Written answers

Tuesday, 21 February 2006

  • Child Care Services
    Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will be allocated to the various county child care committees to enable those involved in the provision of...
  • Health Services
    Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the circumstances (details supplied); the avenues which are available for those involved...
  • Food Labelling
    Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the food sold in country markets under the aegis of Country Markets Limited is healthy and wholesome...
  • Health Service Allowances
    Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath has not been granted the domiciliary care allowance by the Health...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 304 of 31 January 2006, if retired nurses should receive payment of deducted pensions during the...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive or former health boards had direct involvement in the management of hospitals that were...
  • Medicinal Products
    Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 201 of 31 January 2006, if she will confirm that the recommendations referred to in this question...
  • Health Services
    Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of capital spending by month and the current spend in each health board area of the Health Service Executive...
  • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
    Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 231 of 31 January 2006, the cap on the extent of professional indemnity cover that is provided to...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for St. Luke's Hospital in Dublin if she follows through on closing the hospital and moving radiotherapy services...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the organisations to which her Department or the Health Service Executive provided funding during 2005; the amount given to...
  • Public Procurement Policy
    Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a corporate procurement plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6342/06]
  • Consultancy Contracts
    Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made within her Department on reviewing existing contract specifications awarded by all Departments; and if...
  • Health Services
    Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the major public health issues involved concerning empty houses (details supplied) in County Limerick. [6378/06]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the qualifying conditions for people with special needs to acquire aids and appliances; if only people with medical cards...
  • Health Services
    Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, where general practitioners have entered into a co-operative agreement to deal with after hours calls from 7 p.m. to 8...
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the direction she has issued to the Health Service Executive officials in the north west region concerning St. Columba's...
  • General Register Office
    Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the avenues which are available to a person to obtain his birth certificate (details supplied). [6453/06]
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of Parkinson's nurse specialists here and their location. [6460/06]
  • Child Care Services
    Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of licensed crèches or child care facilities; the number of inspections carried out during 2005 to ensure that...
  • General Medical Services Scheme
    Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a situation regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be investigated; and if the Health Service...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made to begin the process of core funding community employment positions supporting personal...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the €70 million allocated to her ten-point plan for the accident and emergency crisis in 2005 is a recurring annual...
  • Health Services
    Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of rent in arrears for the new health centre in Ballymun; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6491/06]
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of staff within the Health Service Executive who are on paid leave for more than a year; the breakdown of the...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in the payment of the nursing home refunds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6508/06]
  • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
    Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has received the results of the tests requested by them from the University of...
  • Decentralisation Programme
    Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the location of the health information and quality authority, HIQA, headquarters; if it is to be fully or partially...
  • Health Services
    Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will seek an explanation from the medical bureau as to the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9 of a flat...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if core funding for community employment staff supporting essential services will be made available; and if she will make a...
  • Health Services
    Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the waiting list for a centre (details supplied) in Dublin. [6527/06]
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average waiting time in accident and emergency in Beaumont and the Mater Hospitals. [6529/06]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures that have been taken to improve waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6530/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the inadequate staffing levels for the treatment of cystic fibrosis as highlighted by the Pollock...
  • General Medical Services Scheme
    Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is normal practice for over 70s to be charged a fee of €35 for a medical report which is necessary for a driving...
  • Charitable Funding
    Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding provided to a charity (details supplied) in County Galway in 2005 and the projected allocation for 2006; the...
  • Health Services
    Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to the Health Service Executive reply to Question No. 361 of 28 September 2005, if she will provide an update for...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 334 of 26 January 2005, if the child care report has been finalised; if training issues for...
  • Food Safety
    Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to the Adjournment debate of 14 February 2006, the action which was taken by the official agencies who were...
  • Health Services
    Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the chiropody service which is available to senior citizen medical card holders in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; her...
  • Nursing Home Charges
    Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 89 of 9 February 2006, if she will reply in detail to the question raised with particular...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a new community hospital for Dingle, County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of an extension to Kenmare Community Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of applications to date from County Kerry for the doctor-only medical card; the number of applications which...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the roll-out of BreastCheck to the south and west of the country; if the service will be nationwide...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the estimate of the accident and emergency attendances, in-patient admissions and the number of day cases in 2005; and if...
  • Decentralisation Programme
    Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the office or unit within her Department and associated unit that is due to be decentralised; the number of posts and staff...
  • Health Services
    Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of home care packages made available in each Health Service Executive area and in Counties Roscommon and Leitrim...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the changes made to the nursing home subvention scheme; the breakdown of changes for people who have applied for...
  • Parliamentary Questions
    Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the reason no response has issued from the Health Service Executive in respect of a previous question (details supplied)...
  • Health Services
    Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); the reason for the delay in same; and if she will make a...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when confirmation of commitment to phase II PCCC capital developments at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary,...
  • Parliamentary Questions
    Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a reply to Question No. 167 of 11 October 2005 will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6865/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a dedicated transport system for cancer patients has been rejected by her; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of orthopaedic surgeons who are present at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children; and if she will make a...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who were transferred from St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, Wexford General Hospital and Clonmel...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the public only contract means no private patients in public hospitals or no public only consultants in any private...
  • Health Services
    Question 264: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will be requested to make speech therapy provision to a child (details supplied) in County...
  • Bullying in the Workplace
    Question 265: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the changes which were made to the running of a hospital (details supplied) in County Dublin as a result of a court action...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she ascertained the period of time that a significant number of porter staff at a hospital (details supplied) in County...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether she is creating a management vacuum at the centre of the senior management systems in place in the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 271: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be called for a hip operation in Sligo General; and if she will make...
  • Health Services
    Question 272: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made by the Health Service Executive in addressing the increasingly common practice by...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when greater consistency will be brought to the different levels of enhanced nursing home subvention support throughout the...
  • Health Services
    Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an authorisation form will issue for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [6938/06]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 276: 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...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients in Kerry awaiting hip replacement surgery, cataract operations and vascular surgery; the...
  • Health Services
    Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the waiting time for orthodontic assessment; the waiting time for orthodontic treatment for persons in need of...
  • Infectious Diseases
    Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of reported cases of MRSA infection at Kerry General Hospital in recent years; and if she will make a statement...
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the report of the working group, arising out of the Mercer report and the review of the nursing home subvention, on...
  • Health Services
    Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the ten pilot primary care centres both individually and collectively; how successful they have been; her...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 283: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of trolley beds being counted as hospital beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7012/06]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 284: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if commitments will be made to use additional resources to deal with the well publicised difficulties occurring at Tallaght...
  • Health Centres
    Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to previous parliamentary questions relating to Millbrook Lawns Health Centre, when works will commence; and the...
  • Health Services
    Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the orthodontic appeal hearing will be heard in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) is undertaking work on a regular basis on...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children how far advanced her plans are for the roll-out of a cervical screening programme; if her attention has been drawn to the...
  • Emergency Care Services
    Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the terms of reference of the review of the Dublin fire brigade services which is under way; when she expects to receive...
  • Smoking Ban
    Question 291: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review the legislation covering the smoking ban to consider the introduction of a fine for persons found...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who has waited two years for an appointment with an eye...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there was a uniform pay scale for managers and child care workers in residential homes after 1985; and if so, the salary...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she is taking to alleviate overcrowding at Cork University Hospital; if her attention has been drawn to the...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a weekly cost of disability payment to address the reality that people with disabilities have higher...
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce an automatic right to an assessment of need for older people as was recommended in the recent...

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