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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: The Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 seeks to protect the public by providing a system of statutory registration for designated health and social care professions, including that of Speech and Language Therapist. Statutory regulation is a system underpinned by law whereby each member of a profession is recognised by a specified body as competent to practice within that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Activation Projects (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I am committed to ensuring that the recommendation included in the Make Work Pay for People with Disabilities Report to raise the medical card income disregard from its current level of €120 per week for people on Disability Allowance or on Partial Capacity Benefit is implemented. My officials are working with the HSE to finalise the operational details to give effect to this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: Please see the following table which sets out the operational costs for the Department of Health for the years 2011 to 2017. Year Operational Costs €m 2011 26.531 2012 27.265 2013 25.926 2014 25.345 2015 26.215 2016 27.314 2017 30.559

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: 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: Patient Files (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: Under the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, the functions of the Medical Council include the specification of standards of practice for registered medical practitioners, including the establishment, publication, maintenance and review of appropriate guidance on all matters related to professional conduct and ethics. The Council’s 2016 Guide to Professional Conduct for Registered Medical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess." There is no provision under the GMS GP contract for persons who hold...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: The Minor Injuries Unit at Louth County Hospital was developed in 2010 to provide rapid treatment of minor injury patients aged 14 years and over. This service is available to the people of Louth 7 days per week from 9:00am to 8:00pm. As the query raised is a service matter, I have also asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly with any further information.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: A number of technical drafting issues have come to light in relation to Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015. The implications of these issues are being explored by officials in my Department and the Office of the Attorney General, and as these discussions are ongoing, I do not wish to pre-empt the outcome by citing specific details. I would be happy to arrange a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commissions of Investigation (2 May 2018)

Simon Harris: The Commission of Investigation (certain matters relative to a disability service in the South East and related matters) (the Farrelly Commission) is an independent statutory Commission of Investigation. It commenced its investigations in May 2017 and its work is ongoing. The first phase of the Commission's work is to investigate the role of public authorities in the care and protection of...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputies on all sides of the House for contributing to this constructive and very important debate and questions and answers session. Regardless of any statutory or other inquiry that we set up, it is very important that the women of Ireland saw that the Oireachtas has spent so many hours rightly discussing this issue in a constructive fashion to determine how the facts will be...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I have expressed my view on the management of CervicalCheck. I do not want the priority of my energies or, I would suggest, all of our energies to be placed in who should leave their job now. There is a time and place in regard to accountability. I want the priority in CervicalCheck to be on getting the answers, getting the information, contacting the women and getting the guidance up on...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I want to move towards mandatory open disclosure. I am sure it will come out in the review that we could have had a situation where doctors were replacing information on files to be given to a woman at her next appointment but given the lapse of such a serious period of time, clearly women were not told that information and this is not acceptable to anyone. I would like mandatory open...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Healy for his comments, which I note. I have clear views in terms of how we need to reform the HSE, including putting in place a board with real powers, which it would take me longer than the 27 seconds available to me to outline. I am moving ahead with many elements of the Sláintecare programme and I would be happy to discuss that with the Deputy on another occasion.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I am sorry, that is a very important question. The Government has not ruled out redress. It first needs to ascertain facts. There is a group of people in respect of whom an arm of the State had information that was not given to them. In my view, this is wrong. Whether it is legally wrong is neither here nor there. We need to look at how we can support those people. The Government will...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I do not have a number and am not going to give a number to the Oireachtas that could be false. I think we all had the view when we got up this morning that every case of cervical cancer in the cancer registry had been notified to CervicalCheck but that is not the case, based on information given to me before I came in here a few hours ago. I have been here since and have not been able to...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: Yes.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: Yes.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Simon Harris: I absolutely agree it was unacceptable. Was that message sent today?