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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Nov 2016)

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 (9 Nov 2016)

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: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: I have been advised by the HSE that neither University Hospital Waterford nor the South/South West Hospital Group have changed their risk ratings in relation to out of hours access to interventional cardiology services in the six months prior to 19 September 2016. However, as the management of the South/South West Hospital Group risk register is an operational matter, I have asked the HSE to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (9 Nov 2016)

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: Accident and Emergency Departments (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Nov 2016)

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: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to her.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The current consultant contract which was negotiated in 2008 provides for the regulation of private practice and includes mechanisms for ensuring compliance by consultants with the permitted ratio of public to private practice. Section 20 of the Consultant Contract 2008 provides for the regulation of private practice and the mechanisms for ensuring compliance with the 80:20 ratio of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Insurance companies operate as commercial providers and make their own decisions about the price of their health insurance plans. The cost of private health insurance is influenced by a number of factors such as the number of persons in the market, the age profile of those holding private health insurance and ongoing medical innovations. Each of these are contributors to the cost of care,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The Committee on the Future of Healthcare was established in June this year and has been specifically tasked with examining and costing different funding models for the health service and to make recommendations on a funding approach that is best suited to the Irish context. The committee will present its final report to the Dáil by 23 January 2017. In relation to private health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Nov 2016)

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: Respite Care Services Provision (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: Long stay charges for in-patient services - which may include in-patient respite care - apply to the further provision of in-patient services, other than acute services and nursing home services in public nursing homes supported under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Fair Deal), to persons who have already received at least 30 days of in-patient services during the immediately preceding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Nov 2016)

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: Departmental Records (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: My Department has no contingent assets. Also, no contingent assets were reported by statutory agencies under the aegis of my Department in their most recently audited annual financial statements.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (9 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The Programme for a Partnership Government committed to the establishment of an Oireachtas All-Party committee to develop a long term vision for healthcare and direction of health policy over a 10 year period, with cross party support. The Committee on the Future of Healthcare was established in June this year and has been specifically tasked with examining and costing different funding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 290 and 291 together. The starting salary for staff nurses and midwives as and from 1 January 2010 was €30,234, for mental health staff nurses the starting salary as and from 1 January 2010 was €30,937. The corresponding salaries as and from 1 November 2016 are €27,483 and €28,122. This reflects the 10% reduced new entrant scales...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Data (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. Funding in 2016 amounts to €3.286m. The closing date for receipt of applications for 2016 was the 6th May.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Nov 2016)

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 Staff (8 Nov 2016)

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: Patient Data (8 Nov 2016)

Simon Harris: The Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934, required maternity homes to maintain certain birth records. These records were kept at the home. Given the passage of time, I am not sure if all records relating to the private maternity home in question still exist. I am, however, aware that some historic maternity records are held by the National Archives. Accordingly, it might be worth...