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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, he can contact my Private Office and they will follow the matter up with the HSE.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Intervention Teams (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 386 and 387 together. There are currently 11 Community Intervention Teams (CITs) in place in Dublin North, Dublin South, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Clare, Tipperary, Carlow/Kilkenny, Wicklow, Naas and Drogheda. The HSE published a call for Expressions of Interest for the Provision of Outpatient Pareneral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service (home IV...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Section 11 of the General Medical Services (GMS) General Practitioner (GP) Capitation Contract, which was introduced in 1989, provides that the medical practitioner shall provide for eligible persons, on behalf of the Health Service Executive, all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 396 and 397 together. The number of persons that were approved for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS) and the average time spent on the national placement list awaiting funding under the NHSS is set out below by each month for 2014: Month The Number of People on the National Placement List The Average Waiting Period on the National Placement List...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: The Irish National Dementia Strategy was published in December 2014. Its primary focus is to enable people with dementia to live well in their own homes and communities for as long as possible, and it sets out ways of achieving this. The Strategy is accompanied by a National Dementia Strategy Implementation Programme co-funded by the HSE and the Atlantic Philanthropies. It includes the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (17 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issue this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply. If you have not received a response within 15 working days, please contact my private office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: My opening statement is not very long. I am glad that the Chairman explained that the Minister hopes to be here later when I am sure he will be anxious to address the joint committee. I thank the committee for the invitation to attend. I am joined by officials from the Department, including Mr. Jim Breslin, Secretary General; Ms Treacy Conroy, assistant secretary - acute hospitals; Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I will try to be as brief and clear as possible. Deputy Kelleher mentioned the fair deal scheme, which I will deal with. Others will speak about the Portiuncula Hospital issue. Both the Deputy and I agree that orthopaedic treatment is a serious pressure point as it keeps people mobile etc. We must deal with it. We have managed to reduce the fair deal backlog with additional funding,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: A person may have both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: It is better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: We have much to do in the health sector, covering such a broad spectrum, so sometimes that type of detail is not communicated properly. I accept that fully. Somebody with a GP card and a long-term illness card is better off that somebody with a medical card because there are no prescription charges. There are facts, and it is not about me making stuff up, as Deputy Kelleher argued....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I will give a brief reply to the question on long-stay beds. I apologise to the Deputy but I should has answered his question. Although the matter is ringing alarm bells, it is something that we have known for some considerable time. The difference is that we do now know what we need. The difficulty is that we do not have the resources to supply it. For the first time ever we have a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Approximately 2,500 GPs are in the GMS system, which are the people we are dealing with right now. The barriers to entry to the GMS system have been removed substantially and more than 300 additional GPs have been recruited into the system in the past year. It is unclear how many people are represented by each organisation. The other difficulty is that we are at a very critical point in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: We should not do it anyway.