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- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: It is not complete and it is a complex task to carry out an inquiry of this kind, as Deputy Carey well knows.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: Anybody that may be adversely affected by the findings must be given an opportunity to make a contribution. HIQA is no different from any other organisation carrying out an inquiry. It must follow due process.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: Deputy Reilly is a doctor and it is about timeââ
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: It is about time Deputy Reilly stopped going around the country playing politics with patient safety because that is what he is doing. Politics before patient safety.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: It is about convenience and not quality.
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: I welcome the opportunity of addressing the financial challenges that confront the Health Service Executive for 2009. Within the next three weeks or, as the Taoiseach stated, in early April, the Government will introduce a new set of financial and spending measures for 2009. Therefore, to some extent, this debate is somewhat premature, because it would be my intention to either revert to...
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: People who pay themselves â those who go to the Deputy's practice as private patients.
- Written Answers — Health Repayment Scheme: Health Repayment Scheme (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has responsibility for administering the health repayment scheme in conjunction with the appointed Scheme Administrator KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald. Since the commencement of the scheme approximately 35,000 applications have been received by the Scheme Administrator and there are less than 5% or in the region of 1,600 claims to be concluded. There are...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The position regarding the cost of reports produced by my Department has already been conveyed to the Deputy in my reply to Parliamentary Question Number 169 of 28 January 2009. With regard to the Health Service Executive, my Department has been informed that the information is currently being compiled by them and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible. My Department has...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: Arrangements in relation to the rental of property is a service matter and the question has therefore been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: The Children's Health First Report commissioned by the Health Service Executive indicated that the population and projected demands in this country can support only one world class tertiary paediatric hospital. It recommended that the hospital should be in Dublin and should, ideally, be co-located with a leading adult academic hospital. Following detailed consideration, it was decided that...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (5 Mar 2009)
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 — Health Services: Health Services (5 Mar 2009)
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 — Pharmaceutical Sector: Pharmaceutical Sector (4 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 106 and 107 together. I am advised by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) that no counterfeit medicines have been identified in the legal supply chain in Ireland. The IMB, in cooperation with Revenue, focus on the illegal supply of medicines by Internet websites with a view to protecting public health. The IMB inspects manufacturing and distribution facilities...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services Property: Health Services Property (4 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: Estate management of the Health Service Executive property portfolio is a service matter and the question has therefore been referred to the Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services Property: Health Services Property (4 Mar 2009)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.