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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jun 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 (11 Jun 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: Public Health Policy (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 and 165 together. The Health Information & Quality Authority conducted an economic evaluation of various Automated External Defibrillators (AED) national deployment programmes in designated places, such as hospitals, places of worship, hospitality and entertainment venues, sports clubs, transport stations, retail premises and public buildings....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jun 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: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to thank the deputy for the matter raised. Given that this is an operational matter, it is appropriate that it should be dealt with by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). Therefore, I have referred the Deputy's question to the NMBI for attention and direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the NMBI within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE operates the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) for persons entitled to treatment in another EU/EEA member state or Switzerland under EU Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004, as per the procedures set out in EU Regulations (EC) No. 987/2009, and in accordance with Department of Health Guidelines. Patients have the ability to apply to the HSE TAS seeking access to public healthcare outside the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE has advised that Tallaght Hospital apologised for the delay that occurred in allocating an in-patient bed to an elderly patient last week. The hospital fully accepts that no patient should experience such a delay in waiting for a bed and that priority should be given to elderly patients in allocation of beds. I understand that management met with the family of the patient on Friday...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The deferral of oncology clinics as outlined has occurred at Galway University Hospital since January due to a number of staff vacancies arising. Saolta University Health Care Group have recently completed a recruitment process to fill four vacancies and it is hoped that the successful candidates will all be in their posts by July. Some additional staff are also being recruited. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jun 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: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I understand that the submission referred to by the Deputy was one provided by my Department to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the Governments' Comprehensive Review of Expenditure exercise last year. The Department of Public Expenditure Reform instructed each Government Department to review its existing expenditure across its main spending programmes and provide a...

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

Leo Varadkar: The EAS, initially established as a 12 month pilot, has been extremely successful. For very seriously ill patients, in locations where the driving time to the most appropriate hospital may be challenging, the National Ambulance Service can bring advanced life support to the patient, and then bring the patient to the right hospital, within a clinically acceptable time. The EAS has now...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to look into this matter and to respond to the Deputy directly. 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: Air Ambulance Service Provision (11 Jun 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: Voluntary Hospital Sector (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I welcome the establishment of the Voluntary Healthcare Forum, which aims to promote voluntarism and its contribution to the Irish healthcare system, to participate strategically and to build collaborative partnerships between the healthcare providers, and key decision makers across Government, the Department of Health and the HSE. My Department meets with the Forum representatives on a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (11 Jun 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: Accident and Emergency Departments (11 Jun 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: Accident and Emergency Departments (11 Jun 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: Accident and Emergency Departments (11 Jun 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: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Information on the annual cost of introducing a living wage minimal threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in my Department and the bodies under the aegis of my Department is being collated and will be forwarded to you as soon as possible. I have asked the HSE to examine the matter and to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working...

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (10 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Deputies McGinley, Doherty and Pringle for raising the issue as it gives me an opportunity to update the House on the matter. I am taking the debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, who is on Government business elsewhere. The NowDoc GP out-of-hours service is a partnership arrangement between the GPs affiliated with the NowDoc service and...