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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (18 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: The eHealth strategy published by the Department of Health in December 2013 informs the capital allocation for eHealth and information and communications technology (ICT) in the capital plan. The latest figures available are for 2017 where ICT capital allocation was €55 million and the total expenditure on eHealth and ICT projects was €54,914,782. Key priority areas for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Jan 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: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2018)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (18 Jan 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 an affordable and sustainable manner. The medicines bill for the community drugs schemes – primarily the GMS, Long Term Illness and Drugs Payment schemes and the High Tech...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: In relation to the specific issue raised, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transgender Issues (18 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: I am aware that the waiting times are often unacceptably long and this places a significant burden on patients and their families. Reducing waiting times for the longest waiting patients is one of this Government's key priorities. Consequently, Budget 2018 allocated €55 million for the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2018. This significant increase in funding more than doubles...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (18 Jan 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 (18 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (18 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: The development of primary care is central to the Government's objective to deliver a high-quality, integrated and cost effective health service. The Programme for Government and Sláintecare commit to shifting the model of healthcare towards a more comprehensive and accessible primary care service in order to deliver better care close to home in communities across the country. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (18 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: Firstly, I would like to convey my sympathies to the woman concerned on the miscarriages she has experienced. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: We are not doing that.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: You were born.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: Every now and then an issue comes before us which challenges us to think about what kind of a country we want to be and what kind of a society we are; an issue that we struggle with, that may be difficult to talk about, but that is not going to go away. Today is a moment where we, the Members of the 32nd Dáil, come face to face again with such an issue. In doing so, we come face to...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: I apologise for not being here at the start of the debate but the two Houses are debating this important issue at the same time. I have been thinking about what I want to say for many weeks and I spoke in the Dáil on the subject but I now must see if I have a second contribution within me as it is an emotional issue. It is deeply sensitive and complex and an issue with which an awful...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: To the best of my knowledge it did not happen in the Dáil either. That should encourage us because this was not the way it was when this issue was discussed in the past. I was not born in 1983 but I have been reading a lot about it lately. In the debate of that time the issue seems, bizarrely, to have been considered more of a justice than a health issue. In the transcript of the...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: It was. It was looked at from the point of view of criminal justice. We now find ourselves in a very different place. I genuinely love this country, as I think we all do, and we are all very proud of it but I am ashamed of how it has treated women, particularly pregnant women. Others have referenced the Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes and the Kerry babies case, which are all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Civil Registration Documentation (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: The Civil Registration Service is operated by the Health Service Executive on behalf of the General Register Office under the aegis of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I have referred your question to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (17 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: I can confirm that my Department did not object to any name changes proposed for Home Helps. I understand that agreement between the parties was reached at the Workplace Relations Commission on 10 January 2018, on various issues, including a new title for the grade. A time frame for the implementation of the provisions of the agreement will be determined between the parties.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (17 Jan 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.