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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Accommodation (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: 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: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: The Long Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act, 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975 specifying the conditions covered by the LTI Scheme, which are as follows: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, this question 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: Primary Care Centres Provision (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, this question 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 Equipment (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: I am advised that Galway University Hospitals have been taking a range of actions to address the diagnostic waiting lists at the hospitals. The hospitals have introduced an extended MRI working day. The service performs 12 additional MRIs on patients each week to clear those patients waiting longest. An MRI out of hour’s service commenced in April and is now working well. Also a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Correspondence (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: The Department does not collect data in a manner that would allow the Deputy's question to be fully answered. However, during the period in question a total of 6,627 representations to the Minister for Health were received in the Department, including from members of the Oireachtas. In the same period, 5,213 representations were finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If the Deputy has 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 (8 Jun 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: Mobility Allowance (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: Conscious of the reports of the Ombudsman regarding the legal status of both the Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Schemes in the context of the Equal Status Acts, the Government decided to close both schemes. Both schemes remain closed. However, the Government also decided that monthly payments will continue to be made by the Health Service Executive to 4,700 people who were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: With regard to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to him directly. If he has 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: Ambulance Service Data (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: With regard to the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If he has 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: Health Services Data (8 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: 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.

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: I also fully support the public health service and want to see investment in it, and I want to see the committee we set up yesterday devise a vision, a plan and funding costs for how to get the service to the place we all want it to be over the next decade.

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: I also recognise the NTPF as a useful vehicle at a time when there are people at home who could be watching our questions session today and who are in need of an operation, where perhaps the capacity does not currently exist within the public health service.

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: While we will disagree on the extent of that, it is very much my position and that of the Government. With regard to the €50 million, €51 million was provided in 2015 and the Deputy is correct in regard to the ministerial briefing. Some of that funding has spilled over into 2016 in terms of pay. The €50 million referred to in the programme for Government is not...

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: I expect that €50 million of the health budget next year will be allocated to waiting list initiatives. As I said, I will be looking at how best to outline that. I will provide the Deputy with some of the figures later.

Other Questions: Hospital Services (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: It is a breakdown of the 65 posts. I will send that to the Deputy.

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: In January 2015, my predecessor introduced maximum permissible waiting times for inpatient and day case treatment and outpatient appointments of 18 months by 30 June and 15 months by year end. As the House will know, additional funding of €51 million was approved in 2015 to maximise capacity across public and voluntary hospitals as well as outsourcing activity where capacity was not...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: This is my first outing here, so I do not want to disappoint the Deputy at this early stage of our exchanges. The Deputy will know the figure within the next fortnight. In fact, she will know when I know. Obviously, we have to look at what did and did not work last year and what we did not look at last year that we should look at this year. That is the message I delivered to the emergency...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (2 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Fleming for this question. I am committed to securing and further developing the role of the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise as a constituent hospital within the Dublin midlands hospital group. Patient safety and outcomes must come first. As Deputy Fleming knows, a number of reports on the hospital in Portlaoise have been published in recent years. These reports...