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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: Nine corporate credit cards are in use. Cards are issued to me as Tánaiste and to eight nominated officers, two within my Department and two in the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction, CAHR, and one each to officers in the Adoption Board, the National Children's Office, the Office of the Ombudsman and the post mortem inquiry. Cards are not issued to the Ministers of State at my...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: At my request, the national treatment purchase fund is giving consideration to the question of how to progress improvements on waiting times for outpatient appointments.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of a medical card rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 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 is required 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 south eastern...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of a medical card rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of a medical card rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of a medical card rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, rests with the executive. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Medical Practitioners: Medical Practitioners (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The responsibility for the registration and regulation of the activities of medical practitioners lies with the Medical Council under the Medical Practitioners Act 1978. I have responded to previous correspondence with the party mentioned and have advised him that without the written approval of the doctor concerned I cannot discuss the matter with any third party. This approval has not yet...

Written Answers — Registry Offices: Registry Offices (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of accommodation for registry offices for civil marriages rests with the executive. My Department has asked the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004, which was passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas on 17 December 2004, as well as providing a statutory basis for the imposition of charges on persons to whom long stay in-patient services are provided, irrespective of whether they are otherwise fully eligible for those services, also provides that a relevant charge levied under section 53 of the...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: A draft planning brief has been prepared on interim capital works at the National Maternity Hospital. The brief includes proposals designed to increase capacity in delivery rooms, theatres and neo-natal intensive care units, as well as providing improved post-natal facilities for mothers and babies. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I understand that the Deputy is referring to the number of health and social care professionals in each Health Service Executive, HSE, area. The number of these staff in each area in wholetime equivalence terms is as set out in the following table. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Naas General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has therefore asked the chief officer...

Written Answers — Health and Social Care Registration: Health and Social Care Registration (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: No detailed estimates are available at present for the costs of establishing the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. The Deputy may wish to note that, once operational, the system of statutory registration provided for under the Health and Social Care Professionals Bill will be self-financing, that is, funded from registration fees of professionals to be registered. Section 18 of...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Monaghan General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer of...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for Cork University Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's southern...

Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Services Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the imposition of charges in the case of individuals in hospitals in County Wexford rests with the executive. My Department has...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 183 together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the matters raised by the Deputy rests with the executive. My Department...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 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 is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of hospital services rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...