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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Oct 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: Nursing Staff Provision (21 Oct 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: Accident and Emergency Departments (21 Oct 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 Savings (21 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The approved level of non-capital expenditure for the HSE in 2015 was to be supported by the collection of an expected €131 million of outstanding private patient fee income. Negotiations are ongoing with private health insurers in relation to reaching agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding which will address this outstanding debt issue by introducing better payment terms and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (21 Oct 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health and Social Care Professionals Act Regulations: Minister for Health (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Chairman for this opportunity to address the Joint Committee on Health and Children to give the background to these resolutions, to advise members why they are necessary and to provide the committee with an update on the implementation of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to date. The Joint Committee on Health and Children is being asked to consider motions that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health and Social Care Professionals Act Regulations: Minister for Health (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I will deal first with the issue of the difference between physiotherapy and physical therapy. As Deputies and Senators are aware, I am examining the issue of protecting the title "physical therapist" and considering whether, on balance, it is in the public interest to protect the title in the Act in order to reduce the potential for confusion in the public mind in the services offered by...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Senator Barrett for raising this matter and for giving me the opportunity to advise the House on the proposed sale of the old Baggot Street Hospital complex. This facility, like much of our health-care infrastructure, dates from around the mid-1800s. As a consequence it is of limited use as suitable accommodation for the delivery of modern health services. The complex also contains...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have not had a chance to visit Baggot Street yet but I am due to visit it in the next couple of weeks and to take a look at the place for myself. To the best of my knowledge, it is not used as an inpatient hospital any more, it is used for other services. Perhaps some short-stay services are provided but it is not used as an acute hospital, so to do what Senator Barrett proposes would...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Officials from my Department met with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in order to up-date him on the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act, 2015. As the Deputy is aware, the Act currently provides for a number of elements to be prescribed by the Minister for Health by way of regulations. While developing these regulations a number of other necessary and practical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Disease Epidemics (20 Oct 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 Procedures (20 Oct 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: Health Services Provision (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Rapid access prostate cancer clinics have been established in the eight designated cancer centres to ensure that men who have symptoms of prostate cancer can be seen in a timely way and that they undergo comprehensive assessment with appropriate imaging and biopsies where necessary. The treatment of men subsequently diagnosed with prostate cancer is discussed at multidisciplinary team...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (20 Oct 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: Community Care (20 Oct 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: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 445 and 510 together. The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). NIAC is a committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland comprising of experts in a number of specialties including infectious diseases, paediatrics and public health. The committee's recommendations are informed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: All charges for public hospital in-patient and out-patient services are made in accordance with the Health Act 1970, as amended. The charge for public in-patient services is €75 per night, up to a maximum of €750 in a calendar year. The Emergency Department charge is €100 for each episode of care. Exemptions from these statutory charges are extended to certain cohorts...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With a recovering economy, the Health Service Executive is now in a position to offer a wide range of career opportunities for nurses and midwives. There are many initiatives currently underway to improve nursing staff levels throughout the country. These include the retention of 2015 degree programme graduates, offering full time permanent contracts, and an international recruitment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (20 Oct 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: Maternity Services (20 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000 there is a statutory requirement for all State authorities including the HSE and its funded agencies to report adverse incidents promptly to the State Claims Agency (SCA) and to facilitate any subsequent investigation. This allows the HSE in conjunction with the SCA to identify and analyse developing trends and patterns and to...