Results 17,421-17,440 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The position regarding the cost of reports produced by my Department has already been conveyed to the Deputy in my reply to Parliamentary Question Number 169 of 28 January 2009. With regard to the Health Service Executive, my Department has been informed that the information is currently being compiled by them and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible. My Department has...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: Arrangements in relation to the rental of property is a service matter and the question has therefore been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The Children's Health First Report commissioned by the Health Service Executive indicated that the population and projected demands in this country can support only one world class tertiary paediatric hospital. It recommended that the hospital should be in Dublin and should, ideally, be co-located with a leading adult academic hospital. Following detailed consideration, it was decided that...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: I welcome the opportunity of addressing the financial challenges that confront the Health Service Executive for 2009. Within the next three weeks or, as the Taoiseach stated, in early April, the Government will introduce a new set of financial and spending measures for 2009. Therefore, to some extent, this debate is somewhat premature, because it would be my intention to either revert to...
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: People who pay themselves â those who go to the Deputy's practice as private patients.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: I gave extra money.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The figure for new consultants is 283 and 156 of these are new posts.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The recruitment process will take place this year. As the Deputy is aware, it sometimes takes a while to carry that out. Recruitment for some posts has been taking place, but it is intended to recruit the consultants. The cost of new consultant posts must come from a reduction in the amount of money we spend on non-consultant hospital doctors, of whom we have 4,900. Deputy Reilly made the...
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: I am not proposing to close any hospital. The configuration is all about reorganising what happens within the hospital system.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: They may have been discussed in the HSE and some people may feel the configuration of hospitals is inappropriate. There is no doubt about that. I quoted the Minister for Health in 1975, the late former Deputy, Brendan Corish, in this House referring to the FitzGerald report and saying it was urgent we got on with the implementation of the change, and we know how long ago that was.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: No, every facility on the acute hospital side must operate to the highest possible standard of patient care. If we moved to a licensing system or to an insurance model where the insurers determined where things happen, many of our small hospitals would be closed overnight. There is no doubt about that.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The service plan and any adjustment of it must be approved by the Minister and laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. That is in the 2004 Act and will be complied with. We are making radical changes in what happens in the hospitals with terrific clinical leadership, which has emerged for the first time. Deputy Ferris asked about an audit. I do not know who is supposed to carry out the...
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: I have the service plan for 2009 and under mental health there is an extra â¬2.8 million for suicide in 2009. One of the sums of money I mentioned in this House before is an additional â¬1.75 million. Any revision of the service plan will have to come before me, and suicide prevention is a priority. The Deputy has raised this matter on the Adjournment debate and it will be taken this evening.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The service plan provides additional funding of â¬2.8 million. Deputy Neville can obtain a copy of the service plan.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: I told the Deputy an extra â¬2.8 million has been allocated for 2009.