Results 841-860 of 1,371 for speaker:Máire Hoctor
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 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 Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (2 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 (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Home Help service nationally is a well established and successful component of this Government's strategy to provide a range of services to enable older people to remain in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. In this context, and in order to address increasing demands in the specific area of Home Helps in recent years, approximately â¬56 million additional funding...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Health Service Executive has advised that a reply issued to the Deputy on the 27th March 2008.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive (HSE) under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. The HSE's responsibility includes the operation of the Housing Aid Scheme for the Elderly, on behalf of the Department of Environment,...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 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 (2 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 — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 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 (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Report of the Leas Cross Nursing Home Task Force, established by the Health Service Executive (HSE) on 26 February, 2007, was received in my Department earlier this year. The Report covers a wide range of recommendations relating to the complex health and social care needs of older people in Ireland. I understand that the HSE has assigned responsibility within its organisation in...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 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 (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive (HSE) under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. The HSE's responsibility includes the operation of the Housing Aid Scheme for the Elderly, on behalf of the Department of Environment,...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 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 investigated...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I understand that the hospital in question is a private nursing home in which the Health Service Executive contracts 90 beds. The Minister for Health and Children therefore has no function in relation to the future of this facility. The HSE is not aware of any plans for its closure.
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (2 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 (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I wish to confirm to the Deputy that the HSE has not been instructed by either the Government or by my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, to divert the funding of â¬110 million allocated in Budget 2008 for the implementation of the Fair Deal scheme into other areas of health spending. However, it should be noted that the provision of 200 additional contract nursing home beds...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 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 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issues raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Nursing Home Subventions (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Minister, Deputy Harney, has not taken the increase either.
- Nursing Home Subventions (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. I thank the Deputies for raising these questions as it provides me an opportunity to outline to the House the improvements made to the existing nursing home subvention scheme and the position in respect of the new nursing home support scheme, the fair deal. Government policy regarding older people is to...
- Nursing Home Subventions (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Enhanced subvention should be used to develop consistency between the payment of subvention and the new nursing home support scheme, and to work towards equalisation of the level of support paid to people in different areas taking local prices and a person's means into account. The HSE guidelines provide that an applicant for enhanced subvention will be subject to the means assessment....
- Health Services. (2 Apr 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I am taking this Adjournment debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney. I welcome the opportunity to set out the current position to Deputy O'Dowd regarding cancer services, with particular reference to the north east region. The HSE issued a statement on Monday, 31 March concerning radiology services in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda,...