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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Feb 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 Levy (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The interim scheme of Age-Related Tax Credits and Community Rating Levy (ARTC) was in operation from 2009-2012. The Department of Finance has advised that the total Stamp Duty levied on health insurance products for the specified years is as follows: YEAR ARTC SCHEME 2011 €347m 2012 €437m The interim scheme was replaced by a permanent Risk Equalisation Scheme from 1...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I assume the Deputy is referring to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s National Drug Strategy Household Survey detailed report 2013,published last November. The report has been misrepresented in some quarters, quoting a finding that between 2010 and 2013 there appeared to be a slight rise in the proportion of people aged 12–17 smoking daily. However, the report...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (12 Feb 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 would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Feb 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: Ministerial Meetings (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy might be aware I recently received a request to meet with this group. I responded to the request by offering my sympathy and explaining that the Government will not be proposing any changes to the eighth amendment. For this reason, I did not believe that a meeting would serve any purpose and I declined their request.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Spinal conditions, including scoliosis, in children and young people are predominantly managed at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin (OLCHC). It is acknowledged by all that waiting times for surgery are unacceptable and the HSE, Children's Hospital Group and OLCHC are actively working to address them as quickly as possible and exploring all short, medium- and long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Feb 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: Departmental Expenditure (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Regulation (EC) 883/2004 and Implementing Regulation 987/2009 provide for the coordination of social security systems, including healthcare, within the EU/EEA and Switzerland. Under these provisions, persons who are insured with (covered by) the healthcare system of one EU member state are entitled to receive healthcare in the public system of another member state in certain circumstances, at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The endoscopy unit project currently underway at Roscommon General Hospital also includes a decontamination unit. Any future investment at Roscommon County Hospital must be considered within the overall acute hospital sector infrastructure programme, within the overall capital envelope available to the health service and in the context of the establishment of hospital groups. In 2015,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (11 Feb 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: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (11 Feb 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 Procedures (11 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The national renal transplant team in Beaumont Hospital carries out all kidney transplants in Ireland. The transplants are carried out by the Beaumont team at two locations - Beaumont Hospital for adults and the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, for paediatric patients up to the age of 19. The table below shows the kidney transplant details 2010-2014: Year Deceased...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (11 Feb 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: Magdalen Laundries (10 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 386 and 388 together. The Health (Amendment) Act 1996 provides for the making available without charge of certain health services to persons who contracted hepatitis C in the State from a blood product or blood transfusion. In his report, Mr Justice Quirke recommended, inter alia, that legislation be introduced to give effect to his recommendation on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Feb 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: Vaccination Programme (10 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 390 and 418 together. The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The NIAC is a committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland comprising of experts in a number of specialties including infectious diseases, paediatrics and public health. The committee's recommendations are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular patient query raised by you, 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Feb 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...