Written answers
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Department of Health and Children
- Youth Services
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 534 of 5 February 2008, if the review of the Youth Work Development Plan 2003 to 2007 has been... - Female Genital Mutilation
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that according to UNICEF 8,000 young girls every day are subject to female genital... - Child Care Services
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will make a decision on funding and if she will provide funding for applications (details supplied). [14539/09] - Pension Provisions
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon is being subjected to the public service pension levy despite the fact that... - EU Directives
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to the introduction of a proper food labelling system within the EU; and if she will make a statement on the... - Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position on the bilateral adoption agreement signed with Vietnam in 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14782/09] - Health Services
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with the movement of cancer care services from Sligo to the position at the Galway regional centre, she will reconsider same in view... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be given an appointment for surgery at St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Cork. [14039/09] - Eating Disorders
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting lists for St. Columcille's Hospital, Dublin 1; the steps being taken by her to aid St. Columcille's Hospital; the measures... - Departmental Reports
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the report of the vaccine damage steering group; the reason for the delay in its publication; and if she will make a... - Health Services
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [14059/09] - Medical Cards
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she has chosen to use gross income as the basis of the means test for medical cards in respect of persons aged 70 years and... - Health Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [14088/09] - Health Services
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive proposes to publish a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14113/09] - Nursing Education
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on the introduction of nurse prescribing as provided for in the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995; and if she will make a... - Proposed Legislation
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will introduce legislation regarding consent for the retention of human tissue by hospitals and other institutions; and if she... - Hospital Services
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the recent decision to postpone the building of new, dedicated cystic fibrosis facilities at St Vincent's Hospital,... - Youth Services
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when final decisions will be made on the operation of the programme for the funding of youth cafes in 2009; and if she will make a... - Health Repayment Scheme
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason persons (details supplied) are having problems getting moneys repaid under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006, commonly... - Departmental Staff
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the payments made to senior officials in her Department under the performance related pay scheme for each of the years 2005 to 2008, if... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of eligible women who have been screened by BreastCheck as of 31 January 2009, broken down by county; and if she will make... - Health Service Staff
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is employed by the Health Service Executive is exempt from the pension levy; and if she... - Departmental Contracts
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of limited companies, established as sole trader ventures, with agreements for the provision of services on a full-time basis... - Health Services
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospice beds in counties Wicklow, Wexford, Kildare, Carlow, Kilkenny, Meath, Laois and Offaly; the number of palliative... - Hospital Services
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of setting up the lung transplant unit at the Mater Hospital, Dublin; the cost of maintaining the unit, on an annual basis; the... - Health Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the commitment that a health campus would be built in Tuam, County Galway, will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on... - Health Repayment Scheme
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo qualifies for the health repayment scheme. [14292/09] - Health Services
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the out of hours social worker services available in the Cork area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14470/09] - Child Care Services
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that three quarters of the 650,000 calls to a help-line (details supplied) in 2008 were made... - Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department provides multi-annual funding to community or voluntary sector organisations; and if so, the organisations receiving... - Ambulance Service
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of proposed new ambulance bases in towns (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the delay in progressing the... - Diabetes Incidence
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a numerical county by county permanent residential breakdown of patients with a diagnosis of diabetes who had full... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of providing mobile telephony and PDA services for her in each of the years since 2002, broken down by handset purchase costs,... - Health Services
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans in place to move rheumatology services from Our Lady's Hospital, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim to Sligo General... - Medical Cards
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive have moved the processing of medical cards from Roselawn Health Centre in Blanchardstown Dublin... - Child Care Services
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a proposal (details supplied) in view of its importance to the community; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a psychological and behavioural assessment will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a... - Medical Cards
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the saving that will be made from the return of 19,445 over 70 years medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Service Staff
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the decision not to renew temporary contracts for nursing staff; the way this applies to nurses currently under contract;... - Health Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application for referral of a person (details supplied) in County Cork was received; if so, if an appointment will be expedited in... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a date for a hip replacement operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of the... - Medical Cards
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is an offence for anyone over 70 years with gross income over €700 single or €1400 couple to retain their medical card; if so,... - Health Service Staff
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if new clinical directors are being appointed in the area of psychiatry; if so, the way they will relate to the clinical directors... - Medical Cards
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the basis on which a person over 70 years who has surrendered their medical card and subsequently re-applies for a card, is means... - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there has been reconsideration of the practice of not returning aids such as crutches, walking frames and wheelchairs for re-use; if... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the stage of the planning of a new building for St. Mary's Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath; if the finance to build the project is... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the primary, community and continuing care here which are not in any circumstances paying enhanced nursing home subvention; and if she... - Hospital Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene in order to prevent the planned closure of 24 hour accident and emergency services at Ennis General Hospital,... - Medical Cards
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; the card number; and if she will make a statement on the... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be put in place for day placement in September 2009 with a service for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;... - Medical Cards
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card renewal will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Service Staff
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people working in the public service under temporary employment contracts on a fixed-term basis who will lose their jobs...
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