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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Feb 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 — Health Services: Health Services (12 Feb 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 — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Feb 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 — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (12 Feb 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 (12 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: The two persons mentioned, my Special Advisers, were aware that the review of symptomatic breast radiology services at Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, covered patients who had ultrasounds as well as mammograms, since this was included in information provided to my Department by the HSE in relation to the decision to initiate the review and also because it was public information. The...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (12 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: Medical cards are made available to persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services. 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 do not qualify for a medical card, would not be deterred on cost...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (12 Feb 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 health care professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has also invested heavily in the education and training of such...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (12 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: No person has been dismissed from my Department since the introduction of the Civil Service Regulation Act 2005.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (12 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: The amounts paid to civil servants at my Department in each of the years 2002 to 2007 are set out in the following table: Year â'¬000 2002 690 2003 558 2004 640 2005 496 2006 496 2007 497

Written Answers — Qualifications Accreditation: Qualifications Accreditation (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: The Academy of Medical Laboratory Science is the competent authority for the implementation of Directive 92/51/EEC in relation to the recognition of professional qualifications in medical laboratory science. This Directive is now consolidated, with other Directives on the recognition of professional qualifications, into Directive 2005/36/EC for which my colleague the Minister for Education...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: My Department is advised by the Health Service Executive that the Hospital in the Home service referred to by the Deputy was set up as a pilot project in the Dublin region as one of a number of such initiatives to provide treatment and support to patients who would otherwise be hospitalised. The contract for the provision of these services, which is for one year, expires at the end of March...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I take it that the Deputy is referring to the interim improvements for patients with cystic fibrosis at the National Tertiary Adult Referral Centre at St. Vincent's University Hospital. My Department is informed by the Health Service Executive that the single rooms to be provided will have en-suite facilities.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 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...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (7 Feb 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 Cork and Galway 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 — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and regulations made thereunder regulate and control the import, export, production, supply and possession of a range of named narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances listed in the Schedules to the Act. Substances are scheduled under the Act in accordance with the Department's obligations under international conventions and/or where there is evidence that the...

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tabular statement: Month 2005 2006 2007 € € € January 15,263 16,761 18,904 February 16,827 16,985 16,665 March 14,186 16,743 15,415 April 15,163 13,351 13,343 May 13,039 15,674 14,624 June 13,655 14,302 14,193 July 12,697 13,622 14,859 August 11,687 12,037 13,952 September 12,149 13,103 14,532 October...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 98 and 99 together. 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...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to 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 — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (7 Feb 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 — Health Services: Health Services (7 Feb 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.