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Written Answers — Health Funding: Health Funding (8 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Funding for health services has been provided as part of the Executive's overall vote for health and personal social services in 2007. In the case raised by the Deputy, the allocation of resources and the income stream within that, is a matter for the Executive to be determined within the overall priorities for particular services set out by me in respect of 2007 funding. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Feb 2007)

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 lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who do not qualify for a medical card would not be deterred on cost grounds from...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Feb 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 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Feb 2007)

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 lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who do not qualify for a medical card would not be deterred on cost grounds from...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Feb 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 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 (8 Feb 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 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 — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (8 Feb 2007)

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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The vast majority of General Practitioners (GPs) providing services to General Medical Services (GMS) patients hold the GMS GP capitation contract. These contracts for service are with the Health Service Executive (HSE). In accordance with the contract the GP receives an annual fee from the HSE which is based on the number of patients on his/her GMS patient panel and the GP undertakes to...

Written Answers — Land Transfers: Land Transfers (7 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for its estate management, including the matter referred to in the Deputy's question. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

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

Mary Harney: The next stage of the process in developing the new National Paediatric Hospital involves the preparation of a high-level framework brief for the new hospital. The brief is being developed for the Joint Transition Group by Rawlinson Kelly & Whittlestone Ltd (RKW), an established UK-based health care planning company. RKW will be advising on a range of issues which will help to inform the...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (7 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: In making arrangements for the provision of publicly funded GP services, under the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme, an agreement was negotiated between the Department of Health and Children and the GP representative body, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO). The provisions of this agreement took the form of the current GMS GP Capitation Contract. This contract is a treatment based...

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

Mary Harney: The HSE has responsibility for the planning and management of capital projects in the health sector, including the NDP developments referred to in the Deputy's question. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (7 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 removed the compulsory retirement age for new entrant public servants from 1 April 2004. Under the Act, a new entrant is a person who takes up employment as a public servant on or after 1 April 2004. Or, a person who was serving in a public service body prior to 31 March 2004 and left such an office for a period greater...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (7 Feb 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 — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (7 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: Over 120,000 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 healthcare professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has also invested heavily in the education and training of such...

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (7 Feb 2007)

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 — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The use of live animals in scientific research and other experimental activity is strictly controlled in accordance with the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, as amended by the European Communities (Amendment of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876) Regulations 2002 and 2005. Under the Act, experiments on live animals can only be performed by persons licensed by the Authority (Minister for Health and...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Feb 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 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 (6 Feb 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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to provide the information requested by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Harney: The need to develop services for persons with cystic fibrosis is widely acknowledged and was identified most notably by the Pollock Report, commissioned by the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland, and the Health Service Executive Working Group which has conducted a detailed review of cystic fibrosis services. I have identified the enhancement of services for people with cystic fibrosis as...