Written answers

Tuesday, 18 October 2005

  • Health Services
    Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary on rehabilitative health and medical...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of adults with an intellectual disability on residential, day care and respite waiting lists in the Health...
  • Health Strategy
    Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the findings of the recent international Shape of the Nations survey into the...
  • Health Services
    Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a full statement on the progress being made on the setting up of a regional acute unit for the National...
  • Ministerial Responsibilities
    Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her areas of responsibility; for example, parliamentary questions about elder abuse, orthodontic...
  • Health Service Allowances
    Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 was refused the domiciliary allowance. [28618/05]
  • Health Services
    Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a new health care centre at Glanmire, County Cork; and when funds will be made...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the provisions that have been made for post-operative consultation for patients who have availed of the national treatment...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent decision of the Health Service Executive to discontinue the payment of...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person with a general practitioner-only medical card will be covered for attending nurses in their local general...
  • Health Services
    Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason glasses specifically designed for children with hearing aids are not provided under the public health system;...
  • Housing Aid for the Elderly
    Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the application for special housing aid for the elderly for persons (details supplied) in County...
  • Health Service Allowances
    Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to an application for the domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Health Services
    Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene with Beaumont Hospital on a person's behalf (details supplied) and have them called for their...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when ancillary support will be provided to the third vascular surgeon who has been appointed at the Mid-West Regional...
  • Playground Facilities
    Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of playgrounds which have now been opened following the publication of the "ready steady play" policy and using...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is Government policy for the value of a person's residence to be taken into account when decisions are being taken...
  • Adoption Services
    Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made on negotiations towards a bilateral agreement between Irish and Russian authorities on...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have been refused a medical card, for each of the past five years, on a county basis; if she will...
  • Cancer Incidence
    Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of concerns raised regarding the long-term damage to young people's health of using sunbeds when under the age...
  • Health services
    Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the potential to change the system through which orthodontic services are delivered will be investigated; and the need...
  • Nursing Home Charges
    Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the practice of health authorities holding the pension books of elderly patients to pay for their long-term care has...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a full-time cardiologist will be appointed at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry as Kerry has the highest rate...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when tenders will be invited for the proposed new hospital in Dingle, County Kerry following the Government's announcement...
  • Voluntary Groups
    Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will meet the owners of Pilgrim House; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28974/05]
  • Housing Aid for the Elderly
    Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application under the housing aid for the elderly scheme will be expedited and if funds will be provided in order...
  • National Drugs Strategy
    Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a copy of the midlands regional task force Darkness on the Edge of Town into heroin misuse in Athlone...
  • Tobacco Control
    Question 265: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28987/05]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 266: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical officer's report has been completed in relation to an application under the disabled persons grant scheme for...
  • Health Services
    Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the amalgamation of health boards into the Health Service Executive will result in equal access to services such as...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, following interviews for the position in July 2005, the Health Service Executive has appointed a third consultant...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 17 February 2004, the number of patients being catered for at the Sacred Heart...
  • Health Services
    Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 7 October 2004, the date for the completion of the business plan for the...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps the Health Service Executive is taking to recruit a senior dental surgeon for special needs to provide services...
  • Hospital Building Programme
    Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in opening the nine bed medical assessment unit in the accident and emergency department of the...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 22 March 2005, the Health Service Executive has appointed an audiologist...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 280: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps the Health Service Executive is taking to recruit a senior area medical officer to provide community services for...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards issued in counties Roscommon and Leitrim for the most recent year for which figures are...
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 286: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected delivery date for the 2005 replacement ambulances for Roscommon and Ballinasloe ambulance stations; and if she...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date for the opening of the stroke unit at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe; her plans to develop other stroke units...
  • Health Services
    Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 2 March 2005, the value and number of uncashed cheques issued by the Southern...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the completion date for the upgrading of facilities at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe to include upgrade of all ward...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if accident and emergency and acute services will be continued or discontinued at Ennis General Hospital; and if she will...
  • Health Service Reform
    Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she plans to implement the Hanly report; if she plans to withdraw it; the reason for the decision she will take; and if...
  • Pre-School Services
    Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to provide additional pre-school learning support hours over and above the standard six hours currently...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a detailed list of the personnel within the Health Service Executive western area for the purposes of...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the supports that are available for a parent (details supplied) whose child has been diagnosed with Down's syndrome. [29051/05]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 298: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not been admitted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin for medical...
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the ambulance transport service has been curtailed in the western area of the Health Service Executive whereby...
  • Computerisation Programme
    Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the contract with iSoft for HIS was signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29144/05]
  • Departmental Meetings
    Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the health services capital programme, including PPARS was discussed at her Department's MAC meetings that were attended...
  • Hospitals Ethos
    Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the imposition of religious ethos by hospital authorities on taxpayers who may be of a different religion or...
  • Computerisation Programme
    Question 307: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the iSoft information technology system is currently in use in the health services; the cost of this system to the...
  • Nursing Home Charges
    Question 308: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of her advice to Dáil Éireann on 11 October 2005, that 15,000 applications for repayment of charges for care...
  • Departmental Reviews
    Question 310: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received the report of the working group on medical training and education; if she will publish the report; and...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an operation to remove a cataract will be arranged as soon as possible for a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regional health areas where there is a consultant with responsibility for palliative care; when each of those...
  • Health Services
    Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the core funding supplied by her for hospice care support in each health region in each of the past five years; and the...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to recruit an adequate number of doctors and consultants to operate the new 21 bed unit at Wexford...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 324: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if all the necessary equipment has been procured for phase 2 of St. John's Hospital, Enniscorthy; and if she will make a...
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 326: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the ambulance service for Wexford town will change from on call to on duty; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Organ Retention
    Question 329: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the state of the inquiry conducted by Dr. Deirdre Madden, BL, into post mortem practice and procedure, especially in...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 330: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the building of the new hospital in Dingle, County Kerry will commence; if there is any date set; and if she will make...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 331: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be transferred to Beaumont Hospital. [29285/05]
  • Health Services
    Question 332: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason no dental service is available at the Athy health centre, Athy, County Kildare; if there is a waiting list for...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 333: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in her Department's press office in respect of...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 339: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proportion of her Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 342: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in each general service and department grade in her Department who have been exempt for a period in...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 343: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount paid to a consultancy company, details supplied, in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 345: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if Naas General Hospital will continue to play a central role in the delivery of surgical and medical inpatient and...
  • Health Services
    Question 346: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the delivery of an improved, efficient and effective health service; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 349: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of extra beds available for acute patients as the winter approaches; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    Question 350: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the degree to which accident and emergency staff have been increased or will be increased in order to meet requirements;...
  • Health Research
    Question 351: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will allocate funding for increased studies into the cause or causes of autism with reference to the high incidents...
  • Infectious Diseases
    Question 352: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken to combat the threat of MRSA at hospitals or health centres; if instructions have been given...
  • Health Services
    Question 353: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will enhance and upgrade the quality and quantity of health services throughout County Kildare; and if she will make...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 354: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children where services in respect of respiratory and tuberculosis patients, previously provided for at Peamount Hospital, are now...
  • Health Services
    Question 357: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will assist the family of a person, details supplied, in Dublin 5 whose child is in need of care and attention; and...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 358: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person, details supplied, in County Mayo will be called for a cataract removal operation. [29547/05]
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 359: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the design process has been completed for the proposed BreastCheck unit in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...

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