Results 14,481-14,500 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The Dental Treatment Service Scheme (DTSS) provides for a range of dental services for adult medical card holders from participating dentists holding contracts with the Health Service Executive (HSE). The DTSS Review Group was established in May 2006 to undertake a comprehensive review of Primary Care Oral Health Services provided under the DTSS. Represented on the Review Group are the HSE,...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Under the existing Common Contract, Consultants holding Category 1 contracts would not be entitled to practice in colocated private hospitals. However, as part of the ongoing discussions in relation to a new Common Contract, management has tabled proposals which would allow existing Category 1 Consultants and newly appointed Consultants to practice in colocated private hospitals with certain...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 22 and 105 together. Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE) and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. My Department has been informed by the HSE that the number of women in the Louth/Meath region presenting for...
- Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The Government's sustained high level of investment in healthcare under the National Development Plan 2000-2006 enabled the completion and commissioning last year of several new facilities in both the Acute Hospitals and the Primary, Community and Continuing Care sectors. The HSE Capital Plan 2006 contained a wide range of capital projects. A significant proportion of the Executive's capital...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Health Service Executive to arrange to have the specific case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy. As the Deputy is aware, the development of a new National Paediatric Hospital is being overseen by a joint HSE/Department of Health and Children Transition Group. The current stage of the process...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Statutory responsibility for the collation, management and publication of data on waiting times for in-patient and day-case procedures for public patients rests with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). My Department has, therefore, asked the Chief Executive of the NTPF to reply directly to the Deputy in relation to the information requested in regard to public patients. Information...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 27 and 102 together. I am familiar with the approach being adopted by the Health Service Executive in seeking to improve safety and standards across the acute hospital network in the North East Region, having regard to the issues raised in the Teamwork Management Services Report â "Improving Safety and Achieving Better Standards â An Action Plan for Health...
- Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The total Revised Estimates capital provision for the health service for 2007 is approximately â¬664 million, of which â¬546 million relates to the Health Service Executive (HSE), â¬76.6 million relates to the Office of the Minister for Children (OMC) and â¬41.4 million is in respect of health agencies directly funded by my Department. The HSE Capital Plan 2007 was approved in early...
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (29 Mar 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 — Certification Requirements: Certification Requirements (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Policy in relation to school attendance, including consideration of requirements when a child is absent due to illness, is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science. General Practitioners are private medical practitioners in their own right. The State contracts with GPs for the provision of services under a number of Schemes, the most significant of which is the...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 31 and 86 together. I have outlined to the House on a number of occasions the background to the selection of the site for the new National Paediatric Hospital. The development of the National Paediatric Hospital is being overseen by a joint HSE/Department of Health and Children Transition Group. The current stage of the process involves the preparation of a...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Mar 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 — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Community Rating has been an important factor in keeping the cost of health insurance at an affordable level over people's lifetimes and in particular their old age. The ultimate beneficiary of risk equalisation is the insured population, particularly the elderly and the ill, who would otherwise be vulnerable to the effect of risk selection, and would find the cost of health insurance...
- Written Answers — Health Service Contracts: Health Service Contracts (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 35 and 103 together. General Practitioner vocational training is conducted under the auspices of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) through vocational training programmes funded by the Health Service Executive (HSE). There are 11 such programmes and these are accredited by the ICGP. General Practitioner Trainers are responsible for providing...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 36 and 153 together. The Health Service Executive (HSE) is at an advanced stage in a public procurement process in relation to the co-location of private hospitals on the sites of public hospitals. I understand that the HSE proposes to issue Invitations To Tender to the shortlisted bidders in the next few days and that tenders are to be returned by the end of...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, including responsibility for the collection of data on hospital activity, is a matter for the Health Service Executive. My Department has, therefore, requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to reply directly to the Deputy in relation to the question raised with regard to...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 39, 54 and 97 together. I do not believe that the co-location of private hospitals on public hospital sites will have adverse consequences for public or private patients, whether for reasons cited by the Deputies or otherwise. It is a core requirement of the ongoing public procurement exercise that the private bidders can demonstrate to the Health Service...
- Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The issues of nurses' pay and working hours have been fully processed through the State's industrial relations structures and procedures â the Labour Relations Commission and the Labour Court. While health service management have accepted the Labour Court Recommendation, the Irish Nurses Organisation and Psychiatric Nurses Association state that they have neither accepted nor rejected this...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005 provide the statutory basis for the imposition of charges for persons in receipt of inpatient services whether or not such persons have full (medical card) or limited eligibility. These regulations provide for two different classes of person on whom charges can be levied and the maximum charge which can be imposed in respect of...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (29 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The Accident and Emergency Taskforce Report was commissioned by the Health Service Executive. My Department has therefore requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange for a reply to be issued directly to the Deputy in relation to the matter raised.