Written answers
Thursday, 6 July 2006
Department of Health and Children
- General Register Office
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the implementation of the Civil Registration Act 2004, with particular reference to the creation of... - Disabled Drivers
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of primary medical certificates applications received in each of the past five years for the disabled driver... - Adoption Services
Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are plans to make changes to the adoption laws or procedures for both Irish adoptions and foreign adoptions; and if... - Child Care Services
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of places being provided under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme in June 2006 compared to the number in... - Health Services
Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to establish a National Diabetes Register. [27275/06] - Mental Health Services
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she accepts that persons with mental health problems and their families have the right to participate in all of the... - Youth Services
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will support the Tramore Youth and Family Project, Tramore, County Waterford in their efforts to employ another... - Health Services
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a general practitioner (details supplied) in County Mayo will be replaced; and the position in this recruitment... - Mental Health Services
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 28 February 2006, in relation to the death by suicide of a person (details... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick was refused application for work to be completed to their house... - Health Services
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of home helps employed in County Sligo and north Leitrim for the years 2003 to 2006; the directive she has issued... - Mental Health Services
Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an action plan has been put in place to progress the issues identified in the Report of the Working Group on the Role of... - Health Services
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the details of continuing care guidelines in respect of consideration by the department of medicine for the elderly in their... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a schedule of works promised to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo under the special housing aid for the... - Child Care Services
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding adjournment debate of 6 April 2006 in relation to community child care groups funding in West... - Medical Cards
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [27300/06] - Suicide Incidence
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of suicides by gender per 100,000 in the Health Service Executive regional areas and county for each of the years... - Mental Health Services
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the application in full of the Mental Health Act 2001; and if she will make a statement on a delay in... - Tuberculosis Incidence
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide information on the incidence of tuberculosis in each of the past 10 years; the number of isolation beds... - Child Care Services
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an application for grant aid for Montessori preschool by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a service (details supplied) was discontinued in County Mayo; when this service was last provided; the plans of... - Health Services
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will carry out an audit into the way that children are assessed and deemed eligible or otherwise by the Health... - Non-Governmental Agencies
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the non-governmental agencies or organisations her Department has provided funding to in 2004, 2005, and 2006; the amount of... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the Health Service Executive do everything possible to bring forward the date for the invitation of... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in providing the information sought under Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 8 November 2005. [27396/06] - Health Services
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in issuing a response to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 11 May 2006. [27397/06] - Care of the Elderly
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the primary, community and continuing care directorate of the Health Service Executive have concluded their assessment of... - Health Services
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children awaiting orthodontic treatment in County Kildare as of 30 June 2006. [27430/06] - Ambulance Service
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there has been progress in identifying a site for the new ambulance base in Maynooth, County Kildare, funding for which... - Health Services
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the estimated number of children who suffered irreversible damage to their teeth, gums and faces following the cessation of... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will encourage BreastCheck to outsource this essential service in order to save women's lives in view of the fact... - Health Services.
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department will release €400,000 necessary funds to advance a nursing home in Ballinrobe, County Mayo to the design... - Hospital Services
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department will evaluate the need for a wet hostel in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a rheumatology department will be established at Mayo General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Cancer Incidence
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the type of cancers that people have in each of the district electoral divisions in the city of Dublin; the incidence of... - Official Engagements
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 28 June 2006, if she has fixed a date to visit Wexford; if not, if she will be... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action which is proposed to reinstate the home heating works undertaken under the aegis of the Health Service Executive... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the process in the selection of a site for the new acute hospital in the north east; the timetable proposed; if submissions... - Hospital Services
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals for improving acute hospital services in the North Tipperary area; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals for improving community health services in the North Tipperary area; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Service Staff
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of general medical practitioners there are per head of population for Counties Carlow, Wicklow, Kildare and... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds and staff in St. Vincent's, St. Colmcille's Loughlinstown, Naas, Tallaght and Letterkenny Hospitals; and... - Health Services
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if essential regular permanent services will be provided by the Health Service Executive for a person (details supplied) in... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 in obtaining an appointment with a consultant; the... - Clinical Drugs Trials
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of participants who take part in clinical or drug trials each year here; the percentage of this number who are... - Community Care
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive pays subcontractors in Portarlington to care for disabled and handicapped people; her views... - Medical Cards
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delays in issuing or responding to medical card applications; the further reason the required... - Health Services
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to reports that the Health Service Executive office for the north west Dublin region is... - Departmental Correspondence
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the issues raised in recent correspondence from a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when her Department will make the refunds to patients who had unfair deductions from their pensions and social welfare... - Hospital Services
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of wards which are closed at present in Health Service Executive run hospitals and other facilities in South... - Health Services
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will provide immediate improvement of essential early intervention services for a person... - Hospital Staff
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to ensure the renegotiation of the consultants' common contract to deliver equity of access for... - Departmental Properties
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number and location of public hospital sites where it is proposed to construct private hospital facilities; and if she... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost, the capacity, the specialties and the time scale of the proposed new Children's Hospital at the Mater site; the... - Community Care
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the urgent care centres planned for three locations in Dublin will open at each centre; the staff to be appointed to... - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the new MRI scanner promised for Beaumont Hospital will be available to the public; the expected annual usage of the... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans she envisages for the development of facilities at St. Joseph's Hospital in Raheny and if they were included in... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proportion of patients treated within one hour, within four hours and so on, in different categories of urgency at each... - Health Services
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if additional speech therapy services will be provided for victims of stroke in Kerry; and if she will make a statement on... - Community Care
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of the community nursing unit on the grounds of Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County... - Medical Cards
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which a couple with two children earning approximately €63,400 a year can as suggested in her statement of 26... - Departmental Investigations
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made by the Working Group on Cystic Fibrosis since its inception; when its recommendations will... - Departmental Correspondence
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 1 June 2006. [27740/06] - General Practitioner Co-operatives
Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the retirement policy for general practitioners; if the retirement date can be extended for general practitioners in areas... - Departmental Correspondence
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that fewer than fifty percent of parliamentary questions from this office... - Health Services
Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the waiting time for orthodontic assessment and the waiting time for orthodontic treatment for persons in need... - Consultancy Contracts
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of the services for a full-time senior consultant cardiologist at Kerry General... - Medical Cards
Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason medical card patients travelling to Dublin for angiograms are being obliged to stay in bed and breakfast... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the long promised extension to Bandon Community Hospital, west Cork and if a design team has... - Medical Cards
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will issue giving retrospective cover in respect of hospital treatment to a person (details supplied) in... - Health Services
Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if speech and language services will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a... - Departmental Correspondence
Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to the employment for physiotherapists; if... - Medical Research
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an inspector from her Department last made a visit to a register user establishment licensed for animal experiment; the... - Hospital Services
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she expects radiotherapy services to be made available at Waterford Regional Hospital; if the Government will provide... - Hospital Hygiene
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the arrangements being made at Waterford Regional Hospital to prevent people from being infected by MRSA; and if she will... - Garda Investigations
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has been informed of the progress to date on a Garda investigation regarding missing files from Our Lady of Lourdes... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount paid to a company (details supplied) to date; the amount paid for each of the past three years; and if she will... - Ministerial Appointments
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of positions in State bodies under the aegis of her Department which are affected by the increase in... - Departmental Bodies
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of taskforces which have been created by her Department and their function, size, membership, reporting... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of private nursing home subventions granted in each year since 2002; and the number of beds in each year since... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if defibrillators are available in every fire station in County Waterford; if not, if she intends to make this possible;... - Health Services
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a universal newborn hearing screening programme available in the paediatric and maternity department at... - Medical Cards
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioner only medical cards that have been granted to people in Waterford City and County; and if... - Care of the Elderly
Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of home help hours allocated in County Waterford for each year since 2000; the number of persons benefiting in... - Health Services
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of first responder schemes in the City and County of Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the levels of funding that are being allocated to Health Service Executive South for the development of Waterford Regional... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced where nursing home subvention does not match charges... - Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in processing inter-country adoption applications in here; the further reason there is little... - Community Care
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 can be moved permanently from Peamount Hospital to an apartment in order that... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the financial supports available from her Department directly or indirectly to assist a physically disabled person to build... - Health Services
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties in schools due to the long delays in accessing speech and language... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the stage projects (details supplied) are at; if funding has been allocated; if funding is contingent upon revenue... - Care of the Elderly
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funds available to elderly day care centres to provide transport to day patients; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Correspondence
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of parliamentary questions referred to health boards or other agencies for direct answer to Deputies for each... - Consultancy Contracts
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if consultants were employed to develop the Health Service Executive logo; if as part of this work, a policy document on... - Departmental Funding
Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to the Health Service Executive Mid-western and South Eastern region towards the homecare... - Health Services
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people waiting for orthodontic treatment in each area of the Health Service Executive mid-western area; the... - Departmental Strategy Statements
Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the proposal put forward by Irish Rural Link that a rural health strategy is urgently needed; her views on... - Health Services
Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent report completed on proposed changes to Shannon-doc; and if she will make a statement on the... - Suicide Prevention
Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an additional €60 million for suicide prevention will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the... - Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the threshold in the drug payment refund scheme each year since 2002; the reason for such increases in the qualifying... - Health Insurance
Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the proposed VHI rate increase; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed additional 12... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the reports by a company (details supplied) on the operation of individual hospitals' accident and emergency... - Health Insurance
Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position on the provision of medical cover for Alzheimer's patients and the unit provided for them and for families at... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount which was spent in her Department for the years 2005 and from January 2006 to date for media purposes or... - Health Services
Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take to address the patient transport crisis in the western region; if she believes that it... - Departmental Business Plans
Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 20 June 2006, when she intends to publish her Department's 2006 business plan;... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding is approved under the national purchase scheme for the supply of digital hearing aids to clients in the west of... - Pension Provisions
Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will be issued with a pension from the Health Service Executive west; the reason for the... - Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the GMS list in Strokestown, County Roscommon is frozen; if patients have a right to choose their general... - Food Labelling
Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to ensure that there is a legal basis to the labelling terms non GM and GM free; the discussions she has... - Unaccompanied Minors
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of unaccompanied minors referred to the Health Service Executive between the years 2000 and 2006; the number... - Medical Cards
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number and percentages of general practitioner only cards that have been issued since the introduction of these cards;... - Hospital Services
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position of the proposed dialysis unit at Beaumont; the cost of this unit; the proposed date for completion of this... - Sports Sponsorship
Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports from the European Commission that believe that sponsorship of sporting contests by drinks companies... - Departmental Investigations
Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date for the publication of the report into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the State's only obesity clinic at St Colmcille's Hospital in... - Ambulance Service
Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the ambulance control centre in Townsend Street, Dublin; when the report into this situation... - Hospital Staff
Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital consultants appointed each year since 1997; the specialities and regions these consultants have been... - Health Services
Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a review will take place of the current agreement with the Society of Chiropody Ireland in relation to payment for... - Departmental Funding
Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding given to a group (details supplied) in County Dublin in the past 12 months; if it is intended to continue with... - Child Care Services
Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the assistance and supports available to parents and to childcare providers respectively from her Department to improve the... - Health Services
Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the additional funding available to shorten the length of time parents are waiting for provision under the community school... - Health Service Staff
Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is possible to employ extra speech therapists. [28058/06] - Mental Health Services
Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to address the inadequate number of long term facilities for young adults with severe neurological disorders; if... - Medical Cards
Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical card holders in the state in 1997; the number of 2002 and the number in 2006. [28079/06] - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to tackle the A & E crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28096/06] - Hospital Charges
Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has to pay a hospital for medical attention; and if she will make... - Food Labelling
Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of inspectors within the Food Safety Authority of Ireland that enforce the food labelling legislation; the other...
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