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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Mar 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: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Mar 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: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Mar 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: Hospital Appointments Administration (21 Mar 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: Hospital Facilities (21 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: As the HSE is responsible for the delivery of health care infrastructure projects, the Executive has been requested to reply directly to you in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (21 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: Medicines play a vital role in improving the health of Irish patients. Securing access to existing and new and innovative medicines is a key objective of the health service. However, the challenge is to do this in a safe and sustainable manner. Treatment must be appropriate and proportionate and clinical decision-making, such as prescribing, should be based on both patient needs and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Correspondence (21 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy is aware, I do not consider that the situation referred to was intended in the relevant legislation. To this end, officials in my Department are currently examining potential options to address the issue raised by the Deputy, including the possibility of legislative amendment. 

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Staff Data (21 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I have appointed the following non-civil service staff to roles in my Department: Role Salary Special Adviser €89,906 Press Adviser €84,973 Parliamentary Assistant Salary paid by Houses of the Oireachtas Secretarial Assistant Salary paid by Houses of the Oireachtas Civilian Driver x 2 €34,304.70 These staff hold temporary non-established positions and as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 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: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 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: General Practitioner Services (21 Mar 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...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I thank all Deputies for their contributions to this Second Stage debate. I have had an opportunity to speak on this issue on a number of occasions in recent months, as have all Deputies. I hope in the not-too-distant future we will have an opportunity to stop speaking on this issue, or certainly to stop speaking to each other on it, and to start engaging with our constituents, communities...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: Come on now.

Health and Social Care Professionals Act Regulations 2017: Motions (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 4(7)) (Membership of Council) Regulations 2017,copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 9th November, 2017.

Health and Social Care Professionals Act Regulations 2017: Motions (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 4(2)) (Designation of professions: counsellors and psychotherapists and establishment of registration board) Regulations 2017.copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 9th November, 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 418 to 422, inclusive, together. I am not aware of any investigations, complaints to An Garda Síochána, arrests, convictions, or charges, as outlined by the Deputy, as these matters are not the responsibility of my Department.  The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 regulates access to a termination of pregnancy, if a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Banking (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: The total amount of negative interest charges paid by my Department is €785.29. Operational matters such as this, relating to agencies under the aegis of my Department, are a matter for the agency itself and the Deputy should contact the relevant CEO, Chairman or Registrar of the agency concerned, as appropriate.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: It is the policy in my Department only to engage the services of external consultants where it is felt to be appropriate and cost-effective, taking account of Government decisions and policy including procurement protocols on the matter. The Department does not collect data in a manner which would allow the Deputy’s question to be answered in full. However, expenditure detail...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Training (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: The Irish College General Practitioners, ICGP, is the professional body for general practice in Ireland and is responsible for post graduate specialist medical education, training and research in the specialty of general practice. The ICGP’s curriculum for general practice training involves teaching trainees to: - Recognise that patients are diverse; - Initiate systems to make the GP...