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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner visits will be extended to long term illness card holders; and if he will expedite the measure [38942/12]

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of translation services by his Department and the agencies operating under his aegis for the years 2010 to 2012 inclusive; if his attention has been drawn to a translation service (details supplied); his opinion on the merits of this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37144/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for colonoscopy examinations in the public health system for the years 2008 to 2012 inclusive; the number of patients waiting for colonoscopies during the same period; if he will provide a breakdown of same per Health Service Executive region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37145/12]

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason 22 beds remain closed at a hospital (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the efforts he is making to ensure these beds are re-opened at the earliest opportunity; the date on which they will be re-opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37148/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to support the Anna Liffey drug Project in Dublin; his position on supervised injection sites in this State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37686/12]

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will give details of the savings made through the employment of agency staff, both nursing and clerical, as against their Health Service Executive directly employed co-workers, in each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; if he will advise of any changes in terms of employment or levels of remuneration that were introduced specific to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately reverse the decision to cease support for medical card holders with coeliac disease to obtain gluten-free products on prescription [38943/12]

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards that are in place to ensure that those contracted by the Health Service Executive to provide residential care and home care are fully compliant with all employment legislation and regulations and that the statutory rights of their employees are fully vindicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38560/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Employment Rights Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will raise with the Health Service Executive the serious concerns raised by employees in a company (details supplied) regarding their working conditions, their rights as employees and the treatment of them by their employer. [38561/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Statistics (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the number of armed robberies in each county for each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and his plans to resource Gardaí to combat these in future. [39336/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing at Concerts (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost per Garda of policing concerts and the proportion of this that is reimbursed by concert promoters and organisers. [39337/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children Services Committees (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Health Service Executive children and adolescent mental health service is represented on the children services committees at a local authority level or on the national children's strategy implementation group at a national level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39628/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency Remit (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to proceed with the recommendation of the task force on the Child and Family Support Agency to include children and adolescent mental health service within the new agency; the way this will deliver better inter-agency co-operation between HSE, CAMHS and the child welfare and protection services; the way this might be addressed in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding ringfenced funding of €35 million for mental health service provision; if the money is still ringfenced for mental health services; the way the funds will be used; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39507/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the €35 million allocated in 2012 for the development of community mental health services; the number of posts filled; the number of posts remaining to be filled; if this sum is still ring-fenced for this purpose; if he will give a guarantee that it will not be used for other purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when the promised provision of free GP care to long-term illness patients will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39654/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he approved the €130 million further cuts to the 2012 health budget, including the proposed cuts to personal assistance services for the disabled, the home care cuts and the home help cuts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39655/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to cease the provision of gluten-free products on prescription for medical card patients with coeliac disease; and if he will provide equivalent alternative supports or measures for coeliac patients, in view of the excessive cost of gluten-free products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39656/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to reverse the decision to cease emergency and cardiology services at Nenagh Hospital, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39658/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he has ascertained from the Health Service Executive the reason it was decided to cease emergency and cardiology services at Nenagh Hospital, County Tipperary even though the critical care unit in the Limerick Regional Hospital is not yet fully opened or fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39659/12]