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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 87. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures he will be putting in place relating to information and tracing in adoption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28015/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Transfusion Service (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 447. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been no progress on the development of a new blood transfusion centre in Cork, despite the fact that the then Government made an allocation of €17 million in December 2008; to date the money earmarked has remained unused and endless discussions between the parties concerned appear inconclusive; the reason delivery on this project...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 450. To ask the Minister for Health when persons here who suffer from spasticity symptoms associated with MS will be able to access cannabis-based medicinal products to improve their quality of life; when will the draft misuse of drugs (amendment) regulations to amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1988 be approved by Government; and when will the draft regulations be notified to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 451. To ask the Minister for Health if the long delay in publishing draft misuse of drugs (amendment) regulations, which will amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1988, is due to legal action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27837/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 452. To ask the Minister for Health if perceived cost implications have delayed the finalisation and publication of draft misuse of drugs (amendment) regulations, which will amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1988; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27838/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he intends to notify the European Commission of the draft misuse of drugs (amendment) regulations when other EU members enacted similar amending regulations without notifying the EC, as it believed such regulations were exempt under the technical standards directive and-or the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961, as amended by 1972 protocol;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the written submissions that his Department received in response to his Department’s consultation on draft misuse of drugs (amendment) regulations, amending the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1988, which was announced in August 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27840/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 464. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details in tabular form divided by month of the number of medical cards newly issued on a discretionary basis in each month from May 2011 to April 2014 [27915/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive bought a closed hospital, Mount Carmel, while fully staffed and operating hospitals are continuing to close beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27997/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was paid for Mount Carmel by the Health Service Executive; and the way it is justified and to funded when the HSE is currently €500 million over budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27998/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 478. To ask the Minister for Health if due diligence was performed together with the development of a business plan by the Health Service Executive for Mount Carmel with proper costings; where can Oireachtas Members inspect the evidence of that; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27999/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the way he can justify the Health Service Executive spending more money on a private hospital that was bust, even after the National Asset Management Agency injected €10m into it to keep it running over the past few years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28000/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that the National Asset Management Agency sold all the Mount Carmel hospital equipment; the amount that was raised from this sale; the amount it will cost the Health Service Executive to re-equip the hospital to make it operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28001/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 481. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the purchase of Mount Carmel is a venture in which the taxpayer gets no financial return in view of the fact that every cent expended has already, and continues to be provided by the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28002/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 504. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he commissioned a new national strategy for maternity services; if a group has been established to draw up the strategy and the membership of same; the number of meetings the group has had; the terms of reference that have been provided to the group; the consultations that have been undertaken in that regard; if meetings have been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 530. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions vacant as of 25 June 2014 in each public and voluntary hospital; the number of these positions currently being filled by locums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28253/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 531. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior house officer positions vacant as of 25 June 2014 in each public and voluntary hospital; the number of these positions currently being filled by locums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28254/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 532. To ask the Minister for Health the number of registrar positions vacant as of 25 June 2014 in each public and voluntary hospital; the number of these positions currently being filled by locums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28255/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 533. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff nurse positions vacant as of 25 June 2014 in each public and voluntary hospital; the number of these positions currently being filled by locums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28256/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (1 Jul 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 542. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the restoration of 12,406 discretionary medical cards and the 2,899 discretionary general practitioner visit cards announced on 17 June 2014, the number of such former cardholders that the Health Service Executive had written to or otherwise contacted by 24 June 2014. [28307/14]