Written answers

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

  • Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure
    665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the national and per county budget for specialist equipment for home care for example specialist beds for the years 2012 to...
  • HSE Investigations
    666. To ask the Minister for Health if there are current investigations ongoing into abuse of patients in the psychiatric services; if so, the number of same; the number of investigations into...
  • HSE Funding
    667. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork for each year since the commencement of the project; if his Department...
  • Parliamentary Questions
    668. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a change in the manner in which parliamentary questions are answered by his Department when the ongoing reform of management and governance of...
  • Prescription Charges
    669. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of completely removing the €2.50 per item prescription charge on medicines for medical card holders [28996/14]
  • Health Screening Programmes
    670. To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of extending the BreastCheck screening programme to women aged between 65 and 70 years of age in order that these women would receive free...
  • Medical Card Data
    671. To ask the Minister for Health if persons (details supplied) in County Kildare who have for the past number of years been the holder of medical cards and were withdrawn this year will now be...
  • An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann
    672. To ask the Minister for Health if Section 26 of the 1985 Nurses Act supersedes section 13(8) of the Act; if he has given approval for changes to quorum requirements for fitness to practice...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    673. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the eligibility criteria for medical cards for the over 70s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29012/14]
  • Home Care Packages
    674. To ask the Minister for Health following the recent investigations and reporting into Fingal Home Care the efforts that been applied to improve the management and monitoring of the service...
  • Accident and Emergency Services Fees
    675. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria and amounts for paying for emergency departments; if he will outline all changes to the policies and amounts in the past five years; and if he...
  • Departmental Schemes
    676. To ask the Minister for Health the funds and schemes that community groups providing support to older persons can apply for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29018/14]
  • Mental Health Services Report
    677. To ask the Minister for Health his views of correspondence (details supplied) regarding mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29019/14]
  • Medical Card Administration
    678. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Mayo [29022/14]
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    679. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the expert panel reviewing medical card eligibility will consider including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on the list of serious or...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
    680. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Fampyra, which is licensed by the Irish Medicines Board, is not available on the drug rebate scheme; if it is due to a decision, on cost...
  • Freedom of Information Requests
    681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form for each from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information, FOI, requests received by his Department; the...
  • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
    682. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by timeframe, that is, less...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    683. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the...
  • HSE Expenditure
    684. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the tendering process relating to the Health Service Executive taxi service for the Louth, Meath, Cavan and Monaghan areas; how...
  • Public Relations Contracts Data
    685. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list of uses of each...
  • Health Services Provision
    686. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the current seven-week waiting time for adult ophthalmic services as confirmed by the Health Service Executive; and if he...
  • Dental Services Provision
    687. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the urgency of the case and the length of time the...
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    688. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive an orthopaedic appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29133/14]
  • Medical Card Reviews
    689. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be renewed immediately in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [29137/14]
  • Dental Services Provision
    690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the waiting times in the Dublin Dental Hospital; his views on the provision of the acute dental services in the State; and his views on...
  • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
    691. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made from March 2011 to date; the number of...
  • Mental Health Commission Reports
    694. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the chairman's forward to the Mental Health Commission annual report 2013. in which he states that, since 2007, staffing in mental...
  • Mental Health Commission Staffing
    699. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Mental Health Commission annual report 2013 (details supplied) and the chairman’s foreword to same regarding the delay in...
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    700. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the 477 persons who were to be employed in the mental health services in 2013; the number that were employed in 2013 and have taken up...
  • Medical Card Applications
    701. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29220/14]
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    703. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow [29226/14]
  • HSE Complaints Procedures
    704. To ask the Minister for Health if any allegations of a conflict of interest in the awarding of contracts by the Health Service Executive is currently being investigated by the HSE or any...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    705. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason a dedicated nurse specialist has not been appointed to assist the rheumatologist at Kerry General Hospital; and if he will make a...
  • Disability Diagnoses
    706. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed by the Brothers of Charity in Cork for autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • HSE Complaints Procedures
    707. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of complaints received in respect of the psychiatric services on physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse and over-medication; the...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    708. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his officials or the Health Service Executive met representative groups of patients that have received physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse or...
  • Medical Card Administration
    710. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he is making regarding a proposal to allocate medical cards on the basis of medical need; if public consultation in this regard will take place;...
  • General Practitioner Services
    711. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners are required to provide a home visit service to private patients on their list or in their catchment area; if GPs participating in the...
  • Primary Care Services Provision
    713. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the average waiting time for a North Doc home visit in 2011, 2012 and 2013; the shortest and longest waiting times in the same years; the service's...
  • Medical Card Applications
    714. To ask the Minister for Health to explain his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a medical card matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29274/14]
  • Health Services Provision
    715. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the position regarding repayment of moneys in respect of medication in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
  • Legislative Process
    716. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments his Department has published since...
  • Hospital Services
    717. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) in County Dublin in the care of Beaumont Hospital is currently receiving no treatment because the drug...
  • Debt Collection
    718. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them; if his Department has...
  • Primary Care Centre Provision
    719. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the building of the new primary care centre in Kells, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29349/14]
  • HSE Complaints Procedures
    720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the treatment of a person (details supplied) at a recent consultant appointment; his views that this practice is widespread. [29352/14]
  • Civil Registration Legislation
    721. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of civil registrars available to perform civil marriages and civil partnerships in each of the past ten years, broken down by county and...
  • Medical Card Applications
    723. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will me made on a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29359/14]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    724. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his views on the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding stoma care products; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    725. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the estimated cost of implementing the extension of the free cancer screening programme BreastCheck to women aged 65 to 69 years; and if he will...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    726. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical cards are being refused to over 70 applicants who are a few euro over the income limit (details...
  • Maternity Services
    727. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the names of all maternity units and their associated perinatal mortality rates in each year from 2003 to 2013, as compiled...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    728. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical cards are being refused to applicants over 70 years who are slightly over the income limit (details...
  • Patient Transfers
    730. To ask the Minister for Health if a transfer of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly from Kerry General Hospital to the Lakeview unit of Naas General Hospital may be facilitated; and...
  • Ambulance Service Transport
    731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances with more than 300,000 km, 400,000 km and 500,000 km on the clock respectively; the measure being taken to replace such...
  • Medical Card Reviews
    732. To ask the Minister for Health if a discretionary medical card will be returned to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29449/14]
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
    733. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 25 June 2014, if he will confirm that all persons who were on the long-term illness scheme and were also medical...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
    735. To ask the Minister for Health if a new application for consideration for the inclusion of the drug Fampyra for multiple sclerosis under the community drugs scheme been received by the...
  • Medical Card Applications
    736. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29458/14]
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    737. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding entitlement to engage with social workers for children and adults with severe and profound disabilities; and if he will make a statement...
  • Hospital Procedures
    739. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that an urgent surgical procedure is carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    740. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 17 June 2014, when a detailed response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29481/14]
  • Hospital Investigations
    741. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that surveillance equipment was illegally used in an office used by maintenance staff at Letterkenny General...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
    742. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medication has been withdrawn from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare after 11 years of supply; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Medical Card Data
    743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of valid non-discretionary medical cards currently held [29495/14]
  • Medical Card Applications
    744. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    745. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be seen by a cardiologist at Kerry General Hospital; the timeframe for the current waiting list; the...
  • Health Services Staff
    746. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is being forced to retire at 65 years of age from the Health Service Executive when that person will only be entitled to...
  • Home Care Packages
    747. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a patient (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the services currently provided for the patient; and details of the current home care package...
  • Medical Card Reviews
    748. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork who made an unsuccessful medical card application in 2012 is included in the special review of medical cards...
  • Mental Health Act Review
    749. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the status of the review of the Mental Health Act 2001; and when this review will be completed [29551/14]
  • Medical Card Applications
    750. To ask the Minister for Health the documentation outstanding in respect of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    751. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that is spent by his Department in the area of mental health in each of the 26 counties of the State last year and for each of the previous...
  • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
    752. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    753. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29644/14]
  • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
    754. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the procedure to be followed by medical card holders in order to claim and receive a monetary refund where these medical card holders have...
  • Health Services Access
    755. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases where social workers for organisations such as Enable Ireland and citizen's information are advising persons that they...
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of National Ambulance Service vehicles destroyed by fire between 2008 and to date in 2014; the action the NAS has taken with the manufacturers of...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    757. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be furnished with specialised medical socks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29690/14]
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    758. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect to receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29693/14]
  • Medical Card Applications
    760. To ask the Minister for Health if a renewed medical card will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare [29702/14]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    761. To ask the Minister for Health if the review of governance structures in mental health services in Carlow, Kilkenny and South Tipperary has been completed; when same will be published; when...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    762. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 18 June 2014, when a detailed response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29705/14]
  • Primary Care Centre Provision
    763. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed Health Service Executive primary health care centre planned for lands in a location (details supplied) Dublin 22, the current...
  • Mental Health Act Review
    764. To ask the Minister for Health if under the Government's stated commitment to the development of a community based model of care, he will support the amendment to the Mental Health Act 2001...
  • Home Care Packages
    765. To ask the Minister for Health if he supports legislating for a statutory entitlement to primary home care which will provide for a detailed and practical transfer of care protocol; and if...
  • Hospital Services
    766. To ask the Minister for Health if MRI scanning is available at the Cork University Maternity Hospital outside main hours and at weekends; if the service is not available in...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
    767. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applications under the fair deal scheme are taking in excess of 12 weeks to process, and that applications for...
  • HIQA Inspections
    768. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Information Quality Authority findings from a number of inspections on disability services for children and young persons...
  • Local Drugs Task Forces
    769. To ask the Minister for Health the service that the North East Regional Drugs and Alcohol Task Force has put in place to replace which was being provided by the Ana Liffey Drug Project; if...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes Policy
    770. To ask the Minister for Health if he will refocus spending in the area of drug policy on public health interventions in view of the need for comprehensive needle and syringe programme...
  • Hospital Staff
    771. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of formal complaints made by staff at Kerry General Hospital over the past three years; and if...
  • General Practitioner Services
    772. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the Health Service Executive payments for out of hours GP consultations; and if he will make a...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    773. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the Health Service Executive list of long-term illnesses; and if he will make a...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    774. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the medical card review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Water Fluoridation
    775. To ask the Minister for Health if he will state categorically that the fluoride concentrations in the public drinking water poses no known medical problems to the general public [29779/14]
  • Medical Card Applications
    776. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    777. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made with the transfer of a person (details supplied) in County Galway from a hospital in England to the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin;...
  • Health Services
    778. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene and secure an urgent residential placement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois whose quality of life is being...
  • Medical Card Applications
    779. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29815/14]
  • Hospital Consultants Contract Issues
    780. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 567 of 15 April 2014, the number of private patients seen by each of the consultants in each of the past five years; the...
  • Hospital Transfers
    781. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be transferred to the National Rehabilitation Hospital as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Services
    782. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a procedure carried out in St. James Hospital, Dublin. [29829/14]
  • Medical Card Reviews
    783. To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be reinstated under the new discretionary guidelines in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 1 July 2014, the administrative basis upon which health care will be made available under the forthcoming redress...
  • Medical Card Applications
    785. 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. [29857/14]
  • Hospital Facilities
    786. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the use of part of Dingle Hospital for office space (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29858/14]
  • Hospital Appointment Delays
    787. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have a person (details supplied) in County Wexford, who is in severe pain, dealt with as a matter of urgency by the Health Service...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
    788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reducing the ceiling of the drug refund scheme in Budget 2015. [29899/14]
  • Insurance Levy
    789. To ask the Minister for Health his views on calls to reverse the levy on private health insurers for use of private beds in public hospitals in Budget 2015; and if he will make a statement...
  • Speech and Language Therapy
    790. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for speech and language therapy for public health patients in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29909/14]
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    791. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add iports to the category of approved products under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29919/14]
  • Departmental Staff Remuneration
    793. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30532/14]
  • Departmental Staff Rehiring
    794. To ask the Minister for Health the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he will provide a breakdown...

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