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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (5 Jul 2016)

Jack Chambers: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of advanced nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist role; the number of such roles which have been created in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19077/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (5 Jul 2016)

Jack Chambers: 438. To ask the Minister for Health the number of trained level one and level two general practitioners per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19081/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Training (5 Jul 2016)

Jack Chambers: 440. To ask the Minister for Health the development of national training standards for all those involved in the provision of substance misuse services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19083/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (5 Jul 2016)

Jack Chambers: 531. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek the policy reasons from the Health Service Executive as to why it refuses to publish revised costs of care in public nursing homes; if he is aware that this is outstanding for five years; if he is concerned about transparency in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19396/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (5 Jul 2016)

Jack Chambers: 532. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with his Department's implementation of the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009; if he is aware that under the Act private and voluntary nursing homes are being forced to provide care for fees that are on average 58% below those paid to their public counterparts nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19397/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (5 Jul 2016)

Jack Chambers: 533. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to act on the report, Accounts of the Public Services 2010, published in 2011 where the Comptroller and Auditor General informed him that the cost of care in Health Service Executive nursing homes was significantly higher than in private nursing homes; if his attention has been drawn to the comments in the report that residents were wrongly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (5 Jul 2016)

Jack Chambers: 534. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that independent research undertaken by the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre states private nursing homes are the majority providers of specialist dementia care; if he is further aware that three quarters of persons who avail of nursing home care are of high or maximum dependency, with 80% of the care provided by the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why he is continuing to issue correspondence urging recipients under the jobseeker's benefit scheme to use financial institutions instead of using the post office to collect payments. [18700/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (30 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide the details of recent developments at the Blanchardstown Centre for the Unemployed community employment scheme including the efforts he has and will make to ensure it continues. [18701/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: Is there any update on the gambling control Bill which seems to have been delayed for a considerable period?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 63. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to progress the gambling control Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18655/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 64. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding her Department provided to the Garda juvenile diversion programme and to the Garda youth diversion programme in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18745/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have had status under the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools action plan in each of the years 2006 to 2016, to date, in tabular form; why his Department postponed the action plan when it was highlighted in the national drugs strategy as a key mechanism for addressing deprivation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation under the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools action plan in each of the years 2006 to 2016, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18736/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statistics on early school leavers in each year of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18737/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: RAPID Programme (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding under the RAPID education programme in each of the years 2006 to 2016, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18738/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Substance Abuse Prevention Education (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have a substance misuse strategy; if he liaises with schools as to the way to implement and manage their substance misuse strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18739/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the teaching of social, personal and health education and its progression as a subject on the curriculum for the senior cycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18740/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 requires the Health Service Executive (HSE) to place the cost of care in long-term residential care and for the components that make up the cost before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and why this has not happened since March 2011 when the HSE last published the fees payable to its nursing homes...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 168. To ask the Minister for Health if he has concerns regarding breaches of competition law by his Department and the Health Service Executive in relation to the cost of care in State run nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18665/16]