Results 5,741-5,760 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (22 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: Under the Health (Amendment) Act 1986, the Health Service Executive may impose charges on all patients for treatment arising out of injuries sustained in road traffic accidents where compensation is subsequently payable. The Act does not withdraw eligibility for public hospital services from road traffic accident victims but allows the Health Service Executive to recover the costs of all...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: On the request for information relating to January 1997 and January 2002 I have asked the Health Service Executive, HSE, to provide this directly to the Deputy. Information from the HSE shared services primary care reimbursement service indicates that the following numbers of persons held a medical card in January 2006 and March 2006 â the latest available information â in respect of...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 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 case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (22 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 removed the compulsory retirement age of 65 for "new entrant" public servants recruited after 1 April 2004. For existing employees, identified in the Act as not being "new entrant" public servants, the maximum retirement age remains 65. However, public health service employees who have retired are sometimes re-employed on...
- Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (22 Mar 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. This includes responsibility for the sale of lands referred to by the Deputy. The Deputy will probably be aware that, as a Vote holder, the executive would, in respect of the sale of lands, be subject to...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive in the first instance. Accordingly, it is more appropriate for discussions to be held with the HSE with regard to this group.
- Written Answers — Animal Experimentation: Animal Experimentation (22 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The statistics referred to by the Deputy are compiled and made available every third year as is required by Directive 86/609/EEC regarding the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes. The latest published statistics relate to 2002 and a copy of these has already been provided to the Deputy. My Department is currently compiling the 2005 statistics and these...
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 14, Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad] â Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 12, National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006 â Second Stage, resumed; and No. 15, statements on care for the elderly, to be taken at 1.30 p.m., and the order shall not resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that...
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: Deputy Bruton is correct. The Health (Nursing Homes)(Amendment) Bill, which was published yesterday, will deal with certain legal issues and will ensure that we have primary backing for the subvention scheme. It is being done on the advice of the Attorney General. The wider issue of eligibility and entitlement is the subject of ongoing work within the Department of Health and Children and...
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The new Bill will allow me to make regulations to change some of the existing criteria in respect of how the family home is calculated and so on. This Bill, which was published yesterday and which we hope will get through the House very quickly, will allow us to make regulations to change the existing manner in which the family home is taken into account as notional income. At present, this...
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I am not franchising anything.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: No legislation is promised in this regard. It would be normal for a company to establish itself.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The people involved are Irish.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: No legislation is promised in this regard.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: All those Bills will be published during this session.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The legislation will be published later this year. Clearly, the latter matter does not require legislation and that would be a matter the Deputy should discuss with the Whips.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The legislation will obviously be published this year. If there is not commercially sensitive information in reports, they are always published. That report has not yet been received by the Government.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: It has not yet been received by the Government.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: There is no legislation promised in this area. Recently Professor Drumm wrote to every Member of the Oireachtas on the parliamentary affairs unit that has been established and is being strengthened within the HSE.
- Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: No, there is no fall guy.