Results 9,041-9,060 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Accreditation ensures that a laboratory is operating to a prescribed level of technical competency that meets EU or international requirements. An independent body that is objective and impartial awards such accreditation. Quest laboratories are accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), which operates accreditation programmes that align with international standards. Quest...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: I understand that the Vaccine Damage Steering Group is at an advanced stage of finalising its consideration of this matter and I expect to receive its report and recommendations very shortly.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Hospital Sites: Hospital Sites (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: 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...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: One member of my Department's staff attended the 4th Annual Irish Public Private Partnership Policy Forum conference. The cost was â¬672.30. My Department has been in contact with each of the agencies directly funded by the Department and I am informed that they were not represented at the conference. As regards the attendance by Health Service Executive staff at the conference, my...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Proposals for Human Tissue legislation are currently being developed by my Department. The purpose of the legislation will be to meet the key recommendation of the Madden Report on Post Mortem Practice and Procedures that no post-mortem examination should be carried out and no tissue retained for any purpose whatsoever without authorisation. The scope of the Bill will include comprehensive...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Properties: Health Service Properties (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Requirements in relation to the disposal of assets by the state bodies, including the HSE are set out in the provisions of Part 5 of the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies (2001). In addition, the Board of the HSE has put in place a set of guidelines titled "Protocol for the Acquisition and Disposal of Property" which are consistent with and meet the requirements of Part 5...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: 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 matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: I presume that the Deputy is referring to the dispensing of methadone by pharmacists under the Methadone Treatment Programme. In accordance with this Programme, a person who is opiate dependent consents to treatment and may be treated in a specialist drug treatment clinic or in the community. If a person is treated in the community, s/he has a designated GP who prescribes methadone and a...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: 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 matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Personal data held in my Department are managed in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Acts 1998 and 2003. My Department has developed a range of policies in relation to the handling of personal information both manual and electronic. These are set out in the acceptable usage policy in relation to ICT and the Department's records management protocol which has been issued...
- Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: Since 2007, there have been three (3) items of Departmental ICT equipment lost/stolen. Year No. Type of equipment 2008 1 1 Blackberry 2007 2 1 Memory Key
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) is responsible for managing the transfer of cancer services to the eight designated centres nationally. The Assistant National Director of the Programme is assisting in this process and recently met with the management of Sligo General Hospital in relation to the transfer of breast cancer services to University...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: The Department has been advised by the Health Service Executive (HSE) that it is progressing with the task of transferring past interest retained on invested patient private property accounts and a process to undertake this transfer, initially for the period 2005-2006 has been agreed. The HSE has advised that the issue of tax liability for clients in receipt of such payments has now been...
- Written Answers — Health Reports: Health Reports (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: My Department is aware that the Health Service Executive (HSE) undertook a National Renal Review to inform the approach to the future development of renal services. The Report of the Review Group was completed over a year ago and developments in renal services have since been guided by the thinking in the report. The Renal Review Group identified the need for the early introduction of a...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 488, 529 and 530 together. The Government is committed not only to ensuring the delivery of the best quality health services possible but to doing so in an effective and efficient way. Ensuring patient safety is of paramount importance, so that people can have confidence in the services and that the best possible patient outcomes can be achieved. It is...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive commissioned Horwath Consultants in association with Teamwork Management Services in February 2007 to examine the arrangements for the provision of acute hospital services in the Mid West with a view to identifying the best configuration of such services in the region including arrangements for A&E, critical care, acute medicine and surgery, together with...