Written answers
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Department of Health and Children
- Recreational Facilities
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in relation to the programme for Government commitment to increase the development of public play and recreation areas... - Sports Sponsorship
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in relation to the programme for Government commitment to discuss the question of the sponsorship of sporting events... - National Drugs Strategy
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to open two cocaine specific treatment centres, in addition to... - Health Services
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to improve health facilities on the offshore islands to ensure... - Health Service Allowances
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if domiciliary allowance has been approved for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when payment will be made; if it will be... - Youth Services
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to provide extra resources to progress the implementation... - Adoption Services
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the bilateral agreement for the purpose of adoption between Ireland and Vietnam will be reviewed after 30 April 2009 when it expires;... - Food Safety
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures which will be taken in view of the total recall of pork foodstuffs to ensure the future safety of public health, in... - Health Services
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the staff complement approved for the community welfare service in the Waterford and Wexford local health office areas, respectively;... - Food Supplements
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has had discussions at EU level regarding the prospect that the EU Commission Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General... - Hospital Staff
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the exemption of non-consultant hospital doctors from the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997; and if she will... - Hospital Services
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will meet a delegation comprising the four Clare Oireachtas Members and members of Clare County Council to discuss the proposals... - Youth Services
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when information and duplicate application will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1472/09] - Health Services
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if participants on the drug treatment programme are receiving access to full treatment services within the timeframe of one month; and... - Child Care Services
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason county child care committees have not been informed in relation to national child care investment programme capital funding... - Departmental Reports
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the study on the capacity of the Cork University Maternity Hospital has been completed; if and when it will be published; and if she... - Hospital Staff
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason two consultant posts (details supplied) have yet to be filled; when these positions will be filled in view of the fact that... - Health Service Executive Property
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the intended use of the Health Service Executive owned land that has been lying idle for 30 years at Blackcourt Road, Corduff, Dublin... - Health Centres
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if private bids have been received to build a primary care centre for Corduff, Dublin 15; and if so, the proposed location of same.... - Mental Health Services
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the changes proposed in the management structures within the Clare mental health services; if these structures are in line with the... - Hospital Services
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 27 November 2008 has been circulated to each of the hospital networks here; if not, if the question... - Food Labelling
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food have made the case to the EU Commission that country of origin labelling be... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all consultants in a hospital (details supplied) in County Donegal have equal workloads and equal waiting times; if there is a... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the waiting list for the National Treatment Purchase Fund is three months; if so, the reason a person (details supplied) in County... - Health Services
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been told that they will have to wait four months to receive a test for a... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views in relation to correspondence (details supplied) regarding the nursing home Bill; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure the transfer of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 to a more appropriate placement; and if she will make a... - General Medical Services Scheme
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the availability of a drug (details supplied) under the medical card and drug payment scheme; the conditions in respect of which it is... - Medicinal Products
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied); the reason a reply has not been received; and if she will make a statement on... - Hospital Services
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding breast cancer services in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [48069/08] - Health Services
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [48070/08] - Health Service Staff
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are any medical doctors practising here who have been removed from the practitioners' register in the UK; the mechanisms in... - Health Services
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [48105/08] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money that has been diverted from mental health local budgets into the legal costs of challenges to tribunal discussions;... - Legal Fees
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason her Department or the Health Service Executive has not made full settlement with a person (details supplied) in relation to a... - Health Services
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [48125/08] - Hospital Procedures
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the protocols in hospitals for patients waiting for transplant operations and in particular the protocols that... - Medical Practitioners Act
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason Part 6 of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 has not been implemented; if she will make immediate arrangements to implement... - Medical Cards
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on granting a medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the exceptional circumstances that apply.... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress to date in delivering the hospital beds in each of the co-located private hospitals identified by the Health Service... - Health Services
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in the case of separated or divorced parents who have joint guardianship of their child, the consent of both parents is required in... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a repayment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of the nursing home charges repayment scheme.... - Health Services
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children who have had to be given emergency accommodation in Garda stations as a result of lack of appropriate care... - Health Service Staff
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a dietician will be appointed to the vacant post in west Cork. [1033/09] - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken to reduce waiting periods for patients attending the accident and emergency unit at Beaumont Hospital;... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding St. Loman's Psychiatric Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath, in view of the fact that the 40-bed admission unit... - Vaccination Programme
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to roll back on her decision taken in 2008, with regard to the provision of the HPV vaccine; and if she will make a statement... - Health Service Staff
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will fund staff for a care centre (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1063/09] - Health Services
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [1064/09] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will itemise the following costs associated with the purchase of the Bon Secours Hospital, Tuam, County Galway, by price paid... - Hospital Staff
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a second consultant will be appointed in a region (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1130/09] - Medical Cards
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding medical card holders, including old age pensioners, being required to pay top-up fees to chiropodists; and if... - Health Service Staff
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of orthopaedic surgeons working for the Health Service Executive in each HSE region; and if she will make a statement on the... - Health Services
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the facilities or advice available to transsexuals here who seek medical assistance in dealing with their transsexualism; if there are... - Disabled Drivers
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received an application for a primary medical certificate under the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Tax Concessions... - Medical Cards
Question 394: 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. [1178/09] - Health Services
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the arrangements in place regarding ongoing treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a... - Medical Cards
Question 396: 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... - Health Services
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will provide alternative accommodation for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [1195/09] - Child Care Services
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support and develop services for vulnerable children. [1218/09] - Hospital Charges
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if charges apply to pregnant women who present for out-patient procedures related to their pregnancies such as scans or ultrasounds, in... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when waiting lists of two years will be reduced in cases of patients awaiting ophthalmology examinations; if her attention has been... - Health Services
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the hospitals and the number of respite places which the Health Service Executive is cancelling in 2009; the alternatives it is to put... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding made available in 2007 and 2008 to the disability sector; the budget for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 407: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing home refund appeals processed in each of the past 12 months; the length of time it is taking to process each... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the turnaround time for cervical smears analysed by a company (details supplied); if she is satisfied with this; and if she will make a... - Infectious Diseases
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 21 October 2008, the measures that are in place to deal with a potential influenza... - Health Service Construction Projects
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of a project (details supplied) in County Leitrim; the timetable for its construction; the revised costings in view of the... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 will be passed; if it is approved by the Oireachtas, when the new system will become... - Health Service Staff
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to employ the recommended number of neurologists and relevant staff up from the current number of approved posts of 24 to 42;... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding that has been provided in the 2009 capital investment programme for the new 40-bed hospital in Kenmare, County... - Health Services
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the death of a person (details supplied); the reason an adequate assessment of their health needs and a stable... - Health Service Statistics
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people who die unnecessarily from the effects of stroke here on an annual basis; if her attention has been drawn to a... - Hospital Services
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is expected that stroke units will be set up in locations throughout the country that are adequately staffed with... - Health Services
Question 425: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of home care packages that have been provided in 2007 and 2008; the extent of finance provided for such home care packages;... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 426: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application made under the nursing home repayment scheme in August 2006 by a person (details supplied) in County Cork;... - Health Service Statistics
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the statistics for a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1412/09] - Children in Care
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in the care of the State for each of the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 with a year-by-year breakdown by an age group... - Health Service Staff
Question 434: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of vacancies for social work positions in community care areas across the State in December 2008; and if she will make a... - Ministerial Travel
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by her and Ministers of State, officials, persons in agencies, offices or bodies under the remit of her Department, on... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 436: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rate of interest that has to be paid to a claimant in the event of a successful claim in relation to a scheme (details supplied).... - Ministerial Staff
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in her private office and constituency office in 2008 broken down by grade; the salary cost including overtime,... - Parliamentary Questions
Question 444: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a full reply has not issued to date for previously asked parliamentary questions (details supplied); and if she will issue... - Health Services
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a scan. [1580/09] - Medical Cards
Question 447: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if and 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... - Health Services
Question 452: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the scale of provision of services provided in the medical genetics area dealing with the study of the inheritance of disease in... - Compensation Schemes
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the introduction of a compensation scheme for those persons not covered in an earlier scheme in respect of... - Parliamentary Questions
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in her reply dated 18 November 2008 to this Deputy's parliamentary question she... - Medical Cards
Question 457: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department or the Health Service Executive has informed all the community welfare staff and all general practitioners of the... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 458: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made in relation to the construction of a new national rehabilitation hospital to replace the out-of-date... - Corporate Legal Services
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status, in view of the pressure on public finances and the need to make real savings particularly in non-front line areas, of an... - Health Service Staff
Question 460: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the need for two full-time social workers and a psychologist at the Ballyfermot-Lucan mental health... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if cuts are planned in 2009 in respect of people with an intellectual disability in view of the fact that there was a €17 million cut... - Mental Health Strategy
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the implementation of the Government's strategy on mental health, A Vision for Change; the funding available for the... - Child Protection
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the actions she will take to ensure future and mandatory compliance by relevant authorities with all parts of the Health Service... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 465: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to date involved in the proposal to relocate the Central Mental Hospital from Dundrum to Thornton Hall in Dublin; the breakdown... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 466: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the application for the health repayment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and when a... - Health Services
Question 467: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to reduce the waiting times for speech and language therapy for children living in Drimnagh, Crumlin and Kimmage... - Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 469: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to include the condition systematic lupus erythematosus in the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a... - Health Services
Question 470: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [1755/09] - Medical Cards
Question 472: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the steering group on medical cards which was to report by the autumn of 2008 has completed its work; if so, if a report has been... - Alcohol Advertising Codes
Question 473: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the consultative panel for the revised code in respect of alcohol advertising and marketing to children has been established; if so,... - Medical Cards
Question 475: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 who was recently refused a medical card; and if their... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 477: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average cost per year of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; her plans for the future of this scheme; and if she will make a... - Nursing Home Inspections
Question 478: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an inspection system for public nursing homes comparable to that operating in private nursing homes will be in place; and if she... - Health Services
Question 479: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive employs case managers to oversee the transfer of patients from a hospital to subsequent care, a... - Parliamentary Questions
Question 481: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of parliamentary questions directed to her Department for 2008 which have been subsequently redirected to the Health Service... - Health Service Staff
Question 483: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the plans expressed by parents and the large number of children in Maynooth, Celbridge and Leixlip, County Kildare... - Parliamentary Questions
Question 484: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a full reply has not issued to date for previously asked parliamentary questions (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Hospital Services
Question 485: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to assist a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who is in need of admission to a hospital to have a... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 486: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will outline, in the context of nursing home subvention and the fair deal legislation, the position where a person who sustains... - Child Care Services
Question 488: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when Pobal will allocate payments due to the various community and not-for-profit child care groups, many of whom are left in a position... - Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 489: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason autism is not regarded as long-term illness under the terms of the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement... - Medical Cards
Question 490: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a child who is diagnosed with autism is not automatically awarded a general practitioner visit card or a full medical card;... - Infectious Diseases
Question 491: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that €20 million was allocated by the Health Service Executive for microbiologists and infection-control nurses... - Child Care Services
Question 495: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 107, 121, 122 and 123 of 11 December 2008, the amount of the €58,650 awarded to a crèche... - Hospital Services
Question 496: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timeframe for the closure of St. Joseph's Psychiatric Hospital, Limerick, in accordance with the policy of moving patients to more... - Parliamentary Questions
Question 499: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 25 November 2008. [1969/09] - Health Service Allowances
Question 503: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the qualifying criteria for domiciliary care allowance; if it is the case that parents of autistic children are deemed ineligible; if... - Medical Cards
Question 505: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the persons who are exempt from the means assessment of the over 70 years medical card due to EU regulations; and if she will make a... - Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 506: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department or State and semi-State agencies under the control of her Department issue guidelines to voluntary groups provided... - Ministerial Staff
Question 508: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of civil servants engaged solely in constituency work on behalf of the Ministers of State in her Department at present; and... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 512: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their payment under the health repayment scheme. [2121/09] - Parliamentary Questions
Question 513: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 16 December 2008. [2128/09] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 514: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services and facilities available to autistic children in County Clare; if there are plans to improve the service; and if she will... - Medical Malpractice
Question 517: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if in view of the findings of the Medical Council in a case (details supplied) and the decision of the Medical Council not to publish... - Health Service Staff
Question 518: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the ongoing education and training programmes in place for the Health Service Executive's local health officers and management to... - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 520: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if proposals have been put to her for the reorganisation of accident and emergency departments in Dublin; if she has issued policy... - Mental Health Services
Question 521: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the year in which each day care and workshop facility was last inspected by the inspector of mental health services; and if she will... - Compensation Schemes
Question 522: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy on mesothelioma patients who develop that condition as a result of working with asbestos in a State or semi-State company;... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 523: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the budget that her Department is making available to the Health Service Executive in 2009 to enable the employment of personal... - Health Services
Question 525: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [2291/09] - Hospital Services
Question 527: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment date for surgery; and if she will make a statement on the... - Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 528: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedures which have been put in place for the cessation by the Health Service Executive of the housing aid for the elderly scheme... - Health Services
Question 529: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a payment will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 530: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if phase 3C of Naas General Hospital is included in the Health Service Executive revised capital plan for the remainder of the national... - Health Service Staff
Question 531: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 9 December 2008, the number of personal assistants currently employed or funded by the... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 532: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people in receipt of a nursing home subvention; the proportion of same who have been classified as medium, high and... - Departmental Reports
Question 534: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the national review of adult day services has been completed by the Health Service Executive; if it will be submitted for the... - Medical Cards
Question 535: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make changes to the medical card eligibility scheme to allow all participants on the wage subsidy scheme to retain their... - International Agreements
Question 537: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she must take for ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to proceed; and if she will... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 538: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the expenses and allowances paid to each Minister and to each Minister of State by her Department since the formation of the Government...
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