Results 3,801-3,820 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: No, that is a fact. I recently cleared the regulations for the regional forum. These must now be approved by the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: New legislation on clinical trials, applicable throughout the EU, was introduced last year. That applies to all clinical trials where informed consent must be given. The Irish Medicines Board legislation is before the House and changes are being made to regulatory matters in that legislation.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: That is no longer the practice. We have new legislation.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The court decided that because of the state of health and the age of witnessesââ
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: ââit was not possible to have an inquiry. We cannot make that retrospectively legal.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: In both cases I will talk to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and revert to the Deputy or have him revert to the Deputy. I am not in a position to answer.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: That legislation has been withdrawn.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: There is plenty of legislation on industrial relations issues.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: Can I clarify that matter because it might be helpful? For legal reasons we were advised by the Attorney General not to put the report on the website. That is the reason, unlike other reports, it has not been possible to do that. My Department sent a large number of copies of the report to the Ferns diocese and if the Deputy is anxious to receive copies for particular victims, I would be...
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: It is normal, and I believe we have been reasonable in these circumstances, when a public report has been completed to make it available to interested and affected parties as far as possible, free of charge, and thereafter copies can be purchased from the Government Publications Office. If there are victims of sexual abuse who are interested in getting a copy of this report, within reason I...
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: That consolidation Bill will be brought forward next year but I am not certain it will deal with the issue the Deputy raised.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The fisheries Bill is ordered for Second Stage. We have legislation on fireworks; it is a question of enforcing it. If new legislation is required, which I understand the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has mentioned, I am sure that would be forthcoming.
- Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: A decision was made to appoint a mediator for the Corrib gas pipeline issue. On the Minister's speech yesterday at the conference in Dublin Castle, I am not certain that any legislation is necessary but we are all conscious of what we need to do in the area of telecommunications.
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The Pensions (Abatement) Act 1965 provides for the suspension or reduction of an allowance or pension where, after retirement, a scheme pensioner is employed in an agency or organisation in which the superannuation scheme paying the pension applies. The application of abatement provisions is set out in section 113 of the Local Government Superannuation (Consolidation) Scheme, Article 19 of...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The charging for long-stay care under the Health (Amendment) Act 2005 is being implemented by way of the Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005. These regulations were signed on 14 June 2005 and re-instated charges for inpatient services as well as providing for the levying of a charge in respect of the maintenance of persons in receipt of inpatient services. The...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to human resource management issues within the Health Service Executive. As this is a matter for the executive under the Health Act 2004, 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 — EU Directives: EU Directives (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy will find the latest position on directives awaiting transposition by the Department of Health and Children as set out in the following table. The process transposing four directives has not yet been completed. In one case the process has been delayed by legal action. In two cases with an end-October deadline the drafting is almost complete. It is complete in the remaining case...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is not collated by my Department. 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 these matters...
- Written Answers — Sheltered Accommodation: Sheltered Accommodation (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long-stay charges for publicly funded residential care. All those fully eligible persons who are alive, including those with disability or psychiatric illness, who were illegally charged for publicly-funded, long-term residential care will have the charges repaid in full. The estates of all those who were so charged...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (27 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: Section 53 of the Health Act 1970, as amended by the Health (Amendment) Act 2005, provides, inter alia, for the levying of a charge where inpatient services have been provided for a period of not less than 30 days or for periods aggregating not less than 30 days within the previous 12 months. The Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005 were signed on 14 June 2005. These...