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Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The Press Office in my Department is part of the Communications function. The table below details the grades and salaries of the staff assigned to the Press Office. Grade Annual Salary € Special Adviser/Press Officer 119,399 + 12,000 fixed allowance Higher Executive Officer 56,510 Higher Executive Officer 52,310 Executive Officer 49,180 Executive Officer 46,636 Executive Officer...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: In total, 3 staff are employed in my Constituency Office. The table below details the grades and salaries of each. Grade Annual Salary € Personal Assistant 58,916 Clerical Officer 33,798 Clerical Officer 31,575 The Deputy should note that annual salary costs identified in the table above do not include Employer's PRSI or additional pension payments.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004. It is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: Under the Health Act 2004, the management and delivery of health and personal social services is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive. This includes operational responsibility for the establishment of Primary Care Teams. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matters raised by the Deputy investigated and to have a...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The value for money review of the Allocation and Utilisation of Funding in Acute Services in the Southern Hospitals Group, being undertaken by the Health Service Executive, is anticipated to be completed and submitted to Government by the autumn. Once this process is complete, the review will be published and made widely available. The implementation of recommendations arising from the...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The value for money review of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Long Stay Residential Care for Adults in Mental Health Services, being undertaken by the Health Service Executive, is due to be completed and submitted to Government by the end of December 2008. Once this process is complete, the review will be published and made widely available. The implementation of recommendations arising...

Written Answers — Health Service Publications: Health Service Publications (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The publication in question is produced by the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, my Department has requested the HSE to reply directly to the Deputy with the information requested.

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 224 and 225 together. Letterkenny General Hospital is one of a small number of hospitals with significant numbers of people waiting for twelve months or longer for surgical treatment. I recently indicated my strong support for the newly intensified work by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and the Health Service Executive (HSE) to increase the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 231, 232, 335 and 337 together. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to the development of a freely available and personalised national programme to provide for the prevention and early detection of illnesses for both men and women. The Programme intends that guidelines should be developed for the Personal Health Check based on best available...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 233 and 234 together. In recent years there have been significant improvements to the way in which people's eligibility for medical cards and GP visit cards is assessed. Since the beginning of 2005, the qualification guidelines have increased by a cumulative 29% (7.5% and 20% in January and October 2005 respectively). Assessment is now based on a person's...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The commitment in the Programme for Government that orthodontic treatment be referred to the National Treatment Purchase Fund is being examined in the context of the estimates for 2009.

Written Answers — Patients' Rights: Patients' Rights (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 237 to 239, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, I established a Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance in January last year. The overall objective of the Commission is to develop clear and practical recommendations to ensure the quality and safety of care for patients is paramount within the health care system. The Commission has...

Written Answers — Patients' Rights: Patients' Rights (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I established the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance in January 2007 to develop proposals for a health service wide system of governance based on corporate accountability for the safety and quality of all health services. One of its terms of reference is to specifically examine and make recommendations in relation to a statutory system of licensing for public and private...

Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 241 and 243 together. The Health Service Executive (HSE) reports that GP out-of-hours services dealt with some 830,000 calls in 2007 compared with 750,000 calls in 2006, which represents a growth of 11% over 12 months. The Executive also reports that 90% of the population is now covered by an out-of-hours GP service, compared to 80% in 2006. This growth was...

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 242, 244 and 245 together. The key objective of the Primary Care Strategy is to give people direct access to integrated multidisciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, home helps and others. Membership of primary care teams and networks are drawn from existing professional and other staff working in...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: A review of the General Medical Services Scheme and other publicly funded schemes involving general practitioners is being conducted by the Health Service Executive. The review will have regard to the relevant commitments in the Programme for Government.

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 248 to 250, inclusive, together. Under the Programme for Government, the Government is committed to providing an additional 1,500 public acute hospital beds. The co-location initiative aims to deliver approximately 1,000 of these beds for public patients through the development of private hospitals on public sites. The essential idea underlying the co-location...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Jul 2008)

Mary Harney: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has responsibility for the collation of national waiting list data for in-patient and day-case hospital treatment. In order to assist it with this function, the NTPF established an online national Patient Treatment Register, based on named patients, thus enabling it to write directly to qualifying patients with an offer of treatment. In...