Results 841-860 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: My Department is aware of a previous proposal to provide a private MRI facility on the grounds of St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny. Following discussions with the South Eastern Health Board last year it was agreed that the issues involved would be kept under review in the light of the board's regional MRI requirements. Public CAT scanning facilities are already on site at the hospital and my...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services for residents of County Kilkenny rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 232, 233 and 235 together. The planning brief prepared by the former North Eastern Health Board envisages using the existing shelled-out ward accommodation known as surgical three to facilitate the provision of 19 additional beds, and the commissioning of the shelled-out fourth operating theatre. The board estimated the overall capital cost of the proposals in...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Monaghan General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer of...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The development of private hospital facilities in the Limerick region is essentially a matter for individual private investors. The Mid-Western Health Board had previously raised with the Department the development of a private hospital on the site of the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick. I am in the process of developing an overall policy framework which will identify the policy...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the health services in the mid-western region rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for provision of health centres rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for provision of health centres rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for provision of health centres rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services for residents of County Kilkenny rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of hospital services rests with the Executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The latest figures available from the Health Service Executive â shared services, primary care reimbursement service â are those for December 2004. The number of persons in possession of a medical card in each county is as follows: County Number of persons in possession of a medical card Dublin 274,272 Kildare 37,195 Wicklow 27,612 Laois 17,133 Longford 12,384 Offaly...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 and 268 together. Some â¬60 million has been provided for in the 2005 Estimates for health to improve access to primary care by providing for additional persons to become eligible for a medical card and free access to GP visits for those on low income. The medical card income guidelines were increased from 1 January 2005 by 7.5% generally and in specific...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services for residents of County Kilkenny rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for education and training of health service employees, including in relation to phlebotomy training, rests with the executive. My...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of the Act to...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 260 and 261 together. Westdoc is an out-of-hours general practitioner led service which operates on a partnership basis between the participating GPs and the Health Service Executive, western area. The service has been operating since December 2002 and to date it has received over 95,000 patient contacts. Westdoc has 107 general practitioners providing service...
- Written Answers — National Archives Act 1986: National Archives Act 1986 (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: Section 8 of the National Archives Act 1986 requires that departmental records that are more than 30 years old should be transferred to the National Archives where they shall be made available for inspection by the public. However, the Act also provides an exemption from this requirement where records are required in connection with a Department's administration and where their transfer to...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: Following the establishment of the Health Service Executive, HSE, on 1 January 2005, the HSE has responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including those functions previously carried out by chief executive officers of former health boards, area boards and authority. As part of the transition arrangements and as provided for in the Health Act 2004,...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (26 Jan 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services at Letterkenny General Hospital rests with the executive. My Department has, therefore, requested the...