Written answers
Tuesday, 12 April 2005
Department of Health and Children
- Special Educational Needs
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average waiting period for primary school children to receive speech and language therapy; her proposals to address... - Health Services
Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an orthodontic assessment. [9944/05] - Medical Cards
Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued on medical grounds to persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who applied in... - Health Services
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will review the level of support being given in the case of a person (details supplied) in... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position of the application for special housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied); when the... - Louth County Hospital
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a request from Dundalk Urban Council to meet her to discuss issues in relation to Louth County... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when two doors will be replaced for a person (detail supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the elderly... - Nursing Home Services
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the Government's attitude to the entitlement of persons who hold medical cards and who are in need of nursing home services... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when planning permission for the new development at Fermoy Community Hospital will be sought; when work will commence on... - Health Service Allowances
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the payment of a curam home care grant for a person (details supplied) after being assessed as... - Health Services
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason orthodontic treatment has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was... - Medical Cards
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the card will be backdated to the... - Hospital Services
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are problems in respect of public patients at Temple Street Hospital; and if the consultants are carrying out... - Hospital Staff
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the dismissal of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if their case was handled in a... - Hospital Services
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that procedures at Temple Street Hospital, Dublin in relation to the national treatment purchase fund... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of letters received by the East Coast Area Health Board between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2004 from... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 1 March 2005, if it is reasonable to have this Deputy's question referred to... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when work will commence on the promised extension to Kanturk Community Hospital, County Cork. [10032/05] - Health Services
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the funding and staffing recommendations of the Joe Wolfe report into St. Joseph's foundation will be implemented; and... - Children in Care
Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of immigrant children who have gone missing while in the care of the State in 2004 and to date in 2005. [10067/05] - Health Services
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by a group (details supplied) in the allocation of... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding work to be completed to house under special housing aid for the elderly scheme for a person (details... - Health Services
Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to an invoice and application for funding for continued care from a person (details supplied); if... - Mental Health Services
Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to an application for funding for a company (details supplied); if in view of the number of people... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a hip replacement operation. [10086/05] - Health Services
Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if long overdue funding will be allocated for Beaumont Hospital to provide Cochlear ear implant operations for adults; and... - Community Physiotherapy Service
Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regulations, orders, and guidelines from her Department limiting the community physiotherapy service to adults under... - Disabled Drivers
Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regulations from her Department regarding the motorised transport grant; the reason this grant is limited to those aged... - Migraine Treatment
Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether migraine is a disabling illness. [10137/05] - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date when the BreastCheck screening programme will be extended to the whole of Ireland; and if she will make a... - Health Services
Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if extra funding will be offered to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin to expand facilities for persons who suffer with epilepsy;... - Medical Cards
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10162/05] - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding provision of work under special housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied) in... - Medical Cards
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when medical card renewal will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10165/05] - Ministerial Travel
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with her in her official party;... - Hospital Staff
Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will be made available towards staffing of the high dependency unit in Letterkenny General Hospital; and if... - Occupational Therapy Service
Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) for occupational therapy; and if she will make a... - Mental Health Services
Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that no psychiatric service intervention has been made to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 11... - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a special bed and mattress for a person (details supplied) with terminal cancer approved in October 2004 have... - Mental Health Services
Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a record of the use of valium and ativan used in psychiatric hospitals; the quantity of each product used at a... - Mental Health Tribunals
Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the mental health tribunals which were to be established under the 2002 Act will be established in order that persons... - Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to increase public information about inflammatory bowel disease; if she put inflammatory bowel disease on... - Scientific Research
Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that none of the botox being safety tested on mice here with LD50 or other testing procedures will be... - Health Services
Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 22 March 2005, if she will answer the question posed; and when she intends... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date it is expected that the national action plan for rehabilitation service, commissioned by her Department and... - Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Dunne inquiry costs €20 million; her views on the lack of public sessions, the lack of a special adviser,... - Health Services
Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the dates within which a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny was a patient; the way in which... - Medical Cards
Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the medical and financial... - Mental Health Services
Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a response to an application for funding submitted to the health office, Kilkenny, for treatment of... - Hospital Staff
Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her response to the resignation of a consultant oncologist at Cork University Hospital recently; the steps she is taking to... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the... - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be assessed for a wheelchair; and if she will make a statement on the... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 is entitled to claim following the recent Supreme Court judgment on nursing home... - Medical Cards
Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an application for the renewal of a medical card will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare;... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider the introduction of a disability card which will be issued to those deemed to be disabled; and if she... - Health Reports
Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when the report on the national expert group on domiciliary births will be published; and if she intends to act upon... - Child Care Services
Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Child Care Act 1991 will be used to protect children against institutional neglect; and if she will make a statement... - Child Abuse
Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 15 December 2004 and further to her responses to this Deputy dated 23 March... - Departmental Schemes
Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 26 January 2005, the progress to date on the issue; if a detailed... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date in the provision of residential services for people with a mental disability in the Athlone area of... - Departmental Funding
Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when capital funding will be given to the Irish Wheelchair Association. [10449/05] - Hospital Services
Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a CAT scanner will be provided for Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, County Louth. [10456/05] - Patient Statistics
Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, and Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, who have been on... - Cancer Incidence
Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she intends to take following the findings of the national cancer registry report into cancer rates in County... - Suicide Prevention
Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress of the national suicide review group in the implementation of the recommendations of the national task force... - Decentralisation Programme
Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the sections of her Department based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the... - Health Services
Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when orthodontic treatment will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a... - Child Care Services
Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the assistance her Department will give to the parent of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [10550/05] - International Trade
Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the campaign to have fair trade products widely available and used; her views on the... - Child Abuse
Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the HSEW response to allegations of abuse between 1993 and 1995 at a school (details supplied); and... - Health Services
Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic treatment. [10589/05] - National Drugs Strategy
Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the review dealing with the treatment of those under 18 who are misusing drugs will be published; and if she will make... - Suicide Prevention
Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of suicide resource officers employed nationally; the regional health centres they are located in; the amount of... - Health Services
Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is unable to have an emergency amputation to treat rampant gangrene... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the... - Health Services
Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the system of reporting made by individual consultants in respect of the mix of public and private patients receiving... - Child Care Services
Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the ratio of staff to child which is appropriate at the different stages of approved child care facilities. [10621/05] - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a special chair will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a decision will be expedited... - Health and Safety Regulations
Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of hospitals that have failed to co-operate with the request from the Health and Safety Authority to provide... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 261: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have applied for repayments in respect of charges which were illegally applied for publicly... - Departmental Schemes
Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the introduction of a no-fault compensation scheme for psychiatric service personnel; and if she will make a... - Children in Care
Question 264: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the decision of the Health Service Executive, north-eastern area, to take into permanent care a person... - Health Services
Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients awaiting audiology services in the Health Service Executive north east area in Counties Cavan and... - Hospital Services
Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position on the provision of a CAT scanner for Monaghan General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Funding
Question 272: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the grants and other financial assistance awarded by her Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is waiting for a hip operation; if they will... - Health Services
Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if transport will be provided by the Health Service Executive western area to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo.... - Hospital Services
Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to provide a flexible system to meet the needs of patients with lifelong conditions who have to... - Hospital Budgets
Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the annual budget allocated to Mullingar General Hospital, Tullamore General Hospital and Portlaoise General Hospital in... - Health Service Staff
Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concerns regarding barriers to entry in the dental profession; her proposals to... - Hospital Services
Question 280: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a bed in the National Rehabilitation... - Hospital Staff
Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to fill a vacancy due to the imminent retirement of a person (details supplied) at the Mercy University Hospital,... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a new wing of St. Vincent's Hospital, completed for the past 18 months, has not been opened for patients; the... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 283: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if he has sought legal advice regarding the possible entitlement of elderly persons to a refund in cases in... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 284: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if assistance will be offered to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare who have an autistic child; and... - Ambulance Service
Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will be allocated to replace the existing ambulance base in Thurles. [10843/05] - Health Services
Question 286: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if he will provide each carer of an elderly or terminally ill relative a minimum of four hours per week of... - Hospital Services
Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called to Merlin Park Hospital. [10866/05] - Departmental Payments
Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of her Department. [10873/05] - Departmental Funding
Question 291: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if additional funding will be provided to a group (details supplied) for the provision of follow-on respite... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason transport is not being provided for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo with severe mental and physical... - Hospital Services
Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 5 October 2004, if funding will be made available to continue the programme of... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the extension of the accident and emergency department of Kerry General Hospital; and if she will... - Health Service Staff
Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way by which she reconciles the employment ceiling in the health services with the Government's commitment to provide... - Health Services
Question 299: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children the reason applicants for the curam home care grant are being advised that they have qualified for the grant... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to publish the capital funding programme for hospitals for 2005; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Correspondence
Question 304: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if she will meet with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10940/05] - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 305: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children the position regarding the extension of Kenmare Community Hospital in County Kerry; and if she will make a... - Hospital Services
Question 306: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an operation did not take place for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 307: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if he will meet the president and a delegation of members from Down's Syndrome Ireland over the next few weeks... - Health Services
Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10980/05] - Travers Report
Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date on which the Travers report was submitted to her; the date on which the printed version of the Travers report... - Cancer Incidence
Question 314: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a copy of the full report of the study group regarding cancer in the Summerhill area of Dublin 1 will be made available... - Health Services
Question 316: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10985/05] - Hospital Accommodation
Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the continuing serious overcrowding in recent weeks in the accident and emergency unit... - Health Services
Question 319: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the future plans for Brú Chaoimhin, Cork Street, Dublin 8. [11130/05] - Nursing Education
Question 320: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason entry to public health nursing has been changed; if she and An Bord Altranais have satisfied themselves that... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an enhanced nursing home subvention will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [11132/05] - Hospital Staff
Question 322: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if any senior staff of the HSE or health boards have been retained as consultants while on career breaks from their posts;... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 323: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the continuing delay in providing the long promised extension to Bandon Community Hospital; and the further... - Medical Cards
Question 324: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether funding should be made available to the parents of a child from west Cork, with a medical card, to... - National Lottery Funding
Question 325: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; the number of such lottery...
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