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Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in the Dublin 1 area rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Accommodation: Nursing Home Accommodation (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in County Westmeath rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The cost involved in maintaining an older person at home or in a public hospital or in a nursing home depends on the type of medical needs, accommodation and health services required. The information requested cannot therefore be provided as each individual's circumstances will differ. If the Deputy has a specific case in mind, details should be sent to the chief officer in the relevant...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in County Waterford rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in County Kildare rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in County Kildare rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in County Kildare rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Tobacco Control: Tobacco Control (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: I intend to bring a motion before the Oireachtas shortly seeking approval to the ratification by Ireland of the framework convention on tobacco control. The convention is an initiative of the World Health Organisation in response to the global epidemic of tobacco addiction. The treaty, which was adopted unanimously by the World Health Assembly in May 2003 and signed by Ireland in September...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: As the Deputy will be aware, the placing of a person in a private nursing home is a private matter between the person or his or her representatives and the nursing home, as are the fees charged for that service. The nursing home subvention scheme was introduced to help people with some of the cost of this service and is based on need, both medical and financial. Consequently, the issue of...

Written Answers — Health Centres: Health Centres (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in the Dublin 5 area rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Health Centres: Health Centres (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in the Dublin 5 area rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in each county rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officers for each...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of the Act to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in Sligo rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in Ballyfermot rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: My Department does not directly fund or co-ordinate health and personal social services to victims of abuse. Moneys are made available each year, formerly through the health boards, and now through the Health Service Executive, for the provision of services to women victims of violence. In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in funding so that more than €12 million is...

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of health services in County Clare. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The National Task Force on Violence against Women's report of 1997 set out a blueprint for a national strategy on violence against women and led to the establishment of the National Steering Committee on Violence against Women which is chaired by the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The purpose of the steering committee is to provide a...

Written Answers — Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: My Department is represented on and committed to the work of the National Steering Committee on Violence against Women, as is the Health Service Executive.

Written Answers — Services for Victims of Sexual Assault: Services for Victims of Sexual Assault (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: Following a recommendation from the National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women that the need for additional sexual assault units around the country should be examined by my Department, I have established a committee under the chairmanship of a senior departmental official to consider the matter. The committee will be representative of the relevant statutory, voluntary and...