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Written Answers — Department of Health: Debt Collection (15 Apr 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 Insurance (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Lifetime Community Rating (LCR) is being introduced to encourage people to take out private health insurance at a younger age. Encouraging more people to join the market at younger ages helps spread the costs of older and less healthy people across the market, helping to support affordable premiums for all. The introduction of LCR is one of a suite of measures which I announced in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (15 Apr 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: Irish Language (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to ensuring that customers who wish to conduct their business through Irish can be facilitated to the greatest extent possible. The Department has 7 staff or almost 2 % of the total number of employees who are capable of carrying out their duties through both the Irish and English languages. All written correspondence addressed to the Department in Irish is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Apr 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 Recruitment (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Chief Nursing Office within the Department has convened a senior group of Directors of Midwives and senior lecturers from the 7 universities in Ireland, who educate student midwives on the undergraduate and postgraduate courses. This group will review the current arrangements for the recruitment and retention of midwives and will explore options for addressing the particular difficulties...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Apr 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 (15 Apr 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: Hospital Services (15 Apr 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 Services (15 Apr 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 Services (15 Apr 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 (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Ireland has one of the highest reported incidences of cystic fibrosis in the world, with 1:1353 live births. 2009 marked the first year that the proportion of adult cystic fibrosis patients was higher than that of paediatric patients, reflecting improved care and management of cystic fibrosis patients. There was a requirement to reduce public service numbers and maximise savings in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 521 and 522 together. As there will always be more projects than can be funded by the Exchequer, additional funding provided by charitable organisations such as Cystic Fibrosis Ireland is always welcome and very much appreciated.  As with all capital projects, further development of the CF facilities, including those at Cavan General Hospital, must be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will appreciate, it would not be appropriate for me to make directions in respect of an internal hospital investigation; therefore, 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 Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Pending completion of the national estimates, budgetary and service planning process for 2016, which will commence later in the year, it is not possible to predict the service levels to be provided next year.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014,has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Apr 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 (15 Apr 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: Proposed Legislation (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 536, 570 and 571 together. My Department is currently developing the Heads of a Human Tissue Bill. The Bill will meet the key recommendation of the Madden Report on Post Mortem Practice and Procedures that no hospital post-mortem may be carried out, and no tissue retained, without consent/authorisation. The legislation will also provide for an opt-out...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am advised that a report on lymphoedema is being developed by the HSE and accordingly I have asked the organisation to respond directly to you on this 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.