Written answers
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there was an evaluation of the effectiveness of the free phone service operated by the homeless persons unit since 1993 undertaken... - Hospital Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the ear, nose and throat unit along with two other wards are being closed in Sligo General Hospital for a number of months in 2010... - Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of long-term illness books on issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39971/09] - Nursing Home Support Scheme
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the weekly cost of each public nursing home under the fair deal scheme; the corresponding cost of each private run home; and if she... - Health Services
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a facility (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be opened; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on... - Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will include transition measures in the Adoption Bill that will allow applicants continue with adoptions from Russia when they... - Hospital Staff
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to appoint an audiologist for Waterford Regional Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39990/09] - Health Service Capital Programme
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of all capital building and equipping projects planned for the period 2009 to 2013, including a brief outline of the... - Tobacco-Related Diseases
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the estimated cost of the expenditure on treatment of the consequences of smoking per annum; the way this figure is arrived at; and if... - Health Service Staff
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the key features of the employment control framework for 2009; the way employment is monitored; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Reports
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on the FÁS health care skills analysis as requested by her; when FÁS were asked to do this; when it will be completed; the... - Health Service Staff
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and percentage of serving consultants who have signed up to the new consultants' contract; the amount by which salaries will... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on mid-year savings in 2008 including the amount saved; where it was saved from; if this money was reallocated to other... - Health Service Expenditure
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on Health Service Executive value for money programme and what this includes; the estimated saving in each area; the... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the fair deal scheme and family homes; if a son or daughter lives in the home and is dependent on that as being... - Medical Cards
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will have their medical card reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Ambulance Service
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is no wheelchair accessible ambulance available in north Kildare to transport patients for outpatient appointments in... - Health Services
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a placement will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Medical Cards
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40084/09] - Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost related to the proposal to build a new health centre in Carrigaline, County Cork; the cost of purchasing a site for the new... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding Baltinglass Hospital, County Wicklow; if she will respond to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Hospital Staff
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the senior consultant orthodontist position at St. Finbarr's Hospital in County Cork will be filled; the interim measures that are... - Mental Health Services
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to invest in step down facilities at a hospital (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the... - Hospital Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 was charged €80 for an X-ray at a facility; if she will arrange for a full refund... - Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision and availability of IVF; if the costs involved have been examined to make same less costly and more... - Medical Research
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will continue to co-fund the joint funding scheme with the medical research charities group for patient-led medical research; and... - Vaccination Programme
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are two different types of swine flu vaccines, pandemorix which includes mercury and celvapan which is mercury-free; if it is... - Health Services
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her estimate of the administrative costs of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; and her plans to streamline the... - Hospital Procedures
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 443 of 16 September 2009 from the Health Service Executive has not yet been received... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied) in respect of a person who is awaiting surgery; if treatment will be expedited;... - Departmental Staff
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of officials at principal officer level or higher working in her Department on 1 May 2009. [40216/09] - Hospital Services
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the new Dingle Community Hospital, Dingle, County Kerry; when the hospital and all of its day services will be... - National Drugs Strategy
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from a group (details supplied) regarding the progress on the implementation of the national drugs... - Health Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is the case that carers who previously availed of the short-term respite care from the Health Service Executive no longer have an... - Medical Cards
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40369/09] - Health Service Staff
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the definite timeframe for reinstating a community welfare officer to a village (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if accommodation... - Health Services
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details suppled) in County Kildare will receive optical treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40387/09] - Pharmacy Services
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of pharmacists which have closed since 1 May 2009; and the location of same. [40388/09] - Hospital Services
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the lack of intensive care unit facilities in Crumlin Children's Hospital, Dublin 12 will be remedied; if she... - Health Services
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if further home help hours will be allocated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if she will expedite a... - Preschool Services
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the monthly benefit from her Department expressed in cash terms for a parent of a four year old who avails of the free preschool place... - Ambulance Service
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has targets for ambulance response times; the details of same; if they the monitored; and if so, the... - Health Service Staff
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on posts currently remaining unfilled in a health office area (details supplied); if it is intended to fill these positions;... - Special Educational Needs
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding that is being made available in 2009 for existing rehabilitative training programmes in counties Laois and Offaly in respect... - Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to a statement by her Minister of State in Dáil Éireann on 4 November 2001 that he will meet with a group (details supplied)... - Special Educational Needs
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the hardship being experienced by persons with intellectual disabilities or autism in exiting... - Hospital Services
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the remit of the Health Information and Quality Authority covers issues relating to private patients in public hospitals; and if she... - Medical Cards
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; if this card will be renewed; and if she will make a... - Nursing Home Subventions
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the new fair deal scheme; if exemptions apply in the case of a person (details supplied). [40509/09] - Health Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason persons in counties Carlow and Kilkenny have the lowest national uptake of home care packages; and if she will make a... - Domestic Violence
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to each of the frontline services for domestic violence here over the past four years; and if she will... - Hospital Services
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is now her policy to close small maternity units and in particular the unit at Tralee General Hospital, County Kerry; if she will... - State Property
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a premises (details supplied) in County Dublin was purchased; the purchase price; the use it has been put to since its purchase;... - National Drugs Strategy
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to public concern about the proliferation of "head shops" which sell mind-altering substances and... - Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a newspaper article (details supplied) which makes allegations in respect of some Vietnamese... - Health Service Staff
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is the intention of the Health Service Executive to recruit paramedics in the south east region. [40569/09] - Medical Cards
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in approving over 70 years medical cards in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Roscommon; when... - Special Educational Needs
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the special needs assistant support entitlement for preschool children with special needs in County Louth; the way in which this... - Vaccination Programme
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will details in relation to a medical condition (details supplied). [40573/09] - Health Services
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an appointment will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [40574/09]
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