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Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The provision of the appropriate infrastructure to facilitate the delivery of primary care services is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive. My Department has again requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matters raised by the Deputy investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy as a matter of urgency.

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive is overseeing the implementation of the recommendations of the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry Report as it relates to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy on the implementation of the recommendations in the Report in...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has responsibility for administering the health repayment scheme in conjunction with the appointed scheme administrator K.P.M.G. and 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....

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office is an independent office established to provide an appeals service to those who wish to appeal the decision of the Scheme Administrator under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. Following the establishment of the appeals office a temporary appeals officer was seconded from the Chief State Solicitor's Office. Subsequently, a recruitment process...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: Persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services qualify for a medical card, which entitles them to a range of health services free of charge. In 2005, the GP visit card was introduced as a graduated benefit so that people on moderate and lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who did not...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (20 May 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 (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: There has been a growing demand for, and investment in, speech and language therapy services over the last number of years. A particular priority for this Department and the Department of Education and Science in recent years has been the expansion of the supply of therapy graduates. In this regard, training places for speech and language therapists have increased by 320% since 1997 (from...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 May 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 — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (20 May 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: Guidelines issued by the Department of Finance specify that the number of staff in a Minister's and a Minister of State's Constituency Office may not exceed 6 and 5 respectively the number of staff in a Minister's and a Minister of State's Private Office may not exceed 10 and 7 respectively and where a Minister of State is assigned to more than one Department, the total number of staff...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: ——to get the best possible care. I wish to deal with the question of Galway coping with the numbers. Galway currently has six beds for breast surgery and it will probably have to increase that to eight to provide services for the rest of the region. That is what we are talking about. Deputy O'Sullivan constantly asks me about resources. When Professor Keane was asked to take over the...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "—strongly supports the National Cancer Control Programme which aims to ensure that all patients have the best possible outcome from their diagnosis and treatment, regardless of where they live; notes that the programme was developed on the basis of extensive international evidence which shows...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The second evidence is domestic evidence in Ireland. The National Cancer Registry of Ireland, a new organisation established in the early 1990s, has produced two reports on breast cancer, one for the period 1994 -97 and one for the period 1998-2001. Those two reports show that women treated in specialist centres in Dublin have a survival rate that is 25% better than women treated elsewhere...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: There is more analysis coming from the National Cancer Registry of Ireland in the autumn. I understand it is currently collating its report. The advice available to me is that the pattern will continue. Either we can ignore that or we can do something about it. I believe this debate is about the truth. If we are sick and go to our doctor we want the right diagnosis and a good prognosis...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I have been asked about satellite centres in places like Letterkenny. The reason for the advice to create a satellite centre in Letterkenny is that we are conscious that Donegal is the most peripheral part of Ireland. If it was not for the political divide on the island we know what the obvious solution would be. We have been in discussion with the authorities in Northern Ireland on...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: In 2006 — sorry, it is 2007, 30 women from Mayo out of total of 70 had their treatment in Galway or Dublin. Of those, 27 went to Galway and three patients went to Dublin.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: In 2006, 57 surgical procedures were carried out in Sligo. A total of 44 patients from Sligo got breast cancer, 21 patients from Leitrim got breast cancer and 65 patients from Donegal got breast cancer. Those are the data on which we depend. It is not a debate about numbers; it is a debate about quality.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I agree with Deputy Reilly that the ESRI depends on the information given by hospitals. The information I am outlining was given by the hospital last year and the previous year.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: There is a difference between those who have a biopsy and those who have chemotherapy.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Mary Harney: We are talking about women who had mastectomies or lumpectomies, who had surgical procedures. We are not talking about women who had their surgery in one year and their chemotherapy in another year.