Results 18,861-18,880 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: No. There is no plan to redraw constituencies in the short term.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I do not have the information. The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources will make an announcement on the salmon commission proposal shortly.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I understand it is.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The task of repaying up to 60,000 families is a mammoth task for the heath service administration. Outside assistance is desirable and the HSE has gone to tender. Two weeks ago, the executive was down to three companies and it was examining those tenders. Whether it has been finalised in the past two weeks——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: It is not. The system will be clogged for years if we do not bring in outside assistance.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: There was a time when the members of political parties used to take responsibility for the electoral register. When I first became involved in politics, it was the task of party members to ensure it was up to date. There is validity in what the Deputy says and I have discussed the matter with the Chief Whip who is pursuing the matter. The route the Deputy suggests makes sense, but I do not...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 14, Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002 [Seanad] — Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 12, National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006 — Second Stage, resumed; and No. 15, statements on care for the elderly, to be taken at 1.30 p.m., and the order shall not resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Deputy Bruton is correct. The Health (Nursing Homes)(Amendment) Bill, which was published yesterday, will deal with certain legal issues and will ensure that we have primary backing for the subvention scheme. It is being done on the advice of the Attorney General. The wider issue of eligibility and entitlement is the subject of ongoing work within the Department of Health and Children and...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The new Bill will allow me to make regulations to change some of the existing criteria in respect of how the family home is calculated and so on. This Bill, which was published yesterday and which we hope will get through the House very quickly, will allow us to make regulations to change the existing manner in which the family home is taken into account as notional income. At present, this...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I am not franchising anything.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: No legislation is promised in this regard. It would be normal for a company to establish itself.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The people involved are Irish.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: No legislation is promised in this regard.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: All those Bills will be published during this session.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The legislation will be published later this year. Clearly, the latter matter does not require legislation and that would be a matter the Deputy should discuss with the Whips.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The legislation will obviously be published this year. If there is not commercially sensitive information in reports, they are always published. That report has not yet been received by the Government.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: It has not yet been received by the Government.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: There is no legislation promised in this area. Recently Professor Drumm wrote to every Member of the Oireachtas on the parliamentary affairs unit that has been established and is being strengthened within the HSE.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: No, there is no fall guy.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Clearly, nobody could expect that day-to-day operational issues which involve a couple of million people a year could be answered in this House by the Minister for Health and Children.