Written answers
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
- Department of Health
- Counterfeit Medicine
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to date and his future plans to tackle counterfeit medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54535/12]
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the reason he narrowed eligibility for the over 70 years medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57058/12]
- Health Service Reform
To ask the Minister for Health the key priorities in his new health framework document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57063/12]
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in precise terms how he will honour the commitment given (details supplied) in the wake of the Budget to restore the core community services of...
- Health Service Executive Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he is satisfied that frontline and or essential services can be retained within the context of the budget for his Department for the year ending...
- General Practitioner Services
To ask the Minister for Health when he will reduce general practitioner remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57083/12]
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the level of cuts to supports for disability services in 2013; if he will address the funding crisis which is affecting disability services,...
- National Children's Hospital
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the development of the National Children’s Hospital and on the enhanced support, if any, he will provide to the existing...
- Health Insurance Cost
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the price of private healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57069/12]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the cuts he intends to make to reach the target of €780 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57096/12]
- Ambulance Service
To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made in the Health Service Executive West region since the introduction of standardised ambulance response times; the steps being taken...
- Health Care Inflation
To ask the Minister for Health the reason healthcare inflation here is the second highest in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57078/12]
- Prescription Charges
To ask the Minister for Health the estimated sum to be raised by the trebling of prescription charges for medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57004/12]
- Cancer Screening Programme
To ask the Minister for Health when the BreastCheck programme will be provided to women aged 65-69 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57079/12]
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the postion regarding the supply of medical cards to cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57068/12]
- Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health in view of the age profile and growing stress of the women involved, the reason for the delay in delivering on the commitment for redress of the victims of Dr....
- Universal Health Insurance
To ask the Minister for Health if, in relation to the Government's plan ‘future health’ and its statement that social care services will not be covered by universal health...
- Home Care Packages
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that lost home help hours following the cuts announced in September; the savings that accrued as a result of these cuts; and if he will make a...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the consideration he has given to the proposal to benchmark the ex-factory price of medicines at the lowest rather than the average of comparable European states;...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 11 December 2012, if he is satisfied that he has no obligation to ensure detailed consultation and full engagement...
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the latest figures for the employment of agency staff in acute hospitals in 2012; the other alternatives to agency staff that are being used; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reconfiguration of hospital services in the South East; his plans regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57074/12]
- Hospital Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed closures in acute hospitals to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57076/12]
- Health Service Investigations
To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider his rejection of the call by a person (details supplied) for a full public inquiry into the tragic death of their spouse at Galway Regional...
- General Practitioner Services
To ask the Minister for Health when legislation to provide for free general practitioner care will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57082/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the steps that will be taken to address the excessive waiting list for paediatric services in Letterkenny Hospital County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with medical card entitlements and the projected increase for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57020/12]
- Mental Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the way the additional €35 million allocated for mental health services in 2012 was spent; if any of this amount has been carried over into 2013 and the way...
- Hospital Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the interest rate that will be applied to the overdraft extended to Tallaght Hospital Dublin to cover its budget overrun; the fund that will cover the cost of the...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the proposed changes to eligibility for the medical card that he plans to make in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57003/12]
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to progress the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57027/12]
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health his views on he study commissioned by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation showing that significant under-staffing in our public hospitals adversely affects...
- Ambulance Service
To ask the Minister for Health if he will rule out call-out charges for ambulance services in view of the imposition of a call-out charge for the fire service by Dublin city Council; and if he...
- Nursing Home Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Health if any of the 1,201 public nursing home beds closed from January 2011 to August 2012 will be reopened in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57009/12]
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current position regarding the development of new primary care centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57016/12]
- Professional Qualifications
To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on introducing regulations for psychotherapists and counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56887/12]
- Universal Health Insurance
To ask the Minister for Health if the timescale for the introduction of Universal Health Insurance in 2016 is feasible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57086/12]
- Ambulance Service
To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance calls responded to by the Health Service Executive National Ambulance Service in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the average...
- Nursing Home Services
To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive funding or other resources allocated to or paid for services to a nursing home (details supplied) in County Wicklow in each of the past...
- Cost of Drugs
To ask the Minister for Health his estimate of the savings to be made in 2013 from the agreement with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the Health Service Executive recruitment of 1,000 graduate nurses and midwives to the public health services in early 2013; and if he...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health when the ambulatory urgent care centre will be opened in Tallaght Dublin [57001/12]
- Community Care
To ask the Minister for Health the way he will honour his Programme for Government commitments to older people in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57065/12]
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether a school (details supplied) in County Wexford should be reimbursed due to the failure of the Health Service Executive to apply for a special...
- Elder Abuse
To ask the Minister for Health the number of designated community-based social workers who are employed full-time to protect the elderly in the Dublin Mid-West Constituency of Lucan, Clondalkin,...
- Children and Family Services
To ask the Minister for Health the way he intends to maintain services in children and family services in 2013 following cuts introduced in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medicinal Products
To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was spent in 2011 on dispensing fees on medicines that are available over the counter without prescription but which may be prescribed at a level...
- Alcohol Pricing
To ask the Minister for Health his proposals in relation to the proposed Sale of Alcohol Bill; his views on whether the Bill should contain measures on the labelling of alcohol, a minimum price...
- Tuberculosis Incidence
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group of GPs in Dublin recently raised money and brought a mobile TB monitoring unit to the city and carried out...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the changes made to the fair deal scheme in Budget 2013; if he will advise if the review of the scheme is completed and if and when it will be published; and if he...
- Abortion Services
To ask the Minister for Health the further action he will now take in response to the Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in A,B & C vs Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Primary Care Services
To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional primary care posts that will be in place in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57084/12]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Purchase Treatment Fund scheme to remove faulty PIP implants has not been implemented; the reason the Harley Medical Group has not fulfilled...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will require the Health Service Executive to deliver on its agreed commitment to extend the capacity of the St. Vincent’s Hospital Cystic Fibrosis...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which waiting periods for various surgical or medical procedures have fluctuated over the past five years to date with particular reference to...
- Hospital Mortality Rates
To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish his Departments report on mortality rates at acute hospitals; if he will accept that his failure to acknowledge the inaccuracy of the figures...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Health if he has read the pastoral letter The Right to Life that was read at all Catholic masses on 9 December 2012 that states the State is not obliged to legislate for...
- Drug Treatment Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate €100,000 to the mother and child facility at Coolmine Therapeutic Community, Dublin, in order that 20 young women, who have overcome...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Voluntary Youth Work
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason his Department and Irish Aid terminated the strategic partnership with the National Youth Council of Ireland for the...
- Development Education
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of funding for development education from his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and proposed for 2013; and if he...
- Foreign Conflicts
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that a resolution of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a key objective of...
- Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will allocate additional overseas development aid to assist the humanitarian relief efforts in Syria and in surrounding...
- Overseas Development Aid
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will specify all sources of funding towards the total overseas development programme of €623 million for 2013; and...
- Department of Finance
- Property Taxation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that all pyrite-affected homeowners are exempt from the proposed property tax as suggested by the Report of the Pyrite Panel until such time as...
- Revenue Documents
To ask the Minister for Finance the progress to date in relation to the enhancement of links and communication by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners specifically in relation to the...
- Property Taxation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the proposal in the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012 for having a property tax levied on non-profit housing associations (details supplied)...
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to proposals put forward by the National Federation of Retail Newsagents Ireland to develop a smartphone application to aid in the...
- Tax Collection
To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the situation in which self employed persons find themselves when their business and income operate exclusively in Northern Ireland but...
- Universal Social Charge
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the liability of self employed persons to pay the universal social charge when their business operates exclusively in Northern Ireland but they...
- European Banking Sector
To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the Eurozone banking deal, which assigns regulatory powers to the European Central Bank for banks with assets greater exceeding €30...
- Fuel Rebate Scheme
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he confined the granting of the fuel excise rebate scheme to licensed road hauliers in Budget 2013 and excluded passenger transport operators from the...
- National Asset Management Agency
To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) has left the National Assets Management Agency to take up employment with their previous family business; and if he will make a...
- National Treasury Management Agency
To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) has won the contract to value Treasury Holdings UK and Irish assets on behalf of the National Assets Management Agency; if so, the...
- National Asset Management Agency
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a conflict of interest exists when a person (details supplied) joined the National Assets Management Agency as a portfolio manager in March...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he has taken to address the delays in the processing of student grant applications; the number of student grant applications that has...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland grant application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage of a proposed building project for a school (details supplied); when this project is likely to proceed to the next stage; and the likely...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assurances that the increase in the pupil teacher ratio in further education from 17:1 to 19:1 will not result in a reduction of 25...
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance that will be given to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has a grant shortfall of €24,000 for a new extension;...
- Budget 2013
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any cuts to funding or supports for primary or post primary schools in County Louth as a result of the spending cuts in Budget 2013;...
- Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an updated list, in tabular form, of the numbers of students in County Louth who have received from Student Universal Support...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reassess a Student Universal Support Ireland grant application for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the need for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Refurbishment
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance given to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary who will no longer in a position to meet loan repayments following the removal...
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the need for an extension for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan. [57279/12]
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012; and if...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for a student grant. [57297/12]
- Student Support Schemes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has submitted an application under the disability...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and...
- Department of Social Protection
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Carer's Allowance Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she intends to tackle the backlog of carer's allowance applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57179/12]
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people awarded supplementary welfare allowance in the last period for which figures are available on the basis of a delay in the processing...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidly pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [57276/12]
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding her Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012; and if...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for invalidy pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57305/12]
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a invalidity pension application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [57310/12]
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a determination will be made on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and...
- Telecommunications Services
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if any of the moneys raised by the recent multi-band spectrum auction have been paid into the Exchequer; and if he will make a...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Household Charge Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider removing executors of wills from the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 [57176/12]
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years...
- Community Development
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be guaranteed multi-annual core funding for local development companies after 2013 in view of proposals in...
- National Drugs Strategy Budget
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the necessary funding is being provided for the retention of the estate management projects in an area...
- Building Regulations
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the way the safety of residents will be protected in Temple Court, Santry, Dublin, in view of the fact that...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality If he will consider lifting the embargo on new Garda recruits in view of the fact that persons and families are now living in fear in rural, isolated...
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) who is living in the country since March 2003 on a continuous basis and formally received refugee status in 2009 could...
- Garda Stations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the running costs of Garda stations (detail supplied) in County Mayo: and if he will separately outline any capital investment or...
- Garda Districts
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the staffing consequences, the consequences on opening hours and service provision and any other consequences for a Garda Station...
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the proposals he intends bringing before Dáil Éireann to combat the illegal exploitation of women; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012; and if...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be paid their disadvantaged area payment for 2012; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment following their successful appeal; and if he will...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area payment following their successful appeal; and if he...
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the decision to impose a penalty on the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal;...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Foreign Adoptions
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a quota is in place as to the number of Vietnamese children that may be adopted on an annual basis to this State as part of the recent...
- Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will support P.E.I.N and D.C.Y.A in 2013 as outlined by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 [57169/12]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding her Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012;...
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reverse a decision (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57313/12]
- Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs since Ballydowd Special Care Unit opened, the number of children that have been placed there on an annual basis with a breakdown of that number...
- Department of Health
- National Lottery Funding
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of a community centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57330/12]
- Medical Card Review
To ask the Minister for Health the number under 70 years medical cards he expects to remove in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57233/12]
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57127/12]
- Drugs Payment Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the annual State spend on high tech drugs for 2009, 2010, 2011 and that estimated for 2012; the savings delivered in respect of the cost of these medicines over...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the occupational therapy services for children living in the Ballinasloe area of County Galway; the number of children on waiting lists for same; the longest and...
- Health Service Executive Service Plans
To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Health Service Executive's service plan for 2013 to be made public [57151/12]
- Health Impact Assessments
To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a delay in commissioning the health impact assessment for minimum pricing; the current status of the tender process; and the proposed timescale for...
- Orthodontic Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether or not the Health Service Executive are carrying out orthodontic treatment for children who are attending secondary school; and if he...
- Newborn Screening Cards
To ask the Minister for Health when he received the Health Service Executive review group report on newborn screening cards; when this report was pubished; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 12 December 2012 if any of the reductions in staffing hours due to cuts in agency and overtime hours have been filled...
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to restore the home help hours and homecare packages which he has cut since he came to office from citizens in County Louth; and if he will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to restore the home help hours and homecare packages which he has cut since he came to office from citizens in County Louth; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [57280/12]
- Health Service Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Acquired Infections
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which steps are taken to prevent the spread of various hospital bugs including MRSA, all air borne and other infections; if the major cause or causes...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if the public have ready and easy access to all preliminary procedures preparatory to surgical or medical interventions with particular reference to obtaining the...
- Health Screening Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals for further psychological or medical attention following school medical examinations in each of the past five years and to date in 2012; the...
- Nursing Home Services
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has carried out an evaluation of the various public nursing homes throughout the country with a view to ensuring the retention of the maximum...
- Community Care
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which community care facilities are likely to be made available to older persons in the future with particular reference to those with a higher degree...
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied regarding the availability of an adequate supply of junior hospital doctors in 2013, 2014 and thereafter; the extent to which this supply will...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the relevant authorities within his Department or within the Health Service Executive have examined the need for the upgrading of health centres...
- Nursing Home Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ability of St Brigid’s Nursing Home, Crooksling, County Dublin to accommodate up to 120 patients; that such numbers...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the full details of the service level agreement entered into by the Health Service Executive Dublin North East with a company (details supplied); if he will confirm...
- Registration of Nurses
To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the Health Service Executive to ensure that nurses have access to six weeks adaptation placement courses available in a recognised...
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will expedite a response [57344/12]
- Health Service Investigations
To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe involved for the National Incident Management Team to complete its review of the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in...
- General Practitioner Services
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure equal access to general practitioner services in all Health Service Executive regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57358/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct all hospitals to abolish catchment areas, publish the waiting time for all consultants and publish the efficiency measurements of all hospitals...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, the total amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012;...
- Tourism Industry
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the potential in the hostel tourism both nationally and internationally; if he will consider developing...
- National Lottery Funding
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed explanation to a club (details supplied) in County Wexford on the reason they were refused National Lottery...
- Tourism Promotion
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the nature of the €230,000 grant to Kells Town Council for the creation of an interactive display with a virtual Book of Kells, the...
