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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 713 and 755 together. In September 2002, Comhairle na nOspideal initiated a review of Rheumatology Services. Its report, which was published in December 2005, examines the provision of services and makes recommendations on the organisation and development of rheumatology services in the future. Responsibility for the implementation of these recommendations...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 714 and 720 together. An effective national cervical screening programme will result in a substantial reduction in the incidence of cervical cancer. It is my objective to have such a programme rolled out, beginning late this year, based on an affordable model. For that purpose, on the 1st January 2007, I established a National Cancer Screening Service which...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: I have been advised that the Orthodontic Review Group has completed its report. The report is currently under consideration by the HSE. I look forward to receiving the report shortly.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: The whole time equivalent number employed in the Department of Health and Children, based on the figures given to the Department of Finance Census Section for September 2006 (the last Census returned to the Department of Finance) was 610.98. This figure includes staff employed in:— the Department of Health and Children, including the recently expanded Office of the Minister for Children the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 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 (31 Jan 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 Services: Health Services (31 Jan 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 (31 Jan 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 — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: A Strategy for the control of antimicrobial Resistance in Ireland (SARI) was launched in 2001 and includes recommendations such as hospital hygiene practice, appropriate antibiotic prescribing, active surveillance for the detection of MRSA and corporate/clinical governance structure in the area of infection control. The appointment of the SARI infection control nurses, surveillance...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 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 (31 Jan 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 asked 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 (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: The Crisis Pregnancy Agency was established in October 2001 under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961, with a statutory remit to prepare a strategy to address the issue of crisis pregnancy, the strategy to provide, inter alia for: a reduction in the number of crisis pregnancies by the provision of education, advice and contraceptive services; a reduction in the number of woman with crisis...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provides a clear legal framework to repay recoverable health charges for publicly funded long term residential care. All those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged and are alive will have their charges repaid in full. The estates of all those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged for publicly funded long term residential care and...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2007)

Mary Harney: EU member states are the main purchasers of medicines in their domestic markets. They naturally seek to control drug prices, but the extent of this control varies widely. Higher priced countries, such as the UK and Germany, rely more on market forces to set prices. Spain and Portugal, on the other hand, closely regulate and control prices. Ireland's pricing policy is somewhere in the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 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 (31 Jan 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 (31 Jan 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.