Results 14,761-14,780 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: The legislation will be prepared. It will not be needed until we are about to commission the hospital but we will have legislation.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: The board cannot apply for planning permission until it knows what it is applying for.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: The board was established less than a year ago.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: The development board was established less than a year ago. It is recruiting a chief executive officer for the project. The board members are involved in significant work. The board is comprised of incredibly dedicated people with enormous experience in handling major projects, together with a number of clinicians from the children's hospital and paediatricians generally. I am satisfied...
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: We enacted a Bill in the past year to regulate the pharmacy profession, which was the first to be introduced in 150 years. The second Bill to which the Deputy refers relates to technical issues and it has nothing whatsoever to do with contractual issues, which are currently the subject of a review by Sean Dorgan and his group, which is due to complete its work shortly. I am not certain who...
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: I share the Deputy's view about the convention agreed in Dublin. It is a major step forward and everybody involved needs to be congratulated. It is a landmark decision. The Government is preparing legislation but I cannot say precisely when we will have it. It is being prepared as a matter of urgency. The matters outlined in the Fine Gael Bill will be taken into account in that legislation.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: The second Bill will appear later this year. Perhaps the Deputy will raise the specific inquiry with the line Minister, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The first Bill is expected this session.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: I will certainly ask the Government Chief Whip to advance that with his colleagues from the Deputy's party and Fine Gael and the line Minister.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: I do not have an answer to that. Again, it is secondary legislation. However, I will ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to communicate with Deputy Higgins.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: We are in the summer, although I accept we do not have the kind of weather we would expect for the summer all the time.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: I will get the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to contact Deputy Higgins.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, we have an all-party committee, on which her party is represented by Deputy Howlin. The Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform are working actively to bring back, hopefully, an agreement to this House in respect of that matter.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: I do not have a date for that at the moment.
- Order of Business (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: In respect of the animal health and welfare Bill, I understand a consultation process with various stakeholders has been initiated. The health information Bill will be published next year. For the record, the meeting that took place yesterday was a regular one of the Cabinet sub-committee on health.
- Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: I am very happy to have an opportunity to talk about the Government's cervical cancer screening programme. This debate was requested last week by the Opposition. I was delighted to agree to the facilitation of the debate. This debate is about women and women who get cervical cancer in Ireland. On average, 75 women per year die in Ireland from cervical cancer. We know that from screening...
- Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: The NCSS is independent of the HSE. It is a stand-alone body and reports to the Department and the Minister for Health and Children. I have confidence in the screening service and Deputies have attested to their experiences of BreastCheck, which is acknowledged domestically and internationally to have been rolled out in a most appropriate fashion. When I asked the NCSS to roll out a...
- Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: I personally believe going to tender is the appropriate way forward in accordance with EU guidelines.
- Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: It is not filibuster. The tenders were evaluated by Dr. Linda Caughley, Quality Assurance Director for Northern Ireland and adviser in regard to accreditation in the UK, Miriam O'Reilly and others. On the public laboratories and the HSE, the HSE, as the Deputy will be aware, undertook a review of laboratory services. The review is quite controversial because it makes radical proposals on...
- Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: We are saying, as is the case in respect of BreastCheck, this cervical screening programme will be rolled out to best international standards.
- Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)
Mary Harney: In the mid-west, Deputy O'Sullivan, women have to wait more than six months for the result of their smear tests.