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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (27 Sep 2006)

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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Sep 2006)

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 HSE to reply to the Deputy in relation to plans for the provision of acute hospital services in Cork.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: A range of dental services for adult medical card holders is available under the Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS) from participating dentists holding contracts with Health Service Executive (HSE). The treatments provided include examinations, fillings, extractions, dentures, x-rays and some root canal treatment. The scheme is administered by the HSE — Primary Care Reimbursement...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

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 (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: As aspects of the Deputy's question, concerning medical card and GP visit card numbers by county, relate to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive (HSE) under the Health Act 2004 my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

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 — National Repayments Scheme: National Repayments Scheme (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 was signed by the President on 23 June 2006 and the legislative provisions of the Act came into effect on 30 June 2006. The repayment scheme was launched publicly by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the scheme administrator KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald on 14 August 2006. Under the scheme all those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged and are...

Medical Inquiries. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: A new protocol for patient transfer has been put in place. It is the responsibility of the HSE to oversee what happens in the different hospitals in the region. We already know that approximately half of the patients in the region attend not local hospitals but hospitals in Dublin. That is the largest ratio of all the regions in the country for people attending Dublin hospitals rather than...

Medical Inquiries. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: Cavan General Hospital has the same number of beds as Mullingar General Hospital. When comparing inpatient activity, day care or accident and emergency activity, there is a huge difference between what is done in Cavan and what is done in Mullingar, and I have said so on the public record on a number of occasions. The authorities in Cavan have visited Mullingar and I welcome that. It is...

Medical Inquiries. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: I only refer to what is in the report. I am not inventing it. It is a huge concern to me as Minister for Health and Children.

Medical Inquiries. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: It is of huge concern if interpersonal relationships interfere with patient safety and care. That is why, as a matter of priority, the HSE has appointed a group, headed by Dr. Eilis McGovern, who is a well-known heart surgeon and well-respected clinician, to oversee the implementation of the recommendations for the region. Clearly there will be difficulties implementing the recommendations...

Medical Inquiries. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: I have substantially increased the capital funding available to the Health Service Executive this year. Once I approve a capital programme, I do not try to find out how it is spent every week. In light of the Teamwork report and given the decision made and endorsed by the Government that we will have a new, state-of-the-art hospital for the region, any decisions made about spending on...

Hospitals Building Programme. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: A review of tertiary paediatric services carried out by McKinsey & Company on behalf of the Health Service Executive recommended the establishment of a single tertiary paediatric hospital in Dublin, co-located with a leading adult academic hospital. Subsequently, a joint HSE-Department of Health and Children task group was established to advise on the optimum location of the proposed new...

Hospitals Building Programme. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: I thought I said I had received it in the past few days.

Hospitals Building Programme. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: I have read only the summary. I intend to read it over the next few days. It is a technical report and I am not a building expert who knows about land size and so on but I will read it.

Hospitals Building Programme. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: Before I became Minister for Health and Children I had given little consideration to paediatric services and knew little about them. Since then, virtually every paediatrician I met in this city and around the country said we should bring the services together and have a state-of-the-art hospital. We were planning to build a new hospital in Crumlin, probably on-site, and a new hospital for...

Hospitals Building Programme. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: I assure the Deputy there was no political interference — that is certain. The group that has been established to make progress with this initiative, which comprises officials from the Health Service Executive and the Department of Health and Children, will examine the submission made by Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. I accept there is disappointment in certain...

Hospital Staff. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: I am aware the Irish Medical Organisation has, on behalf of junior hospital doctors, submitted a claim to the Public Service Benchmarking Body for a 20% pay increase. The benchmarking body, which is independent, examines and reports on the pay of public service grades with reference to pay rates for similar types of employment in the private sector. A media report has suggested that a...

Hospital Staff. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: I want to refute the term "yellow pack" consultants. I do not know what that is supposed to mean. I will not be appointing consultants; they will be appointed on the basis of their expertise. In many countries, after a doctor is trained as a consultant, he or she then takes up a consulting position. In Ireland one could be training for 20 years and never, unfortunately, be given a...

Hospital Staff. (27 Sep 2006)

Mary Harney: The Deputy need not apologise for calling me Tánaiste. For the first two months when I had the job, I always thought it was Dick Spring was being referred to when the title was used. It does get confusing. I also remember the Taoiseach, on this side of the House, referring to John Bruton as Taoiseach. I do not share the Deputy's perspective on consultants. What is needed with the...