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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I can assure the Deputy that emergency department overcrowding is a key priority issue for the Government. In that regard, the ED Taskforce Implementation Group, co-chaired by the Director General of the HSE, is charged with ensuring that all relevant areas of the health service, including acute, social and primary care optimise resources to deal with the challenges arising. Significant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ED overcrowding is a key priority issue for the Government. Significant progress has been made to date on the overall ED Taskforce plan, with reductions in delayed discharges and waiting times for NHSS funding, allied with increased provision for transitional care funding, home care packages and nursing home beds. In preparation for the 2015/16 winter period, hospital groups have provided...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government is committed to the improvement of our ambulance services. A significant reform programme is underway to reconfigure the way pre-hospital care services are managed and delivered. To this end, in 2015 the National Ambulance Service received an increase of €5.4m in funding, to improve technology and clinical audit and address gaps in service. While I am not in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) has advised there are 64,913 people on the register. They have further advised that between 1 January and 9 November 2015, 2,491 nurses have been registered with the NMBI. This is broken down as 522 nurses registered from EU Countries, 312 nurses registered from Non-EU countries and 1,657 Irish trained nurses registered. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Inspections (12 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Inspections (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The details of the new capital plan running to 2021 are currently being finalised and should be ready in the next few weeks. In some places it will involve refurbishing an existing unit. In others, where it is not economical to carry out refurbishments, replacements will be provided and expansion can be considered in that context. Obviously, priority will be given to those that are most...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Inspections (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for raising this issue. I am taking the debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, who is on Government business elsewhere. St. Vincent's Community Nursing Unit is located on the outskirts of Mountmellick and provides much-needed residential services for the people of Laois. It comes under the remit of the HSE. Deputies will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Investment Projects (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In late September the Government announced the national capital envelope for the multi-annual period 2016-2021. The notified health capital envelope for this period is €3,061 million which includes an increase of €568 million. The following table shows the annual allocation. Multi-annual period 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total €m €m €m...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Firstly I would like to express my sympathy to the family of the person concerned. I understand from the National Ambulance Service (NAS) that an emergency call was received for the Dundalk area at 3:06 am on Monday 26 October 2015. The call was classed as life-threatening. At the time the call was received, the NAS was dealing with a number of other emergency calls; however, the nearest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (11 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Mr. Nicky Jermyn retired from his role as CEO of St. Vincent's University Hospital on 30 March 2014 and he resigned from his role as CEO of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group Ltd on the 30 June 2014. Given Mr. Jermyn's extensive experience at CEO level for over 20 years, the Board of SVHG engaged Mr. Jermyn in December 2014 to provide support and advice to it as Director of Strategy. This...