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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Oct 2017)

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 scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Oct 2017)

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. In relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (11 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the pricing and reimbursement 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: Medicinal Products (11 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 142 and 143 together. In October 2015, my predecessor, Minister Leo Varadkar T.D., signed regulations which allow certain prescription-only medicines, including adrenaline auto-injectors, to be administered by trained members of the public in emergency situations. It is important to note that these regulations do not in any way change the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Oct 2017)

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 scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (11 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: The €80 charged referred to by the Deputy is the statutory daily charge (up to a maximum of €800) where a person has been referred to a hospital for an in-patient service, including that provided on a day case basis. Where venesection is classed as a day case procedure, and is not carried out in an out-patient setting, the public in-patient charge applies. Medical card holders...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Funding (11 Oct 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Oct 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: The eight Symptomatic Breast Disease Clinics, plus the satellite service which operates in Letterkenny University Hospital, provide high quality diagnostic services to patients with symptoms indicating possible breast cancer. The national target for Symptomatic Breast Disease clinics is that 95% of all urgent referrals are offered an appointment within 10 working days of the date of receipt...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: There is currently a worldwide shortage of BCG vaccine. The vaccine has not been available in Ireland since the end of April 2015. Consequently, BCG vaccination clinics in HSE Clinics and Maternity hospitals have been postponed. There is only one licensed supplier of BCG vaccine to Ireland. The manufacturer has had difficulties in the production of the BCG vaccine. Since this problem...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputies Calleary, Jonathan O'Brien, Sherlock, Breathnach, Boyd Barrett, Mattie McGrath, Danny Healy-Rae, Harty, Fitzpatrick, McLoughlin, Neville and Troy for contributing on this financial resolution debate. I will try to respond to a number of the points that were raised. As the Minister for Health, the Deputies will not find anyone in the House more eager or enthusiastic to have...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 72 of the Finance Act 2005 (No. 5 of 2005), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 11 October 2017, by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 36 of the Finance Act 2016 (No. 18 of 2016)):"SCHEDULE 2 RATES OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX (With effect as on and from 11 October 2017)...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I am pleased to move this financial resolution, which provides for excise duty increases on tobacco products with effect from midnight tonight. The increase amounts to 50 cent, inclusive of VAT, on a pack of 20 cigarettes in the most popular price category together withpro rataincreases for other tobacco products as well as an additional 25 cent increase on a 30g pack of "roll your own"...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: Under section 39 of the Health Act 2004, the HSE has in place Service Level Agreements with voluntary providers which set out the level of service to be provided for the grant to the individual organisation. Employees of Section 39 organisations are not public servants and are therefore not encompassed by the Public Service Stability Agreements. This means that they were not subject to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: My Department has not had any direct conversations with representatives of service users with personal assistants or of personal assistants in relation to the implications of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. However it is my understanding that the HSE have been engaging with representatives of service users who use personal care services on these issues. On that basis, I have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 276, 327, 328, 361 and 397 together. The Health Service Executive has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drug schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. The HSE informed my Department of its decision not to reimburse Ataluren (Translarna) in July 2017....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (10 Oct 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Oct 2017)

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 scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Simon Harris: As the HSE has responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres and other Primary Care facilities, the Executive has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.