Results 101-120 of 3,665 for speaker:Seán Power

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: As the Deputy will be aware, the placing of a person in a private nursing home is a private matter between the person or his or her representatives and the nursing home, as are the fees charged for that service. The nursing home subvention scheme was introduced to help people with some of the cost of this service and is based on need, both medical and financial. Consequently, the issue of...

Written Answers — Health Centres: Health Centres (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in the Dublin 5 area rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Health Centres: Health Centres (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in the Dublin 5 area rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in each county rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officers for each...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of the Act to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in Sligo rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: That could be a great exaggeration.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The motion which has been tabled requested that the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children take immediate action to address problems in the accident and emergency units of our hospitals. It should be clear by now that the Minister has put accident and emergency services at the top of her agenda. As has previously been mentioned, the Minister has, in cooperation with the Minister for...

Hospital Services. (27 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: It is an indication of the respect in which Deputy Cowley is held that the leader of the Opposition remained in the House to hear his contribution. I thank the Deputy Cowley for raising this matter on the Adjournment. The national casemix programme compares costs and activity between 37 hospitals that participate in the programme. The programme incorporates over €3 billion of expenditure...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Jan 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of health services in Ballyfermot rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: My Department does not directly fund or co-ordinate health and personal social services to victims of abuse. Moneys are made available each year, formerly through the health boards, and now through the Health Service Executive, for the provision of services to women victims of violence. In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in funding so that more than €12 million is...

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of health services in County Clare. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The National Task Force on Violence against Women's report of 1997 set out a blueprint for a national strategy on violence against women and led to the establishment of the National Steering Committee on Violence against Women which is chaired by the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The purpose of the steering committee is to provide a...

Written Answers — Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: My Department is represented on and committed to the work of the National Steering Committee on Violence against Women, as is the Health Service Executive.

Written Answers — Services for Victims of Sexual Assault: Services for Victims of Sexual Assault (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: Following a recommendation from the National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women that the need for additional sexual assault units around the country should be examined by my Department, I have established a committee under the chairmanship of a senior departmental official to consider the matter. The committee will be representative of the relevant statutory, voluntary and...

Written Answers — Services for Victims of Sexual Assault: Services for Victims of Sexual Assault (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: I presume the Deputy is referring to a sub-committee of the National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women which is being established under the aegis of my Department. I assure the Deputy that the group will be representative of the appropriate statutory, voluntary and professional interests and will be geographically representative.

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of the housing aid scheme for the elderly in Clare, on behalf of the Department of the...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of...

Written Answers — Home Help Service: Home Help Service (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of home help services in County Kerry. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (1 Feb 2005)

Seán Power: The Nursing Home (Care and Welfare) Regulations 1993 set out the standards to which the private nursing home sector must adhere for the purpose of registration under the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990. The regulations apply only to the private nursing home sector and do not cover public long-stay facilities for older people. However, there is a commitment in the health strategy to extend the...