential savings of €125m will be available to reinvest in maintaining and improving health services. The HSE's Accountability Framework makes explicit the responsibilities of all managers to achieve...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Waiting Lists (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE's National Contact Point (NCP) for Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, known as the Cross border Healthcare Directive, has provided the following data on the accessing of healthcare services in other jurisdictions by Irish patients. Data comparing how Ireland compares to other participating States is not held. 2014 (6...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to advise the Deputy that there are no delays in registering Irish nursing graduates. With regard to other applications for registration from outside Ireland a significant volume of applications has been received by the NMBI, particularly during 2015. Many of the applications received to date are incomplete whereby documents remain outstanding on a file and therefore cannot be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I understand that the HSE wrote to Deputy Healy-Rae on the 27 of January this year in response to PQ number 2888/16 on the same subject. The position as outlined in that response remains the same.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: There is currently a worldwide shortage of BCG vaccine.  In 2015 the United Nations Children's Funds (UNICEF) estimated a worldwide shortage of 65 million doses of BCG. The vaccine has not been available in Ireland since the end of April 2015. Consequently, BCG vaccination clinics in HSE Clinics and Maternity hospitals have been postponed until new stock arrives. There is only...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The overall objective of the National Drugs Strategy is to tackle the harm caused to individuals and society by the misuse of drugs through a concerted focus on the five pillars of supply reduction, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and research. Periodic reviews of progress across the five pillars of the Strategy are carried out through the Oversight Forum on Drugs, which is chaired by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015,inter alia, provided for a range of primary and community health services to be made available to Magdalen women by the HSE without charge in Ireland. In connection with Magdalen woman living abroad, the Minister for Primary Care, Social Care (Disabilities & Older People) and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch, in December...