Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

  • Disabilities Assessments
    386. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the clinical assessment of a person (details supplied) given that the person's age and the current waiting time will mean the person will be too...
  • HSE Expenditure
    387. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the findings of the Committee on Public Accounts which were forwarded to him in respect of the HSE not discharging an artist ration award to...
  • Medical Card Expenditure
    388. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reintroducing the medical card for persons over 70 years of age to pre-2013 levels. [11590/16]
  • State Claims Agency
    389. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases and the average value of these cases in the past year where the State Claims Agency settled relating to healthcare associated infection,...
  • Legislative Measures
    390. To ask the Minister for Health when he will commence sections 20 to 23, inclusive, of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11852/16]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    391. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11171/16]
  • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
    392. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11174/16]
  • Health Services Provision
    393. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous questions on behalf of persons (details supplied), given that they have ceased dealing with the HSE due to the continuing lack of...
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    394. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure three vacant posts created to support the implementation of the type 2 diabetes cycle of care initiative in the Dublin West and County Kildare area...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    396. To ask the Minister for Health the status of persons on waiting lists for operations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11203/16]
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    397. To ask the Minister for Health why the new position in the laboratory of Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, County Meath, which was advertised and interviewed for, was not filled; and the status...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    398. To ask the Minister for Health if the full range of psychiatric supports are being made available to a person (details supplied). [11206/16]
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    399. To ask the Minister for Health when a sanctioned health care professional (details supplied) will commence a posting in Dublin North West. [11213/16]
  • Patient Transport Expenditure
    400. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the contractors who provide transport services for persons on dialysis; the rate per kilometre paid in respect of each contractor, by county, in...
  • HSE Staff Remuneration
    401. To ask the Minister for Health the basic pay scales for non-paramedic personnel who drive and provide transport services for patients in HSE vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Patient Transport Expenditure
    403. To ask the Minister for Health the contracts awarded for the transfer of patients for dialysis, the amounts agreed per kilometre, and the amounts paid to the previous holders of the...
  • Hospital Services
    404. To ask the Minister for Health when he will conclude the report and publish the recommendations on the future provision of services at Portlaoise Hospital in County Laois [11233/16]
  • Home Help Service Data
    405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a package under the home help scheme by local health office area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services
    407. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is unable to receive the required treatment due to no funding being available from the Health Service Executive. [11239/16]
  • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
    408. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, he will grant clinical indemnity to the North West Neurological Institute which aims, in parallel with the Health Service Executive, to augment...
  • Drug Refund Scheme
    409. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the difference in the amount of refund received by a person (details supplied) for the same drugs each month under the drug refund scheme; and...
  • Disability Support Services Funding
    410. To ask the Minister for Health to provide additional funding for public service agreement hours (details supplied); if he is aware of the continued concern and distress of parents who have...
  • HSE Contracts
    413. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive last reviewed the contract for transporting patients on dialysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11256/16]
  • Disease Incidence
    414. To ask the Minister for Health if he is peer-reviewing the recent report on a suspected cluster of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the Duleek area of County Meath and if he must report it to...
  • Prescriptions Charges
    415. To ask the Minister for Health to amend the prescription charges for medical card holders and impose a maximum amount for the payment of these charges so that charges which exceed this...
  • Parking Charges
    416. To ask the Minister for Health the status of car parking charges at primary care centres including if they are an unacceptable burden to patients, particularly for persons with medical...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    417. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment from the ear, nose and throat department in Letterkenny University Hospital in County Donegal; and...
  • Prescriptions Charges
    421. To ask the Minister for Health to review the procedure whereby prescriptions for Warfarin tablets are charged for separately, that is €2.50 each for brown, blue and pink tablets; if a...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    422. To ask the Minister for Health when the interdepartmental group reviewing the fair deal scheme will report; its progress to date; and if he has consulted or if he will meet with the Irish...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    423. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a hearing aid by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11290/16]
  • Prescriptions Charges
    424. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, he will reduce the €2.50 prescription charge for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11307/16]
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    425. To ask the Minister for Health when he will release funding for the regional hospital in Mullingar in County Westmeath to employ another paediatrician to allow the hospital to raise the...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    426. To ask the Minister for Health when he will release the €23 million (details supplied) development funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11316/16]
  • Mental Health Services
    427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce an independent mechanism for persons to complain if they have had a negative or adverse experience of Health Service Executive mental...
  • Suicide Prevention
    431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the interdepartmental group which launched the Connecting for Life suicide strategy has met since its launch in June 2015; if he has an...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    432. To ask the Minister for Health the status of respite care for persons with special needs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11323/16]
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    433. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the eligibility of a person (details supplied) under the medical card scheme, including when he will issue a decision; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    434. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies which have been filled by hiring agency staff in the Health Service Executive and in organisations it funds, including voluntary...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    436. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [11335/16]
  • Hospital Facilities
    437. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position on the provision of a dedicated obstetrics theatre at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11376/16]
  • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
    438. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being undertaken to ensure bed availability for the significant cohort of the population that will require nursing home care in coming years; and...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    439. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of criticisms levelled at the nursing home support scheme funding model by Nursing Homes Ireland, the representative body for private and...
  • National Children's Hospital Location
    442. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the location of the National Children's Hospital at the St. James's Hospital site; if he will review the decision and the decision-making process;...
  • Housing Adaptation Grant
    443. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) may expect the occupational therapist to carry out a report for Donegal County Council relating to the housing adaptation...
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    444. To ask the Minister for Health for a status update on the recruitment of a second permanent consultant neurologist for the north-west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Home Help Service Oversight
    445. To ask the Minister for Health why the Health Information and Quality Authority has instructed all those who use the services of home help providers to have key lock boxes installed outside...
  • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
    446. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the cross-border directive, CBD, if he will outline the way the total cost of comparable treatment in another jurisdiction versus the costs incurred...
  • Medical Products
    447. To ask the Minister for Health the savings to the Exchequer from a 2% reduction in branded medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11391/16]
  • Licensing of Medicines
    449. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered a scheme of compulsory licensing for medicines; if not, if he will consider compulsory licensing; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services
    450. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given a date to have a medical procedure scheduled. [11399/16]
  • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
    451. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11400/16]
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    452. To ask the Minister for Health to add the condition Motor Neuron to the list of qualifying medical conditions for the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Properties
    453. To ask the Minister for Health the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11422/16]
  • Disability Support Services
    454. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the unacceptable waiting list for children to access a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11444/16]
  • Home Help Service Provision
    455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided to persons in County Clare in each of the years 2010 to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11454/16]
  • Psychological Assessments
    456. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) may expect to have an assessment carried out by a child psychologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11464/16]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    457. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for a for a procedure (details supplied) in a hospital in Dublin 1; the steps are being taken to reduce the waiting times; and if he...
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    458. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation to introduce plain packaging on tobacco products will be brought before the House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11479/16]
  • Psychological Assessments Waiting Times
    459. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for children to be assessed by a child psychologist in County Donegal; the total number of persons waiting for up to three months,...
  • HSE Staff
    460. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members of the Health Service Executive currently on extended leave, not including holiday or sick leave, with full or partial pay. [11490/16]
  • Medical Card Data
    461. To ask the Minister for Health why families where one person only in the household has a medical card have to pay the €25 prescription charges for the medical card holder, in addition...
  • Drugs Payment Scheme
    462. To ask the Minister for Health why a medication (details supplied) which is available on prescription only does not have a code and is not covered under the drugs payment scheme. [11528/16]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
    463. To ask the Minister for Health to consider changing the fair deal scheme to ensure family farms are not eroded and rendered non-viable due to dilution of the farm asset scheme; and if he...
  • Ambulance Service
    464. To ask the Minister for Health the reason emergency ambulances are disallowed from transporting patients from home to district or community hospitals, even though they are requested to do so...
  • Health Services
    465. To ask the Minister for Health why the intermediary care vehicles in County Kerry are not fully staffed; the number of these vehicles which are parked, because of the lack of paramedics to...
  • HSE Funding
    466. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by the Health Service Executive to homeless organisations here for each year from 2008 to 2015 and to date in 2016 in tabular form. [11534/16]
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    467. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that a social worker is recruited at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11550/16]
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    468. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to recruit a consultant oncologist who is due to retire (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11551/16]
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    469. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans to meet the staff shortage at Birr community nursing unit, which has resulted in the suspension of day care services and...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    471. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11586/16]
  • Medicinal Products Licensing
    472. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the evidence for the efficacy of cannabidiol medical marijuana in treating the symptoms of Dravet syndrome; if he will license it for this...
  • Speech and Language Therapy
    473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for speech and language therapy assessment for less than four months, for four months plus to 12 and for 12 plus months...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    474. To ask the Minister for Health to investigate why a person (details supplied) is waiting for additional home help hours granted by disability services in January 2016. [11608/16]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    475. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11617/16]
  • General Practitioner Services
    476. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 846 and 847 of 17 May 2016, the costs of introducing free general practitioner care to all citizens based on the current...
  • Medical Card Administration
    477. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 951 of 17 May 2016, when the clinical advisory group will report on the development framework for assessment and...
  • Health Services Provision
    478. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the services provided at St. Joseph's day care centre, Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon; if the services provided there will continue; and...
  • Ambulance Service Data
    479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance call-outs to the north Connemara area in 2015 and 2016 to date, and the time from the call-out to the arrival at the patient; and if he...
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    480. To ask the Minister for Health when he will allocate an additional ambulance and personnel to the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, as requested by the local community, following a number...
  • Ambulance Service
    481. To ask the Minister for Health to commence discussions with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on a memorandum of understanding to ensure that fire and rescue...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    483. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the three-out-one-in hiring rule adopted by hospital groups within the Health Service Executive in December 2015, as reported in The Irish Times on...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    484. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if the person is on the waiting list for a procedure; and when the procedure will be carried out....
  • Ambulance Service Data
    486. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance call-outs to the Leenane area of Connemara, County Galway; the date, the duration between the call being made and the ambulance being...
  • General Practitioner Data
    488. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practice surgeries; the towns and villages where they are located in County Meath currently participating under the rural practice...
  • Home Care Packages
    491. To ask the Minister for Health why he is providing different levels of packages under the home care scheme in counties Kerry and Cork; to urgently review this; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    492. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11718/16]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    493. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case (details supplied) including when the person will receive a decision. [11719/16]
  • Ambulance Service Staff
    494. To ask the Minister for Health to recruit extra staff and provide extra resources for the national ambulance service; his views on the recommendations made in the national ambulance service...
  • Ambulance Service
    495. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to act on the recommendations of the published National Ambulance Service emergency service baseline and capacity review; when he will...
  • Ambulance Service Staff
    496. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing the additional 752 staff for the national ambulance service, including the Dublin Fire Brigade, and the cost of providing the 461 posts...
  • Ambulance Service
    497. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing the additional 72 vehicles for the national ambulance service, including the Dublin Fire Brigade, further to the findings of the National...
  • Ambulance Service Staff
    499. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing the additional 548 staff for the national ambulance service, excluding the Dublin Fire Brigade, and the cost of providing the 400 posts...
  • Ambulance Service
    500. To ask the Minister for Health where additional staff and vehicles are needed, and those areas he will support for additional staffing and vehicles, in tabular form, further to the findings...
  • Health Services
    501. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an audiology appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11738/16]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    502. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case (details supplied) including when the person will receive an appointment. [11743/16]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    505. To ask the Minister for Health to immediately publish the up-to-date fees paid to the Health Service Executive's nursing homes for nursing home care; the reason private and voluntary nursing...
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    506. To ask the Minister for Health to hire two clinical nurses for the Finglas addiction support team which has had two applications pending since 2014, despite funding being agreed; and if he...
  • Medical Negligence Claims
    507. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on legal fees connected to medical negligence since the introduction of the open disclosure programme, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
    508. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) has not received a reimbursement payment due since March 2016 under the cross-border health care directive scheme; and if he...
  • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
    509. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in which he will reimburse persons availing of the cross-border health care directive scheme under the rules of the scheme; and if he will make a...
  • Medical Card Applications
    510. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing an application by a person (details supplied) for a medical card under the European Union entitlement; and if he will...
  • Care Services Provision
    511. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied) and increase their carer's hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11818/16]
  • Nursing Staff Recruitment
    512. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a three-to-one system of replacement in operation for nurses in the Health Service Executive; if he has issued an instruction to the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    514. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11870/16]

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