Results 9,641-9,660 of 9,678 for speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discretionary medical cards in existence in the health service, by month, over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6089/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if he has established a working group on the proposal to introduce a sugar tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6090/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 569. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive care unit beds in Dublin hospitals, by month, over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6091/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of intensive care unit beds in Dublin hospitals is sufficient to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6092/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for patients attending accident and emergency units to get an intensive care unit bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6093/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 586. To ask the Minister for Health to include the anti-coagulation strip and lancet in the long-term illness scheme or the drugs repayment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6197/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 587. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to build a 100-bed nursing home on the grounds of Connolly Blanchardstown Hospital in Dublin 15 to replace the Woodlands and Silver Birch services; when work on the new site will begin; when the new centres will open; the funding that will be used to carry out this development; the number of residents residing in the existing Woodlands and Silver...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 588. To ask the Minister for Health to organise a national policy on tackling osteoporosis; to reverse the cut in funding to the Irish Osteoporosis Society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6199/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients at Waterford Regional Hospital who are well enough to be discharged but are awaiting an appropriate care package to be put in place; the average waiting time for patients who are ready for discharge at Waterford Regional Hospital but require care packages; the reason such a delay exists and if it relates to funding cuts for home care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, who is waiting to be discharged; the reason for the delay in discharging this person; the reason nursing home funding for this person has been withdrawn; the number of such persons who are awaiting discharge at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 and whether the case will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6203/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on hospital trolleys, by month, for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6204/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 594. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to relocate the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin 1 to Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 595. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he is making in ensuring hospitals are complying with the working time directive for junior doctors; the number of hospitals he has sanctioned for breaching the directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6206/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 596. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the cutting of pay levels for graduate nurses; the number of nurses who took up places on the Health Service Executive's nursing in Ireland scheme, which was aimed at bringing Irish nurses who had emigrated back to work here; the stage the scheme is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 597. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies and the number of agency staff employed, by position, by hospital. [6208/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 598. To ask the Minister for Health his progress in reducing the reliance on agency staff as pledged in the 2015 service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to restore equal pay scales for new teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6222/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reverse her plans to proceed with changes to the way children with special educational needs in schools are assessed, as outlined in the Delivery for Pupils with Special Educational Needs document; if learning resource requirements will not be assessed based on socio-demographic characteristics of a school’s catchment area and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Staff (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the employment status of home tutors who are paid through the home tuition grant which she administers with the Revenue Commissioners; if home tutors paid under this grant are self-employed or PAYE workers; if they are self-employed, whether they are able to claim expenses before PRSI, USC or income tax are deducted; if they are PAYE workers,...