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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 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: Dental Services Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I understand that this Question relates to a decision of the Dublin Dental Hospital. I am informed by the Dublin Dental Hospital that patients can self refer to the Hospital for primary dental care. Such care is provided by dental students as part of their clinical training. Patients must be over 16 years of age and are screened by the Hospital to determine their suitability for teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (22 Mar 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 up on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (22 Mar 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (22 Mar 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The first step for a nursing home to become an approved residential care facility is to be registered with the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). HIQA is the independent authority established under the Health Act 2007, and all nursing homes, whether public, private or voluntary, are required to be registered and inspected by the HIQA. Furthermore, the legislation underpinning...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 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 Waiting Lists (22 Mar 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 Staff Recruitment (22 Mar 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Data (22 Mar 2016)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to ensuring that customers who wish to conduct their business through Irish can be facilitated to the greatest extent possible. The Department has 10 staff or almost 3 % of the total number of employees who are capable of carrying out their duties through both the Irish and English languages. All written correspondence addressed to the Department in Irish is replied...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I am advised by the HSE Treatment Abroad Scheme office that this patient has been contacted and has been informed that he is approved for assessment, the surgery and one follow up treatment.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE). Accordingly, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE). Accordingly, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, registration boards established for the designated professions consist of 13 members, comprising 6 professional members and 7 other members. It has been the policy and practice to appoint lay people to these 7 positions thereby ensuring a lay majority on the boards. These members include: -1 representative of the management of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The making of by-laws is an on-going function of the registration boards that are being established on a phased basis under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. Currently 9 of the 14 designated professions have registration boards Registration boards establish and maintain registers. They protect the public by promoting high standards of professional conduct and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Act 1970 (as amended) includes being “ordinarily resident in the State” among the criteria for eligibility for health services. Decisions on whether a person is ordinarily resident and whether an individual is eligible for a medical card are matters for the HSE and will be determined based on an individual's particular circumstances. It is important to emphasise...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 68 and 69 together. The HPV vaccine, Gardasil which was introduced in 2010, protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in the first year of secondary school. Each year in Ireland around 300 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine protects against two...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (3 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I am advised by the HSE Treatment Abroad Scheme office that this patient was approved via a specific mechanism authorised to address the waiting list for spinal surgery in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital. Furthermore it has been confirmed that the approval of funding in respect of the patient’s treatment in the UK has already been notified to the patient’s parents...

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the House about allegations of heinous and horrendous abuse in a foster and respite home in the south east and the subsequent alleged neglect and endangerment by the authorities which should have acted differently. These issues are a matter of grave concern for me, the Government and, increasingly, the public as it has learned more about them in recent...

Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (2 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I would like to correct the record, if I have ever suggested otherwise. If a patient has symptoms, the symptoms are real. If a patient has pain, it is real and if a patient has a headache, it is real. The patient's symptoms are always real. In this and other circumstances, a person may have a range of different illnesses. Perhaps part of the reason why there has been delay in diagnoses...

Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (2 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: No, not unless the Deputy has a further question.