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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (2 Mar 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 Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Mar 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: Speech and Language Therapy (2 Mar 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: Occupational Therapy (2 Mar 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: Medical Card Applications (2 Mar 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 Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Mar 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 Consultant Recruitment (2 Mar 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: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The LTI Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). The conditions covered by the LTI are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular dystrophies; diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy; phenylketonuria; haemophilia; spina bifida;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Mar 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products Supply (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. In reaching its decision, the HSE examines all the evidence which may be relevant in its view for the decision (including the information /dossier submitted by the Company) and will take...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 247 and 248 together. I wish to thank the Deputy for the matter raised. Given that this is an operational matter, it is appropriate that it should be dealt with by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). I have referred the Deputy's question to the NMBI for attention and direct reply within 10 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 to 252, inclusive, 254 to 256, inclusive, and 259 to 261, inclusive, together. The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). NIAC is a committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland comprising of experts in a number of specialties including infectious diseases, paediatrics and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: My Department has contacted the HSE who have confirmed that as the Gardasil vaccine has been approved for use in the European Union by the European Medicines Agency there is no requirement for indemnity.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: This question refers to a paper published in an academic journal. All relevant information is taken into account by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: In Ireland, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the statutory regulatory authority for medicines in Ireland. The HPRA and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Europe continually monitor adverse events to vaccination. Gardasil is the HPV vaccine used in the HSE schools immunisation programme its safety profile has been continuously monitored since it was first authorised....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I am not familiar with the website referenced or its content.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I understand the question refers to a report released by the United States Forest Service which is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. Other than the Deputy's question, it has not been drawn to my attention, but my Department will now consider whether any further examination of this matter is required.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process RIA (2 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 264 and 265 together. Bills published between 2011 and 2016 are shown in the following table. Bills published between 2011 and 2016 Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011 Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011 Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 Clotting Factor...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I recognise Deputy MacSharry's genuine interest in this matter, but I would recommend that it is best that Deputies in his company are not passing on messages from Vertex. His interests are the same as mine in making the drug available.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The full and final offer that Vertex put on the table a number of months ago is now a hell of a lot better as a result of the efforts undertaken by the HSE and the people who have the legal power to negotiate. I am going to do something that the House has never done before, namely, make sure that whoever is the Minister for Health in the future does not find himself or herself sitting around...