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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 — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The Department of Finance plans to extend freedom of information provisions to a range of appropriate bodies in 2005. Within the health sector, proposals to extend freedom of information to the following bodies are currently being finalised with that Department: An Bord Altranais; Bord na Radharcmhastóirí — Opticians Board; the Crisis Pregnancy Agency; the Dental Council; Dental Health...

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 County Hospital, Roscommon rests with the executive. My Department has again requested the chief officer for the executive's...

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 Naas General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief...

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 audiology services for eligible persons in County Kildare rests with the executive. My Department has requested...

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 ophthalmic services rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Asthma Management: Asthma Management (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: My attention has been drawn to this particular study and to other aspects of this matter. Therefore, I am aware of the work that is being done in this area. The causation and treatment of asthma are very complex issues involving a combination of environmental, physiological, psychological, metabolic and other factors. As regards the particular point of this study, namely, the Buteyko...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 309 and 317 together. The final report of the joint committee on social care professions made recommendations in relation to pay and grading structures for child care workers. The pay recommendation provided for increases of 17% to 27% for house parents-child care leaders and assistant house parents-child care workers in the residential sector. 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 the provision of orthodontic services for eligible persons in County Clare rests with the executive. My Department has requested...

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

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 315 and 316 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 provision of hospital services 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. Services at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Tallaght, are provided under an arrangement with the...

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

Mary Harney: The provision of chiropody services is a matter for the local area of the Health Service Executive. This is a service which it is not statutorily obliged to provide and a variety of arrangements were in place nationally under the former Eastern Regional Health Authority and the health boards. As the Deputy is aware, my Department informed the Eastern Regional Health Authority that it was...

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 health services to persons residing in counties Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow rests with the Health Service...

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

Mary Harney: I assume the Deputy is referring to the regional health forums due to be established under section 42 of the Health Act 2004. This section of the Act provides for the establishment of regional health forums, not exceeding four, following consultation with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The function of a regional health forum is to make representations to the...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: Where cervical smear testing is necessary in the context of an individual woman's medical examination and clinical needs, it is covered under the general medical services scheme. However, opportunistic cervical smear testing is not currently provided under the scheme for medical card holders. Any necessary follow-up treatment is available to all women, including medical card holders, within...

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: I take it that the Deputy is referring to persons appointed by the Minister for Health and Children to State boards under the aegis of the Department from 30 September 2004 to date. These appointments are set out in the following table.

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 orthodontic services to eligible persons in County Wicklow rests with the executive. My Department has requested...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: A preliminary review of the vaccine damage compensation schemes in place in a number of other countries was undertaken by my Department. This review was done in order to establish general details of schemes already in existence. More recently, my officials have begun an investigation to identify the most relevant models from a clinical, administrative and fairness point of view. On completion...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: The examination on the feasibility and implications of a national roll out of a cervical screening programme, referred to in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 793, has now been completed. The Health Board Executive, HeBE, commissioned an international expert in cervical screening to carry out the examination and her report has been submitted to my Department. My Department is now...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (26 Jan 2005)

Mary Harney: That is true.