Results 13,841-13,860 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: It is appropriate to receive dialysis treatment during the working day. Dialysis treatment should be provided as close as possible to where people live. It is not just a once-off treatment because, as we know, people must attend a minimum of three times a week for a long period. Therefore, the treatment should be available as close as possible to where people live. That is what we are...
- Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: The final outturn on Vote expenditure for the Health Service Executive in 2006 shows a capital saving of â¬114 million, of which â¬42 million was used to offset a revenue overspend, while a further â¬47 million was used to offset a shortfall in appropriations-in-aid. This left a balance of â¬25 million to be surrendered to the Exchequer. The Health Service Executive's appropriation...
- Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: Even if it takes an hour.
- Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: One thing is certain, the Deputy has changed neither her tune nor her language.
- Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: I strongly stand by the decision to make the CEO of the HSE the Accounting Officer. I know of no good management system where a person is responsible for the delivery of services but is not accountable for the money involved. I do not believe that could lead to good management practice. I believe it is appropriate that the HSE should use expertise from outside the health service to run its...
- Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: It would be arrogant for me to comment on my competence or otherwise. That is a matter for others to decide. It is important that money allocated by the Exchequer, through the Oireachtas, is spent on the projects for which it is identified. Allocated funds are switched to other projects. For example, money was reallocated to minor capital works last year.
- Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: These moneys belong to taxpayers. It is right that if taxpayers, through their elected representatives in this House, identify projects on which money is to be spent, this money should be protected for those projects in future years in the event that it cannot be spent in the year in which it is allocated. Funding was switched to other projects, for example, to certain capital works,...
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: I am entirely satisfied that the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive fully supports the Government's health reform programme and I have full confidence that the Health Service Executive is implementing Government health policy. I assume the Deputy's question was prompted by comments made by the CEO in the course of his address at a major health conference in Dublin on 12...
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: I totally agree with Professor Drumm regarding beds. If we had 10,000 more beds in the morning, they would not significantly improve access and patient care if they were not appropriately used. For example, the recent survey showed 13% of admissions are inappropriate and that people should not be in hospital. On the day the consultants reviewed all of the hospitals, 39% of patients should...
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: We are planning to use the beds we have efficiently and effectively and to have quicker access times for patients. The point made by Professor Drumm â I have made it many times, both here and at the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children â is that if we do not use the existing stock of beds more efficiently and effectively, no matter what the number of beds is, if we do not get...
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: That is true.
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: Yes, it is.
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: The Deputy is wrong. I told him the HSE board signed off on co-location on the recommendation of the CEO and the managementââ
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: No. The HSE board signed off on these projects for the individual hospitals on that recommendation. Professor Drumm put in place a process of thorough audit within the HSE in regard to each individual site to make sureââ
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: There is no point in the Deputy asking me a question if he will not listen.
- Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: It was put in place to make sure that what was happening at each site complemented what was needed in the public hospital. There will be an element of competition. Tallaght Hospital competes with St. James's Hospital. Has the Deputy ever got into discussions with those hospitals? Consultants compete with each other even within hospitals. This is the nature of how services are provided....
- Accident and Emergency Services. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: The HSE recently published the emergency department task force report. The infrastructural deficits identified in the seven hospitals referred to are being addressed through a combination of interim and long-term capital improvements and refurbishment. The task force recommends that the issues in emergency departments be examined on a whole-hospital and whole-system basis. It identifies the...
- Accident and Emergency Services. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: In the previous question the Deputy asked me if I had confidence in Professor Drumm. I have 100% confidence in him and think we are very lucky to have someone with his vision, determination and courage at the head of our health services. Given his clinical background, he brings enormous credibility to the HSE. On the matter of publication of the task force report, I had no hand, act or part...
- Accident and Emergency Services. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, the HSE acquired the assistance of outside expertise to visit a number of hospitals, look at their processes and make recommendations. Many of those recommendations related to improved procedures and processes within the hospitals and had nothing to do with extra capacity. For example, the HSE has acquired diagnostic capacity at Smithfield in Dublin for approximately...
- Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)
Mary Harney: I recently signed an order establishing the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board on a statutory basis. The development board held its inaugural meeting last Monday. The principal functions of the board will be to plan, design, build, furnish and equip the new National Paediatric Hospital in accordance with a brief to be approved by the Health Service Executive. The brief will set...