Results 4,781-4,800 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: If the HSE could run an overdraft, we would not be having this debate either but we will not do that anymore. More transparency, a clearer pictureââ
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: As the Minister for Finance stated and as I quoted in my speech, there will be no loss to the health system as a result of this.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The Oireachtas votes the total sum for the HSE and the Department and switching money from one subhead to another does not require the approval of the Oireachtas. When the HSE informed us on 22 December, the Secretary General of the Department informed me. I remember him telling me the position on the day, and again on 17 January. I am not being told I should have made a statement on 22...
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: That did not happen.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: Many of the people commenting on this are trying to create the impression that something which should have been used for equipment and buildings was used for day-to-day spending. That did not happen.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I do not know what this has to do with the HSE accounting issue. Commitments made by the HSE during 2005 regarding facilities at Ennis hospital will be fulfilled.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: Switching from one subhead to another and balancing the position is a matter for the Department of Finance and if the Department did not approve it, a Supplementary Estimate would be required. That is the technical procedure. Precise detail is not provided week by week when a Department is spending â¬11 billion. Estimates close to budget are provided, as people try to forecast demand. Many...
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The capital budget surplus had not been spent on revenue, which cannot happen without approval. The Minister for Finance confirmed in the House yesterday and in the Seanad earlier that there is no question of the capital budget suffering a loss of â¬56 million. The financial year is the same. While the accounts will be produced by 31 March, they will relate to the calendar year, 1 January to...
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: Yes, in accordance with the Minister for Finance's contributions in the House yesterday and the Seanad earlier, there will be no loss to the capital programme and, therefore, if the situation that emerged on 17 January pertains when the accounts are signed off, what the Deputy is suggesting will have to happen. The 2005 accounts will be balanced and the shortfall will have to be made up so...
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: There will not be a carryover. It will have to be an additional sum.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The amount cannot be carried over if it is not there. Let us not play games.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I am not saying it is gone. If the position on 17 January turns out to be the final position for 2005, there will be a surplus in capital funding of â¬56 million and an overspend on revenue. One of the options in reconciling this is to balance one against the other with the permission of the Department of Finance.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: No. If that turns out to be the position, the Minister of Finance is on record in both Houses that there will be no overfunding of the capital programme as a result of this matter.
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The overdrafts were in the Revised Estimates published early last year. With regard to Deputy Gregory's question, the Mater-Temple Street project will cost almost â¬500 million. It will comprise a major proportion of the HSE's capital programme for several years. Tertiary paediatric facilities in the Dublin area are provided at Crumlin, Tallaght, Beaumont and Temple Street hospitals....
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: There is no commitment gone to do the development. It is just on hold for the moment.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (26 Jan 2006)
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 were wrongly charged and are alive and the estates of all those who were wrongly charged and are dead since 9 December 1998 will have the charges repaid in full. The repayments will include both the actual charge paid and an...