Written answers

Tuesday, 31 May 2016

  • Pension Provisions
    628. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the decision by the Central Remedial Clinic to close an employee pension fund; to address the concerns raised by staff; to examine if the affected...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    629. To ask the Minister for Health the support he provides for the replacement of prosthetic limbs which have a price tag of €11,000 for those in full-time work with an average annual...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    631. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing a full child and adult mental health services programme and team for each county. [12954/16]
  • National Drugs Strategy
    632. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure on the drugs strategy in the Louth-east Meath constituency for each year since 2012 and the progress made to date; the funding sought and the...
  • Substance Misuse
    634. To ask the Minister for Health the legal position of drug testing kits that would allow MDMA-ecstasy users to test drugs for their safety; if a person may be arrested for possession of these...
  • National Drugs Strategy Budget
    636. To ask the Minister for Health the details of drug-related public expenditure for each year from 2012. [13556/16]
  • Civil Registration Documentation
    637. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure required to obtain a letter of freedom in County Louth for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13644/16]
  • Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
    638. To ask the Minister for Health the drug treatment services available for members of the Traveller community. [13664/16]
  • Public Sector Staff Data
    639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have left the public service in his Department in each of the past five years to date, either by way of natural retirement or...
  • Medicinal Products
    640. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide the drug, Orkambi, for sufferers of cystic fibrosis. [12500/16]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    641. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a medical appointment for a person (details supplied). [12530/16]
  • Health Services
    642. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12542/16]
  • Child Custody and Access
    643. To ask the Minister for Health the annual funding that was previously provided for the Barnardos and One Family pilot child contact centre which has since been withdrawn; and the cost of...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    645. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide an operation for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12590/16]
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    648. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the lack of respite services for adults with special needs in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12606/16]
  • Motorised Transport Grant Closure
    649. To ask the Minister for Health to re-instate the motorised transport grant scheme in some capacity; the status of the ongoing work on policy proposals for the drafting of legislation for a...
  • Autism Support Services
    650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff vacancies in all autism spectrum disorder services in Dublin 24; his plans to fill them; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Health Services Staff
    651. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the staff turnover at Chamber House over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12621/16]
  • Autism Support Services
    653. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the success of implementing an early intervention policy for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder; and if he will make a statement on...
  • HSE Expenditure
    655. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated and spent on facilities management of Health Service Executive properties for each of the years 2008 to 2015, respectively; and to...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    656. To ask the Minister for Health the forensic mental health services available. [12665/16]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    657. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is unable to get sufficient personal assistant support. [12685/16]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    658. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be allocated a date for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12687/16]
  • Primary Care Centres Administration
    659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the procedure in place at primary care centres for the carrying out of X-rays when a person presents with a referral letter from a general...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    660. To ask the Minister for Health to address the discrepancy in the numbers of persons in County Kerry accessing cataract operations at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, County...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    661. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery waiting time for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12712/16]
  • Hospitals Expenditure
    662. To ask the Minister for Health the operating budget allocated to University Hospital Waterford in each of the years 2007 to 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on outpatient waiting lists at University Hospital Waterford who were referred to other public and private hospitals in each of the years...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    664. To ask the Minister for Health if outline architectural designs to construct a second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford were completed; when the plans were...
  • Hospital Facilities
    665. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move the orthodontic department at University Hospital Waterford, including how long it will take to complete a move [12719/16]
  • Industrial Disputes
    666. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the proposed industrial action by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth to express...
  • Primary Medical Certificates Data
    667. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for primary medical certificates in 2015; the number granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12727/16]
  • Hospital Charges
    668. To ask the Minister for Health when he will cancel a standard inpatient charge for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12732/16]
  • Hospitals Funding
    669. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the withdrawal of funding for sequential and bilateral cochlear implants at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the funding he has allocated to the...
  • Dental Services Provision
    670. To ask the Minister for Health when a dental appointment will be provided to a person (details supplied). [12746/16]
  • Birth Certificates Provision
    671. To ask the Minister for Health if an application (details supplied) has been received; when an amended birth certificate will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12749/16]
  • Medical Card Administration
    672. To ask the Minister for Health why discretionary medical cards are now only being renewed for a period of six months; his plans for such card holders; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Delays
    673. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting longer than expected for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12760/16]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making a drug (details supplied) available for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers. [12761/16]
  • Patient Transport Expenditure
    675. To ask the Minister for Health to review the recent cuts to the hospital patient transport scheme and reverse these cuts to assist patients on social protection payments who are suffering...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    676. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth who is currently waiting for an MRI scan and a nerve test; and the position the...
  • Industrial Disputes
    677. To ask the Minister for Health what actions can be taken by his Department and the HSE resolve as a matter of urgency the work to rule of nursing staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital,...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff required to fulfil the required complement across the health service and, in particular, at Our Lady of Lourdes...
  • Cancer Services Provision
    681. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to alter specialist care services available to sarcoma patients currently provided at St. Vincent's University Hospital; if such plans include...
  • Health Services Provision
    682. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a building in Oldtown, County Dublin which is called a health centre; the services which will be provided in this centre and if these will be...
  • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
    683. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a primary medical certificate by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12814/16]
  • Cancer Incidence
    684. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Cobh has been found to have the highest rate of cancer per capita in the State with the rate of prostate cancer 71 per cent higher than the...
  • Public Sector Allowances
    685. To ask the Minister for Health if the Community Allowance will be reintroduced for Community Mental Health Nurses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12845/16]
  • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
    686. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by his Department on media advertising from March 2011 to February 2016, showing the media organisation, newspaper, radio, television, or any...
  • Patient Transport Expenditure
    687. To ask the Minister for Health the sums paid by the Health Service Executive by hospital under its control regarding the acquisition costs of transporting patients in taxi services, bus...
  • Disability Services Funding
    688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve an increase in funding for Epilepsy Ireland so that they can open an office in Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Palliative Care Facilities
    689. To ask the Minister for Health if the 12 palliative care beds at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, as previously referred to in response to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 10 December 2015,...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes
    690. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of opening supervised injection facilities in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. [12933/16]
  • EU Directives
    691. To ask the Minister for Health if the State is compliant with the EU working time directive in respect of front-line staff in the Health Service; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Constitutional Amendments
    692. To ask the Minister for Health following the UN universal periodic review in early May 2016, if the Department of Justice and Equality has made any contact with him regarding Ireland's...
  • Health Services Provision
    693. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the situation regarding a person (details supplied) and their referral to a consultant in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    694. To ask the Minister for Health why the HSE has stopped access to Camcolit for medical card holders, or through community drug schemes; his views that it is too expensive; the number of...
  • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
    695. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed site of the National Children’s Hospital, the net additional cost of transitioning the entirety of St. James’s...
  • National Children's Hospital Status
    696. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed national children’s hospital, the proposed timeline for completion of the hospital at St. James, and the proposed timeline...
  • European Council Meetings
    697. To ask the Minister for Health if he has or will support the Minister with responsibility for environment affairs in France in calling on the European Commission to publish the impact...
  • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
    698. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns that the proposed new national children's hospital is already experiencing significant budgetary costs in excess of what was originally...
  • Hospitals Discharges
    699. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the position regarding the allocation of step down bed facilities at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    700. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns relating to the lack of regulatory or statutory protections surrounding experimentation on human embryos here; and if he will make a...
  • Medicinal Products Regulation
    701. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to protect against the unlawful purchasing or sale of illegal medicines online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13189/16]
  • Departmental Contracts
    702. To ask the Minister for Health if any single organisation or business has a contract with the Health Service Executive to carry out vehicle clamping on the grounds of public hospitals; if...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    703. To ask the Minister for Health to increase the provision of mental health services at St Mary’s Medical Centre, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment
    704. To ask the Minister for Health when the position of Registrar for Births, Deaths and Marriages in Thurles, County Tipperary will be filled (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Medicinal Products Regulation
    708. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to update and amend the Misuse of Drugs Act to deal with prescription drugs. [13208/16]
  • Health Services Provision
    709. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the treatment of a person (details supplied) received at the hands of health and psychiatric professionals, if it will be arranged that they do...
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    711. To ask the Minister for Health if, with respect to the plans in the programme for Government to make Ireland tobacco free by 2025 and the December 2015 ECJ ruling dismissing challenges to...
  • Disability Services Funding
    712. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider funding the WALK peer project, in County Louth (details supplied). [13226/16]
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Applications
    713. To ask the Minister for Health to review an application by a person (details supplied) under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13233/16]
  • National Dementia Strategy
    714. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of rolling-out dementia specialist intensive home care packages to all local health office, LHO, areas as was piloted in eight LHOs as part of the...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    715. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 164 and 165 of 19 May 2016, the indicative cost, based on other jurisdictions, of the public health system providing in...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction Services Expenditure
    716. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the State covering the medicines required for fertility treatment and for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction Data
    717. To ask the Minister for Health the moneys spent on tax reliefs on the costs of fertility treatment and for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13243/16]
  • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
    718. To ask the Minister for Health when the acquired brain injury unit on St. Joseph's campus in County Longford will be open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13246/16]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list in the Mater hospital awaiting cardiothoracic surgery with a clinical priority of urgent; the average expected...
  • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
    720. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times on processing of primary medical certificate applications in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13362/16]
  • Health Services Provision
    721. To ask the Minister for Health if physiotherapy will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13363/16]
  • Home Care Packages Provision
    722. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package recently approved in the case of a person (details supplied) will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13365/16]
  • Programme for Government Initiatives
    723. To ask the Minister for Health the objectives of the national task force on youth mental health as provided for in the programme for Government; when he will establish this task force; and...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    724. To ask the Minister for Health the funding required to provide the staffing levels for child and adolescent mental health services to the level recommended in A Vision for Change; and if he...
  • Mental Health Services
    725. To ask the Minister for Health the funding required to end the inappropriate admission of children and adolescents with mental health difficulties to adult wards; and if he will make a...
  • National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation
    726. To ask the Minister for Health if proposed new arrangements to improve engagement among stakeholders and the relevant Departments and agencies have been submitted to the senior officials...
  • Medical Card Applications
    727. To ask the Minister for Health to review the decision made by the Health Service Executive not to grant a discretionary medical card to a person (details supplied). [13444/16]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a knee replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13454/16]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    730. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug ibrutinib, Imbruvica, produced by a company (details supplied) will be available on the market for patients diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    732. 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. [13473/16]
  • Disability Support Services Provision
    733. To ask the Minister for Health when a person with special needs (details supplied) who will be leaving school in June 2016 will be given details of their post-school services; his plans for...
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    734. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13481/16]
  • Nursing Staff Data
    735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing vacancies by acute hospital and Health Service Executive nursing homes on 1 September 2015; the number recruited since then; the present...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    736. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical device will be provided to a person (details supplied) under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13491/16]
  • Traveller Community
    737. To ask the Minister for Health to publish an updated action plan on Traveller health with agreed actions by voluntary and statutory agencies, agreed budget and timelines; to update the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    738. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting list nationally for the insertion of spinal cord stimulators by hospital location (details supplied); the patient waiting times for...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme
    739. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation on a monthly or yearly basis of diabetic blood test strips to a person with a long-term illness card; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    740. To ask the Minister for Health the grants available to support arts and disability projects that are associated and assisting with mental health recovery; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Staff
    741. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the continued use of the Lourdes laundry attached to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth; the Health Service Executive's plans...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    742. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13515/16]
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    743. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary care centre (details supplied); if a site has been purchased; if so, when it is anticipated that a primary care centre will be...
  • Diabetes Strategy
    744. To ask the Minister for Health when he will appoint a senior dietician to support those with diabetes in Dublin North-West constituency as dictated in the 2016 Health Service Executive...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    745. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13522/16]
  • Hospital Services
    747. To ask the Minister for Health when the endoscopy unit in Roscommon County Hospital will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13525/16]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    748. To ask the Minister for Health when the 75-bed extension to University Hospital Galway will commence; the timeframe for its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13526/16]
  • National Drugs Strategy
    750. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a new national drug strategy. [13540/16]
  • Misuse of Drugs
    753. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of injecting drug users aged under 18. [13543/16]
  • Departmental Surveys
    755. To ask the Minister for Health if he includes under-18s in bio-behavioural surveillance and studies conducted by his Department. [13545/16]
  • National Drugs Strategy
    756. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available for independent research and mapping on drug-related harms among children and young persons under the age of 18 including those who are...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes
    760. To ask the Minister for Health the number of methadone users here during each year since 2012. [13550/16]
  • National Drugs Strategy
    765. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any evaluation by his Department of the outcome of the policy approach taken to banning head shops and the drugs that were sold in them....
  • Orthodontic Services Data
    766. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for patients under 18 years of age and patients over 18 years of age in the Health Service Executive south region who require...
  • Eating Disorders
    767. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in the Health Service Executive south region for persons diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and bulimia who have been referred to a...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    768. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any avenue through which funding is available to set up a residential home for persons with physical and intellectual disabilities to provide both...
  • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
    769. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 408 of 24 May 2016, the expected timeframe involved in this decision process; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    770. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year savings for 2017 by reducing spending on professional fees by 10% in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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