Written answers

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

  • Hospital Services
    247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there is only one diabetic nurse and no diabetic dietician in the Regional Hospital Limerick; his views on whether this is a sufficient...
  • Schools Site Acquisitions
    249. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a request from a school (details supplied) to purchase land adjacent to the school to alleviate parking and congestion outside the school; and if...
  • Hospital Equipment
    250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI, CT and ultrasound machines currently in University Hospital Limerick. [4734/17]
  • Hospitals Data
    255. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the full capacity protocol has been deployed at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in 2017; the process for implementing this...
  • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
    260. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet received a PIN from An Bord Altranais; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4751/17]
  • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
    261. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card holders cannot avail of the drug antspain on the medical card and therefore have to bear the cost of €38 every three weeks; and...
  • National Maternity Hospital
    262. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that has been made to ensure that a Catholic ethos will not impinge on clinical care or decisions at the new national maternity hospital on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    263. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4765/17]
  • Medical Card Applications
    265. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4782/17]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    266. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for approval of the provision of Orkambi to cystic fibrosis patients in view of ongoing negotiations between a company (details supplied) and the...
  • Hospitals Car Park Charges
    268. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue generated from car parking services in each public hospital in 2016; the purposes for which this money is used; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    269. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4796/17]
  • Addiction Treatment Services
    270. To ask the Minister for Health when a full-time co-ordinator will be allocated to the South Inner City Drugs & Alcohol Task Force (details supplied). [4797/17]
  • Disability Services Provision
    271. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of needs will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4798/17]
  • Dental Services Provision
    272. To ask the Minister for Health when dental clinics for children will resume in Drogheda in view of the recent closures in the Haymarket and Ballsgrove clinics; his plans to temporarily...
  • Blood Donations
    273. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind question 52 on the new IBTS questionnaire for blood donation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/17]
  • Disability Services Provision
    274. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing an additional long-term residential care unit for intellectually challenged persons in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
  • Hospitals Data
    275. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for outpatients with an address in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4808/17]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    276. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a cataract operation carried out; the reason for the significant delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    277. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the completion of the analysis of the cancer treating drug nivolumab by the NCPE (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • National Children's Hospital
    278. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the location of the new National Children's Hospital and the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital will occur simultaneously;...
  • National Children's Hospital Location
    279. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the report which has endorsed the St James's site as the best location for the new national children's hospital; the rationale that resulted in...
  • Hospital Services
    281. To ask the Minister for Health if the new national children's hospital will treat children up to 16 years of age or up to 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4821/17]
  • Chronic Disease Management Programme
    282. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of the health budget which is spent on the care of persons with chronic diseases here; and the cost of this to his Department and the economy in...
  • Health Services Expenditure
    283. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has set aside in its annual Estimates a budget for spending on preventative health, education and promotion; and the criteria for private...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    285. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of medical consultants paid from public funds with a breakdown by contract type, and details of the salary scales within each contract; and...
  • European Fund for Strategic Infrastructure
    286. To ask the Minister for Health the potential investment projects his Department put forward to the Department of Finance task force report for the European Fund for Strategic...
  • Hospital Appointments Delays
    287. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for cataract surgery for a person (details supplied). [4892/17]
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    288. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the ambulance service in the north east; if his attention has been drawn to recent incidents whereby undue delays occurred and the concern...
  • Hospitals Capital Programme
    289. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects the capital programme in 2017 to meet the requirement in terms of extension of facilities including buildings at the various...
  • National Children's Hospital
    291. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in respect of the new national children's hospital project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4917/17]
  • Primary Care Centres
    292. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres which are fully staffed and operational; the extent to which evidence exists of the alleviation of overcrowding in hospital...
  • Medicinal Products Prices
    293. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to encourage manufacturers of medicines to make their product available for sale to the health services at a manageable cost, with...
  • Hospital Services
    294. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure the retention and expansion of facilities at a hospital (details supplied) having particular regard to the need for such facilities in the...
  • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
    295. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department has been in a position to identify precisely the full extent of resources needed to meet eventualities such as flu epidemics...
  • Health Services Staff
    296. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans are in preparation to ensure the retention of adequate health personnel at all levels to meet any eventualities and eliminate...
  • Health Services Provision
    298. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which the delivery of health services here continues to be compared with such services in other jurisdictions with a view to identifying and...
  • Commissions of Investigation
    299. To ask the Minister for Health the final costs to the Exchequer of each commission of investigation that has been completed to date in his Department, in addition to the estimated costs to...

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