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- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 218 and 220 together. Over 130,000 people work full-time or part-time in our public health services. In recent years, the Government's ongoing high level of investment in health has achieved and maintained significant increases in the number of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has also...
- Written Answers — Health Service Procurement Procedures: Health Service Procurement Procedures (11 Mar 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. Therefore the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested that the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive investigate the matter and issue a...
- Written Answers — Health Service Procurement Procedures: Health Service Procurement Procedures (11 Mar 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. Therefore the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested that the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive investigate the matter and issue a...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: BreastCheck commenced roll-out in the Western Region last May and in the Southern region last October. I officially opened the BreastCheck clinical static units in Galway and Cork last December. The expert advice from BreastCheck and from the National Cancer Forum, as contained in the National Strategy for Cancer Control, is that following the national extension of the programme, the upper...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225 and 226 together. The Primary Care Strategy aims to increase health service capacity through the development of services in the community to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, home helps, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others. It has been estimated that up to 95% of people's...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Mar 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 — Health Services: Health Services (11 Mar 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. As the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 Mar 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Organ Donation: Organ Donation (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: Two systems that can be used to ascertain an individual's wishes on organ donation are the opt-in system and the opt-out system. The former system (which operates in this country) requires the specific consent of the donor or, where he or she is deceased, their relatives, before organs or tissues are removed. The opt-out system presumes that all deceased persons consent to donation unless...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 and 237 to 240, inclusive, together. Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of the Annual Service Plan for the...
- Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: Consultation fees charged to private patients by general practitioners are a matter of private contract between the two parties, the doctor as the service provider and the patient as the user. I have no role in relation to such fees. General Practitioners who hold General Medical Services (GMS) contracts with the Health Service Executive (HSE) must not seek or accept money from medical card...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: As part of the Budget 2008 measures, the provision of â¬12 million in 2008 ( â¬30 million in a full year) was secured for use by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in its Vote 40, for the encouragement and support of individuals and agencies to foster innovative projects to meet particular problems or bottlenecks in the system. The assessment system would be weighted in favour of...
- Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (11 Mar 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 Services: Hospital Services (11 Mar 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 (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: Statutory responsibility for the collation, management and publication of data on waiting times and numbers of persons waiting for surgical procedures rests with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). My Department has, therefore, asked the Chief Executive of the NTPF to reply directly to the Deputy in relation to the information requested. The management of waiting lists for...
- Written Answers — Community Pharmacy Services: Community Pharmacy Services (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 248 to 250, inclusive, together. I would like to reiterate that there are no changes planned to the operation of the GMS and community drugs schemes. The HSE has put a comprehensive contingency plan in place at local level in the event of the withdrawal of service by community pharmacists, including information notices in newspapers and an information...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: Between 2005 and 2007 the Department of Health and Children held two training courses on stress management. A total of 13 officers attended these sessions. The Department has a number of strategies in place that assists and supports staff in managing and reducing stress. Such strategies include: effective personal and management development; skills training (including the provision of...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: The HSE has been conducting a review of the Mid West Hospital Group in order to ascertain the optimum configuration of acute hospital services for the Mid West and to bring forward recommendations on strategies to secure a sustainable configuration of services in the Mid West in the long term. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: My Department has been informed by the Health Service Executive that a reply dated 31 January 2008 issued to the Deputy in response to PQ 464 of 31 January 2008. As the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have a further reply issued directly to...