Results 1,321-1,340 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 657. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received an action plan on scoliosis from the HSE. [12106/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received an action plan on scoliosis from the HSE. [12107/17]

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I commend my party colleagues for bringing this motion before the House. It seeks a firm commitment from the Government that no child with special educational needs will lose resource teaching hours as a result of changes to the allocation model. As my party's spokesperson on farming and skills, I am often contacted by parents of children with learning difficulties who are struggling to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (8 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 71. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the HSE expedites the allocation of funding to a service (details supplied) which is the only residential detoxification and treatment service for adolescents in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (8 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be allocated to the existing cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford in order to increase the laboratory's current capacity to accommodate the estimated 450 additional procedures that will be referred there through additional diagnostic angiograms set to be provided by the mobile catheterisation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in counties Carlow and Kilkenny that have not received 85% of their total 2016 payment under GLAS 1, GLAS 2 and AEOS; the reason for this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12364/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Laboratory Facilities (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the future of the regional veterinary laboratory in County Kilkenny, which serves the entire region of the south east, can be guaranteed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of engagement that has taken place between his Department and the insurance industry to ensure that appropriate insurance is available to persons residing in an area in which flooding has never occurred but who are being excluded from cover, en masse, by insurance providers due to their Eircode; his views on such practices; the measures which have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 212. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary legislative amendments will be made in order to facilitate the implementation of the cannabis access programme; if he will expedite this process; if he will consider granting a licence to an Irish registered doctor to authorise access to medicinal cannabis for named patients with conditions such as Dravet syndrome, rare forms of epilepsy...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: They do charge extra, though, for extras like hairdressers.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Can we bring them in some other day?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I thank the Chairman. It is an odd day. We are in and out like yo-yos but that is the way it is. We had a good start this morning, I suppose. I want to go back to the private property accounts. Could Mr. Mulvany tell me briefly why these accounts came into existence? Is this the patients' money? Is it the case that they had private savings all along or was money accumulated through...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The €14.4 million in interest sounds like an awful lot of money. The pre-2005 interest was €2.368 million. We are talking about 12 years ago. How is it taking this length of time to sort all this out?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I imagine that many of the patients have died in the past 12 years, but the money is still there. Who will get it? Will it be the family? Many legalities must be involved. If a will has been made, that is fine, but if a person dies intestate, the family have a claim. I understand they get the money. Must the HSE divide it up or to whom does it give the money? What about a ward of court...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The money goes back to the State.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Given what has happened, there seems to be weak control in the system. Was there any misappropriation of funds? There are many areas in Ireland. Has the HSE proved that there were no misappropriations? Has the Garda ever had to be called in to investigate a case?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Were there repercussions for the identified breaches?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: In hindsight, should there have been more scrutiny? Is there a need to have more regular internal audits?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will move on to the fair deal scheme. What is the normal time involved? One or two years ago there was a lack of available financing, but the scheme seems to have improved since. I know this because I have been making representations on behalf of constituents. What is the timescale from the start to when a patient joins?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is good to hear.