Written answers
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services Provision
25. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he remains satisfied that adequate resources remain available for child psychology and psychiatry services, with particular reference to...
- National Children's Hospital Expenditure
26. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding stream which has been allocated to his Department for 2017 and 2018 to cover the cost of the National Children's Hospital in view of...
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
27. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Orkambi negotiations. [12114/17]
- Hospital Appointments Delays
28. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to reduce waiting times for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12077/17]
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
29. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the addition of a new medicine to the reimbursement list that are currently being processed as of 1 March 2017; the number of...
- Hospitals Funding
30. To ask the Minister for Health the additional public funding that would be required to replace current private income in public hospitals at current levels; the details of private incomes in...
- Ambulance Service
31. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the ongoing issues with the ambulance service in Midleton, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12038/17]
- Mental Health Services Staff
32. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for the recruitment of CAMHS personnel in CHO 7 during 2017. [12109/17]
- Suicide Prevention
33. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, in conjunction with the Minister for Education and Skills, to implement a multi-pronged strategy to address the level of youth suicide here. [6761/17]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
34. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for reducing outpatient waiting times in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, in 2017. [12126/17]
- HSE Staff Remuneration
35. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on intern health care assistants pay discrepancies in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar and nationally which was the...
- Medicinal Products
36. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide for medicinal use of cannabis. [12122/17]
- Hospital Staff
37. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase nursing levels in hospitals; the measures in place to attract Irish nurses that are working abroad; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
38. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) with a pharmaceutical company; his views on the National Plan for Rare Diseases; and if he will make...
- Disease Management
39. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons with Lyme disease. [12083/17]
- Health Services Provision
40. To ask the Minister for Health if provision has been made within the HSE Action Plan for Scoliosis for the reintroduction of checks in primary schools by public health nurses for the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
41. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of services for children with complex and non-complex intellectual and physical disability needs in St. John of God special needs school...
- Respite Care Services Provision
42. To ask the Minister for Health the funding in place for the proposed respite care facility at Kilmorna, Listowel, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12092/17]
- Mental Health Services Provision
43. To ask the Minister for Health when the Deerpark mental health facility in Killarney will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12093/17]
- Hospital Services
44. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in place to enable Our Lady's Hospital, Navan to carry out more scheduled treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12096/17]
- General Practitioner Services Provision
46. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that have been refused access to general practitioner registration at their first choice of surgery; if he has been contacted by any...
- Hospital Services
47. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a dedicated obstetrics theatre at UHK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12035/17]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
48. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for reducing outpatient waiting times in Mayo University Hospital in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12095/17]
- Hospital Services
50. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the proposed ten bed rehabilitation unit at Roscommon University Hospital. [12128/17]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
51. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the 6,906 patients on a waiting list in University Hospital Waterford for an ear, nose and throat appointment; if he will purchase capacity...
- Mental Health Services Provision
52. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a new 25 bed mental health unit at Sligo University Hospital; the status of the plans to develop mental health and CAMHS...
- Maternity Services Provision
54. To ask the Minister for Health the current level of provision of anomaly scans to persons in the public health system; the timeframe of plans to roll out these scans to all maternity sites;...
- Hospital Beds Data
55. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 1 February 2017, if he will highlight, of those 105 beds that are closed due to staffing constraints, the staff that...
- Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Remuneration
56. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of the deal reached between the Health Service Executive and the Irish Medical Organisation for the restoration of the living out allowance for...
- Medicinal Products Prices
57. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the high prices charged by pharmaceutical companies, including those with operations here, for essential medicines; and if he will make a statement...
- Maternity Services Provision
58. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement the 20 week anomaly scan on site at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11898/17]
- Orthodontic Services Provision
59. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a replacement consultant orthodontist in Loughlinstown hospital to address the fact that persons in need of orthodontic surgery cannot get a...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
61. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for reducing outpatient waiting times in Limerick University Hospital in 2017. [12103/17]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times
62. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the reactivation of the National Treatment Purchase Fund to tackle excessive waiting lists; the amount of funding and resources that will...
- Mental Health Services Provision
63. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for the recruitment of CAMHS personnel in CHO 5 during 2017. [12082/17]
- Maternity Services Provision
64. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of access to scans for pregnant women; his plans to enable access for all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12074/17]
- Hospital Procedures
65. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which UHW and the South/Southwest Hospital Group will provide both planned and emergency PPCI work at the cardiac unit at UHW with one lab; if this...
- Electronic Health Records
66. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an evaluation being undertaken by his Department in respect of the business case for a national electronic health record, EHR; the time it will...
- Disabilities Assessments
67. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken by the HSE to ensure that children requiring assessments for services under the Disability Act 2005 receive them within the statutory...
- Mental Health Policy
68. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the forthcoming review of the mental health policy, A Vision for Change; the timeframe for the development of a new national mental health policy;...
- Hospitals Data
70. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been an apparent drop in the number of elective procedures despite the increased health budget; and if he will make a statement on the...
- HSE Funding
71. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the HSE expedites the allocation of funding to a service (details supplied) which is the only residential detoxification and treatment...
- Medical Card Administration
72. To ask the Minister for Health the data collection processes that exist in respect of the return of medical cards following death; the number of medical cards that were returned and cancelled...
- Legislative Process
73. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12039/17]
- Ambulance Service Funding
74. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that have been made available by his Department to the National Ambulance Service in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Mental Health Services Staff
75. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional CAMHS personnel which each CHO plans to recruit in 2017 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12124/17]
- Hospitals Capital Programme
76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the major capital plan for the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, which includes four new operating theatres, a new endoscopy unit, a new...
- Autism Support Services
77. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken or will take to improve the quality of service provided to children with autism; if he is satisfied with the service currently provided...
- Services for People with Disabilities
78. To ask the Minister for Health when the service improvement review of St Christopher's, Longford and St Hilda's, Athlone will be published. [12084/17]
- General Medical Services Scheme
79. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to enforce certain provisions of the Health Act 1970, specifically, to ensure that persons covered by the general medical services scheme...
- Hospital Services
80. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in place to expand services at Bantry hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12088/17]
- Accident and Emergency Departments
81. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to refurbish the emergency department at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11839/17]
- Mental Health Services
82. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has been in touch with or has received any reports from the HSE with regard to the ongoing issue of children with mental health difficulties...
- Primary Care Centres Data
83. To ask the Minister for Health the number of centres with regard to the primary care centre projects announced on 17 July 2012 that are now open; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
84. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the serious delays in ophthalmic appointments at Cork University Hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that all five...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
85. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 1 February 2017, the exact details of his Department’s robust monitoring framework that will be implemented...
- Health Screening Programmes
86. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate an early screening programme for scoliosis and adequate early intervention measures including physiotherapy as preventative measures which...
- Industrial Disputes
87. To ask the Minister for Health his views on industrial action by nurses and the pay and conditions faced by nurses in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12060/17]
- HSE Waiting Lists
89. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting lists for orthopaedics in the north-east region with particular reference to the delays for patients in counties Cavan and Monaghan...
- Medicinal Products Prices
90. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the high prices charged by pharmaceutical companies for essential medicines; if any additional leverage can be exerted on companies with...
- HSE Investigations
91. To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations ongoing into the care of vulnerable adults in foster care, residential settings or any other State care setting; the number of...
- Maternity Services Provision
92. To ask the Minister for Health when anomaly scans will be provided to expectant mothers at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [12085/17]
- HSE Waiting Lists
93. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the waiting lists for diagnosis by the child and adolescent mental health service in counties Sligo and Leitrim. [12136/17]
- Mental Health Services Provision
94. To ask the Minister for Health the services available in County Wexford for children and adolescents who present with suicidal ideation and are not deemed by CAMHS to have a psychiatric...
- HSE Waiting Lists
95. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE action plan for scoliosis will be published; his plans for the implementation of the action plan; the funding put in place for this implementation;...
- Hospitals Funding
96. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be allocated to the existing cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford in order to increase the...
- General Practitioner Services
97. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the general practitioner service availability for parents of children under five years of age and address problems they have accessing this...
- Hospitals Capital Programme
98. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources he will allocate to Letterkenny General Hospital in view of the fact that the full capacity protocol has been implemented again on 28...
- Mental Health Services Staff
99. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide adequate staffing for the child and adolescent mental health service in the Sligo Leitrim region; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Children's Hospital Expenditure
100. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all moneys provided by the State toward the development of a national paediatric hospital since 2006, including all costs associated with...
- HIV-AIDS Programmes
102. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the availability of pre exposure prophylaxis, PrEP, to prevent HIV transmissions, in view of the continuing rise in infections in 2016 and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
103. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Galway University Hospital for six, 12, 18, 24 and 48 months; and the reason a person...
- Accident and Emergency Departments
104. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on measures he will take to address the concerns and issues of nursing staff in the public hospitals and the current crisis in the hospital...
- Services for People with Disabilities
105. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the HSE does not reduce the availability of services at the Solas respite centre for children in County Sligo. [12086/17]
- Assisted Human Reproduction
106. To ask the Minister for Health the anticipated timeframe for providing supports for those persons undergoing IVF and associated treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Air Ambulance Service Provision
107. To ask the Minister for Health the contingencies that are in place to ensure that transport for paediatric cardiac and liver transplants are guaranteed in view of the fact that staffing...
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
108. To ask the Minister for Health if prefabs will be used to provide additional capacity at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12094/17]
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
109. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the approval of the cystic fibrosis drugs Orkambi and Kalydeco for the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Abortion Services Provision
111. To ask the Minister for Health his views on allowing access to the abortion pill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12073/17]
- Health Services Funding
112. To ask the Minister for Health the investment required in the Health Service Executive, HSE, information technology budget to bring it up to the OECD average; the projects that are being...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
113. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the inadequate resourcing of adult degenerative spine services at Tallaght and Naas hospitals; the further action being taken...
- Medicinal Products Licensing
115. To ask the Minister for Health the changes since the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, confirmed to Dáil Éireann on 15 November 2016 that compassionate access to...
- Ambulance Service Response Times
116. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to improve ambulance response times for rural areas such as County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12063/17]
- Primary Care Centres Data
118. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary care programme; the number and location of primary care centres in Galway city, county and the islands; the status of the roll-out of...
- Special Educational Needs Staff
119. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have nurses on site in special needs schools (details supplied). [11830/17]
- Hospital Staff Recruitment
120. To ask the Minister for Health when a second consultant breast surgeon will be appointed to Letterkenny General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11825/17]
- Hospitals Policy
121. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no comprehensive theatre modelling exercise or review has been completed by the HSE; the details of the project which has commenced to allow regular...
- Maternity Services
122. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that perform routine anomaly scans at 20 weeks; and the timeframe for making such scans available to all pregnant women as a matter of...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration
123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the company or companies contracted by the International Protection Office, IPO, to translate the new protection questionnaire into different...
- Prisoner Transfers
124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the transfer of sentenced persons and transfer of execution of sentences Bill will come before Dáil Éireann to allow prisoners...
- Departmental Bodies
125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the supports that have been put in place by the International Protection Office and other relevant bodies, including the Legal Aid Board, for...
- Departmental Bodies Reports
126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which she received a report by the Garda internal audit section that covers financial transactions at the Garda training college for...
- Prisoner Transfers
127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter in relation to a person (details supplied). [12282/17]
- Courts Service
128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the closure and refurbishments of Killorglin courthouse; and if she will make a...
- Office of Public Works Properties
129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the person or body that has ownership and is responsible for the property that housed the Garda station at Upperchurch, County Tipperary; and if...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Credits
130. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will grant the single parent tax credit to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12276/17]
- Pension Provisions
131. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected annuities on retirement based on reaching the standard fund threshold of €1.3 million if the standard fund threshold was reduced to...
- Tax Credits
134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers that availed of the incapacitated child benefit in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12249/17]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Skills Shortages
137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a shortage in the availability of the trade of shuttering carpenters here at present. [12285/17]
- School Accommodation Provision
138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to provide additional classrooms at a school (details supplied); if prefabs are likely to be required; and if he will make a...
- Education and Training Boards
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); the timeframe for provision of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12225/17]
- Schools Building Projects Status
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed new primary schools in the Dublin 13 area on the school building programme; the stages at which these schools are at on the...
- Teachers' Remuneration
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of primary teachers on his Department's payroll who are currently paid a qualification allowance at the pass degree rate....
- School Staff
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of substitute teachers employed per school day, on average, in primary schools; if these positions are taken account of in...
- Third Level Staff
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all the recommendations of the Cush report in respect of fixed-term workers in third level colleges have been accepted and implemented by him;...
- Commemorative Events
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his views on a submission made to his Department regarding the provision of lumper potatoes to schools teaching children about the...
- Educational Disadvantage
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the mechanism and criteria for a Youthreach programme to apply and receive funding for DEIS status supports; if his attention has been...
- Education and Training Boards Staff
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reason he has not approved the appointment of two members (details supplied) to the governing body of Galway-Mayo Institute of...
- Educational Disadvantage
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reason a school (details supplied) in County Sligo has not been granted DEIS status in view of the fact that two other primary...
- School Services Staff
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school secretaries that are being paid by grants from his Department will be recognised as employees of his Department similar to many of...
- Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he will allocate funding to a group sewage scheme (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if he will make a...
- Cross-Border Co-operation
152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set out the status of PEACE IV funding; if it is expected that Brexit will have any implications on PEACE funding...
- Planning Issues
153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a planning application (details supplied) currently before Cavan county council;...
- Local Authority Housing Data
154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of empty local authority housing units in counties Sligo and Leitrim at present; and if he will make a...
- Local Authority Staff Data
155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the numbers employed either full-time or part-time by each local authority in 2014, 2015 and 2016; and if he will...
- Property Tax
156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount that was allocated to each local authority in 2015 and 2016 from the local government fund in tabular...
- Private Rented Accommodation
160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department or a body under its aegis has undertaken or plans to undertake a study or investigation into the...
- Housing Assistance Payments Data
161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of households currently in receipt of the housing assistance payment in each local authority area in...
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, currently in process in relation to the acquisition of vacant...
- Social and Affordable Housing
163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a full progress report on the 520 new social housing homes for Dublin that are to be developed...
- Data Sharing Arrangements
164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will release all datasets from his Department in open format as defined under the open data technical...
- Social and Affordable Housing
165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that social housing construction output is behind the annual targets set in the Rebuilding...
- Department of Social Protection
- Family Income Supplement
166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if family income supplement payments have been suspended for any persons engaging in industrial action, in view of the incorrect information given...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the position regarding jobseeker's allowance applicants (details supplied). [12209/17]
- Carer's Allowance Applications
168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12229/17]
- Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the community employment scheme of a person (details supplied); if he will extend this scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the eligibility for contributory State pension of a person (details supplied); the options available in this instance; and if he will make a...
- Community Employment Schemes Administration
172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are exemptions for persons employed on community employment schemes to remain on these schemes after their term has ended. [12261/17]
- Employment Support Services
174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the opportunities in terms of training or workplace support programmes available to persons drawing credits but not receiving a social welfare...
- One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of raising the cut-off age of the one-parent family payment to 12 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of all working-age payments and the estimated full-year cost of increasing the payments by €5, €10, €15 and...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Humanitarian Aid Provision
180. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised at the Foreign Affairs Council, the need to provide additional humanitarian assistance to areas such as South Sudan and...
- Departmental Expenditure
181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount it cost to run Ireland's liaison office to NATO and Partnership for Peace delegation in each of the years 2010 to 2016; and the...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Sports Events
182. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a licence and agreement has been obtained for an event (details supplied); the conditions attached to the licence to ensure minimal...
- Public Sector Pay
183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provision which has been made for section 39 organisations providing vital social care services to meet the various pay restoration...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Waterways Ireland
184. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Ulster Canal project; the funding which has been spent to date on this; the stage it is at; her further plans for...
- Leader Programmes Funding
185. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of Leader funding; if it is expected that Brexit will have any implications on Leader funding and the way it is...
- Department of Health
- Tobacco Control Measures
186. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland plans to sign up to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products; if so, the status of the progress of Ireland's accession to the...
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
187. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a refund in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12205/17]
- Hospital Services
188. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a cataract operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12206/17]
- Health Insurance Prices
189. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce measures to reduce the costs of health insurance in view of the further planned price increases; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
190. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12211/17]
- Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
191. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to reduce the waiting time for orthodontic treatment in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12212/17]
- Dental Services Provision
192. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand the level of dental services available to medical card holders and PRSI patients in view of the concerns of the dental care professionals...
- Hospital Appointments Status
193. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12231/17]
- Health Services Staff
194. To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages the medical lead on dual diagnosis to commence work, having been appointed six months ago. [12235/17]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
195. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will consider giving persons on waiting lists for more than one year an optional financial contribution towards the cost of a private consultation;...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
196. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to pursue criminal proceedings against a pharmacy chain (details supplied) following systemic overcharging of prescription fees by same. [12251/17]
- Medicinal Products Availability
197. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for pharmaceutical standard products to be given priority over non-standardised, non-pharmaceutical products (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Services for People with Disabilities
198. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) for a wheelchair. [12262/17]
- Respite Care Services
199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with intellectual disabilities awaiting respite beds in County Wexford; the plans that will be put in place to accommodate the waiting...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
200. To ask the Minister for Health if CMU units are obliged to accept maximum dependency patients when a bed is available; the recourse a family has that is refused a bed due to the level of...
- Hospital Beds Data
201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the full capacity protocol has been deployed at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in 2016. [12267/17]
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
202. To ask the Minister for Health his and the HSE's plans to revisit the issue of reimbursement of Sativex in view of the recent Health Products Regulatory Authority's report on medicinal...
- Health Insurance Cover
203. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in a matter (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the facility has to turn persons away that are members of...
- Medical Card Applications
204. To ask the Minister for Health the process for parents of children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance to receive medical cards; and if this introduction will extend to waivers for...
- Mental Health Services Data
205. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE compiles figures on misdiagnosed cases in regard to mental health; if so, the procedures in place to carry out reviews of these misdiagnosed cases;...
- Hospital Beds Data
206. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing the number of hospital beds per 1,000 of the population from the current level of less than 4 to 4.6; and if he will make a statement on...
- Accident and Emergency Departments
208. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of running the emergency department task force; the cost that would be associated with establishing this on a permanent basis; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
209. To ask the Minister for Health the costs that would be associated with carrying out a feasibility study on a new and single integrated hospital waiting list management system; and if he will...
- HSE Expenditure
210. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing the HSE information technology budget to bring it to the EU and OECD averages, respectively; the cost of increasing the HSE information...
- Home Help Service Expenditure
213. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing home help hours by 10% and increasing home care packages by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12295/17]
- Maternity Services
214. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of ensuring that maternity hospitals have access to foetal anomaly screening with the requisite staff and equipment; the cost of employing additional...
- Ambulance Service Staff
216. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of employing an advanced paramedic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12298/17]
- Ambulance Service
217. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of purchasing, equipping and staffing 12 new ambulances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12299/17]
- Ambulance Service Provision
218. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the implementation of the National Ambulance Service capacity review in terms of personnel, vehicles and equipment, respectively; and...
- General Practitioner Services Provision
219. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of rolling out free general practitioner care at a rate of almost a quarter of a million more persons each year; and if he will make a statement on...
- Prescriptions Charges
220. To ask the Minister for Health the total estimated cost of abolishing prescription charges; the total estimated cost of the phased abolition of charges by 50 cent; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Data
221. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of granting an automatic medical card to all those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance; the annual cost of the provision of this to new...
- Accident and Emergency Departments
222. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing the €100 charge for the use of emergency departments; the cost of abolishing the €75 per day charge for inpatient care;...
- Disability Support Services Provision
223. To ask the Minister for Health if plans for the provision of a school age team for children with disabilities in Roscommon town have now been stalled due to budgetary issues in securing a...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
224. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all priority capital projects that have had their funding reduced in the 2017 HSE capital plan; the amount of the reductions that have occurred;...
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
225. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all revised allocations for the National Maternity Hospital project in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12308/17]
- Mental Health Services Provision
226. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated for the construction of the new national forensic mental health service hospital in Portrane and all revised allocations that have...
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
227. To ask the Minister for Health if the capital spending allocated for the National Rehabilitation Hospital was reduced by €8 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Children's Hospital Status
228. To ask the Minister for Health when the construction contract for the National Children's Hospital project will be signed and to whom it is to be awarded; if provisions in this contract...
- Disability Support Services Provision
229. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to children that have applied to the HSE for an assessment of need and that have not received their assessment within the three month...
- Health Services Provision
230. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider installing a juvenile arthritis clinic in Munster and putting in place a consultant in this discipline in the CUH. [12316/17]
- Dental Services
231. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements of a person (details supplied) to dental treatment. [12324/17]
- Psychological Services
232. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the absence of a HSE psychology service in the catchment area of Oranmore, County Galway, whereby a child (details supplied)...
- Defence Forces Medicinal Products
233. To ask the Minister for Health the number of serious adverse drug reactions, ADRs, which were reported in which the name or the address gave a clear indication that they were Defence Forces...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
237. To ask the Minister for Health the way the National Treatment Purchase Fund will be fully accessible; the way it will be applied for; the criteria for persons to access; the hospitals, both...
- Hospital Budgets
238. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether hospitals having to submit zero figure budgets is realistic; if not, his further views on whether it is a futile exercise as these figures...
- Hospitals Funding
240. To ask the Minister for Health the consequences and risks attached to a shortfall in funding for Kerry University Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
241. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place via the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, in regard to providing orthodontic treatment for children waiting more than 18 months...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
242. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow persons accessing ophthalmology services, specifically cataract treatment, via Kerry University Hospital currently facing lengthy waiting...
- HSE Funding
243. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the intention of the HSE to immediately cut funding to section 39 organisations providing vital social care services, due to their being unable to...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
244. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which assessments are readily available for children with special needs with particular reference to conditions requiring early diagnosis; and if...
- Speech and Language Therapy
245. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which speech and language therapy is available to all children with such a requirement here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12407/17]
- Mental Health Services
246. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the mental health needs of children and adults continue to be monitored and met here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12408/17]
- Long Stay Residential Units
247. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which adequate long-term care continues to be provided for in the public sector having particular regard to the need to retain adequate...
- Medicinal Products Prices
248. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects to be in a position to utilise the benefit of the single EU market to facilitate the negotiation of an affordable price for...
- Orthodontic Services Data
249. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children listed for orthodontic treatment in categories A, B and C; the number of children currently in the course of receiving such treatment;...
- Medical Card Administration
250. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it might be possible to streamline and expedite the process of medical card applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
252. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he can provide or avail of step-down bed accommodation in all areas throughout the country as a means of alleviating overcrowding in public...
- Hospital Staff Data
254. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which medical, nursing or consultant posts remain to be filled throughout the public health services; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Primary Care Centres Provision
255. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of primary care centres in County Kildare; the details of those already constructed and operational; the details of those...
- Maternity Services
256. To ask the Minister for Health when a service will be provided at a hospital (details supplied); if the recruitment of the necessary personnel has commenced; the date for the introduction of...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
257. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who had planned surgery cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12422/17]
- Hospital Appointments Status
258. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12425/17]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
259. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for an operation at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
260. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive full-time residential care suitable for their needs; and his plans to build a new residential...
- Disability Services Provision
261. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a transfer by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12431/17]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Milk Quota Data
262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payment under the voluntary milk reduction scheme for 2016 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [12213/17]
- GLAS Payments
263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12216/17]
- Young Farmers Scheme
264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12221/17]
- Teagasc Courses
265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter in relation to the Teagasc green certificate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Live Exports
266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure that live cattle exports to Turkey and the Middle East by Irish exporters are not in breach of EU...
- GLAS Payments
267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in County Cork who have not received 85% of their total 2016 payment under GLAS 1, GLAS 2 and AEOS; the...
- Fisheries Protection
269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12326/17]
- Live Exports
270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had discussions with the EU Agriculture Commissioner regarding the ruling by the World Trade Organisation that Russia's...
- GLAS Payments
271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan who have not received 85% of their total 2016 payment under GLAS 1, GLAS 2...
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan availing of the areas of natural constraint scheme; the status of the...
- GLAS Payments
273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in County Cork who have not received 85% of their total 2016 payment under GLAS 1, GLAS 2 and AEOS; the...
- GLAS Data
274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan who have not received 85% of their total 2016 payment under GLAS 1, GLAS 2...
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Eligibility
275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan enrolled in the areas of natural constraint scheme; the status of the...
- Agriculture Scheme Data
276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money allocated to the National Reserve Programme; the number of persons expected to benefit; if it will apply to those...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Renewable Energy Projects
277. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of all proposals regarding the granting of a State subvention for solar farms; and if he will make a statement...
- National Broadband Plan
278. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will address the need for broadband by two significant employers on the Longford-Westmeath border (details...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation
279. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the implementation of the National Broadband Plan in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a...
- Mobile Telephony Services
280. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on and position, not ComReg's, following the decision by certain mobile phone operators to circumnavigate the...
- Renewable Energy Incentives
281. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the renewable heat incentive scheme will be introduced; the rate to be paid per kilowatt hour; the rate to be paid...
- National Broadband Plan
282. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a broadband telecommunications universal service obligation; and if he will make a statement on...
- Mobile Telephony Services
283. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a universal service obligation for mobile phone service providers; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Insurance Coverage
284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to regulate for insurance for hobby drone users; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the two insurance companies...
- Sports Funding
285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider making funding available outside the capital grant system for the development of athletics clubs across the country...
- Regional Road Network
286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funds distributed to local authorities in 2014, 2015 and 2016 for local and regional roads, in tabular form; the basis on which...
- Tourism Ireland
287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Fáilte Ireland plans to close the only remaining tourist information office in...
- Road Toll Operators
288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the roads from which revenue is being raised for the State by way of a toll and the amount raised by each in 2016, in tabular form; and...
- Ports Policy
290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is responsible for the financial oversight of the ports under his control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12278/17]
- Ports Facilities
293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Drogheda Port Company is the only port company with a stevedoring subsidiary at this time; the advantages in having a stevedoring...
- Legal Proceedings
294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an issue (details supplied); if he will clarify his Department's responsibility to ensure adequate legal representation of...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the N2 Clontibret to the border road scheme; the amount which has been spent on this route to date; the status of the A5...
- Bus Éireann Services
297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene and prevent Bus Éireann ceasing the Dublin to Derry route bus service which services the people of...
- Road Improvement Schemes
298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reinvest in the local improvement scheme in order to upgrade isolated and neglected roads and lanes that have not been taken...
- Road Projects
299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has a prioritised list of roads and bridge projects likely to be required in Kildare south in the next ten years; his plans to fund...
- Sports Capital Programme Applications
300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for a sports capital grant by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tourism Project Funding
301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reinstate the level of funding afforded to a festival (details supplied) by Fáilte Ireland to the level received in 2016...
- Sports Capital Programme Applications Data
302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of applicants under the new round of sports capital projects; and the detail of the projects that applied for funding in...
- Sports Capital Programme Applications
303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for sports capital funding by a club (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Work Permits Applications
304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an application for an employment permit by a person (details supplied). [12312/17]
- IDA Portfolio
305. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA land banks in County Kildare, by town; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12331/17]
- IDA Site Visits
307. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of regional IDA site visits and vacant properties in 2016, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
- Workplace Relations Commission
308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of workplace inspections in 2016 by sector and region; the total amount of wages recovered in these periods by sector and...
- Startup Funding
309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the options that are open to persons that are seeking seed capital for start up businesses; if plans are in place for further schemes...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Aftercare Services
310. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young persons under and over 18 years of age that were on a waiting list to access an aftercare worker at the end of 2016, by...
- Family Resource Centres
312. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether family resource centres are provided with adequate funding and supports to carry out their responsibilities; and if...
- Aftercare Services
314. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to engage with organisations (details supplied) to ensure after care support for those leaving State care on their 18th birthday;...
- Commissions of Investigation
315. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 805 of 28 February 2017, the names of the organisations in the USA that were contacted. [12394/17]
