Written answers

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

  • Scéim na dTinneas Fadtréimhseach
    151. To ask the Minister for Health an dtabharfaidh sé sonraí faoi liosta na dtinneas fadtréimhseach; an bhfuil beartaithe téarmaí ar nós 'mental handicap' a...
  • Medical Card Data
    152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2015 for each local health area the number of medical cards in circulation; the number...
  • Treatment Abroad Scheme
    153. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has a scheme to provide funding for persons who need to have specialist surgery carried out in the USA, when this surgery is not available...
  • Medical Card Applications
    154. 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. [2912/15]
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    155. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the reported anomaly relating to medical card eligibility in respect of persons aged between 18 and 26 years who, following changes to...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    156. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive an orthosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2923/15]
  • HSE National Service Plan
    157. To ask the Minister for Health if a revised Health Service Executive plan will be published to take account of cancelling elective surgery and admissions and reallocation of resources; and...
  • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
    158. To ask the Minister for Health the reason serious overcrowding continues at the accident and emergency in Beaumont Hospital in view of the fact that he had ample time to prepare a programme...
  • Accident and Emergency Department Staffing
    159. To ask the Minister for Health if additional medical staff will be allocated to the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [2946/15]
  • Home Care Packages
    160. To ask the Minister for Health if a home help care package being provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed and increased; and if he will make a...
  • Health Insurance Regulation
    161. To ask the Minister for Health the details of private health insurance and the fact that maternity benefits are included in the minimum level of benefits that companies must offer; if this...
  • Disease Incidence
    162. To ask the Minister for Health the details of reports of a cluster of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome in an area (details supplied) in County Meath; if the Health Service Executive...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    163. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will fund a drug in order to assist persons (details supplied) with the rare condition paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria;...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    164. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 18 December 2014, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current waiting list for the early...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    165. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will fund the drug soliris, eculizumab, for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who requires urgent surgery has not yet received confirmation of this surgery; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Voluntary Sector Funding
    167. To ask the Minister for Health the grants available in respect of a club (details supplied) in County Limerick for funding either from his Department or from lottery funding. [3000/15]
  • Freedom of Information Requests
    168. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a freedom of information application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3005/15]
  • Hospital Beds Data
    169. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the total number of publicly-funded beds available in each acute hospital in the State for each year from 1985 to date in...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure
    172. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that has been derived from the fair deal nursing home scheme in each year of its operation; the total cost of implementing the scheme in...
  • Hospital Accommodation Provision
    173. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposal to provide five additional beds in Monaghan hospital, an initiative that was due to be implemented by the end of 2014; when...
  • Home Care Packages
    174. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a shortage in availability of agency nurses trained in the correct management of tracheotomies; the measures he will take to...
  • Primary Care Centre Provision
    175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres currently operational throughout the country; the extent to which the general hospitals in the respective catchment areas...
  • Hospital Accommodation Provision
    176. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to alleviate the problem of overcrowding at various general hospitals throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospitals Discharges
    178. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which step-down, public or private nursing home beds are available or are being made available throughout the country with particular reference...
  • Nursing Home Accommodation
    179. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of public nursing home beds that have been reduced throughout the country in the past ten years; the extent to which any such beds...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    180. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which waiting times can be reduced for elective procedures in hospitals throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • National Children's Hospital
    181. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the plans for the national children’s hospital have been advanced; the degree to which the proposed site has been architecturally...
  • Autism Incidence
    183. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the extent to which the incidence of autism here compares with other countries in the European Union; whether particular research is ongoing to...
  • Cancer Incidence
    184. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the countries throughout Europe most affected by fall-out from Chernobyl; the extent of the health issues arising in terms of the number of...
  • Medicinal Products Supply
    185. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to make adequate provision for the potential life-saving availability of an EpiPen without prescription in emergency situations; and if he...
  • Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme
    186. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the extent to which dialogue has been entered into and settlement arrangements made with the victims of symphysiotomy in accordance with the...
  • Vaccination Programme
    187. To ask the Minister for Health when he and his office was first informed by the Health Service Executive that its anti-flu vaccine is for a different strain of illness than the one which is...
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    188. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his views on whether there will be no cut to Health Service Executive preschool special needs funding in County Meath, in view of indications to the...
  • Primary Care Services Provision
    189. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the arrangements made to provide nursing services on Inishturk island in County Mayo; the number of days that a nurse or doctor provided a service...

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