Results 12,201-12,220 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Nursing Education: Nursing Education (22 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is not routinely collected in my Department. I have however referred your question to An Bord Altranais, the statutory registration body for nursing to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Patient Statistics: Patient Statistics (22 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (22 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for recruitment procedures with regard to specialist training schemes for non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) and is the appropriate body to consider the matters raised in the Deputy's further Parliamentary Question. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matters investigated...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 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 — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (22 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 — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (22 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: BreastCheck commenced the screening process in the Southern region in October. I have allocated additional revenue funding of â¬8 million to the National Cancer Screening Service for this year to meet the additional costs involved in national roll-out. The full complement of 111 staff for roll-out has been approved. I have also made available an additional â¬26.7m capital funding for the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 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 — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (22 Nov 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 — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (22 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 95 and 96 together. As the Health Service Executive (HSE) has operational responsibility, under the Health Act 2004, for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, the issue of revised reimbursement prices for community pharmacy under the GMS and community drugs schemes, following the announcement by the HSE on 17 September 2007 of new...
- Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (22 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: The revenue raised from health contributions (also known as the Health Levy) and from other contributions or levies are classified as Appropriations-in-Aid of the Vote for the Health Service Executive (HSE). The following table sets out the detail of these Appropriations-in-Aid. Appropriations-in Aid Realised 2005 Realised 2006 Estimated 2007 ⬠000 ⬠000 ⬠000 Receipts from health...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (22 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I am having enquiries made in my Department to obtain the information sought by the Deputy and this will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all the words after "Dáil Eireann" and substitute the following: expresses its sympathy and regret to the women who were patients at the Midland Regional Hospital at Portlaoise and their families, who were affected by errors of misdiagnosis and miscommunication; deeply regrets, most particularly, that a review of diagnoses became necessary; expresses its...
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: In everything I have done since I became the Minister for Health and Children, I have put patients first. Tonight, I apologise to the patients of the former Midland Health Board, particularly those at Portlaoise Hospital. I apologise for the anguish and distress caused. I want in particular to apologise to the nine women whose treatment was delayed as a result of misdiagnoses. I want to...
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: Yesterday, I said I would not quit and walk off the stage, and tonight I will tell the House why. Since I became Minister for Health and Children, putting patients first is important to me. When introducing new legislation on medical practitioners, Ireland was the first country to put a lay majority on the fitness to practise committee. In seeking that I faced huge vested interests from...
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: Sheila O'Connor from Patient Focus was appointed to the board of HIQA, while another member of Patient Focus was appointed to the board of An Bord Altranais. Patients advocates have also been appointed to the boards of the health and social care professionals. I have established a Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance, chaired by Dr. Deirdre Madden, to advise me on what policies...
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: After 29 August, when I was informed of a review to be carried out by Dr. Ann O'Doherty. She reviewed clinical evidence of 3,027 mammograms. Up to 2,000 of those women also had an ultrasound but she was reviewing the mammograms. As the House knows, she completed her review and submitted it to the HSE last Friday. The HSE has sought legal advice on the matter. Dr. Ann O'Doherty was not...
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)
Mary Harney: I will deal with that.