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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of all measures being undertaken to cut costs in the Louth Meath area including details on the likely impact on health service users of these measures. [38027/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the risk assessments carried out in relation to decisions by the Health Service Executive to introduce cost cutting measures including the elimination of agency staff and cuts to overtime in the Louth Meath hospital group. [38028/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if any reductions in services in mothers' and children's services in the Louth Meath hospital group are planned as part of the cost cutting plans between now and the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38073/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a month by month breakdown in tabular form of the number of exemptions granted to the recruitment embargo for each Health Service Executive region since March 2011. [38074/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the supports or treatments available to persons suffering from bulimia nervosa here; the number of places available in the State to treat patients suffering from bulimia; the number of persons on waiting lists for such treatment; the timeframe patients are on waiting lusts before they receive treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38120/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Meath is currently on a waiting list for admittance to a treatment programme for bulimia nervosa; the supports in place or that are being put in place to ensure they get the treatment they require; and the timeframe they will be waiting before they are admitted to a treatment programme [38121/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on a waiting list to be fitted with an insulin pump in the Health Service Executive North East region. [38397/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the length of time children currently have to wait to be fitted with an insulin pump from when they first go on the waiting list. [38398/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in each Health Service Executive region for children to be fitted with an insulin pump from when they first go on a waiting list. [38399/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the number of children State wide on waiting lists to be fitted with insulin pumps [38408/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if there are loopholes which allow a pharmacist who has been struck off from practising as a pharmacist in the North to be allowed to work as a pharmacist in the South; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38452/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Training (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38487/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases Incidence (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 146 of 15 March 2012 if he has commissioned a report in relation to an outbreak of Clostridium Difficile at a hospital (details supplied) in County Louth in 2010; if that report has been completed; if the report has been forwarded to him; the outcome and findings of that report; if any patient deaths were related or linked to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the way the €130 million in cuts announced by the Health Service Executive in late August will affect the HSE North East region; the services that will be withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38562/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he signed off on the decision to cut a further €130 million worth of services between September and the end of 2012; and if he will provide the timeline of events. [38563/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Staff Training (18 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38493/12]

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: Yesterday Clare County Council confirmed it is demanding that a student's parents pay the household charge before a student's grant application will be processed. Other councils have said they are preparing to follow suit. Yesterday the Taoiseach seemed to be supporting this action and the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, described it as reasonable. Ba mhaith liom...

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am very disappointed with the Taoiseach's answer. He should have taken the opportunity to clarify the issue. He knows better than I, because he is around longer, that the county councils do not provide the funding for higher education grants. In no way should the child of a household be penalised for what the household may or may not be doing. I had a very quiet word with the Minister...

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----is to support these actions which clearly discriminate against lower and middle income students who need grants to get them into further education. All of this is as a result of the mess the Government and the Minister the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, have made of this household charge. Will the Taoiseach revise his answer and tell us that he will uphold...

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: As I did yesterday, I commend the Government on its work on this issue, and others who have worked on it. My question is about forthcoming legislation, particularly the proposed credit union Bill. I recently met a delegation from the mid-Louth group of credit unions. They are concerned that the Government may be treating credit unions like banks, when there is a totally different ethos in...