Results 21,341-21,360 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Health Service Agencies: Health Service Agencies (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: Grant aided agencies (funded under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004) are not directly affected by the pay adjustments provided for under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No 2) Act 2009. Section 39 agencies are not public service bodies as defined in that Act and their employees are not public servants. However, the grant funding of Section 39 Agencies is subject to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Misuse of Drugs: Misuse of Drugs (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: The Misuse of Drugs (Supervision of Prescription and Supply of Methadone) Regulations 1998 set out specific requirements for the prescribing and dispensing of methadone, the keeping of records, the maintenance of a central treatment list of patients treated with methadone and certain exemptions from the protocol where methadone is used in hospitals or for the treatment of conditions other...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Prescription Charges: Prescription Charges (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: It is a privilege to stand here today and be nominated by the Taoiseach to serve in his Government. It will be the eighth time that I have been asked to serve in a Government since 1997. It is a privilege that I do not take lightly. It is one that I take seriously and I apply all my energy to the task in hand. I will deal in a moment with some of the issues that have been mentioned...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: Deputy Kenny himself marched-----

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: Deputy Kenny himself marched in his own home town in opposition to that policy.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: Deputy Kenny is a man who aspires to be Taoiseach, leading the Government and the country. In his speech he referred to the need for courage and clarity, so I am entitled to make these points. The Labour Party said the cancer control plan could not be implemented because we did not have millions of euro to invest in it. Professor Tom Keane showed that by redirecting resources, not by...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Harney: It is not about the past; it is about the future. It is about having an agenda. The words "reform" and "change" have been debased in this House. It is about improving services for patients bit by bit, day by day. What is the agenda now? It is to provide a risk equalisation scheme, for example, that encompasses solidarity between younger and older people and sicker and healthier people....