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Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The statutory basis for the fluoridation of public piped water supplies is the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act 1960 and various regulations made under the Act. The Act provides for the making by health authorities of arrangements for the fluoridation of water supplied to the public by sanitary authorities through pipes. The Act also provides that the amount of fluorine to be added...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (1 Mar 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 provision of ambulance services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Mar 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 Louth, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's north eastern area to...

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: There is a common list of reimbursable medicines for the general medical services and drug payment schemes. This list ensures equity between the schemes for the range of medicines paid for by the State. The list is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the common list, it must comply with a published list of...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department has been advised by the Health Service Executive that owing to the urgency in filling its senior management posts the interim Health Service Executive awarded a contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers, following a tendering process, to manage the recruitment competition. The statutory instrument under which the interim HSE was established did not require it to recruit employees...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: As the detailed information requested by the Deputy for Kildare and west Wicklow is not available in my Department, my Department has forwarded the Deputy's request to the chief officer of the south western area of the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: As the detailed information requested by the Deputy on the number of speech therapists employed by the Health Service Executive in the Kildare and west Wicklow area is not available in my Department, my Department has forwarded the Deputy's request to the chief officer of the south western area of the HSE for attention and direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: Statutory responsibility for organisational and staffing structures underpinning the delivery of health and personal social services rests with the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005 under the Health Act 2004. My Department has therefore asked the interim chief executive officer of the HSE to investigate the specific matters raised by the Deputy on Kildare and...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take QuestionsNos. 148 and 149 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 the provision of ambulance services. Accordingly,...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Mar 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. General practitioners who provide services to people who are medical card holders under the general medical services scheme hold...

Written Answers — Antimicrobial Resistance: Antimicrobial Resistance (1 Mar 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 infection control measures in hospitals. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Director of the...

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I am currently scheduled to undertake a number of engagements at the St. Patrick's Day festivities in San Francisco from 10 to 15 March. However, my diary has yet to be finalised in this regard. The Minister of State, Deputy Sean Power, will attend the annual St. Patrick's Day banquet at the Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, hosted by Irish Welfare and Information Centre, Deritend, Birmingham....

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (1 Mar 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 at the time of the initial application and any renewals...

Written Answers — Emergency Medical Supplies: Emergency Medical Supplies (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The report of a consultancy study jointly commissioned by my Department and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Belfast, DHSSPS, on the costs and benefits associated with the introduction of a dedicated helicopter emergency medical services, HEMS, for the island of Ireland was published last year and is available on my Department's website. The study concluded that...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Mar 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 orthodontic services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I have offered to meet with the committee on 18 April next.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Mar 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 orthodontic services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Mar 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 referred to by the Deputy resides in County Kilkenny my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Mar 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 referred to by the Deputy resides in County Cork, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (1 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department is currently studying the Supreme Court judgement in relation to repayment of charges for publicly-funded long term residential care in detail and will take on board all the consequences for policy and law arising from the judgment. A special Cabinet sub-committee comprising the Taoiseach Mr. Ahern, the Minister for Finance Mr. Cowen, the Attorney General Mr. Brady and myself...