Written answers
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
- Legislative Programme
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when he will publish the legislation on female genital mutilation; and if it will be included in the legislative programme for this... - Child Care Services
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will review the allocation of child care places in Buncrana, County Donegal, for clients wishing to progress onto FÁS training... - Nursing Home Grants
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the capital grants available for construction or refurbishment of nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12493/11] - National Lottery Funding
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide details in relation to the amount of funding allocated from the National Lottery Beneficiary Fund since 1998 to... - Crime Prevention
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he and the Garda Síochána have identified the increasing problem of prescription drugs being sold illegally; and the measures he... - Child Protection
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to legislate to ensure emotional abuse is included as a recognised form of abuse which must be addressed if a child's rights... - Health Service Inspections
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the proposed meeting to formalise the suspension of the registration of a centre (details supplied) will take place; the person who... - Health Services
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his views that a package of incentives should be introduced in order to stimulate the delivery of primary health care centres across the... - Hospital Services
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if new patients diagnosed with haemochromatosis are being treated or admitted to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick; if not the... - Freedom of Information
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive has failed to respond within the applicable time limit to a freedom of information request... - Health Services
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the dental treatments available to persons who have medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12386/11] - Medical Cards
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a... - General Medical Services Scheme
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the practice of general practitioners charging over 70s medical card patients for examinations, blood... - Health Services
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the current criteria being applied when reducing home help hours. [12419/11] - Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will address the situation whereby the families of those in nursing homes under the fair deal scheme are required to cover the... - Medical Cards
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a... - Health Services
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children who suffer from diabetes in County Kildare; the number of these who have been referred to paediatric services in... - Rare Diseases
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the time frame for the completion of the strategy on rare diseases; and if there will be consultation with a selection of persons with... - Medical Cards
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application for a medical card will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make... - Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the nursing homes support scheme is still in place; if there is adequate funding to meet the expected demand this year; if the Health... - Medical Cards
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make... - Vaccination Programme
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he intends introducing vaccine damage compensation for those Irish children injured by State promoted vaccines. [12486/11] - Medical Cards
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied). [12488/11] - Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will consider adding narcolepsy to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12490/11] - Hospital Procedures
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is his intention to meet with a representative group of women who have been affected by the practice of symphysiotomy in advance... - Medical Cards
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [12497/11] - Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide assistance to a group (details supplied) under the dormant account scheme or any other scheme that may be available.... - Health Services
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will evaluate a situation whereby a person (details supplied) was approved for assistance under the treatment abroad scheme but... - Mental Health Services
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the retired mental health officer with the Health Service Executive south, Cork will be replaced in view of the level of suicides... - Health Service Reform
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he has appointed an expert to co-ordinate the setting up of a Dutch model health service here. [12515/11] - Health Insurance
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he plans to sell the Government stake in VHI. [12517/11] - Tobacco Advertising
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to introduce a ban on logos and distinctive branding on packets of cigarettes in order to reduce cigarette appeal to... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he has had meetings or talks with clinicians and with the drugs industry with a view to achieving significant reductions in... - Hospital Status
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will amend the status of Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal from a local hospital to a regional one, in order to improve... - Health Service Expenditure
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Health and Children following recent warnings from the IMF that health costs are dragging the economy down and that savings of €1 billion may be required... - National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his views on whether the National Treatment Purchase Fund offers value for money and is effective in reducing waiting time for patients... - Care of the Elderly
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of residents in long-term care facilities including both private and public patients for both 2009 and 2010; and if he will... - Health Service Staff
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will confirm that the rent supplement unit in Santry, Dublin 9, will continue to operate and that the contracts of the 26... - Health Services
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed by a service provider. [12546/11] - Medical Cards
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if general practitioners are entitled to charge medical card holders for a blood test; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Child Protection
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans for the future implementations of out of hours social work service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12624/11] - Smoking Ban
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive is legally entitled to create a no-smoking ban on the grounds of the Cork University Hospital. [12626/11] - Child Protection
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his policy and that of the health services regarding the appointment of a [i]guardian ad litem[/i]; and if he will make a statement on... - Child Abuse
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he is satisfied, regarding the transfer of responsibility from the Rape Crisis Network Ireland to the Health Service Executive and... - Health Services
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an appointment will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if he will make a statement on the... - National Lottery Funding
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide details of the amount of funding that has been allocated from the National Lottery Beneficiary Fund since 1998 to... - Hospital Services
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the new centre of excellence for the provision of cancer services will open at St. James's Hospital, Dublin; the number of cancer... - Water Fluoridation
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding mandatory fluoridation of our water schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Medical Cards
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if and when a medical card will be issued in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement... - Hospital Services
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he plans to provide a cardiac catheterisation laboratory for Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. [12700/11] - Mental Health Services
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Health Service Executive officials will attend a meeting on 23 May 2011 in HSE Swords between the clinical director and local... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to long delays in respect of audiology referrals at Waterford Regional Hospital with patients waiting... - Hospital Services
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the closure of St. Bridget's Ward at St. Patrick's Hospital, Waterford, by the previous Minister; the... - National Lottery Funding
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will outline separately in each of the past five years the amount received by his Department in respect of national lottery... - Hospital Services
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services provided by the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath; his proposals for its future; and if he will make... - Health Service Staff
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide a breakdown of the number of permanent nurses who have retired in 2010 and to date in 2011; and the number of agency... - Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 409: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be admitted to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the... - Health Service Staff
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) who was employed by the Health Service Executive west as a nurse was justifiably dismissed from their... - Disabled Drivers
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Offaly, who is an amputee with severe medical difficulties, was refused the disabled... - Cancer Incidence
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide details of the planned review by the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tony Holohan, of the incidence of cancer in the Cobh... - Ambulance Service
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 17 May 2011, the impact on the ambulance service of the introduction of a universal health... - Health Insurance
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons over the age of 60 years in the VHI; the percentage of their custom this represents; and if he will make a... - Departmental Bodies
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide a breakdown of all moneys paid by the Irish Blood Transfusion Board to IBEC in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010;... - Hospital Services
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an early appointment for an operation will be arranged at Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny, in respect of a person (details supplied) in... - Preschool Services
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will review an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath for an additional year under the early... - National Lottery Funding
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for National Lottery funding by an organisation (details supplied). [12803/11] - Food Labelling
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to update the system of food labelling currently in use here to display clearly when products reach their use by date as... - Health Services
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will have their teeth cleaned in view of the fact that they hold a medical card; and... - Health Service Properties
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the property portfolio currently leased by the Health Service Executive in Bandon, County Cork; the location of same; the services... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 426: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the month he expects the review of the efficiency and effectiveness of disability services funded from the health vote to be finalised...
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