Written answers
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the home care grant will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [16405/08] - Health Service Staff
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive recruitment freeze has had the effect of making it... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason patients are spending unacceptable amounts of time on trolleys in accident and emergency in view of the implementation of her... - Health Care Associated Infections
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the impact financial cuts having on laboratory testing for MRSA and other hospital acquired infections; and if she will... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for a new ten-bed spinal injuries unit at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15936/08] - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason emergency admissions to psychiatric institutions are being delayed for several days due to the lack of such specialist... - Hospital Staff
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce specialist transplant co-ordinators in all of the regional acute hospitals here in order to increase the... - Hospital Services
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a six year audit of cancer services at St. James's Hospital which has shown dramatic increases in... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange funding, which is both appropriate and necessary, to facilitate the opening of the recently completed dementia unit... - Health Service Staff
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent comment by a person (details supplied), that general practitioners are in danger of suffering... - National Diabetes Policy
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a national strategy for the treatment and prevention of diabetes in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond positively to the reasonable and finite demands of post polio survivors; and if she will make a statement on the... - National Lottery Funding
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is funding available to financially support a conference (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will look into the matter of the six-year-old child (details supplied) in County Tipperary who, despite several referrals from... - Health Services
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 431 of 26 September 2007, if the briefs have been completed for the subgroups recommended by the Report of the... - Ambulance Service
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Cork University Hospital has been without a helipad for the past number of years; the... - Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place for the future development of the regional centre of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in Cork City. [16022/08] - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who needed an urgent appointment in a hospital in Dublin three weeks ago has not... - Mental Health Services
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a proposal (details supplied). [16058/08] - Health Services
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [16061/08] - Asylum Support Services
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the general practitioners services available to asylum seekers during their first weeks as asylum seekers while they are awaiting their... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children over the age of seven waiting to have an appointment with an occupational therapist in each Health Service... - Food Safety Authority
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to introduce a ban on additives in children's food as called for by an association (details supplied). [16086/08] - National Reference Laboratory
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to provide the necessary resources to create a national reference laboratory to identify types of clostridium... - Health Services
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of grants her Department and the Health Service Executive provided to assist with the purchase of digital directional hearing... - Hospital Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was first referred to St. Finbarr's Hospital for... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a service (details supplied). [16118/08] - Health Services
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied). [16119/08] - Medical Cards
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards applied for in January, February and March 2007 and January, February and March of 2008. [16122/08] - Psychological Service
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the publication of the Health Service Executive's national review showing that children with urgent... - Health Services
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech therapists in County Laois; the average length of waiting lists to see a speech and language therapist; the... - Ambulance Service
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if patient transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16153/08] - Child Care Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of child care workers attached to the south Lee area in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16154/08] - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the health repayment scheme in view of the fact that a... - Hospital Services
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services available for stroke victims in County Louth; the proposed improvements for such services; and if she will make a statement... - Medical Cards
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16180/08] - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason people attending an oral hearing in respect of the repayment scheme understand from correspondence the hearing will be... - Health Service Prosecutions
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has on a yearly basis in the past five years taken prosecutions in the courts against nursing home... - Child Care Services
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to receive the Health Service Executive review report on its child and family services for 2007; and the action she has... - Health Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the guidelines set down by her Department for orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16195/08] - Child Care Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date when she or the Minister of State with responsibility for Children first received the Health Service Executive review report on... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the health budget for each year from 1994 to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16199/08] - Child Care Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the changes which will take place in regard to the level of funding of child care programmes and the NCIP after June... - Hospital Services
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the proposed plan to amalgamate the male and female wards at St. Conal's Hospital is to go ahead; her views on whether the patients... - Child Care Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if in view of an adjournment debate (details supplied) she will review the funding crisis that exists; and if she will make a statement... - Parliamentary Questions
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 318 and 319 of 5 February 2008, the reason Dáil Éireann was mislead even though the Health... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 176: 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... - Hospital Staff
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place by the Health Service Executive to appoint a full-time cardiologist at Sligo General Hospital; and if she will make a... - Hospital Services
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the hospitals and the number of respite places which the Health Service Executive is cancelling in 2008; the alternatives that are to be... - Health Services
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assistance given to adults suffering from Asperger's syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16333/08] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures that have been put in place to enable the residential house in Marian Avenue, Ballymahon to open, as it is completed but... - Departmental Funding
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that funding will be made available for research into muscular dystrophy as requested by an organisation (details... - Health Services
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will get a place at St. Joseph's in Trim, County Meath; and if she will make a... - Medical Cards
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she has not availed of her power under section 45(3) of the Health Act 1970 to specify by regulations the classes of persons... - Health Services
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the Health Service Executive has complied with its obligation to publish, in accordance with section 16 of the... - Health Service Contracts
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the bodies with which the Health Service Executive has contracts, agreements or arrangements carried over and given effect by virtue of... - Health Services
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a voluntary hospital, meaning a hospital which is substantially funded by means of an arrangement with the Health Service Executive... - Tobacco-Related Diseases
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of education carried out by her Department on the dangers of cigarettes among the youth here; her views on whether she is... - Hospital Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive is downgrading the level of service at Mallow General Hospital; if her attention has been drawn... - Care of the Elderly
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the alternative arrangements she has made to replace the provision of a respite care for elderly patients at Leopardstown Park Hospital... - Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [16421/08] - Health Service Staff
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are Health Service Executive employees working outside the State; if so, the number and the locations in which they work; and... - Health Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 12 were refused a respite care grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Grant Payments
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having a grant made available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [16459/08] - Hospital Services
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a project (details supplied). [16480/08] - General Medical Services Scheme
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when her Department will abolish the mandatory retirement of GMS doctors on age grounds solely as advocated by the Irish Medical Council... - Hospital Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided for provision of a day procedure unit at Mallow General Hospital; the state of development of these... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are changes in the qualifying conditions relating to the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if it is still the case that when a... - Health Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the guidelines with regard to the seeking of parental consent for procedures, investigations and interventions carried out by the Health... - Official Engagements
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, she has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States,... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the intellectual disability database does not specifically record the incidence of... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedure employed in long-stay institutions for the acceptance or rejection of offers under the nursing home repayment scheme; the... - Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedure employed in long-stay institutions for use of funds in patients' personal accounts; the audit procedures on the spending... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive payment on their claim under the health repayment scheme. [16591/08] - Health Services
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the report into the death of a person (details supplied) has been finalised by the Health Service Executive; when this report will be... - Cancer Incidence
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she has studied the incidence of the various forms of cancer, on a county, city or regional basis throughout the... - Ambulance Service
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the degree to which the strength of the ambulance service personnel, vehicles and equipment is adequate to meet or expected... - Hospital Services
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the clean air theatre at Naas Hospital, Naas, County Kildare is expected to become operational; and if she will make a statement on... - Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the network of health centres here could be further utilised in the delivery of primary or community care; and... - Health Care Associated Infections
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of incidents of MRSA or other hospital based infections reported in each of the past three years to date in 2008; the degree... - Health Service Staff
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans or proposals to ensure the appointment of sufficient nurses to meet requirements throughout the health services over the next... - Hospital Services
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital beds currently available throughout the health service; the number required at any one time; the number currently... - Health Service Staff
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of personnel at all levels required by the Health Service Executive to provide a comprehensive health service; the number of... - Health Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she or her Department have input into the formation of health policy and strategy for the health services or if the... - Health Service Staff
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of personnel employed in the delivery of the health services; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in each of the...
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