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- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2005)
Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act the executive is required to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of the Act to...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Apr 2005)
Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of health services in the Maynooth community care unit. Accordingly, my Department has...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Apr 2005)
Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of health services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (12 Apr 2005)
Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of enhanced subvention. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2005)
Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of the Act to...
- School Staffing. (24 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter and, on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, I am glad to have the opportunity to provide clarity on the issue. Unqualified teachers should only be employed in exceptional circumstances and when all avenues for recruiting qualified personnel have been exhausted. The primary sector has experienced a shortage of trained teachers in recent...
- School Absenteeism. (24 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: I thank Deputy Costello for raising this serious matter on the Adjournment. On behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, I will reply. The Education (Welfare) Act 2000 established the National Educational Welfare Board as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework promoting regular school attendance and tackling the...
- School Absenteeism. (24 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: I will bring the serious and specific issue the Deputy has raised to the attention of the Minister for Education and Science and report back to him in that regard.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: Home care grant schemes have been piloted by the Health Services Executive in a number of areas. The purpose of these schemes is to support older people at home as an alternative to long-term residential care. Older people who are discharged from the acute hospital system and those living in the community have been targeted under these schemes. The Department has been working with the HSE to...
- Hospitals Building Programme. (24 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: I thank Deputy McGinley for raising this issue and welcome the opportunity to clarify the position on the development of services at Letterkenny General Hospital on behalf of the Minister for Health and Children. The Deputy will be aware that the Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio. (24 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: I thank Deputy Pat Breen for raising this matter. I am glad to have the opportunity to outline to the House the improvements that have been made in primary class sizes by the Government. Since 1997, the Government has dramatically increased the number of teachers in primary schools. In that time more than 4,000 additional teachers, including nearly 2,500 resource teachers, have been employed....
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: The health promotion unit of my Department is committed to the promotion, protection and support ofbreastfeeding and has undertaken and supported a number of initiatives in this regard. A national committee on breastfeeding has been established and is currently in the final stages of developing a national strategic action plan on breastfeeding. This plan aims to create a supportive culture...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of the Act to...
- Written Answers — Task Force on Alcohol: Task Force on Alcohol (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: The Strategic Task Force on Alcohol was established in January 2002. Its remit is to provide specific evidence based measures to Government to prevent and reduce alcohol related harm. The task force published an interim report in May 2002 and a second report in September 2004. Together, the two reports provide approximately 100 evidenced based recommendations which aim to tackle alcohol...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: As the Deputy will be aware, the Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the number of public beds. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Food Dispensers: Food Dispensers (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: I have no current plans to ban soft drinks and snack food dispensers from State run health institutions. The report of the national task force on obesity is due for publication shortly and I await its recommendations.
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: As the Deputy may be aware there is a commitment in the national health strategy to provide 1,370 additional assessment and rehabilitation beds and 600 additional day hospital beds with facilities encompassing specialist areas such as falls, osteoporosis treatment, fracture prevention, Parkinson's disease, stroke prevention, heart failure and continence promotion clinics. In addition the...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: The policy of my Department on the care of older people is to maintain them in dignity and independence in their own home for as long as possible in accordance with their wishes, to restore to independence at home those older people who become ill or dependent, to encourage and support the care of older people in their own community by family, neighbours and voluntary bodies and to provide a...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: Moneys are made available each year, formerly through the health boards and now through the Health Service Executive, for the provision of services to women victims of violence. In recent years there has been a substantial increase in funding so that now over â¬12 million is provided annually for the provision of such services. The distribution of this funding is now a matter for the Health...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)
Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for drug treatment services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the northern area...