Written answers

Tuesday, 14 February 2006

  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when cheques will re-issue to a person, details supplied, in Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Homeless Persons
    Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding made by her Department to provide assistance to homeless people here; the total of all such funding in each of...
  • Foster Care
    Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children who were in foster care for which a payment is being made to their foster families in 2004 and 2005;...
  • Infectious Diseases
    Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the medical treatment in the line of prescribed drugs that is available to patients infected with the HIV virus; the reason...
  • Health Services
    Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the dental treatment for a person, details supplied, in County Wexford is not being covered by the Health...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the services available to expectant mothers in early pregnancy units in Tullamore and Portlaoise Hospitals; the figures...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the national cancer strategy, submitted by the national cancer forum, has made recommendations for the introduction of...
  • Health Services
    Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in respect of the case of a person, details supplied, in County Meath and the role of two social workers. [4976/06]
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there was a crisis at Beaumont Hospital accident and emergency department on 4 February 2006; the reason...
  • Health Services
    Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a complaint, details supplied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4978/06]
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to a person, details supplied, in Dublin 9; and if she will work with them on this matter. [4979/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 832 of 29 September 2004, when a person, details supplied, in County Clare will be called for...
  • Nursing Home Charges
    Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people who have received the [i]ex gratia[/i] payment following the illegal nursing home charges controversy;...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person, details supplied, in Dublin 5 and their neighbours are been forced to seal their back doors backing on...
  • Health Services
    Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in carrying out a cochlear implant for a person, details supplied, in County Cork; and if she will...
  • Departmental Investigations
    Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person, details supplied, has completed their aspect of the independent external inquiry into the death of a person at...
  • Medicinal Products
    Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the early treatment cancer drug herceptin is licensed for use here; if same is available on the GMS; the cost per...
  • Decentralisation Programme
    Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in respect of decentralisation proposals that are relevant to her Department, she has satisfied herself that sufficient...
  • Health Services
    Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging an appointment for a person, details supplied, in County Carlow; if a response will...
  • State Property
    Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the use of a property, details supplied; the outcome of meetings held with local residents; the timeframe for...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress in respect of the development of a property, details supplied, in County Carlow as a European centre of...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the support service in place for a patient of St. Canice's Hospital, Kilkenny, details supplied; and if she will make a...
  • Infectious Diseases
    Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made by her Department to date in 2006 relative to the issues raised regarding MRSA by the group MRSA and...
  • Cancer Services
    Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount which was allocated from her Department to the Health Service Executive south east towards a designated...
  • Health Services
    Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that appropriate home help hours are allocated in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8;...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the treatment required by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny can be provided under the treatment purchase...
  • Health Service Funding
    Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive funding for the Laois Centre for Independent Living was withdrawn within hours of a...
  • Health Services
    Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford have been told that they will not be eligible for...
  • Organ Donation
    Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has or is proposing to deal with matters raised in correspondence supplied; and if she will make a...
  • Health Services
    Question 264: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not been assessed for home help; and when they first requested...
  • Hospital Procedures
    Question 265: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the independent review of the procedure of symphysiotomy in hospitals here in the 1940s and 1950s as...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 266: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not qualify for a medical card or a general practitioner visit...
  • Nursing Home Charges
    Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the nursing home national repayment scheme where persons have applied for reimbursement of costs of...
  • Health Services
    Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a report will be requested from the Health Service Executive regarding the complaint of a person (details supplied) in...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 271: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the treatment purchase scheme will cover some or all of the costs for umbilical cord based stem cell therapy for...
  • Medical Inquiry
    Question 273: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to an Adjournment debate in 2005 seeking a review of the circumstances of the death of a person (details...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the public waiting list to see a rheumatologist at Letterkenny General...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to ensure adequate training for existing staff to enable a roll-out of digital hearing aids to clients...
  • Health Services
    Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on extending the grant that is already available for adults to access digital hearing aids to children, until...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 280: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been waiting for results from a smear test since October...
  • Housing Aid for the Elderly
    Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of an application under the housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if...
  • Health Insurance
    Question 283: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for her decision to press ahead with risk equalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5180/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the target period for arranging a consultant appointment to follow up an eye defect identified in a primary school by...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of x-ray facilities at a hospital (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will...
  • Health Service Expenditure
    Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by the Health Service Executive and its predecessor health boards on leased or rented premises here in...
  • Special Educational Needs
    Question 291: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide special educational and occupational needs for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she...
  • Health Services
    Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take to reduce waiting lists for occupational therapists in County Clare as there are 600 people...
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an ombudsman will be appointed for the old and the disabled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5204/06]
  • Health Service Allowances
    Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the domiciliary care allowance has not been approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals in regard to core funding for community employment staff supporting essential services (details supplied);...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she intends to amalgamate the catering section of Ennis General Hospital with that in St Joseph's Hospital, Ennis;...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to her statement of 7 February 2006, the amount of the additional €9 million allocated to the Health Service...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 298: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regional health regions where there is a consultant with responsibility for palliative care; when each of those...
  • Health Services
    Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost funding supplied by her Department for hospice care support in each health region in each of the past five years;...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timescale for the closure of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, by the Health Service hospital north east and for...
  • Health Services
    Question 308: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the medical and hospital services that are provided to refugee and asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the capital proposals she has received from the Health Service Executive for the redevelopment of St. Vincent's Hospital,...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 310: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of delayed discharges in hospitals in the north east region; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the ratio of doctors to beds available for patients in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Patient Statistics
    Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of birth asphyxia cases in the Health Service Executive north east region; and if she will make a statement...
  • Health Services
    Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding provided by the Health Service Executive for radiotherapy services in the north east; and if she will make a...
  • Community Care
    Question 314: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of public home stay beds which have been opened in the County Meath area since October 2004; and if she will...
  • Health Services
    Question 315: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the continuing waiting time for extra access to speech and language therapy in Meath will be addressed; and if she will...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 316: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will be granted a medical card; and if the maximum support will be given. [5456/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 317: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo cannot get an appointment for evaluation and treatment by the...
  • Pharmacy Regulations
    Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the income earned from rental of a commercial unit owned by a general practitioner or a group of general practitioners...
  • Water Fluoridation
    Question 319: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that the US scientist invited to present the case against fluoridation has strongly criticised her...
  • Benchmarking Awards
    Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when benchmarking will be awarded to home helps operating in County Kildare. [5481/06]
  • Organ Donation
    Question 322: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself that sufficient resources are being invested by her Department in the promotion of awareness...
  • Health Services
    Question 323: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to make funding available for the provision of a psychiatric day care centre for Kenmare County Kerry which...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 324: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for maximum subvention will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if...
  • Health Services
    Question 325: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on an application for the enhanced nursing home subvention by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 332: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the extenuating circumstances relative to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be examined...
  • Health Services
    Question 333: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if home help will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if a response will be...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 334: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the arrangements which are in place within the Health Service Executive to allow freedom of movement for employees who are...
  • Health Services
    Question 335: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are reliefs or incentives available to persons wishing to build and open a health centre in their local area; and...

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