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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. The delivery of a sustainable community nursing service that effectively meets the health needs of the population within a primary care setting is the primary aim of the public health nursing service. Public health nurses in County Leitrim provide services across all care groups within the designated area and include universal, maternal, child...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I understand the issue raised by the Senator and will consider it. The key aspect of my reply is that the post only became vacant recently and arrangements are under way to recruit a replacement.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. The delivery of a sustainable community nursing service that effectively meets the health needs of the population within a primary care setting is the primary aim of the public health nursing service. Public health nurses in County Leitrim provide services across all care groups within the designated area and include universal, maternal, child...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I understand the issue raised by the Senator and will consider it. The key aspect of my reply is that the post only became vacant recently and arrangements are under way to recruit a replacement.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. The delivery of a sustainable community nursing service that effectively meets the health needs of the population within a primary care setting is the primary aim of the public health nursing service. Public health nurses in County Leitrim provide services across all care groups within the designated area and include universal, maternal, child...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I understand the issue raised by the Senator and will consider it. The key aspect of my reply is that the post only became vacant recently and arrangements are under way to recruit a replacement.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. The delivery of a sustainable community nursing service that effectively meets the health needs of the population within a primary care setting is the primary aim of the public health nursing service. Public health nurses in County Leitrim provide services across all care groups within the designated area and include universal, maternal, child...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I understand the issue raised by the Senator and will consider it. The key aspect of my reply is that the post only became vacant recently and arrangements are under way to recruit a replacement.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Care of the Elderly (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. Government policy is to support older people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. Where this is not feasible, the health service supports access to appropriate quality long-term residential care, including the provision of financial assistance under the nursing homes support scheme. In...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Care of the Elderly (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: There is no intention to insult anybody, be it the people of Donegal or the Senator. I am simply giving a response in straight, clear terms. The moratorium on recruitment must remain in place, regrettably, and everybody is aware of the reasons for it. If I can do anything else to assist the Senator regarding specific details of the issue he raised, I will do that. However, as regards the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Regulation (EC) 883/04 and Implementing Regulation 987/09 provide for the coordination of social security systems, including healthcare, within the EU/EEA and Switzerland, with the aim of ensuring the free movement of persons. This objective of the Regulation is to ensure that persons exercising their right to move and to stay freely within the EU/EEA and Switzerland do not suffer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Numbers (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the table. - Medical Cards CP Visit Cards 2013 1,873,015 128,180 2012 1,787,837 128,929 2011 1,656,276 121,065

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Long Term Illness (LTI) Scheme is a non-means tested scheme introduced in 1971. It provides free medicines and medical or surgical appliances to people with specified conditions. The LTI Scheme arose from a non-statutory scheme, established in 1967, for the free supply of certain products for the treatment of diabetes to persons who did not hold a medical card under the Health Act 1947....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Data from the HSE Primary Care Reimbursement Service Statistical Report for 2011 indicates that statins cost approximately €104 million (excluding dispensing fees and mark-up) across the Community Drugs Schemes (GMS, DPS and LTI) in 2011. This represents a 40% reduction from the corresponding figure of approximately €146 million in 2008 and reflects the ongoing impact of cost...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The following table shows the top ten drugs by total cost in the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme, the Drug Payment Scheme (DPS) and the Long Term Illness (LTI) Scheme (these data are provisional for 2012). Top Ten Drugs by Total Cost 2012 Scheme Order Name GMS 1 Atorvastatin 2 Clinical Nutritional Products 3 Pregabalin 4 Salmeterol and other drugs for obstructive airway...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: 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...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The general proposition in section 22(1) is that it is an offence to intentionally destroy unborn human life. The rationale for section 22(4) is that if there was any doubt arising from subsections (1) to (3), inclusive, it might undermine sections 7 to 9, inclusive - in other words take from them in some way. It was necessary to insert subsection (4) to ensure there could be no doubt that...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Sections 7 to 9, inclusive, provide for the only types of termination, if I may put it that way, which are protected from the blanket statement in section 22(1). If it is a procedure under sections (7), (8) or (9), inclusive, it is not covered by the blanket ban in section 22(1). In regard to Deputy McNamara's point, section 22(4) states: "For the avoidance of doubts it is hereby declared...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Alex White: It is bordering on the disingenuous to imagine we can have it both ways.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Alex White: At the end of a long two days on this controversial and contentious legislation, we have had a good discussion and no one has questioned anyone else’s motivations in any way. I appeal to people to accept that this legislation is within the provisions of the Constitution. I hope they do not think we could just reduce the tariff. Why would the Government decide, or the Attorney...