Written answers

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

  • Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Health if the increment that was paid to staff nurses that took on additional responsibilities and moved to the position of senior staff nurse which was discontinued in...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to St. Clare's Unit, Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin, for urgent medical treatment and support. [54596/12]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made with the review of the fair deal scheme; if in this review, active consideration will be given to the role the sheltered housing provided...
  • Health Service Executive Funding
    To ask the Minister for Health the bodies that are funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54607/12]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated in 2012 for the transfer of residents living in congregated settings into supported housing in the community; his plans in the...
  • Symphysiotomy Report
    To ask the Minister for Health when the Walsh report in relation to symphysiotomy will be issued; his plans to deal with the fall out from this treatment; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Home Help Service
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason home help workers in the direct employment of the Health Service Executive in County Mayo are having their hours reduced; and if he will make a statement...
  • Medical Card Review
    To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding providing legislation to allow for comprehensive data sharing among State agencies to underpin the medical card self-assessment system in...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    To ask the Minister for Health if medical cards will be provided to mature students who are over the age of 25 years and return to education and have no source of income. [54636/12]
  • Home Care Packages
    To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for a home care package; the reason for the delay in making a decision;...
  • Vaccination Programme
    To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increased incidents of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in Ireland as a result of a side effect of the Pandemrix...
  • Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Health when a review undertaken by his Department on the case of the 35 Neary women who were excluded from the redress scheme in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda,...
  • Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 received a bill for legal fees; and if he will clarify the legitimacy of this charge. [54674/12]
  • Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the measures to date, throughout the past 18 months, by the State to reduce costs by dental practitioners and medical practitioners in our...
  • Home Help Service
    To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in receipt of private home care hours; the cost to the State for the provision for this service; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Health Service Executive Properties
    To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent annually for 2009, 2010 and 2011 on renting residential accommodation in the counties Laois and Offaly. [54683/12]
  • Medicinal Products
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query regarding generic substitutions for medication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54686/12]
  • Food Labelling
    To ask the Minister for Health if he is introducing legislation to mandate for food nutrition traffic light labelling and when this legislation will be published; and if he will make a statement...
  • Health Promotion
    To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the media report that pro-anorexia websites are running starvation contests; the action he is taking to tackle this issue; and if...
  • Infectious Diseases
    To ask the Minister for Health the concerted action he intends to take to educate and inform persons, especially the young, to look after their sexual health in view of the fact that 320 people...
  • Substance Misuse
    To ask the Minister for Health the concerted action he intends to take in view of the findings in the growing up in ireland report that 15% of 13 year olds had tried alcohol; and if he will make...
  • Dental Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the concerted action his Department plans to take, in view of a recent behaviour and attitudes study stating that dental health is at crisis point and the finding...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to implement the disability related promises in the 2011 Programme for Government especially individual budgets; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Domestic Violence
    To ask the Minister for Health the proposals his Department has made with regard to meeting the administrative and operational costs of a facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; if prior...
  • General Medical Services Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason sodium chloride for infusion is not reimbursable under the GMS scheme in respect of patients in nursing homes who are not eating a normal diet [54727/12]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    To ask the Minister for Health the hospital in which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will receive an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54728/12]
  • Health Service Executive Properties
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the amount of rent paid by the Health Service Executive on renting property for both administration purposes and...
  • Primary Care Centres
    To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop primary care facilities at a centre (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54733/12]
  • Dental Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline on a county basis or an area basis in the Health Service Executive the class in which children in primary schools receive their first dental...
  • Medical Card Applications
    To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a medical card was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54738/12]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    To ask the Minister for Health the reason a sensory dynamic orthosis lycra suit has not yet been provided by the Health Service Executive in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Health Services
    To ask the Minister for Health if he is planning any cuts in budget or service to CoAction West Cork in 2013. [54748/12]
  • Hospital Staff
    To ask the Minister for Health his views on a possible shortage of suitably trained nurses in hospitals here [54749/12]
  • Nursing Education
    To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the number of nurses who have qualified here and subsequently emigrated since 2010 [54750/12]
  • Hospital Services
    To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each hospital to date in 2012 [54814/12]

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