Results 741-760 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (1 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of posts for 2014 that the working group on paediatric diabetes requests or recommends for University Hospital Limerick and University Hospital Galway; the number that were provided for in the service plan for 2014; the number of posts currently in place in both hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (1 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of insulin pumps the Health Service Executive purchased in 2013; the number, broken down by HSE area, given out to children under the age of 16; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15022/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (8 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, information on the following for each year, 2011, 2012, and 2013, the total number of whole time equivalent special needs assistants, the total number of hours allocated to that national compliment of whole time equivalent positions, the total number of children allocated a special needs assistant; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (8 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a county breakdown for January 2014 of the number of children awaiting an initial assessment for speech and language therapies; and the numbers on open waiting lists in the following timeframes; 0 to four months; four to eight months; eight to 12 months; 12 to 18 months, 18 to 24 months; more than 24 months [16058/14]

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (9 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve special needs education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16464/14]

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (9 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: I thank the Minister for his response. We all acknowledge that many great advancements have been made in the past decade in special needs provision for children. I welcome the 390 additional posts in this regard. However, there remains an issue of resources across the country, as there are black spot areas in Dublin, Dublin West and north Kildare in particular. One school enrolled two...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (9 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: I thank the Minister for his invitation to forward the details. Does he not believe there is an opportunity for every child to undergo developmental needs assessments at three and a half years of age through the public health system? Is there not a more effective way of establishing a child's needs one year before entering the primary school system? Not every parent can afford to borrow...

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The programme for Government provides for a policy on mental health to incorporate the recommendations of A Vision for Change. I would be grateful if the Minister confirmed that it was still a Government priority to honour the commitments set out in A Vision for Change. We were promised a review of the Mental Health Act. It was a human rights approach to providing for mental health patients.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: In the light of reports over the weekend that psychiatric patients had to wait for up to eight days for appropriate bed treatment-----

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: -----and suicidal patients were being denied access to beds in this city, when will we see the expedition of the legislation?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (9 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants at both primary and post-primary level in WTE terms in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14; the number of hours allocated in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16463/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (15 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, information for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and for each county within the State on the total number of whole time equivalent special needs assistants; total number of hours allocated to that national complement of whole time equivalent positions; the total number of children allocated a special needs assistant;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (15 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of any pension entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied). [17821/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (15 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 633. To ask the Minister for Health in reference to recommendation 20.5 of A Vision for Change, the identity of the current chair and members of the monitoring group; the date of their last submitted report; the details of his response to that report; the actions taken to address any issues identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17830/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (15 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will address the issues identified in recent media reports (details supplied) regarding delays in admitting suicidal patients and patients experiencing severe psychotic episodes; to the concerns expressed by psychiatrists about other such patients being discharged earlier than medically prudent and reports that mental health services in north...

Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: I acknowledge the dedication, commitment and, above all, the actions of Deputy Billy Kelleher, who has achieved a significant public service by providing for this debate. The motion we have placed before the Dáil boils down to the assertion of two simple factual statements. Our ambulance services are under-resourced and, as a consequence, we are placing people's lives at risk. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (16 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 167. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an occupational assessment and for a hearing assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18238/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (17 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) may expect to receive their agri-environment options scheme grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18297/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (30 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate for the current size of the output gap; his views on the implications on same for taxation policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19183/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (30 Apr 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance with reference to the technical assumptions made on page 5 of the Stability Programme April 2014 update, his estimate of the year-on-year percent change for both real GDP and real GNP if oil were to be $110 per barrel for each year from 2014 to 2018, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19184/14]