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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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...

Written Answers — Cancer Incidence: Cancer Incidence (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: Statistics in relation to cancer incidence are collated by the National Cancer Registry. My Department has asked the Director of the Registry to examine these matters and to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (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 Services: Hospital Services (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. 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 (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: Information in relation to the number of patients treated for the years 2003 to 2005 at Naas Hospital is set out in the following table: Year % Occupancy Inpatient Cases Day Cases A&E Attendances Outpatient Attendances 2003 94.5% 7,245 1,267 21,721 16,655 2004 104.1% 7,974 1,808 22,703 25,744 2005 102.4% 7,964 2,055 24,461 19,876 Source Activity: Integrated Management Returns (IMRs) to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 229 and 238 together. 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 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...

Written Answers — Health Care Associated Infections: Health Care Associated Infections (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: I would like to assure the Deputy that the monitoring and control of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs) is a priority for this Government and the HSE. A HCAI is an infection that someone may get after a stay in hospital or after receiving medical treatment. Such infections are most often linked to treatment in hospitals but can happen after treatment in outpatient clinics, nursing...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (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. 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 Service Staff: Health Service Staff (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. 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive National Service Plan (NSP) for 2008 has been approved by me and laid before the Oireachtas. It outlines the type and volume of health and personal services to be provided by the Executive in 2008 on the basis of the funding provided by Government. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: As Minister for Health & Children, I am politically accountable for developing and articulating Government policy on health and personal social services, and for the overall performance of the health service. My Department's mandate is to support me and the four Ministers of State by advising on policy development and implementation, evaluating the performance of existing policies and...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: Information on health and health service activity, including patient numbers, for the past decade has recently been published by my Department in the booklet, Health in Ireland, Key Trends, 2007. The following table summarises data from the booklet on patients treated in publicly funded acute hospitals for the ten year period 1997 to 2006 inclusive. Significant increases are evident and,...

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...

Departmental Expenditure. (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: Our democratic system means that, fundamentally, there is no public spending decision without a tax decision. The two cannot, and should not, be separated. That is why both expenditure Votes and taxes are set by the Oireachtas annually around the same time, and both have to be adhered to. The Oireachtas has voted a budget for the HSE for 2008 from resources provided by taxpayers....

Departmental Expenditure. (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy may not be aware but what happens in the Estimates bid from every Department, including when the health boards existed, was that those health boards would make their bid. The Minister for Health and Children engages in discussions with the Minister for Finance and a budget limit is agreed.

Departmental Expenditure. (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: I am explaining there is a finite amount of money which the Minister for Finance can allocate across Departments. The line Ministers discuss this with the Minister for Finance and this is how the budget is agreed for health, education or whatever it might be. The Deputy's colleague, Deputy Bruton, has been lecturing us about slicing off 2% for value for money initiatives across the public...

Departmental Expenditure. (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: As I informed the Deputy on a number of occasions and as I have repeated publicly, I have discussed this with the chairman and board of the HSE, which I addressed recently, and with the chief executive officer of the HSE. If there are people in one area in the health service who are superfluous to requirements while there are shortages in other areas, we must make decisions. A manpower...

Accident and Emergency Services. (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: A total of 184,159 people attended accident and emergency departments in January and February this year. Of these, one third, about 61,000, were admitted as inpatients. The vast majority of these patients were admitted without delay. The HSE reports daily at 2 p.m. on the numbers of remaining patients who have not been admitted immediately. The report cites the waiting times as being...

Accident and Emergency Services. (29 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: We have made significant progress and this has been acknowledged by every single group. I refer to the significant progress made in dealing with waiting times in accident and emergency departments. There has been a 60% improvement in the past three years. I remind the Deputy that up to then, waiting times were never measured and we had no target times whatsoever.