Written answers
Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will sanction a staffing grant to a group (details supplied) in County Mayo. [42296/06] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if publicly funded speech therapy is available to children with Down's syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42706/06] - Health Services
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the persons who were appointed as a review group in relation to the examination of the Leas Cross Report from the date it was first... - Departmental Inquiries
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the significant adverse nursing home inspection reports received by Bedford House and Leas Cross Nursing Homes, she will... - Health Services
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene and have a persons (details supplied) in County Sligo called for their angioplasty in view of the fact that their... - Medical Cards
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the payments from her Department to general practitioners in respect of the medical card scheme and practice support payments, by GP on... - Hospital Services
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will complete the answer to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 28 November 2006; if she will give an undertaking that the medical... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is committed to the provision of sheltered housing as an option for older people to remain living in their community despite her... - Health Services
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42301/06] - Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the report of the international panel of experts on the Irish Blood Transfusion Service published in September 2002 was not... - Health Services
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be provided with a long stay bed. [42322/06] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason children with autism are not automatically entitled to a medical card; the reason people with autism and on gluten free diet... - Health Services
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support The Irish Chronic Pain Association with proper funding in 2007; and if they will be given them the maximum support.... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will invest in new beds in the health service here as a strategy to end the patients on trolleys crisis; and the number of new... - Health Services
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be given an appointment to see an occupational therapist. [42347/06] - Hospital Services
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a unit (details supplied) in County Donegal will be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42371/06] - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if they will be seen in Carlow as a matter of urgency; and if... - Health Services
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the speech therapy service will be available in Baltinglass as children from west Wicklow have to travel to Naas for this service;... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will consider having this person referred... - Care of the Elderly
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in assessing the application for domiciliary care allowance for the parents of a person (details supplied) in... - Health Services
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the issue of additional funding to secure the future of the Osteoporosis Society of Ireland, in view of the fact... - Youth Services
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 26 April 2006, if she has a recreation policy for young people in place; if a proposal... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if general practitioners sending specimens for smear test should be charged by the Cork University Hospital. [42433/06] - Departmental Correspondence
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm receipt of a letter from this Deputy's office of 9 October 2006 (details supplied); when she will be in a position... - Hospital Staff
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the instruction she has given to the Health Service Executive in relation to the appointment of a nephrologist for Sligo; her plans to... - Care of the Elderly
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to provide new public elderly care beds for Limerick in the near future; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the proposed private hospital co-location plan for Letterkenny General Hospital and Galway University Hospital will not be... - Hospital Services
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects radiotherapy services to be made available to public patients at Waterford Regional Hospital; and if she will make a... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application under the housing aid for the elderly which was submitted on 17 May 2006 by a person (details... - Child Care Services
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to introduce the legislation required as a matter of urgency for the independent inspection of residential care... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the National Disability Authority Standards will be implemented as these standards were presented to her in April 2004; and if she... - Health Services
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the child and adolescent psychiatric waiting lists as forwarded to RTÉ under Freedom of Information. [42670/06] - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having a person (details supplied) in County Cork admitted to hospital in order to undergo eye surgery. [42685/06] - Hospital Services
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients from the south east who received radiotherapy treatment each year since 2002; the number of patients that will be... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timeframe for repayment of nursing home costs in cases where the person cared for is now deceased and the claim is being made by... - Health Services
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will approve the provision of a place at the Wellstone Clinic, Kilkenny for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging an appointment for a hearing test for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the number... - Medical Cards
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the situation whereby all people over 70 years with a medical card have to in some cases pay a general practitioner... - Departmental Staff
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Health and Children in respect of each Minister of State within her Department the number of staff broken down by grade employed within their private office... - Ambulance Service
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all staff employed by private ambulance services are vetted through the Garda clearance system as per the public service; and if she... - Hospital Staff
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will appoint an occupational therapist to Kerry General Hospital. [42758/06] - Hospital Services
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent of the oncology services at Naas Hospital; the level of funding being allocated for such services; the level of staff... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when construction will commence on a bedded unit for a hospital campus (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if she will... - Medical Cards
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application to the Health Service Executive to grant a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when funding will be provided to ensure that the age limit attached to BreastCheck screening be removed and that all applicants can have... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the options open to a person (details supplied) in County Laois to meet the cost of nursing home costs; and if she will make a statement... - Hospital Services
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to provide support for early arthritis clinics in the Dublin area; if so, the level of funding proposed and the... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the autism team co-ordinator has not responded to a request for help from a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in... - Health Services
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to a response issued by the Health Service Executive on 10 October 2006, the reason local officials have not met with the... - Ambulance Service
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding provided for ambulance services in County Mayo in each of the past five years; the amount by which spending in... - Health Services
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 7 November 2006. [42830/06] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that patients living in centres for people with an intellectual disability are charged for... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is an 18 month waiting list for children waiting to see an ear and throat... - Health Services
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding her Department provides to cancer hospices in South Tipperary on an individual basis annually; and if she supports... - Cigarette Smoking Statistics
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the estimated number of young people by gender below the age of 18 who smoke; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42936/06] - Health Services
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children below the age of five who have not been inoculated against each of the diseases for which inoculations are... - Child Care Services
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children nationally in need of secure care; the number of such children each year since 2000; and if she will make a...
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