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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I will not take that long. My clear intention is to ensure we have a plan relating to recruitment and the upcoming budget. The Minister and I have been involved in those negotiations for the past number of weeks. Part of that planning will involve today's meeting. It is all about planning and ensuring we have timeframes. There was a timeframe last year, no matter what other opinions may...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I will answer the question as submitted. Psychologists employed by the health service play an integral role in the delivery of a wide range of psychological services. These include the following: working with children and their families who present with developmental, emotional or behavioural difficulties and others who have intellectual and physical disabilities; working with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Information and Quality Authority is the independent authority established under the Health Act 2007 to drive continuous improvement and to monitor safety and quality in Ireland’s health and personal social care services. With effect from 2009 nursing homes for older people have been registered and inspected by HIQA and during the course of this Government this function has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Irish and EU medicines legislation requires that any product which it is claimed treats a medical condition must be authorised as a medicinal product by the European Medicines Agency or the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) before being placed on the market. From the information available to me, the product referred to as Master Mineral Solution (MMS) or CD contains the substance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Irish and EU medicines legislation requires that any product which it is claimed treats a medical condition must be authorised as a medicinal product by the European Medicines Agency or the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) before being placed on the market. From the information available to me, the product referred to as Master Mineral Solution (MMS) or CD contains the substance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Child Care Education (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme, which is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, provides for a free pre-school year to eligible children in the year before they commence primary school. The objective of this scheme is to support early learning in a formal setting in advance of starting school. I understand that certain...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Mental Health Division of the HSE is committed to ensuring that all aspects of Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS) are delivered nationally in a consistent and timely fashion. A Vision for Change describes how services should be coordinated and integrated to meet the full range of social, psychological and physical care needs of children with mental health problems. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Programme for Government committed to putting National Standards for Residential Services for People with Disabilities on a statutory footing, to ensure that services could be inspected by HIQA. This commitment was fulfilled when two regulations, one relating to care and support and the second relating to registration issues, were approved and signed by the Minister for Health, with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The HSE Dublin North East (DNE) Orthodontic Service has been chosen as the pilot area for this new training programme. One member of the dental hygienist staff and one member of the dental nursing staff have commenced training in September 2014. In the course of training these students will work under the direct supervision of specialist orthodontists currently working in HSE units in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The HSE operates a national placement list for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme to enable it to operate within budget. All applicants who are approved for funding are put on the placement list in chronological order by the date of determination of their application. Funding issues to applicants in this chronological order to ensure equity nationally. Funding is released by the HSE on a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Mental Health Division of the HSE is committed to ensuring that all aspects of Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS) are delivered nationally in a consistent and timely fashion. A Vision for Change describes how services should be coordinated and integrated to meet the full range of social, psychological and physical care needs of children with mental health problems. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Professionally trained psychologists employed by the health service play an integral role in the delivery of a wide range of psychological services. These include: - working with children and their families who present with developmental, emotional or behavioural difficulties and others who have intellectual and physical disabilities; - working with adolescents with a wide range of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Mental Health Division of the HSE is committed to ensuring that all aspects of Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS) are delivered nationally in a consistent and timely fashion. A Vision for Change describes how services should be coordinated and integrated to meet the full range of social, psychological and physical care needs of children with mental health problems. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: My Department is reviewing the Misuse of Drugs Regulations with a view to introducing substantial additional controls on certain prescription drugs being traded illicitly, such as benzodiazepines and z-drugs medicines. The planned measures include introducing import and export controls, tighter prescribing and dispensing controls as well as an offence of possession, thereby assisting the law...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Charges Exemptions (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The water charges plan submitted by Irish Water, in line with the Commission for Energy Regulation’s (CER) requirements, reflects both metered charges and unmetered or “assessed” charges which are to be as close as possible a proxy for metered usage under normal consumption circumstances. The policy direction issued to the CER requires that special provision be made in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: In line with Government policy, the Health Service Executive provides a range of community-based services aimed at ensuring older people receive safe, timely and appropriate care and treatment at the lowest level of complexity, and as close to home as possible. The establishment of the HSE’s Social Care Division to support the ongoing service requirements of older people and people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Under the provisions of the Health Acts, medical cards are provided to persons who are, in the opinion of the Health Service Executive, unable without undue hardship to arrange GP services for themselves and their dependants. Under the legislation, medical card entitlement is not granted on the basis of a particular disease or illness. However, if an applicant’s means are above the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The 2012 agreement with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) provided for a mid-term review in 2014. As the outcome of this review is dependent on negotiations with IPHA further comment at this stage would not be appropriate.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (30 Sep 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products under the community drug schemes in accordance with the provisions of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. The HSE received an application for the inclusion of Fampridine (Fampyra®) in the GMS and community drugs schemes. The application...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (30 Sep 2014)

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...