Written answers
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the application for funding for a new community crèche (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make... - Waste Management
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if she... - Proposed Legislation
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the proposed fair deal nursing home legislation; if the legal drafting difficulties have been successfully addressed; when... - Health Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [12818/08] - Hospital Services
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the service plan and overall budget for the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore will be approved; and if she will make a... - Hospital Staff
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason nine people including a person (details supplied) were offered a permanent nursing position on 15 August 2007 and were... - Hospital Services
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the manner in which payments are made with regard to the delayed discharge grant; the criteria used; and if she will... - Pharmacy Services
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the negotiations that have taken place between the pharmacists and the Health Service Executive. [12865/08] - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will present a report on the development of the proposed new National Children's Hospital; the schedule being followed in the... - Health Services
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in Dublin identified as needing speech and language therapy for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the number of... - Health Service Staff
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapists recruited nationally by the Health Service Executive for each of the years 2000 to 2007;... - Health Services
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in Dublin identified as needing occupational therapy for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the number of children... - Health Service Staff
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of orthodontists recruited nationally by the Health Service Executive for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the number of... - Hospital Services
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of step down, long term care and rehabilitative beds for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the location of these beds; and if... - Community Care
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to home helps and home care packages in each of the Health Service Executive community care areas for... - Mental Health Services
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the extra four child and adolescent psychiatric beds for St. Anne's, Galway and the extra six such beds for St. Vincent's, Fairview,... - Medical Cards
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [12913/08] - Pharmacy Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive is not responding to legal correspondence from individual pharmacies. [12915/08] - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will advise on the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [12918/08] - Hospital Accommodation
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding approval by her Department for a capital plan for a 25 stationed unit at the Mid West Regional Hospital which has... - Hospital Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that an audit of services is taking place at Sligo General Hospital; if this audit covers breast cancer services,... - Vaccination Programme
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if supplies of the BCG vaccine are available following difficulties with the provision of the vaccine at the end of 2007; the timescale... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the anticipated timescale for the payment of refunds under the health repayment scheme for a person (details supplied); and if she will... - Private Health Insurance
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Competition Authority's recommendations regarding private health insurance that have been implemented by her Department to date; the... - General Medical Services Scheme
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the options available to a citizen who is entitled to a medical card and has sought to become a patient of local doctors, but has been... - Hospital Services
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the unavailability of laser treatment for neurology conditions in the neurology department of Beaumont Hospital... - North-South Co-operation
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of a joint North-South feasibility study on the potential for future co-operation in the health area (details supplied); and... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the delay in putting in place the fair deal scheme is causing financial hardship to... - Health Levy
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a health levy exemption will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the... - Mental Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on recommendations contained in A Vision for Change; if she is satisfied with the implementation of the plan to date;... - Departmental Reports
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timeframe for delivering the recommendations contained in the National Taskforce on Obesity report published in 2005; if she will... - Health Services
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a query from a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12982/08] - Hospital Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to provide a new dialysis facility at Limerick Regional Hospital. [12984/08] - Health Service Staff
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of Health Service Executive staff currently on maternity leave or leave of absence; the arrangements in place by the HSE to... - Hospital Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to patients having to travel from the midlands, where there is a renal unit at the Midlands Regional... - Community Care
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to plans to provide a facility (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the construction of a project (details supplied); the background to the project; the status of the project and... - Hospital Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will give her total effort and commitment to removing with full haste the obstacles to the progress of the putting in place of... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide BreastCheck services in Sligo General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13111/08] - Energy Efficiency
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress her Department has made in achieving the 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in buildings... - Grant Payments
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the home care grant for the west Wicklow area and the Wicklow area; if funding will be provided as a matter... - Health Services
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the specialist palliative care specialist nursing service in Wicklow Community Care, which has been... - Child Care Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will be providing the extra funding to a home (details supplied) in County Cork to provide staffing grant for week-end cover in... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the cancellations of eye assessments at the Mater Hospital due to malfunction of eye photographic... - Statutory Instruments
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within her Department's remit, which has statutory... - Pharmacy Regulations
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures the Health Service Executive has in place to allow pharmacists sell generic medicines instead of branded drugs; if she will... - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the expert group to examine the provision of high frequency chest compression vests for persons with cystic fibrosis reported, as... - Child Abuse
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the reason the Health Service Executive has not furnished to this Deputy the information sought in Questions... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of respite beds that are closed and are planned to be closed around the country; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by the Health Service Executive in the past three years on computer upgrades, computer programmes and the upgrading of... - Tobacco-Related Diseases
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will run a publicity campaign pointing out the dangers to children's health in cars where smoking is taking place; and if she... - Health Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if and when suitable residential accommodation will be found through the Health Service Executive or private nursing homes in respect of... - Medical Cards
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Services
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she or her Department have received correspondence from various persons regarding the continuation of cancer services at Sligo... - General Medical Services Scheme
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if medication required by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be provided under the GMS in respect of their son who... - Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if full after school and some weekend respite will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of their son,... - Nursing Home Accommodation
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans for a nursing home in Ballinrobe, County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13388/08] - Proposed Legislation
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to be in a position to finalise and publish legislation to introduce the new nursing home support scheme bill, A Fair...
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