Results 781-800 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (13 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged five or under who currently are holders of a medical card or of a GP-only card; the proportion of the total national population this represents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21330/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (13 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 623. To ask the Minister for Health if he remains committed to the role of the national service user executive, established under recommendation 3.5 of A Vision for Change, in informing the national mental health service directorate and the Mental Health Commission on issues relating to user involvement and participation in planning delivering, evaluating and monitoring services including...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (13 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of how of the 477 additional staff, committed to under the Health Service Executive national service plan 2013 to fulfil the objectives of further development of forensics and community mental health teams for adults, children, older persons and mental health intellectual disability, have been filled in each of the HSE areas; when...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (13 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a financial breakdown of the current budgetary performance of every hospital providing acute services within the Health Service Executive; the budgeted target for each acute hospital; the projected outturn for each acute hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21335/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: That is not what the report suggests.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Legal Cases (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: It is scandalous.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Commission Reports (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken following the findings of recent audits into the compliance of the notification and investigation of incidents of sudden, unexplained death of persons in community mental health services with legislative requirements and Health Service Executive policy and procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21599/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Commission Reports (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: The audits referenced in the question highlight that there are 18 recommendations. Will the Minister share with the House what action plans he will put in place with respect to the recommendations set out in the audits? For the benefit of the House, the audits involve an investigation into community and mental health services, into approved centres and into the community setting which deal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Commission Reports (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: I welcome the Minister's alarm. Only last week, officials from the Minister's Department telephoned my office seeking the report. It is a source of great concern that the consistency with the Minister's alarm, with respect to the officials in the Department, would raise some questions in light of the fact that somebody from the Opposition benches had to be contacted to identify the report...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Commission Reports (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: It is a fact that there has been a general failure to investigate the contributory factors to the deaths involved. The report clearly indicates that the Department's failure to adhere to the legislation and the regulation has resulted in a collapse in a standardised approach. That only one in eight of the investigations undertaken was consistent with the approach set out by the systems...
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 31. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider his policy on discretionary medical cards in respect of children with Down's Syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21120/14]
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Discretionary.
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Is taking from the vulnerable and sick fair?
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: I am loath to reference anecdotal evidence from canvassing on doorsteps in light of the Minister of State's previous comments, but I refer him to a senior official of the HSE who last week stated in Galway that the removal of discretionary medical cards is indefensible. We have a Minister of State defending what he regards as a fair gateway to aids and appliances through providing a medical...
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Just be human for a day.
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Who resourced discretion?
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: I always get excited.
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Biomass.
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Biomass Pat. He is full of it.
- Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Biomass Pat.