Results 22,201-22,220 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in County Westmeath, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's midland area to...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 204 and 205 together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Services at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children's...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The application of EU Directive 93/16/EEC, as it effects the general medical services, GMS, scheme, was agreed with health boards in 1994 following consultation with the representatives of the Medical Council, the Irish College of General Practitioners and the Irish Medical Organisation. With effect from 1 January 1995, doctors entering the GMS scheme are required to have graduated from a...
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and person social services. This includes responsibility for the funding of industrial relations settlements involving health service staff. Accordingly, my...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long stay charges for publicly funded long term residential care. All 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 provide for repayments to the estates of those who died...
- Written Answers — Cancer Incidence: Cancer Incidence (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: Statistics on cancer incidences and cancer deaths are collated by the National Cancer Registry. My Department has asked the director of the registry to examine this matter and to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Survivors of Symphysiotomy: Survivors of Symphysiotomy (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: My predecessor, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, met with the group, Survivors of Symphysiotomy, in late 2003 and agreed that a range of measures would be put in place to support it. My Department is advised by the Health Service Executive that the position in this regard is as follows. The former health boards and the relevant voluntary hospitals have...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Deputy will appreciate that I can have no function in this matter as responsibility rests in this instance with the Health Service Executive â north-western area. My Department has therefore asked the chief officer to investigate this matter and I have been advised that an update has already issued to the Deputy on this issue.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of cancer services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the interim chief executive officer of...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...
- Written Answers — Health Service Charges: Health Service Charges (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: My Department is reviewing charges which are being applied in the health services and it is hoped to have the review, which includes the legal basis for the charges, completed in the near future.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person referred to by the Deputy resides in County Kilkenny, my Department has the asked the chief officer for the executive's...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for dental services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act, 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the delivery of hospital services, including the application of guidelines for the use of cytotoxic...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. The national radiation oncology co-ordinating group provides advice to my Department and the Health Service Executive on radiotherapy,...
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: Sildenafil citrate, Viagra, is licensed in Ireland and reimbursable under the community drugs and GMS schemes for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. To ensure availability for genuine need, but to reduce the possibility of inappropriate usage, the maximum reimbursable level under all schemes is four tablets per month. This is in accordance with the findings of the expert group set up by...
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: I understand the Deputy is referring to the one-off entry arrangements which applied for suitably qualified GPs, who were not general medical services, GMS, contract holders at that time, to enter the GMS scheme in July 2001 to provide services to patients who became eligible for a medical card for the first time, over 70s, under the specific budgetary provision. On the question of the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in Dublin, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern regional area to...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: By way of background I should point out that civil registration was first introduced in the Ireland in 1845, initially for the civil registration of non-Roman Catholic marriages. The system was extended in 1864 to include the registration of births, deaths and Roman Catholic marriages. The General Register Office is responsible for the administration of the civil registration system...
- Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (17 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The forum on fluoridation was established to review the fluoridation of public piped water supplies in Ireland. The forum consisted of people with expert knowledge spanning the areas of public health, biochemistry, dental health, bone health, food safety, environmental protection, ethics, water quality, health promotion and representatives from the consumer and environmental areas. The...