Written answers

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

  • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
    435. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate responsibility for the national drugs strategy to an existing Minister of State in view of the seriousness of the issue; and if he will...
  • HIQA Investigations
    436. To ask the Minister for Health in the interest of child protection, if his Department has sought to ensure the publication of the Health Information and Quality Authority report into the...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    437. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the health sector who continue to be paid at rates above the agreed public pay scales; the amount of additional payment in each case;...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
    438. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only patients with certain long term-illnesses are eligible for free medication that is not means tested, while patients with other chronic...
  • Health Services
    439. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have a Jigsaw hub in County Limerick, in view of the fact there are now ten Jigsaw hubs in other communities, and young persons in County Limerick...
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    440. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appointment will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12694/15]
  • Medical Card Applications
    441. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the renewal of a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12735/15]
  • Health Services Allowances
    442. To ask the Minister for Health if an application to the Health Service Executive for the payment of a gratuity for a non-pensionable person will be reviewed in respect of a person (details...
  • Medical Card Applications
    444. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on an application for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12817/15]
  • Departmental Meetings
    445. To ask the Minister for Health the interaction and support that may be offered to an organisation (details supplied); if he will arrange a meeting with officials from his Department to...
  • General Medical Services Scheme Data
    446. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the reported difficulty in filling vacant rural General Medical Services practice panels in recent times, the number of general practitioner...
  • Hospital Procedures
    447. To ask the Minister for Health if statistics are collected on colonoscopies performed in public and private hospitals; if they adhere fully to guidelines as per the Royal College of Surgeons...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    448. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, where availability of theatres for surgical procedures is severely curtailed...
  • Hospital Groups
    450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek an independent review of all contracts awarded without a competitive process by the Saolta-Galway Roscommon University Hospital Group since its...
  • Symphysiotomy Reports
    451. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the Government symphysiotomy payment scheme, the total number of offers made and accepted to date at €50,000, €100,000 and...
  • Vaccination Programme
    454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the introduction of the meningitis B vaccine into the primary childhood immunisation schedule as soon as possible; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    455. To ask the Minister for Health when a payment known as twilight premium will be made to social care workers and leaders in Brothers of Charity Services and Ability West; if his attention has...
  • Palliative Care Services
    456. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a comprehensive service plan for palliative care in the midlands region; if budget provisions are being allocated for same, and for what...
  • Medical Card Applications
    457. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that all relevant...
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances serving County Longford from its department adjoining St. Joseph's Care Centre, County Longford, at any given time; and if...
  • Hospital Equipment
    459. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the technical difficulties with a piece of equipment at Louth County Hospital, with regard to cataract surgeries; when the issue...
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    460. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment in the ophthalmology department in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointment Delays
    461. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive follow-up medical treatment following a recent procedure in view of the fact the person was...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    462. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be granted a medical card in view of comorbid conditions. [12918/15]
  • Health Services Provision
    463. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a day centre in Marino-Fairview in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12924/15]
  • Hospital Facilities
    464. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through sales at the shop and restaurant in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Health Services Provision
    465. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence regarding the welfare of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12939/15]
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    467. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of an ambulance call-out (details supplied) in County Laois; if there were delays in the availability of an ambulance; if this was...
  • Medical Card Applications
    468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that all relevant...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    472. To ask the Minister for Health the reason special footwear is not being provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if funding will be provided without delay; if...
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    473. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny with a consultant vascular surgeon at Waterford Regional Hospital, in...
  • Organ Donation
    474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting transplants in each of the following, heart, liver, lung, kidney and pancreas; and due to current shortfall in donors the number...
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    475. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13006/15]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    476. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Regorafenib Stivarga will be made available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13027/15]
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    477. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appointment will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13030/15]
  • General Practitioner Services
    478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners in receipt of the rural practice allowance; the names of each general practitioner and the location of their practice; the...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    481. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons he has ceased providing mental health services to children and adolescents in Gorey in County Wexford and forced families from north Wexford to...
  • Health Insurance Cover
    483. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the treatment of periods of cover for children and parents, where health insurance premiums are paid on their behalf by either their...
  • Vaccination Programme
    484. To ask the Minister for Health if he will pursue the widest and earliest possible implementation of effective vaccines against all strains of meningitis and septicaemia; and if he will make...
  • Medical Card Reviews
    485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical card reviews issued by the Health Service Executive to persons under 70 years of age for each month...
  • Health Services
    487. To ask the Minister for Health when payment will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13157/15]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    488. To ask the Minister for Health when the consideration by the Health Service Executive of funding the medication Regorafenib Stivarga will conclude; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Respite Care Services
    489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13165/15]
  • Hospitals Policy
    490. To ask the Minister for Health if a conflict of interest arises in respect of the chief executive officers of hospital groups being appointed by the Health Service Executive to manage the...
  • Hospital Procedures
    493. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a surgical intervention in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13176/15]
  • Health Services
    494. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who suffers from epilepsy and requires a guide dog. [13198/15]
  • Hospital Beds Data
    495. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are beds lying empty in Killarney Community Hospital and St. Columbanus home in County Kerry when, following treatment at Kerry General...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
    496. To ask the Minister for Health the drugs counselling services provided to persons under 18 years of age in Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13207/15]
  • Nursing Home Beds
    498. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has been denied a respite place at Charleville House in Tullamore, County Offaly; and if he will make...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    499. To ask the Minister for Health in order to encourage persons with intellectual disabilities to take up opportunities of rehabilitative employment, if he will consider putting protections in...
  • Health Services Provision
    500. To ask the Minister for Health if much needed physiotherapy will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation
    501. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation of the national positive ageing strategy will commence; and when the consultation process will commence. [13225/15]
  • National Dementia Strategy
    502. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the national dementia strategy (details supplied); if dementia will be recognised as a long-term illness with regard to obtaining a...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes Funding
    504. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for the north east local and regional drug and alcohol task force, on an annual basis from 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Staff
    505. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 19 maternity units in hospitals that are funded as level 2 units only; his views on the connection between that lower level of funding and...
  • HIQA Reports
    506. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the reports into the reasons behind the baby deaths (details supplied) in Portlaoise in County Laois, promised by the Health...
  • HSE Staff Issues
    507. To ask the Minister for Health the officials within the Health Service Executive who sanctioned the Office of Nursing and Midwifery Directorate in the executive in suspending a person...
  • National Dementia Strategy Implementation
    510. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the national dementia strategy; if proper home care packages will be made available to persons with dementia, and their families; and if...
  • HSE Staffing
    511. To ask the Minister for Health the reason counselling psychologists are not eligible to apply for Health Service Executive psychology posts to work with children and adolescents in...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    513. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for a cataract operation will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • HSE Staff Issues
    514. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to comments made by him (details supplied), his views on the treatment of a person by the Health Service Executive who was suspended by its...
  • General Practitioner Services
    515. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 411 of 10 March 2015, if he will provide details of the issues raised in relation to the reply, and North East Doctor on...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    516. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for mental health per head of population per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13277/15]
  • Health Insurance Contracts
    518. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding health insurers insisting that policy holders who cancel their policy during the policy year pay the insurer an amount equal to the...
  • Homeless Accommodation Provision
    519. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug free short-term beds available to homeless and recovering addicts in each of the four Dublin local authorities; the number of detox beds...
  • Medical Products
    520. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application to the Health Service Executive by a company (details supplied) to have funding for the drug Fampyra...
  • Dental Services Provision
    521. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will receive the necessary treatment through the public dental system; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • HSE Staffing
    522. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding recruitment of nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13309/15]
  • National Dementia Strategy Implementation
    523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive proceeds with development of appropriate training courses for family and other informed carers in keeping...
  • Hospital Accommodation Provision
    527. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 10 February 2015, the level of negotiations he has had regarding utilising St. Joseph's Hospital in County...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    528. To ask the Minister for Health the space currently utilised by the Health Service Executive for the provision of mental health services and other services on the St. Loman's Campus in...
  • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
    529. To ask the Minister for Health the time frame for the recruitment of a second palliative consultant for the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar in County Westmeath; and the terms of the...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    530. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment process for the recently announced new positions at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar in County Westmeath; the timeframe for same; the...
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    531. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment from the ear, nose and throat department in Letterkenny General Hospital; and if...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    532. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is on the routine or urgent list with orthopaedics in Sligo Hospital; when this person can expect an...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    533. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a charitable community (details supplied) which is providing care and supports to 275 persons in a range of ages, most of whom are full-time...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    534. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is waiting eight months for a cataract operation at University Hospital Galway; if same will be...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    535. 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. [13391/15]
  • Medical Card Applications
    536. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    537. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is given an appointment for a magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scan at Midland Regional...

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