Results 761-780 of 1,371 for speaker:Máire Hoctor
- Written Answers — Health Service Prosecutions: Health Service Prosecutions (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I understand that the HSE met with the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Leopardstown Park Hospital on Friday 25th April. It was possible through this meeting to draft a mechanism that would allow the hospital to continue respite care. It was agreed that the CEO and Chairman would contact the members of the Board of the hospital with a view to having this draft mechanism endorsed. In the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: My Department operates a number of options to assist older people to secure necessary improvement works to their homes. The Housing Aid for Older People Scheme, which is administered by local authorities, provides targeted support to improve conditions in the existing housing of older people. The types of works which may be grant aided under the Scheme are varied and may include the...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14, 33, 53, 71 and 87 together. The Bill providing for the new nursing home support scheme, A Fair Deal, is currently being finalised by the Office of the Attorney General and will be published when it has been approved by Government. Details of the fair deal were announced in December 2006 to facilitate full consultation with the social partners and other...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I wish to point out to Deputy Reilly that I attempted to answer a number of questions in my reply to Deputies who are not present. However, I will answer the question put to me, that is, when the fair deal legislation will come before the House. We all acknowledge, right across the board, that this is complex legislation. Much consideration has been given to it. The Deputy will recall...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: We appreciate the length of time it has taken to publish the Bill. It was never anticipated that it would take this long. We looked to 1 January. Unfortunately, we were unable to reach that target due to the legal implications. I stated in my reply that the implications were more legal than constitutional.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I would like to be able to say today we will have it next week, but we are not certain. We must have robust legislation in this area. It is important legislation for families. We intend to have it finalised before the summer. On the issue of costs, again I refer to 1 January when we did not anticipate this would be an issue because we believed the fair deal scheme would be up and running....
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The role of the National Treatment Purchase Fund is to negotiate and meet with the nursing home providers on the issue of costs and to assess cost needs. If a patient opts for the fair deal, a care-needs assessment will be carried out but not by the National Treatment Purchase Fund.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: It is in the interests of older people, often the most vulnerable in society, that we protect them with the strongest and most robust legislation possible. I am aware of the groups who met at that particular time. Those same groups also engaged in the stakeholders discussion at Fairleigh House with the Minister, Deputy Harney, some months earlier. It is not in the absence of consultation...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The â¬110 million has been ring-fenced for the provision of the fair deal scheme. However, 200 beds have been allocated from that fund, obviously with the approval of my colleague, the Minister, Deputy Harney, since January 2008 to meet the demand spoken of in the House. We intend to have the fair deal legislation before the House in the summer. The stakeholders will be informed of it...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I remind the Deputy that the reason for producing the fair deal is to render private long-term care anxiety and stress free for patients, the most important persons concerned, and their families. The increase in the subvention to a maximum of â¬300 is a clear recognition by the Government of the difficulties endured by families who have relatives in private nursing homes. When a member of...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: In 1997, when the Tánaiste, Deputy Brian Cowen, was appointed Minister for Health he changed the legislation and recognised that families should not be responsible for the care of patients in private nursing homes.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I will answer the Deputy's question. I understand the Irish Pharmacy Union and other interested stakeholders are meeting today. Positive negotiations have taken place on this issue in recent days and we expect positive news to emerge in the coming days.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme. (29 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The contingency plan is that the discussions will continue.
- Health Services. (24 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I reiterate that I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf my colleague, Deputy Mary Harney, Minister for Health and Children. I thank Deputy Shatter for raising the issue as it provides me with the opportunity to reaffirm the Government's commitment to services for older people generally, and in particular to the important area of developing day and respite care. Government policy is to...
- Health Services. (24 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I have much time to give to it and I will read it again for the Deputy if he so wishes.