Written answers
				Wednesday, 11 February 2009
  				
Department of Health and Children
				 
  - Hospital Services 
 Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the provision currently made for in-patients in the Mid-West Regional Hospital who require speech therapy and occupational therapy,...
- Accident and Emergency Services 
 Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  if hospitals have a facility to allow patients to pay their accident and emergency bills by credit card; if not, the reason for same;...
- Health Service Staff 
 Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  her plans to amend legislation to differentiate between physiotherapists and physical therapists; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Services 
 Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the reason a person (details supplied) has been removed from the care of a facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Tobacco Products 
 Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the proposed regulations to be brought forward regarding provisions for the sale of tobacco products; and if she will make a statement...
- Medical Cards 
 Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  if she has issued regulations or guidelines to set out the way different assets, shareholdings, shares in private companies, unit funds...
- Hospital Waiting Lists 
 Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has been told that they must wait for another nine months for an operation at...
- Health Services 
 Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive the orthodontic treatment for which they have been waiting since 2004....
- Cancer Screening Programme 
 Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the funding she has committed towards the development of the breast cancer services at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital...
- Hospital Waiting Lists 
 Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  if he will expedite an outpatient appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is on the orthopaedic knee...
- Care of the Elderly 
 Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the number of beds in long stay homes and hospitals for the elderly which the Health Service Executive plan to close in 2009; the number...
- Nursing Home Accommodation 
 Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the number of additional or replacement long stay nursing home beds currently under construction; the number of the additional or...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme 
 Question 193: 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...
- Health Services 
 Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  her views on correspondence regarding services in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Meath; if domiciliary care allowance...
- Hospital Staff 
 Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the number of nurse vacancies that are currently unfilled at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; when these critical positions will be filled;...
- Health Services 
 Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  when approval will be received from the Health Service Executive national director of estates to proceed further with the development of...
- Hospital Accommodation 
 Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the health and safety grounds on which the decision was made to close a 19 bed unit at St Patrick's Hospital in Waterford; if a report...
- Hospitals Building Programme 
 Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  her plans to build a new 50 bed unit at St Patrick's geriatric care hospital in Waterford; the stage such plans are at; if funding is...
- Smoking Ban 
 Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  if she will review her decision not to initiate the process of imposing a ban on smoking in vehicles transporting children under 16...
- Health Services 
 Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  if she will expedite an application for three additional home care hours for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason...
- Homeless Persons 
 Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children  the number of young homeless persons sleeping rough at present; the number who slept rough on 3 February 2009 during the snow; if there...
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