Results 21,421-21,440 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: No it does not. For many years Governments have been promising legislation in this area. We will have legislation in this area as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including responsibility for the provision of decompression chambers, 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...
- Written Answers — National Learning Network: National Learning Network (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The service provided by the national learning network and funded by the Health Service Executive is rehabilitative and is not work. Rehabilitative training focuses on the enhancement of an individual's core functional skills, life skills and social skills. All trainees participating on rehabilitative training programmes retain their primary and secondary benefits and also receive a weekly...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 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 (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 222, 399 and 423 together. The recent report by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children is a follow up to its earlier report of 2002, The Orthodontic Service in Ireland. As the committee makes clear, the report should be read as an appendix to the 2002 report. I am pleased to advise the Deputy that a number of measures have been adopted to...
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The common list of reimbursable medicines for the general medical services and drug payment schemes is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the list, it must comply with published criteria, including authorisation status as appropriate, price and, in certain cases, the intended use of the product. In addition,...
- Written Answers — Crisis Pregnancies: Crisis Pregnancies (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Crisis Pregnancy Agency, CPA, has compiled figures for Ireland on the number of teenage pregnancies to females aged 15 to 19 years per 1,000 females in the same age group. This is known as the teenage pregnancy rate and is an aggregate of the births and abortions in this age group. The figures show that the teenage pregnancy rate increased from 21.17 in 1991 to 25.67 in 2001 but the rate...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 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 — Food Industry: Food Industry (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The public has been alerted on two occasions about possible links between blood transfusion and vCJD. The National Haemophilia Council held a press conference on 20 September 2004 to inform the public that two cases of vCJD in the UK were possibly linked to blood transfusion. As a result of the cases, persons who had received clotting factor concentrates manufactured from blood products and...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The general medical services scheme, under which medical cards are distributed, gives persons with full eligibility an entitlement to general practitioner services from GPs who hold general medical service contracts. They are also entitled to a range of approved prescribed medicines free of charge. Acupuncture is not covered under the general medical services scheme. I have no plans for it or...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to human resource management issues within the Health Service Executive. As such issues are matters for the executive under the Health Act 2004, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Civil Registration: Civil Registration (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: An tArd-Chláraitheoir, or the Registrar General, is the person with statutory responsibility for civil registration in Ireland. I have made inquiries of the Registrar General and will set out the position as it stands. Section 65 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 makes provision for the holding of an inquiry by the Registrar General about whether a particular life event has been registered...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 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, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have the matter investigated and for a reply to issue directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is as follows: Company Year in which contract was secured Nature of Contract Colgan & Associates 2001 Consultation programme for the development of the National Health Strategy. The main objective was to gather the views of members of the public, service users, service providers, staff and management of the health service and to channel these...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 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, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have the matter investigated and for a reply to issue directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 243 and 416 together. Pandemic influenza is a type of influenza that can be expected to occur, on average, three or four times each century when new virus subtypes emerge and are readily transmitted from person to person. Influenza experts agree that another influenza pandemic will occur. However, it is impossible to predict when it will occur. The ongoing...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I have received the reports of the postgraduate medical education and training group â the Buttimer group â and the working group on undergraduate medical education and training â the Fottrell group. Each report contains a detailed plan of action for the implementation of its recommendations. Both reports are under consideration in the Departments of Health and Children and Education...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 245 and 246 together. The Government considers that the best option for improving geographic access for patients in the north-western area is to facilitate access for them to radiation oncology services as part of North-South co-operation on cancer. I have met the Minister for health for Northern Ireland, Mr. Shaun Woodward MP, to discuss access by patients...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (28 Sep 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, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have the matter investigated and for a reply to issue directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 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, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have the matter investigated and for a reply to issue directly to the Deputy.