Written answers
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Department of Health and Children
- Misuse of Drugs Act
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a shop (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is selling party pills and advertising mind... - Departmental Agencies
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new agencies created since 1997 to date in 2008; the budget for each in all of those years; and the number of staff... - Health Service Payments
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when outstanding payments, owed to nursing home operators since January 2008, of €6.5 million in enhanced payments of €5.5 million... - Nursing Home Standards
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide resources to support the implementation of the draft national quality standards for residential care settings in... - Care of the Elderly
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to ensure that access to health services such as physiotherapy, chiropody, dental care and so on for older people in nursing... - Proposed Legislation
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will introduce the fair deal legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34445/08] - Hospital Services
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be allocated an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Pre-School Services
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on the commitment in the Programme for Government to provide access to a pre-school place for every child by 2012; if... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of acute beds closed or unavailable to patients in a hospital (details supplied) in County Laois; the reason the beds are... - Medical Cards
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34478/08] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is responsible for setting the annual budget for services to children with special needs; and if she will make a statement on the... - Child Welfare and Protection
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the specific actions she has taken on the basis of the statement by the Children's Ombudsman on 1 July 2008 that the State is falling... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether there is a lack of demographic and related information on special need prevalence, particularly in view of the broad... - Pre-School Services
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will implement the pre-school provision recommendation 5.2 from the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004,... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive returned unspent funds to the Exchequer at the end of 2007; if so, the amount involved; the reason it was... - Patient Statistics
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department, the Health Service Executive or the Health Information Quality Authority has plans to monitor, collate and report on a... - Hospital Services
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide for the continuation of surgical services at Bantry General Hospital (details supplied); if the Health Service... - Mental Health Services
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to properly resource the child and adolescent mental health services in order that timely interventions are provided for... - Health Services
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a consultant specialist in diabetes will be able to see a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a... - Medical Cards
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the specific plans she has to deal with the need for approximately 2,000 citizens who are amputees and who must pay for their own... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an outpatient clinic appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is on the orthopaedic hip... - Health Services
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [34531/08] - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the length of the waiting list for admission to the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. [34539/08] - Health Services
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the criteria being used in the assessment of hours required for home support workers; if there has been a change in this overall criteria... - Health Service Allowances
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the upper age limit being removed from the motorised transport grant, she will remove the upper age limit for the mobility... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications received under the nursing home repayment scheme; the number of applicants issued offers to date; the number... - Infectious Diseases
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of claims lodged with the State Claims Agency for compensation as a result of patients acquiring hospital infections; the... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role the National Treatment Purchase Fund will have in identifying and recommending nursing homes under the nursing home support... - Information Obligations
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has completed her list of information obligations which their regulations impose on businesses; if so, the obligations involved;... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if enhanced subvention support will be awarded in respect of the nursing home charges of a person (details supplied) in County Cork.... - Child Care Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if grant aid is available from her Department for outdoor play areas for an established child care facility (details supplied) in County... - EU Directives
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of EU measures which have been transposed into primary or secondary legislation by her Department in the past 12 months; if... - Homeless Persons
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children who are alone and homeless in each Health Service Executive region; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 4 July 2006 regarding the status of the development project for a community hospital, day... - Health Services
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [34683/08] - Hospital Staff
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the staff establishment at the DCD unit in St Finbarr's Hospital, Cork; the actual number and position in place; the vacancies and the... - Health Services
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is grant assistance or funding available towards the cost of an assessment and sessional occupational therapy for a child... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason an agreed repayment under the health repayment scheme has not been awarded to date to a person (details supplied) in County... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 has been told, in October 2008, that their child's residential placement promised for... - Health Services
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive corporate finance will make available to a service (details supplied) funds which are approved by her... - Prohibited Substances
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to deal with intoxicating or hallucinogenic substances being sold legally in health or alternative medicine shops... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her view on whether in cases of Down's syndrome, early intervention is crucial to ensure permanent problems are avoided and to ensure... - Suicide Prevention
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place to provide training at the workplace level to prevent suicide; her plans to work in conjunction with the Department... - Mental Health Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a review of the area of informed consent to treatment within the mental health system here will be undertaken; and if she will make a... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason an application made for a refund under the health repayment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been... - Patient Statistics
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have presented themselves to accident and emergency departments who have attempted suicide in each of the... - Suicide Incidence
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who died by suicide in the first, second and third quarters of each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the subvention that was paid by the Health Service Executive western area in the past year, detailing the amounts paid to each nursing... - Medicinal Products
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will introduce a programme to recover unused medicines, appliances and so on from people where these... - Energy Efficiency Strategy
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department or the Health Service Executive has a specific energy efficiency strategy to ensure the sustainable and cost-effective... - Patient Safety
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to implement the recommendations of the Commission on Patient Safety; if the drafting of all the legislative... - Hospital Procedures
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Health Service Executive position on cord blood collection at the time of infant birth; and if there are plans to investigate stem... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it remains Government policy to proceed with the construction of a new National Children's Hospital at the Mater Hospital site; and... - Medical Cards
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a... - Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on making nicotine patches and so on available on the drugs refund scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in dealing with a complaint issued under the provisions of section 9 of the Health Act 2004 (details supplied).... - Medical Cards
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the company to which the Health Service Executive has awarded a contract to carry out... - Vaccination Programme
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason persons are charged for the administering of the flu vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35034/08] - Proposed Legislation
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the fair deal legislation and scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35037/08] - Medical Cards
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional cost to the Exchequer if all medical card limits were raised to the lowest social welfare rates for adults and children;... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has received an application for funding from organisations (details supplied) setting out the position whereby further... - Child Care Services
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the position held by her Department whereby all applications for child care subvention have to be...
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