Results 19,821-19,840 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Accident and Emergency Services. (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I was abroad when the Taoiseach gave the interview. To be fair to the Deputy, I do not know whether she is quoting him out of context. However, the Taoiseach is more than aware of the difficulties and pressure in accident and emergency units. He may have been suggesting we should put matters in context, although that is not to justify what happens from time to time â on too many occasions....
- Accident and Emergency Services. (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: Absolutely. With regard to acute medical units, AMUs, to which the Deputy referred, a number of hospitals, including St. James's Hospital in Dublin, have them. A number of other hospitals sought to completely over-spec what the HSE and the Department felt was required. If people in the health care system think a pot of money is available, they sometimes feel they have to go for the largest...
- Departmental Funding. (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The Irish Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society, ISANDS, provides support services to parents and families of babies who are stillborn or who die around the time of birth. The society has been funded by the former Eastern Regional Health Authority and, latterly, the Health Service Executive, HSE, since 2001. In 2005, the HSE grant amounted to â¬35,000. In addition, a once-off grant of...
- Departmental Funding. (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I strongly support ISANDS, which I met in Glasnevin a few months ago. Like Deputy Gormley, I know of many people affected by stillbirth who receive considerable consolation and support from ISANDS. According to the HSE, ISANDS's annual requirements are in the region of â¬35,000. The society has not yet received funding for 2006. I am not aware of the commitment made by my predecessor, Deputy...
- Departmental Funding. (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: ISANDS is more than aware of my support for it. The Madden report recommended the establishment of a working group to examine how its findings in respect of organ retention could be applied to stillborn children and adults. We are in the process of establishing this working group and will invite ISANDS to be a representative on it, which will be very important.
- Hospitals Building Programme. (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133, 135, 140, 199 and 207 together. The Government is committed to exploring fully the scope for the private sector to provide additional capacity in the health system. In this context, my Department issued a policy direction to the HSE last July aimed at freeing up additional beds in public hospitals for public patients. This will be achieved through the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long stay charges for publicly funded residential care. All those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged and are alive and the estates of all those who were wrongly charged and are dead since 9 December 1998 will have the charges repaid in full. The repayments will include both the actual charge paid and an...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The World Health Organisation's European Health for All database of June 2005 shows that the number of acute care beds in Ireland in 2003 was three per 1,000 population and that the EU average for the same year was four per 1,000 population. The organisation advises caution in the interpretation of the cross-country data in the database. Health data recording systems and practices vary...
- Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: Rights commissioners investigate trade disputes referred by individuals or small groups of workers. Having carried out an investigation, the rights commissioner issues a recommendation â which is not binding on the parties involved â giving his or her opinion on the merits, or otherwise, of the dispute. The rights commissioner does not seek to impose a solution on the parties to a dispute...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 50 and 51 together. The Deputy's questions relate 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...
- Written Answers — National Health Strategy: National Health Strategy (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The primary care strategy aims to develop services in the community so that patients will have direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, health care assistants, home helps, occupational therapists and others. The Government is fully committed to the implementation of the principles contained in the primary care strategy which provides a template...
- Written Answers — National Health Strategy: National Health Strategy (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: GMS GPs are contractually obliged to provide a service for medical card and GP visit card holders on a 24 hour basis. Funding was first provided for out of hours general practitioner co-operatives in 2000. The resources allocated to facilitate development of these services have been increased annually since then and in 2006 the sum available for GP co-ops amounts to â¬33.984 million, of...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 55 and 56 together. The information requested by the Deputy will be provided as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2006)
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 have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The Mater and Children's Hospital development is the largest single capital development project in the HSE capital programme. It involves the redevelopment of the Mater campus to include considerably expanded and improved facilities for the Mater itself, and the construction of new, purpose-built accommodation which will replace the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street. In the...