Results 10,741-10,760 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy may be aware, an additional sum of â¬75m for revenue purposes was provided to the Health Service Executive for Disability Services in the 2007 Budget. This sum incorporates the 2007 element of the Government's multi-annual investment programme for the National Disability Strategy. This Strategy is committed to enhancing the level and range of multi-disciplinary support...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jun 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: 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 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: The Primary Care Strategy aims to support and promote the health and well-being of the population by developing multi-disciplinary teams of professionals, including general practitioners, which enable the vast majority of people's health and social care needs to be met in their local community. I recognise that in order to support and facilitate this model of care, general practitioners...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: Medical cards are made available to persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services. In 2005 the GP visit card was introduced as a graduated benefit so that people on moderate and lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who do not qualify for a medical card would not be deterred on cost grounds...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: Medical cards are made available to persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services. In 2005 the GP visit card was introduced as a graduated benefit so that people on moderate and lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who do not qualify for a medical card would not be deterred on cost grounds...
- Written Answers — Departmental Surveys: Departmental Surveys (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: The National Rehabilitation Unit, Dun Laoghaire is the only capital project approved in the Capital Plan 2007 which requires a cost benefit analysis. The cost benefit analysis for this project has been commissioned and is currently underway. This exercise is expected to be completed by the end of August 2007.
- European Council. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: It is not appropriate.
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: I congratulate Deputy Howlin on his election to the Office of Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I have no doubt he will be an outstanding Leas-Cheann Comhairle and that he may be tempted from time to time to intervene inappropriately, given that he is a man with strong opinions on many subjects, including health. There have been a number of important developments in regard to the new national...
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: Professor Drumm informed me that that recommendation had been made. I acquired the information from the HSE. I believed it was important that it be put into the public domain as quickly as possible given the confusion caused by the misrepresentation of what was happening in this area. It was always the case, as the Deputy will be aware, that in addition to a national children's hospital,...
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: They will not be major centres. There will be only one major centre and it will be located in Tallaght.
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: I am satisfied the model of care being put in place will deliver higher quality care to very sick children from the whole country. This is not only a hospital for Dublin. It is a hospital for the entire country. Between 40% and 45% of the patients will come from outside the Dublin area. This is the model of care that operates in the best children's hospitals in the world, such as those in...
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: As someone who tried to scare people in the Tallaght area I am sure Deputy Hayes was surprised at the outcome of the election.
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: Deputy Hayes told the electors there would be no children's services for all of Tallaght.
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: I saw his big hoardings.
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: More than 80% of the children currently treated at Tallaght will continue to be treated there. There will be an increased volume of activity at Tallaght.
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: The will go to the secondary care centre in the centre of Tallaght.
- Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: If people have suspected meningitis they should be in that kind of centre. They should be in the primary centre. If the Government believes, with the support of the Health Service Executive, that we should have a single paediatric hospital for very sick children it is appropriate that we go ahead with that. Among the people urging me to proceed was the chairman designate, who was keen to...
- Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has informed my Department that the number of patients receiving dialysis treatment at the Limerick Regional Hospital has increased by approximately 20% in the last two years. I understand the dialysis service in Limerick now runs on a seven days a week basis, working at maximum capacity, providing 277 treatments for 99 patients a week. Five patients from the...
- Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: People frequently talk in terms of crisis and things being desperate in the public health care system. Recently, the chief executive of the Bank of Ireland said some commentaries on the economy might send us into a recession. We need to be careful about the comments we make.