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- 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 — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (15 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (15 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department has had discussions with the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board about the development and operation of accreditation schemes for residential care and primary care services. The board intends to further develop these schemes in 2006.
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (15 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Disabled Drivers: Disabled Drivers (15 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: On 3 February, the Health Service Executive published a report on the delivery of tertiary paediatric services in this country. The HSE commissioned the report at my request. The report, which was prepared by McKinsey & Co., recommends that best outcomes for children should be provided by one national tertiary paediatric centre which would also provide all secondary paediatric services for...
- Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: The problem of addiction to prescription medicines relates mainly to drugs which are controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977 and 1984. Regulations made under those Acts provide a number of requirements for the security of prescriptions. Article 13 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1988 specifies the form of a medical prescription for certain controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs...
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (15 Feb 2006)
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 reinstated charges for inpatient services and provided for the levying of a charge in respect of the maintenance of persons in receipt of inpatient services. The regulations were...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 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 last month. I made available an...
- Order of Business. (16 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 8a, Finance Bill 2006 â allocation of time motion for Select Committee; No. 8b, Finance Bill 2006 â Financial Resolutions; No. 1a, Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2006 â Order for Second Stage and Second and Subsequent Stages; No. 14, Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad] â Second Stage (Resumed); and No. 1, Building Control Bill 2005 â Second...
- Order of Business. (16 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: The time being proposed by the Government includes from 12 noon to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, 21 February, with two short breaks; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 22 February, with two short breaks; and 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, 23 February. That is a considerable amount of time and we are not in a position to give any more. Question, "That the proposal for dealing with Nos. 8a and 8b be...
- Order of Business. (16 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: This is a small technical Bill which would give the Minister the power to make regulations governing the first election of members of the council. Question, "That the proposal for dealing with No. 1a be agreed to", put and declared carried.
- Order of Business. (16 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: With regard to representatives from Northern Ireland having access to committees in Leinster House, the Taoiseach has sought to get consensus among all parties. He has been acting in this capacity as leader of the largest party. It has not yet been possible to reach agreement on the matter. Over the past 12 months, as the Deputy is aware, there has been a report by Mercer on the issue of care...
- Order of Business. (16 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: On the article in The Irish Times this morning, the Government did not have any such report at Cabinet yesterday nor did it discuss public opinion polls on housing. I do not know where the report came from but it certainly was not on the agenda yesterday, nor did any such document form part of any discussion. I know the piece was written by a reputable journalist but it did not reflect reality.
- Order of Business. (16 Feb 2006)
Mary Harney: On Tallaght Hospital, the head of the National Hospitals Office, Mr. John O'Brien, has been in discussions with Tallaght Hospital on issues there as a result of both the process mapping that was done of the hospital and its procedures and policies. The hospital had very high levels of elective admissions this week, as it happens. Over a two-hour period it seems the numbers on the trolleys...