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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (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: Patient Data (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 Status (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: Patient Data (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 Accommodation Provision (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 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 Waiting Lists (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 Waiting Lists (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 Waiting Lists (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: Departmental Budgets (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: After accounting for the transfer of Child and Family Services to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in 2013, the combined reduction in funding to the Department and HSE between 2009 and 2014 amounted to €1.769 billion in gross vote terms. Of this figure, €1.479 billion related to the reduction in funding to the HSE. Since my appointment as Minister for Health my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: HIQA, in its report of December last year, identified serious patient safety concerns over a lack of co-ordination between the Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance service and the National Ambulance Service. The urgent need to address these issues was stressed, particularly for 999/112 call-taking and ambulance dispatch, as well as overall clinical governance. Following discussions on these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (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 Consultants 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: Medical Inquiries (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to thank the Deputy for the matter raised. The HSE is legally obliged to actively promote the well-being, and to protect the welfare, of the public. Decisions in this regard are made on a bona fide basis, based on information available to the HSE at a particular point in time. In relation to the matters raised by the Deputy, the proceedings are ongoing and as such it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Department Staffing (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 Promotion (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Health ’s Breastfeeding Strategic Action Plan (2005) has as its mission statement "to improve the nation’s health by ensuring that breastfeeding is the norm for infants and young children". The protective role of breastfeeding extends beyond childhood and is important in the prevention of obesity and chronic diseases in adulthood, including hypertension and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution protects the right to life of the unborn “with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother”. However, in Roche v. Roche (2009) the Supreme Court found that three frozen embryos produced during IVF treatment were not considered “unborn” as outlined in the Constitution. The Court ruled that the provisions of Article 40.3.3...

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

Leo Varadkar: The introduction of Lifetime Community Rating (LCR) for the private health insurance market is provided by regulations signed on the 7 July 2014. I wish to clarify that LCR relates solely to the current health insurance market, in which context the purchase of health insurance is optional, and the measure should not be misinterpreted as a form of compulsory insurance. LCR is being...

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

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she should take the matter up with the consultant and the hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (15 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 618 and 620 together. 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 questions to the NMBI for attention and direct reply. If he has not received a reply from the NMBI within...