Written answers
Tuesday, 19 April 2005
Department of Health and Children
- Vaccine Trials
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to her reply to the Adjournment matter raised by this Deputy on 14 April 2005 on the subject of vaccine trials, the... - Hospital Services
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on efforts to provide an out of hours general practitioner service on the campus at Tallaght Hospital;... - Health Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if urgent assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 in order to obtain a place at St.... - Ambulance Service
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE will treat St. John's ambulance drivers with the same care, courtesy and provisions as are provided to employees... - Hospital Services
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she has taken to address the overcrowding of the accident and emergency department at Mayo General Hospital.... - Health Services
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive western region contracted any beds from private nursing homes in County Mayo. [11651/05] - Hospital Accommodation
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends providing additional beds at Mayo General Hospital. [11652/05] - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the roll out of BreastCheck in the west. [11653/05] - Practitioners of Complementary Medicine
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to introduce legislation to regulate alternative medicine practitioners. [11654/05] - Foreign Adoptions
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a report from local health authorities on the average delay for a parent wishing to undertake an... - National Diabetes Working Group
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to ensure that diabetes specialist doctors, diabetes nurses, diabetes chiropodists and diabetes... - Ambulance Service
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of ambulances available in the Roscommon and east Galway areas of the Health Service Executive; the years of... - Press Releases
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has instructed her Department's press office to delay or withhold press releases from opposition spokespersons and... - Organ Retention
Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to publish the Dunne report into organ retention; the reasons for the lengthy delay; and if she will make... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if patients from this State who were accommodated in Northern Ireland nursing homes due to unavailability of beds in... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if some 10,000 adult employees with varying degrees of intellectual disability are being paid just 65 cent per hour or... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposed closure of the nursing home at Beaumont Hospital; the reason this unit is not allowed... - Medical Cards
Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will qualify for a medical card. [11712/05] - Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be called for an outpatient appointment for a hip replacement;... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a definite commitment will be given to extend the breast screening programme, BreastCheck, to County Kerry before the... - Mental Health Services
Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the tracking study which has been carried out by his Department regarding persons diagnosed with ADD, ADHD or ODD as... - Hospital Services
Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a diabetes clinic at St. Vincent's Hospital, Athy, County Kildare; and if she will... - Health Services
Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when orthodontic treatment has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she... - Hospital Services
Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that the Cork University Hospital cancer unit has no designated inpatient cancer treatment facility;... - Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason persons did not receive the results of tests carried out having failed to obtain answers from the health offices... - Medical Cards
Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a decision will be expedited for an application for a medical card in the name of a person (details supplied) in County... - Hospital Services
Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on progressing the development and construction of the urgently needed new maternity unit at... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the acceptance of an [i]ex gratia[/i] payment of €2,000 for the repayment of illegal nursing home charges to medical... - Health Services
Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided for enhanced community nursing for the elderly in County Louth. [11871/05] - Nurses' Remuneration
Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the unacceptable delay in the payment of arrears of an acting-up allowance to certain nurses within... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when approval will be granted for the construction of the oncology-haematology section at Waterford Regional Hospital which... - Drug Treatment Services
Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding being provided for residential drug treatment in 2005; her views on whether such funding is adequate... - Hospital Staff
Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider introducing a Dublin weighting allowance of 10% for doctors and nurses; the likely costthereof; her... - Health Services
Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider providing State funding for meals on wheels groups; the likely annual cost of such an initiative; and... - Medical Cards
Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider the extension of medical card eligibility to all those over 65; the likely annual cost of such an... - Hospital Services
Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation at Aras Mhuire, Tuam, County Galway, concerning the provision of two cancer care beds which were approved for... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if additional funding will be allocated in order that extra personal assistants will be provided to persons with... - Health Service Reform
Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to the motion passed by the General Council of County Councils calling on her to address the democratic deficit in... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the breakdown in the rate of subvention being awarded to nursing homes in the various regions of the HSE. [12030/05] - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a cataract operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the reason this operation was... - Health Services
Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of women's refuges in the State; the extent of the State's subvention thereto; the additional subvention... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was informed that a bed would be available on 11 April 2005 in... - Hospital Services
Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the likely cost of doubling the number of cancer treatment service centres in the State. [12140/05] - Mental Health Services
Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the percentage of the total health budget allocated for mental health services in 1997; the percentage allocated in 2005;... - Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider the introduction of a home subvention scheme to empower older persons to buy in services they feel... - Vaccination Programme
Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of funding vaccination campaigns in 2005. [12143/05] - Health Services
Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the provision of 850 step down beds; the likely cost to the Exchequer thereof; and if she will make... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider extending the nursing home subvention scheme to cover the full cost of care and to ensure that... - Health Services
Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding available for acute care and rehabilitation for older persons. [12148/05] - Suicide Incidence
Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of suicide deaths by gender and by age group (details supplied). [12181/05] - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she proposes to put in place to alleviate the overcrowding in accident and emergency wards in the Mater... - Medical Cards
Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if respite care will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in receipt of the mobility allowance; her plans to increase the number of recipients in the near... - Nutrition and Health Foundation
Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) requesting it to endorse the nutrition and... - Health Services
Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the disturbing allegation that her Department reversed a successful policy in favour of undermining...
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