Written answers
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the resignation of a person (details supplied); the consequences of same for patient care; if an advertisement... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of health professionals by grade, and the number of front line support staff who are employed in the disability... - Publication Costs
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the total cost of all publications launched in 2004 by the North Eastern Health Board on an individual basis; and if she... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has ceased the recruitment of health professionals within the disability services; and if she will make a... - Medical Cards
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person whose sole income is an invalidity pension will not lose their entitlement to the medical card, despite the fact... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which the home of a person is calculated in relation to subvention assessment; the situation when the house is... - Hospital Services
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be called for treatment in Sligo General Hospital; and if she will... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the redevelopment of the Brú Caoímhín nursing home on Cork Street in Dublin. [8559/05] - Hospital Accommodation
Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the empty beds at the Curragh Camp Hospital will be used to provide extra capacity for Naas Hospital in view of the need... - Departmental Expenses
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount her Department paid in 2004 for car mileage expenses; the amount paid to cover rail and bus ticket expenses; and... - Health Services
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the policy which is applied by a health board in cases in which a health board psychiatrist refuses to continue to treat a... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason children with autism and other disabilities can be taken into care; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will be transferred from Cork to Dublin; if the Health Service Executive will... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a subvented bed will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on... - Mumps Outbreak
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent of the recent steep rise in reported cases of mumps in County Cavan; the strategies in place to ensure the... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the entitlements of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 following the nursing home charges illegally imposed on this... - Medical Cards
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to previous replies on the practice of chiropodists charging medical card holders over 65 for their services, if she... - Health Services
Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is best practice that a patient visiting the Doc-on-call service should also be required to pay an... - Child Abuse
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which a child care worker who was abusing children at a school (details supplied) in Kilkenny was allowed by the... - Health Services
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a decision to suspend speech and language therapy assessments until 2006 at... - Influenza Outbreak
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has assessed the reports of the risk of a serious outbreak of flu affecting this country; her appraisal of the risk;... - Health Services
Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if persons (details supplied) in County Meath will be admitted to Harbour View, Maynooth, County Kildare; and if she will... - Official Languages Act
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the total, or expected total cost to her Department in relation to the publication, through the media, of a notice under... - Compensation Scheme
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a written commitment given by her predecessor to establish a no fault compensation scheme for psychiatric nurses will be... - Hospital Services
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding the concerns of a person about poor infection control at... - Health Services
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she intends to publish the HSE national service plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8850/05] - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for assistance under the housing aid for the elderly scheme in the name of a person (details supplied) in... - Departmental Funding
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if adequate and stable funding and the maximum support and assistance will be given to an organisation (details supplied) in... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a bed will be made available in Beaumont Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will... - Nursing Home Inspections
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing homes in each health board region on a county basis for the year 2004; the number, name and location... - Nursing Home Provision
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason nursing homes in provincial areas were not considered by the HSE after tendering through the HSE for the... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of intellectually disabled persons in psychiatric hospitals. [8899/05] - Medical Cards
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card was not renewed for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [8903/05] - Prescription Drugs
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the policy in relation to the use of cannabis by prescription for medicinal purposes; and if she will make a statement on... - Health Services
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 did not receive speech and language services for their child; and if she... - Medical Cards
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will receive support and advice on a medical card. [8941/05] - Labour Court Recommendation
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Labour Court recommendation (details supplied) will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospital Services
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make funding available towards the cost of installing and maintaining a CAT scanner in Bantry hospital. [8979/05] - Consultant Appointments
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to appoint an oral maximal facial surgeon in the western region; the reason the region is without such a... - Health Services
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 678 of 27 January 2004, if she will provide an update on the development of... - Irish Psychiatric Association Survey
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to deal with the findings of the survey by the Irish Psychiatric Association carried out by persons... - Legal Advice
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of requests for legal advice made by her Department to the Attorney General in respect of each of the years 2002,... - Hospital Services
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which terminally ill patients throughout Ireland will access radiotherapy for pain relief in the last weeks of... - MRSA Incidence
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the MRSA epidemic in hospitals here is contributed to by overcrowding and lack of proper facilities for... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the delay in releasing funding for BreastCheck now means that 400 women and their families per year will pay the price... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to have a person (details supplied) in County Meath admitted to Beaumont Hospital for an appointment... - Proposed Regulation
Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to an organisation (details supplied) which runs lifestyle seminars in this country and... - Mental Health Services
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of psychiatric patients readmitted to hospital within two weeks of discharge. [9032/05] - Medical Cards
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding entitlements for people aged over 70 years on medical cards; if the card holder is entitled to a... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the application for special housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied) in County... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be assessed for subvention. [9060/05] - Health Service Staff
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if ambulances and ambulance crews in the Health Service Executive north-east area are covered by insurance to collect... - Health Services
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent external review of cystic fibrosis facilities here commissioned by the Cystic... -
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department will provide the necessary funding to the Health Service Executive western area in order to establish a... - National Repayment Scheme
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide all the necessary information her Department has for persons to make a claim under the national... - Health Services
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding given to Comhar for the south-east region for the past five years; if she will report on the... - Departmental Appointments
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of appointments to public boards and bodies under the aegis of her Department that she has made for the past... - Health Services
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment from St. John's Hospital in Limerick; and if... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is still waiting to see a consultant; if she will fast-track the... - Health Services
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an adequate number of staff will be provided at the Celbridge health centre to facilitate the speedy processing of... - Hospital Staff
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding developments at Temple Street Hospital; if parking spaces will be made available for all nursing... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Minister of State, Deputy Callely, was not held to account for the nursing home charge issue, particularly... - Child Care Services
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason persons (details supplied) in County Meath had their children taken into care; and if she will increase the... - State Property
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the circumstances in which State property under the care of her Department has been disposed of without going to auction or... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not entitled to a nursing home subvention; and if she will make... - Health Services
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of the full-time beds which are available for persons under 65 years of age who need full-time care and... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider using the Curragh Hospital to relieve the present crisis in the accident and emergency department at... - Health Services
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the maximum grant payable for a hairpiece within each area of the Health Service Executive for holders of medical cards.... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which her Department will deal with the many inquiries from families whose elderly relatives were in private... - Mental Health Services
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will initiate a sworn independent public inquiry as requested by the family of a person (details supplied). [9318/05] - Health Services
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Galway in respect of the provision of a... - Mental Health Services
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to have qualitative research carried out into the prevalence of ADHD and related conditions (details... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in having a place made available in hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal;... - Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is responsible for the performance of the functions of her Department in accordance with section 3 of the Public... - Medical Cards
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself that the decision to make medical cards available to all persons aged 70 and over received the... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she expects the development and implementation of the national standards for disability services as recommended by the... - Health Services
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of paediatric occupational therapists employed in each Health Service Executive area; and if she will make a... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if cutbacks in capital or current spending or in services will result from the need to repay residents in nursing homes... - Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the services available to young and disabled children, who have a long-term illness card, when they are out of hospital;... - Departmental Appointments
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the roles and functions carried out by special advisers attached to her Department; if circulars or instructions have been... - Health Services
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in having home subvention sanctioned for applicants; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Transport
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount paid out, and the total mileage registered in mileage allowances claimed by employees in her Department in the... - National Drugs Strategy
Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of licences existing that permit doctors or agencies to offer methadone treatment here, outlining the... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a bed for the long term care of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be provided; if a decision in the... - Hospital Staff
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the nursing positions will be offered to the successful candidates who applied to St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny city;... - Mental Health Services
Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if arrangements will be made to restore visiting rights to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a... - Hospital Services
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if rehab care will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the... - Medical Cards
Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the doctor only medical cards will be authorised; the extent of the income thresholds; the number of families and... - Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the findings of the national commission on human assisted reproduction; if she intends to act upon... - Medicinal Guidelines
Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she plans to review and draw up guidelines for the prescription of cox-2 inhibitors; and if she will make a statement on... - Asthma Incidence
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to establish an interdepartmental task force on childhood asthma, in view of the fact that one in five Irish... - Mental Health Services
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are plans to move the acute psychiatric unit at St. Senan's Hospital, Enniscorthy to the general hospital at... - Hospital Equipment
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason many general hospitals do not have 24/7 CAT scanner facilities; the hospitals which do not; and if she will make...
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