Written answers

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

  • Food Labelling
    Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she has taken to request the EU Commission to reform the food labelling laws regarding country of origin and lightly...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who had been given the family home, legally signed over to them, should have...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a hospital (details supplied) in County Mayo is not sending on outpatient referrals to the National Treatment Purchase Fund...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a couple, both over 70 years, who have savings of slightly more than €70,000 will lose their entitlement to their medical cards;...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the establishment of a private co-located hospital on the grounds of Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; and if she will...
  • Hospital Services
    Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans that exist for the expansion and upgrading of Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services Funding
    Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which hospitals here can and do engage in multi-annual budgeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40641/08]
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of expenditure allocated and utilised by the National Treatment Purchase Fund for procedures originating in Connolly...
  • Hospital Charges
    Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of hospital or accident and emergency charges which went unpaid in each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008;...
  • Health Services
    Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people who benefited from home care packages and the cost, for each of the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 projected; the amount...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will continue the provision of medical cards for the over 70s without means testing (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • General Practitioner Co-operatives
    Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [40667/08]
  • Foreign Adoptions
    Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on recent negotiations regarding the five year bilateral agreement between Ireland and Vietnam which ends on 1 May...
  • Hospital Staff
    Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses who graduated here in 2008; the number of these who are employed in public hospitals, first, on a permanent basis...
  • Hospice Care
    Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason two separate medical departments in a hospice centre (details supplied) are being closed with immediate effect until January...
  • Patient Safety
    Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the actions taken to implement the recommendations of the joint sub-committee on the adverse side-effects of pharmaceuticals; and if she...
  • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
    Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [40720/08]
  • Child Care Services
    Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason community child care facilities need to be incorporated; if her attention has been drawn to the legal implications this has...
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason contracts of employment have not been given, as promised, to home help workers working in County Kildare; and if she will...
  • Health Service Allowances
    Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review an application for mobility allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [40729/08]
  • Medical Cards
    Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the number of a specific item (details supplied) approved to date in 2008; the categories of people to which they...
  • Health Services
    Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Meath who applied in June 2008, will have a hearing test carried out; and if she will make a...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme
    Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans to include Crohn's disease under the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40759/08]
  • Health Services
    Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40760/08]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 has to wait until February 2009 for an...
  • Youth Services
    Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the National Children's Advisory Council survey of existing youth cafés has been completed; if the council has reported to her on...
  • Benchmarking Awards
    Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the benefits which accrued from benchmarking with regard to the services provided to the general public by her Department. [40874/08]
  • Health Service Staff
    Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a response has not been received from the Health Service Executive on an issue (details supplied). [40986/08]
  • Hospital Services
    Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a hospital (details supplied) in County Cork. [40995/08]
  • Care of the Elderly
    Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a public nursing home bed will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [41000/08]
  • Medical Cards
    Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the income guidelines that will apply in 2009 in assessing the entitlement of a person over 70 to a general practitioner visit card....
  • Foster Care
    Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rates for foster payments that will apply in 2009. [41007/08]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Cork City will be given an out-patient appointment at Cork University Hospital. [41010/08]
  • Mortality Levels
    Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the latest international comparisons of levels of mortality amenable to health care per 100,000 people for Ireland, France, Spain,...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assistance available to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare with an autistic child; when this child will receive a further...
  • Health Services
    Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the case of an area (details supplied) in County Westmeath in which dental services from young children have been...
  • Hospital Procedures
    Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene to ensure that young children with crania facial difficulties are treated urgently; if the necessary resources are...
  • Health Services
    Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of proposals to reopen the Grove Hospital in Tuam, County Galway as a health care facility; and if she will make a statement...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will estimate the savings that would be made by suspending incremental pay increases in 2009 with regard to her Department and...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond in full to a previous question (details supplied). [41057/08]
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average number of sick days taken by her departmental staff in each of the past three years (details supplied); the equivalent...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications for funding that were made to his Department under the national childcare investment programme on a county...
  • Medical Cards
    Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of a medical card for persons (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41172/08]
  • Consultancy Contracts
    Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money paid to consultants in the years 2000 to date in 2008; the name of each consultancy firm; the work carried out by...
  • Mental Health Services
    Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if moneys raised from the sale of psychiatric hospital buildings and lands are being ring-fenced for the development of mental health...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount paid in annual pension and retirement lump sum to each retiring member of staff in her Department over the past three years;...
  • Vaccination Programme
    Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider her decision to postpone the introduction of vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer in view of the...
  • HIV Infection
    Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 2 April 2008 if the three sub-reports from the Irish Study of Sexual Health and...

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