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Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: As part of the Multi-Annual Investment Programme 2006-2009 under the Disability Strategy, the Government provided the Health Service Executive with an additional €75m in both 2006 and 2007. This funding included monies to provide new and enhanced services for people with disabilities, to implement Part 2 of the Disability Act 2005, which came into effect on June 1st 2007 for the under 5's...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I attended a meeting with this group in February of this year during which facilities for patients with cystic fibrosis at Temple Street and Beaumont Hospitals were discussed. A detailed proposal in this regard is due to be submitted, on behalf of the group, to the Health Service Executive for consideration.

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 216 and 222 together. Data on surgical cancer procedures is collated by the Hospital In-patient Enquiry System (HIPE). The information is supplied by all public hospitals to the Economic and Social Research Institute. The HIPE system collects information on all discharges and deaths. The HIPE analysis counts every occurrence of those procedures where the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the 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 case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The Government's sustained high level of investment in health care has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors. This year, overall capital funding of approximately €594m has been provided to the Health Service Executive. In drawing up its Capital Plan the Health Service Executive is required to prioritise the capital...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: Commissioner Hammarberg's Report recommended inter alia that adequately resourced separate facilities and services be provided for minor psychiatric patients, and that early intervention at a local level should be made possible for such children. The response to that recommendation in the report indicated that: "Government policy for the development of Child and Adolescent Mental Health...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: A cost benefit analysis of the new national forensic mental health facility at Thornton Hall, Co. Dublin is currently being undertaken, and the results are expected shortly.

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (8 May 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. 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 — Medical Qualifications: Medical Qualifications (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I presume the Deputy is referring to the application which was the subject of earlier questions on 7 February and 17 April 2008 on the recognition of professional qualifications. The Academy of Medical Laboratory Science (AMLS) is the competent authority for the implementation of the EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications in medical laboratory science. I am advised by...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office is an independent office established to provide an appeals service to those who wish to appeal the decision of the Scheme Administrator under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. The Appeals Office has informed my Department that up to 2 May 2008 the Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office had received 650 completed appeal forms from claimants...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (8 May 2008)

Mary Harney: As the Deputy will be aware my Department is not one of the Departments scheduled for decentralisation under the Government's Decentralisation Programme. To date fifty-four civil servants have transferred to decentralising Departments from my Department. Further details in respect of the transfer of these officers are available from the decentralising Departments.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I am very proud and privileged to speak as a member of the Government and I thank the Taoiseach for the confidence he has shown in me. I want to deal with a number of issues raised. I was recently travelling from my constituency clinic when I heard a debate on "Saturday View" on the state of our economy. One contributor said that when capital gains tax was halved in 1997, it was the worst...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: It is in our vital national interest to support the Lisbon treaty, which is about making the Union more effective socially and economically. It is a question of giving the Union a more powerful influence on global affairs. I want to talk mainly about health, for obvious reasons. The policies I pursue, as Minister for Health and Children, are the policies of the Government.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: Those in Cabinet will know that proposals are brought by a Minister to the Government and are either agreed or rejected thereby. When they are agreed, I, as a member of Cabinet with collective responsibility, support, defend and advance them. Being a general practitioner, Deputy Reilly will know that the health service in Ireland has improved dramatically over the past decade. I have a list...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: Deputy Kenny stated today that Fine Gael leaders always put the country first. As a doctor, Deputy Reilly will know about cancer survival outcomes and that we now have a cancer registry whereby we can measure survival rates. It is a fact that the survival rate of people treated in the north west for breast cancer is 25% lower than that pertaining to those treated in specialist centres in...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: They will not be the exclusive remit of any single group of citizens. The well-off always can deal with their own health. The challenge is to provide a health service that delivers speedy responses to those who need them.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The National Treatment Purchase Fund recently celebrated the treatment of 100,000 people, 90% of whom were treated in private hospitals in Ireland. Some people from Dublin went to the country for treatment and vice versa. I met and continue to meet such patients and what matters above all else to them is getting the appropriate treatment when they need it. They do not care who put up the...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I emphasise this is the Government's health policy.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: I am pursuing the Government's health policy. It was agreed in the programme for Government and any initiatives will be agreed by the Cabinet. Those that are rejected will not proceed while those that receive support will be pursued with enthusiasm.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Mary Harney: My point was the Deputy should speak softly and carry a big stick.