Results 5,741-5,760 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 19: In page 13, to delete line 46 and substitute the following: "(f) such other information relating to the".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 20: In page 14, line 31, to delete "period" and substitute "periods". This is a technical amendment to substitute "periods" for "period" in the analysis and evaluation of the Health Insurance Authority Bill that will be sent forward when it is enacted. The first report sent forward will be for the period January to July 2009 and next year it will be for July to December...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 21: In page 14, line 36, to delete "period" and substitute "periods".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 22: In page 14, line 40, to delete "period" and substitute "periods".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 23: In page 14, line 43, to delete "period" and substitute "periods".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 24: In page 14, line 50, to delete "period" and substitute "periods".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 25: In page 15, line 5, to delete "period" and substitute "periods".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 26: In page 15, line 25, after "Minister" to insert the following: "(including information in relation to the profitability of any registered undertaking or former registered undertaking where the operation of the relevant financial provisions is expected to result in a positive cumulative net financial impact on the undertaking)". These amendments enhance the guidance...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 27: In page 15, lines 35 to 41, to delete all words from and including "undertakings)," in line 35 down to and including "and" in line 41 and substitute the following: "undertakings) having regard to the principal objective specified in section 1A(1) (in so far as that objective relates to health insurance contracts that provide for in-patient indemnity payments) and to...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: There are 475 people working in the Department of Health and Children but it is the second largest Department in terms of legislation and the busiest in answering parliamentary questions, with the second biggest budget. That is not to say there is not room for further reductions. Two thirds of the staff in the Department are at the lower grades, with a third in the higher grades. This...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: There is no actuarial advice in the Department of Finance. The HIA is a regulator and will be part of the financial regulatory environment. It is financed by the industry and will have a role in the regulation of health insurers and a further role in assessing the effect of the tax credit and reporting to me. I then have to assess if I am to advise the Minister for Finance if tax credits...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: There is no point in being repetitive. I have made the case. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand," put and declared carried.
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 30: In page 16, to delete lines 20 to 46 and substitute the following: "(a) maintain and furnish to the Authority (before 1 April of the next succeeding year), in such form as may be specified by the Authority, a statement of profit and loss in respect of--- (i) its health insurance business in the State which falls within paragraph (b) of section 7D(1), and (ii) such...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 31: In page 16, to delete lines 47 to 48 and in page 17, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: "(2) (a) A statement of profit and loss or balance sheet shall, prior to its being furnished to the Authority pursuant to subsection (1), be certified by an independent accountant in such form as may be specified by the Authority. (b) The Minister may prescribe...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 32: In page 17, line 16, to delete "of the year concerned." and substitute the following: "of the period from 1 January 2009 to the end of the year concerned.".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 33: In page 17, line 23, after "the" to insert "cumulative".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 34: In page 17, line 27, to delete "for the year" and substitute the following: "for the period from 1 January 2009 to the end of the year".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 35: In page 17, line 29, after "the" to insert "cumulative".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 36: In page 17, line 33, before "net" to insert "cumulative".
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 37: In page 17, line 35, to delete "year" and substitute "period".