Results 1,661-1,680 of 3,665 for speaker:Seán Power
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2006)
Seán Power: 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. This includes responsibility for the provision of the Housing Aid Scheme for the Elderly, on behalf of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Accordingly, the Department has requested...
- Order of Business. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: It was not appropriate.
- Order of Business. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: Such hyperbole is all right in Citywest.
- Order of Business. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: Deputy Kenny should disown that one.
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce the legislation. Government policy on older people has long since been to support them to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible and to support appropriate long-term care where this is no longer possible. It was for this reason that the...
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: The average rate of subvention paid by the HSE generally exceeds the current approved basic rates. The subvention scheme is currently provided for in the Nursing Homes (Subvention) Regulations 1993. These regulations, made under section 7 of the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990, outline the scheme in detail, including such matters as how an application should be made, how an application is to...
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: The subsection further provides that the principal residence of the applicant will not be taken into account if that could give rise to destitution or homelessness of a person with a close connection to the applicant. This provision is to allow for exceptional circumstances and would generally apply in the case of a relative who does not fall into the categories prescribed in the subsection....
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: It has been promised for years and I am delighted we are to deliver it. The chief inspector will be required to establish a register or registers of residential services, including residential services provided to any dependent person in respect of that dependency and services provided in accordance with the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990. As I already indicated, the Department has initiated...
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: It has not been two years.
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: Will the Greens live longer than the rest of us?
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: 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. This includes responsibility for the provision of the Housing Aid Scheme for the Elderly, on behalf of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Accordingly, the Department has requested...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 May 2006)
Seán Power: As the Deputy is aware, additional funding of â¬150m was allocated to Services for Older People/Palliative Care in the 2006 Budget. This is a full year cost, â¬110m of which is for 2006 with the remaining â¬40m for 2007. This is the largest ever increase in funding for Services for Older People and the package has a strong focus on community based supports. Of this investment, an extra...
- Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (16 May 2006)
Seán Power: We will cover them.
- Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (16 May 2006)
Seán Power: I thank Deputies for their contributions to the debate and welcome the broad support from all parties for the introduction of this legislation. I propose to respond to some of the issues raised during the debate. The enactment of the Bill will be a key milestone in ensuring that repayments will be made as promptly as possible to all those who were wrongly charged for publicly funded long-stay...
- Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (16 May 2006)
Seán Power: I am referring to St. Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny. The hospital staff accept their role and play very much as a team in performing their duties in an exemplary fashion. As they would say, it is not all about resources, it is more to do with attitude than resources. They have achieved much within the available resources. We can often be critical of things when they go wrong, and it is only...
- Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (16 May 2006)
Seán Power: The statutory scheme being established by the enactment of the Bill will ensure that the repayment process will be as simple and user-friendly as possible given the age and vulnerability of many of those living persons to whom repayments are due. It is intended that it will operate in a non-adversarial, flexible, open and transparent manner and will cause the minimum of inconvenience or legal...
- Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Referral to Select Committee. (16 May 2006)
Seán Power: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Health and Children, in accordance with Standing Order 120(1) and paragraph 1(a)(i) of the Orders of Reference of that committee.
- Written Answers — Drugs Awareness Programme: Drugs Awareness Programme (16 May 2006)
Seán Power: To the end of 2005 information produced by the Health Promotion Unit on drug awareness has been in the English and Irish languages only. Under the restructuring of the health services, from January 2006 the Health Services Executive has responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including awareness raising media campaigns and health information...
- Written Answers — Alzheimer's Disease Incidence: Alzheimer's Disease Incidence (16 May 2006)
Seán Power: 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, the 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.