Results 1,021-1,040 of 3,665 for speaker:Seán Power

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 provide the information requested by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated...

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 — Community Care: Community Care (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 — Community Care: Community Care (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: I take it the question refers to the Home Care Package Scheme. All Home Care Packages are tailored to the needs of the individual applicant. The decision to allocate a Home Care Package is based on the assessment of needs of the individual and the identification of any assessed needs which are not being met by mainstream services together with consideration of the appropriateness of care in...

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: 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 matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: In December, 2006 my Department formally advised the Health Service Executive of the signing of the Nursing Homes (Subvention) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (SI No. 642 of 2006). These Regulations increase the basic rate of subvention to a maximum of €300 per week. Additional funding has been provided for enhanced subvention payments. My Department asked the Executive to circulate...

Seanad: National Lottery Funding (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: I will take this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Arts Sports and Tourism, Deputy O'Donoghue. I thank Senator Browne for raising the matter. The Department's sports capital programme is a very important element in ensuring that the country is adequately provided with high quality sports facilities to cater for the various requirements of governing bodies, clubs...

Seanad: Departmental Properties (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: I will reply to this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. I thank Senator Coghlan for raising the matter. The HSE has informed the Department that St. Finan's Hospital campus, which was referred to by the Senator, measures approximately 55 acres in total with approximately 43 acres sited to the south of the Ring Road in Killarney...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: These amendments were raised on Committee and Report Stages in the Dáil and none was accepted because the Bill provides for a single appeals process. It is not considered necessary to include a separate appeals provision under each section of the Bill. The appeals provision at section 7E of the Bill provides for a more robust and transparent appeals procedure in accordance with legal...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: These amendments relate to a change introduced on 1 January 2007, which replaced the three levels of dependency previously used, namely, medium, high and maximum, and their corresponding subvention rates with a single maximum rate of €300. Levels of dependency no longer exist. A person now is deemed to be either dependent or not dependent. In simple terms, a person either does or does...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: These amendments provide that where 5% of an individual's property is taken into account as part of the financial assessment for subvention, it will be taken into account only for the first three years the person is paid subvention. These amendments are intended to benefit many of those in private nursing homes in the immediate term. On foot of the amendments, the HSE will assess applicants...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: These amendments are largely technical and the main reason for them is to update the names of certain social welfare benefits and pensions referred to in the legislation. Some of those names changed recently owing to the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006. The amendments also do two other related things. First, they provide that if the names of any of the social welfare...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: Amendment No. 24 adds a provision to the Bill whereby the Health Service Executive, HSE, may refuse to pay a subvention where the nursing home in question is not tax compliant. Under normal circumstances, the HSE will seek a tax clearance certificate from companies to which more than €6,500 of public money has been given in payment over a 12-month period. That is to ensure that the tax...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: It is a simple punctuation change.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: I take Senator Browne's point, but we are living in changed times, and if one is doing business with the Government in any shape or form, it is expected that one be tax compliant and that a tax clearance certificate be capable of being provided if requested. The homes will very much be in line with every other industry doing business with the Government. One may rest assured that the HSE...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Seán Power: From 1 January the basic rate of subvention was increased to €300 per week. The increase in the basic rate necessitates an increase in the property threshold for areas outside Dublin from €300,000 to €365,000 where a person has an average annual income greater than €10,400, increased from €9,000. Under the terms of the financial means assessment, a person with income equivalent to...