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Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing homes on a county by county basis since 2000 where staffing levels were found to be a problem; the action taken by the health board; if the same problem in the same homes arose in subsequent inspections; the further action taken by the health board; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing homes on a county by county basis since 2000 where kitchen facilities were found to be a problem and breaches of the regulations occurred; the action taken by the health board; if the same problem arose in the same home in subsequent inspections; the further action taken by the health board; and if...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing homes on a county by county basis since 2000 where hygiene was found to be a problem and breaches of the regulations occurred; the action taken by the health board; if the same problem arose in the same home in subsequent inspections; the further action taken by the health board; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing homes on a county by county basis since 2000 where sanitary facilities were found to be a problem and breaches of the regulations occurred; the action taken by the health board; if the same problem arose in the same home in subsequent inspections; the further action taken by the health board; and if...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints about nursing home conditions made to chief executive officers of health boards for each year since 2000 on a county basis; the numbers of such complaints upheld and the nature of the direction issued to the registered proprietor of the nursing home concerned; if this direction was fully complied...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE, formerly known as the regional health boards, has ever made a complaint about the treatment of a patient in a nursing home to the Garda; if so, the outcome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24122/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE, formerly known as the regional health boards has, on a county basis since the year 2000, ever refused an application for a nursing home subvention on the basis that the applicant who is seeking the subvention was fully qualified in every respect but that the health board had insufficient funds to meet the cost...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE, formerly known as the regional health boards, has on a yearly basis in the past five years ever taken prosecutions in the courts against nursing home proprietors and persons in charge for breaches of regulations; if she will list the breaches of the regulations in each case; the name of the persons who were...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE, formerly known as the regional health boards, has ever carried out an HSE or health board internal inquiry into the running of nursing homes as a result of a death or a serious breach of the regulations; the outcome of such inquiry and the action taken. [24124/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE, formerly known as the regional health boards, has ever set up an inquiry by a specialist or other person outside the nursing home inspectorate into the death of a resident or serious breach of the regulations in any nursing home; the outcome of such an inquiry; the recommendations of same and the actions taken...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if all nursing homes here have complied with directions from coroners from 2001 to date which were to be implemented rigorously with regard to procedures to be followed in the event of the death of a resident of a nursing home, that bodies must not be removed for burial without first being certified dead by a doctor; and...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE, formerly known as the regional health boards, is satisfied that sufficient incontinence wear has been and is available at all times in all nursing homes to all subvented patients as required under the nursing home regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24126/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE, formerly known as the regional health boards, is satisfied that sufficient dressings for the treatment of pressure sores have been and are available at all times in all nursing homes to all subvented patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24127/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints about nursing homes her Department has received since the year 2000 on a county basis; the nature of such complaints and the action taken by her Department in each case. [24128/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints about nursing homes received by her Department for each year since 2000; the action taken by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24135/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the HSE decided, after inspection, not to recommend the transfer of Leas Cross residents to certain other nursing homes in the Dublin area; the breaches of regulations found at these further homes and to name these homes; if these homes are registered homes under the Health Acts and if they continue to be so...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes: Nursing Homes (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reasons the HSE decided that all public patients would be moved out of Leas Cross nursing home and all other residents advised to move out; the medical and other concerns of the inspection teams who went to Leas Cross; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24130/05]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date in relation to the decentralisation of Government Departments and associated agencies to Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23767/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has plans to make the home carer's tax credit available to those who have left the workforce to provide care and attention to seriously ill relatives and who are in receipt of carer's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23776/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has plans to make the home carer's tax credit available to carers who have left the workforce to provide care and attention to seriously ill relatives in cases in which a carer's income exceeds €6,500 in the year in which the home carer's tax is claimable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23779/05]