Written answers
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
- Mental Health Services Provision
7. To ask the Minister for Health if reports that the Health Service Executive's 2015 service plan target, to reduce the number of young persons with mental health problems admitted to adult... - Universal Health Insurance Expenditure
8. To ask the Minister for Health his views to the recent reports suggesting that there is no evidence that the universal health insurance model leads to reductions in the cost of health care;... - Hospital Services
10. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm, following the closure of two operating theatres in University Hospital Waterford in 2013-2014, then known as Waterford Regional Hospital, if... - Blood Donations
12. To ask the Minister for Health if he will decrease from 18 years of age to 16 or 17 years of age, the age at which blood donations are accepted, with parental consent, thereby increasing the... - Hospital Staff
13. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that working conditions at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath, are safe for staff and patients; and if he will make a... - Ambulance Service Provision
15. To ask the Minister for Health if it is correct that only one ambulance is available for call-outs in the County Waterford area, to University Hospital Waterford, between the hours of 5.00... - Ambulance Service Response Times
16. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of first responders in communities, particularly in rural communities; if he will provide details of the work ongoing to... - Hospital Staff
17. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 14 May 2014, if he will confirm the appointments that have been made to the physiotherapy staffing complement in... - Judicial Reviews
18. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the investigation into the Miss Y case; and whether the Government will consider a review of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, and... - General Practitioner Services
19. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the roll-out of free general practitioner care for the whole population; and his views on reports that it is to be delayed by... - Medical Card Eligibility
20. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of progress by the group tasked with an examination of medical card issuing criteria; if the revised criteria for granting medical... - Accident and Emergency Departments
21. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he will improve the overcrowding at accident and emergency departments in various hospitals throughout the country, by way of bringing... - Vaccination Programme
22. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee regarding the introduction of a meningitis B vaccine; when a decision on the recommendation... - Primary Care Centre Data
23. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding his plan to roll out primary care centres throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8003/15] - Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
24. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8029/15] - Drug Treatment Programmes Policy
25. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that enough credence, support, resources and funding are provided to the recovery model, as is provided to the harm reduction model, for... - Health Strategies
26. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his plans to issue the first individual health identifiers and increase investment in information and communications technology... - Health Insurance
27. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the Voluntary Health Insurance being authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8032/15] - Nursing Home Services
28. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Service Executive deliberations, following the consultation process on Shaen and Abbeyleix hospitals, County Laois. [7895/15] - Ambulance Service Provision
29. To ask the Minister for Health the positive impact on Galway city and the west of Galway county, following the decision to staff an ambulance station in Tuam, County Galway; and if he will... - Cancer Screening Programmes
30. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the increase of five years, in the age range for BreastCheck, will take six years to be fully rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the... - Health Services Staff
31. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the recruitment of extra speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychological professionals to address the... - HSE Investigations
32. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the quality of investigations into complaints, regarding serious allegations of abuse and malpractice within the Health Service... - Constitutional Amendments
33. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with terminations of pregnancy in cases of fatal foetal abnormality. [8043/15] - Hospital Waiting Lists
34. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the massive increase in numbers waiting for surgery, for over a year, in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if a particular plan has... - Home Care Packages
35. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to regularise the provision of home care, both public and private, provided to elderly persons, and vulnerable adults, in their own homes; his... - Medicinal Products Prices
36. To ask the Minister for Health his expectations in regard to reducing the cost of medicines to the public and the health services, with particular reference to the need to ensure that such... - Disability Support Services
37. To ask the Minister for Health when the mobility allowance will be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8035/15] - Organ Donation
38. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of what has been done, and what will be done, to ensure that kidneys donated here, are not sent abroad, due to a lack of... - Accident and Emergency Departments
39. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of his plan to tackle the accident and emergency crisis in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the... - National Drugs Strategy Implementation
40. To ask the Minister for Health the various groups and committees that inform Department policy on addiction; and the extent of research undertaken in relation to the policy on the prevention... - Nursing Home Services
41. To ask the Minister for Health his plans are regarding the future provision of public nursing home beds in County Laois, with particular reference to Shaen and Abbeyleix hospitals. [7894/15] - Community Care Provision
42. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the reconfiguration of residential services, as recommended in the Health Service Excutive report, Time to Move on from... - Accident and Emergency Departments
43. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the number of persons staying on hospital trolleys; and the steps being taken, by his Department, to improve the situation.... - Hospital Staff
44. To ask the Minister for Health the way his Department will help avoid the prospect of industrial action at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if he will make a... - Health Services Provision
45. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be located by the Health Service Executive, for the exceptional case of a young person with special care needs (details supplied) in County... - Ambulance Service Provision
46. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to resume a full-time ambulance service within the National Ambulance Service Health Service Executive at ambulance stations where services were... - Universal Health Insurance Provision
47. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the progress that his Department has made towards implementing universal health insurance; if his Department has assessed the social impact of the... - HSE Investigations
48. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on remuneration in 2012, 2013 and 2014 for persons, or companies, tasked with carrying out investigations into complaints, regarding... - Hospital Equipment
50. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous parliamentary questions tabled in relation to the new computed tomography scanner, which was donated to University Hospital Waterford by... - General Practitioner Services
51. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the introduction of free general practitioner care; when the scheme will commence for children under six years of age; the way... - Hospital Waiting Lists
52. To ask the Minister for Health when follow-up funding will be provided for the patients of Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, who were outsourced under the 2013 outpatients... - Misuse of Drugs
53. To ask the Minister for Health the excessive length of time considered for a person to be on methadone treatment; his views that more than 1,300 persons have been on methadone treatment since... - Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
54. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the crisis in the provision of nursing home places under the fair deal scheme; and if measures will be taken to increase the... - Hospital Waiting Lists
55. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.166 of 14 May 2014, if he will provide a breakdown, in terms of speciality and special interest; if he will confirm the... - Health Services Staff Recruitment
56. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of consultant psychiatrists, who are urgently needed for the support of young persons in this State; the measures in place for...
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