Written answers

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    63. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the increasingly long waiting times for operations at Cappagh Hospital in County Dublin, where waiting times of 18 months and longer are...
  • Hospital Beds Data
    67. To ask the Minister for Health if hospital acute bed capacity here is sufficient and if the norm for hospital bed occupancy should be 85% capacity, as is the case in other countries; the...
  • Hospital Groups
    69. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the emergency department at Mayo General Hospital; when the recommendations will be published; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Programme for Government Initiatives
    70. To ask the Minister for Health why two fundamental health commitments in the 2011 programme for Government, namely the undertakings on universal health insurance and the introduction of free...
  • Legislative Measures
    71. To ask the Minister for Health where he has amended the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015, which is shortly due to come before both Houses of the Oireachtas and which will seek to...
  • Medicinal Products Licensing
    72. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the drug Nivolumab, an immunosuppressant drug treatment for cancers that experts have described as a game-changer; if he will license this...
  • Ambulance Service Response Times
    73. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in improving emergency vehicle response times in rural areas and in Connemara, County Galway, in particular; if the stationing of ambulances at...
  • Hospital Beds Data
    74. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that were allocated to University Hospital Waterford in the recent winter hand-out allowance for overcrowded hospitals; the number of beds...
  • General Practitioner Services
    75. To ask the Minister for Health the type of measures he is considering to help support the provision of general practitioner services in rural areas, given the global pressures on the...
  • General Practitioner Contracts
    76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the negotiation of a new contract for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3925/16]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    77. To ask the Minister for Health his views on survivors of severe acquired brain injury depending on a maintenance programme in nursing home care rather than in proper rehabilitation therapy;...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    79. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware, and if it is acceptable, that there are approximately 250 children with scoliosis who are waiting for an operation to fix their spine or waiting...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    80. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is negotiating with the drug supplier Vertex, which produces the drug Orkambi, a drug which has been found to significantly...
  • Hospital Staff
    81. To ask the Minister for Health why he has not honoured commitments by his predecessor to fund academic appointments to University Hospital Waterford in the context of the reconfiguration of...
  • Mental Health Services Staffing
    82. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the chronic shortage of nursing staff in St. Joseph's Association for the intellectually disabled in Portrane, County Dublin;...
  • Hospital Facilities
    83. To ask the Minister for Health the number of commissioned units in public and voluntary hospitals that have yet to open, including the patient accommodation capacity in each, in tabular form;...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    84. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in ending the practice of placing children and adolescents in adult psychiatric wards, further to the commitment of the programme for...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    85. To ask the Minister for Health why the Health Service Executive's service plan makes no provision for an increase in the number of personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities in...
  • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
    86. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he it taking to address the issue of patients on trolleys at Mayo General Hospital, including the capacity problem that sees the emergency...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    87. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and the number of hours being provided for home help, and the funding and the number of packages being provided for home care in 2016; and if he...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    88. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on agency staff at University Hospital Waterford in each of the years 2013 to 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Community Care Provision
    89. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive community intervention teams by local health office; the local health offices that do not have a community intervention...
  • Health Services Access
    90. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent statistics from Health Consumer Powerhouse, which found Ireland to have the longest emergency department waiting times in Europe and...
  • Health Services Staff
    91. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his provision of arthritis-specific front-line staff during his period as Minister for Health, including consultants, clinical nurse specialists,...
  • Hospital Staff
    92. To ask the Minister for Health the number of academic appointments at University Hospital Waterford funded since the reorganisation of hospital services in the south east; the appointments he...
  • Disability Support Services Provision
    93. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding and services for survivors of severe acquired brain injury, including those currently provided, and the number of patients affected; and...
  • Speech and Language Therapy
    94. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure all persons with a disability who need speech and language and therapy services get adequate services in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the...

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