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- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The roll out of a national cervical screening programme is the most efficient population approach to preventing and controlling cervical cancer. The National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) is planning to roll out such a programme on a national basis and is in the final stages of preparations. The service will be available free of charge to all eligible women in Ireland aged 25-60. A national...
- Written Answers — Tobacco Control: Tobacco Control (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 47 and 197 together. This report shows that the ease of access to tobacco products by persons under 18 years of age must be addressed. The Public Health (Tobacco) Acts 2002 and 2004 contain a number of key provisions, including a prohibition on all display and advertising of tobacco products in retail outlets and regulations for the sale of tobacco products...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Eligibility Review Team was established in my Department in 2005, to begin working on a new legislative framework to provide for clear statutory provisions on eligibility for health and personal social services. The aim is to produce a clear set of statutory provisions that ensure equity and transparency and to bring the system up to date with developments in service delivery and...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I issued a policy direction under section 10 of the Health Act 2004 to the Health Service Executive (HSE) on 14 July 2005 (amended on 18 April 2007) on the co-location of private hospitals on the sites of public hospitals. This initiative aims to make available approximately an additional 1,000 public acute hospital beds for public patients by transferring private activity, with some limited...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The 2008 post budget gross current expenditure allocation for the HSE, excluding the provision for the long-stay repayment scheme, is â¬14.2 billion. This represents an increase of 9% on the 2007 allocation and 8% on the 2007 outturn. The services to be provided by the HSE in 2008 are set out in the National Service Plan which I approved in November, 2007 and the Addendum to the Service...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The main source of employment data in the health services is the Health Service Executive's Health Services Personnel Census which is derived from payroll history in each agency. The census collects data on actual staffing level for each staff grade in each health agency at a given point in time. Up to and including 2002 the census was conducted annually. Since 2003 the census has been...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 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 — Drug Treatment Services: Drug Treatment Services (29 Apr 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. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has recently received the report of a consultancy firm, which it commissioned to carry out an independent study on a possible location for the new Regional Hospital. The study took account of various criteria including demographics, access, planning and development considerations and interdependencies. I received a briefing recently from the HSE and the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) currently makes â¬91 million available for its drugs services overall: this includes an additional â¬6 million which was allocated for key priorities in Budget 2007. The HSE's addiction services prioritise under 18s for whom there is no waiting list for methadone substitution. In addition, performance indicators in use in the HSE indicate that in mid-2007...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 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 issues raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I have had many discussions with the Health Service Executive regarding the Transformation Programme for the North East region. The Programme 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 overriding aim of the Programme, which I fully support, is the need to improve safety and achieve...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 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 — Patient Care: Patient Care (29 Apr 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 — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The report referred to by the Deputy has just been received by my Department and it is currently being examined and considered.
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (29 Apr 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 — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (29 Apr 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. As such it is for the HSE to determine priorities and decide how these funds are used to deliver the best and most efficient and safe public...
- Written Answers — Drug Treatment Services: Drug Treatment Services (29 Apr 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. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The roll out of a national cervical screening programme is the most efficient population approach to preventing and controlling cervical cancer. The National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) is planning to roll out such a programme on a national basis and is in the final stages of preparations. The service will be available free of charge to all eligible women in Ireland aged 25-60. A national...
- Written Answers — Patient Care: Patient Care (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I have been informed by the Health Service Executive that in response to recommendation number 15 of the Health Information and Quality Authority report referred to by the Deputy, the National Director of the National Hospitals Office in the HSE has been appointed and given responsibility for ensuring the development of an action plan for the remaining 14 recommendations. The action plan is...