Results 21,181-21,200 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: I will not respond to Deputy Stagg in the way he would want me to. There will be ongoing legislation, but no specific legislation on the issue Deputy Joe Higgins has raised.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: I understand that is the intention.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: It is a long time since I attended a stormy meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party. I understand there will be legislation in this area in due course.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: I understand that legislation in that area would be illegal under the packaging directive.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: We will have that legislation next year.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: I know the Deputy raised this matter last week with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. We will need to revert to the Minister to communicate with the Deputy.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: I will ask the Ministers to revert to the Deputy.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy should ask his Whip to raise the matter at the Whips' meeting.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy should raise the matter among his fellow Whips.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (12 Oct 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 (12 Oct 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 — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Oct 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 — Health Services: Health Services (12 Oct 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 — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (12 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long stay charges for publicly funded residential care. All those fully eligible persons, including those with disability or psychiatric illness who were illegally charged for long stay care in an inpatient setting, will have the charges repaid in full. The estates of all those who were charged and died in the six...
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (12 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The information requested is being collated in my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (12 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 207 to 209, inclusive, together. The Deputy's questions relate 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. This includes responsibility for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. The HSE has...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (12 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: My Department makes payments under a number of schemes as follows. Civil Service posts at the levels of assistant secretary and deputy secretary are covered by a scheme of performance related awards. The operation of the scheme is overseen by the committee for performance awards. The funding for awards is based on 10% of the payroll for the posts covered by the scheme. Within this overall...
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (12 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: The consultancies awarded by my Department are as follows: Consultancies Year Awarded Total Cost â'¬ Managing Reporting and Control Service Planning, and Financial Position of Tallaght Hospital 1998 149,000 Development of Annual Financial Statements Reporting system for Voluntary Hospitals and Agencies funded by Department of Health & Children 1999 51,193 Value for Money...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: Over the last year, I have had discussions with numerous people on a great variety of different proposals to develop private hospitals on public hospital grounds throughout the country. In relation to Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown, I have accepted invitations to attend two meetings hosted by Dr. Conor Burke, consultant respiratory physician at Connolly Memorial Hospital. One was...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 213 and 214 together. The Deputy's questions relate primarily 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. The determination of eligibility of applications for a medical card is a matter by legislation for the HSE. Accordingly, my Department...