Results 321-340 of 1,371 for speaker:Máire Hoctor
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (11 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Budget 2009 provided â¬55 million for the implementation of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme next year. This brings the total funding in the subhead for long-term residential care in 2009 to â¬909 million. However, the timeframe for commencement of the scheme will be contingent upon the passage of the legislation through the Houses of the Oireachtas and the successful negotiation by the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (10 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Deputy will appreciate that since the end of August 2008, the Housing Aid for Older People (HAOP) scheme, which includes the Essential Repairs Grant has been administered by the local authorities. The Health Service Executive has confirmed that it does not have an application on hand for the individual referred to by the Deputy. The issue raised therefore in this case is primarily a...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Christmas Bonus is paid to all recipients of long-term social welfare payments. The payment was made during the first week of December, at an estimated cost of â¬201 million and some 1.3 million persons comprising 940,000 recipients and 400,000 dependents benefited from the payment. The focus of the bonus has always been on persons who rely on the social welfare system for financial...
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Government has adopted a practical approach in recent years to improving the lives of older people. Our growing aging population must be recognised and the figures used in 2001 do not compare to the current projected figures. Most of us would like to live as long as possible with services available to us. However, services must be provided for those who need them most and who cannot...
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Why not?
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Deputy should check the facts. That is not true.
- Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I am happy to have the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. The Bill gives effect to recent Government decisions to end the automatic entitlement to a medical card, irrespective of income, for people aged 70 and over, and to introduce new arrangements in order that the vast majority of these people will continue to have medical cards under a new income threshold. There are...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (4 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The figures the Deputy has requested are in the tables. The figures for 2004/2005 follows the old Health Board structures. The figure in relation to 2008 relates to those prosecutions I am aware of to date. Prosecutions taken from 2006-2008 under Section 47 of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 & 2004 Community Care Area 2006 2007 2008** No. of cases Cork South Lee, 1 1 Cork North...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: 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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 168 together. 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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I refer to the particular matter raised by the Deputy. A central objective of the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme, A Fair Deal, is to ensure that care is affordable for all who need it and that no-one has to sell their home during their lifetime in order to pay for their care. In order to meet this objective, the scheme provides that a person may defer contributions based on their family...
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Deputy will appreciate that since the end of August 2008, the Housing Aid for Older People (HAOP) scheme, which includes the Essential Repairs Grant has been administered by the local authorities. The Health Service Executive has confirmed that it does not have an application on hand for the individual referred to by the Deputy. The issue raised therefore in this case is primarily a...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: 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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: They are not.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: 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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (2 Dec 2008)
Máire Hoctor: I fully appreciate the concerns expressed to me to develop health facilities on this site. However, as I indicated to the Deputy in my reply to his Parliamentary Question of 18 November last, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is the appropriate statutory body to consider in the first instance any proposals in this regard. I understand that the Executive subsequently wrote to the Deputy...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: 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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (27 Nov 2008)
Máire Hoctor: 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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...