Written answers

Tuesday, 1 March 2005

  • Community Welfare Officers
    Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) and make these concerns a priority issue....
  • Water Fluoridation
    Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the statutory basis for water authorities adding fluoride to water; the levels of fluoridation for each water authority;...
  • Motorised Transport Grant
    Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an age limit applies to applicants who seek the motorised transport grant from their local health executive; if so, the...
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the practice of dispatching ambulances and their crews on to frosty, dangerous roads at 3 a.m. to collect employee...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth is not being taken on to the national treatment purchase fund; and...
  • Violence Against Women
    Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding of €7 million will be incorporated into the Finance Bill 2005, in view of the fact that for four years running...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme
    Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Violence Against Women
    Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if progress has been made regarding improvement of the forensic medical examination services; and if she will make a...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the recruitment of both permanent and temporary senior management of the Health Service Executive in 2004 did...
  • Grant Aid
    Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has considered an application for a once-off grant to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when increased nursing home subvention will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of employees in the Health Service Executive in the Kildare and west Wicklow region in each of the past three...
  • Health Services
    Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of speech therapists employed by the Health Service Executive in the Kildare and west Wicklow area; and if she...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the new health structure, the personnel involved and the line of command and seniority within the...
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of ambulances available in the Kildare and west Wicklow area of the Health Service Executive; the years of...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioners attached to her Department for Kildare under the auspices of the Health Service...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the grants available to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to change his car for an automatic model for reasons...
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
    Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the advice she has taken relative to the growing number of cases of MRSA or superbug; the number of known cases in each...
  • Nursing Home Charges
    Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the role of the then Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Callely, at the meeting on December...
  • Official Engagements
    Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposed itinerary for St. Patrick's week celebrations; the areas and countries involved and if she will make a...
  • Health Services
    Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will urgently investigate the needs of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if her Department will fund the...
  • Health Care Funding
    Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the funding requirements of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 12 to allow it to continue its...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is departmental policy to allow the Health Service Executive to charge holders of medical cards who are waiting for...
  • Emergency Medical Supplies
    Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 953 of 30 September 2003, if the study has been completed; and if she will make a...
  • Health Services
    Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 9 December 2004, the meaning of the statement in the reply given by the HSE...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if adequate speech therapy teachers will be allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare to facilitate the...
  • Food Safety Authority
    Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to change the legislation to allow the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to implement the name and shame...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the enhanced nursing home subvention for a person (details supplied) will be decided upon. [6819/05]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 26 January 2005, the date for the meeting with the Ennis Hospital action...
  • Health Service Allowances
    Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the domiciliary care allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
  • Congenital Abnormalities
    Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of babies born with an illness (details supplied) each year from 1997 to 2004 in each county; the additional...
  • Health Services
    Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the addiction counselling service in North Tipperary will be put on a par with South Tipperary and the mid-west region;...
  • Alzheimer's Disease
    Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. [6824/05]
  • Health Services
    Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that approximately 400 persons will be examined in one day in the orthodontic...
  • Food Safety
    Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 174 and 175 of 30 November 2004 regarding the carcinogenic food dye, Sudan Red 1,...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if appropriate hospital care will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the issues relative to...
  • Nursing Home Subventions.
    Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if next of kin will be allowed to draw moneys owed to patients in a nursing home who are incapable of making a decision;...
  • Health Services
    Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 84 of 8 December 2004 and 179 of 26 January 2005, the way in which the person...
  • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
    Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if interest will be applied in the return of moneys illegally taken from elderly nursing home patients over many years with...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the waiting list for speech therapy for children in Ballyfermot in Cherry Orchard Hospital. [7003/05]
  • Disabilities Incidence
    Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of Dublin children per postal district who have been diagnosed as having either Asperger's syndrome, autism or...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an operation to remove kidney stones will be performed on a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan. [7005/05]
  • Health Services
    Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive orthodontic treatment; if the relevant authority will review...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation whereby a request was made for eye surgery by an optician (details supplied); when the...
  • Health Services
    Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason speech and language therapy for a person (details supplied) in County Offaly has been halved; and if she will...
  • Health Service Funding
    Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding from her Department to each voluntary organisation in the country for each of the years 2003, 2004...
  • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
    Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when a refund will be made in respect of pension paid to a nursing home by a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to save the lives of at least 200 women from dying of breast cancer, by making the national...
  • Food Safety
    Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number and type of food ingredients which have recently been banned on health grounds; if other food ingredients are...

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