Health Services (Houses of the Oireachtas)

Health Services - Ambulance service - response times

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the number of response calls by the ambulance service for the Killarney area that took over 45 minutes to respond to, by month, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 202 to Minister for Hea...

Health Services - Ambulance service - response times

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Health Services - Dental services - provision

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...his plans to allow for dental screening and treatment of persons under 16 years of age through the medical card scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 170 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - Dental services - provision

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] The National Oral Health Policy, which the Department of Health is currently developing will inform future provision of oral health services. This is a 3-year project led by the Chief Dental Officer and is due to be completed later this year. The project includes a needs assessment...

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] The Deputy's time has concluded.[An Leas-Cheann Comhairle]

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] The Minister has a legal responsibility and the political power to stop this proposal. He must put his foot down.[Stanley, Brian]

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I thank Deputy Stanley for raising this matter and apologise on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, who could not be here tonight. I assure the Deputy that, as the Minister stated previously, the most important issue with regard to consideration of services at t...

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] The problem with the Minister of State's reply is that HSE management has jumped the Minister on this issue. It met at 2 p.m. yesterday to sign off on the final draft. The cover letter, of which I have a copy, uses the term "final draft" to describe this plan. The Minister of Sta...

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I reiterate that the Minister was unable to be here tonight and I am not in a position to respond to the Deputy in detail.[English, Damien]

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] The Minister of State should communicate with the Minister.[Stanley, Brian]

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I will do so and I will also ask him to contact the Deputy to bring him up to speed on the matter. I make clear, however, that it is a draft plan on the Minister's desk.[English, Damien]

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] Was it signed off yesterday?[Stanley, Brian]

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] It will be considered on the basis that it is a draft plan and a decision will be made after such consideration has been given. I emphasise the clear statement made by the Minister that patient and public requirements are paramount and have underpinned the Department's considerati...

Health Services - Emergency departments - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I am seeking certainty in respect of Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise. A plan was to be released in September 2015 regarding the future of the hospital but we have not yet seen that plan. However, there is a plan contained in what is described as the final draft of the Dublin...

Health Services - Emergency departments - waiting times

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if persons aged 75 years of age or over have experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2017; and if so, the hospital in which the wait occurred [Q. No(s) 196 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - Emergency departments - waiting times

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Health Services - Funding - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the public non capital expenditure on health in each of the budget years 2007 to 2018, in tabular form. [Q. No(s) 143 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - Funding - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the public non capital expenditure on health excluding treatment benefits in each of the budget years 2007 to 2018, in tabular form. [Q. No(s) 144 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - Funding - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the public capital expenditure on health in each of the budget years 2007 to 2018, in tabular form. [Q. No(s) 145 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - Funding - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the public expenditure on health in each of the budget years 2007 to 2018, in tabular form. [Q. No(s) 146 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - Funding - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 to 146, inclusive, together. The gross public non capital, capital and total expenditure on health in each of the budget years 2007 to 2018 is set out below in tabular form. From 2007 to 2014 the expenditure represents the aggregate of expendi...

Health Services - General medical services scheme - administration

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if the medical card scheme covers the cost of general practitioners completing application forms for persons that hold a medical card, such as driving licence applications and local authority grant applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 186 to Mini...

Health Services - General medical services scheme - administration

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] The GMS GP contract stipulates that fees are not paid to GPs by the HSE in respect of certain medical certificates which may be required, for example, "under the Social Welfare Acts or for the purposes of insurance or assurance policies or for the issue of driving licences". The co...

Health Services - General medical services scheme - payments

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the status of general practitioners charging medical card holders excessive sums of money for blood tests and ear syringing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 163 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - General medical services scheme - payments

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] 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...

Health Services - General practitioner services - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if he is considering charging a nominal fee of €5 per visit for free general practitioner care for those under 12 years of age. [Q. No(s) 191 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - General practitioner services - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] The introduction of GP care without fees to all people over 70 and all children under 6 years of age in 2015 represents a major step forward in improving access, quality and affordability of health care in Ireland. The Programme for Government commits to the phased introduction of...

Health Services - Health services - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the status of a database (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 185 to Minister for Health ]

Health Services - Health services - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers] There are no plans to develop a database along the lines referred to by the Deputy. On the face of it, such an initiative would likely have significant data protection concerns.

Health Services - Health strategies - issues relating to

Sitting date: 26/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the amount spent by his department and by the HSE on educating persons to change lifestyle as a preventive measure against chronic disease, in tabular form. [Q. No(s) 168 to Minister for Health ]