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- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The 2008 consultants' contract includes new measures to strengthen the management, monitoring and control of public-private activity in hospitals with a view to ensuring that the level of consultant private practice within public hospitals does not exceed the permitted ratio. My Department has asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy on the detailed operational matters that he has raised.
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The Health Information and Quality Authority is an independent agency under the aegis of my Department and is funded from my Department's vote. Part 6 of the Health Act 2007 sets out the statutory basis for the corporate relationship between me as Minister for Health and Children and the Authority. The Act makes provision for my consideration of the Authority's three- year Corporate Plan,...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 41, 242 and 244 together. Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has 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...
- Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The HSE has advised my Department that it has provided funding to support two consultant immunology posts structured as follows: (a) Consultant Paediatric Immunologist with a special interest in Paediatric Allergy. The post will be deployed with 24 hours assigned to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, 10 hours assigned to AMNCH and 3 assigned to St James's Hospital. (b) Consultant Paediatrician...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: With regard to the number of chiropodists currently employed in the HSE per region, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The HSE has not issued a national directive to dentists working in the Public Dental Service that they are not to fill cavities in children's teeth. The Deputy may be referring to a clinical policy in Sligo/Leitrim for the past 15 years not to fill milk teeth unless there was clear evidence of an associated health benefit. In response to media reports in August, the Principal Dental Surgeon...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: A joint HSE/Department of Health and Children Task Force was established in February 2006 following the presentation of the report Children's Health First-International best practice in tertiary paediatric services: implications for the strategic organisation of tertiary paediatric services in Ireland to advise on the optimum location of the proposed new paediatric hospital. The Task Group...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 53 and 68 together. In their role as patient advocates for high quality safe surgical care and practice, the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland supported the decision of the Director of Quality and Clinical Care of the HSE to cease emergency acute surgical services at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, with effect from September 1st this year. Earlier this year,...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: My Department has written to the Health Service Executive setting out the overall approved employment control ceiling for 2010. As part of this approval, written confirmation has been provided to the HSE that the general moratorium on recruitment, promotion and the payment of acting up allowances does not apply to specific designated grades. Delegated sanction has been given to the HSE for...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The Government has made clear that a critical part of its strategy to restore the public finances is to achieve sustainability in the cost of delivering public services relative to State revenues. To help achieve this goal, it will be necessary to restructure and reorganise the public service and to reduce public service numbers over the coming years. This requires that the moratorium on...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The latest information from the HSE for July 2010 indicates that the total number of births nationally is marginally lower than the same period last year (-1%) and is showing a 1.8% decrease against expected levels for 2010. The HSE is putting arrangements in place to progress the recommendations of the HSE/KPMG review of Maternity Services in the Greater Dublin Area including service...
- Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The level of funding available for the health budget is being considered as part of the Estimates and budgetary process for 2011 which is currently underway. Deliberations by the Government on the expenditure allocations for next year are likely to continue up until Budget time and it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage pending the outcome of those deliberations....
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The second phase of the HPV vaccination programme began as scheduled in secondary schools on 16th of September. Data regarding vaccine uptake will be issued by the HSE directly to the Deputy as soon as it becomes available. There are two vaccines licensed in Ireland to prevent HPV infection. Cervarix was licensed in September 2006 and Gardasil was licensed in September 2007. Both, are...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: There were 470.91 whole time equivalents employed in my Department at the end of August 2010. Serving numbers are collated at the end of each month and the September 2010 figures are not yet available. The end August figure represents a reduction of 121 (20%) over the number employed at the end of December 2007. Staffing levels will need to be reduced by a further 20 whole time equivalents...
- Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: There are no plans to extend the list of eligible conditions covered by the Long Term Illness Scheme. Under the Drugs Payment Scheme no individual or family pays more than â¬120 per calendar month towards the cost of approved prescribed medicines. The scheme is easy to use and significantly reduces the cost burden for families and individuals incurring ongoing expenditure on medicines. In...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive, the Department of Social Protection and my Department are in discussions with the relevant unions to implement the Government decision to transfer the Community Welfare Service (CWS) from the Health Service Executive to the Department of Social Protection (DSP). Despite intensive engagements having commenced late last year, there was little progress made due to...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The Renewed Programme for Government re-affirms the Government's commitment to the hospital co-location programme. Preferred bidders have been selected for six co-located projects. The co-location programme is a complex public procurement process. It is a matter for each successful bidder to arrange its finance under the terms of the relevant Project Agreement. The co-location initiative,...