Written answers
Tuesday, 21 June 2005
Department of Health and Children
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a formal announcement will be made in respect of the allocation of capital funding to Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel,... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will work closely on the issue of the subvention for a person (details supplied) and if she will give them the... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck will be extended to Limerick and the mid-west region; if the Health Service Executive will be instructed... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an appointment has not been arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the... - Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in providing a bath chair to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a decision on... - Grant Payments
Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in paying €5,000 to a centre (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if payment of the grant... - Hospital Services
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging an EMG at Waterford Regional Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date for the commencement of the design process for an in-patient child and adolescent psychiatric unit in Limerick, in... - Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the latest statistics available on funding provided by this Government towards cancer treatment and care here; the regional... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons on waiting lists for special housing aid for the elderly in the mid-west region of the Health Service... - Health Services
Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the South Eastern Health Board undertook in writing to pay fees for a... - Hospital Staff
Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when Government approval will be forthcoming to fulfil the written commitment to introduce a no fault compensation scheme... - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the high costs of inhalers for asthmatics; if inhalers will be made available on the... - Care of the Elderly
Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review the provision of nursing home care, both public and private, for the elderly; if a uniform scheme will... - Medical Cards
Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if he will report on the income guidelines for couples in cases in which one person over 70 years of age has a medical card... - Health Services
Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding will be made available for shared services in County Clare (details supplied). [20729/05] - Suicide Incidence
Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the death rate by suicide per 100,000 population by health board/regional authority and county area from 2000 to 2003... - Departmental Properties
Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE is considering disposing of land in its ownership in Ardee, County Louth, which was recently offered for... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number and annual costs of patients from the former North Eastern Health Board area who have been subvented in Northern... - Health Service Staff
Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the possibility of alternative deployment for the staff of a special school (details supplied)... - Water Fluoridation
Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the delay in implementing an official recommendation made three years ago by the Health Research Board to... - General Register Office
Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timetable for the implementation of the Civil Registration Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Care of the Elderly
Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent study by the National Council on Aging and Older People which states that... - Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the statement made at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway on 7 March 2005 that the Government is not... - Health Service Staff
Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the second moiety of payment will be made to retired psychiatric nurses in the western Health Service Executive area;... - Medical Cards
Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is automatic entitlement to a medical card for a person suffering from epilepsy and brittle bone disease; and if... - Health Service Reform
Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 7 October 2004, the progress to date on the merger of the catchment areas;... - Strategic Task Force on Alcohol
Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is represented on the strategic task force on alcohol and the inter-departmental group on alcohol. [18087/05] - Medical Statistics
Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons under the age of 16 diagnosed with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis in 2004; and if she will... - Food Safety
Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to ban the use of monosodium glutamate in foods; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20955/05] - Health Service Reform
Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the HeBE; if she will report on the need for such a body since the abolition of the health boards; the cost... - Hospital Staff
Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of agency nurses employed by the HSE; the annual cost of these employees; and the way in which these costs... - Health Services
Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason so many children are on long waiting lists for orthodontic treatment; and the further reason for the delays.... - Care of the Elderly
Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds provided at the Maynooth Community Hospital for the elderly; the number currently occupied; the reason... - Hospital Services
Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when a respite or other bed is likely to be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her... - Ambulance Service
Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the person who is responsible for providing essential transport for patients attending hospital appointments who do not... - Health Education
Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will initiate a high profile public education and awareness campaign to promote general awareness of medical alert... - Hospital Staff
Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding for a nursing post in neurology will be released; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21029/05] - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of tenders to participate in the design teams for the new breast screening centres in Cork and Galway, received... - Health Services
Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of blood pressure monitors currently available for outpatient use at the Mater Public Hospital; the current... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who are on waiting lists to see consultants at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan; the length of time each... - Medical Cards
Question 267: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford was refused dental treatment under his medical card; the option... - Hospital Staff
Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of the specialist hospital services including consultant services, nurse specialists,... - International Legal Proceedings
Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the Government's undertaking, following the publication of the Lindsay report, to consider the... - Health Services
Question 273: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the pilot initiative in home care packages has been deemed a success; the budget which has been set out by her... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an ENT outpatient appointment in Mayo General Hospital.... - HAI Infections
Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she is not willing to meet victims and relatives of persons who have suffered from the MRSA superbug that is now... - Health Services
Question 283: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a service proposal from the mid-west region of Rehab Care for the provision of shared care services in... - Care of the Elderly
Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of long stay beds available for the elderly, either in public or private nursing homes; and if she will make a... - Health Service Staff
Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she intends to fill all the vacant positions in the health services in County Kildare; and if she will make a... - Hospital Staff
Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she intends to provide a full complement of required staff at the various levels at Naas Hospital,... - Health Service Staff
Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of vacant health personnel posts in the various disciplines in County Kildare; her plans to fill these posts in... - Health Services
Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to extend or expand the scale of services available through the various health centres in County Kildare; and if... - Health Service Staff
Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which European best practice standards in terms of medical staff per 1,000 of population are being achieved... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 300: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when it is expected to start the next phase of the Naas Hospital development plan; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Staff
Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of extra staff provided at accident and emergency departments in the various public hospitals in the country;... - Health Services
Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of school medical examinations carried out at primary and secondary level in each of the past five years; and if... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of extra hospital beds provided by way of step-down bed facilities during recent discussions on the issue; the... - Health Services
Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the model it is intended to apply in respect of the running of the health services with particular reference to community... - Health Service Staff
Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of agency nurses currently employed throughout the health services; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which any investigation has taken place into circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details... - Prescription Drugs
Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of prescriptions for benzodiazepines which have been written in the State in the past 12 months; the number of...
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