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- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Sep 2007)
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 question raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Sep 2007)
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 question raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (26 Sep 2007)
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 respond directly to the Deputy in relation to the matter raised.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Sep 2007)
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 question raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs...
- Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: I was.
- Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: It is a fantastic country. It is a pity it is so far away or I might stay there.
- Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: I move: To delete all the words after "Dáil Ãireann" and substitute the following: "âacknowledges the increased investment in cancer control, and supports the Minister for Health and Children in her commitment to ensuring equitable access to high quality cancer services for patients throughout the country; and in particular welcomes: âthe appointment by the Health Service Executive of...
- Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: When the doctor in question, Professor Rajnish Gupta, contacted the Department, he was asked to make a complaint to the Medical Council. He was asked to do so again a few weeks ago, but it has not happened. Some of the complaints made by Professor Gupta also apply to the public system. We do not have multidisciplinary assessment in many of the hospitals in which we are ceasing breast...
- Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: There is no general surgeon.
- Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: This matter will be addressed in this House later this evening during the Adjournment debate. The facts I have just outlined are in line with the information I have received from the Health Service Executive. I would like to put the freeze in HSE recruitment in context. There are 12.2 nurses per 1,000 people in Ireland. The OECD average is nine per 1,000. The corresponding figure in...
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: It is a great pleasure to be before this new Seanad. I am not yet familiar with the names of the many new Senators and may mix up some names and faces, but I welcome them all. I began my political career here when I was appointed in August 1977 and the Seanad met in October. I thought the first meeting day would never arrive, such was the sense of excitement, and I hope new Members felt a...
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)
Mary Harney: British Columbia, but that is in Canada.
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Jul 2007)
Mary Harney: The National Development Finance Agency has been acting as financial adviser to my Department in relation to the Colocation Initiative. As part of this role, the Agency conducted a review of the evaluation of bidders process undertaken by the Health Service Executive (HSE). By letter dated 25th June 2007, the Agency informed my Department of its opinion that the potential preferred bidders...
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (5 Jul 2007)
Mary Harney: My Department has not provided support to the society referred to by the Deputy in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (5 Jul 2007)
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 matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (5 Jul 2007)
Mary Harney: I am committed to ensuring that the BreastCheck service is rolled out to the remaining regions in the country as quickly as possible. I have allocated additional revenue funding of â¬8 million for this year to meet the additional costs involved. The full complement of 111 staff for roll-out has been approved. BreastCheck appointed the Clinical Directors for the South and West last...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (5 Jul 2007)
Mary Harney: Medical cards are made available to persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services. In 2005 the GP visit card was introduced as a graduated benefit so that people on moderate and lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who do not qualify for a medical card would not be deterred on cost grounds...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (5 Jul 2007)
Mary Harney: The National Implementation Body (NIB) in its statement dated 15 May 2007 proposed a two phase approach to the claim for reduced hours for nurses/midwives. Phase 1. The NIB proposed a reduction of 1.5 hours to 37.5 hours by 1 June 2008. This reduction must be achieved on a cost neutral basis and without diminution of service to patients. There will be local engagement over the coming months...
- Written Answers — Hospital Acquired Infections: Hospital Acquired Infections (5 Jul 2007)
Mary Harney: MRSA is not a notifiable disease. The Health Surveillance Centre of the HSE collects data on MRSA but this would not be regarded as a comprehensive national surveillance system. However, key personnel have now been employed by the HSE in this area and it is expected that a national hospital HCAI surveillance system will be in place in the near future. This will provide inter-hospital...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Jul 2007)
Mary Harney: The information sought by the Deputy is not immediately available to my Department. It has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Health Service Executive to arrange to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.