Results 10,501-10,520 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 595. To ask the Minister for Health if the cuts of one million euro to a service (details supplied) in County Dublin over the past five years will be reversed in this year's Health Service Executive budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41028/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 720. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the 25 women, registered with a self-employed community midwife (details supplied) have not had the option of a domiciliary midwifery care package being bought for them under the national purchase treatment scheme. [41633/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 618. To ask the Minister for Health if senior officials at a hospice (details supplied) are still in receipt of top-up payments; if so, the persons in receipt of them; and the amount they are in receipt of. [41193/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's criteria for allowing the continuation of top-up payments in some instances as a business case. [41194/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 620. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospice (details supplied) in Dublin 6W awarded a contract to a company; if the Health Service Executive's tender competition rules were followed with regards to declarations of interest by declaring that the chief executive of the hospice is related to a director in the company. [41195/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 713. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 21 October 2014, if he will address the problem of MMS and CD being available via open information sharing by doctors and other doctors, parents, schools, counsellors, therapists and so on, as to the nature of chlorine dioxide, its effects on the human body and co-operating with a company (details supplied) and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 716. To ask the Minister for Health the role of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in respect of the practise of midwifery and whether it is the responsibility of the board, rather than the Health Service Executive, to review the position. [41629/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 717. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend section 40 of the Nurses and Midwives Act which ties the need for indemnity insurance directly to an unreliable service level agreement with the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41630/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 718. To ask the Minister for Health the way the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director has been constituted; from whom the authority of the office is derived; the criteria and schedule of work that accompanies the position of national lead midwife; if the national lead midwife post was advertised; if not, the reason for this; when the district midwife officer posts were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the collective experience of the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director regarding home births; the evidence of continuing professional development, specifically in respect of home birth; the contemporaneous experience of the assistant nursing officer in his Department on working with evidence-based midwifery care; if this structure of Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Reports (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 765. To ask the Minister for Health if the operation of symphysiotomy was carried out at St Luke's Hospital, County Kilkenny, in 2013; if so, under what circumstances, including whether patient consent was obtained; and if his Department and-or the Health Service Executive and-or the Health Information and Quality Authority are investigating the matter. [41939/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternal Mortality (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of maternal deaths that have occurred to date here since the publication of the confidential maternal death inquiry report 2009-2011; and the number of the women who died in pregnancy during that period who were born outside Ireland. [41966/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternal Mortality (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 768. To ask the Minister for Health in view of information contained within the confidential maternal death inquiry report 2009-2011 and further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 34 and 35 of 18 December 2013, the measures that have been put in place to ensure that pregnant women arriving from abroad, or women of minority ethnic status living here who do not speak English, have access to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternal Mortality (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if he has read the 2014 Pavee Point report Challenging Barriers and Misconceptions: Roma Maternal Health in Ireland; and, in view of the information contained within the report, and further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 14 May 2014, the actions, measures or strategies the Health Service Executive has put in place to ensure that pregnant women who...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternal Mortality (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who annually present to maternity units or other hospitals in the late stages of pregnancy for the first time without having previously received any pre-natal care; if the authorities have recorded or noted that this is a worrying trend among Roma and other ethnic minorities; and the measures or supports that have been put in place to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infant Mortality (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 771. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the research done by Pavee Point that infant mortality rates for Travellers is 3.6 times higher than the national average for settled persons and 1.4 times higher for Roma children. [41970/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Oversight (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 835. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide reassurances that no development aid funds made available by Ireland to countries in Africa are being used to finance instruction in the technique of symphysiotomy or to fund the performance or promotion of this operation in those countries. [41940/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has elaborated on the strategies outlined in circular 30/2014, in particular the use of reactive strategies for junior infant and first year pupils such as applying for special needs assistant support only after all strategies employed by the school have failed the pupil instead of proactive strategies such as special needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 879. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the research processes which were followed by her Department in regard to the drafting of circular 30/2014; if relevant parties-groups were involved or consulted in advance of the circular being issued; if the circular has been sufficiently circulated to relevant parties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41421/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 907. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a married couple who are separated, although not legally, and whose child is prohibited from getting a grant as they cannot demonstrate they are legally separated, even though if they were still together their income would be sufficiently low to quality for a grant. [41645/14]