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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget for his Department to meet in full the projected requirements in the coming year; the extent, if any, to which any unforeseen expenditure can be provided for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57322/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has put in place procedures to monitor day to day costs in the health service with a view to prevention of budgetary overruns at years end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57326/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cost (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to ensure that health insurance costs here are brought into line with the most competitive in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57318/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which waiting periods for various surgical or medical procedures have fluctuated over the past five years to date with particular reference to cardiovascular surgery, hip replacements and ophthalmics; if he will set out the current average waiting times for such procedures; if particular efforts continue to be made to address these issues; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which steps are taken to prevent the spread of various hospital bugs including MRSA, all air borne and other infections; if the major cause or causes of such infections have been identified; if the visit of children to hospitals has been restricted; the extent to which normal preventative measures are enforced; and if he will make a statement on...

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

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health if the public have ready and easy access to all preliminary procedures preparatory to surgical or medical interventions with particular reference to obtaining the necessary appointments with consultants to ensure the minimisation of waiting times in all public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57316/12]

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

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which patient numbers in public and private hospitals continue to be monitored with a view to ensuring that the public hospital system is not used as a means of direct or indirect support to the private area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57317/12]

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

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the number and nature of surgical and or medical procedures carried out in the public hospital sector in each of the past five years and to date in 2012; the extent of any trends emerging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57319/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals for further psychological or medical attention following school medical examinations in each of the past five years and to date in 2012; the full extent to which the procedures required received attention within reasonable time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57320/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has carried out an evaluation of the various public nursing homes throughout the country with a view to ensuring the retention of the maximum number of such facilities to meet current and future requirements in the public health sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57321/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which community care facilities are likely to be made available to older persons in the future with particular reference to those with a higher degree of mobility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57323/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied regarding the availability of an adequate supply of junior hospital doctors in 2013, 2014 and thereafter; the extent to which this supply will relate to the number of doctors qualifying in each of the years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57324/12]

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

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the relevant authorities within his Department or within the Health Service Executive have examined the need for the upgrading of health centres throughout the country in the coming year in keeping with population demands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57325/12]

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

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the need to upgrade the health centres in north west Kildare with particular reference to the growing centres of population; the extent to which the current health centres require upgrading in line with demographic trends; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57327/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (19 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ability of St Brigid’s Nursing Home, Crooksling, County Dublin to accommodate up to 120 patients; that such numbers have been accommodated there in the past and that with very little upgrading and very little cost the same capacity remains; if he will ensure that Health Information Quality Authority reports and...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Not all of the leprechauns are outside.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Their effects are still being felt.

Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (18 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: Have the lessons learned from the tragic incidents of recent years to which the Minister alluded given rise to an arrangement or agreement within the Department? Do any of the Departments with responsibility for this matter have an early warning system or other mechanism in place to alert other Departments to the possibility that children are at risk, whether at school or in the youth...

Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (18 Dec 2012)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. Does she foresee a situation in which further responsibilities may be thrust upon her Department arising from the passage of the recent amendment to the Constitution in respect of children or relating to issues that concern parents of children, such as the vulnerability of many children who appear to be the subject of cyber attacks, bullying,...