Results 5,101-5,120 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: The ex gratia payment scheme refunded fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged for publicly funded long-stay residential care and who were alive on 9 December 2004. Those qualifying under the scheme were paid up to a maximum of â¬2,000 and 10,798 persons have received an ex gratia payment to date at a cost of â¬20.819 million. The payments made under this scheme will be incorporated...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: Under the Health Act 2004 the Health Service Executive has responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including services provided at Beaumont Hospital. While the Deputy's question does not specifically relate to the provision of a health service, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Feb 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 have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 246 and 247 together. Following the death of Mr. Patrick Walsh in Monaghan Hospital on 14 October 2005, the Health Service Executive commissioned Mr. Patrick Declan Carey, a consultant surgeon at Belfast City Hospital and an honorary senior lecturer at Queen's University, and Professor John Monson, Professor of Surgery, University of Hull, to carry out an...
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: This product was approved throughout the European Union in 2000 for the treatment of non-early stage breast cancer in patients who satisfy the criteria outlined in the licence. It is available for use in this country under these circumstances. The use of medicinal products outside the licence indication would generally be exceptional and decided case by case. The product concerned is a...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 249 and 250 together. My Department is not one of the Departments earmarked for decentralisation under the Civil Service decentralisation programme. Therefore, the issue of staff at Secretary General and assistant secretary level wishing to decentralise with my Department does not arise. In 2004, the Department of Finance requested each Secretary General or...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Feb 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 have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: Following from my meeting with the group MRSA and Families, I wrote to Professor Drumm, chief executive of the Health Service Executive, HSE, on the issues raised by the relatives and victims of MRSA at our meeting. In relation to the communication of information to patients infected with MRSA, my Department understands that the HSE intends to issue a direction to hospitals on this matter....
- Written Answers — Cancer Services: Cancer Services (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: The national service plan 2006 of the Health Service Executive provides a commitment to develop proposals to support patients who have to travel long distances to access specialist services, with particular focus in 2006 on those travelling for radiotherapy treatment. I approved this plan in December and it was laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas earlier this month. I made available an...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Feb 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 have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Feb 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 have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Feb 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. My Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated urgently and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Organ Donation: Organ Donation (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: The annual organ donor awareness campaign, which is organised by the Irish Donor Network and administered by the Irish Kidney Association, highlights the necessity for organ donation generally. The campaign, which is supported by my Department, highlights the need for organ donors by promoting the carrying of a organ donor card. There are two systems that can be used to ascertain an...
- Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 267 together. My predecessor, the Minister, Deputy Martin, met the Survivors of Symphysiotomy, SOS, group in late 2003 and agreed that a range of measures would be put in place to support the group. My Department is advised by the Health Service Executive, HSE, that the following is the position with regard to the services now in place. The former...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 Feb 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 have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: The general rules and policy relating to the national repayment scheme have been set out in responses to previous parliamentary questions. These can be made available to the Deputy should he require them. As the Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the scheme, inquiries relating to individual cases are referred to the parliamentary affairs division of the executive....
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 270 and 272 together. Multiple sclerosis, MS, is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, CNS, that is, the brain and spinal chord. Predominantly, it is a disease of the white matter. White matter is made up of nerve fibres which are responsible for transmitting communication signals both internally within the CNS and between the CNS and the...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: The National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, was established as one of the key actions for dealing with public hospital waiting lists arising from the 2001 health strategy. The NTPF is used to treat public patients who have been waiting longest for surgery. It is not intended to expand the remit of the NTPF to funding the type of treatment referred to by the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 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 have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 275 to 277, inclusive, together. There are no plans at present to set up a training facility here for audiologists. The Deputy may wish to note the large increase in the number of audiologists employed in the public health system in the past decade. The relevant numbers are set out in the following tables. Audiologists (all grades) by Health Service...