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Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The Board of the Health Service Executive approved preferred bidders for the following six co-located hospital sites at its July meeting: Waterford Regional Hospital; Cork University Hospital; Limerick Regional Hospital; Sligo General Hospital; Beaumont Hospital; St. James's Hospital. Since then the hospitals and the preferred bidders have been working towards finalising the Project...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for paramedics and ambulance personnel. My Department has been informed that the HSE will be carrying out a review of the need for anti-stab vests for ambulance service personnel and...

Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: There is a commitment in the Programme for Government to mandate the Health Service Executive to publish a comprehensive report on water fluoridation. In this connection, the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health (Expert Body) is committed to carrying out a baseline study to monitor the effects of the change in water fluoridation following the introduction of revised Regulations earlier...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (7 Nov 2007)

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 — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (7 Nov 2007)

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 Services 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 Acquired Infections: Hospital Acquired Infections (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the HSE 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 Parliamentary Affairs...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The HSE maintains up to 15,000 Patient Private Property (PPP) accounts on behalf of clients who are in long-term residential care at HSE Care Centres, such as Older Persons, Mental Health, and Intellectual/Physical Disability Centres. The HSE operates 2,427 local PPP accounts for clients resident at Care Centres within the North Dublin Region (the area previously served by the ERHA Northern...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (7 Nov 2007)

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 — Registration of Births: Registration of Births (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The legislative provisions governing the registration of births are contained in the Civil Registration Act, 2004. Where a birth occurs in the State, it is the duty of the hospital to notify the Registrar General of the facts of the birth. Where a birth takes place other than in a hospital or nursing home, and the birth was attended by a medical practitioner or midwife, it is the duty of...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Obviously, the evidence is evolving all the time. When Professor O'Higgins produced his report in 2000, the advice was that a centre should deal with 100 new cases. By 2007, this figure had moved to at least 150 cases a year. What is being said is that the number should be at least 150 cases and 50 per surgeon. A number of other criteria are involved. For example, in the case of...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: The Deputy asked me a large number of questions.

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: I do not know if the format permits me to answer all of them.

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: If the Ceann Comhairle is flexible, I will be happy to answer all of them, if Deputy Reilly wishes to put them again.

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: I will respond first to the last question. Triple assessment applies where cancer is suspected or diagnosed. The point the Taoiseach made was that in the seven cases in question the radiologist gave the women concerned the all clear. Therefore, the triple assessment did not apply.

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: That is the serious question, that the radiologist in question gave the all clear. I wish to clarify that one consultant radiologist is on administrative leave but the inquiry does not concern only the work of that person. There are two consultant radiologists. There were two locums during that period. The interview was held by the Public Appointments Commission and I understand there were...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: We will see what the report reveals. Three radiologists attached to the BreastCheck service in Dublin read the same mammograms and diagnosed cancer. That is not to say we do not need the most modern equipment but it is separate to the diagnosis issues in this case.

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: I apologise to Deputy Reilly for not answering the question on resources. The National Hospitals Office is undertaking an audit of existing resources, examining each hospital and isolating the money spent on cancer care. The intention is that Professor Keane will control the budget. That is how it worked in British Columbia and the only way it would work here. Professor Keane will come...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: I will start with the Deputy's final question because Tallaght Hospital is situated in my constituency. Tallaght Hospital lost the children's hospital and is not one of the designated cancer centres. There are world class experts working at the hospital and a huge volume of their activity revolves around cancer care. I refer to people such as Professor Conlon, Dr. Geraghty, an expert...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: Northern Ireland requires an additional centre to meet its capacity and the authorities there are examining the position in that regard. While a formal decision has not been made — it is not my place to announce decisions on behalf of the authorities north of the Border — I understand that part of Northern Ireland which would suit patients from County Donegal is under consideration. I...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Mary Harney: If one of my predecessors, Deputy Noonan, had stood here in 1996 and stated that in ten years we would be spending four times more on health, that there would be 45,000 additional people working in the system and that there would be an extra 110 consultants working in the area of cancer care, nobody would have believed it was possible. If people did believe it, they would have stated it...