Results 17,341-17,360 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: The State could have appealed that decision only on a point of law. Anybody who goes to the tribunal is entitled to appeal to the court, whether he or she received no award from the tribunal or was not satisfied with the award made by the tribunal. There is a case pending to be heard soon. This Bill does not affect any of those cases. In respect of the 40 persons mentioned by Senator Ryan,...
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: Yes. The symptoms I mentioned can also be attributed to many other things, as we know. The consumption of alcohol, for example, can cause depression and fatigue and increased liver function. There is no consensus in that regard. I would like to speak about the jaundice issue. We are talking about a woman who has just had a baby and would be in hospital during the period in question. It is not...
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I am not suggesting that. I am saying that is the kind of potential number we are talking about, based on the High Court decision. I am not suggesting that such a figure would be realised. There is no doubt that a large number of such applications could be made on foot of the position in which we found ourselves after the High Court case. We know what happened in other circumstances â we...
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I said "up to 16 weeks".
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: Senator Ryan and I will not agree on this matter. Does he accept that the tests in question are used throughout the world to establish that blood is safe to be transfused to seriously-ill people? They are tests which are used. The Senator is saying they are not acceptable in the contextââ
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: That is the reality. There is no consensus anywhere of which I am aware â in Ireland or internationally â that the symptoms to which the Senator refers are associated solely with hepatitis C. While many people have opinions on the issue, there is no consensus on it. Opinions are not sufficient in this case.
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I will repeat what I have said previously. If it is the case that as late as 1998 the expert group, which included a representative of Positive Actionââ
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: Yes. Nobody has contended since then that it was not the basis on which a health card should be given. The affected group, which was upset at the time that it did not get the health card, will now get the card because I think it is fair that it should. We are bringing clarity and consistency to this area. The same principles will apply to compensation, insurance and the health card. The...
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I am notââ
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: We accept the blood tests from anti-D product recipients who test negative. It is right that we do. Using Senator Ryan's argument, we would not.
- Seanad: Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (6 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: There is no question but loss of consortium is covered by the compensation scheme. In fact, Judge Murphy from the tribunal has assured us that this is fully taken into account because I was sympathetic to introducing an amendment to ensure that young people were not adversely affected because they had not yet formed relationships. What we are doing here is removing the possibility that...
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I am pleased to contribute to what is effectively a motion of no confidence in the Government. There is much interest in the World Cup. I was pleased last night to watch some of the match between Germany and Italy. This debate reminds me somewhat of bumble bee soccer. Everybody is swarming around the ball, they are all over the pitch, there is no coherence, no co-ordination, no strategy and...
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: ââage of consent, Great Southern Hotels, school examinations, health reform. There is such incoherence among the three parties opposite that the plane would never take off and if it did, it would crash into the first mountain. I wish to highlight some of the transformation that has taken place in Ireland during the past nine years. Unemployment is down from 10.9% to 4.3%; instead of 1.4...
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I will deal with that issue. Those people do not pay any tax on â¬304 per week.
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: When one factors in what one calls stealth taxes and inflation, the average single person on the average industrial wage takes home â¬180 more than nine years ago.
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I want to concentrate on three other issues where the Government's track record must be acknowledged. First, is the reduction in income tax which means we have the lowest income tax on work in all the European Union, second is the job record, and third is consistent poverty. Some 250,000 people have been removed from consistent poverty during the past nine years, down from 310,000 to 60,000.
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: Let us take insurance reform. When we started to reform insurance, we did not get involved with simple woolly ideas. We got involved in serious structural change. We had a plan. We faced down the vested interests and even though parties opposite wanted me to allow everybody to get their legal costs, which would have meant no change, we resisted that. What has happened? Motor insurance has...
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: In June the number awaiting admission on trolleys was down by 39%.
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: I shall list all the hospitals, as of Monday last, where there was nobody waiting more than three to six hours for admission to a hospital bed, which is the international standard. It is a long list of hospitals: St. Luke's in County Kerry, St. John's in Tullamore, South Infirmary in Cork, south Tipperary, Portlaoise, Navan, Roscommon, Cashel, Nenagh, Louth County Hospital, Portiuncula,...
- Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)
Mary Harney: It is not. Comparing like with like, we have turned the corner. What is important about health reform? Members opposite criticise the establishment of the Health Service Executive.