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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Feb 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 Carlow, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Feb 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 — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (15 Feb 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 services at Waterford Regional Hospital. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (15 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: If the Deputy would like to forward more detailed information in regard to the specific regulations to which he refers, as well as additional details of his specific concerns, I will ask the Health Service Executive to examine and review this issue.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 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 people resident in County Roscommon. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 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 people resident in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Feb 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 audiology services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Feb 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 health services to persons residing in County Kildare. Accordingly, my Department has...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 Feb 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 — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (15 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The expansion of the breast screening programme to counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford and the roll-out to the remaining counties is a major priority in the development of cancer services. This will ensure that all women in the relevant age group in every county have access to breast screening and follow-up treatment where appropriate. The expansion of the programme to counties Carlow,...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (15 Feb 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 — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The pharmacy review group submitted its report to the previous Minister for Health and Children on 31 January 2003 and it was published in February 2004. The Deputy will appreciate the complex issues which the review group's report raised and the need for careful and considered deliberations on its recommendations. I intend to bring proposals to Government on the development of a modern...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (10 Feb 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 general practitioners to provide for the appropriate delivery of the needs of medical...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: With effect from 1 January 2005, under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive has responsibility for the delivery of health services. Under section 31(1) of the Act, the executive is obliged to prepare, adopt and then submit to me for approval a service plan for the financial year or other period as may be determined by me. Subsection (8) provides that not later than 21 days after...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I have discussed the progress made to date regarding the recruitment of a chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive with the chairman of the Health Service Executive. The chairman, who also chairs the recruitment committee, has informed me that the recruitment process started again in December. The position was advertised in the national media during December. An extensive...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The provisions of the European working time directive as it relates to the working hours of doctors in training came into force on 1 August 2004. The relevant provisions were transposed into Irish law by way of the European Communities (Organisation of Working Time) (Activities of Doctors in Training) Regulations 2004. Employers and the Irish Medical Organisation have been engaged in...

Written Answers — Influenza Pandemic: Influenza Pandemic (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 16, 46 and 62 together. Ireland's first influenza pandemic preparedness plan was finalised in 2002. "A Model Plan for Influenza Pandemic Preparedness" was prepared by a committee under the chairmanship of Professor William Hall, director of the national virus reference laboratory, NVRL, and was presented to the Department of Health and Children in September...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: It is regrettable that the Irish Hospital Consultants Association and the Irish Medical Organisation should have decided to take industrial action in pursuit of a resolution of the dispute surrounding medical indemnity cover for consultants. The only people who suffer as a consequence of this, or any, industrial action in the health service are patients. It is particularly unfortunate that...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: A joint steering committee involving representatives of health service management and representatives of the nursing unions is at present working towards the implementation of the recommendations of the CAPITA report on the bed management function. The joint steering committee is requesting the chief officers in each Health Service Executive area to examine the recommendations of the CAPITA...

Written Answers — Health Strategy: Health Strategy (10 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 21, 44 and 106 together. The primary health care strategy, "Primary Care: A New Direction", which was published in 2001, sets out the Government's broad vision for the development of multidisciplinary team based primary health care. The principal objective of the strategy is to strengthen primary care so it can play a more central role as the first and...