Results 11,801-11,820 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The tables below detail the numbers and grades of staff employed in the private and constituency offices of Mr Brendan Smith T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for children. Private Office Grade Civil Servant/Other Annual Salary â'¬ Special Adviser Other 95,363 Private Secretary Civil Servant 70,724 Executive Officer Civil Servant 44,697 Clerical Officer Civil Servant...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The tables below detail the numbers and grades of staff employed in the private and consituency offices of Dr Jimmy Devins T.D. Minister of State with special responsibility for Disability Issues and Mental Health (excluding discrimination). Private Office Grade Civil Servant/Other Annual Salary â'¬ Special Adviser Other 82,016 Private Secretary Civil Servant 69,954 Executive...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The tables below detail the numbers and grades of staff employed in the private and consituency offices of Ms Máire Hoctor T.D., Minister of State with special responsibility for Older People. The tables below detail the numbers and grades of staff employed in the private and consituency offices of Ms Máire Hoctor T.D., Minister of State with special responsibility for Older People. ...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: There are currently 14 EU Directives awaiting transposition in my Department. Details of the dates by which transposition is due are as follows:â (1)2006/81/EC adapting Directive 95/17/EC as regards the non-inclusion of one or more ingredients on the list used for labelling of cosmetic products and Directive 2005/78/EC as regards the measures to be taken against the emission of gaseous and...
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: MRSA is not a notifiable disease. However, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre of the HSE collects data on MRSA. The data is collected on the first episode of blood stream infection of MRSA per patient per quarter. This system shows that there were 445 cases in 2002, 480 cases in 2003, 553 cases in 2004, 592 cases on 2005 and 588 in 2006. Figures for the first six months of 2007...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The Government's sustained high level of investment in healthcare has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors. This year, overall capital funding of â¬546 million has been provided to the Health Service Executive. Responsibility for the planning and management of capital projects in the health sector, including the...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provides a clear legal framework to repay recoverable health charges for publicly funded long term residential care. All those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged and are alive will have their charges repaid in full. The estates of all those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged for publicly funded long term residential care and...
- Written Answers — Hospital Facilities: Hospital Facilities (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: On 29 March 2004 most enclosed places of work â including hospitals (other than psychiatric hospitals) â became smoke-free. The primary purpose of the measure is to protect the health of employees and the public (including patients, in the case of hospitals) from exposure to toxic environmental tobacco smoke. There are no plans to permit smoking in hospitals.
- Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (6 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 205 and 206 together. In the period between the 1st March, 2007 and 1st October, 2007 my office received approximately 6,500 items of correspondence. This figure covers all correspondence of various kinds received by my office. Each item of correspondence is tracked by surname and is not otherwise broken down by classification of the sender. Approximately...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (6 Nov 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.
- Estimates for Public Services 2007. (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I move: That a supplementary sum not exceeding â¬1,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December 2007 for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster General's Office, for certain services administered by the Office of the Minister and for payment of certain grants...
- Cancer Services: Statements (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I believe all Members are at one in expressing their sincere sympathy for all the women affected by these failings of the Midland Regional Hospital radiology services. As Minister for Health and Children, I offer an unreserved apology to the women who have been caused needless anxiety since August and, most especially, to the women who been given false results and whose treatment has been...
- Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed) (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I did not open a theatre; I launched a CT scanner.
- Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed) (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: Or suspected.
- Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed) (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I do not think I have opened any private hospitals.
- Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed) (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I have been in them but I have not opened them.
- Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: Obviously, the evidence is evolving all the time. When Professor O'Higgins produced his report in 2000, the advice was that a centre should deal with 100 new cases. By 2007, this figure had moved to at least 150 cases a year. What is being said is that the number should be at least 150 cases and 50 per surgeon. A number of other criteria are involved. For example, in the case of...
- Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The Deputy asked me a large number of questions.
- Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I do not know if the format permits me to answer all of them.