Written answers
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Department of Health
Departmental Bodies
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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355. To ask the Minister for Health the name, function and establishment date of all the organisations and agencies that are funded by his Department; the number of employees in each; the salary of the chief executive in each organisation and agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49188/22]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Funded organisations and agencies are listed below:
| Agency | Function | Establishment Order | Number of Employees (Headcount) | CEO Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORU (Health and Social Care Professionals Council) | CORUs role is to protect the public by promoting high standards of professional conduct, education, training and competence through statutory registration of health and social care professionals. | Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 | 79 | €120,382 |
| Dental Council | The Dental Councils general concern is to promote high standards of professional education and professional conduct among dentists. | Dentists Act 1985 | 10 | €112,191 |
| Food Safety Authority Ireland | The principal function of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland is to protect consumers and raise compliance through partnership, science and food law enforcement. | Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act, 1998 | 107 | €164,549 |
| Health Information and Quality Authority | HIQA is an independent authority that exists to improve health and social care services for the people of Ireland. | Health Act 2007 | 327 | €164,549 |
| Health Insurance Authority | The Health Insurance Authority is a statutory regulator of the private health insurance market in Ireland. The Authority also provides information to consumers regarding their rights and on health insurance plans and benefits. | Health Insurance Act 1994 (Establishment day 2001) | 14 | €117,352 |
| Health Research Board | To support research that improves people’s health, promotes evidence-informed care and creates solutions to societal challenges. | S.I. No. 279/1986 - The Health Research Board (Establishment) Order, 1986 | 95 | €139,628 |
| Health Products Regulatory Authority | The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) regulate medicines and devices for the benefit of people and animals. | Irish Medicines Board Act, 1995 | 402 | €164,549 |
| Irish Blood Transfusion Service | Organise and administer a blood transfusion service including the processing or supply of blood derivatives or other blood products, and also including blood group and other tests in relation to specimens of blood received by the Board. | S.I. No. 78/1965 - The Blood Transfusion Service Board (Establishment) Order, 1965. | 624 | €150,381 |
| Mental Health Commission | The work of the MHC includes regulating in-patient mental health services; protecting the interests of peoplewho are involuntarily admitted; and setting standards for high quality and good practices across mental health services. | Mental Health Act, 2001 | 69 | €164,549 |
| National Cancer Registry Board | To collect and classify information on all cancer cases which occur in Ireland. | S.I. No. 19/1991 - The National Cancer Registry Board (Establishment) Order, 1991 | 44 | €123,514 |
| National Paediatric Hospital Development Board | The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board remit is to design, build and equip the new children’s hospital. | S.I. No. 246/2007 - The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (Establishment) Order, 2007 | 8 | €185,720 |
| National Treatment Purchase Fund | Arranging for the provision of hospital treatment to classes of persons determined by the Minister;Collecting, collating and validating information on persons waiting for public hospital treatment;Agreeing pricing arrangements with private & voluntary nursing homes under the Nursing Homes Support SchemeFurnishing advice to the Minister for Health on related issuesPerforming any other function assigned by the Minister for Health, since July 2012 this includes responsibility for the publication of outpatient waiting lists | S.I. No. 179/2004 - National Treatment Purchase Fund Board (Establishment) Order, 2004 | 62 | €141,304 |
| Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland | The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) is a public body established in law to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public by regulating pharmacists and pharmacies in Ireland. | PHARMACY ACT 2007 | 53 | €120,382 |
| Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council | The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council protects the public by independently specifying, reviewing, maintaining and monitoring standards of excellence for the safe provision of quality pre-hospital emergency care. | S.I. No. 109/2000 - The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (Establishment) Order, 2000. | 20 | €108,829 |
| Safefood | Safefood's role is to promote food safety and provide nutritional advice on the island of Ireland in accordance with its legislative remit | BRITISH-IRISH AGREEMENT ACT, 1999 | 27 | €120,382 |
| HSE | Provision of Health Services | Health Act 2004 | 153728 | €370,549 |
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