Written answers

Thursday, 7 May 2015

  • Hospital Appointment Status
    118. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) may expect to be provided with necessary treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17905/15]
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    119. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address a Labour Court agreement in respect of €7.5 million owed to 400 social care workers in Counties Galway and Roscommon...
  • Dental Services Provision
    120. To ask the Minister for Health the dental treatments that are provided for under the free dental scheme for low income families who have a general medical services card; and if he will...
  • Hospitals Expenditure
    121. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in Dublin 6 for transport services, in each of the past three years; the amount estimated that will be paid in...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    122. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that although a person (details supplied) in County Clare was told in July 2014 that he would have bypass surgery in September 2014, the person...
  • Hospital Staff
    123. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to ensure that staffing levels and staffing arrangements are adequate in the acute psychiatric unit at Roscommon County Hospital, in...
  • Medical Card Applications
    124. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that all the...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    125. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the medical card guidelines require the primary care reimbursement service to take account of a person's distance from medical care,...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, by acute hospital, the number and medical specialty and cost of locums, for each hospital, since 2013; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Public Sector Pensions
    127. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an explanation of the workings of cost-neutral retirement pension schemes for nurses; if persons, who took such an option, have the option...
  • Medical Card Applications
    129. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact the person has...
  • Health Insurance Community Rating
    130. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the lifetime community rating (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17939/15]
  • Health Services Provision
    131. To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed to restore the rheumatology outreach clinic in Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Medical Card Applications
    133. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for an emergency Medical Card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [17953/15]
  • Pension Entitlements
    134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will liaise with the Health Service Executive to ascertain if a person (details supplied) in County Cavan is entitled to a pension, in respect of that...
  • General Practitioner Allowances
    135. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who are in receipt of an allowance (details supplied); who have made a legal challenge for entitlement to same; and if he...
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    136. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 12 March 2015, when it is envisaged that a patient (details supplied) in County Clare will undergo a procedure, in...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    137. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take with the Health Service Executive to ensure that moneys, in the sum of €7.5 million, owed to social care workers in Counties...
  • Medical Card Applications
    138. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite 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...
  • Health Service Supports
    139. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a specific protocol in place within the Health Service Executive to provide extra support to recently bereaved spouses and their dependent...
  • Orthodontic Service Provision
    140. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding orthodontic braces in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17974/15]
  • Hospital Appointment Status
    141. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be provided an appointment to treat a spinal injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17976/15]
  • Dental Services
    142. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the removal of amalgam fillings for dental cavities, which have mercury in the debris of these fillings, which is found to be harmful if...
  • Medical Card Applications
    143. To ask the Minister for Health if a Medical Card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, despite that person being refused, and assigned a General...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
    144. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €44 million allocated to the fair deal nursing home scheme that has been distributed; and to which regions. [17991/15]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    151. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the report into the public consultation on whether to make a number of prescription-only medicines, used in emergency situations, more...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report of the additional 1,150 posts in mental health services that were approved over the past number of years, the number of actual posts filled;...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme
    155. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme from €144 per month to €130 per month. [18004/15]
  • Health Care Professionals
    156. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation to regulate the counselling and psychotherapy profession; his plans to legislate for a minimum education requirement, level...
  • Hospital Investigations
    157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of X-rays and scans that were reviewed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, as a result of the discovery of errors in the...
  • Hospital Services
    161. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the quality assurance and control processes are sufficient to provide public confidence, when X-rays and scans are taken. [18011/15]
  • Health Services Staff Data
    163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff currently employed in the health service, and specifically in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [18013/15]
  • Medical Card Reviews
    166. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a refusal of an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will approve a discretionary...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
    167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an application and allow for a continuous glucose monitor in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    168. To ask the Minister for Health the status of legislation relating to infertility; if the heads of the Bill have been agreed; if the Bill will examine governance of the sector; if medical...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    169. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to establish an acute mental health unit at Wexford General Hospital prior to the change of Government in 2011; if so, the results of that plan; and...
  • Nursing Home Inspections
    170. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is sufficiently funded to implement its plans to bring the 21 nursing homes, which were identified by the Health and...
  • National Lottery Funding Applications
    171. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application to the Department's 2015 national lottery funded schemes; the total funding available under the programme for...
  • Local Drugs Task Forces Review Report
    173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 15 recommendations of the 2012 Report on the Review of Drugs Task Forces and the National Structures Under Which They Operate that have been...
  • Public Sector Staff Increment Payments
    176. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the Exchequer of the payment of increments to all public sector staff under his remit, per year since 2008. [18334/15]

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