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Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (12 Apr 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 services at Naas General Hospital. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Nursing Education: Nursing Education (12 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: The Commission on Nursing considered that registration as a midwife should no longer be a mandatory requirement for entry to the higher diploma in public health nursing or registration as a public health nurse, PHN, as follows: . . . in light of the range of services offered by public health nurses and the ongoing development of nursing and midwifery services in the community, registration as...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (12 Apr 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 the management of the executive's human resources. My Department has, therefore, requested the acting...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (12 Apr 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. A medical card holder with full eligibility is...

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (12 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: Applications for funding from the health and children national lottery allocation are received primarily from individuals, groups and organisations with an involvement in the provision of health services to specific client groups, national groups providing information and support regarding disability and illness and groups with a specific interest. To date, national lottery funds have been...

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: We are entitled to have a laugh.

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion (Resumed). (13 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: I thank Deputy Twomey and Fine Gael for tabling this motion. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend last night's debate owing to a private, personal commitment. I thank Deputy Twomey for not criticising this. I have very strong opinions on this subject. One does not have to be a female to empathise with the need to provide breast screening nationwide. One would like to think that, when a...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (13 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 159 to 161, inclusive, together. 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 progressing the health capital...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (13 Apr 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 orthodontic services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Cancer Incidence: Cancer Incidence (13 Apr 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 cancer services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (13 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: The Government decision to extend automatic medical card eligibility to all persons aged 70 years and over, with effect from 1 July 2001, was announced on budget day in December 2000. The measure was subsequently unanimously approved by the House. My Department did not prepare an estimate of the cost of the initiative, but supplied such data as was readily available to it in early December...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (13 Apr 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 — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (13 Apr 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 cancer services and the replacement and recruitment of consultant staff. Accordingly,...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 Apr 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 County Mayo, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Apr 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 pay to psychiatric nurses. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 and 178 together. 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 hospital services at Connolly...

Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (13 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: I received the report of the post mortem inquiry into paediatric hospitals on 31 March 2005. The report is currently being examined by my Department in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General.

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 18, Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad] — Second Stage (resumed); and No. 17, Land Bill 2004 [Seanad] — Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the taking of any divisions demanded on Nos. 18 and 17 shall be postponed until immediately after the Order of Business on Tuesday, 19 April.

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: Legislation will be needed to deal with some elements of the nursing home charges issue. It is intended to have that legislation passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas by the end of this session. The legislation, if required, will deal with the issue of ensuring that the moneys to be paid back will not be used to prevent people getting social welfare entitlements. In other words, it will not...