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- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I have identified the enhancement of services to persons with cystic fibrosis as a key priority over recent years. Additional revenue funding of â¬6.78m has been allocated to the Health Service Executive since 2006 to facilitate the recruitment of specialist staff in this area. The detailed application of this funding across the various hospital networks is a matter for the Executive. My...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I have identified the enhancement of services to persons with cystic fibrosis as a key priority over recent years. Additional revenue funding of â¬6.78m has been allocated to the Health Service Executive since 2006 to facilitate the recruitment of specialist staff in this area. The detailed application of this funding across the various hospital networks is a matter for the Executive. The...
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (5 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. The Executive is also responsible for the supply of drugs and medicines for the GMS and community drugs schemes. Therefore, the Executive is...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 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 — Health Services: Health Services (5 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 — Cystic Fibrosis Incidence: Cystic Fibrosis Incidence (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 and 235 together. The information sought by the Deputies is not routinely collected by my Department. An independent registry for cystic fibrosis, which is funded by the Health Service Executive, has been established. As yet, the data is not available to fully inform analysis relating to persons with cystic fibrosis, including median survival, in this...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 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 issues raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: The decisions of the Health Service Executive (HSE) in relation to the designation of four managed cancer control networks and eight cancer centres will be implemented on a managed and phased basis. The HSE has designated Beaumont Hospital and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital as the two cancer centres in the Managed Cancer Control Network for HSE Dublin North East, which includes County...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 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 (5 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 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 — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: 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 healthcare professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has also invested heavily in the education and training of such...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: 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 its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The Executive is...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: 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 its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The Executive is...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: The Comhairle na nOspidéal Report on Neurosurgery, (2006) recommended that the future development of safe, high quality neurosurgical services in Ireland would be best served by increasing capacity in Dublin and Cork and by improving access to neurosurgical units, including improved transport and telemedicine facilities for referring hospitals. The Report identified a need for additional...
- Written Answers — HIV Infection: HIV Infection (5 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 (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: There is no statutory obligation on the Health Service Executive (HSE) to provide community physiotherapy services but arrangements have been made in some regions to provide such services. Before the establishment of the HSE, the nature of any arrangements for community physiotherapy services and the level of service provided were a matter for individual health boards. As a result,...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: My Department is advised that the Health Service Executive has recently issued an interim response regarding this case and will be issuing a full response on receipt of additional information requested.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Mar 2008)
Mary Harney: I am conscious of the complex range of social and environmental circumstances which affect Fettercairn and a number of other disadvantaged urban areas around the country. The health services have a key role to play in working with communities and a range of other statutory and non-statutory interests to ensure a co-ordinated and integrated response in such areas. I am also aware of the...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 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, including the payment of travel allowances to eligible personnel, has been provided as part of its overall vote. The Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issues...