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- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: The Transformation Programme for the North East region involves widespread and fundamental change and is designed to build a health system that is in line with the model of care emerging internationally. The international evidence indicates that this can be achieved by centralising acute and complex care so that clinical skill levels can be safeguarded through ensuring sufficient throughput...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: Legal advice which I obtained in 2004 strongly indicated that Female Genital Mutilation would constitute an offence under the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997. In September 2006, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in its concluding observations on Ireland's second periodic report urged Ireland to continue its efforts to end the practice of Female Genital...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: The Emergency Department Task Force Report was commissioned by the Health Service Executive and published in June 2007. The Report set out a series of recommendations for action to improve service delivery and included a particular emphasis on the introduction of waiting time targets for patients attending emergency departments. The report also described a range of initiatives which would...
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (5 Jun 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. The Executive, therefore, is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: I identified the need to improve services for persons with cystic fibrosis as a priority in the Estimates process over recent years. Since 2006, additional revenue funding of â¬6.78m has been allocated to the HSE to develop services for patients with cystic fibrosis. The HSE has advised that 44 additional staff dealing with cystic fibrosis have been appointed to date across a number of...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: I have previously made it clear that I want to see appropriate staffing structures in place throughout our public health service. This includes management structures and front line service delivery. My main aim in relation to management structures is to ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships in order to improve the overall governance and management of our...
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: The National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) has undertaken a scientific assessment of the public health value of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine following a request from my Department. NIAC and the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) agreed that this work needed to be complemented by a study of the cost effectiveness of the vaccine in the current Irish context. Accordingly,...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: The National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) will shortly implement a quality assured national population based screening programme, so that preventable deaths from cervical cancer among women can be avoided. The NCSS has announced a preferred bidder for the provision of laboratory testing services for the National Cervical Screening Programme. This is an important milestone which will...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 67 and 68 together. The Health Service Executive has commissioned a number of reviews of the configuration of acute hospital services including those referred to by the Deputies. In each case, the first priority is patient safety. The challenge in the years ahead will be to organise, manage and deliver high quality services that are focused in the first...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: A core function of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is to set standards on safety and quality of health services and to monitor enforcement of those standards in an open and transparent way. The Health Act 2007 currently gives HIQA strong powers in this area in relation to services provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and bodies funded by the HSE to provide...
- Written Answers — Departmental Advertising: Departmental Advertising (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 79 and 80 together. Policies in the health sector are implemented by a range of bodies, each of which carries out its functions in accordance with the relevant statutory provision and has its own governance arrangements covering operational policy, management, administration, service delivery and accountability. My Department does not routinely collect such...
- Written Answers — Departmental Advertising: Departmental Advertising (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is currently being collated within my Department and will be forwarded as soon as it becomes available.
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (5 Jun 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. The Executive is also responsible for the supply of drugs and medicines for the GMS and community drugs schemes. Therefore the Executive is the...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has responsibility for administering the Health Repayment Scheme in conjunction with the appointed scheme administrator KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald. The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provides a clear legal framework to repay recoverable health charges for publicly funded long term residential care including contract beds in private homes. Recoverable health...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: My Department has made inquiries with the National Treatment Purchase Fund and has established that the Fund has no record of the person in question. The management of waiting lists generally is a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE) in accordance with its operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services. Therefore, the HSE is the...
- Written Answers — State Property: State Property (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: Requirements in relation to the disposal of assets by the state bodies, including the HSE are set out in the provisions of Part 5 of the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies (2001). In addition, the Board of the HSE has put in place a set of guidelines titled "Protocol for the Acquisition and Disposal of Property" which are consistent with and meet the requirements of Part 5...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Jun 2008)
Mary Harney: My Department has been in touch with the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the HSE and has been advised that the information requested will be furnished shortly.