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- Written Answers — Patient Transport: Patient Transport (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 patient transport services rests with the executive. My Department has requested the director of the national...
- Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (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. Under the 1970 Health Act, the relevant area of the Health Service Executive may arrange for the supply, without charge, of drugs, medicines and...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency 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 Kerry General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: Dependent children aged up to 16 years, whose parents are medical card holders, are normally covered for services under the medical card issued to their parents under the general medical services scheme. Individual assessments of applications for medical cards from persons aged 16 and over who may or may not be dependants of their parents are made by the chief officer of the relevant area of...
- 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...
- 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 St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: My Department is aware of a previous proposal to provide a private MRI facility on the grounds of St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny. Following discussions with the South Eastern Health Board last year it was agreed that the issues involved would be kept under review in the light of the board's regional MRI requirements. Public CAT scanning facilities are already on site at the hospital and my...
- 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 for residents of County Kilkenny rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 232, 233 and 235 together. The planning brief prepared by the former North Eastern Health Board envisages using the existing shelled-out ward accommodation known as surgical three to facilitate the provision of 19 additional beds, and the commissioning of the shelled-out fourth operating theatre. The board estimated the overall capital cost of the proposals in...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (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 development of private hospital facilities in the Limerick region is essentially a matter for individual private investors. The Mid-Western Health Board had previously raised with the Department the development of a private hospital on the site of the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick. I am in the process of developing an overall policy framework which will identify the policy...
- 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 health services in the mid-western region rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- 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 provision of health centres rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...
- 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 provision of health centres rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...
- 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 provision of health centres rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (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 for residents of County Kilkenny rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (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...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The latest figures available from the Health Service Executive â shared services, primary care reimbursement service â are those for December 2004. The number of persons in possession of a medical card in each county is as follows: County Number of persons in possession of a medical card Dublin 274,272 Kildare 37,195 Wicklow 27,612 Laois 17,133 Longford 12,384 Offaly...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 and 268 together. Some â¬60 million has been provided for in the 2005 Estimates for health to improve access to primary care by providing for additional persons to become eligible for a medical card and free access to GP visits for those on low income. The medical card income guidelines were increased from 1 January 2005 by 7.5% generally and in specific...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (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 for residents of County Kilkenny rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...