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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 10 November 2015, the steps a tenant who was under housing assistance payment should take to avail of rent supplement where a landlord declines to renew a new housing assistance payment agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44454/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of rent supplement in County Louth for in excess of 18 months; the number of these who have been transferred to the housing assistance payment scheme; and of those transferred, the number who have successfully secured accommodation within the current rent limits of this scheme by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures that allow flexibility within the rent supplement scheme in cases where applicants cannot source property within the limits she has set in County Louth; and if the housing assistance payment scheme allows for an uplift in the same manner. [44456/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount spent on rent supplement from 2011 to 2015 in counties Louth and Meath; the number of persons in these counties in receipt of the supplement from 2011 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44458/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to communicate recipients of rent supplement who are concerned at losing their homes in counties Louth and Meath; the supports available to them; and if she will roll out initiatives such as those implemented in County Dublin. [44459/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if community welfare offices in County Louth have the capacity to assist persons with meeting the cost of deposits for accommodation within the remit of the exceptional needs payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44457/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 140. To ask the Minister for Health if he has investigated why the price of units of cancer drugs is up to more than €200 higher in this State than elsewhere, given recent research (details supplied) highlighting this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44447/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 141. To ask the Minister for Health why Bevacizumab which is used to treat breast, lung, renal and ovarian cancer costs €1,319 in Ireland as against €1,085 in the United Kingdom, if he has queried this price difference with the manufacturer and supplier of this drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44448/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting, the average waiting time and the number of persons who have waited in excess of the Health Service Executive's 13-week target for endoscopy and colonoscopy diagnostic testing and services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda in County Louth, the staffing levels for the provision of these services; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times and the number of persons that have waited in excess of the Health Service Executive's 13-week target for diagnostic testing, such as endoscopies and colonoscopies, and the staffing level for providing these services by region and hospital group in tabular form. [44450/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the gastrointestinal endoscopy initiative, which includes colonoscopies undertaken by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, including when this commenced, the consultation that took place and with whom, the number of persons who were identified as waiting over 12 months, the number who have now been treated; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 145. To ask the Minister for Health further to recent media reports (details supplied) the measures he will take to ensure parity of access for persons without private health insurance awaiting tests to detect bowel cancer to ensure the strict Health Service Executive target of no person waiting more than 13 weeks for what is a vital diagnostic test is met; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels of radiographers and gastroenterologists and the vacancies in endoscopy services by region and hospital group. [44453/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 150. To ask the Minister for Health how the funding of €16.9 million, €8.9 million revenue and €8 million capital provided in July 2015 to support acute hospitals over the winter period was allocated by hospital group and by individual hospital. [44498/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 151. To ask the Minister for Health how the so-called winter capacity funding to support acute hospitals has been used to date; the initiatives that were funded by hospital group and by individual hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44499/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 152. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 26 November 2015, the locations of the 135 hospital beds which were closed for refurbishment or for infection-control purposes during 2015 to date, where the 91 re-opened beds are located, if hospitals will be allocated additional staffing resources to manage patient care in these beds; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 153. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 26 November 2015, the locations of the 301 beds which are due to be added to support the acute hospital system over the winter period, the progress that has been made across the locations noted as being identified, including Limerick, Drogheda, Galway and north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (10 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the emergency response vehicles in the north-east region regarding an emergency call for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44545/15]

Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: It is 12 minutes into this and I have only spoken two sentences.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: I am a Deputy as well, so let me say my piece.