Written answers
Wednesday, 27 September 2006
Department of Health and Children
- Mental Health Services
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children in view of the recent tragic death of a young mother and her two little girls, her views on the fact that there were no after hours... - Ambulance Service
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on recommendations from the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland to introduce a nationwide, 24 hour,... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the background of companies involved in public private partnerships; if she is satisfied on the... - Hospital Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cancelled operations in hospitals last year; her views on the fact that the majority of these operations are cancelled... - Food Labelling
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland on its report into breaches of food labelling laws; and if she... - Health Service Inquiries
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the delays in the Health Service Executive Western area inquiry into the alleged abuse at the Brother of Charity... - National Cancer Strategy
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children to give details of the implementation programme for the national cancer strategy. [29593/06] - Hospital Services
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the numbers and locations of beds yet to be opened around the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29548/06] - Infectious Diseases
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of MRSA in each of the past four years and to date in 2006; the number of fatalities attributable to MRSA; the... - Health Services
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to improve the diagnostic services available to general practitioners. [29595/06] - Health Service Management
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has completed work on its code of governance; when this code is intended to be published; the role her... - Eating Disorders
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an update on the implementation of recommendations from the Department's own report, A Vision For Change, in... - Health Services
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures taken to enforce the recommendations as set out by the report of the Task Force on Sudden Cardiac Death to roll-out the... - Medicinal Products
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a recent Health Service Executive report which showed a 16.3 per cent increase in antibiotic consumption; the steps she... - Health Service Staff
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that an employment ceiling and a lack of funds prevented the Health Service Executive from establishing a triage... - Organ Retention
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish in full the report of the Dunne inquiry into organ retention in view of the release of the executive summary under... - Vaccination Programme
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the new vaccine for the prevention of the human papilloma virus will be available nationally. [29591/06] - Hospital Services
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of procedures for both elective and day surgery that have been cancelled so far this year; and if she will make a statement... - Mental Health Services
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the resources that she has made available to increase the numbers of counsellors and psychologists in the Mental Health service; and if... - Ambulance Service
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of paramedics trained; the total number of ambulance personnel fully covered to work as paramedics; where they are based; and... - Hospital Services
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive and others in relation to the future of Roscommon County Hospital; and if... - Hospital Staff
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason no new hospital consultants have been appointed in 2006; if this is the result of her failure to deal with the ongoing... - Hospital Services
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when funding for the neurosurgical facilities in Beaumont Hospital will be made available. [29592/06] - Health Service Staff
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether executives of the Health Service Executive deserve their reported bonuses; and the improvements in patient care... - Hospital Services
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when funding for Ely Hospital day surgery ward will be made available so that this ward can be made available to the patients of County... - Medical Inquiries
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take to implement the recommendations following publication of the report into the death of Pat Joe Walsh at... - Hospital Staff
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects that nurses prescribing will be implemented in the Irish health care system; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Services
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the future of Tallaght Hospital; and if she will make a... - Health Services
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the length waiting and numbers on waiting lists for children to receive appointments for eye problems in Temple Street Hospital and... - Medical Inquiries
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children to provide an update into the Health Service Executive investigation into the death of a patient on 22 June 2006 at Heatherside Hospital... - Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the legislation that is prepared for a specific scheme of statutory regulations on assisted human reproduction; and if she will make a... - Hospital Services
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person has been appointed to co-ordinate the audit of all clinical activity in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, as... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a national cervical screening programme will be implemented. [29590/06] - Health Services
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the Service Level Agreement with the Irish Osteoporosis Society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29571/06] - Ambulance Service
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if qualified paramedics are covered to administer cardiac and other life-saving drugs while on duty with the ambulance service; and if... - Health Service Reform
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the intended policy to be pursued by her Department in regard to the upgrading or otherwise of various hospitals throughout the country;... - Health Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to implement a national policy of having access numbers to emergency medical services available in all Health Service... - Hospital Services
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive in relation to the development of acute hospital services in the north... - General Practitioner Co-operatives
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to reports of threats and harassment faced by general practitioners during house calls or at their... - Child Care Services
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 6 July 2006, if the new training strategy for child care workers has been completed; if... - Health Services
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when national standards for disability services will be published and implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - General Medical Services Scheme
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children to provide the most up to date numbers of people that have received a GP only card; her views on the low uptake on these cards and... - Health Service Systems
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the PPARS project, the cost to date, what has been delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29556/06] - Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the transfer of considerable sums of money from Irish prospective adoptive parents, as part of the Irish Vietnamese... - Health Services
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent Irish Hospices report which highlighted the critical nedd for 42 specialist palliative care beds for communities... - Hospital Staff
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the current status of the consultants' contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29576/06] - Child Care Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question 187 of 5 July 2006, if the new arrangements for City or County Childcare Committees for the... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the co-location of public and private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals is dependent on the negotiation of a new... - Child Care Services
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the low uptake in the number of childminders applying for the €630 State grant available to them;... - Hospital Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in providing step down beds in the Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29566/06] - Health Services
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the numbers of sex assault treatment units; the plans she has to extend the numbers of these units; her views on a recent case where a... - Mental Health Services
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the alleged abuse or neglect of elderly patients suffering from dementia in our nursing homes is dealt with in any part of the 1945... - Sports Sponsorship
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her reaction to the belief from the European Commission that sponsorship of sports events by brewers and distillers encourages youth... - Hospital Services
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to her response to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 1 June 2006, if she is still confident that the Health Service Executive... - Health Services
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person has been appointed with overall responsibility for a system (details supplied) when this person was appointed; if elements... - Mental Health Services
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on findings of the Mental Health Commission's recent survey of adult users of public sector mental health services; the plans... - Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the decision was taken by her Department to locate the proposed school of podiatry in a large centre of population; and if she will... - Proposed Legislation
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an update on the timeframe for a promised new Medical Practitioners Act; her views on the concerns raised by the... - Hospital Services
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will sanction the installation of a digital x-ray computer system for Mayo General Hospital; her views on whether having a... - Health Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the long delays for occupational therapist services in the Health Service Executive; and if she will... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is confident that we will see a marked improvement in accident and emergency services in winter 2006; and if she will make a... - Ambulance Service
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in publishing the report of the Review of the Ambulance Command and Control Centre in central Dublin which... - Mental Health Services
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the person that is accountable for the implementation of the Mental Health Report, A Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement... - Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the findings of the working group established by the Health Service Executive following publication of the Pollock Report into services... - Hospital Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that funding has been withheld from healthcare projects in certain hospitals worth almost €4.5 million; her views... - Mental Health Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a recent study commissioned by the Alzheimer Society which found that services for people with dementia are fragmented,... - Health Service Staff
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the Health Service Executive practice of not routinely replacing a number of health professional grade staff who are on... - Child Care Services
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her view on whether the equal opportunities child care programme was successful in improving quality in the child care sector; and if... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the major hospital building projects that are in the planning pipeline; the stage that each has reached; and if she will make a... - National Emergency Plan
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children as she informed Dáil Éireann on 1 June 2006 that the iodine tablets distributed to each household here by her Department are useless... - Vaccination Programme
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that pneumococcal meningitis has a fatality rate of about 20 per cent and that it is... - Child Protection
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she approves or acquiesces to situations whereby 16 year old girls or younger leave home without parents' consent in the company of... - Health Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there have been calls for an improvement for allergy services for children here; her... - Mental Health Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the catchment areas proposed for the mental health services are consistent with the organisation of the Health... - Medicinal Products
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take to combat rogue websites selling medicines such as anti-depressants, valium and viagra to people without... - Hospital Support Group
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain her reference to a local hospital support group in Clare as an animal welfare lobby in a speech she gave in the...
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