Results 21,801-21,820 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, 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 this matter investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, 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 this matter investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Schemes: Health Service Schemes (22 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, 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 this matter investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Schemes: Health Service Schemes (22 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, 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 this matter investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (22 Jun 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 (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Government is committed to making the full range of cancer services available and accessible to cancer patients throughout Ireland. To this end, we will provide considerable investment in radiation oncology facilities in the coming years. The Government's policy on radiation oncology is based on the Report on the Development of Radiation Oncology Services in Ireland. It is important to...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: Clearly safe and effective delivery of services is of primary concern to me. I do not accept the Deputy's assertion that staffing levels in hospitals and long-term care units for the care of the elderly settings are at dangerously low levels. I am aware for example that the Irish ratio of nurses to the population is much higher than the ratio found in other developed countries. Work currently...
- Written Answers — Occupational Therapists: Occupational Therapists (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: In recent years there has been a considerable expansion in training places for three therapy professions â speech and language, physiotherapy and occupational therapy â in line with the report commissioned by my Department from Dr. Peter Bacon and Associates, Current and Future Demand Conditions in the Labour Market for Certain Professional Therapists. As the Deputy has said, this...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 60, 117, 218 and 219 together. The Rheumatology Manpower Report 2002 produced by the Irish Society of Rheumatology, ISR, identified deficits in the provision of rheumatology services nationally. The ISR report noted that the number of rheumatologists per head of population in Ireland was low in comparison with other European countries. At the time the ISR...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 61 and 73 together. The working hours of doctors in training are regulated by way of the European Communities (Organisation of Working Time) (Activities of Doctors in Training) Regulations 2004, which came into operation on 1 August 2004. Employers and the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, have been engaged over a lengthy period in discussions under the...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 63, 87, 164, 170 and 191 together. The Health Service Executive is advancing the implementation of a series of measures to improve the delivery of accident and emergency services funded from the â¬70 million current funding that was made available in the Estimates for 2005. Some of the specific projects now approved include: a new accident and emergency unit...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I would be saddened if any woman would chose to have a mastectomy rather than travelling to receive the best care available. Patients in the north-west requiring radiation oncology are currently being referred to the recently commissioned radiation oncology department at University College Hospital Galway, UCHG, and also to St. Luke's Hospital, Dublin. A consultant radiation oncologist with...
- Written Answers — Insurance Industry: Insurance Industry (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Insurance Authority submitted its report on 29 April last in respect of the period July to December 2004. The authority's report recommended the commencement of risk equalisation transfers. I subsequently wrote to insurers with a proposed determination. However, this determination, under the terms of the Health Insurance Acts, is subject to a statutory representation process. Given...
- Written Answers — Insurance Industry: Insurance Industry (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I am happy to be able to report that almost all of the issues which needed to be resolved with consultants arising from the establishment of the clinical indemnity scheme, CIS, have now been dealt with. The only remaining issue is a demand from the consultants that the caps placed on the limits of indemnity which consultants need to purchase to cover private practice not covered by the CIS...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 67, 70, 95 and 135 together. The most recent report from the National Cancer Registry, Cancer in Ireland 1994-2001, highlights an annual percentage change in the age standardised rate of prostate cancer of 6.5% over the period. During the period 1994 to 2000, prostate cancer incidence rates increased in the Republic of Ireland but not in Northern Ireland,...
- Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: On 3 May last, the Government approved the appointment of Dr. Deirdre Madden, BL., to complete a report on post mortem practice and organ retention by 21 December 2005. Dr. Madden has been reading herself into the brief over the last few weeks. I will be meeting her shortly to finalise her terms of reference, which I will then present to Government for approval. Ireland does not currently...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 and 137 together. Work has been under way in my Department on the proposal to deliver 850 community nursing unit beds through a public private partnership, PPP, and the work that has been done so far has helped to clarify a number of issues. My Department has been examining public private partnerships, PPP, and other procurement options in line with...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: Arrangements for public hospital services were introduced in June 1991. These determined that everyone in the country, regardless of income is entitled to public hospital and public consultant services subject only to modest statutory charges. Medical card holders are exempt from these charges. Any person can also opt to be the private patient of both the consultant and the hospital. In these...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: The assessment of eligibility for medical cards is a function of the Health Service Executive. Reasonable child care expenses will be taken into account in revised eligibility assessment guidelines for medical cards due to be issued shortly. These guidelines will be publicised by the HSE in the coming week. It is difficult to precisely estimate the number of persons who will benefit from this...
- Written Answers — Private Hospital Facilities: Private Hospital Facilities (21 Jun 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75 and 151 together. My Department engaged a consultancy firm to provide advice on an assessment framework which should be applied to proposals for developing private hospitals on public hospital sites. I am currently considering the advice from the consultants and related policy issues regarding the development of private hospital facilities on public...