Results 22,421-22,440 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: As the specific issues raised are 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: Ambulance Service Staff (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: With regard to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, 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: Ambulance Service Accommodation (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: There will always be more projects than can be funded by the Exchequer. As with all capital projects, the further development of the health care infrastructure, including ambulance bases at Enniscorthy and Gorey must be considered and prioritised within the context of the overall capital envelope available to the health service. The HSE will continue to apply the available funding for...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: The recruitment of staff is primarily a matter for the HSE. I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my private office and they will follow up on the matter with them.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: The implementation of the age extension of BreastCheck to 65-69 year olds commenced in Quarter 4 of 2015. BreastCheck invited 1,267 women in this age category for screening in 2015 and 852 of these were screened before the end of the year. In 2016, BreastCheck will invite over 11,000 women aged 65-69 for screening, and every effort will be made to encourage a high uptake rate. The age...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: Long waiting times for scoliosis services are unacceptable and I have been clear in my determination that these waiting times are reduced, through additional resources and capacity. Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin is the largest provider of scoliosis surgery for children and young people. Funding was allocated in 2015 for additional consultant posts including two...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 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: Health Insurance Data (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: The table below provides the most recent data available from the Health Insurance Authority and shows the number of insured persons by age group on the 1 January 2016. This information is compiled in respect of the commercial health insurers and excludes people serving waiting periods and members of Restricted Membership Undertakings (which provide insurance to people who are members of a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 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: Hospital Beds Data (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: In relation to the detailed 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: Ambulance Service (21 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: With regard to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, 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.
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: I appreciate that we are trying new procedures in the Dáil, but this has been a four-hour debate, in which any number of speakers have made contributions totalling 225 minutes. To be brutally honest, it is not possible for me to do justice to those 225 minutes of speeches, all of which I was present for and all of which I listened to. In the spirit of the procedures we may develop in...
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: That is not correct.
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: I am putting it on the public record. It is not correct.
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: Any decision is not one based on political deals. It is based on the recommendations of the national clinical programme for acute coronary syndrome and that is how it should be.
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: The money can be made available if needs be but it will not be done as a political deal.
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: How much time was I allocated?
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: Is that for the entire debate?
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Leo Varadkar: I welcome the opportunity to speak for the first time in the Thirty-second Dáil and to inform the House of the current state of our health service and, in particular, emergency department overcrowding and waiting lists, which I know are major concerns for Members. Meeting the ever-increasing demand for health care is particularly challenging. It arises from our growing and ageing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts Data (20 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.