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Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: There were no payments made to PWC for any services from 2015 to 2019 to date.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, relating to the work of the Rare Diseases Medicinal Products/Technology Review Committee, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Products Regulatory Authority (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: A medicinal product, placed originally on the market in another EU Member State or EEA country, may be parallel imported to Ireland, provided that the equivalent product is already on the market here or has been withdrawn for commercial reasons only, and the importer has obtained a parallel import licence (known in Ireland as a parallel product authorisation (PPA)) from the HPRA to place the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Remuneration (14 Feb 2019)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract, GPs are reimbursed for a range of services they provide to medical card and GP visit card holders. GPs are remunerated for these services primarily on a capitation basis, with a range of additional support payments and fees for specific items of service. GPs are also remunerated for services they provide on behalf of the HSE under other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: The Government is committed to engaging with GP representatives on the development of modernised contractual arrangements. Talks between the Department of Health, HSE and the IMO are ongoing. Historically, the IMO has been the main representative body for GPs and the only one involved in contractual processes. It negotiated the existing 1972 and 1989 GP contract arrangements with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (14 Feb 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: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: A competitive procurement process, in accordance with Government procurement guidelines, was undertaken by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in 2014 to appoint the design team for the new children's hospital. The design team was procured in August 2014 on a lump sum tender. It was not appointed on the basis of a percentage of the contract price.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of the health capital programme, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: The Deputy does not want me to repeat previous answers but I have outlined the rationale behind why the two-phase project was decided. I will not put it on the record of the House again. The Government signed off on the figure of €983 million in April 2017. The Deputy makes a fair point regarding what happened with the elasticity in respect of phase B. How could the Government of...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I do not have that information. I will ask the NPHDB to provide it to me, as I am sure the Taoiseach probably has since the Deputy raised it yesterday. I will refer back to him directly.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I will do that.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I was pleased to visit Bantry recently with my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, and, indeed, the Deputy was there. All of the commitments that have been made regarding Bantry will be delivered. I will respond to him in writing on some of the specific questions but there is no impact on those important projects. However, children in west Cork will sadly get sick as well...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: This is a national project to transform-----

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: -----paediatric healthcare in our country. On how we will find the money, as I outlined yesterday, the Department of Health will make a contribution to meet the costs from a budget that we provide to the HSE for equipment, replacement and infrastructural risk. This budget was extraordinarily low during the recessionary years. We received a large increase in that budget in 2019 and we will...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I absolutely will not change the decision that the Government made and that successive Governments have endorsed on moving ahead with this. I have listened to so many politicians in different parties who have been involved in debates over the years about the location of the site. At some point, a decision has to be made and we have to get on with delivering a hospital. It was first...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: -----a national children's hospital. We are building it on a site adjacent to St. James's Hospital. We are doing that for good clinical reasons endorsed by many paediatricians today. That work is under way. We have invested €235 million in the development of this project-----

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: I believe we have. To do anything other than that would be scandalous.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: No, I did not.