Results 15,501-15,520 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Industrial Disputes. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: We have a process for dealing with relative pay claims, the benchmarking process, and this is the approach suggested by the Labour Court with regard to the issue raised by the Deputy. There are 1,000 nurses working in the mental health service in which those reporting to them are paid approximately â¬3,000 more than them. The reason for this is that their work is extraordinarily difficult...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I take it that the Deputy is referring to a discussion document prepared by the joint department of medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and Louth County Hospital in advance of a meeting between the joint department and the National Hospitals Office. I have seen a copy of the document and I am advised that it is the subject of ongoing discussions between the National Hospitals...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: There is nothing new in the Deputy's call for my resignation, as he calls for it frequently on the radio station in the north east.
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I have visited both hospitals and seen at first hand the wonderful way in which the joint surgical department works. Essentially, day surgery is performed in Dundalk and more complex surgery in Drogheda. The system works well and the volume of surgical procedures in both hospitals has increased substantially as a result. The new road network makes the joint working process more acceptable...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: We are doing so, and for as long as I have been in the Oireachtas â 30 years this summer â hospitals in the north east have been a major political issue. Every time that we were about to get around to doing something imaginative, it was suddenly reversed, one of the reasons behind current problems. The consultant cardiothoracic surgeon appointed, Ms McGovern, is well respected...
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: He will also be aware that it is the most reviewed region in the country. There have been several reports, one of them being Teamwork.
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: We have had several reviews and at last things are improving because decisions that should have been made years ago are being taken, particularly the decision to have a state-of-the-art hospital, something lacking in the region. That is why so many patients have to come to the Dublin area.
- Hospital Services. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: People generally want to stay in their own region if the facilities are there and that is what will happen.
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I welcome the publication of the Competition Authority's report on competition in the health insurance market and the Health Insurance Authority's companion report published last Friday. The Competition Authority report makes 16 recommendations. Several are of a very technical nature and require further consideration by the Department and the Health Insurance Authority. Many of the...
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I find Deputy Twomey's intervention extraordinary because when BUPA announced that it was to pull out, he stated on the airwaves that the risk equalisation was far too severe.
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I did a great deal about it. For example, I fought a very successful court case and won. The way the Deputy is going on, one would think that we had lost it.
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: For the first time, I have secured a Government decision to put VHI on a commercial footing. The tragedy is that it was not done in 1996, when we legislated for risk equalisation, since it is among the reasons that we do not have a level playing field. VHI does not have to meet its competitors' solvency requirements, a major issue for the latter. The Deputy knows that it is being pursued...
- Health Insurance. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: On the supply of private facilities or consultants, in most insurance markets companies like to see more suppliers of products and services because this drives innovation and drives down prices. The health insurance industry in Ireland is unique, perhaps because there has mainly been one company, apart from the providers of the ESB and Garda medical schemes, offering insurance in the market...
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: They would need to work 24 hours a day for me alone.
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: For the same reasons, I hope the Deputy does not read the newspapers.
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: Right.
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: By the way, I do not think I ever got a report from this group.
- Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2007)
Mary Harney: I just get clippings from the newspapers from the press office on what the Deputy says every day.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Feb 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 (15 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...