Results 1,021-1,040 of 1,371 for speaker:Máire Hoctor
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I presume the Deputy is asking whether individual subvention payments will be maintained at their current level until such time as the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme, A Fair Deal, is introduced. The Nursing Home Subvention Scheme is governed by the Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Act 2007. Under the Act, the maximum amount for basic subvention is â¬300 per week. The Act also provides...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I presume the Deputy is asking whether individual subvention payments will be maintained at their current level until such time as the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme, A Fair Deal, is introduced. The Nursing Home Subvention Scheme is governed by the Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Act 2007. Under the Act, the maximum amount for basic subvention is â¬300 per week. The Act also provides...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The scheme referred to by the Deputy would not fall under the direct remit of my Department. However, the National Development Plan which gives effect to many of the commitments contained in 'Towards 2016' recognised older people as one of the main groups at risk from social exclusion. The supports for minimising social exclusion among older people relates to a wide range of measures in...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (25 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Food Poverty: Food Poverty (26 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Food poverty is usually defined as an inability to obtain an adequate, nutritious diet, because of lack of money, physical difficulty in getting to and from suitable shops, lack of equipment or cooking skills, and linguistic or cultural barriers. My Department's concern is to ensure that disadvantaged groups in particular have the resources available to enable them to have a healthy and...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (26 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170 and 171 together. Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (27 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (27 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (2 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I fully appreciate the concerns expressed to me to develop health facilities on this site. However, as I indicated to the Deputy in my reply to his Parliamentary Question of 18 November last, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is the appropriate statutory body to consider in the first instance any proposals in this regard. I understand that the Executive subsequently wrote to the Deputy...
- Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: They are not.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 168 together. Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I refer to the particular matter raised by the Deputy. A central objective of the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme, A Fair Deal, is to ensure that care is affordable for all who need it and that no-one has to sell their home during their lifetime in order to pay for their care. In order to meet this objective, the scheme provides that a person may defer contributions based on their family...
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Deputy will appreciate that since the end of August 2008, the Housing Aid for Older People (HAOP) scheme, which includes the Essential Repairs Grant has been administered by the local authorities. The Health Service Executive has confirmed that it does not have an application on hand for the individual referred to by the Deputy. The issue raised therefore in this case is primarily a...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...