Results 23,361-23,380 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The timing for the capitalisation and sale of the VHI will depend on a number of factors, which will be decided by Government in light of the advices of the experts on the appropriate sequencing and structure of the disposal of the company. My Department is currently finalising a request for tenders for the provision of financial, legal and all other advices relating to the rebalancing of...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's questions relate to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: There has been a growing demand for, and investment in, speech therapy services over the last number of years. A particular priority for my Department and the Department of Education and Skills in recent years has been the expansion of the supply of therapy graduates. The Government has invested heavily in the education and training of such personnel in order to secure a good supply of...
- Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: Charges are levied for private patients availing of private and semi-private accommodation in public hospitals. In most, but not all, cases these charges are paid by private health insurance companies on behalf of their members. At the end of 2009 some â¬92.5 million in such charges was due to the HSE. Charges due include those billed to patients or their insurance companies where payment...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The 2008 consultants' contract includes new measures to strengthen the management, monitoring and control of public-private activity in hospitals with a view to ensuring that the level of consultant private practice within public hospitals does not exceed the permitted ratio. My Department has asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy on the detailed operational matters that he has raised.
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The Health Information and Quality Authority is an independent agency under the aegis of my Department and is funded from my Department's vote. Part 6 of the Health Act 2007 sets out the statutory basis for the corporate relationship between me as Minister for Health and Children and the Authority. The Act makes provision for my consideration of the Authority's three- year Corporate Plan,...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 41, 242 and 244 together. Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of...
- Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The HSE has advised my Department that it has provided funding to support two consultant immunology posts structured as follows: (a) Consultant Paediatric Immunologist with a special interest in Paediatric Allergy. The post will be deployed with 24 hours assigned to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, 10 hours assigned to AMNCH and 3 assigned to St James's Hospital. (b) Consultant Paediatrician...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: With regard to the number of chiropodists currently employed in the HSE per region, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The HSE has not issued a national directive to dentists working in the Public Dental Service that they are not to fill cavities in children's teeth. The Deputy may be referring to a clinical policy in Sligo/Leitrim for the past 15 years not to fill milk teeth unless there was clear evidence of an associated health benefit. In response to media reports in August, the Principal Dental Surgeon...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: A joint HSE/Department of Health and Children Task Force was established in February 2006 following the presentation of the report Children's Health First-International best practice in tertiary paediatric services: implications for the strategic organisation of tertiary paediatric services in Ireland to advise on the optimum location of the proposed new paediatric hospital. The Task Group...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 53 and 68 together. In their role as patient advocates for high quality safe surgical care and practice, the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland supported the decision of the Director of Quality and Clinical Care of the HSE to cease emergency acute surgical services at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, with effect from September 1st this year. Earlier this year,...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: My Department has written to the Health Service Executive setting out the overall approved employment control ceiling for 2010. As part of this approval, written confirmation has been provided to the HSE that the general moratorium on recruitment, promotion and the payment of acting up allowances does not apply to specific designated grades. Delegated sanction has been given to the HSE for...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The Government has made clear that a critical part of its strategy to restore the public finances is to achieve sustainability in the cost of delivering public services relative to State revenues. To help achieve this goal, it will be necessary to restructure and reorganise the public service and to reduce public service numbers over the coming years. This requires that the moratorium on...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The latest information from the HSE for July 2010 indicates that the total number of births nationally is marginally lower than the same period last year (-1%) and is showing a 1.8% decrease against expected levels for 2010. The HSE is putting arrangements in place to progress the recommendations of the HSE/KPMG review of Maternity Services in the Greater Dublin Area including service...
- Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (5 Oct 2010)
Mary Harney: The level of funding available for the health budget is being considered as part of the Estimates and budgetary process for 2011 which is currently underway. Deliberations by the Government on the expenditure allocations for next year are likely to continue up until Budget time and it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage pending the outcome of those deliberations....