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Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: They are recent applications. The responses are made in a timely fashion and money is not an issue in that respect.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: As a result, the number of late discharges from our acute hospital system has decreased by 30%.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: This is an improvement and I wish the overall figure was zero, but the figure is going in the right direction, just like that pertaining to hospital infections and some of the other issues mentioned in our amendment. Deputy Perry mentioned Sligo General Hospital, where the absentee rate is just under 5%, or 9,222 hours per month. In Navan hospital, the relevant figure is 4.74%, or 3,549...

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I would like to know what the Deputy is trying to do about it instead of putting pressure here.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I am trying to respond.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I want to answer, given the short time I have left.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I want to answer some of the questions put. No one in the Department of Health and Children gets a bonus. Deputy English or one of his colleagues asked how many people got bonuses.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: Maybe it was Deputy McCormack. Two Deputies mentioned crutches. First, there are litigation issues. Second, it is cheaper to buy new crutches than to sterilise old ones. This is an issue in which I have been involved for the past year and I want to put the record straight.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: There are many examples of medical appliances that can be reused and a greater effort is being made to do so. That programme has been accelerated recently. What has been moved at Navan hospital is acute emergency surgery. One-----

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: No. If the Deputy just listened. I tried to deal with this issue during Question Time.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: On average, one acute emergency surgery is admitted to Navan hospital every 24 hours. For patient safety reasons, that person will no longer go to Navan, but instead go to Drogheda. That is what has been cut for reasons of patient safety.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: Regarding orthopaedic surgery, which was the purpose of the question-----

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: Yes, elective surgeries. It is a centre for orthopaedic services. Those will remain in Navan but, from the middle of this month-----

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: From the middle of October to the end of this year, elective orthopaedic surgery will be suspended for cost reasons. That is what I stated. It will remain in Navan, as that hospital has been identified as a centre where orthopaedic surgery will and can continue.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: During that period, I hope the orthopaedic surgeons will deal with the outpatient list. Many of the people on it will never require surgery and could have physiotherapy services instead or might not require further expertise.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: Clearly, Fine Gael's motion relates to ten counties. It is about seats in those ten counties.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I do not know what Fine Gael's answer is to the other counties. At a time when the country faces its greatest financial challenge ever,-----

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: -----that the main party in the Opposition and its deputy leader are advocating additional money for the public health service is not acceptable.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: I am surprised that Deputy Reilly should continue to pursue these policies in his new role as deputy leader of Fine Gael.

Health Service Investigations (5 Oct 2010)

Mary Harney: The college of radiology was involved in making recommendations on the reading of X-rays and we can make that information available to the Deputy. The letters related to a period between 2002 and 2008 and of course the situation is unacceptable. It is not a policy issue. I think it is a management and operational issue. When we see the report we will be able to determine the management...