Results 15,201-15,220 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: 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 investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: 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 investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The management of out-patient waiting lists is a matter for the Health Service Executive and the individual hospitals concerned. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Under the Health Act 2004, the management and delivery of health and personal social services is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive. This includes operational responsibility for the establishment of Primary Care Teams. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matters raised by the Deputy investigated and to have a...
- Written Answers — Cancer Incidence: Cancer Incidence (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Statistics in relation to cancer incidence are collated by the National Cancer Registry. My Department has asked the Director of the Registry to examine this matter and to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I am listening, I am sorry.
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I thank the House for providing me with an opportunity to speak about the cancer control plan. I will try to answer as many of the issues raised by Senators as I can. The cancer control plan is about one thing and one thing only and that is patient survival. Ireland comes 18th out of 23 European countries in terms of survival from cancer. The only area of cancer where we are top of the...
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: However, 23 people were put together, 17 of whom were doctors and six were non-medics. These 23 people recommended to the Government that we should have eight centres and stated where those centres should be. If we take the two hospitals mentioned, namely in Sligo and Mayo, a person with brain, lung or pancreatic cancer in Sligo or Mayo already travels. A total of 52% of all the lung...
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I did. I stated that one cannot extrapolate from a group of 70 people or set aside thousands of pieces of international research.
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The National Cancer Registry, the national verifying body, takes a different view.
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The main centre has 2,500 units.
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I do not want to talk specifically about the report but will talk about the plans, if that is in order. I am delighted to have the opportunity to answer these questions. I confirm there are management changes taking place in the Health Service Executive. Work has been proceeding on these changes since the middle of last year. The CEO of the HSE recruited consultants to help him and the...
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: First, regional structures exist at present. On the hospital side there are eight network managers and on the community and primary care side, four regional structures are in place. Implementation units probably are what are being envisaged under these proposals, whereby the two will be together. For example, in the case of a long-stay patient in a hospital, the responsibility for funding...
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Yes.
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: As for the new directorates, I wish to make clear that the people at the top, including the chief executive officer, are responsible for strategy, standards and configuration of services, such as, for example, the cancer plan. Professor Keane is implementing the cancer plan and this is a national role. Clearly, however, he has people at local level who are responsible for implementing it in...
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I am not responsible for that. I hope the Deputy is not blaming me for it.
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: To repeat again, I remain a strong fan of a unified service. I will give the figures for the cancer plan because it is so important. Our outcomes in Ireland â 18th out of 23 countries in Europe â are very bad. It is important that we put in place the appropriate services for cancer patients, but that did not happen. We saw what happened in the midlands when there was a piece of the...
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Deputy Reilly is a doctor and he knows that with breast cancer, 150 new patients a year are needed to warrant the kind of skill, training and throughput to deliver quality services.
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Deputy Reilly will always go on about the measures that do not work. Every vested interest in the health system that has a whinge seems to be able to get it aired on the floor of the House but the reality is that accident and emergency services have improved greatly since the establishment of the HSE, and the Deputy knows that.
- Health Service Reform. (3 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The idea that before an organisation is established we can start deciding who to make redundantââ