Results 17,981-18,000 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I will have the matter examined for the Deputy.
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I understand the HSE is working on plans for the provision of additional capacity in this area. Several years ago, my Department proposed to provide 850 beds by way of a public private partnership. However, this proposal never advanced, as it ran into difficulties with the Departments of Health and Children and Finance in respect of costings and so on. Instead, capacity was purchased in the...
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: The HSE board will consider the report today, which I have not seen. It will make a recommendation to the Government.
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: It will be in Dublin.
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: It will not go to Cootehill.
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: On 7 April 2006, in line with commitments I gave during the debate on the Health Act 2004, I published, for consultation purposes, the draft heads and general scheme of a Bill providing for the establishment of the health information and quality authority, HIQA. Included in the scheme is provision for the establishment of the office of the chief inspector of social services within HIQA. The...
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: The Deputy misunderstands the situation. I have been in the House for 25 years and was in the Seanad for four years before that. I mention that because there has never been a time when more legislation in the area of health was passed or in the pipeline than in the past couple of years. Legislation in the Department of Health and Children is getting much greater attention and priority because...
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I said in my response that I hope to have the legislation in the autumn session but I want to have robust legislation. We have spent some considerable time during the past year working on appropriate standards and looking at best international practice in this area. We want appropriate standards that can be enforced so that when inspectors inspect places where older people and others reside,...
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: The inspection of private nursing homes is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990. The 1990 Act provides for the registration and procedures for attaching conditions to the registration of private nursing homes and for de-registering homes. The Nursing Homes (Care and Welfare) Regulations 1993 set out the standards to which private nursing...
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I do not accept the Deputy's assertion. In Ireland, the majority of nursing homes in the public and private sector are of the highest possible standards. Those that have and cause problems are a tiny minority but, even if it is only one, that is not good enough. I share the Deputy's view that older frail people are among the most vulnerable in society, many of whom suffer from illnesses of...
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: We have provided â¬110 million this year, which is â¬150 million in a full year, towards additional supports for the elderly, including the provision of specific services in the community, because community services are not just about home care packages but putting in place therapists and others who can support people living in the community. Chiropody is an important service for diabetics....
- Nursing Homes Inspectorate. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: What people are concerned about is a bed, whether it be publicly funded or privately provided. They want high-quality care in a residential setting regardless of who provides it. That is the challenge for us, to ensure we support that.
- Hospital Services. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: Following the death of Mr. Patrick Walsh in Monaghan hospital on 14 October 2005, the Health Service Executive commissioned Mr. Declan Carey, a consultant surgeon at Belfast City Hospital, and an honorary senior lecturer at Queen's University, and Professor John Monson, professor of surgery, University of Hull, to carry out an independent and external review. The HSE has advised my Department...
- Hospital Services. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: No, I have not received it.
- Hospital Services. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I confirm I have not received the report. I understand it has been completed in recent weeks. The process is that if one is drawing any adverse conclusions about any individual, individuals or institution, they must be given an opportunity to respond, and that response has to be included before the report can be given to anybody, under natural justice and so on. For example, with regard to...
- Order of Business. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I agree with Deputy Kenny that we are dealing with children who have been the victims of very serious crimes that have stolen their childhood and innocence. That is the reason it is serious and urgent and the reason all the legal expertise available to the Government is being marshalled to have appropriate legislation put in place. I acknowledge the co-operation of the Opposition parties in...
- Order of Business. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: Obviously there will be a decision in the Supreme Court but I do not know when. The case will be fought in the Supreme Court tomorrow in respect of Mr. A and much will depend on the outcome. I said yesterday it was open to the Director of Public Prosecutions, the independent officer, who I am confident has a legal strategy, to rearrest and recharge those individuals but that is solely a...
- Order of Business. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: It covers a huge majority of those who work with children. In fact one of the complaints I get in my job relates to the delay it sometimes takes to clear a person to work in this area. As late as this week a Deputy approached me in respect of a delay in trying to approve persons to work with children. We need to strengthen the vetting process further and that is happening. Clearly there is a...
- Order of Business. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I will deal first with the legislation. For 70 years, it has stood the test of time, and the High Court maintained it was constitutional and appropriate. Until 12 May of this year, the DPP was bringing charges against persons under this provision. A total of 20 charges were brought this year, up to 12 May, against eight individuals, so clearly the DPP was not anticipating the section could be...
- Order of Business. (1 Jun 2006)
Mary Harney: I am not blaming anybody. Even after the Supreme Court case, the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, is not in favour of what we have to do constitutionally. If we were doing it in the absence of having to do it constitutionally, I do not believe we would have proceeded against that kind of strong advice, because people would have said we were weakening the law. We now have no alternative....