Results 601-620 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Business Case for the development of the Altnagelvin Centre has now been finalised and is under consideration by Minister McGimpsey. My Department and the HSE's National Cancer Control Programme have nominated representatives to the Cross Border Sub Group, the Project Board and the Service Design and Workforce Planning Subgroup for the development. I have committed to providing a...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Health Repayment Scheme in conjunction with the appointed scheme administrator KPMG accountants and McCann Fitzgerald solicitors. A total of 35,406 claims have been received for the scheme. Just under 35,400 or 99.9 % of all claims have been concluded. To date nearly 19,500 repayments of charges to the value of â¬438m...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006, a relevant person or a connected person as defined in the Act was entitled to apply for a repayment under the scheme. A relevant person is a person who was charged and paid recoverable health charges. A connected person includes the following: (a ) a person who has been nominated in writing by the relevant person (b ) the Registrar of Wards of...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Funds of a deceased patient are passed to the patient's Legal Personal Representative for them to administer the estate of the deceased faithfully according to the law. This question is addressed at length in the Patients Private Property Guidelines which sets out the procedures to be followed in operating these Patient Private Property accounts.
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Ãireann" and substitute the following: "â notes the introduction by the Government of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme which legally defined eligibility for long term nursing home care and which addressed the previous inequity by equalising State support for those in public, private and voluntary nursing homes; â notes that the HSE...
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I robustly and strongly defend the role of the Department in the investigation by the Ombudsman. Section 4 of the Ombudsman Act 1980 states: Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Ombudsman may investigate any action taken by or on behalf of a Department of State or other person specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act (being an action taken in the performance of...
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Yes, I will take the point of order.
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: On page ten of the report the Ombudsman indicates a list of things she requires, including the actions of the Department and the Health Service Executive in response to legal proceedings initiated on behalf of patients, information on legal proceedings and documentation. On page 109 of the same report she indicated that she did not want that. She said the present investigation did not...
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: No. All officeholders must live by the Constitution. We all have clearly defined powers. Section 5 of the Ombudsman Act states that the Ombudsman may investigate a matter but if the person affected by the action has initiated any court civil legal proceedings and the proceedings have not been dismissed for failure to disclose a cause the Ombudsman is precluded from investigating the case....
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: No. We have an honourable public service. It serves Ministers of every ilk without fear or favour. That has been my experience and is the way it should be. Since civil servants have been criticised for devoting undue time to parliamentary questions, Adjournment debates and-----
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: When people are critical of what they call the political role, they are referring to serving Parliament. In a democracy, civil servants should serve Parliament. That is what they are here to do.
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Elected Members must decide what is in the public interest, civil servants are meant to serve us, the courts interpret the law and so on.
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Ombudsman is critical of what she calls the marketing and spin involved in calling this the fair deal. On page 103 of her report, however, she refers to the nursing home support scheme being so poorly drafted that it would be incomprehensible to the average citizen or even the reasonably well educated lay person. It is difficult to believe this is valid criticism of legislation that is...
- Nursing Home Care: Motion (16 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: It was not illegal. It-----