Results 6,521-6,540 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Home Help Service: Home Help Service (25 May 2006)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to human resource management issues within the Health Service Executive. As these are matters for the Executive under the Health Act 2004, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have them investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Funding: Hospital Funding (25 May 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (25 May 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (25 May 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 (25 May 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (25 May 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 — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (25 May 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department has been advised by the Chief Executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) that the NTPF currently provides procedures for patients requiring spinal cord stimulators subject to patient suitability and having regard to the arrangements made by the NTPF with relevant public and private hospitals.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (25 May 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 provision of the Housing Aid Scheme for the Elderly, on behalf of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Accordingly, the Department has requested...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 May 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department has recently received a copy of the Report of the Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening Working Group and is in discussion with the Health Service Executive in relation to its implementation.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (25 May 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (25 May 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 — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 May 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 128 together. The Health Strategy set as a target that no public patient should wait longer than three months for in-patient treatment in hospital following referral from an out-patient department. Responsibility for the collection and reporting of data on waiting times now rests with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). It has developed the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (25 May 2006)
Mary Harney: The Health Strategy contained a commitment to increase the number of acute hospital beds by 3000 over a ten year period. The Strategy did not set a mid-way target or a target of beds to be provided by year. In 2001, the year of the publication of Health Strategy, the average number of in-patient beds and day places available for treatment of patients in public acute hospitals was 12,145....
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (25 May 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 129 to 132, inclusive, together. As previously advised to the Deputy in my reply to his Parliamentary Question (No. 6666/06) of the 21st February, 2006, my Department is not one of the Departments earmarked for decentralisation under the Civil Service Decentralisation Programme. It may be of interest to know that 34 staff in my Department have formally...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (25 May 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, the 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 — Lottery Funding: Lottery Funding (30 May 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 189 and 190 together. Capital lottery funding provided for my Department has remained constant over the past five years at â¬2.539m. In the years 2005 and 2006 the funding is within Vote 40 for the HSE. This lottery funding forms part of the overall Capital Programme for that Vote. It is not available for the provision of discretionary grants to individual...
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (30 May 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 192 and 210 together. Under the GMS Scheme general practitioners hold one of two contract types i.e. the Fee per Item contract (first introduced in 1972) or the Capitation contract (effective from 1989). These contracts reflect the agreed outcome of negotiations between the Department of Health and Children and the GP representative body, the Irish Medical...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (30 May 2006)
Mary Harney: It is currently envisaged that repayments will commence shortly after the Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006 is approved and signed into law and an outside company has been appointed to administer the repayment scheme. The Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006 provides a clear legal framework for a scheme to repay recoverable health charges for publicly funded long term residential care. The...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (30 May 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 Bodies: Departmental Bodies (30 May 2006)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is currently being compiled by my Department and will be forwarded to him as soon as it is finalised.