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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: On 3 April 2019, I published Smile agus Sláinte, the new National Oral Health Policy, together with my colleague, Regina Doherty TD, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Forty-one actions have been identified to implement the Policy over the next eight years. Nine of these are being prioritised for the first three years. These priority actions include an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: The HSE currently provides preventive care, screening and necessary interventions for permanent teeth including fillings and extractions as well as referral for orthodontics and other secondary care, where appropriate, for school children mainly in 2nd and 6th class and in 4th class where resources allow. Emergency treatment is provided to children up to 16 years of age. Services are also...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: It is open to a medical practitioner wishing to prescribe cannabis for medical purposes for an individual patient under their care, to apply for a Ministerial licence to do so, under Section 14 of The Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977 to 2016 and the Regulations made thereunder. It is important to note that it is the decision of the clinician, in consultation with their patient, to prescribe or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess." There is no provision under the GMS GP contract for persons who hold...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Services (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: The Emergency Department in University Hospital Limerick is one of the busiest in the country, with the number of patients attending growing year on year. The decision to admit a patient is a clinical decision. Therefore, I have the asked the HSE to provide a reply to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: There is no recruitment and overtime ban in place in the HSE. However, in recent months, officials from my Department have been engaging intensively with the HSE in reaching agreement on a Pay and Numbers Strategy for 2019. The key focus in developing the strategy is to ensure that affordable and appropriate recruitment decisions are made by the HSE and that they need to operate within its...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for medicine pricing and reimbursement decisions, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. The Act specifies the criteria for decisions on the reimbursement of medicines. As Minister for Health, I do not have any statutory power or function in relation to the reimbursement of medicines. I am advised by the HSE that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for operational matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: Implementation of the National Maternity Strategy is continuing, led by the HSE National Women and Infants Health Programme (NWIHP). The Strategy represents a significant development in the delivery of national maternity policy that will fundamentally change how maternity care is delivered in this country. In 2016, the year the Strategy was launched, development funding of €3m was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 684, 853, 865, 872 and 955 together. In October 2017, the Government approved the drafting of a Bill on assisted human reproduction (AHR) and associated areas of research, based on the published General Scheme of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health is currently conducting a review of the General Scheme as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I have referred the Deputy's question to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Provision (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for medicine pricing and reimbursement decisions, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. As Minister for Health, I do not have any statutory power or function in relation to the reimbursement of medicines. In Ireland the majority of patients access medicines through the publicly funded Community Drug Schemes. In line...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: As the HSE has responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres and other Primary Care facilities, the Executive has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.