Written answers
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the grants available through her Department for assisting with the running of a community facility (details supplied) in County Kildare;... - Health Service Staff
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an appointment will be made for an occupational therapist for the Dublin west area for children with special needs from six years... - Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to make grants available under the Dormant Accounts Fund suicide prevention measure; if she will confirm that the... - Pension Provisions
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason staff at the Central Remedial Clinic are subject to the pension levy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16639/09] - Health Levy
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to an issue regarding the health levy (details supplied). [16706/09] - Departmental Reports
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are barriers preventing the publishing of the report compiled by the Vaccine Damage Steering Group that was presented recently... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if adequate funding will continue to be made available for the provision of training programmes in Prosper Fingal in September 2009 for... - Medical Cards
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of non-Irish nationals who have full GMS cards and doctor visit cards; the cost of same to the State; and if she will make a... - Child Care Services
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [16152/09] - Hospital Services
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there are no neurosurgical facilities at University College Hospital Galway; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that... - Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason an application for refund of nursing home charges on behalf of a person (details supplied) has not been processed; and if she... - Medical Cards
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the problems that have arisen since the processing of medical cards for persons aged 70 and over have... - Child Care Services
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the preliminary costings on the proposed year of pre-school announced in the 7 April 2009 budget; the participation levels assumed in... - Medical Cards
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of general medical services scheme patients nationally who were sent review forms in 2007 and 2008; the number of forms... - Health Service Staff
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if staffing allocation levels at the primary care reimbursement service have changed in view of recent plans to centralise the PCRS... - Health Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [16189/09] - Health Service Executive Property
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the premises that are being rented or leased in the Health Service Executive western area; the location of each unit and the cost of... - Hospital Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for admission to St. Vincent's Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin; and if... - Medical Cards
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a medical card due to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospital Services
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the medical, surgical and consultative services currently provided in Bantry General Hospital, County Cork; and the budget provided for... - Health Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will receive further speech therapy sessions. [16233/09] - Child Care Services
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the eligibility criteria for child care facilities that wish to cater for the new pre-school year scheme; and if she will make a... - Positive Ageing Strategy
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the first inter-departmental group charged with managing the National Positive Ageing Strategy first met; the number of times it... - Water Quality
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the presence of dioxins in bottled water exposed to sunlight has been determined; and if precautionary public health measures are... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be given an appointment for an operation. [16258/09] - Health Services
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the issues raised in correspondence from a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16259/09] - Health Expenditure
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to her statement in Dail Éireann on 10 March 2009, the amount that is spent on private health insurance, out of pocket medical... - Health Services
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment date for an outpatients clinic in the Midland Hospital,... - Nursing Home Closure
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received petitions and representations from the people of Carlow opposing the closure of a nursing home (details supplied);... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is awaiting surgery will be treated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Medical Cards
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [16277/09] - Departmental Agencies
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of proposals 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 contained within annex D of budget 2009; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she received or sought legal advice before attempting to abolish the training grant, living out allowance and paid lunch break for... - Health Services
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to award moneys to allow hospitals on Dublin's northside to involve patients, whose acute care is complete, to suitable... - Medical Cards
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W is entitled to a medical card based on being married to a medical card holder who is over 70... - Compensation Payments
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of claims settled and compensation payments paid by the Health Service Executive, split by county, for the years 2006, 2007... - Child Care Services
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the 70,000 places required for the universal preschool programme will be provided; if there will be a substantial reliance on... - Legislative Programme
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the legislation approved by Dail Éireann in 2007 and 2009 pertaining to her Department; and if he will list and clarify what originated... - Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be given an appointment for orthodontic works; and if she will make a statement on... - Ambulance Service
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the controls which will be put in place, when the Kildare ambulance control centre is closed on 31 August 2009, to ensure that... - Health Service Staff
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the last rheumatoid arthritis doctor's contract was not renewed in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim; if the current doctor is a... - Positive Ageing Strategy
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the national positive ageing strategy as committed to in the programme for Government 2007; and if she will make... - Health Services
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that adequate transparency was observed in the tendering process undergone by nursing homes for the winter... - Hospital Staff
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the moratorium on recruitment in the public service applies to hospital consultants; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Mental Health Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the proceeds from the sale of psychiatric hospitals will be retained for the development of the mental health services; and if she... - Health Services
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will sanction additional home help support for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [16400/09] - Hospital Staff
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the effect of the recruitment ban in the Health Service Executive on the acute hospital services and community health services in County... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make funding available to refurbish facilities at a hospital (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a... - Hospital Staff
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if emergency staff will be subject to the recruitment freeze; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16414/09] - Child Care Services
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the capital funding originally designated for each county child care committee in 2009; the capital spend in each case; the implications... - Health Services
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16519/09] - Hospital Services
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if antenatal classes will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork at Cork University Maternity Hospital; and if she... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is acceptable that general medical services patients are charged for the taking of cervical smears under the... - Health Service Expenditure
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount the Health Service Executive south has paid to solicitors in legal fees; the number of solicitors employed for this sum; the... - Mental Health Services
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to provide accommodation for the 319 people with an intellectual disability currently living in psychiatric... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds dedicated to the treatment of patients with cystic fibrosis and their location; the activity rate and occupation rate... - Hospital Services
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a report on the activities of the heart and lung transplant unit here; if her attention has been drawn to the fact... - Health Service Staff
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to deal with the understaffing that exists within the Health Service Executive department which deals with foster care in... - Health Service Allowances
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has been refused domiciliary care allowance in respect of their foster child... - Child Care Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason promised capital grant funding of €744,000 to a group (details supplied) for new childcare facilities is no longer... - Health Services
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the matter of payment of fees to chiropodists will be resolved; if her attention has been drawn to the problems that are being... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the support available to families whose relatives are in private nursing home facilities and where the nursing home resident has had, to... - Commissions of Investigation
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to receive the Leas Cross Report; if families will be given advanced copy of same; if it will be published in full; and... - Medical Cards
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be reached in respect of a medical card application for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if further assistance can or will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in relation to nursing home fees (details... - Medical Cards
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16793/09] - Health Services
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the condition of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Staff
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of public servants in receipt of long service increments; the cost to the taxpayer of same; and if she will make a statement...
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