Results 27,941-27,960 of 46,081 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: The implementation of the National Maternity Strategy will give rise to significant capital costs over the coming years. Work to identify the precise capital requirement, and the timing of the required capital developments, is ongoing. However, I am happy to confirm that funding has been provided within the National Development Plan to co-locate all remaining stand-alone...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 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 (6 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 Consultant Contracts (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: Consultants are not required to publish a list of their fees. The level of fees charged by a consultant who sees a patient privately is a matter between the consultant and the patient. The fees arising may be met personally by the patient concerned, by the patient's health insurer, or a combination of the two depending on the extent, if any, to which the patient has insurance cover for...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: In relation to the query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 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 (6 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: Health Services Staff Data (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: The long-term strategy to develop sustainable scoliosis services from 2018 has been prioritised by the Department and the HSE in the 2018 HSE National Service Plan. Funding of €9 million has been provided in 2018 to improve access to paediatric orthopaedic services and treatments for scoliosis, building on progress already made. In relation to the specific query raised by the Deputy,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (6 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: Hospitals Discharges (6 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: Health Services Data (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: The implementation of the National Maternity Strategy will give rise to significant capital costs over the coming years. Work to identify the precise capital requirement, and the timing of the required capital developments, is ongoing. However, I am happy to confirm that funding has been provided within the National Development Plan for maternity services infrastructure and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Governance (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to reply directly to you.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 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: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: There are no plans at present to designate Chiropractors for regulation under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act, 2005. The priority is to bring to completion, possibly by 2019, the regulation of the fourteen professions currently designated under the Act, increasing to sixteen professions with the designation of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the coming weeks. Chiropractors...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Advertising Campaigns (6 Mar 2018)
Simon Harris: The Healthy Ireland 2018 communications and citizen engagement campaign is being delivered in collaboration with the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) in Department of an Taoiseach. The SCU commissioned the relevant content and has responsibility for associated costs. Three sponsored features appeared in the Irish Independent newspaper supplements, viz the Saturday magazine on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Simon Harris: Sure.