Written answers
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Department of Health and Children
- Health Insurance
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to bring forward legislation regarding risk equalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12015/07] - MRSA Incidence
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the results of her efforts and associated costs to date in combating MRSA; the number of hospitals or institutions deemed to be entirely... - Health Service Executive Remuneration
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the remuneration paid to advisers of Professor Brendan Drumm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12041/07] - National Cancer Strategy
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Cancer Strategy Implementation Report is due to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12045/07] - Health Service Staff
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the aspects of the Hanly Report that have been implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12043/07] - Mental Health Services
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is confident that the provision of mental health teams and professionals for children and adolescents here is acceptable; the... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to the private for profit hospital co-location plan, the competitive dialogue phase of the process with the Health... - Health Service Staff
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding and provision of the promised 100 primary care teams; when these will be available; if she will confirm the relationship... - Health Service Executive Inquiry
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is now appropriate to have an official inquiry into the sequence of events that took place at the Leas Cross Nursing Home; and if... - Medical Cards
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the withdrawal of dentists from the medical card dental scheme... - Hospital Staff
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if consultants who work in the hospitals planned for co-location will be allowed to work in both hospitals; and if she will make a... - Health Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Governments policy regarding stroke rehabilitation services; the funding being made available for same; and if she will make a... - Hospital Services
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on maternity services here, in particular the recent reports that women attending the maternity unit of Our Lady of Lourdes... - Capital Projects
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all Health Service Executive Corporate Plan Capital Projects were completed in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Service Executive Inquiry
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has carried out its own internal inquiry into the sequence of events that took place at Leas Cross... - Hospital Services
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent case of a baby left in agony in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital for four days before being admitted to Crumlin; her... - Capital Projects
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of capital projects for 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12053/07] - Health Insurance
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied the payment by insurers for the treatment of private patients in public hospitals is being fully billed for; if there... - Certification Requirements
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if school children are required to have a sick certificate if they are off school; if this requirement has meant more work for general... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans on continuing with the decision to locate the National Children's Hospital on the Mater site, despite strong and various... - Hospital Services
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason cancer patients are unable to get basic surgical treatment at University College Hospital Galway due to a lack of theatre... - Health Insurance
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent statements by a person (details supplied) that the Irish private health insurance market does not need risk... - Health Service Contracts
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive does not have a contract with general practitioner trainers; and if she will make a statement on... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when contracts for private hospitals on public lands will be signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11998/07] - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her Department's policy with regard to the general public access to accident and emergency departments; the average waiting period in... - Hospital Staff
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her co-location plan could have adverse consequences for public patients in public hospitals due to changing work practices for... - Industrial Disputes
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the INO and PNA industrial action; her plans to address their member's substantial grievances in view of the... - Hospital Charges
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the 2005 introduction of charges for long-term residents on medical cards in mental health institutions; if she... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the legal position to ensure the end of the practice of charging of top-up chiropody fees to elderly patients in... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when is the Accident and Emergency Taskforce Report due to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12046/07] - Health Promotion
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her Department's policy on people's fitness and exercise; the encouragement in place to encourage people to participate; and if she will... - Vaccination Programme
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent situation where Health Service Executive supplies of the BCG vaccine ran out; if she has... - Health Insurance
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether private health insurance premiums could double in the next three years; and if she will make a statement on the... - Medical Cards
Question 50: 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... - Care of the Elderly
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his views on the Alzheimer Society of Ireland's calls to recognise dementia as a national health priority, to invest €35 million per... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the corporate plan capital projects for 2006 were completed on time and in budget with a list of same; and if she will make a... - Health Insurance
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the further negotiations that have taken place between her Department and the Quinn Group; and if she will make a statement on the... - Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the prohibitive costs of IVF treatment, that is in the region of €4,000, and that this cost is beyond the reach of the... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the nursing home repayment scheme; if she is satisfied that information provided to recipients and their families... - Eating Disorders
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting list for St. Columcille's Hospital; the steps she will take to aid St. Columcille's Hospital; the measures she will take to... - Hospital Services
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will re-consider the proposed move of St. Luke's or if she will ensure that the site remains in possession of the Health Service... - Water Fluoridation
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on having a national study on total fluoride intake in the population; if she will do this under section 6 of the fluoridation... - Eating Disorders
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to services to combat eating disorders in 2006; the amount of funding approved for 2007; the way this... - Vaccination Programme
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the pneumococcal vaccine will be introduced into the childhood immunisation programme; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a strategy in relation to treatment of allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11994/07] - Health Service Staff
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of advanced paramedics trained by the Health Service Executive in 2006; the target number for 2006; the target number for... - Child Care Services
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the most up to date figures on the number of inquiries and the number of voluntary notifications respectively received by the child care... - Hospital Staff
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding negotiations for a new contract for hospital consultants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11812/07] - Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that treatments for the rare disease congenital sucrose isomaltase deficiency cost over... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the value of the land approximately to be given to private individuals to build private hospitals on public land; and if she will make a... - Pharmacy Regulations
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the delays in talks between Health Service Executive and the IPE regarding representation by the IPU;... - Hospital Procedures
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cancelled elective operations in each area in 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospitals Capacity
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the expected results of the Health Service Executive extensive survey of capacity across all acute hospitals will be published in... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the delays and waiting times for children with Down's syndrome trying to access a speech therapist; her further views on the... - Cancer Control Strategy
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the warning issued by the Environmental Health Officers Association regarding the risk of skin cancer... - Health Service Staff
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that there are enough public health nurses in the Health Service Executive primary and community care sector to... - Cancer Control Strategy
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will appoint the promised Director of Cancer Control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12059/07] - Health Service Reform
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the controls mechanism retained by her in relation to the spending of the Health Service Executive budget on non-medical consultants who... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that patients for cataract operations are going directly onto the National Treatment Purchase Fund; the number of... - Hospitals Expenditure
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost per patient per day in 2006 in hospitals (details supplied) in County Cork. [11820/07] - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients discharged from acute hospitals to intermediate care beds under the Ten Point Plan to deal with the accident and... - Child Health Screening
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of primary schools the school screening service was unable to cover within 2006; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Service Reform
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether a value for money audit should now be conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General following reports on salaries... - General Medical Services Scheme
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the changes in the GMS scheme where prescriptions used to be updated every month and are now updated every three months has made a... - Mental Health Services
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the relocation of the Central Mental Hospital; her views on whether the conditions in which patients are kept in... - Hospital Procedures
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the recent urgent calls for ICU beds in St. James; the number of major operations postponed due to lack of ICU bed... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the views on the roll out of cervical cancer screening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12081/07] - Hospital Accommodation
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether Government policy on the cost of private beds in public hospitals and her co-location plan will have a significant... - Drug Treatment Programme
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the availability of drug free heroin treatment facilities and options; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7728/07] - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the reported 30,000 backlogged smear tests waiting to be examined here; if she will confirm reports that these... - Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of the dental scheme for medical cardholders known as the dental treatment services scheme which is under serious threat due... - Departmental Publications
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date the Barrington Report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12016/07] - Health Services
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the lack of provision for children with acquired brain injury; the measures she will take to address same and when; and if... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who were treated in the Mallow accident and emergency unit in 2005 and 2006; if the unit is a stand alone or under... - Health Services
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the Health Service Executive tendering a development for acutely ill respiratory patients called Hospital in the Home to a... - Hospital Staff
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of consultants who have agreed to renounce their right to treat private patients in 20 per cent of the public beds in... - Health Service Staff
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the lack of funding for services for cystic fibrosis; the position regarding the medical posts to be filled for the... - Hospital Procedures
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of the living kidney transplant programme; her views on the family (details supplied) who described receiving a letter... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the €60 charge is applied in cases where a patient is referred to non accident and emergency departments; and if she will... - Garda Investigations
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Garda Commissioner has made any contact with her Department regarding Garda Síochána inquiries into the sequence of events that...
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