Written answers
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Department of Health and Children
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the bilateral agreement with Vietnam on adoption will expire; if she is negotiating a new agreement with the Vietnamese... - Health Service Staff
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Health Service Executive employees are entitled to apply for the early retirement scheme outlined in the 7 April 2009 budget; the way... - Infectious Diseases
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken at airports, ports and all other points of entry into the State in relation to screening for the swine flu... - Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford is not being given the required three home help visits per day as advised by... - Grant Payments
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reverse her decision to extend the grant aid of €150,000.00 to a centre (details supplied) in order to maintain the... - Community Development
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that a project (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be supported; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Child Care Services
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she proposes to take to alleviate the pressures on private pre-school operators when they are forced by the budget proposals... - Health Service Allowances
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application for domiciliary care allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her proposals to improve the length of time it is taking to process nursing home subvention applications in Waterford city and county;... - Health Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Health and Children on the orthodontic services published in 2005. [17391/09] - Medical Cards
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has had their medical card rescinded, despite no change of circumstances; and... - Hospital Services
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when St. Joseph's ward in Crumlin children's hospital, Dublin, will re-open. [17417/09] - Hospital Staff
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans to replace the contract and agency nursing staff in Crumlin children's hospital, Dublin, with permanent staff in view of the... - Medical Cards
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a renewal of their medical card and if she will reinstate same. [17421/09] - Hospital Services
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an orthopaedic outpatient clinic appointment at Cork University Hospital;... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the long-term charges that are appropriate for persons with a disability who are in long-term care, bearing in mind that... - Medical Cards
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in the matter of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she... - Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a psychological assessment or electroencephalography; and if she will make... - Medical Cards
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if or when she will review the refusal of a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will... - Hospital Charges
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the expected cost in the event of long-term admission to Maynooth Community Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County... - Mental Health Services
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be offered urgent psychiatric services at St. John of God Brothers, Stillorgan,... - Vaccination Programme
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children on waiting lists for the BCG vaccination in each primary community and continuing care area; the steps which are... - Health Services
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a query (details supplied). [17530/09] - Medical Cards
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a query (details supplied). [17531/09] - Mental Health Services
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 22 April 2009 regarding the national review of autism services, if she will provide the... - Care of the Elderly
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the development of a new national positive ageing strategy, which was committed to in the programme for... - Ambulance Service
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ascertain from the Health Service Executive the criteria for the allocation of calls to private ambulances for patients who... - Health Service Staff
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people on maternity leave from the Health Service Executive; the numbers expected to take maternity leave in 2009; if the... - Health Services
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will get an MRI scan and appointment for an ongoing medical condition; and if she... - Health Research
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the action plan for health research will meet its upcoming deadline; and the main conclusions. [17607/09] - Health Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of an Alzheimer care centre, respite and long-stay and in-home facility for a group (details... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will fund the provision of a bus service for women in County Donegal to travel to Belfast for BreastCheck programme services; and... - Disability Statistics
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that, as per the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 28 January 2009, it is planned to include a question... - Child Care Services
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the qualifications necessary for providers to be eligible under the new pre-school programme; her views on the difference between... - Departmental Reports
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the report of the inquiry into the deaths of persons (details supplied) in view of the fact that it has been... - Child Care Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the circumstances in which it is envisaged that a private operator in receipt of the capitation grant would be entitled to levy parents... - Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding her Department or the Health Service Executive made available to an organisation (details supplied); if this money... - Hospital Services
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford, who had a serious car crash resulting in severe brain injury, should have to... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she proposes to take to support the call by a group (details supplied) for a national bowel cancer screening programme; her... - Health Service Staff
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the five vacancies for speech and language therapists in County Mayo will be filled; if she will confirm that speech and language... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason commitments and timelines given by her Department and the Health Service Executive are not being adhered to and are... - Patient Transport
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 8 July 2008, if she will provide the corresponding figure in respect of 2008; and if she... - Ambulance Service
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the latest available figures for ambulance turnaround times at each acute hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Hospital Services
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she is requiring the transfer of breast cancer patients from an actual centre of excellence, albeit non-designated, at... - Patient Transport
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money spent by the Health Service Executive on taxis for transporting patients in County Louth for each year since 2005 to... - Medical Cards
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Cavan, whose medical card is due to expire at the end of April 2009, is entitled to a renewal;... - Health Services
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a paediatric and occupational therapist assessment will be undertaken at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, for a person (details supplied)... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the annual expenditure on external legal costs by her Department in each of the past five years; the annual expenditure on external... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in the context of a growing need for Alzheimer care in Galway city and county, including respite, long-stay and in-home provision,... - Health Services
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the situation whereby the Health Service Executive is moving patients from a six week period for chiropody services... - Hospital Services
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish a paediatric unit at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17988/09] - Medical Cards
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Clare on medical grounds; and if she will make a statement on... - Health Service Allowances
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ascertain the reason an allowance payment to a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been reduced. [18003/09] - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will refer a person (details supplied) in County Cork for surgery under the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [18010/09] - Health Services
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the access of out-of-hours general practitioner services to patients' critical medical histories in view of the... - Medical Cards
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Louth. [18032/09] - Hospital Services
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation whereby children attending Cork University Hospital are to be left without a paediatric dietician... - Health Services
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of funding provided in 2008 and allocated for 2009 to every service provider in the country involved in providing intervention... - Health Service Staff
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of nursing support provided by the Health Service Executive to a centre (details supplied) in County Laois for 2009; if this... - Child Care Services
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the early childhood care and education scheme (details supplied). [18080/09] - Hospital Charges
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 has been asked to pay the €100 hospital charge by... - Health Services
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment. [18092/09] - Parliamentary Questions
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 31 March 2009. [18093/09] - Patient Transport
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to the taxi service for Mater Hospital, Dublin, outpatient appointments; the reason this service has been... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the tender documents for St. Vincent's cystic fibrosis unit, Dublin, will be published; when she expects the work to start and be... - Health Services
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services and facilities currently available for people with severe eating disorders; if she will provide funding for persons... - Child Care Services
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm having received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied); her views on whether the inclusion of...
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