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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jul 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. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 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: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 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. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 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: Orthodontic Services (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: As the specific issues raised are a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I have no plans to publish guidelines on the integration of complementary and traditional medicines. The Deputy may be interested to note that under medicines legislation a medicine must be authorised either nationally by the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) or centrally by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) before being placed on the market. Traditional herbal medicines must...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I met with members of the Sarcoma Action Group last Wednesday and discussed sarcoma services with them. The recruitment of a consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma, based in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, will be prioritised to facilitate further development of the service there. The Director General of the HSE has directed that work on the open...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Laboratory Facilities (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 199 and 200 together. There is no independent plan to move the orthodontic unit at University Hospital Waterford. The Deputy will be aware that in accordance with the Programme for a Partnership Government, an independent clinical review of the need for a second cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford is underway and is expected to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 201 to 205, inclusive, together. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: The Dublin Dental Hospital is governed by a Board, established by Statutory Instrument (S.I. No. 129 of 1963) under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act 1961. The Hospital advises that it continues to provide primary care to persons under 16 years of age.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 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 Care Policy (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: The Department of Health engages with a range of international fora on an ongoing basis. The purpose of this engagement is to promote and protect Ireland’s interests on health policy and related matters, and to benefit from the expertise and best practice available internationally. All invitations to attend events abroad are given careful consideration, taking into account competing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (13 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I have asked that the HSE respond to you directly on the aspect of the question that relates to their public sector employees. In relation to Non-Commercial State Agencies under the remit of the Department, this information is being sought and will be forwarded to the Deputy when collated.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Barry for his question. Voluntary and non-statutory service providers, including religious orders, have a long history of providing health and personal social services in Ireland and of receiving State funding to provide such services. I would like to acknowledge the significant contribution of all such providers to the delivery of these essential services. I remarked...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: As I said very clearly already, my responsibility as Minister for Health is to make sure that we are delivering the services that the Irish public require in terms of their health and well-being. My responsibility is to ensure that the funding this House approves for me to expend on the health service is disbursed by the HSE, either spent by it or disbursed to voluntary organisations, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I will have a look at the information the Deputy has made available to me and I will revert to him directly on it. I recently met people involved in the Termination for Medical Reasons, TFMR, group, and we had a discussion on a number of issues regarding ensuring consistency in terms of access, particularly to bereavement counselling and procedures. I have undertaken in regard to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: The Deputy will understand if I do not get into a turf war either. His leader probably would not appreciate my becoming involved in a Cork v. Kerry spat. The Deputy's point is very serious about ensuring equity of access to the health service. The idea of the hospital group structure is not to look at the local hospital or county but to take a geographically wider view. This is why the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Harris: I will do as the Deputy has asked and have the change in waiting times examined. I have had a very open conversation with the NTPF. Its terms of reference are broad. It exists to carry out specific tasks as are assigned to it by the Minister for Health of the day. I have asked that we have a conversation about other areas where it considers it could make a difference. The optimal...