Written answers

Wednesday, 1 November 2006

Department of Health and Children

 
  • Child Care Services
    Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent OECD Report which found that child care costs here are among the highest in Europe and are...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the person responsible for highlighting new or existing protocols to the medical and administration staff of hospitals in regard to...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the criteria for eligibility for public health sector pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35452/06]
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the efforts which have been made to overcome the problem of VAT being charged by commercial suppliers of home care packages; if persons...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has published its cost benefit analysis on the multi-million project to provide 1,000 private beds in the...
  • Health Service Reform
    Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the abolition of the health boards may have been premature in view of the setting up of regional fora for...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the new consultants' contract; and the way this will fit with her view of private hospitals in the grounds of public...
  • General Medical Services Scheme
    Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the general practitioner only cards do not cover a patient wishing to obtain the...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Cavan Hospital consultants are still precluded from doing major GI surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35545/06]
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of advanced paramedics working in the Health Service Executive in an operational capacity to administer drugs such as cardiac...
  • National Cancer Strategy
    Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to launch a renewed campaign to highlight the issues surrounding prostate cancer; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to build new hospitals in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35380/06]
  • Legislative Programme
    Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the legislation which has been passed since she became Minister. [35526/06]
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the difference between a patient waiting in accident and emergency for an acute hospital bed and a patient waiting in an admission...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the Health Service Executive commissioned report that recommended a restructuring of obstetrics and gynaecology services...
  • Proposed Legislation
    Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Pharmacy Bill will be introduced. [35522/06]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Cavan General Hospital is expected to receive all surgical transfers from Monaghan Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the recruitment process of the 32 elder abuse officials or care workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Infectious Diseases
    Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to the call by the MRSA and families organisation for a judicial inquiry into the non-implementation of the national...
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the statement by the Joint Committee on Health and Children that the provision of mental health services for adolescents is...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the uneven payouts to elderly people in nursing homes here and the fact that the enhanced financial assistance currently...
  • Proposed Legislation
    Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will introduce the Alcohol Products Bill; if she has been lobbied by the alcohol industry to cancel it in favour of voluntary...
  • Nursing Home Charges
    Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of payments processed in relation to the long stay charges repayment scheme; the timeframe a person would expect to wait for...
  • Drug Treatment Programme
    Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans to move heroin addicts from drug treatment into regular primary care facilities by training doctors to prescribe the...
  • Health Services
    Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Western Regional Immunisation Board has not been reinstated following its disbandment in November 2005; and if she will...
  • Health Strategy
    Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on figures from the Public Health Alliance that the death rates for all cancers among the lowest occupational class is over...
  • Health Service Management
    Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the corporate plan for the Health Service Executive was published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35548/06]
  • Child Abuse Inquiry
    Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action to be taken to examine the fact that it is over seven and a half years since an inquiry was established into alleged abuse...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has calculated the cost of introducing free medical cards for both persons under six and 18 years old; the cost in...
  • Hospital Procedures
    Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of day ward and elective cases that are cancelled every day due to overcrowding in accident and emergency departments here....
  • Hospital Services
    Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on reports of proposals for specialist paediatric surgical services for very young children being centralised at Our Lady's...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 123: 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....
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has received representations from persons abused while in foster care; if such abuse will be addressed by means of a...
  • Vaccination Programme
    Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will include pneumococcal immunisation as part of the State-wide universal vaccination programme, as called for by the Meningitis...
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to improve the availability of specialist out-patient psychiatry teams for children and adolescents. [35539/06]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which blood testing in the public hospital system is contracted out of private laboratories; her Department's policy in...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the policy paper on her initiative to put 1,000 private beds on the grounds of public hospitals. [35504/06]
  • Eating Disorders
    Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the lack of facilities for the estimated 200,000 people with eating disorders; her further views on the fact that the only...
  • Nursing Home Inspections
    Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is acceptable that some inspections of nursing homes are taken by environmental health officers who are not...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will proceed with closing down St. Luke's Hospital for radiotherapy treatment in Dublin. [35514/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the most recent position of chiropody services for medical card holders; if she will clarify the possibility of chiropodist charging...
  • Competence Assurance Scheme
    Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the start-up date for competence insurance for all health professionals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35520/06]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received representations from church authorities regarding the location of a new National Children's Hospital. [35190/06]
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase the number of psychiatric inpatient beds available for children and adolescents from the current level of 20...
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to the hardship, stress and suffering caused to patients arising from the practice of the use of hospital trolleys due...
  • Proposed Legislation
    Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the Health Information and Quality Authority legislation to be introduced. [35524/06]
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the private facilities being used to treat public patients; if access is unlimited or if there are restrictions on access; and if she...
  • School of Podiatry
    Question 142: 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 university; the reason an institute of...
  • Health Services
    Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide specialist facilities for brain damaged persons under 65 years of age. [35540/06]
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take to ensure an adequate standard of care is provided through home care packages; if she will establish a...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of the 300 additional personnel for primary care teams who have been recruited. [35550/06]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timeframe for the tendering process for the private beds to be built on the grounds of public hospitals. [35508/06]
  • Health Services
    Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the staff guidelines in place for responding to people presenting in hospitals following deliberate self-harm and resource services for...
  • Organ Retention
    Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she will not agree to a full statutory inquiry into the issue of organ retention as requested by the parents; and if she will...
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the statement by the Joint Committee on Health and Children in June 2006 that funding for mental health services is...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has entered into a service level agreement with the providers of the private radiotherapy facilities in...
  • Infectious Diseases
    Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to reports from the UK on the superbug C difficile which can cause severe illness and death in patients...
  • Pharmacy Regulations
    Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the Pharmacy Review Group's recommendations that there should be no beneficial ownership or business interest of any kind...
  • Health Services
    Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the lack of adequate aftercare support groups and treatment centres for the Drogheda area; her plans to improve the...
  • Cancer Screening Programme
    Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position and timeframe on the national roll-out of BreastCheck by region; the budget spend on the roll-out by region with initial...
  • Health Service Management
    Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the headquarters of the Health Service Executive is split in two and her views on whether it would be more sensible to have...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the acute hospitals which have a programme of clinical governance in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35547/06]
  • Eating Disorders
    Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting list for St. Columcille's Hospital, Ireland's only obesity clinic; the steps she will take to aid St. Columcille's Hospital;...
  • Proposed Legislation
    Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when does she expect that legislation on eligibility and provision of entitlements for elderly people will be enacted. [35523/06]
  • Vaccination Programme
    Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the overall cost of the flu vaccine; the uptake in 2005 and to date in 2006; if there was a drop in the rates of flu as a result; and if...
  • Health Policy
    Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Hanly report is still Government policy. [35512/06]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a common waiting list was considered as part of the 2001 health strategy; the reason for its exclusion; her views on whether it would...
  • Health Services
    Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the studies her Department has carried out on the possible introduction of universal health insurance; the overall cost of such a...
  • General Medical Services Scheme
    Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and percentage of general practitioner only cards that have been issued; the number of GP cards waiting to be issued; the...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is her policy to bring in public only contracts for consultants. [35510/06]
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the location and number of the 500 nursing beds provided in 2006 by the Health Service Executive; the number of private nursing home...
  • Ambulance Service
    Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in relation to the use of private ambulances she will confirm that there should be a certified emergency medical technician or...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Hollywood report on radiotherapy services is still Government policy. [35513/06]
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Government's position on EU Commission Infringement 2004/5152 regarding equal treatment in employment; her views on whether the...
  • Medical Profession Regulation
    Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the increasing number of complaints being made to the Medical Council regarding doctors; her further views on the concerns...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the social partners who agreed that 5% of the value of an elderly person's house is taken into account for subvention purposes; and if...
  • Health Services
    Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that three in four children here have decayed permanent teeth by the time they are 15 years old and that half of...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in view of the Government's stated commitment to providing an extra 3,000 beds and of Professor Drumm's previous statements...
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the statement by the Inspector of Mental Hospitals that community residences for former long-stay patients is an exercise...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the latest ESRI recommendations regarding spending in the health sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Services
    Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if consultants are keen on her private hospitals initiative due to the fact that public hospitals are under resourced and many...
  • National Cancer Strategy
    Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects that the implementation plan for the next cancer strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that the blood test laboratory at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is unable to keep up with demand and...
  • Parliamentary Questions
    Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that 10% of parliamentary questions referred by her to the Health Service Executive in the six months of 2006...
  • Water Fluoridation
    Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will implement the recommendations of the report from the fluoridation forum; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will recognise and designate dementia as a national health priority; her views on the Alzheimer Society of Ireland's calls in...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she intends replacing the €1 billion paid to public hospitals by VHI and BUPA when the private beds are removed from these...
  • Infectious Diseases
    Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of incidents of MRSA reported to date; the number of hospitals free from such infection; her plans to address the issue of...
  • Proposed Legislation
    Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the legislation she expects to have been passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas before the next general election. [35525/06]
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the home supports available in the Dublin area to older people who require a level of support; the level of home care packages...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the commitments she or personnel on her behalf gave to a person (details supplied) regarding the future of Monaghan General Hospital; if...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has considered the introduction of a national diagnostic purchase fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35463/06]
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the applications for extra beds or facilities from acute hospitals here; the date of such applications; the location of the applying...
  • Birth Control Products
    Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the morning after pill should be made available without prescription; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • National Cancer Strategy
    Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the situation that there is no dedicated funding for cancer patients travelling to radiotherapy services outside the south...
  • Health Services
    Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of the €16 million promised for primary care teams which has been spent. [35549/06]
  • Legislative Programme
    Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the medical practitioners Bill to be introduced. [35521/06]
  • Health Capital Programme
    Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the major capital projects that were expected to go to tender in 2006 but did not receive sanction from the Department of Finance due to...
  • Hospital Accommodation
    Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the location where the 800 nursing home beds which she is seeking under her winter initiative are being sought; and if she will make a...

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