Written answers

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

  • Public Sector Allowances
    To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding allowances; if he intends to cut allowances to existing paramedics and for future paramedics; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • National Lottery Funding
    To ask the Minister for Health when an application for funding will be finalised in respect of a group (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45923/12]
  • Mobility Allowance Appeals
    To ask the Minister for Health if and when an appeal for mobility allowance will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45699/12]
  • Health Service Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Health the full drugs bill for the Health Service Executive for 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; if he will provide a breakdown of same by scheme, by patent status and...
  • Medicinal Products
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the full details of the deal negotiated with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association as announced on 15 October 2012; if he will provide...
  • National Task Force on Prescribing and Dispensing
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the remit of the National Task Force on Prescribing and Dispensing; the membership; the method of recruitment or appointment and...
  • Departmental Funding
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding cuts in respect of organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45730/12]
  • Primary Care Centres
    To ask the Minister for Health if he took the decision to move the proposed primary care centre in Rowlagh, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, from the stated funded list to the public private partnership...
  • Hospital Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if and when a hip replacement operation will be scheduled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Tobacco-Related Diseases
    To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive have conducted any studies on the comparative negative health impact of smoking counterfeit cigarettes bought on...
  • Tobacco Products
    To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 12 July 2012, if the successful introduction of plain or standardised packaging for tobacco products in Australia has...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 will receive funding for the specialist equipment they require; the reason for the delay in responding to these funding...
  • Hospital Staff
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will resolve the situation where nurses working within our health service who wish to transfer by means of doing a swap with a person of the same grade of...
  • Home Care Packages
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a home care package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Mental Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a proper mental health facility in the future to cater for the mental health needs of people living in the Iveargh Peninsula (details supplied)...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form all appointments to State boards under his ambit since the Government took office; when the person was appointed; if the position...
  • Home Care Packages
    To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will be increased in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45842/12]
  • Medical Cards Eligibility
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was taken from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45844/12]
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the continued future of a health centre (details supplied) in Dublin 6 and if it envisaged that it will reopen on Thursdays; and if he will make...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    To ask the Minister for Health when funding to ensure that residential services for persons with disabilities are independently inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority will be...
  • Hospital Consultants' Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the accountability and oversight mechanism for the full implementation of consultants contracts, in relation to the public private mix of their...
  • Proposed Legislation
    To ask the Minister for Health if there is any proposed legislation to deal with the administering by dentists of anaesthetic to vulnerable adults and their ability to consent to treatment. [45890/12]
  • Hospital Charges
    To ask the Minister for Health if it is the practice of hospitals and health insurance to charge for the use of a virtual bed or chair; and if so, if he will explain how this is defined and the...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Health if epilepsy and epilepsy medication will be exempt from the Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods Bill, taking into account the fact that a change to a generic...
  • Epilepsy Incidence
    To ask the Minister for Health the number of epilepsy sufferers here, by county, age and gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45914/12]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the fair deal scheme will be brought before the Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45920/12]
  • Voluntary Sector Funding
    To ask the Minister for Health the total funding from his Department to a charity (details supplied) in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012; if he plans to further reduce the funding to this charity in...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a hospital appointment [45927/12]
  • Medical Card Appeals
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a medical card appeal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45943/12]
  • Mental Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the current position in relation to the ring fencing of €35 million for mental health in his Department in December 2011; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Primary Care Centres
    To ask the Minister for Health if he or his representatives have had contact with the National Asset Management Agency in respect of a property at 66, 68,70 Dublin Street, Balbriggan, County...
  • EU-IMF Agreement
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the requirements to reform competition and practice in the health sector set out in the Memorandum of Understanding with the programme Troika;...
  • Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason a community centre (details supplied) in Dublin 6 has decided to close on Thursdays; the alternative that has been provided for users suffering from...
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46004/12]
  • Thalidomide Victim Compensation
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the issues contained in correspondence (details attached) concerning survivors of Thalidomide; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Medical Research Regulation
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the issues contained in correspondence (details attached); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46010/12]
  • Primary Care Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if any services have been removed from existing primary care centres; if so, if he will outline which services have been withdrawn; and if he will make a statement...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query (details supplied) regarding special needs cuts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46017/12]
  • Suicide Incidence
    To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of persons who committed suicide in each of the past 10 years who were within the month prior to their death in psychiatric units or hospitals and were...
  • Speech and Language Therapy
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will give details of the waiting period, for the last four years, for children seeking speech therapy services in the Lucan area; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will receive an appointment for Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 [46083/12]
  • Hospital Charges
    To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to debt collection practices employed at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24; if patients may expect to receive a letter from Intrum...
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [46113/12]
  • Drug Treatment Programmes
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that no cuts will take place at a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 15 [46137/12]
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be reached on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Service Staff
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in a case concerning a former Health Service Executive employee (details supplied) in County Mayo who is disputing a pension issue; if he will...
  • Food Safety Standards
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that Safefood will be afforded the opportunity to fully participate, along with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and the Health Service...
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the Health Service Executive on purchasing replacement or additional equipment for their ambulances services in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; the...
  • Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the future use of a unit (details supplied) in Dublin 8 [46213/12]
  • Community Care
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason the €12.4 million community nursing unit in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 8 has not been opened [46215/12]
  • Hospital Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the cuts to staff and services in County Louth and County Meath hospitals as a result of the cuts to agency and overtime announced him...
  • Home Help Service
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of home help hours being supplied to persons from County Louth in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and the number...
  • Animal Welfare Issues
    To ask the Minister for Health the date on each of the current Certificate Gs, which permit severe and prolonged pain in animal experiments, setting the end of the period in which each...
  • Mobility Allowance Appeals
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has had their appeal turned down for mobility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46238/12]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive treatment at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46239/12]
  • Primary Care Strategy
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of primary care centres which are planned for County Cork; the current status and the expected completion date of each...
  • Primary Care Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of primary care centres which have been opened in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46244/12]
  • Primary Care Centres
    To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive has carried out an analysis of the effectiveness of primary centres which have been developed across the country;...
  • Primary Care Strategy
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason he changed the list of primary care centres which the Health Service Executive had planned to provide in its draft capital plan and specifically the...
  • Hospital Staff
    To ask the Minister for Health the birth rate for County Kerry for each year since 2000 up to the end of 2011; the number born in Kerry General Hospital; the numbers born in hospitals outside the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for ear, nose and throat services at Kerry General Hospital, for adults and children; his plans to address this list; and if he will make...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    To ask the Minister for Health the funding options open to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow for batteries and a remote control for their hearing implant. [46271/12]
  • Speech and Language Therapy
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for speech therapy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow including whether and when one to one speech...
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    To ask the Minister for Health the number of retailers registered with the National Tobacco Control Office to sell tobacco products as they are obliged to do under the Public Health (Tobacco)...
  • Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department and the Health Service Executive prioritises RAPID areas for the provision of services such as dental, optical, physiotherapy...
  • Health Service Allowances
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the funded individual social programme allowance has been suspended as of 1 November 2012; the number of persons currently in receipt of...
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46300/12]
  • Departmental Bodies
    To ask the Minister for Health the amount the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has cost since its inception; and if he will provide a breakdown of the costs [46318/12]
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46323/12]
  • Health Service Executive Expenditure
    To ask the Minister for Health , the amount spent by the Health Service Executive for each of the past three years in making submissions to local and county development plans; the cost of making...
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46332/12]
  • Organ Removal
    To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to allegations of organs being removed from dead patients without permission [46344/12]
  • Home Help Service
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if they will be maintained for County Kerry. [46348/12]
  • Ambulance Service
    To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the new ambulance arrangements for Maynooth, County Kildare, which has seen the service cut from 7am to 7pm every Thursday; if he will provide...
  • Vaccination Programme
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making available free of charge Hepatitis B vaccination to a group of volunteer community first responders that provide assistance to the Health...
  • Health Service Staff
    To ask the Minister for Health the measures taken by the Health Service Executive to implement Labour Relations Commission Recommendation No LRC20312 issued on the 29 June 2012 regarding to...
  • Care of the Elderly
    To ask the Minister for Health if he has made a budgetary allocation for the provision of 30 step-down beds in the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth [46394/12]
  • Medical Complaints
    To ask the Minister for Health the action taken in response to complaints from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 in respect of the medical treatment they have received to date and the...
  • Care Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the number of care assistants employed here in 2010 and 2011 [46454/12]
  • Accident and Emergency Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if there is a triage service available in the accident and emergency department of Naas General Hospital, County Kildare; the measures being taken to alleviate the...
  • Health Service Executive Reports
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will consult with the Primary Care Unit in his Department in order to confirm that the publication of the final report from the review team regarding a person...
  • Symphysiotomy Report
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on efforts being made by his Department to facilitate the search for justice by survivors of symphysiotomy here; the position regarding...
  • Primary Care Centres
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of 200 locations which were earmarked for primary care centres; the reason the Ballyshannon Primary Care Centre was not prioritised for...
  • Cancer Incidence
    To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons diagnosed with any type of cancer on a county basis from 1990 through to 2012 [46492/12]
  • Hospital Facilities
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will give assurances that operating theatre two in Wexford General Hospital, which has been closed for eleven weeks, will reopen before years end and in view...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    To ask the Minister for Health if there is evidence to support the use of art assist machines (details supplied), for patients with peripheral vascular disease and in the event that this evidence...
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46536/12]
  • Hospital Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 [46540/12]
  • Medical Cards Eligibility
    To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a refund of medication expenses [46541/12]
  • Health Service Executive Funding
    To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46543/12]
  • Departmental Bodies
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in a tabular form a list of quasi-governmental organisations and agencies that have been created since 9 March 2011;the date on which the body...

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