Written answers
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Department of Health and Children
- Psychological Service
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of clinical psychologists available to schools in County Kerry. [30520/07] - Homeless Persons
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children under the age of 18 currently homeless in Dublin City; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30529/07] - Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if experimentation on human embryos is a specific offence here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30703/07] - Vaccination Programme
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 8,000 leaving certificate pupils and several hundred junior certificate pupils will be... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of introducing a disability payment of €40 per week for people with disabilities regardless of whether they are in work or... - Child Care Services
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the implementation of the recommendations of the November 2006 Joint Committee Report on Child Protection.... - Pharmacy Regulations
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the pharmacies dispute; and if she will work with them in resolving the matter and their concerns. [30509/07] - Health Services
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist on a query in relation to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [30510/07] - Cancer Treatment Services
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will name the 13 centres designated by Professor O'Higgins to be centres of excellence for cancer care; when that designation was... - Mobility Allowances
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the mobility allowance is only payable to persons between the ages of 16 and 66; her views on making this allowance... - Nursing Homes Scheme
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when payment will be made under the long stay hospital scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [30536/07] - Health Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the domiciliary care allowance will be made payable to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick in view of the fact that a... - Medical Cards
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of discretionary medical cards distributed by the Health Service Executive per region, including eastern, midland, mid... - Cancer Treatment Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department or the Health Service Executive received a letter from a medical professional expressing concern about cancer services... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of women screened by the BreastCheck mobile unit in County Roscommon since it opened in early 2007. [30587/07] - Hospital Expenditure
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the in-house cleaning costs and contract cleaning service costs for each hospital in the State in tabular readable form. [30594/07] - Health Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average management costs for the Health Service Executive in cash terms and as a percentage of the HSE's budget to date in 2007.... - Health Service Staff
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent to date on salaries by the Health Service Executive in 2007 with a breakdown in management, administrative staff,... - Departmental Staff
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people as of 31 October 2007 who were employed in her Department; the number who were permanent employees; the number who... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by her Department in 2004, 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007 for air travel, business class flights and first class... - Departmental Staff
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the 10 largest bonus payments made to staff in her Department and each of its agencies in the past 12 months. [30660/07] - Health Services
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will add Huntington's Chorea to the list of long-term illnesses particularly as it used to be classified as Parkinson's disease... - Health Service Staff
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the community ophthalmologist employed elsewhere by the Health Service Executive will be sanctioned to take up their appointment to... - Health Services
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a long term illness book was taken off a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason they were not notified of this... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the estimated cost of administering the nursing home repayment scheme (Donations) fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30747/07] - Community Care
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 17 October 2007. [30749/07] - Health Service Staff
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide this Deputy with an organisational structure for the Health Service Executive in Clare including role descriptions... - Immunisation Programme
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a new drug (details supplied) which helps prevent meningitis and septicaemia; if there are plans for... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a wheelchair will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo as they are suffering great hardship with the... - Health Services
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the care facilities here for the treatment of teenage cancer; her plans to develop these facilities; and if she will make a statement on... - Child Care Services
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of staffing grant aid for a childcare centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; if she will commit... - Health Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a minimal dentist service available in the Cavan Monaghan region and a... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo went on the waiting list to be called for an appointment; when exactly did they go on... - Community Care
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a place for residential living; and if she will make a statement... - Psychological Service
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford whose mother is waiting a long time for an appointment... - Community Care
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has been in residential care for a number of years... - General Practitioner Co-Operatives
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on progress towards the establishment of the much needed out of hours general practitioner service in Tallaght,... - National Drugs Strategy
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she asked the Health Research Board to establish a national drug related death index; and if she will make a statement on the... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the nursing home refund due to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20 can not be awarded to their family; and if she will... - Child Care Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a letter (details supplied); if she will change the terms of the new subvention scheme for crèches to... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when payment from the nursing home repayment fund will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [31006/07] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 16 October 2007, the amount paid to each of the 41 firms in tabular form. [31012/07] - Departmental Properties
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the buildings occupied by her Department which are and which are not fully accessible to people with disabilities in tabular readable... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of running her Department's press office in each of the first three quarters of 2007 in tabular readable form. [31048/07] - Departmental Websites
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the websites that are run by her Department and each of its agencies; the date on which each became live; if the sites are kept updated;... - Health Services
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be accommodated in a public nursing home bed at St. Finbar's Hospital, Cork. [31073/07] - Departmental Bodies
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the organisations or authorities operating within her Department's policy area, set up by statute or statutory instrument, for which she... - Youth Services
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to ensure the provision of youth cafes in cities and towns that have a high number of young people; and if she... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the annual cost of delivering into the hospital system the additional 3,000 hospital beds required. [31159/07] - Medical Cards
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to increase the full medical card qualification threshold. [31160/07] - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount it would cost to extend the cervical cancer screening programme across the State in 2008. [31163/07] - Medical Cards
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the estimated annual cost of increasing the number of years for which a person entering the labour market can keep their medical card... - Child Care Services
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been draw to the fact there are concerns that the new childcare subvention scheme will result in parents of... - Mental Health Services
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects that a new multi-disciplinary team for the child and adolescent mental health services in east Limerick will be... - Health Levy
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the estimate of health levy contributions in 2007 and in 2008; and the rates, thresholds and ceilings assumed in the pre-budget 2008... - Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of patient payment provided for in the pre-budget 2008 outlook figures in the drug refund scheme; and if no change has been... - Hospital Charges
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of charges provided for in the pre-budget 2008 outlook in respect of the charges for attending public hospitals as a public or... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times for different appointments or procedures after which a patient can have recourse to the National Treatment Purchase... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of charges provided for in the pre budget 2008 outlook, in respect of the charges in public nursing homes or contracted... - Hospital Services
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that acute orthopaedic services have been severely downgraded in the past 12 months in the... - Data Protection
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedures in place to protect personal data within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31242/07] - Child Care Services
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are concerns that the new childcare subvention scheme will result in parents of... - Child Support
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are facilities available through her Department or the Health Service Executive for children to obtain support mechanisms that... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the elderly; and if she will make... - Child Care Services
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are concerns that the new childcare subvention scheme will result in parents of... - Medical Cards
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a child (details supplied) in County Kildare suffering from dyspraxia is entitled to a medical card in their own right; the criteria... - Health Services
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the facilities available to children to access an occupational therapist service in the Kildare-west Wicklow areas of the Health Service...
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