Results 9,261-9,280 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Order for Second Stage (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I move: "That the Bill now be read a Second Time." The Government has decided today that emergency legislation should be introduced in the House today to amend the Health Insurance Acts. This urgent measure is required to support our system of community rating that ensures health insurance is affordable for older and sicker people. It closes any potential abuse of the three-year exemption...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: They say a week is a long time in politics, but it is clear that a couple of hours is a long time in politics. I accept that Deputies had to reflect after this afternoon's briefing on this legislation. I want to repeat the comments I made when I spoke frankly and honestly at the briefing. I was asked when the Department became aware of this difficulty. The possibility that there may be a...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I want community rating and competition, above all else. My colleagues in Government and I will do whatever it takes to have both. I have been advised by legal personnel and others who are experts in this area that as long as there is a three year holiday, which does not exist in other countries which have risk equalisation, one will never be certain that a company will not exit after three...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I asked some of the companies that came knocking on my door recently to explain the reason they did not come into the market before. One replied they thought the Irish market was at saturation point at 37% a number of years and they never envisaged it would grow to 52% of the population. The market has grown by encouraging younger people to join, particularly in times of economic success...
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The issues of nurses' pay and working hours have been fully processed through the State's industrial relations structures and procedures â the Labour Relations Commission and the Labour Court. While health service management have accepted the Labour Court Recommendation, the Irish Nurses Organisation and Psychiatric Nurses Association state that they have neither accepted nor rejected this...
- Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (21 Feb 2007)
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 (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The assessment of eligibility to medical cards is statutorily a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE) and is determined following an examination of the means of the applicant and his/her dependants. Under Section 45 of the Health 1970 medical cards are provided for persons who, in the opinion of the HSE, are unable without undue hardship to arrange general practitioner medical and...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular question raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs...
- Written Answers — Irish Medicines Board: Irish Medicines Board (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Ginko Biloba is currently licensed for use in this country for the treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive disease, a disease caused by varying degrees of obstruction to blood flow through the arteries of the legs. This product has been classified as a prescription only medicine as its use is not considered suitable for self medication but more appropriate for treatment under the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The monitoring and appropriate care of patients receiving anti-coagulation therapy with Warfarin comes within the scope of competence of general practice. The Health Service Executive has the operational and funding responsibility for services provided by General Practitioners to persons eligible for such services free of charge and, accordingly, it is the appropriate body to consider the...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Over 120,000 people work full-time or part-time in our public health services. In recent years, the Government's ongoing high level of investment in health has achieved and maintained significant increases in the numbers of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has also invested heavily in the education and training of such...
- Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The 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 the specific matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose not to use a script if that is in order.
- Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The topic for discussion this afternoon is the health reform agenda. The words "health reform" are meaningless to most people. Essentially health reform concerns improving services to patients in all areas of the health system, including at hospital level, in the disability sector, in the mental health area and in acute hospitals. The journey the Government has begun of reforming the...
- Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: We had a long debate on the matter and there is a strategy in place, in particular to recruit infection control nurses, surveillance scientists and antibiotic pharmacists. I have said many times that hygiene is a significant issue in our hospitals. It has a role to play in respect of infection. Hand hygiene is the most important form of hygiene in this regard, but hygiene in general is...
- Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I do not agree with euthanasia.
- Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: No, that is not the case.
- Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I was.
- Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I do not believe that. It is not even my own propaganda.