Written answers
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Department of Health and Children
- Grant Payments
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he has received a request for funding from a group (details supplied); and if same will be considered in the context of grant aid... - Health Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if additional home help hours will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34822/07] - Hospital Services
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Wrixon report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34823/07] - Child Care Services
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to the concerns expressed in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the core funding she is providing for the Irish Osteoporosis Society to ensure the continuation and expansion of its work. [34842/07] - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, due to the delay in rolling out BreastCheck in County Mayo, this service will be made available to women aged 65 and over when the... - Community Development
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the financial supports available from her Department in terms of both start-up costs and running costs for community groups who wish to... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department, or its agencies has paid in advance for works or services that will not be completed before the end of the 2007... - Child Care Services
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 13 November 2007 if he will provide the funding required to ensure that the facility... - Health Services
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 28 November 2007 the reason no answer has been forthcoming from the Health Service... - Victim Support Services
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Government is taking steps to support victims of female genital mutilation here; and if this is already the case if she will... - Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when core funding will be allocated to the Irish Osteoporosis Society in order for this charity to continue and expand its vital work;... - Patient Statistics
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of presentations at accident and emergency units having self-harm and attempted suicide under 30 years of age; and the... - Departmental Properties
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the State has unfettered ownership of the site occupied by St. Luke's Cancer Hospital, Rathgar, Dublin 6; if the board of St. Luke's... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a claim under the health repayment scheme will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [34974/07] - Hospital Services
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a cataract operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the urgent medical circumstances... - Health Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [34988/07] - Disabled Drivers
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be assisted. [34995/07] - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional financial provisions provided by her Department from the 2008 Estimates and budget for the care and support costs for... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intercede with the Health Service Executive to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Sligo receives their long... - Decentralisation Programme
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 19 November 2007, the date on which an applicant for a transfer (details... - Hospital Services
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for surgery for a knee replacement operation; and if she will... - Health Services
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the allocation of funding by the Health Service Executive to people with Asperger's syndrome; the budget of the HSE in the north west... - Health Service Staff
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the freeze on recruiting staff will end; the way the situation is impacting on the South Tipperary General Hospital; and if the... - Hospital Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Laois, when referred from Portlaoise Hospital to... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the health repayment scheme; and when this money will be... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck is expected to be rolled out to County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35123/07] - Drugs-related Deaths
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cocaine related deaths to date in 2007. [35130/07] - Health Services
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo and will be provided with home help by the Health Service Executive. [35160/07] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of places provided in 2006 for people with an intellectual disability; the services where people were placed; and the number... - Cancer Incidence
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an issue (details supplied). [35182/07] - Health Services
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35185/07] - Medical Cards
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that all cancer patients are entitled to a medical card. [35271/07] - Alcohol Consumption
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans, she has to ensure that alcohol consumption will be reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35298/07] - Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are proposals to change the terms of the long term illness scheme; if so, the reasons for the changes; her views on the matter;... - Health Services
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a case (details supplied) a priority. [35326/07] - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intercede with the Health Service Executive to ensure that long stay patient repayments are made to a person (details... - Disabled Drivers
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on awarding primary medical certificates to disabled and handicapped persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Medical Cards
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is the holder of a medical card is entitled to dentures; and if she will make a... - Health Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the high prevalence of osteoporosis here and the valuable work in providing information and support carried out by the... - National Health Strategy
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress of the working group on eligibility for healthcare; and when she will publish its report. [35367/07] - Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the changes she announced as part of budget 2008 in relation to the increase in the monthly threshold for the drugs payment scheme... - Health Insurance
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of payments by private health insurance companies to public hospitals in respect of private patients on a hospital basis for... - Child Abuse
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that all adults and children with disabilities are protected following the Galway abuse report; if she will ensure... - Adoption Services
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if applications to the Health Service Executive by persons (details supplied) to foster children will be expedited in view of the... - Pharmacy Regulations
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a drug (details supplied), available under special licence in the UK and elsewhere, for pain relief for those suffering from... - General Practitioner Contract
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the impact that recent decisions by the Competition Authority to prohibit negotiations between the Government, or its... - Departmental Records
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department maintain a record of visits by her to the headquarters of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a knee replacement operation will take place at Orthopaedic Hospital, Croom, County Limerick for a person (details supplied) in... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the payments to date under the long stay charges repayment scheme; and the amount of this that has been lodged to patients' accounts... - Health Services
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason it takes so long to issue post-mortem and autopsy results from the Health Service Executive, Pathology Department, Midlands,... - Pharmacy Regulations
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her recent proposals to resolve the ongoing dispute with the pharmacists with particular reference to the need to enter into open-ended... - Child Care Services
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from a centre (details supplied) in County Kildare or on behalf of parents whose children are... - Health Services
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the allocation to be made to the Irish Osteoporosis Society in 2008 in view of the work they do; and if she will make a statement on the... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will be taking applications for claims from patients who were in private nursing homes in the same way as she is accepting... - Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the strategic goals for the Irish Blood Transfusion Service over the next five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
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