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- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The Primary Care Strategy aims to develop services in the community to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, home helps, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others. It has been estimated that up to 95% of people's health and social services needs can be properly met within a primary care setting and the establishment of...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: As part of the ongoing roll out of the Health Reform Programme, my Department has divested itself of involvement in the operational delivery of health and personal social services. It is now responsible for overall organisational, legislative, policy and financial accountability for the health sector. The Health Service Executive (HSE) was established in January, 2005 and is responsible for...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: 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 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 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 — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The Primary Care Strategy aims to develop services in the community to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, home helps, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others. It has been estimated that up to 95% of people's health and social services needs can be properly met within a primary care setting and the establishment of...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Under the decentralisation programme twenty nine civil servants have transferred to other Government Departments from my Department to date. Of those six transferred directly to offices outside Dublin. As the Deputy will be aware my Department is not one of the Departments earmarked for decentralisation under the Civil Service Decentralisation Programme.
- Medical Cards. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has detailed operational guidelines in place for the assessment of medical card applications. The purpose of these guidelines is to ensure every person entitled to a medical card or GP visit card is given the opportunity to avail of his or her entitlement and that a consistent approach is taken to means testing nationally. The guidelines include provisions...
- Medical Cards. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Guidelines are in place with regard to savings. The first â¬20,000 in savings for a single person, or â¬40,000 for a couple, is disregarded, â¬1 is applied per â¬1,000 per week for the next â¬10,000 and â¬2 is applied in respect of the following â¬10,000. These guidelines have either just issued or are issuing in the context of special savings incentive accounts.
- Medical Cards. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I am unclear on the matter because I have been supplied with two different notes, one which states the guidelines have issued and another which states they are about to be issued. With regard to medical cards, some 1.3 million people hold doctor-only or full medical cards. Incomes have increased by 60% in real terms over the period to which Deputy McManus refers. The scenario was very...
- Medical Cards. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Will I circulate them before I resign?
- Medical Cards. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: He expects me to be nice to him.
- Hospital Acquired Infections. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 90, 125, 175, 191, 196, 199, 206, 367 and 368 together. While it is an unfortunate fact that health care associated infections are not preventable in all cases, I assure the House that every effort is made to minimise the incidence of such infections. The Health Service Executive has appointed an assistant national director of health protection as the lead...
- Hospital Acquired Infections. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The Government has a plan. I understand Fine Gael recently held a meeting that was addressed by my good friend, Dr. Maurice Nelligan, who told the audience that half of them had MRSA. Deputy Twomey is a doctor and knows that one can swab people's hands and they may have it and one can swab their noses and they do not, or vice versa. The action plan is being led by Dr. Doorley, Dr. Kelleher...
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Deputy Rabbitte is obviously monitoring him, so it is alright.
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The roll-out of a national cervical screening programme is the most efficient population approach to preventing and controlling cervical cancer. It is my objective to have such a programme rolled out, beginning late this year, based on an affordable model. For that purpose, on 1 January this year, I established a national cancer screening service which amalgamates BreastCheck and the Irish...
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: It is true that there has been cervical cancer screening in other jurisdictions for some considerable time, including the United Kingdom and Canada, where it was introduced in the 1960s. I acknowledge that we are way behind in many areas. However, we have in place a co-ordinated programme for the roll-out of both BreastCheck and a cervical cancer screening programme on a sustainable basis....
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, no country has eliminated cervical cancer.
- Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Screening plays a major part, as it does with other cancers. We are currently rolling out BreastCheck and in April it will be rolled out to the rest of the country. Clearly, rolling it out on a population basis cannot be done overnight. Particular issues arise with regard to lower socio-economic groups, which is why the issues of education and awareness, and the huge efforts being made in...
- Industrial Disputes. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: The background to the planned industrial action by the Irish Nurses Organisation and Psychiatric Nurses Association is that they will not take part in the current benchmarking process which is reviewing the pay of public servants and is due to report in the second half of 2007. The INO and PNA have so far declined to sign up to the new national partnership agreement, Towards 2016. Both...
- Industrial Disputes. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, there is labour relations machinery in the State through which the eight claims in this matter were progressed. The Labour Court recommended that nurses pursue certain matters through the benchmarking process, in particular the issue with regard to the approximately 1,000 nurses in the mental health area, where those reporting to them receive about â¬3,000 per annum...