Results 14,601-14,620 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is as set out below. It should be noted that the details presented represent both current vacancies on the boards of bodies under the aegis of my Department, which are in the process of being filled, in addition to those vacancies which are due to occur before 31 May 2007. I would envisage filling each of these vacancies in a timely fashion to allow...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: Over 120,000 people work full-time or part-time in our public health services. In recent years, the Government's ongoing high level of investment in health has achieved and maintained significant increases in the numbers of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has also invested heavily in the education and training of...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: No public land is being given to private individuals to build private hospitals. In July 2005, following Government approval, I issued a policy direction to the Health Service Executive to develop co-located private hospitals on the sites of public hospitals. The aim of this initiative is to transfer private activity from within the public hospital system to new privately-financed and...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: As you are aware, a draft code of governance has been prepared by the Health Service Executive and was submitted to me in late September. The contents of this Code have been assessed by my Department and discussions are being finalised with other Departments/Offices that have an interest in this issue. I anticipate that the examination of the Code will be completed shortly and I will be in...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: Inspections of registered user establishments are carried out in accordance with Section 10 of the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, as amended. The Act provides for all registered establishments to be visited from time to time by inspectors for the purpose of securing compliance with the provisions of the Act. Under the Act only persons who hold a relevant medical or veterinary qualification...

Written Answers — Drug Treatment Programme: Drug Treatment Programme (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: The 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.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: To be fair to the council, I do not believe it advocated a lay majority. I met the Medical Council after the heads of the Bill were published. We took on board many of its suggestions. I met it after the Bill was published, and again we made some changes based in particular on what I have said earlier, about case law being the appropriate test for the fitness to practise issue. We also...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I do not want to exaggerate that. I am sorry I mentioned it at all. It sounds like a very boring night.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I gave an undertaking on Committee Stage to examine this section. I wanted to make it clear there was no question of a Minister not accepting those elected. That is why I tabled amendment No. 26 which states the Minister may not refuse to appoint as a member of the council a person nominated by a professional body. When I was Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, I was involved in...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: No. If five people were to appear before a committee, it would be extremely controversial. I can give the Deputy an assurance that if he wants to put forward suggestions to me, I will be more than happy to consider them. I often sit in ministerial office talking to officials. If one considers the Health and Social Care Professionals Council, which met for the first time on Monday, one...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 24: In page 27, line 24, to delete "paediatrics" and substitute "anaesthesia". I table these amendments as a result of consultation with the Medical Council. I was concerned that the provisions, as drafted, in the original Bill would not have given an option for a range of specialties to ever hold seat on the Medical Council. Therefore, I have proposed an amendment to...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 25: In page 27, to delete lines 28 to 35 and substitute the following: "(d) one medical practitioner registered, or able to be registered, in the Specialist Division in relation to pathology or radiology, (e) one registered medical practitioner, not being a consultant, practising medicine in a hospital, and (f) one registered medical practitioner not falling within any of...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 26: In page 27, to delete lines 36 to 45 and in page 28, to delete lines 1 to 5 and substitute the following: "(9) Without prejudice to the generality of the other provisions of this Act relating to the membership of the Council— (a) the Minister may not refuse to appoint as a member of the Council a person nominated under subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g),...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 27: In page 28, line 6, to delete "Subject to subsection (2), the" and substitute "The".

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 28: In page 28, to delete lines 10 and 11.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: On the face of it, this seems reasonable, but if the president, himself or herself, was the person to be removed, it would be difficult to see him or her recommending that. A member of the council can only be removed in specific circumstances such as illness, stated misbehaviour and matters covered under the ethics in public office legislation. A member cannot be removed because he or she...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I move amendment No. 32: In page 31, line 7, to delete "Where" and substitute "Subject to subsection (7), where". I gave a commitment to examine this matter for Report Stage. The amendments I now propose will provide that the removal of council from office under the terms of subsections (5) and (6) will require that a ministerial order, or draft of which, must be laid before both Houses of...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: It has not been made; it was issued for consultation. I can send the Deputy a copy of it and I believe the hospitals have until this Friday to respond to it.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: No.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Harney: I invited a person to chair the board and I announced that person's name; it is Mr. Philip Lynch. The board has not been established. It must be established under statutory instrument. I gave an undertaking to the hospitals that they would be consulted. I believe that consultation process ends on Friday.