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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 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 (28 May 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 Staff Recruitment (28 May 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 Expenditure (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In the recently published HSE Performance Report for March, the HSE reported year to date net expenditure of €3.073 billion against a budget of €2.982 billion, leading to a variance of €91m. The Income and Expenditure data confirms that the key financial risks are in demand-led areas as well as in the Acute and Social Care areas. Acute hospitals in particular will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (28 May 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: HIQA Remit (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Information and Quality Authority was established by the Health Act 2007. As general practitioners are self employed contractors they do not come within the existing scope of the Health Act 2007 and, therefore, are not subject to HIQA inspections. I intend bringing a Memo to Government shortly seeking Government approval to draft amendments to the Health Act 2007 as an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 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 Staff (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the specific information sought. 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 Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced in Budget 2015 that he intends to delegate greater autonomy to Departments and Agencies to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 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: Health Services Staff (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Psychotherapists and counsellors are not currently regulated under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. However, the Act provides that the Minister for Health may, under section 4(2), designate a health and social care profession not already designated if he or she considers that it is in the public interest to do so and if specified criteria have been met. My predecessor,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE is developing a substantial infrastructure project at Naas General Hospital which will deliver an endoscopy unit, an oncology unit and a physical medicine department. Therefore your question has been referred to the Executive to provide a progress update by direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office who will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the specific information sought. 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 Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced in Budget 2015 that he intends to delegate greater autonomy to Departments and Agencies to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (28 May 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 Staff Data (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The OECD reports that on average across EU countries there were about eight nurses per 1,000 population in 2012. The number of registered nurses per capita was highest in Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. While registrations do not convert directly to numbers employment, it has been estimated that Ireland has 9.22 working nurses per 1,000....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 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 and Safety Regulations (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In June 2012 the HIQA National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare were approved by the previous Minister for Health. The National Standards are aimed at protecting patients and they provide a strategic approach to improving safety, quality and reliability in our health services. They describe high quality safe healthcare services. Such services deliver care which is safe, effective,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: There was a requirement to reduce public service numbers and maximise savings in the public service from the time of the downturn in the economy. The HSE introduced an embargo on recruitment in 2007, and this was followed by the moratorium on recruitment and promotion in the public sector in 2008. Overall, numbers employed fell by 11,000 between April 2009 and April 2015, while nursing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (28 May 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 Status (28 May 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 a maternity hospital to be developed on campus. In addition to the main hospital, the project includes two satellite centres at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE is obliged to operate within the legal parameters as set out in the Health Act 1970 (as amended), which includes the overall financial situation of a person, while also having regard to the variety of circumstances and complexities faced by individuals who apply for a medical card. It aims to ensure that every person who is entitled to a medical card or a GP visit card is given the...