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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: Rare diseases are often diagnosed in childhood and are a significant cause of disability. The recommendations of the National Plan, published in 2014, apply to all age groups within the population but in particular for children. In 2017 the Department published a progress report on the National Rare Disease Plan and this is available on the Department’s website under...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 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 Services (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: Cancer surgery and histopathology work arising from BowelScreen is carried out in the designated cancer centres, including University Hospital Waterford. The National Screening Service has contracted 14 hospitals to provide endoscopy services for BowelScreen.  Each part of the BowelScreen process is quality assured and monitored to ensure adherence to the highest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Records (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy's question relates to an individual case, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) publishes waiting list figures by specialty for each hospital on its website each month. This information is available at www.NTPF.ie. The Waiting List data published by the NTPF for St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny indicates the following inpatient/day case procedures wait times at the end of February 2018: St. Luke's General Hospital...

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

Simon Harris: It is my Department’s policy to engage staff through open Public Appointments Service competitions or through civil or public service mobility programmes including redeployment, secondment, Agencies subsumed etc.  The Department does not directly recruit staff with the exception of Ministerial personal appointees who are engaged in accordance with Department of Public Expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I did not issue any direction to staff of my own Department or to staff of bodies under the aegis of this Department with regard to attendance for work on the days during Storm Emma.   The Deputy may be interested to note that the HSE did issue a 'broadcast' to all its staff indicating that HSE staff who came to work on the Red Alert weather warning storm days would be paid for time...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 442 and 497 together. My Department administered a National Lottery Discretionary Fund up to and including 2016 from which once-off grants were paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. My Department no longer operates a National Lottery Fund. The HSE operates a similar scheme and continues to provide grants...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (20 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 Procedures (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.

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

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 446, 490 and 518 together. Agency staff and staff of organisations funded by the HSE under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004 are not public servants and are not employees of the HSE.  Arrangements for such staff would be a matter for the management of the relevant employment agencies or Section 39 organisations. In general, there is no statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 451 and 476 together. The information that the Deputy seeks with regard to polysorbate 80 is not readily available.  Therefore, I have asked the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) to investigate the matter and reply directly to the Deputy. It is important to reiterate that the HPRA and the European Medicines Agency continually...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: In October 2017 120 candidate Advance Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) commenced an education programme to develop ANP services in the areas of chronic disease management (rheumatology and respiratory medicine), older persons care and unscheduled care. The service areas for ANP development reflect initial priority service challenges which were identified in respect of access, waiting lists,...

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

Simon Harris: The need to increase the numbers of nurses and midwives in the public health service is a priority for this Government despite a backdrop of global shortages in health professionals and the high regard in which our nursing graduates are held worldwide. Last month, the HSE issued an instruction that all nurse graduates will be offered permanent contracts to work in the Irish Public Health...

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

Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly. 

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: I am aware that the individual systematic analysis reports were received by the 16 families whose cases had been the subject of review, in April 2017.  The HSE advises that the final report is at an advanced stage, therefore as this is a service matter, the question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.