Written answers

Tuesday, 25 April 2006

  • Child Care Services
    Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the legislation which exists in relation to the regulation of child minders; the maximum number of children that a...
  • Health Levy
    Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount forgone in revenue for the 2% health levy due to the introduction of the over-70s medical card; and if she will...
  • Domestic Violence
    Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation for the provision of facilities for men suffering from domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Guardianship Rights
    Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the lack of directives to its social workers in the application of legal guardianship...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding will be sanctioned for an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork to provide a crèche, pre-school and...
  • Health Services
    Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the financial assistance available to a person (details supplied) with multiple sclerosis to continue payments on a car...
  • Family Support Services
    Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) is receiving all of her entitlements; and if she will work with the family on this matter....
  • Health Services
    Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the lengthy waiting time for an assessment in a clinic (details supplied) which could...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 12 October 2004, her intentions in respect of the future use of the lands on...
  • Health Services
    Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is on a waiting list for...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a time limit for the completion of vetting procedures when appointing new employees to positions in the health...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on extending the mobility allowance to those above the age of 66 years. [14243/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the action she will take on same; and if she...
  • Home Help Service
    Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to SIPTU's Be Fair to Those Who Care campaign; if she intends to address the issues raised...
  • Health Services
    Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it is virtually impossible to get through to the Health Service Executive...
  • Homeless Persons
    Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on youth cafes as a means to deliver quality youth work; the financial resources allocated in 2005 and 2006 for...
  • Health Services
    Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an appointment will be made for a cataract operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the mechanisms which are in place to ensure communication between her Department and the Central Statistics Office in order...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the benefits which a patient derives from VHI in view of the fact that a patient (details supplied) in County Donegal has...
  • Organ Donation
    Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the efforts she is making to promote organ donor cards; if the national census under way could be utilised in this regard;...
  • Health Services
    Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of hours a week home help a person (details supplied) in Dublin would be able to arrange if they agreed to have...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to make strips for the coaguchek machines available here through the general medical services scheme (details...
  • Health Services
    Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has developed a policy for the recycling of medical aids such as walkers, crutches and so on in view of the fact...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck will become available to women in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14463/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a full-time senior cardiologist will be appointed at Kerry General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Official Engagements
    Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the details of her travels abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the people who travelled with her in the official...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme
    Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if medication will be free to children suffering from ADHD who qualify for domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make...
  • Health Services
    Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of applications her Department has had for the general practitioner visit card since the introduction of the...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the cervical screening service is not available free of charge to women beyond 60 years of age and prior to...
  • Health Services
    Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the criteria which are used to determine whether the availability of a health service in the State is a policy matter and,...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to provide affordable residential care for older persons, particularly taking into account the...
  • Health Services
    Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the facilities available for angiogram patients in St. James's day care; and if she will report...
  • Cancer Control Strategy
    Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected date for the publication of the strategy for cancer control in Ireland 2006; and if she will make a statement...
  • Health Services
    Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the person who authorised the change in recorded next-of-kin of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason...
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has appointed the proposed task force on osteoporosis; if so, the members of same; if not, when the task force will...
  • Health Services
    Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange for an outpatient clinic appointment to be scheduled for a person (details supplied) in County Cork;...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the length of the waiting lists for surgical procedures in each of the six major hospitals in Dublin; the number of people...
  • Food Labelling
    Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of checks across the food industry for potential shortcomings in traceability and labelling standards the Food...
  • Health Services
    Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level of funds that the Health Service Executive allocated to services in the greater Dublin area in 2005; the...
  • Housing Aid for the Elderly
    Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of an application under the housing aid for the elderly scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Clare;...
  • Pharmacy Regulations
    Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the location of pharmacies in a significant number of health centres which are located in purpose built...
  • Health Services
    Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Government is funding private companies to provide a home help service when it will not give this funding to...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of the health budget which has been allocated to the running of hospitals for each year since 1995 to date in...
  • Health Services
    Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will become available to the mid-western region for care packages to provide home care grants for elderly...
  • Psychiatric Services
    Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress on the establishment of diagnostic attention deficit hyperactivity disorder centres located in different...
  • Medicinal Products
    Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the drug Ritalin is available on prescription to adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. [14712/06]
  • Medical Cards
    Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the Health Service Executive ceases the practice of requiring annual renewal of medical cards for...
  • Medicinal Products
    Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a vitamin B12 injection was withdrawn from the supply to persons suffering from Crohn's disease and vitamin B12...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the costs incurred to date in the case taken against her Department and the Health Service Executive by the parents of a...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding provided for organisations (details supplied) in 2004 and 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding home help services as the age profile of staff is getting older; and her views on what will happen...
  • Housing Aid for the Elderly
    Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an application for housing aid for the elderly will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and...
  • Medicinal Products
    Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a stockpile of an anti-viral medicine (details supplied) available here. [14833/06]
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to introduce a universal cervical cancer screening programme in the Health Service Executive southern area;...
  • Health Services
    Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) of the Health Service Executive received a letter dated 16 March 2006 from a person...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which she intends to allocate the €22.5 million in funding announced for intellectual, physical-sensory...
  • Health Services
    Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when orthodontic treatment will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [14896/06]
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will support an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 3 with concerns regarding nursing home availability for...
  • Health Services
    Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a procedure. [14902/06]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be transferred from an acute bed in the Galway Regional Hospital to a...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the facilities for which funding have been sought for a centre (details supplied) in 2006 to care for persons with an...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number cases to date of caesarean sections performed in maternity hospitals here which are elective; the number which...
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to upgrade the ambulance service in the west of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to upgrade services and facilities available in the County Hospital Roscommon; and if she will make...
  • Health Services
    Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a service (details supplied) was discontinued in County Mayo; when the service was last provided and the plans...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action which was taken by her following the receipt of the brief for the extension to Bandon Community Hospital in...
  • Sale of Tobacco Products
    Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of compliance tests carried out on retail premises by the Office of Tobacco Control, the number of offences...
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the support services and programmes that are available to a person (details supplied); the amount of funding given in the...
  • Health Services
    Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when home help will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is in need of such help;...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the relevant section of her Department has...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the criteria which exists for medical card qualification in the case of people who are diagnosed with breast cancer and who...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging a knee operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will...
  • Health Services
    Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with home help; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funds her Department will provide to top up a grant under the disabled persons grant scheme for works to accommodate...
  • Health Services
    Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will have an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath expedited; and if she will make a...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that it is intended to replace the community welfare officer with the Department of Social and Family...
  • Violence Against Women
    Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take to ensure that statutory and voluntary services are trained and resourced to respond to the...
  • Cancer Incidence
    Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the incidence of cancer diagnosed among residents of Dublin city, by population, in each district electoral division; and...
  • Health Services
    Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the length of time people from County Mayo must currently wait to see the pain specialist in Galway. [15231/06]
  • Nursing Home Care
    Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the criteria applied for placement decisions for long-term nursing home care at St. Ita's and St. Camillus Hospital,...
  • Health Services
    Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if home help will be provided in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of their age and medical...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a response will be expedited....
  • Hospital Services
    Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in providing a bed at St. Luke's Hospital, Dublin for a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the level of subvention being awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny has been...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the exact terms of reference of the independent consultative committee to review acute hospitals in the mid-west region; if...
  • Hospital Charges
    Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the services covered by the €120 per week charged for Class 1 patients in receipt of nursing care in the Health Service...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow waiting to be admitted to Tallaght Hospital under the...
  • Housing Aid for the Elderly
    Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when work under the special housing aid for the elderly scheme will be carried out for a person (details supplied) in...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 261: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of buses across the country transporting adults with intellectual and learning disabilities to sheltered...
  • Health Capital Programme
    Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the proposal to upgrade the helicopter landing pad at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital,...
  • Health Services
    Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the possibility of making defibrillators available to every fire station; and if she will make a...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 264: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical card refusals that have been appealed nationally in each year since 2000; the number of appeals that...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 265: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the acute hospital bed designation; the number of public, private and semi-private, non-designated and total number of beds...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 266: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 82 of 23 March 2006, the status of the tendering process; the discussions held with the Department...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 267: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the directive she has given to the Health Service Executive to deal with physical assaults on the nursing profession; the...
  • Death Certificates
    Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to modify death certificates to include place of internment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase the rates of pay for home subvention to care for the elderly in view of the fact that they are not...
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of older people on a waiting list for a community care service to be provided; the number of older people on a...
  • Health Service Funding
    Question 271: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level of funding available to the health services in 2005 and 2006 allocations; the process the Health Service...
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    Question 272: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her Department's policy on the operation of the accident and emergency departments of Dublin hospitals, from a policy...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 273: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made to increase bed capacity in hospitals and long-stay services here; the identified shortages...
  • Health Services
    Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she has under-resourced the public home help service while at the same time subsidised private companies...
  • Housing Aid for the Elderly
    Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a housing aid for the elderly application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the arrangements which have been made by her in order that public patients can avail of radiotherapy treatment at the...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will approve the Health Service Executive capital plan for 2006 and specifically phase 3C of Naas Hospital. [15554/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the Adjournment debate in Dáil Éireann on 27 April 2005 on home help cutbacks in County Kildare; her further...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the bed shortage for long stay care in the north Dublin, north city area; the level of funding which has been given to the...
  • Health Services
    Question 280: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive an appointment for assessment for speech and language...
  • Legal Services
    Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has sought legal advice from outside legal advisers; and the fees paid to each such legal adviser in 2004...

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