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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the proposal to replace the National Children's Hospital in Tallaght with an urgent care centre will mean that there will be no overnight beds for sick children in the hospital. [5885/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is only one accident and emergency consultant assigned to Tallaght Hospital despite it being the busiest accident and emergency department in the State. [5886/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding was to be set aside for a new CT scannner in Tallaght Hospital; the status of that proposal; and if the outdated machinery is having a detrimental effect on patient care in the hospital. [5887/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if one ward in Tallaght Hospital is short seven and a half nurses; if there is any prospect of those positions being filled in the near future; and her views on whether this is having a detrimental effect on access and care in the hospital. [5888/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Tallaght Hospital is short of an anaesthetist; if this is leading to operations being cancelled or delayed particularly for elderly patients awaiting hip operations; and the steps being taken to resolve this crisis. [5890/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting time for a hip operation in Tallaght Hospital. [5891/08]

Commissions of Investigation. (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if officials from his Department have met the family of Seamus Ludlow as outlined in his reply to Parliamentary Question No.139 on 31 October 2007; if he will meet the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31949/07]

Commissions of Investigation. (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach agree that the report of Mr. Justice Barron on the murder of Seamus Ludlow is an indictment in particular of senior Garda management who prevented a full investigation being pursued in 1979 even though they were aware of the identity of the four people directly involved in the murder of Seamus Ludlow and that two of those were serving members of the British army's Ulster...

Commissions of Investigation. (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While I acknowledge the Taoiseach's indication that, if it has not already been done, he will look at compiling all the reports I have cited, including those of the Oireachtas sub-committee, with a view to presenting them to Prime Minister Brown, will he indicate whether we have employed any other level of activity in lobbying parliamentarians at Westminster to give support to the request of...

Departmental Staff. (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the appointment procedures in his Department for political advisers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35284/07]

Departmental Staff. (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When the Taoiseach last answered questions on these matters, he stated that there was a close working relationship between the Department of Finance, the Health Service Executive, his Department and the Department of Health and Children in respect of health matters. He advised me that one of his advisers attends a frequent series of meetings in that regard. Will he clarify whether it is the...

Departmental Staff. (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach did not respond to me in respect of the engagement of his adviser in that area.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Finian McGrath is here.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I recently raised with the Taoiseach the plight of almost 50,000 families on local authority housing waiting lists. There is a signalled delay in the introduction of the social housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill, which had been promised for early 2008, as the recently published legislative programme states it will be published in mid-2008. Many families and individuals of senior years...

Agency Workers: Motion (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been in contact with the Health Minister in the Six Counties in relation to joint approaches to hospital-based infections such as MRSA and clostridium difficile; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6748/08]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the alarm caused at the large number of deaths attributed to clostridium difficile in hospitals in all of the Health Trust areas in the Six Counties; the known incidence of the disease in this jurisdiction; if there are figures for the level of infection by hospital and by Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 623: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for long term residency that have been granted and the number that have been refused, for each month since January 2007. [5954/08]

Freedom of Information. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department during November 2007 and the comparable figure for November 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35285/07]

Freedom of Information. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the procedure in the Department of the Taoiseach for reviewing the operation of the Freedom of Information Act? Is there a cross-departmental process for monitoring and reviewing freedom of information requests either in place or planned? It is almost a year since we received the report of the Information Commissioner wherein she outlined a list of suggestions aimed at improving the...