Results 21,441-21,460 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I recently announced the Government's plan for a national network of radiation oncology services, to be put in place by 2011. The network will consist of four large centres in Dublin, Cork and Galway and two integrated centres at Waterford Regional Hospital and Limerick Regional Hospital, conditional on their conformity to certain quality assurance measurements. A new radiotherapy unit is...
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: In line with Government policy, the Department of Health and Children has been examining a number of procurement options with a view to finding an approach that will deliver 850 additional long stay beds and provide the best services and value for money to the Exchequer. There have been discussions between the Department and the Department of Finance on an initiative which is based on...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The number of persons in County Kerry in possession of a medical card in September 2005 is 41,289.
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (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.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 258, 396 and 421 together. I am committed to the national roll-out of the cervical screening programme in line with international best practice. Following the publication of the international expert's report on the feasibility and implications of a national roll-out, the Department of Health and Children undertook a consultative process with relevant...
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: EU member states are the main purchasers of medicines in their domestic markets, through their national reimbursement schemes. While they seek to control drug prices, the extent of control varies widely. Higher priced countries, such as the UK and Germany, rely to a greater extent on market forces to set prices. Spain, on the other hand, closely regulates and controls prices. Ireland's...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (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. The executive is responsible for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. Accordingly, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary...
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The Irish Medicines Board is the statutory body that is responsible for the regulation of medicinal products in Ireland. I have been advised by the board that Vioxx was withdrawn on a worldwide basis by a company in September 2004 following new clinical trial data which indicated an association of increased risk of cardiovascular side effects. Vioxx was authorised for use in Ireland by the...
- 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 — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (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. The executive is responsible for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. Accordingly, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 271, 316, 368 and 372 together. The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long stay charges for publicly funded residential care. Those who were charged and are alive and the estates of all those who were charged and died in the six years prior to 9 December 2004 will have the charges repaid in full. The scheme will not allow...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (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. The executive is responsible for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme, including the Mater and children's hospital development. In this regard, I wrote to...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (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. The executive is responsible for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. Accordingly, the Department of Health and Children has asked the parliamentary...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: The 2003 public health doctors agreement was negotiated by the Department of Health and Children, the HSE and the IMO, which is the representative body of public health doctors. The agreement allowed for 60 posts of director of public health medicine or specialist in public health medicine, 30 specialist registrar posts, 94 senior medical officer posts and a maximum of 86 area medical officer...
- 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 — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (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 — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 281, 307 and 449 together. The national breast screening programme, BreastCheck, commenced in 2000 and covered the eastern, north-eastern and midland regions of the country. In 2003, the Minister for Health and Children announced the extension of the programme to Counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford. Screening commenced in County Wexford in March last year...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 282 to 284, inclusive, together. I am unclear as to what the Deputy means by the privatisation of health care services. The health strategy, Quality and Fairness â A Health System for You, indicated that the Government was committed to exploring fully the scope for the private sector to provide additional capacity, and that additional capacity would be...