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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Relocation (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Civil Servants who are interested in transfers to regional offices can seek such transfers through the Departmental Transfer Lists or the Central Applications Facility which was maintained in the context of the decentralisation programme. In addition Civil Servants can also seek transfers through their Staff Association for head to head swaps. More recently staff have also had the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ambulance Service Provision (5 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Appointment Status (5 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Appointment Status (5 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Appointment Status (5 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Patient Transport (5 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 Children and Youth Affairs: Substance Misuse (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The provision of services to treat alcohol-related illness is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive and as such, I have referred this element of the question to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office who will follow up the matter with them. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Vaccination Programme (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In Ireland, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the regulatory authority for medicines in Ireland. There are 2 licensed HPV vaccines available in Ireland (Gardasil®and Cervarix®). Gardasil®is the vaccine used by the HSE in the School Immunisation Programme. The vaccine protects against two high risk types of HPV (16 & 18) that cause 73% of all cervical...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Vaccination Programme (5 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy. 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.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: This introduces a new definition for the agency, to mean the National Treasury Management Agency.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Seanad for the speed and efficiency with which it has completed Committee, Report and Final Stages of this Bill. I did not think we would get through it so quickly. I recognise that Senator Colm Burke took the lead on this important patient safety legislation some time ago. This Bill, which will require all doctors who are registered in the State to be appropriately insured and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 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 Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the further correspondence received from the Deputy in relation to this matter, I would like to advise the Deputy that 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: Registration of Nurses (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: It is not possible to provide a precise number for qualified nurses of working age currently not working within the health service. In order to practice as a nurse in Ireland one would have to be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). Last month there were 63,849 nurses and midwives registered in Ireland compared with 34,852 nurses (WTE's) employed in the public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the specific issue raised. 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. The HSE is focused on recruiting the levels of frontline staff necessary to ensure that we have safe service provision. It is now in a position to offer a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE National Clinical Programme for Critical Care Capacity Census records adult critical care capacity i.e. the commissioned and actual critical care bed stock and critical care staff provided in critical care services in hospitals, and available to care for critically ill adult patients. In relation to the number of critical care beds in each public hospital, as this is a service matter,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the detailed information sought by the Deputy, as these are service matters, 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: Nursing Staff Provision (4 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the 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 Waiting Lists (4 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: HSE Data (4 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.