Results 20,401-20,420 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: 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, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: 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, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: 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, my 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.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: There is a significant responsibility on our health services to ensure that patients, particularly cancer patients, are adequately supported clinically and, where necessary, in relation to proper transport arrangements. As I have previously indicated to the House, I consider that appropriate transport arrangements for oncology patients should be made available, where necessary, by the Health...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: On the basis of the figures contained in the 2004 annual report of the former General Medical Services (Payments) Board, now the Health Service Executive, shared services, primary care reimbursement service, the average annual cost in 2004 of providing general practitioner and pharmacy services, drugs and medicines per recipient of the medical card was â¬954.26 per person. There would, of...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: On the basis of the figures contained in the 2004 annual report of the former General Medical Services (Payments) Board, now the Health Service Executive, shared services, primary care reimbursement service, it is estimated that the annual cost of providing general practitioner services to holders of the GP visit card is â¬261.53. The estimate does not take into account fee increases applied...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 and 132 together. The Deputy's questions relate to aspects of the treatment of asbestosis which is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have these matters investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy. The...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133 and 134 together. The Government is committed to providing an additional 30,000 people with medical cards and a further 200,000 people with GP visit cards. Funding of â¬60 million has been provided in 2005 to the Health Service Executive, HSE, for these measures and this will be maintained in 2006. These initiatives will assist in overcoming barriers to...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: As announced following the publication of the Abridged Estimates Volume on 17 November 2005, the cost of visiting accident and emergency, where the person concerned has not been referred by a medical practitioner, will increase by â¬5 from â¬55 to â¬60 in 2006. The pubic hospital inpatient charge will also rise by â¬5 from â¬55 to â¬60 per night, up to a maximum of ten nights, in any 12...
- Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: The current threshold for the drugs payment scheme, which came into effect in January 2005, is â¬85. No provision has been made in the recently published Abridged Estimates volume to alter this threshold in 2006.
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: There are no plans to make changes in the charges being made in public nursing homes. The charging for long-stay care under the Health (Amendment) Act 2005 is being implemented by way of the Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005. These regulations were signed on 14 June 2005 and reinstated charges for inpatient services. The regulations were prepared following extensive...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: 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, my 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.
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: 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, my 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.
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: On my behalf and on behalf of the Progressive Democrats, I too express my sympathy to Liam Lawlor's family, particularly his wife, Hazel, his children, Niall, Shane, Gerald and Ciara and his brother, Noel. When we heard in the early afternoon of 22 October of Liam Lawlor's death, we all found it difficult to believe. One hoped it was a rumour that was not true, as often happens in public...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (22 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 87, 128, 165 and 168 together. The Health Service Executive, HSE, is advancing the implementation of a series of measures to improve the delivery of accident and emergency services. These measures take a wide-ranging approach and are aimed at improving access to accident and emergency services, improving patient flows through accident and emergency...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (22 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of hospital services which is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive, HSE. The HSE has informed me that there are three consultant urologists based at University College Hospital, Galway who provide a urology service for the region. These consultants provide outpatient clinics at Mayo General and at the County Hospital,...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (22 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 90, 101 and 108 together. In the context of his examination of my Department's appropriation account for 2004, the Comptroller and Auditor General carried out a review of the operation of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, in 2004. The responses from the fund and my Department to the issues raised in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report have...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (22 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: Employment information is collected by my Department every quarter on the basis of grade and employing agency and does not include any data on a programme by programme basis as requested by the Deputy. The latest available verified data is in respect of end-June 2005, when employment levels stood at 100,934 personnel in whole-time equivalent terms. The Deputy may wish to note that, since...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (22 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: 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, HSE, under the Health Act 2004. As part of the reform of the health service a national ambulance office has been established under the auspices of the National Hospitals Office within the HSE. The office has responsibility for the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Nov 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 94, 129, and 146 together. The Deputies' questions relate 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. My Department is advised by the HSE that in the period 1997 to 2004 the total expenditure on inpatient and outpatient neuroscience services at...