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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Midland Regional Hospital at Mullingar (MRMH) is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group. The other hospitals in this Group are Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; St Vincent's University Hospital; St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; Wexford General Hospital; National Maternity Hospital; Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; St Columcille's Hospital; St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The St Loman's campus contains six separate building blocks which are occupied as follows: -The acute mental health admissions and rehabilitation building; -The TUSLA operated child and family centre building; -The Intellectual Disabilities operated Springfield Centre building; -The primary care building occupied by the Community Healthcare Organisation support services; -Currently the St...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 Jul 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: Hospitals Building Programme (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply as the delivery of the healthcare facilities is a service matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office who will follow up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Mortality Rates (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular query raised, 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: Departmental Staff Data (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tabular statement. YEAR Average Age of Staff 2008 46.1 2011 46.9 Date 2015 48.6 I have asked that the HSE respond to you directly on the aspect of the question that relates to their public sector employees. In relation to Non-Commercial State Agencies under the remit of the Department, this information is being sought and will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have been informed by Mr Simon Coveney, T.D., Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine that the regulatory system for plant protection products is designed to ensure a very high level of protection for humans, animals and the environment. Therefore only products that can be used safely, without any unacceptable risks to human health or the environment are authorised for use. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases and is part of the Health Service Executive. The HPSC works in partnership with health service providers and organisations in Ireland and around the world to collate, interpret and disseminate data and information on communicable diseases. As the information...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Homes (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 707 and 708 together. In accordance with the Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934, local authorities, as defined under the Act, were the registration authority for maternity homes. Records which were required to be kept at maternity homes included: - (a) every reception into such home; - (b) every discharge from such home; - (c) every confinement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (14 Jul 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.

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: No, I am not, but that is beside the point.

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am committed to securing and further developing the role of Portlaoise hospital as a constituent hospital within the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, which also includes St. James's, Tallaght, Tullamore, Naas and the Coombe hospitals. The hospital group and the HSE acute hospitals division are examining the scope of services in Portlaoise, and other hospitals in the group, subsequent to...

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am told now that a report will probably not be ready until sometime in September. That is down to the fact that so much consultation has to take place with everyone who is affected, not only the staff in the hospital but GPs in the area and, as the Deputy rightly pointed out, the impacts that this may have on other hospitals such as those in Naas, Tallaght and Tullamore. I am told it...

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: We all need to consider this one carefully because we have to ask ourselves what consultant cover actually means. We have very large emergency departments in this country with four and five emergency department consultants who are not in the departments after 6 o'clock or 8 o'clock at night. They are on-call from home or, in some cases, they will not cover weekends. Even with four or five...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Senator Naughton for raising this issue today. First, I recognise that University Hospital Galway is extremely busy, with approximately 66,000 emergency department attendances, 38,500 inpatient discharges and 76,000 day cases every year. A number of construction and infrastructure projects are now under way at Galway University Hospitals, GUH, including the upgrade of the medical...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Care of the Elderly Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Senator Daly for raising this matter. I am taking this debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, who is abroad on Government business. The Kenmare community nursing unit was opened in 2013. It replaced the existing 24-bed residential unit with a new facility which includes 40 residential beds, a mental health day care centre and a new ambulance...

Other Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: There are a number of questions there. The Fair Deal review is done and I expect it to be published in the next few weeks. It does not so much make recommendations as suggest different things that could be done to make the scheme more sustainable in the years to come. It then makes recommendations about alternative ways of funding home care in a better way. There are lots of other things...

Other Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: An additional €5 million was provided this year to provide an additional 400 home care packages to the benefit of 600 people. The waiting time for a package varies from region to region quite significantly, which is a real difficulty. The HSE has been given flexibility to spend more on home care packages where it is running into trouble in staffing units. Where the HSE cannot get...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: It has been the experience of north Dublin mental health service clinicians that most of the cases presenting to the emergency department at Beaumont Hospital out of hours and referred to the on-call psychiatry team are complex and multifaceted and often require the input of other hospital services. Persons presenting, for example, with intoxication, overdose, confusion or self-harm require...