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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 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 National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: The actuaries to the Clinical Indemnity Scheme provide annual actuarial estimates/predictions of the likely cost of the Scheme for the following year(s). The actuarial estimates/predictions do not separately break out the estimated/predicted costs of maternity cases as a subset of total costs, but rather, they refer to the overall estimated/predicted cost of the Scheme, to include all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (8 Feb 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: Advanced Healthcare Directives (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy will be aware, I have established a multidisciplinary Working Group to assist in the development and preparation of the Code of Practice for the advance healthcare directive (AHD) provisions of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. The role of the Working Group is to prepare a detailed series of recommendations for the Director of the Decision Support Service, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: Reducing waiting times for the longest waiting patients is one of this Government's key priorities. Consequently, Budget 2017 allocated €20 million to the NTPF, rising to €55 million in 2018. In December 2016, I granted approval to the NTPF to dedicate €5m to a daycase waiting list initiative with the aim of ensuring that no patient will be waiting more than 18...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: Work on scoping the parameters of the legislation which will provide for an opt-out system of consent for organ donation, is currently being undertaken in my Department. This is a priority for me in 2017 and this work will be progressed as quickly as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: The Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 provides for the determination of complaints relating to the fitness to practice of practitioners qualified to register and to use the titles of the professions designated under the Act. The Health and Social Care Professionals Council, the registration boards for the professions which it oversees and the various disciplinary committees are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (8 Feb 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 (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: I am advised by the Health Service Executive that the specific factors involved in determining priority for patients on an organ transplant waiting list is a clinical decision made by the transplant clinicians in each of the national transplant centres. Allocation policies for kidney, heart, lung and liver are available on the website of HSE's Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (8 Feb 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (8 Feb 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: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: The NTPF publishes waiting list data by speciality and hospital each month. This data can be viewed on its website at NTPF.ie.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (8 Feb 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: Health Services Provision (8 Feb 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: Hospital Staff Recruitment (8 Feb 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: Community Care Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products (8 Feb 2017)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commissions of Inquiry (8 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: There are no Commissions of Investigation under the terms of the Commission of Investigation Act, 2004 or formal investigations or inquiries being conducted in the Department. In the main, bodies such as the Health Service Executive or the Health Information and Quality Authority carry out investigations or inquiries into health related issues.