Results 2,841-2,860 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Beds (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 307. To ask the Minister for Health when the 26 long-stay beds in Drogheda, County Louth, as announced in the media, will be opened; if additional resources have been allocated for additional staffing for these beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3989/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Beds (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 308. To ask the Minister for Health if the 30 nursing home beds in Ardee, County Louth, as announced by the media, have been opened; if these beds are to be utilised as long-stay beds or for respite purposes; if additional resources have been allocated for additional staffing for these beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3990/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 309. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed new 100-bed unit in the grounds of St. Mary's Hospital on the Dublin Road in Drogheda, County Louth; what stage the design plans are at; if the appointed project group progressed this proposal; what funding has been ring-fenced for this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3991/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds available under the fair deal scheme, by county, from 2011 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3992/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting approval, the number approved but awaiting funding, and the expected waiting time for a person from the date of application to the approval date for funding under the nursing home support scheme in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3993/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 312. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth; and the action he is taking to reduce this number. [3994/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the interdepartmental agency working group set up following the report reviewing the fair deal scheme which was published on 20 July 2015; the meetings that have taken place to date; if he will provide or publish an interim report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3995/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 386. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Flexique is included in the Health Service Executive list of reimbursable items under the general medical services scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4338/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (2 Feb 2016)
Gerry Adams: 387. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) in County Meath is unable to access the drug Flexique, under the general medical services scheme; if an alternative drug will be provided under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4339/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Fisheries Fund (28 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: 161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm if the Government has handed back €5 million or any other amount to the European Fisheries Fund; and if so, the reason why. [3631/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (28 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of inaccuracies in a recent report entitled potential for land based salmon grow out in recirculating aquaculture systems, RAS, in Ireland, which concludes that salmon farming in land-based RAS facilities here is unviable, and this may have influenced Ireland’s funding policy for land-based aquaculture. [3632/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (28 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: 163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Bord Iascaigh Mhara has assessed the accuracy and validity of the contents of a report (details supplied) and the conclusions reached in the report; and if Bord Iascaigh Mhara concurs with its findings. [3633/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (28 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: 164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine did Bord Iascaigh Mhara or any other agency or body under his control, grant aid a report (details supplied); the cost of the report; the percentage of grant aid that was approved for it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3634/16]
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: I think it might be Deputy Michael Lowry ringing the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: I am not doing down health service workers. I have had the experience of being in their care since I came to this part of the island. Let us go back to what the Taoiseach promised. The Taoiseach promised free GP care for all. Where has that promise gone? The Taoiseach promised to abolish the HSE. Where has that promise gone? The Taoiseach promised to abolish prescription charges....
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: I will put my question now. We are on the cusp of an election. Whatever we can say about Margaret Thatcher, she told it as it was. Would the Taoiseach not be better facing into this election by telling people that he wants to privatise our health service? The Taoiseach should tell people that as opposed to all the slíbhín weasel words that he uses to disguise his real intent....
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: I do use the health service here.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: Is it the Taoiseach's intention to build a universal health service?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: No, it was not.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: The economy should serve the people.