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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide quarterly waiting list figures for the Ophthalmology Department at Tullamore Hospital County Offaly for the years 2009 to 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13163/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Products (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used by the Health Service Executive and other organisations funded by his Department when deciding on tendering for the provision of patient seating clinic products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13196/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has yet to meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied); when will he arrange for a meeting to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13315/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Products (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if community OT's have been instructed by the Health Service Executive and his Department to recommend certain companies who provide seating clinic products; if so, if he will provide a full list of the recommended companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13219/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Products (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has any policy regarding promoting Irish manufacturers in the supply of products and equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13220/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a company (details supplied) who won the tender for driver training of the ambulance service has not been allowed to commence the contract due to start on 31 December 2012; the reason an out of contract company who are more expensive are still carrying out the training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13334/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the ophthalmology Department at the Midlands Regional Hospital, County Offaly, is only accepting referrals for medical card patients; the reason this decision was taken; when this will be corrected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13371/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (13 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to resolve the dispute between hospital pharmacists and the Health Service Executive that has resulted in nearly 1,000 people with Hepatitis C, including more than 200 haemophiliacs, being denied access to new high tech drugs (details supplied) that were approved and funded in 2012; when he expects the dispute to be resolved; if...

Topical Issue Debate: Cochlear Implants (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for attending personally. This issue is topical. There have been interviews in recent days involving parents of children who are waiting for a bilateral cochlear implant. The debate has been passionate at times. I record the words of the mother of Anna Murphy, the little girl who featured on TV3's "Temple Street Children's Hospital" and...

Topical Issue Debate: Cochlear Implants (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The parents of the children in question are committed to ensuring that their children are allowed to reach their full potential. Clearly what is needed in the context of the clinical lead care programme is a commitment that funding will be provided. I realise it is difficult for the Minister to give a guarantee in the House today. However, the sequential implantation process should be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the compliance rate for household charge payments on a county basis; the total national figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12699/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe for the establishment of a planning regulator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12681/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason two senior clinical leaders in nursing and medicine in North Galway mental health services have been relocated to West Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12295/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify, by name, hospitals in which management have implemented elements of the deal agreed between health service management and hospital consultants at the Labour Relations Commission in Autumn 2012; the nature of the elements of the agreement that have been put in place in each acute hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12309/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify, by name, the hospitals in which management has introduced the rostering of hospital consultants on any five out of seven days under the terms of the agreement reached at the Labour Relations Commission in September 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12310/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify, by name, the hospitals in which management has put in place roster arrangements to have consultants on duty on a 24 hour basis in specialties such as emergency medicine, neonatology, intensive care and obstetrics as provided in the agreement on work practice reforms brokered at the Labour Relations Committee in September 2012; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Numbers (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken to address the deficit of 137 staff as identified in the Current Public Health Nursing Services published by the Health Service Executive in May 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12487/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Training (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if training for DPHN will take place in 2013; the number of places that will be available; if he will he provide detail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12488/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Training (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason training numbers for DPHN were reduced from 120 to 40 places in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12489/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Training (12 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of DPHN to population his Department recommends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12490/13]