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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that have been cancelled or postponed by public hospital in 2015 to date in tabular form. [44617/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that have been cancelled or postponed by voluntary hospital in 2015 to date in tabular form. [44618/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures procured from and the amount spent on these procedures in private and independent hospitals by the Health Service Executive by hospital and payment in 2015 to date in tabular form. [44619/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health care professionals working in primary care as of 1 December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44620/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to each agency staff provider by the Health Service Executive in 2015 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44621/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in prescription charges for medical card prescriptions in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and the projection for 2015. [44622/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who sought drug treatment and rehabilitation services by county or local health area for each of the past five years and in 2015 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter [44623/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who accessed drug treatment and rehabilitation services by county or local health area for each of the past five years and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44624/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (10 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for drug prevention, treatment and rehabilitation projects in each of the past five years; the projected budget for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44625/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Data (9 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 118. To ask the Minister for Health the names, status and expected opening dates of the primary care centre projects announced in 2012, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44306/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (9 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 119. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of adjusting medical card thresholds to take account of the minimum wage increase on 1 January 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44307/15]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the Minister. We are in the invidious position of short timescales for advancement of information and looking at the principle of Supplementary Estimates in the no-change policy areas. We accept there have to be Supplementary Estimates. However, year in and year out we have notifications of a Supplementary Estimate, knowing well in advance that there has to be a requirement for a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I will elaborate on the point raised by the Chairman. It is a section 38 so it is really just the facilitator of paying the lump sum. One wonders if it is an effort by the HSE to roll the lump sum into 2016. It would not surprise me at all that these old tricks happen from time to time. I do not know whether that is the case or not but I would be very concerned if individuals who have...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I do not know any Secretary General in a Department who waits six months for their lump sum. I have checked it out and unless I am misreading it that has not happened in the Department of Health in recent times and certainly not in most other Departments. It is extraordinary that, with a provision of €52 million, the Department cannot pay out lump sums which are due to people. I...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I am referring to senior levels of the health service, rather than all levels across the service. Perhaps a longer period of notice could be required of those who advance into senior management and clinical roles in the health service. When a large number of senior staff walk out the door in one fell swoop it causes immediate problems.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The HIQA inspections of long-term residential care have been extended to 2021. Some disability service providers have been told by the HSE that they cannot incur costs they would be obligated to incur in order to comply with HIQA. They are running a service that is deficient in terms of HIQA standards, yet the HSE is telling them to ignore the HIQA recommendations if they would incur...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I accept that a body cannot go spending money in advance of getting approval but the HSE ignoring requests for funding that is required for an organisation to comply with HIQA regulations is, in effect, telling that body to ignore HIQA standards.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I have to raise an issue relating to the Primary Care Reimbursement Service that I was going to raise at the end. The provisions and anticipated costs for the roll-out of free GP care in the coming year are outlined in the documentation we have been given. This is really an issue of access to health care, which has been narrowly defined by the Minister as access to GPs. Of course, there is...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: They are not drawing the medical card then.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Yes.