Results 601-620 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The housing aid scheme for the elderly in the Clare area is operated by the Mid-Western Health Board on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply directly to him as a matter of urgency.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 253 and 309 together. A pilot cervical screening programme commenced in October 2000 and is available to eligible women resident in Limerick, Clare and north Tipperary. Under the programme, cervical screening is being offered free of charge to 74,000 women in the 25 to 60 age group at five year intervals. The Health Board Executive commissioned an...
- Written Answers — Cosmetic Products: Cosmetic Products (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: Cosmetic products are subject to control under the European Communities (Cosmetic Products) Regulations 1997 (SI No. 87 of 1997). Under these regulations, persons placing cosmetic products on the market are required to ensure that they are not liable to cause damage to human health under normal and reasonably foreseeable conditions of use. Substances in use in cosmetic products continue to be...
- Written Answers — Health Board Staff: Health Board Staff (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: Responsibility for the provision of services to medical card holders, including the recruitment and selection of candidates to fill vacant general practitioner positions, is a matter for the chief executive officer of the relevant health board or authority. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer of the Western Health Board to investigate the matter raised by the...
- Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: Under the 1970 Health Act, a health board may arrange for the supply, without charge, of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances to people with a specified condition, for the treatment of that condition under the long-term illness scheme. The conditions are: mental handicap, mental illness, for people under 16 only, phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, spina bifida, hydrocephalus,...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: Responsibility for the provision of a medical card is, by legislation, a matter for the chief executive officer of the relevant health board-authority. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer of the South Eastern Health Board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and to reply to him directly.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: Responsibility for the provision of a medical card is, by legislation, a matter for the chief executive officer of the relevant health board-authority. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer of the South Eastern Health Board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and to reply to him directly.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: Responsibility for the provision of a medical card is, by legislation, a matter for the chief executive officer of the relevant health board-authority. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer of the South Eastern Health Board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and to reply to him directly.
- Written Answers — ESRI Report: ESRI Report (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The consultation fees charged by general practitioners to their private patients are a matter of private contract between the doctor as the service provider and the patient as the service user. The Department of Health and Children has no role in this relationship. As regards the issue raised in the ESRI report in relation to the current income guidelines for medical cards, it is the case...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 and 262 together. Having examined the board's stage 2 submission, development control plan, for phase 2B of the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, my Department approved proceeding to stage 3 planning for the project. The stages through which the project must now proceed, to its completion, are stages 3 to 8 inclusive which are as follows: stage 3 â...
- Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: I regret that, due to an administrative error in my Department, part of my reply to Question No. 387 on 5 October last was incorrect. There has, in fact, been a number of communications between my Department and the persons referred to by the Deputy. However, as I indicated in the previous reply, the clinic in question is privately operated and I have no function in the matter.
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: Provision for risk equalisation is a feature of the health insurance market following the introduction of the risk equalisation scheme 2003. Under the Health Insurance Acts and the provisions of the scheme, the Health Insurance Authority has a central and independent role to play in whether or not risk equalisation transfers between insurers are warranted. Participating insurers submit data...
- Written Answers — Health Board Services: Health Board Services (19 Oct 2004)
Mary Harney: The provision of health services for people living in County Kilkenny is a matter for the South Eastern Health Board. My Department has asked the chief executive officer of the board to examine the matter and to reply directly to the Deputy as a matter of urgency.