Results 3,141-3,160 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. This includes responsibility for the out of hours co-operatives which operate to provide general practitioner services outside of normal surgery hours free of charge to medical card holders. Accordingly, my...
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: Cannabis is a schedule 1 controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977 and 1984. It is also one of the controlled drugs which has been designated for the purpose of section 13 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. The nature of the controls provided under the Misuse of Drugs Acts are those which according to current UN conventions on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, must be...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. This includes responsibility for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. Accordingly, my Department is requesting the parliamentary affairs division of the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive, HSE, which has statutory responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, has provided the following information regarding the administration of the MMR vaccine. The HSE sends all parents a detailed information booklet when they are invited to contact their general practitioner for their first immunisation appointment. This...
- Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 311, 324 and 325 together. Under the 1970 Health Act, the Health Service Executive may arrange for the supply, without charge, of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances to people with a specified condition, for the treatment of that condition, through the long-term illness scheme. The LTI scheme does not cover general practitioner fees or...
- Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 312 to 314, inclusive, together. On 1 September 2004, following an examination of the work of all inquiries by the Attorney General, the Government decided that the post mortem inquiry should furnish its final report not later than 31 March 2005 and that the inquiry would then cease to exist. The chairman of the inquiry, Ms Anne Dunne, SC, was so advised and...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy in relation to this matter.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: BreastCheck has considered a proposal from Barrington's Hospital in Limerick and has advised my Department that the implementation of the national breast screening programme is the best approach to ensuring that a quality assured service is available to all women in the target age group. The national breast screening programme commenced in 2000 and covered the eastern, north-eastern and...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 329 and 330 together. As I have previously indicated to the House, I consider that appropriate transport arrangements for patients requiring radiotherapy should be made available, where necessary, by the Health Service Executive. My Department raised this matter with the HSE last May to ensure that appropriate transport arrangements are put in place on a...
- Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The following are the Acts or sections or provisions of Acts which have not yet been commenced. 1. The Mental Health Act 2001. The main vehicle for the implementation of the provisions of the Mental Health Act 2001 is the Mental Health Commission which was established in April 2002. To facilitate the establishment of the commission, sections 1 to 5, 7 and 31 to 55 of the Act were commenced at...
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: Under the general medical services scheme, GMS medical card, eligible persons are entitled to general practitioner services from GMS contract holding GPs and to a range of approved, prescribed medicines free of charge. There is no provision for the issue of items prescribed by other medical or paramedical specialists under the GMS scheme.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department is requesting the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I should explain that the quarterly health service personnel census collects employment information on the basis of grade and employing agency rather than on a county or service basis. As the information requested by the Deputy relates to human resource management issues that are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004, my Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: On 25 July 2005 I announced the Government's plan for a national network for radiation oncology services to be put in place by 2011. The plan will consist of four large centres in Dublin, Cork and Galway and two integrated satellite centres at Waterford Regional Hospital and Limerick Regional Hospital. I am convinced that it is essential to retain the commitment, expertise, tradition and...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy regarding this matter.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: On the basis of the figures contained in the 2004 annual report of the former payments of the General Medical Services Payments Board, now the Health Service Executive, Shared Services and Primary Care Reimbursement Service, it is estimated that the additional cost involved if medical cards were to be provided to all those aged under 16 years would be approximately â¬86 million. This...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: Under the terms of the general medical services scheme, GMS, contract, participating GPs undertake to provide a range of treatments and general practitioner services for the patients on their GMS panel. Their GMS contract obliges them to provide the first and last certificates to explain work absence for their patients. All other requested certificates in respect of requirements for driving...