Results 23,381-23,400 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Feb 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 provision of services to people resident in counties Mayo and Galway. Accordingly, my Department has...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: The report of a consultancy study jointly commissioned by my Department and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland, on the costs and benefits associated with the introduction of a dedicated helicopter emergency medical services for the island of Ireland was published last year and is available on my Department's website. The study concluded that the...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: According to the quarterly health service personnel census a total of 1,939 social workers in whole-time equivalence terms were employed in the health service at end-September 2004. The census does not contain information on employment levels in the health service on a county basis. However, the number of social workers in the Health Service Executive eastern area at end-September 2004 was...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Feb 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 provision of services at Cork University Hospital. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: Figures are not available for quantities of waste disposed of by my Department. However, every effort is made to dispose of waste in an environmentally friendly way. All confidential waste paper is put in colour coded bags and taken away for recycling by a contracted company. Cooked food waste from our staff restaurant is liquidised for disposal. Computer equipment, such as PCs, printers and...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (17 Feb 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 provision of ambulance services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: My Department has no role in the regulation of sunbeds or sunbed operators. Sunbeds are not medical devices and are not regulated under the medical devices directive. Existing consumer legislation sets standards for tanning equipment and requires appropriate warning notices to be displayed on the equipment. However, no medical procedure is involved in the use of sunbeds and their use does not...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 48 and 51 together. I had a meeting on 10 February with representatives of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and EuroCare International, at which they outlined their plans to provide acute hospital services, including radiotherapy, at a private clinic in Waterford. Estimates on the costs of the provision, commissioning or operation of those...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 Feb 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 management of the executive's human resources. My Department has requested the interim chief...
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: The information requested is being collated by my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 17a, motion regarding membership of committee; No. 5, Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005 â Second Stage (resumed); and No. 4, Criminal Justice Bill 2004 â Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) No. 17a. shall be decided without debate; and (2) the proceedings on the resumed Second Stage of No. 5 shall, if...
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: Regarding the legislation the Deputy raised, the draft heads of the Bill are currently being prepared by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche. I do not know if he has been in touch with colleagues, but I will raise the matter with him.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: Yes.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: Yes, I believe that it will be necessary to bring a Supplementary Estimate before the House. The health Vote for 2005 could not sustain the repayment of moneys in excess of â¬500 million. That would be grossly unfair on services. As the Deputy has acknowledged, it would involve a serious cutback in existing services if we took it from the current Vote. I anticipate that the Government will...
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: I do not envisage a Dublin metro Bill or a Meath metro Bill in the foreseeable future. For the charities Bill, 2005 is the expected date.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: That Bill will be published this year.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: The National Monuments Bill will be introduced this year. The labour laws apply equally to citizens, whether they are nationals or non-nationals.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: The work permits legislation will be brought forward this session.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: The legislation has nothing to do with by-elections. As I said a number of weeks ago in the House, it will be brought to Government next week.
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)
Mary Harney: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform hopes to bring that Bill forward in the middle of this year. The heads of the Bill were approved by the Government at the start of last year.