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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the resources available to his Department remains adequate to meet the full range of services at hospital and community level envisaged at budget time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30820/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Application Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 627. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the number of medical cards has fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30821/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 628. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate resources remain available to ensure the retention of the maximum number of public nursing homes having particular regard to the projected needs in this sector; the extent to which any evaluation has been done to examine the prospect of increasing the capacity of such nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30822/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Internships (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 629. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects to have sufficient junior hospital doctors to meet requirements throughout the hospital service in the coming years; if he sees any requirement for policy changes in this regard in view of the experience of previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30823/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 630. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which sufficient nursing staff are readily available in line with requirements over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30824/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which waiting lists have been reduced in all public hospitals throughout the country; the extent to which this compares favourably or otherwise with the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30825/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which savings and efficiencies have been achieved throughout all sectors in the health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30826/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 633. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which agency nursing staff continue to be replaced by part-time, temporary or whole time staff throughout the public health sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30827/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 638. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which graduate nurses are likely to be offered positions over the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30832/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 634. To ask the Minister for Health arising from recent announcements by health insurers, the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the health insurance sector with a view to ensuring that the public continue to have access to competitive rates of health insurance and that an urgent evaluation is carried out into the basis for increases in such health insurance over the past...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Regulations (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which central procurement in terms of medicine, drugs or services in the health sector is organised in order to give maximum benefit and efficiency to the tax payer when possible and that local indigenous providers have ample opportunity to compete for the provision of all such goods and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 636. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the cost of prescription drugs to the Exchequer has fluctuated over the past four years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30830/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 637. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultant, non-consultant doctor and nursing posts currently vacant; those likely to be filled in the foreseeable future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30831/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 639. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which nursing assistant posts have been filled in line with requirements in each of the past four years to date; the likely development in this regard in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30833/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 640. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the need to ensure the retention of the widest possible network of local health centres throughout County Kildare with particular reference to all rural and urban areas who are dependent on such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30834/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which hospice beds are available to patients throughout north Kildare; the extent to which this number is sufficient to meet requirements; if he or his Department has received any submissions in this regard requesting extra bed accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30835/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (25 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he and his Department continues to monitor developments at St Bridget’s Nursing Home, Crooksling; if any changes have taken place in policy or administration which might affect the future of the hospital, its capacity to accommodate the needs of the indigenous community and the scale of services provided there; and if he will make...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this issue in respect of which my views are fairly well known. I have long since expressed my opposition to the concept of the abolition of any element of our democratic structures, the Seanad being one. That said, I have no difficulty in having a referendum where the people are called upon to make a decision as to what lies in the future. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CES (20 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: If one follows that line of thinking in so far as fiscal and economic policy throughout the eurozone and the European Union is concerned and if the ECB opts out, what then is its function? What is the function of the ECB if the national central banks of the member states are the dominant bodies? Surely the member states' national central banks must feed into the European Central Bank in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CES (20 Jun 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Casualties as well.