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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of full or partial lower limb amputations carried out on persons with diabetes for each of the years 2007 and 2008 in each of the counties of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath and in the Health Service Executive north-east area; and the total inpatient cost of caring for them. [27438/10]

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in care who currently do not have a written care plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27427/10]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to ensure greater regional equity in the deployment of social workers. [27428/10]

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in foster care with relatives throughout the State; the number of these relatives who have received clearance through Garda vetting prior to placing children in their care; the number who received clearance through Garda vetting after children had been placed in their care; and the number who have not been...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons currently employed in residential facilities for children in care who have not yet received Garda clearance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27430/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of co-operation between the health systems North and South regarding kidney transplants; if there is scope for further co-operation; the discussions, if any, she has had with her counterpart in the Executive on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27431/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure the provision of the resources needed for additional beds and staffing at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for the kidney transplant unit in order to maximise the number of transplants which can be performed and to ensure that all kidneys that become available here are used here. [27432/10]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the medical card entitlements of asylum seekers in direct provision and if they are subject to any restrictions in relation to which general practitioners they are allowed to visit. [27433/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made, if any, on the promised provision of primary care centres; the number of such centres that have been provided, as distinct from primary care teams made up of health care professionals located in different places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27434/10]

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total moneys that remain unpaid under the general medical scheme to general practitioners in each of the years since the establishment of the Health Service Executive; the number of general practitioners involved in each year's unpaid total; the steps being taken to ensure that all moneys properly due are awarded; and if she will...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of bed days used by persons with diabetes treated for foot ulcerations who did not require a full or partial lower limb amputation for each of the years 2007 and 2008 in each of the counties of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath and in the Health Service Executive north-east area; the total inpatient cost of caring for them...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the circumstances, with regard to HSE Circular 008/10 in respect of cuts to dental treatment services scheme, in which a person in need of denture repairs will be deemed to have a clinical emergency entitling them to reimbursement under this scheme. [27439/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if surgical correction of exstrophy-epispadias complex is available in this State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27440/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Building Programme: Hospital Building Programme (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of building the new Health Service Executive community nursing hospital in Ballincollig, County Cork, including the purchase of the site; when it will be fully equipped and the anticipated cost of the equipment. [27441/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Building Programme: Hospital Building Programme (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the new Health Service Executive community nursing hospital in Ballincollig, County Cork, which was built with public funds, will be put out to tender to be run by a private operator as a profit-making business; and if so, when she anticipates that this will happen. [27442/10]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the policy and procedures in place to ensure that Health Service Executive facilities for older people are upgraded, when required by the Health Information and Quality Authority, in such a manner as to cause minimum disruption to residents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27443/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the decision to remove drinking water dispensers from Limerick Regional Hospital reflects Health Service Executive policy or cost cutting measures as a result of HSE constraints; if this practice has been carried out in other hospitals; her views on such practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27444/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the Health Service Executive revision of rehabilitation services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27445/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the review of rehabilitation services as it affects the provision of prosthetics and orthotics; if her attention has been drawn to the concerns that proposed changes could adversely affect the provision of these services here including the loss of skilled prosthetists or orthotists jobs, loss of choice for patients and a...

Order of Business. (24 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are tempted to say he always does so. In any event, as Deputy Brian Lenihan is not the Minister for Finance here this morning, I ask the occupant of the Taoiseach's chair if he knows whether the Minister for Finance has set the terms for the external investigation into the Department of Finance and whether those terms will include an examination of the advices received and decisions taken...