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Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on Our Lady's Hospital, Lee Road, Cork; and the plans she has in order to eliminate what is considered to be the biggest derelict site on the northside of Cork City, most of which has been unoccupied since 2003. [14190/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent arson attack on the unoccupied St. Kevin's Unit on the vacant site of Our Lady's Hospital, Lee Road, Cork and the damage that was done in that arson attack; and the cost of security services on an annual basis over the past six years for that site. [14191/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent comment made by the director of stroke services in Tallaght Hospital that at least 400 lives could be saved every year by improving the delivery of stroke services; and the reason the proposals for a national rehabilitation centre to be located in Cork have been scrapped. [14192/08]

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the initiatives she proposes to take to deal with the problems of gastroenteritis in the community which is a preventable disease and which according to recent research by Trinity College Dublin, is costing Ireland more than €135 million each year. [14193/08]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on plans for a new hospital at the site of St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Cork, to provide services for the elderly; and the other plans she has for that site. [14194/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the new 100 bed community nursing unit in Ballincollig to be opened for use. [14195/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent report which stated that up to 90% of asylum seekers experienced depression and feelings of worthlessness within six months of arriving here. [14196/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation where at least 60% of cervical smear tests carried out at Health Service Executive hospitals will be sent abroad once a tender process for cytology screening services is complete. [14201/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a situation where ten laboratories currently providing diagnostic gynaecological cytology services are disqualified for inclusion under the terms of the national cervical screening programme in view of the fact that they do not fulfil the necessary criteria, particularly the criteria to have full...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the new Health Service Executive report which suggests that the number of patients on hospital waiting lists has increased by nearly 10% owing to staff and bed shortages and that this report has come nearly four years after she declared overcrowding in hospital emergency departments a national crisis;...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a recent UK study presented recently at the Irish Medical Organisation conference which found a 1% increase in mortality with each 10 km increase in journey distances from hospitals; and the way she can reconcile the contents of that study with her proposals to close down local hospitals in favour of...

Written Answers — Primary Care Strategy: Primary Care Strategy (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the slow roll-out of the Health Service Executive's primary care teams and the fact that meetings have been held between the Health Service Executive and general practitioners over a three year period with very little progress being made. [14218/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Treatment Services: Cancer Treatment Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to commission a patient impact assessment by consulting with doctors and patients before changes are made in the delivery of cancer services at hospital level. [14219/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will direct the Health Service Executive to make its board meetings public and accountable in the interest of transparency in view of the fact that many major decisions affecting the lives of people are being made behind closed doors by a body which in the main is not accountable to Dáil Éireann. [14220/08]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation whereby a new fully equipped accident and emergency unit at the Mercy Hospital, Cork, is lying idle whilst the present unit elsewhere on the campus of the Mercy University Hospital was deemed unfit for its purpose over two years ago, is tiny and does not have enough space for the demands...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent comments by an association (details supplied) that seven emergency departments nationwide have been identified as unfit for the purpose by the Emergency Department Task Force and are in that condition two years after she declared emergency departments overcrowding, a national emergency....

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department audits the level of private practice in all specialties in public hospitals; and if it is done on a consultant basis. [14226/08]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she audits the National Treatment Purchase Fund referrals; and, if so, if she proposes to publish the outcomes of the patients it refers. [14228/08]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent comments made in a publication (details supplied) that shortages of the BCG vaccine since October 2007 have left many children at risk of tuberculosis; and if she will direct the Health Service Executive to review the national TB services as a matter of urgency. [14229/08]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of tuberculosis reported here from 2002 to 2007 inclusive and to date in 2008. [14230/08]