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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The new eligibility rules for medical cards for persons aged over 70 years,announced in the Budget 2013, will take effect following the enactment of primary legislation. The implementation date will be announced and publicised in advance by the Department and HSE.As is the current situation, the revised thresholds will apply to gross income. It is intended that:- - persons aged 70 years and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 629 and 653 together. Water fluoridation and the use of appropriate fluorides is a major plank of public health policy in Ireland in the prevention and management of tooth decay. In 2002 the Forum on Fluoridation, which was established to review this policy, concluded that the fluoridation of public piped water supplies should continue as a public health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Experimentation (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: Regulation 9 of S.I. No. 870 of 2004 which prohibits the marketing of cosmetic products and ingredients that have been tested in animals has been in force for four years, since 11 March 2009, except for a derogation relating to three toxicity checks. On 11 March 2013, this derogation ends, and no further testing on animals of cosmetics or ingredients can take place. It has been the policy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Code (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: Tax policy is a matter for the Department of Finance and, therefore, the Department of Health has no role in making such determinations. However, the Department has already been in contact with the Department of Finance about this issue. The Department outlined to the Department of Finance the important role that physiotherapists play in primary healthcare and indicated support of measures...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (12 Mar 2013)

Alex White: Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975 specifying the conditions covered by the Long Term Illness Scheme. The Health Services (Amendment) gulations, 1971 (S.I. No. 277/1971) specified that Mental Illness in a person under 16 should be covered under the scheme.

Topical Issue Debate: Drug Treatment Programmes (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: In my letter to Mr. Sargent in January, I indicated my stance on the proposal. In so far as I understand the proposal, as it has been explained by the Deputy and as I have seen in the correspondence, I believe it has considerable merit on the face of it. However, I will not pre-empt any decision we might be in a position to make once a decision is made by the drugs task force. It is a...

Topical Issue Debate: Palliative Care for Children (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Deputy is perhaps being just a little unfair in his comments on the response. The report is very useful and important and I agree with the Deputy in that regard. I indicated to the House earlier that a number of the recommendations were already under consideration by the national development committee, which has undertaken to examine all the recommendations. The report was published...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug Treatment Programmes (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: I thank Deputy Broughan for raising the matter. On 7 January, my Department received an application from Howth Sutton Community Council for funding to establish a drug and alcohol prevention project in south-east Fingal, which would serve communities in Baldoyle, Bayside, Sutton and Howth. The council wishes to set up a project to address a gap in service provision that has arisen as a...

Topical Issue Debate: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Deputy will appreciate that I cannot really progress the matter any further than I have in the response I have given to the House. I am advised, as I indicated earlier, that the method of calculating FIS entitlement has not changed for either new or renewal claims. The Deputy has set out certain facts about a particular applicant's experience in this regard. Obviously, I cannot deal...

Topical Issue Debate: Palliative Care for Children (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: I thank Deputy Ó Fearghaíl for raising this issue. He has given a very good account of the issue and the background to this important matter. In 2010, the Department of Health published Palliative Care for Children with Life-limiting Conditions in Ireland - a National Policy, which provides the foundation and sets out clear direction for the development of an integrated...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The commitment of the Garda Commissioner and the Garda Síochána is to maintain operational effectiveness and resilience, but in order to do that, inevitably, as I am sure the Deputy would accept, the work must be prioritised and some difficulties have been made and remain to be made. The Minister, through me, wishes to assure the Deputy and the House that both he and the Garda...

Topical Issue Debate: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: I thank Deputy McCarthy for raising this issue which I will address on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton. Family income supplement is designed to provide income for employees on low earnings who have families. This preserves the incentive to remain in employment in circumstances where the employee might only be marginally better off than if he...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: On behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, I thank Deputy Fitzpatrick for raising this matter of significant public importance. Unfortunately, the Minister cannot be present to speak on this issue, as he is chairing a Justice and Home Affairs ministerial meeting in Brussels. He has asked me to address this issue on his behalf. The House will be aware that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: A review of the existing governance arrangements for incontinence wear supplies in Cavan and Monaghan is planned in order to identify any improvements in terms of service and supply of incontinence wear. The scope of the review will include community nursing continence assessments, order and approval processes, supply efficiencies, and overall data management of a patient management system...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Review (7 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.