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Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive's capital plan currently covers the five year period 2010 - 2014. The Executive has published on its website details of the projects which it intends to deliver within this plan. The management and delivery of the health capital programme is a service matter for the Health Service Executive and the question has therefore been referred to the Executive for an...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: Correspondence from the person referred to by the Deputy has been received in my office. The HSE has advised my Department that the individual in question has now undergone surgery and also that the Clinical Director at Galway University Hospitals has responded directly to this individual in relation to the concerns raised.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: The matter raised by the Deputy is one for the HSE in the first instance. My Department has therefore asked the Executive to examine the case and to respond directly to the Deputy in the matter.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 285 and 291 together. It is widely accepted that the way to provide the best possible paediatric tertiary care most effectively is to provide a single national paediatric hospital alongside a major teaching hospital, bringing together all the medical and nursing expertise for complex conditions. Services at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, National...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: With regard to the provision of chiropody services, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: A total of five new exchequer funded agencies have been established by my Department during the years in question. The annual expenditure by these agencies is set out in the table below. A sixth agency, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland was established on a statutory basis in 2007 and is self-funded. Agency 2010 est 2009 2008 2007 Health Information & Quality Authority 14,757,000...

Written Answers — State Companies: State Companies (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: No new state-owned companies have been established or come under the aegis of my Department since 2007.

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I appointed the former High Court Judge, Mr. TC Smyth SC, to examine whether a further investigation into the case of Michael Shine, former Consultant at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda would be of benefit. I met with the patient support group referred to on Wednesday 13th October last. I explained that Judge Smyth's report has concluded that there is no basis for a further...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: Regulation (EC) 883/04 provides, inter alia, that people who are insured with or covered by the health care system of one member state may access health care in the public system of another member state in certain circumstances. Article 20 of the Regulation governs the referral of patients for public health services to another member state. In accordance with this article, a person eligible...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: From September to 14th October of this Dail term 761 PQs have received by my Department. 485 of these (64%) have been referred to the HSE for direct reply. PQs referred to the HSE relate to operational issues, a large number of which concern individual cases. The operation of the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the HSE (PAD) allows for the centralised receipt, assignment and tracking of...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: Under the Long Term Illness Scheme, the HSE provides patients with medicines and appliances for the treatment of their disease or disability. It does not cover the cost of GP visits. Medical card holders do not have to pay for GP visits. With effect from the 1 October, medical card holders are required to pay a 50c charge for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I understand the HSE issued a response to the Deputy on the 15th July 2010 in this matter.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: My Department does not have a formal e-working policy in place at present. However, IT supports (such as laptops, remote log-on, mobile phones etc) are available to staff when remote access is required. This has been used to good effect over the past number of years including informal arrangements whereby a staff member and their manager agree that a particular specific item of work could...