Written answers
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Department of Health and Children
- Ambulance Service
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive has failed to fund the Dublin Fire Brigade service in Swords... - Hospitals Building Programme
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of her co-location hospital plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20590/09] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the implementation of direct payments to people with disabilities to allow consumer choice in accessing services and... - Medical Cards
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the centralisation of assessment of medical card applications is proceeding; the way, in that context, applications on hardship or... - Health Services
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 133 terminally ill patients are seeking access to hospice care and are being forced to... - Child Protection
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the structures in her Department to oversee the extent to which the social services operated by the Health Service Executive are properly... - Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the incidence of foetal alcohol syndrome in the State; the policy of her Department in preventing, diagnosing and supporting children and... - Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ask the Health Service Executive to review its practice of not recycling Zimmer frames and crutches; and if she will make a... - Cancer Screening Programme
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received the Health Information and Quality Authority health technology assessment on colorectal screening; when this... - Children in Care
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measure taken, in view of the failure of the local health office to respond to concerns regarding incidents of alleged attacks,... - Homeless Children
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will open a new unit to cater for homeless children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20657/09] - Health Insurance
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a decision from the European Commission with regard to the new health insurance levy; and if she will make a... - Pre-school Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that there is sufficient pre-school places to allow the rollout of the pre-school year due to commence in January... - Monageer Inquiry Report
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish, in full, the report of the Monageer inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20656/09] - Medical Cards
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of people covered by the full medical card and the doctor only card respectively, in view of the recent downturn in the... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a mechanism for independent inspections of care facilities for people with disabilities. [20660/09] - Child Protection
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a report recently completed which confirms that there are hundreds of cases reported to the Health... - Children in Care
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it cost the State €2,446,196 during 2008 to provide specialised residential care to... - Ambulance Service
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to licence or regulate the private ambulance services in the interest of prioritising and ensuring patient safety; and if she... - Mental Health Services
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extra beds planned for 2009 for child and adolescent psychiatry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20470/09] - Accident and Emergency Services
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on progress since she declared accident and emergency services a national emergency in March 2006; her views on... - Hospital Accommodation
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the widespread concern at the closure of wards in various hospitals around the country; the impact... - Health Services
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason home help hours are being reduced in many parts of the country; if she will initiate an examination of the way home help might... - Child Protection
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will deliver a 24 hour social work service nationally to respond to all serious child protection and welfare concerns, as... - Youth Services
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of youth cafes she has funded here; the location and amount of funding provided; and if she will fund further such facilities.... - Health Services
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures that are in place and will be put in place to give the professional help required to those who were abused by a doctor... - Food Labelling
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made with regard to ensuring foodstuffs of foreign origin cannot be labelled as having been produced here; and... - Hospital Staff
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the extra consultants promised under the 100 plus scheme to be all appointed; her plans for other consultant... - Health Services
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to provide out-of-hours social work services, as recommended by the Monageer Report. [20662/09] - Hospital Services
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Prospectus review of critical care services will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20414/09] - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when, in view of the fact that the 2004 Comptroller and Auditor General report on the National Treatment Purchase Fund did not compare... - Screening Programmes
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to have in place a national neonatal screening service for cystic fibrosis; her proposals to roll out such a service;... - Health Services
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to her plans for co-location; the full extent of funding already spent or committed in this regard; the degree to... - Mental Health Services
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the annual report on the Mental Health Commission. [20659/09] - Hospital Accommodation
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has found a way to address the financing of the promised beds for cystic fibrosis patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; and... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the proposal to have a single waiting list for colonoscopies as a consequence of the agreeing of the new consultants contract will... - Hospital Services
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is planned to close the stroke unit in Sligo General Hospital; if this will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Staff
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when her attention was first drawn to the issue of consultants who have opted for a public-only contract not being able to admit patients... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding that will be spent in 2009 to implement A Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20469/09] - Health Service Staff
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the major problems arising as a result of the moratorium on replacing health service staff which in... - Hospital Services
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene to prevent the removal of all acute in-patient services from Monaghan General Hospital, as planned for 31 May 2009;... - Health Services
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been given an assessment of the long-term affects on services and waiting times of the widespread cutbacks to front-line... - Health Service Staff
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of grade VIII or above posts she has approved for the Health Service Executive in 2009; and if she will make a statement on... - Care of the Elderly
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the home care systems available to the elderly and disabled in view of cases (details supplied); if this is... - Health Services
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the introduction of a no-fault compensation scheme within the health services such as that which operates successfully in... - Commissions of Investigation
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a copy of the final report into a nursing hone (details supplied); if she will publish the report; if, and when, she... - Ambulance Service
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans for a comprehensive air ambulance service here; her views on whether this service is more urgently needed in the... - Medicinal Products
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps, arising from a statement (details supplied) regarding the decision to ban benzylpiperazine, planned to enforce the ban and to... - Hospital Staff
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is the case that a new chief executive officer has been appointed for the proposed new tertiary paediatric hospital in Dublin; when... - Health Services
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to ensure safe practices, including throughput of patients to maintain expertise in specific specialties; and if she... - Drug Rehabilitation Programmes
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had regarding the provision of detox facilities for drug addicts who wish to detox their bodies in order to... - Hospital Services
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans to develop outpatient services at Roscommon and Portiuncula Hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20415/09] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timescale for her consideration of a new way to finance the health system here; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the policy of not using blood regularly taken from patients with haemochromatosis for transfusion for other patients is being... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting time for access to dermatology services for public patients in each of the hospitals which provide this speciality; her plans... - Departmental Staff
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff working in her Department; if there are plans to redeploy or offer redundancy or early retirement to any of these...
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