Written answers
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
- Department of Health and Children
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce legislation governing in vitro fertilisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39291/09]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to keep acute hospital beds open in winter 2009; her views on a survey by an organisation (details supplied) which indicated...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the operation of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39269/09]
- Cystic Fibrosis Screening
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will roll out a neonatal screening service for cystic fibrosis to ensure early diagnosis of the condition; and if she will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extra amount of money that will have to be provided in 2009, over and above what was budgeted for, to pay for the extra number of...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the location of the 45 Health Service Executive swine flu vaccination clinics; the persons who will man them; the opening times of the...
- Mental Health Services
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a unit designed to cater for the needs of children and teenagers with serious psychiatric problems remains closed almost seven...
- Health Service Expenditure
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the process by which her Department and the Health Service Executive has made inputs to the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and...
- Health Service Quality Standards
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when private health care providers will be subject to regulation and quality evaluation by the Health Information and Quality Authority;...
- Departmental Reports
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Prospectus Review of Critical Care Services will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39268/09]
- Palliative Care Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in implementing the five year strategy for palliative care which was published in July 2009; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is appropriate to award Professor Drumm a bonus of €70,000 at a time when the Health Service Executive is...
- Community Care
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her long-term plans for the provision of public nursing home care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39370/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to address cancelled operations and lengthening waiting lists for children in need of medical or surgical...
- Health Services
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the progress made on the promised provision of primary care centres across the State; the number of such centres...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding package she envisages for the construction of the new national children's hospital; the way it is intended to seek...
- Hospital Services
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to delivering general hospital services in the future; if the original co-location plan is to continue; if her...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the H1N1 vaccination programme to be delivered to the general population; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the recent changes to the CervicalCheck Screening Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39330/09]
- General Practitioner Services
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures which are planned to increase the supply of general practitioners in accordance with need and her policy; and if she will...
- Hospital Services
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that resources are made available without delay to Crumlin Children's Hospital, Dublin, to provide adequate...
- Mental Health Services
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures in place to protect the budget to implement A Vision for Change; if she can give an assurance that funding will be...
- Health Service Staff
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the moratorium on staff recruitment in the Health Service Executive is removed in relation to key personnel in...
- Mental Health Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in implementing the community based provisions of a Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional supports which have been provided to community welfare officers to deal with the increased demand for access to support;...
- Oral Health Policy
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the draft Report on Oral Health Policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39292/09]
- Use of Sun Beds
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy regarding the use of sun beds; the legislation that she proposes to introduce with regard to the usage of sun beds; and the...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the alternative plans which are being considered to upgrade or replace the Central Mental Hospital following the rejection of the...
- Health Services
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made by both the Health Service Executive in their discussions with an association and the group chaired by a person...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the purpose of her visit to the United States in February 2008; the official engagements that she undertook; the persons in her...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in the provision of additional accommodation at Bandon Community Hospital, County Cork; the date for the...
- Hospital Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans that are in place for the proposed paediatric unit in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, in conjunction with the proposed new national...
- Child Care Services
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an adequate number of social workers will be recruited to address the large number of children in the care of the State and of...
- Hospital Services
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reduce the number of people occupying acute hospital beds that are ready for discharge but have no appropriate step down...
- Youth Services
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 4 March 2008, the sections of the Youth Work Act 2001 which have been enacted; the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a derogation from the moratorium on staff recruitment will be applied in order that commitments given in the context of...
- Health Services
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will address the increase in diseases related to lifestyle such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease; and if she will make a...
- Legislative Programme
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Adoption Bill 2009 will be brought before Dáil Éireann; if she will introduce transitional arrangements in the context of the...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the National Cancer Screening Service has asked a company (details supplied) to subcontract a proportion of the cervical smears for...
- Mental Health Services
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in reducing the number of children and adolescents that are inappropriately placed in adult psychiatric hospitals; and...
- Health Services
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the waiting times for dermatology services in the south east and in the mid-west will be addressed by the appointment of extra...
- Child Protection
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will order an inquiry into the procedures followed by the Health Service Executive and the Gardaí in relation to a child...
- Health Service Staff
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reduce the number at management level in the Health Service Executive in accordance with recommendations in the Special...
- Health Service Staff
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the bonuses awarded to senior Health Service Executive executives since the establishment of the HSE; the amount involved; and if she...
- Mental Health Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in providing a 20 bed unit for child and adolescent mental health services in Limerick which is described as needing...
- Health Research Board
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the Health Research Board is maintained as a separate entity in order to ensure continued funding of health...
- Health Service Staff
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the arrangements whereby a small number of Health Service Executive employees are on sick leave for...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Job Losses
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contact she has had with a company (details supplied) in County Louth; if she met with the company in New...
- Work Permits
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of an employment permit application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary;...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average number of additional weeks added to the statutory redundancy payment for workers in both the...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applicants who have been placed and commenced work under the FÁS work placement programme; the...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on easing the conditions relating to employment under the FÁS scheme in view of unprecedented...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Yield
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of PAYE workers who earn in excess of €100,000 (details supplied) delineated in €10,000 income brackets; the number of public sector...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance the guidelines which exist for payment of redundancy to public sector workers; if there is an agreed number of additional weeks to be paid on top of...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent voluntary early retirement scheme for the Health Service Executive as a model for reducing public sector workers as stated...
- Freedom of Information
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Finance if Bus Éireann is covered by the Freedom of Information Act; if not, the reason for this omission; if there are plans to bring it under FOI...
- Tax Collection
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a tax rebate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39471/09]
- Public Sector Pay
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount which would be raised from a reduction in public sector pay by a 5% reduction on all incomes from €35,000 to €100,000, a 10%...
- Tax Code
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39560/09]
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Service Allowances
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has been denied welfare payment from her Department and from community welfare...
- Medical Cards
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for a medical card; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Service Staff
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people who left the public service under the Health Service Executive voluntary early retirement scheme; the cost of...
- Mental Health Services
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether reductions to the mental health budget, both current and in budget 2010, are reasonable and fair; her further views...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the ongoing crisis in the area of inter-country adoption; if she will report on a recent meeting (details...
- Hospital Services
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a revised appointment will be allocated to a child (details supplied) in County Cork awaiting a procedure at Our Lady's Children's...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the concerns of persons (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Child Care Services
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the funding allocated under the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 in 2009 for counties Sligo, Cavan...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is no guideline for application processing times for the new fair deal scheme; the length of time applications are...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reviews which were undertaken by the joint working group established under part V of the agreement on mutual co-operation concerning...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive a hip operation in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. [39557/09]
- Health Services
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the national diabetes framework report; the further progress made to develop...
- Hospital Services
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the process of reconfiguration of hospital services in the south will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the projected operating budget for 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39567/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the operation of the CT scanner at Mallow General Hospital, Cork, and the appointment of a radiologist; and if...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons with County Roscommon addresses referred by the National Treatment Purchase Fund for procedures (details supplied)...
- Health Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide adequate orthodontic treatment for all school-going children having particular regard to an accelerated programme...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the World Health Organisation has undertaken research into autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or Asperger's syndrome;...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has carried out any studies into any possible side effects or reactions in children in the aftermath of three in one or five in...
- Pharmacy Services
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her ongoing dialogue with pharmacists, with particular reference to the need to ensure a workable and amicable...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the numbers of MRSA and Clostridium difficile or other hospital-based infections that have been reported on a monthly basis in each of...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to support the full range of services available at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare having regard to existing...
- Health Service Reform
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to ensure that all hospitals and health facilities are brought up to centre of excellence status including the delivery of...
- Hospital Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the full range of facilities, surgical and medical, at all levels including consultants posts, that are available at the AMINCH and...
- Department of Transport
- Parking Regulations
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will include, in the forthcoming Road Traffic Bill 2009, provision for free of charge residents only parking to deal with the problem that...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Citizenship Applications
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 will receive their certificate of citizenship; and if he will make a statement...
- Visa Applications
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for a holiday visa in respect of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the timetable for the completion of the Property Registration Authority offices in Roscommon Town; the number of whole time...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of funding he has provided in respect of closed circuit television for Carlow town; and when it was provided....
- Garda Stations
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be provided for an extension to Carlow Town Garda Station in view of the pressures on gardaí in the town...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Asylum Applications
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the plight of a person (details supplied); if he will make representations on this matter; and if he will...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Private Residential Tenancies
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the requirement for landlords who receive rent allowance to be registered with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; if it is...
- Social Welfare Payments
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the administration of rent allowance will be transferred from the aegis of the Health Service Executive; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if another appeal will be opened in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and the other avenues open to them...
- Social Welfare Payments
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the situation whereby persons in receipt of the carer's allowance who are providing care to a child are...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Properties
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Defence the position relating to his Department's lands at the former Magee Barracks in Kildare town; if he will proceed with the proposed transfer of these...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Charges
Question 226: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the payment system for the non principal private residence charge; if the payment methods were designed to...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 228: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify the position in relation to a proposed affordable housing development at Magee Barracks,...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 229: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will approve funding to Cork City Council under the Water Services Investment Programme 2007 to 2009...
- EU Directives
Question 230: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take following the recent ruling of the European Court of Justice which has found Ireland...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 231: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding allocated to a local authority for works (details supplied) in County Cork. [39481/09]
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 232: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way he will provide housing for the large number of single persons who are applicants on the local...
- Urban Regeneration
Question 233: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has brought the Limerick regeneration plans to the Cabinet for formal approval; if there have been...
- Waste Management
Question 234: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the promised new waste strategy and policy will be published in view of a circular (details supplied)...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Natural Gas Grid
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to an application by a company (details supplied) under section 40 of the Gas...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the options open to residents of Kilmessan, County Meath, to attain broadband services in the absence of the...
- Price Inflation
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the wholesale energy prices from 1999 to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39591/09]
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Departmental Properties
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action he will take in the case or an organisation (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
- Food Industry
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the Irish economic expenditure of the food sector for each of the past ten years; the IEE of the food sector as a percentage...
- Foreshore Licences
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a decision will be made public on the application by a company (details supplied) for a foreshore licence in respect of...
- Irish Equine Industry
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the purposes for which a stud book is primarily held in view of the fact that in Horse Sport Ireland's mission statement, no...
- Pigmeat Sector
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the details pertaining to the individual primary processors awarded costs totalling €30 million as a result of the dioxin...
- Dairy Industry
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to review the regulations covering the sale of raw milk. [39580/09]
- Department of Education and Science
- Higher Education Grants
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the third year of a college course has been included on the list of approved courses provided to a vocational education committee...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the estimate of the average cost of constructing a classroom, renting a prefab and building a new primary or second level school in...
- School Accommodation
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of new prefabs which will be allocated to schools under the estimated €100 million to be spent on prefabs in 2009; the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount spent by him to date in 2009 in terms of capital expenditure; the proportion of this amount which has been spent on...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Education and Science how many of the 78 projects announced as commencing construction in 2009 which have completed the tendering process; the number which...
- Departmental Staff
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of vacant posts at each grade in his offices in Athlone, County Westmeath; the corresponding figure for his Tullamore,...
