Results 9,121-9,140 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: By the way, I do not think I ever got a report from this group.
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I just get clippings from the newspapers from the press office on what the Deputy says every day.
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Deputy Rabbitte is obviously monitoring him, so it is alright.
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The roll-out of a national cervical screening programme is the most efficient population approach to preventing and controlling cervical cancer. It is my objective to have such a programme rolled out, beginning late this year, based on an affordable model. For that purpose, on 1 January this year, I established a national cancer screening service which amalgamates BreastCheck and the Irish...
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: It is true that there has been cervical cancer screening in other jurisdictions for some considerable time, including the United Kingdom and Canada, where it was introduced in the 1960s. I acknowledge that we are way behind in many areas. However, we have in place a co-ordinated programme for the roll-out of both BreastCheck and a cervical cancer screening programme on a sustainable basis....
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, no country has eliminated cervical cancer.
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Screening plays a major part, as it does with other cancers. We are currently rolling out BreastCheck and in April it will be rolled out to the rest of the country. Clearly, rolling it out on a population basis cannot be done overnight. Particular issues arise with regard to lower socio-economic groups, which is why the issues of education and awareness, and the huge efforts being made in...
- Industrial Disputes. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The background to the planned industrial action by the Irish Nurses Organisation and Psychiatric Nurses Association is that they will not take part in the current benchmarking process which is reviewing the pay of public servants and is due to report in the second half of 2007. The INO and PNA have so far declined to sign up to the new national partnership agreement, Towards 2016. Both...
- Industrial Disputes. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, there is labour relations machinery in the State through which the eight claims in this matter were progressed. The Labour Court recommended that nurses pursue certain matters through the benchmarking process, in particular the issue with regard to the approximately 1,000 nurses in the mental health area, where those reporting to them receive about â¬3,000 per annum...
- Industrial Disputes. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: We have a process for dealing with relative pay claims, the benchmarking process, and this is the approach suggested by the Labour Court with regard to the issue raised by the Deputy. There are 1,000 nurses working in the mental health service in which those reporting to them are paid approximately â¬3,000 more than them. The reason for this is that their work is extraordinarily difficult...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I take it that the Deputy is referring to a discussion document prepared by the joint department of medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and Louth County Hospital in advance of a meeting between the joint department and the National Hospitals Office. I have seen a copy of the document and I am advised that it is the subject of ongoing discussions between the National Hospitals...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: There is nothing new in the Deputy's call for my resignation, as he calls for it frequently on the radio station in the north east.
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I have visited both hospitals and seen at first hand the wonderful way in which the joint surgical department works. Essentially, day surgery is performed in Dundalk and more complex surgery in Drogheda. The system works well and the volume of surgical procedures in both hospitals has increased substantially as a result. The new road network makes the joint working process more acceptable...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: We are doing so, and for as long as I have been in the Oireachtas â 30 years this summer â hospitals in the north east have been a major political issue. Every time that we were about to get around to doing something imaginative, it was suddenly reversed, one of the reasons behind current problems. The consultant cardiothoracic surgeon appointed, Ms McGovern, is well respected...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: He will also be aware that it is the most reviewed region in the country. There have been several reports, one of them being Teamwork.
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: We have had several reviews and at last things are improving because decisions that should have been made years ago are being taken, particularly the decision to have a state-of-the-art hospital, something lacking in the region. That is why so many patients have to come to the Dublin area.
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: People generally want to stay in their own region if the facilities are there and that is what will happen.
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I welcome the publication of the Competition Authority's report on competition in the health insurance market and the Health Insurance Authority's companion report published last Friday. The Competition Authority report makes 16 recommendations. Several are of a very technical nature and require further consideration by the Department and the Health Insurance Authority. Many of the...
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I find Deputy Twomey's intervention extraordinary because when BUPA announced that it was to pull out, he stated on the airwaves that the risk equalisation was far too severe.
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I did a great deal about it. For example, I fought a very successful court case and won. The way the Deputy is going on, one would think that we had lost it.