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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the salaries and working hours of Special Delivery Unit executives; the expenses of each of these executives; if there have been any changes in these since February 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37068/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if any posts earmarked for community mental health services are being transferred to inpatient services; if he will rule out such a move; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37069/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment of the 414 staff for mental health services, as announced in the Health Service Executive service plan 2012, has begun; the number of posts that have been filled; the number of mental health services staff that retired as part of the early retirement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37131/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have retired from the Health Service Executive who have been rehired by it; if he will detail a breakdown in grades; if any such staff are on salaries in excess of €100,000; the total cost of rehiring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37070/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of individual and of WTE agency staff by grade in the Health Service Executive and any other agencies in his Department, the total cost of employing by grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37071/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the names and numbers of emergency units which will be downgraded to urgent care centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37072/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which emergency units will be downgraded to urgent care centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37073/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which community hospitals and beds in community hospitals will close; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37074/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown in each community nursing unit of bed closures in the unit this year; the names of CNUs earmarked to close this year; if this is expected to change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37095/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to bring all community hospitals up to Health Information and Quality Authority standards; if he has a plan for hospitals he intends not to bring up to HIQA standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37075/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he has received reports that the early retirement scheme impacted on frontline services, and the quality of patient care; if he will provide a breakdown on where services were affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37076/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if the position of independent advisor on the financial performance of the Health Service Executive was tendered for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37077/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he expects to abolish the prescription levy; the amount raised by the levy; if he has considered raising the levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37078/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the years from 1997 to 2011 inclusive in which his Department asked for and received a supplementary budget; the amount provided for each time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37080/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to make a decision on the National Children's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37081/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of home care packages, home help hours, provided by county, the same figures for the same time last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37082/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide staff and all other facilities to make St Francis Hospice Blanchardstown operational, Dublin; his views on whether opening the 24 bed facility is an important unused step down facility that could reduce pressure on local hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37083/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to complete discussions on a final agreement with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association on drug costs in addition to the interim agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37084/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail in tabular form the number of patients treated by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each year since its foundation, including 2012; the categories of patient treated in each year; the cost of the NTPF in each year; where its budget has been reallocated in the years 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37085/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing universal health insurance; the estimated charges being imposed on persons with and without medical insurance for UHI; the way medical card patients will be included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37086/12]