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Other Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...scheme, is a system of financial support for those in need of long-term nursing home care. Participants contribute according to their means while the State pays the balance of the cost. In 2015, the scheme has an allocation of €993 million. In budget 2015, additional funding of €25 million was provided to support services that provide alternatives to, and relieve...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme commenced on 10 November 2014. It was estimated that 350 women would apply to the Scheme, but in fact 577 applications have been accepted. Applications are being assessed by former High Court Judge Maureen Harding Clark and the Scheme has in the region of €34 million available. The Scheme has brought to an end years of uncertainty and costs...

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...spread and reduce the size of this problem. Before I start, I will to put the issue of obesity in context. As the House will be aware, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and I set out 25 actions for this year which are organised under five themes: Healthy Ireland; patient outcomes and safety; universal health care; reform; and the modernisation of the infrastructural...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...recapitalised during the term of office of this Government, namely, AIB, Bank of Ireland and PTSB, from which we have recovered or will recover all the money invested. People talk about the scandal of €5 million being given to shareholders in Siteserv or the €119 million loss on the transaction. I agree that these things should, as they will, be fully investigated. Let us...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (9 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: One of my priorities for 2015 is the publication of a National Maternity Strategy. This will provide a roadmap to better maternity services. It will ensure that women have access to safe, sustainable, well staffed maternity care in a setting most appropriate to their needs. An extra €2 million has been included in the HSE National Service Plan 2015 to address current pressures within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Opportunities to Enhance Health Service Provision through North-South Co-operation: Minister for Health (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...where I would start in unification. I am not sure how East and West Germany did that, but that would be the case study to look at. On out-of-hours services, from its commencement to 30 April 2015, 739 patients in Inishowen received GP out-of-hours services in Derry. That is about seven per month. Some 2,839 patients from south Armagh have received GP out-of-hours services in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...in matters around hospital hygiene. The reports show that we now have the lowest MRSA rates in years. For example the rates for Clostridium difficile are falling. We have put an extra €5 million or €6 million into the ambulance service this year in response to HIQA's recommendations. However, not all of HIQA's recommendations can be implemented immediately. Some require...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (28 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme commenced on 10 November 2014. It was estimated that 350 women would apply to the Scheme, but in fact 576 applications were accepted. Applications are being assessed by former High Court Judge Maureen Harding Clark. The Scheme has in the region of €34 million available and participants will receive awards at three levels - €50,000,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...rates are at their lowest ever recorded, although this is not just down to HIQA hygiene reports. The report on the ambulance service is making a difference and is the reason there is an extra €5 million for ambulances this year, there are three new ambulance bases and we are centralising control in Tallaght, which will be fully up and running within months. While I understand the...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...and diabetes among adults. People ask what happens to the six or seven year old with a chronic disease or very high medical expenses. It is important to point out that 40% of people, or 1.7 million, have a medical card based on low income. The rules are not changing and nobody will have his or her medical card taken away. In addition, there is the discretionary medical card system,...

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services (26 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...support that they give. Respite services for adults and children with disabilities are provided in a variety of settings, depending on the needs of the family and available resources. In 2015, some 5,274 people with a disability are expected to avail of residential centre based respite services, utilising 190,003 bed nights. In addition, between 2,000 and 2,500 persons avail of...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...on this side of the House who do not think it is difficult to do and that they are not mutually exclusive. With regard to actions, 900 transitional care beds are being funded in private nursing homes, 500 in January and a further 400 in February, to assist patients waiting on the fair deal scheme to be discharged from hospital and put in transitional care; 173 short stay public beds are...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...and waiting times. The HSE has also made provision where possible to address services where there are particular challenges. For example, funding has been allocated in the HSE service plan for 2015 for the appointment of an orthopaedic surgeon, an anaesthetist and support staff at Crumlin in recognition of the pressures relating to surgery for scoliosis. This will maximise the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ..., and UK) and these are the maximum prices paid by the HSE for originator drugs supplied through the community drug schemes. The gross savings arising from this deal will be in excess of €400 million over 3 years. Over half of the savings to be delivered - €210m - were to be reinvested by the State into the provision of new and innovative drugs. As part of the Mid-Term...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (18 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Total health expenditure for each of the last 5 years, by public, private health insurance and out-of-pocket payments by households, are detailed in the table below. Figures are presented in millions of Euro. Estimates of private health insurance and out-of-pocket health expenditure are compiled by the Central Statistics Office. Table: Total Health Expenditure in Ireland by public,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ..., car parks and payments received from patients. This is the first time in seven years that we have increased the budget, which is a considerable achievement. The increase is approximately €150 million, or 1.5%, which allows us to end the cycle of cuts and make targeted improvements in a number of areas, including mental health, primary care, hepatitis C drugs and the extension of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Total health expenditure for each of the last 5 years, by both public and private, are detailed in the following table. Figures are presented in millions of Euro. Estimates of private health expenditure are compiled by the Central Statistics Office and include health expenditure by private insurance and out-of-pocket payments by households. Table: Total Health Expenditure in Ireland,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...amount for the State Claims Agency is very hard to predict because it is essentially what judgments the courts make or what agreements are made on the steps of the court. As it turned out, the €151 million which was partially provided for in the Supplementary Estimate at the end of last year was not all required. Only €135 million of the €151 million was required....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...2013 which found that the manufacturer failed to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of this drug and reimbursement would have an estimated cumulative gross budget impact for the HSE of €33 million over 5 years. Consequently the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics was unable to recommend reimbursement of the product under the community drugs scheme. Notwithstanding the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (21 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Ambulance response time targets for the National Ambulance Service are set out in the HSE National Service Plan. For ECHO and DELTA calls (life threatening conditions), the 2015 response time target is for 80% of calls to get a patient-carrying vehicle on scene within 19 minutes. The latest published data shows that, in October, the volume of ECHO calls rose by 5% compared to the same...