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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If he has 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 Recruitment (7 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 Acquired Infections (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If he has 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 Facilities (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If he has 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 Acquired Infections (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If he has 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 (7 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. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 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: National Children's Hospital (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is the statutory body responsible for planning, designing, building and equipping the new children's hospital. The new hospital will be co-located with St. James's Hospital, and ultimately tri-located with the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, which will re-locate to the campus in due course. Satellite centres of the hospital,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In February of this year I received Government approval to draft the General Scheme of a Bill for assisted human reproduction, which will include provisions relating to numerous aspects from the beginning to the end of the assisted human reproduction process. As I have previously stated it is currently not the case that the public funding of fertility treatments will be included as part...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to your further question about this incident, I have again asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Relocation (7 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Civil Servants who are interested in transfers to regional offices can seek such transfers through the Central 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 opportunity to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Before I start, I wish to join you, Chairman, in extending my congratulations to Professor William Campbell, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and of Irish birth, on winning a Nobel Prize. It makes all of us very proud. I thank the committee for the invitation to attend the meeting today. I am joined by the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, HSE director general, Mr. Tony...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I will answer as many of the questions as I can. The Minister of State will take some and Mr. Tony O'Brien may wish to respond to some of the questions specifically put to him. In regard to the emergency departments, I mentioned that I have visited about 14, two in the past five days. I visit with notice, at short notice, and also with no notice at all. What Deputy Billy Kelleher said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I do not think one could do it just for health care workers and not apply it to others too. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked about community beds. There are 65 open community beds in Mount Carmel Community Hospital, Dublin; 24 in Moorehall Lodge Nursing and Convalescent Centre, County Louth, which are delivered through the private sector; 18 in Clontarf Hospital; 20 in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Most of the questions relate to operational matters, so I will leave them to Mr. O'Brien and Ms McGuinness. The Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, will respond to the questions relevant to her. On the BCG vaccination, as members will be aware there is a Europe-wide shortage of vaccines. We are waiting on the manufacturers to confirm when they will be available. While some vaccines will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: It will not be too far away now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: May I just answer that in part? There was money in the last budget but the Supplementary Estimate figure for the period to date this year is approximately €84 million. It would be incorrect to characterise that as all having gone towards dealing with emergency department overcrowding. The largest proportion of the funding was for the fair deal scheme. Most of the people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have read the report, as did the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, and I think there is a very strong compelling case in the longer term for a new hospital for Cork, particularly a hospital that would concentrate on non-emergency care, such as electives and ambulatory care. As the Chairman can imagine, there are similar proposals for such hospitals all over the country. What we have asked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Responsibility for vaccines and vaccine safety lies mainly with the chief medical officer and I will certainly ask him to meet any group. I should say that of the 860 adverse events reported to the HPRA, the vast majority are the normal kind of side effects people have from all kinds of vaccines, like somebody getting a sore arm, fainting and so on. What I would be very concerned about in...