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- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 353: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a recent study (details supplied) which showed that only in about 10% of cardiac cases is the defibrillator reaching the cardiac arrest victim within the five minutes standard time. [11787/08]
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 354: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a cardiac arrest registry in order that ambulance response times could be accurately recorded. [11788/08]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce acute medical admissions units in all of the acute hospitals nationally and the accident medical admissions unit model be introduced to improve outcomes rather than efficiency. [11789/08]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent Health Service Executive report which states that it needs an additional 1,863 full-time equivalent health staff to fulfil the service targets outlined in its national health plan 2008; the action she will take in relation to this matter; and the projected cost of the target. [11790/08]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent Inhale report which stated that the reason Ireland had such a high level of respiratory disease was either genetic or possibly climate related, that health education was failing the socially deprived groups and that health prevention attempts had failed to reach these groups and had only...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 364: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation whereby patients dealing with the National Treatment Purchase Fund are receiving treatment paid for by the fund at the same hospital from which their names had been taken from waiting lists; and her views on whether this practice is disrupting the core activities of such hospitals. [11827/08]
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation where the National Treatment Purchase Fund is in the process of engaging a public relations firm to improve its image; and her views on whether this is an acceptable way of spending taxpayers' money. [11828/08]
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 381: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent decision made by general practitioners to distance themselves from the national roll-out of the national cervical screening programme. [11911/08]
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 604: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on the Government's plans to terminate the contracts of all the agencies nationwide who are supporting the community development programmes which seem to be happening as a result of the recent cutbacks which have also affected the Health Service Executive and which will leave community...
- Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (2 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 1044: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will negotiate with An Post with a view to issuing a stamp to commemorate Irish soldiers who died in the service of the United Nations peacekeeping forces. [11912/08]
- Irish Language. (3 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will set up an independent commission to review the 152 Gaeltacht electoral areas and boundaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12376/08]
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (3 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine a situation where FÃS in the south west region are stating that the programme for long-term unemployed people who are over 55 years of age, which was introduced in November 2004 and which would allow people to stay on community employment schemes for up to six years and which was subsequently increased...
- Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the specific measures she will introduce in the agricultural sector to meet Ireland's national target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 3% per year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13015/08]
- Hospitals Building Programme. (9 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: And the Minister.
- Hospitals Building Programme. (9 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: She is hiding as usual.
- Hospitals Building Programme. (9 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: This is life and death business.
- Hospitals Building Programme. (9 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: As well as the closure of wards, including a 30-bed ward at the Mercy University Hospital.
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (9 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation where the Health Service Executive and Cork University Hospital have been forced to down-size their original plans for a multi-storey car park and helicopter landing facilities in Cork University Hospital for urgent cases as a result of the proposed co-located hospital on campus and that...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (9 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the status of the common contract document finalised by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association and the Irish Medical Organisation. [13424/08]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2008)
Bernard Allen: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce restrictions over the practices of private cosmetic surgery clinics here and particularly the way cosmetic surgery procedures are advertised. [13425/08]