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Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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. This includes responsibility for facilities at the Mid Western Regional Hospital, Ennis. An outline development control plan for the hospital has...

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 the question relates to equipment under the authority of the Health Service Executive, my Department has requested the chief officer...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The Supreme Court judgment of 16 February 2005 related only to charges in public long stay institutions and publicly contracted beds in private nursing homes. A special Cabinet sub-committee comprising the Taoiseach, Deputy Ahern, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, the Attorney General, Mr. Brady and I has been established to consider the issue of repayment in light of the judgment.

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: Following are details of the number of staff employed in my private and constituency offices and the amount paid in respect of salary and expenses. Salary costs exclude employer's PRSI and pension contributions. Office Staff numbers Staff salary costs excl Employer ER & Pension contributions Expenses â'¬ â'¬ Private Office 11 WTE 613,345 0.00 Constituency Office 6.5 WTE...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 services at Mullingar, Tullamore and Portlaoise General Hospital. Accordingly, my...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (8 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 appointment and deployment of accident and emergency consultants. As the question relates to the...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 the person in question resides in Dublin, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern regional area to...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The total cost of medicines dispensed to people with a medical card for the years ending December 2003, the latest year available was €650.66 million. Information regarding the amount of medicines prescribed but not used by patients is not collected by my Department.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 administration of the health services in counties Wicklow and Carlow rests with the executive. My Department has requested...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The amount of health funding available to each of the former health boards and the ERHA in 2003 and 2004 on a per capita basis is set out in the following table. Per Capita Funding — 2003 and 2004 Revised Determination. Health Board/Authority 2003 Funding per capita based on Revised Determination 2004 Funding per capita based on Revised Determination â'¬ â'¬ ...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provides 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 management of land and properties formerly held by health boards and now vested in the executive....

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The latest available information for the employment by health boards of persons with a disability is for 31 December 2003. Data in respect of the end 2004 position are currently being compiled. The number of employed persons in each health board with a disability at end-2003 is set out in the following table. For the purpose of this exercise the definition of disability is as defined by the...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: 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 services for residents of County Clare. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: Avian influenza, or bird flu, is an infectious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally affect only birds. While all bird species are thought to be susceptible to infection with avian influenza, domestic poultry flocks are especially vulnerable to infections that can rapidly reach epidemic proportions. There have been a number of outbreaks in poultry in Asia since late 2003. In...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The assignment of functions under the Public Service Management Act 1997 was first made by the then Secretary General of the Department of 1 January 1999, covering all individuals at assistant secretary grade. While the frameworks to date have contained assignment in respect of named individuals, they also include a generic statement of responsibilities for the assistant secretary grade, as...

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: As I indicated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of today's date, there is a deep and extensive management structure in my Department which supports the discharge of the business of the department and the assignment and delegation of functions. These structures include: preparation of a three-year statement of strategy and annual business plans for the Department; a performance...

Written Answers — : (9 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 and the Public Service Management Act 1997, set out clearly the legal position of Government Ministers and Departments. Section 3 of the Public Service Management Act 1997 restates the responsibility of Ministers for the performance of functions which are assigned to their Department. Section 2(1) of the Act of 1924 provides that each Minister shall be...