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- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Nov 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Nov 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The Executive...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (14 Nov 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 to 133, inclusive, 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 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. The Executive, therefore, is the appropriate body to consider the particular...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: There is an abundance of strong, international evidence to show that patients with cancer have the best chance of survival if they are treated by clinicians who treat a large number of patients with a similar condition per year. To secure these benefits requires a consolidation of cancer treatment services to a smaller number of centres and a smaller number of clinicians. A clear case for...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Nov 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: A person with full eligibility who opts to be treated as a public patient in a public hospital should not be charged. My Department has instructed the HSE to ensure that such patients are not so charged.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is currently in the process of completing an investigation, in accordance with Section 9 (1) of the Health Act 2007, which includes examination of the pathology services provided by the HSE at Cork University Hospital as part of symptomatic breast disease services provided to a patient by the HSE. The full terms of reference for this...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (14 Nov 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 questions raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Nov 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: Nearly 130,000 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 number 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...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The health repayment scheme was launched in August 2006 and is administered by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in conjunction with the appointed Scheme Administrator KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald. The HSE has indicated that the scheme is progressing as speedily as possible and every effort is being made to complete payments. The time taken to process each application varies depending on the...
- Written Answers — Registration of Marriages: Registration of Marriages (14 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The provisions of Part 6 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 were commenced on 5 November 2007 and govern the procedures for notification, solemnisation and registration of marriages within the State. The previous legislation dated back to Victorian statutes from 1844 and 1863 and were outmoded and inadequate to a modern society. To address the issues involved, in 1999, an Inter-Departmental...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (15 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The report referred to by the Deputy was published by the Health Service Executive on Tuesday 13 November 2007.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (15 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The National Cancer Screening Service Board (Establishment) Order, 2006 was signed by me on 14 December 2006 and came into effect on 1 January 2007. The Order provides that the quorum for a meeting of the Board is five members. Five members of the Board were appointed with effect from 1 January 2007 and the remaining seven members of the Board were appointed on 31 January 2007.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Nov 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (15 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy's question relates to the operation of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, my Department has asked the Chief Executive of the Fund to reply directly to the Deputy in relation to the information requested.
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (15 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I take it the question refers to a repayment under the Health Repayment Scheme. 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...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Travel: Ministerial Travel (15 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: Since the formation of the new Government, my Department paid â¬318 in respect of air travel for Minister of State, Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, who travelled to Athens in October to attend an International Health Conference. In addition, I travelled by Government aircraft twice in both September and October and once in November. Also, Minister of State Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher and...