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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 173 together. My Office has recently received a meeting request from this organisation and it is currently being considered.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Jan 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: Vaccination Programme (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The number of cases of Meningitis B in County Kerry on a yearly bases by age is not held by my Department. I have asked the Health Service Executive to collate this information and send directly to the Deputy. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (15 Jan 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: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government regards trolley waits of over 9 hours as unacceptable and acknowledges the difficulties which the current surge in ED activity is causing for patients, their families and the staff who are doing their utmost to provide safe, quality care in very challenging circumstances. Beaumont Hospital acknowledges and regrets the difficult conditions experienced by patients and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Jan 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 Jan 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: HSE Properties (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply as the management of the health property estate, including title issues, is a service matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office who will follow up on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (15 Jan 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: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (15 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Voluntary Health Insurance Board is the only semi state company under the aegis of my department. The Chief Executive of this company did not receive any performance related awards in 2013 and 2014.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: It is 167 now.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: No.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Actually, the Oireachtas capped the budget.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"acknowledges:— the difficulties which overcrowding in hospital emergency departments (EDs) causes for patients, their families and the staff who are doing their utmost to provide safe, quality care in very challenging circumstances; — that the Government regards trolley waits...

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In fact, our health service is rated 14th out of 31 by the European Health Consumer Index, ECHI, and mortality and survival rates are above the OECD average and going in the right direction. Life expectancy is increasing, too. This would not be the case if we had the Third World health service the Members opposite seem to believe we have. Emergency department overcrowding is a chronic...

Order of Business (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy's party could have dealt with blasphemy in the Defamation Act.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Double standards in this House and double standards in-----

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Deputies Jonathan O'Brien and Derek Nolan for their constructive contributions. I thank Deputies Boyd Barrett and Finian McGrath for their contributions. Deputy O'Brien is correct that delayed discharges are part of this problem, numbering 850 in December which we have reduced to 750 currently. However, the difficulty is that 110 new delayed discharges come in every week while...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: -----and they cannot be turned back into acute beds. Of the 500 that could potentially be opened, more than half of that number are currently open and where possible, we will open some more. However, there are issues to do with decanting, with fire certificates, electrical issues and with staffing in some cases. Beaumont hospital has had a problem with overcrowding for over ten years. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for raising this issue. It will also be discussed during Private Members’ business tonight and tomorrow and at committee tomorrow as well. At the outset I emphasise that the Government regards trolley waits of more than nine hours to be unacceptable and acknowledges the difficulties which any overcrowding in EDs causes for patients, their families and the staff...