Results 21,241-21,260 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The Minister for Transport informs me there are complex reasons for the difficulties in this matter.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: I must return to the Deputy on this as I am not familiar with the matter.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The information the Deputy seeks will be conveyed to him as soon as possible.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The two are not related. That legislation will be enacted next year.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: I am struggling to live, never mind work, until I am 85 years of age. We will all do well to live to the age of 85. I assure the Deputy that the Progressive Democrats Party has no influence whatsoever over the OECD. No legislation is planned in this area.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: That Bill will be published during this session.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: That legislation will be brought forward next year.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: That legislation will be brought forward next year.

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: I am aware of the e-portal and work on it was suspended by the HSE last February.

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The technology may not have been compatible with what was intended. It was originally scoped by Accenture. Incredible as it may seem, surveys in the United States show that only 28% of the technology scoped for works on the first occasion.

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The scope for the exercise was completed as part of the information society initiative, which recommended to the Government that services be provided on a single website so that people could learn the health services available in different places. Work was suspended in February and a tender for a smaller project costing less than €250,000 has been advertised. I have asked the HSE not to...

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: I suspect that the people who were in contact with Deputy Kenny have also been in contact with me. As a result of that, I have ordered that the HSE must get the approval of the Departments of Finance and Health and Children before it proceeds to tender on this project. Any information project in the health area which has not already been committed will have to go through a process of thorough...

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: To answer Deputy Rabbitte's first point in regard to my colleague, Deputy Martin, my predecessor as Minister for Health and Children, a hospital information system was being rolled out in a number of hospitals in Cork, Tralee and elsewhere. The cost of that project was going to escalate to approximately €400 million and he put the brakes on it and refused to give any more money towards it...

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: It is a lot better. I told the House last week when I became aware there were issues around the PPARS system. Obviously, it did not go to Cabinet. Every matter——

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The Estimates go to Cabinet. The Deputy knows that, he has been at the Cabinet table. The health boards made the application for the money to put in a payroll system.

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: They were given the money. An evaluation is being done both by the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Health Service Executive and the HSE will decide at its board meeting in December whether to continue to roll out this system. It will be a matter for the executive having evaluated its requirements and whether this system can meet its needs but among the difficulties, and I want to...

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: That would be normal and it should be the case. I am not aware of the number of individuals from this consulting firm who worked on this project but I do know that the amount of money spent on consultancy in this project and in other projects is excessive. That is why the Government decided today to put a new process in place across Departments in regard to both consultancies and information...

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: Hay Management Consultants carried out a review of this matter in 2002 and said at the time, as the Deputy is aware, that what was envisaged in 1998 and 1999 at £9 million would not be sufficient to do what was required and that it would be at least ten times greater than that. The mistake was that a business case was not made for this technology before we embarked on the project.

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: The regime that was responsible, the health boards structure, has been abolished and Deputy Gormley opposed its abolition.

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Mary Harney: Deputy Rabbitte may have been aware of all the practices but very few other people knew that we have 25,000 different work rosters. In some areas in the country, people doing the same job work a different number of hours.