Results 341-360 of 1,284 for speaker:Bernard Allen in 'Written Answers'

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]

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is planning to deregulate general practitioner GMS lists before the end of 2008; and the rationale behind those plans. [14231/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions that have taken place with the Irish Medical Organisation with regard to future initiatives on nurses prescribing. [14256/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the remaining sections of the Public Health Tobacco Act 2002 will be implemented and specifically legislation covering in store advertising. [14264/08]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 325: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if pension protection is to be offered to encourage volunteers for overseas aid development programmes. [14189/08]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 393: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on his recent decision not to continue funding support agencies after 31 April 2008 with particular reference to the loss of the south and mid-west region of the support agency which they have been working with for the past four years. [13967/08]

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 445: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application made by the governing body of Cork Institute of Technology for designation as a university in accordance with Section 9 of the Universities Act 1997. [13968/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 467: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [14251/08]

Written Answers — Forensic Medical Examiner Service: Forensic Medical Examiner Service (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 573: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the recent findings that the lack of a forensic medical examiner service here is failing victims of serious crime, detainees and doctors (details supplied). [14255/08]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (9 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation where the Health Service Executive and Cork University Hospital have been forced to down-size their original plans for a multi-storey car park and helicopter landing facilities in Cork University Hospital for urgent cases as a result of the proposed co-located hospital on campus and that...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (9 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the status of the common contract document finalised by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association and the Irish Medical Organisation. [13424/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce restrictions over the practices of private cosmetic surgery clinics here and particularly the way cosmetic surgery procedures are advertised. [13425/08]