Written answers

Thursday, 3 July 2014

  • Departmental Agencies
    178. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the details of the names and occupations of each member of the board of SafeFood from 2010 to 2014 the dates on which each...
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    179. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be scheduled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28746/14]
  • Hospital Services
    180. To ask the Minister for Health when the ophthalmology theatre will be reopened in Waterford Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28753/14]
  • Respite Care Grant Eligibility
    181. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding respite care in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [28758/14]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify the locations around the country where residential child and mental health services are available; the number of beds in each location; and...
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    183. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend BreastCheck to women aged between 65 and 69 years as per the commitment in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Rare Diseases Strategy Publication
    184. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the national plan for rare diseases; the reason for the delay in publishing this plan; if there is a financial commitment to implement its...
  • Medicinal Products Licensing
    185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve funds for the use of Translarna, also known as ataluren for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in view of its approval in the UK;...
  • Water Charges Exemptions
    186. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements he has had with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the exempting or capping of water charges for...
  • Medical Card Data
    187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 52,322 medical cards which were not renewed because the cardholder did not respond that were subsequently reinstated; and if he will make a...
  • Medical Card Applications
    188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork that was sent in in January 2014; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Reports
    190. To ask the Minister for Health when the annual report required under sections 15 to 20, inclusive, of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 will be laid before the Houses of the...
  • Medical Card Applications
    191. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the circumstances regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4; if he will ensure that the decision...
  • Insurance Costs
    192. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the impending issue affecting the health care system, namely, the fact that the Medical Protection Society have recently announced a...
  • Health Services Provision
    193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider arranging a DPT course for the Crumlin-Kimmage area. [28789/14]
  • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
    194. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any new policy changes in Tallaght hospital accident and emergency where recently some family or friends of loved ones are...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
    195. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Medical Card Administration
    196. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the number of medical staff processing medical card applications; his views that the current medical staff numbers are adequate in view of...
  • Hospital Staff
    197. To ask the Minister for Health when will the post of visiting physiotherapist to Castletownbere Hospital, County Cork be replaced following the retirement of the existing physiotherapist;...
  • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
    198. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form the total number of sick days taken by staff in his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 further broken down...
  • Consultancy Contracts Data
    199. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form per annum all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per report; the company...
  • Hospital Services
    200. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to relocate diabetic services to a more suitable environment in Kerry General Hospital. [28852/14]
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    201. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a paediatric endocrinologist to Kerry General Hospital. [28853/14]
  • Hospital Staff
    202. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a paediatric diabetes nurse specialist to Kerry General Hospital. [28854/14]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    204. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include a diabetic treatment medical device called the I-Port Advance to the updated GMS scheme or the long-term illness scheme. [28856/14]
  • Legislative Measures
    206. To ask the Minister for Health the target month for the signing of new regulation updating the misuse of drugs regulations to deal with the pressing problem of the street trading of...
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    207. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for an appointment for a MRI scan will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • General Practitioner Services
    209. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of a GP service in Feakle, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28877/14]
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    210. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be carried out on a person (details supplied) on County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28881/14]
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times
    211. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national treatment purchase fund monthly waiting list report for April 2014 was not published at the same time as the Health Service Executive...
  • Proposed Legislation
    213. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on progress on the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill; the provisions it will cover; when it will be introduced; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Funding
    214. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay with providing funding for the support of lobe dementia patients (details supplied). [28896/14]
  • Mobility Allowance Decision
    215. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the current driving concessions available for persons with disabilities and who require assistance and support with driving; and if he will...
  • Legislative Measures
    216. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a report from the Health Service Executive on the operation of Chapter 2 of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, as required...
  • Medical Card Applications
    220. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will be approved in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28938/14]
  • Medical Card Appeals
    221. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will expedite this appeal; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    222. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a date for an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [28946/14]
  • Medical Card Applications
    223. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be reinstated under the new discretionary guidelines in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
  • Data Protection
    224. To ask the Minister for Health further to reports that hospital records of public patients have been released to third parties, the number of patients per acute hospital, whose personal...

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