Written answers
Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Department of Health and Children
- Independent Reviews
Question 10: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she intends to take arising from the report of the independent review into the circumstances of the death of... - Health Services
Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the 32 local health offices of the HSE will be put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9496/05] - National Cancer Strategy
Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the new cancer strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9469/05] - Debt Collection
Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that publicly funded hospitals spent more than €300,000 on the employment of... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 15: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to roll out the national cervical screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Inquiry
Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected completion date of the inquiry to be chaired by Judge Maureen Harding-Clarke into the activities of a person... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 19: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck will be rolled out nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9458/05] - Ministerial Appointments
Question 21: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made with regard to the recruitment of a chief executive officer for the Health Service Executive; when it is... - Hospital Services
Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average number of patients on trolleys or chairs awaiting treatment or assessment in accident and emergency units for... - MRSA Incidence
Question 24: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is inappropriate that MRSA patients are nursed in open wards with a huge risk for other patients,... - Hospital Services
Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide radiotherapy services for patients in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 26: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if over 200 lives per annum would be saved in the south and west if the BreastCheck programme was up and running; and if she... - EU Conventions
Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason Ireland has failed to join 31 other European states in ratifying the Council of Europe's 1997 Convention on Human... - Departmental Reviews
Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to implement any recommendations made in a report (details supplied), if so, if she will report on the... - Independent Reviews
Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her consideration of the report of the pharmacy review group; and if she will make a statement on the... - Diabetes Incidence
Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to introduce to prevent and to treat diabetes in view of the fact that the incidence of diabetes in... - Hospital Charges
Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to recent figures produced by the Central Statistics Office showing that hospital service... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds provided to date in regard to the commitment given in the national health strategy to provide an... - Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 34: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the failure of political leadership in her Department between 2000 and 2004. [9517/05] - Health Service Executive
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will hold the HSE board meetings in public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9495/05] - Health Services
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Government has delivered on the 800 additional extended care and community nursing unit places per annum as promised... - Children in Care
Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a review planned, following the taking into State care by the Health Service Executive of five children (details... - Health Services
Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive working group on cystic fibrosis services, which was set up after a report labelled CF... - Hospital Staff
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing posts unfilled at the latest date for which figures are available; the number of qualified nurses who... - Carcinogenic Products
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to undertake a review of food safety procedures in view of the fact that so many products on sale here have... - Ministerial Appointments
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on filling the offices of chief executive officer of the HSE and Secretary General of her Department;... - Hospital Charges
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has records of representations by or on behalf of persons in long-term care who challenged or queried the... - Hospital Services
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent turning away of many patients from the accident and emergency department of Cork University... - Sunbed Usage
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the call from the Environmental Health Officers Association for the introduction of... - Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the responsibilities of a Minister for State in her Department; the nature of the accountability of same for their special... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, arising from the Travers report, there was any record in her Department regarding the reason the new Minister for Health... - Ministerial Meetings
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on each and all of the meetings which have taken place between her immediate predecessor and the then... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, arising from the Travers report, any investigation has been held in her Department to determine the location of the file... - Health Services
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when work will commence on the community nursing unit on the grounds of Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry; and if... - Children in Care
Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of families with children who have autistic behaviour that had care orders issued by health boards or the HSE in... - Influenza Outbreak
Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to deal with a possible outbreak of avian flu. [9249/05] - Nursing Home Charges
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals for the repayment of the moneys illegally taken from old age pensioners while in various health board... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the treatment purchase fund will be used to allow women in the south and west of the country to have mammograms and have... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports (details supplied) that Beaumont hospital has less than 15% of the beds it needs for kidney and... - Hospital Services
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the grave shortfall in services for rheumatology patients; if adequate funds will be... - Hospital Staff
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the further action she has taken with respect to the inter-related and ongoing problems of services and staffing at Monaghan... - Medical Cards
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to the findings of the Supreme Court of 16 February 2005, the cost of the over 70s medical card for each of the... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the European Parliament resolution on breast cancer, 2003, the third edition of the... - Health Service Reform
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the progress of the structural reform programme to date; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to address the ongoing problem oflengthy waiting lists for new diabetes patients; and if she will... - Task Force on Alcohol
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she plans to implement fully the recommendations in the second report of the strategic task force on alcohol; the way in... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the role of the Minister for Health and Children and the Ministers of State at the meeting in December 2003 on the nursing... - Hospital Services
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she or her predecessors have not appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children to discuss... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the outstanding difficulties being experienced in Letterkenny General Hospital due to an... - Health Services
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of social workers or health sector personal social services professionals in each regional health area that are... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of long stay public beds available throughout the country on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on... - Food Dispensers
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on banning soft drinks and snack food dispensers from State run health institutions; and if she will make a... - Health Services
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 17 June 2004 if she has satisfied herself that guidelines which were issued in... - Organ Retention
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the basis of her decision to close down the Dunne inquiry into the retention of organs of deceased children; her proposals... - Hospital Services
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on a media report (details supplied) which claimed that she may recommend that a number of provincial hospital... - Pharmacy Regulations
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the number of trained pharmacists from abroad who cannot practice here although eligible... - Ministerial Staff
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the role and responsibilities of her special advisers, in particular their role in relation to briefing her on issues... - Medical Cards
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards issued at 30 September 2004 and at the latest date for which figures are available; the reason... - Health Service Reform
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Government plans to implement the recommendations of the Hanly report; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Charges
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to recent figures produced by the Central Statistics Office showing that hospital charges... - Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of mumps reported to date in 2005; the way in which this compares with the same period in 2004; if she... - Health Service Reform
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has read the report of the Irish Society of Medical Oncologists which was submitted to the working group of the... - Health Service Staff
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the implementation of the European working time directive; and if she will make a statement on the... - Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent survey which showed serious morale problems within the Irish Blood... - Health Service Staff
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has had discussions with the HSE on any health staff ceilings for 2005; the outcome of those discussions; and if she... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the details of the recent hospitals' progress report on patient waiting times published by the national treatment purchase... - Medical Cards
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards which were available to persons in each of Counties Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath in January... - Clinical Indemnity Scheme
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position of negotiations with hospital consultants on the indemnity scheme; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the stage of development of the old international trading centre site; when the BreastCheck programme for the south is due... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to increase the number of public long stay beds; the projected timetable for implementation of the... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to clarify the circumstances surrounding the meeting last December of the then Secretary General of the Department of... - Organ Retention
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the problems that have led to the Dunne inquiry's repeated failure to meet deadlines; and if she will... - Care of the Elderly
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on a policy or framework for the future funding of long term care of the elderly; and if she will... - Health Services
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she proposes to take to alleviate the financial difficulties experienced by rape crisis centres such as that... - EU Presidency
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the work carried out by her Department before and during the EU presidency; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospital Staff
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of positions of personnel working in public hospitals here which are funded by pharmaceutical companies; and if... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the €2,000 [i]ex gratia[/i] payment agreed to be made to persons in publicly funded long stay nursing homes will not... - Hospital Services
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department's guidelines for the administration of chemotherapy are being breached due to the failure of her... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make available mammograms for women in Waterford on the basis that there is the capacity to treat them in the... - Hospital Services
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the additional services which have been provided in each of the HSE areas for the development of cancer services in 2005;... - Community Nursing Units
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will continue with plans to provide beds in CNUs through public private partnership as announced in July 2002; the... - Health Service Staff
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 15 February 2005, the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Mayo... - Health Services
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the inordinate delay in providing a full drug treatment facility in the Finglas area of Dublin as promised... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the refund of nursing home charges to patients or their estates; the situation for elderly persons... - Residential Home Charges
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review the current practice of residential homes, such as St. Michael's House and St. John of God, taking half... - Medical Cards
Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review an application for a medical card which was refused in the name of a person (details supplied) in County... - Hospital Services
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has a responsibility to provide maternity services to all women here who need them; and the provision which is made... - Ambulance Service
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the charges by health boards for the use of ambulances in all instances including emergencies; and... - Health Services
Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the details of the membership of the working group set up to consider the recommendations of the Pollock report on the... - Medical Cards
Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards in use; the extent to which this number is expected to increase in the near future; and if she... - Health Service Staff
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of consultancy posts at medical or surgical level vacant throughout the health service; her plans to fill these... - Cancer Incidence
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she has evaluated trends in respect of the various forms of cancer on a county basis; if she has... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which beds or hospital wards are idle or unoccupied at present; and if she will make a statement on the... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to waiting lists in respect of hip, heart or eye surgery; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent of child support services available to parents of children with serious behavioural problems; and if she will... - Hospital Services
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the full extent of the respiratory and tuberculosis services previously available at Peamount Hospital, Newcastle, County... - Health Services
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the method for assessment in respect of orthodontic requirements; the average number deemed to require such services in a... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the legal entitlement to nursing home care of a person with a medical card; and the legal basis on which health authorities...
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