Written answers

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

  • Blind Welfare Allowance
    227. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for blind welfare allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will be awarded;; and if he will make a statement...
  • Prescription Charges
    228. To ask the Minister for Health if prescription charges apply to persons with long term illness cards; if prescription charges apply to persons with medical cards; and if he will make a...
  • Substance Misuse
    229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of alcohol related deaths that occurred here over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19174/13]
  • Orthodontic Services Provision
    230. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available through the Health Service Executive to the Orthodontic unit of Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, to allow them to...
  • Health Services Issues
    231. To ask the Minister for Health the frequency of contact between the Health Service Executive and a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim: if he will instruct the HSE to reduce the...
  • Cochlear Implants
    232. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the introduction of a bilateral cochlear implant programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19198/13]
  • Medical Card Withdrawals
    234. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any incident where a medical card was withdrawn without any notice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19200/13]
  • Medical Card Appeals
    235. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal against the decision to refuse an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
  • Medical Certificate Applications
    236. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for a primary medical certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13, will be processed; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    237. To ask the Minister for Health if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this purpose;...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    239. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the filling of the 414 posts for community mental health services committed to in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2012, the...
  • Crisis Pregnancy Services
    241. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm for each year over the past ten years the number of women that have availed of services in State funded crisis pregnancy clinics to obtain...
  • Abortion Services
    242. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm for each year over the past 20 years the number of pregnancy terminations that have been carried out in this jurisdiction on the basis of...
  • Crisis Pregnancy Services
    243. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding per annum to all State funded crisis pregnancy advice clinics over the past 10 years; the conditions that pertain to their funding; and...
  • Domestic Violence Policy
    244. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a submission from an organisation (details supplied) about the rationalisation of health services; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services Issues
    245. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 17 April 2013, if he will specify the person in the Health Service Executive that will be dealing with the...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    246. To ask the Minister for Health if an increase in home help assistance is available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose home help has recently been reduced to one hour per...
  • Disability Support Services Issues
    247. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to mobility allowances and motorised transport grants, his plans for provision of services to persons who live with cystic fibrosis; if the...
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    248. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will receive orthodontic treatment from the Health Service Executive and much needed braces in view of the fact...
  • Medical Card Numbers
    249. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was recouped from EU member states for the awarding of medical cards to persons under EU regulation 883/04 in each year from 2010 to 2012; if...
  • Medicinal Products Expenditure
    253. To ask the Minister for Health if he approached the British National Health Service to explore if there are further economies of scale or efficiency savings that might be achieved on the...
  • Cochlear Implants
    254. To ask the Minister for Health when he will make the necessary funding available in order that both ears can benefit from cochlear implants to avoid problems caused by one implant breaking;...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    255. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath awaiting an urgent hip replacement surgery, who requires this surgery in order that...
  • Research Funding
    256. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding from the Health Research Board for research into the treatment of Rett Syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • HSE Funding
    257. To ask the Minister for Health if he will rescind the decision taken by the Health Service Executive to either wholly or partly stop the issue of a research grant provided by his Department...
  • Hospital Trusts
    265. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by the Master of the Rotunda Hospital about the Project Plan for the establishment of Acute Hospital...
  • Hospital Staff
    266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent posts currently filled at Waterford Regional Hospital; the number of these whole time equivalent posts filled at Waterford...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    267. To ask the Minister for Health the reason insulin pumps are not available at Waterford Regional Hospital for children suffering with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    268. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the funding available for the fair deal nursing home support scheme for eligible residents support scheme of nursing homes is...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    269. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a person (details supplied) in County Offaly regarding support services for adults with autism. [19480/13]
  • Hospice Services
    270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin 9 regarding hospital transport. [19481/13]
  • Departmental Oversight Committees
    271. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 17 April 2013, if he will detail the full composition of the oversight committee he established to construct...
  • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
    272. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there was no consultant in emergency medicine on duty at the Mercy University Hospital Cork on 22 March 2013; the reason the Mercy University...

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