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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: Out of hours co-operatives allow general practitioners to put in place arrangements to provide services to their patients, while their surgeries are closed in the evenings, on weekends and bank holidays. The development of GP co-operatives is in line with the overall health service policy of strengthening primary care services and ensuring that to the greatest extent possible, people's care...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The Primary Care Strategy aims to develop services in the community to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, physiotherapists, nurses, home helps, occupational therapists and others. It has been estimated that up to 95% of people's health and social services needs can be properly met within a primary care setting and the establishment of...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children. Under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP), which is co-funded under the EU Social Fund (ESF), targeted support was...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (10 Oct 2007)

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 — Cancer Treatment Services: Cancer Treatment Services (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The implementation of the National Strategy for Cancer Control is a major priority for me and for this Government. The delivery of cancer services on a programmatic basis will serve to ensure equity of access to services and equality of patient outcome irrespective of geography. The recent decisions of the Health Service Executive (HSE) in relation to the designation of four managed cancer...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Oct 2007)

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 working with communities and a range of other statutory and non-statutory interests in ensuring a co-ordinated and integrated response in such areas. I am also aware of the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: Under Part 10 of the Health Act 2004, the health boards were dissolved and their functions and employees transferred to the Health Service Executive. Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement, including the number of staff employed in an administrative capacity. In that...

Written Answers — Health Service Management: Health Service Management (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: As the Deputy will be aware, health services in Ireland were, for many years, delivered through a combination of public, voluntary and private suppliers. Eight Health Boards were established under the Health Act (1970) to provide health and personal social services for the population. The Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) was established on 1 March 2000, replacing the Eastern Health...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The Office of Public Works is responsible for property in use by my Department. In respect of such property, there has not been any loss of assets through fire, theft or flooding in the years referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The Office of Public Works is responsible for the provision of property in use by my Department. My Department has therefore not entered into any leasing arrangement for such property.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The 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 — Court Proceedings: Court Proceedings (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: My Department is a named Respondent/Defendant in approximately 70 ongoing High Court actions taken by parents of children with Autism seeking to obtain specific educational and health related support services for their children. Neither my Department nor the National Cancer Screening Service has received notice of legal proceedings in relation to breast cancer screening or cervical cancer...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Oct 2007)

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 (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for recruitment procedures with regard to training schemes in psychiatry (other than Senior Registrar training schemes which are run by the Irish Psychiatric Training Committee, Corrigan House, Fenian Street, Dublin 2). The Health Service Executive is the appropriate body to consider the matters raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The assessment of eligibility to medical cards is statutorily a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE) and, with the exception of persons aged over 70 who have an automatic entitlement to a medical card, is determined following an examination of the means of the applicant and his/her dependants. Under Section 45 of the Health Act, 1970 medical cards are provided for persons who, in the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Oct 2007)

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 — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (10 Oct 2007)

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 questions raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: My Department has not received notice of legal proceedings in relation to the care of breast cancer patients attending Barrington's Hospital, Limerick. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Health Service Executive (HSE) to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy in relation to whether it has received notice of such proceedings. The National Treatment...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 Oct 2007)

Mary Harney: The 2006 Health Service Executive Annual Financial Statements submitted to me do not provide detail in relation to charges for agency staff. 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 Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (10 Oct 2007)

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...