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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, 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 — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, 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 — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (17 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: All nursing staff, both Irish and non-Irish national, working in public hospitals and employed by the Public Health Service are paid in accordance with the official salary scales. Where nurses are, however, working under contract for private nursing employment agencies the rate of remuneration would be a matter between those nurses and the agencies involved. However, I understand that the...

Written Answers — Community Pharmacy Services: Community Pharmacy Services (17 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: I would point out that the Government and the Health Service Executive (HSE) recognise the Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) as the representative body for its members. I have previously outlined in detail to the House the legal provisions under Competition Law which prevent the HSE from negotiating with the IPU on fees, prices or margins for their members. When it became clear that the HSE...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (17 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 — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (17 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: I consider the findings of this review into an outbreak of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) at the Midwestern Regional Hospital, Ennis to be a serious matter and I would like to express my sympathy to any patient and/or family who has been affected by the outbreak. I would like to assure the Deputy that tackling all Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs), including C. difficile...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (17 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...

Death of Former President: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: Patrick Hillery was a modern Irish patriot. He was a man of substance, character and values who helped build a new Ireland in the latter part of the 20th century. His patriotism was the principled patriotism of non-violence and loyalty to the Constitution, a stance taken not on easy words and rhetoric but tested in the fire of integrity under pressure. His patriotism was also the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: The decisions of the Health Service Executive (HSE) to designate four managed cancer control networks and eight cancer centres, under the National Cancer Control Programme will be implemented on a managed and phased basis. The delivery of cancer services on a programmatic basis will serve to ensure equity of access to services and equality of patient outcome irrespective of geography. This...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 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 (10 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 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 (10 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 (10 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 79 and 80 together. On the 4th March, I asked the Board of the Health Services Executive to immediately adopt an interim serious incident management protocol which would incorporate key commitments to patients. I also asked the Board to engage closely with this issue through its Risk Management Committee until it is satisfied that serious incidents of this...

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (10 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81 and 82 together. The Post Budget gross provision (both current and capital expenditure) for the Health Services Executive for 2008 is € 14,931 million. When the provision for the Health (Repayments Scheme) Act is excluded the increase in 2008 is over € 1.1 billion or almost 9%. The HSE has received very substantial additional resources from the...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (10 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: The Department has been advised by the Health Service Executive (HSE) that it is progressing with the task of transferring past interest retained on invested Patient Private Property Accounts. A process to undertake this transfer, initially for the period 2005-2006, has been agreed and the HSE is now making final arrangements to commence repayments. The HSE is currently in discussion with...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Apr 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Apr 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...