Written answers
Thursday, 26 October 2017
- National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility
142. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is eligible to have hip replacement surgery performed under the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [45351/17] - Health Services Funding
143. To ask the Minister for Health the public non-capital expenditure on health in each of the budget years 2007 to 2018, in tabular form. [45352/17] - Hospitals Funding
147. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prioritise the provision of capital funding for the new endoscopy unit and other ancillary services at Naas General Hospital, Naas, County... - Speech and Language Therapy Provision
149. To ask the Minister for Health if speech and language therapy will be provided for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45384/17] - Hospital Waiting Lists Data
150. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1018 of 11 September 2017, the length of time the 1,647 persons on the waiting list for cataract surgeries at the Mater... - Vaccination Programme
151. To ask the Minister for Health if claims that the symptoms of the 650 persons who have received the HPV vaccine fit in with a recently described phenomenon known as autoimmune and... - Health Services Provision
152. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be operated on to treat their scoliosis and will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will bring forward legislation making it mandatory to make a defibrillator available in each public building; and if he will make a statement on the... - Health Services Provision
155. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to reduce the long waiting times being experienced by children in counties Cavan and Monaghan who are in need of an assessment for... - Hospital Appointments Status
156. 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. [45420/17] - Primary Medical Certificates
157. To ask the Minister for Health if a copy of a primary medical certificate for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can be furnished to their parents; and if he will make a statement... - Hospital Equipment
158. To ask the Minister for Health if the staff and resources required to operate the genomic sequencing equipment at the Mater hospital will be provided by the HSE; and if he will make a... - Hospital Appointments Status
159. 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. [45442/17] - Vaccination Programme
160. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will have access to special services as required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45445/17] - Long-Term Illness Scheme Applications
161. To ask the Minister for Health when the review in respect of the reimbursement of long-term illness medical expenses for a person (details supplied) will be completed; if there is an onus on... - Home Help Service Provision
162. To ask the Minister for Health when home help hours for a person (details supplied) will be allocated, in view of their medical needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45449/17] - General Medical Services Scheme Payments
163. To ask the Minister for Health the status of general practitioners charging medical card holders excessive sums of money for blood tests and ear syringing; and if he will make a statement on... - Health Reports
164. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recommendations in a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45451/17] - Medicinal Products Regulation
166. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request that the manufacturers of statins sold here to make available the essential underlying research data used by each of the manufacturers... - Medicinal Products Prices
167. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of statins purchased from the various manufacturers; the amount paid by the HSE; and the names of the manufacturers of same for each of the past five... - Health Strategies
168. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by his Department and by the HSE on educating persons to change lifestyle as a preventive measure against chronic disease in tabular form.... - Radon Gas Levels
169. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a newly built €13 million mental health unit (details supplied) can now be found to have radon levels exceeding the recommended 200... - Dental Services Provision
170. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow for dental screening and treatment of persons under 16 years of age through the medical card scheme (details supplied); and if he will make... - Health Services Provision
171. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be transferred to a more suitable HSE area in view of the fact that the area they are in does not provide the required level... - Hospitals Building Programme
172. To ask the Minister for Health the status of refurbishments to a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45473/17] - Medical Card Applications Data
173. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1201 of 11 September 2017, if the central medical card unit collate figures for applications received, processed, refused... - Home Care Packages Data
174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each local health office area, in tabular form. [45497/17] - Nursing Staff Recruitment
177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses newly recruited to date in 2017 across all sectors of the health service; and the net increase in nursing numbers resulting from this... - Health Services Staff Data
178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists recruited to date in 2017; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is,... - Hospital Appointments Delays
184. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for a person (details supplied) to receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45512/17] - Health Services
185. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a database (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45519/17] - General Medical Services Scheme Administration
186. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical card scheme covers the cost of general practitioners completing application forms for persons who hold a medical card, such as driving licence... - Proposed Legislation
187. To ask the Minister for Health the stage of the Regulation of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 1999; the work ongoing towards its enactment; and when it will come before Dáil... - Hospital Investigations
188. To ask the Minister for Health if the Ireland east hospital group insisted that a full internal report on the death of a person (details supplied) be carried out before an inquest could be... - HSE Investigations
190. To ask the Minister for Health his views on and the reason for the conflict of interest for a member of the UCC maternal death inquiry team (details supplied) being involved in providing... - General Practitioner Services
191. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering charging a nominal fee of €5 per visit for free general practitioner care for those under 12 years of age. [45535/17] - Medicinal Products Availability
192. To ask the Minister for Health the date he plans to make a drug (details supplied) available to phenylketonuria sufferers under the long-term illness scheme. [45536/17] - Cannabis for Medicinal Use
193. To ask the Minister for Health the work of the expert reference group established to draft guidelines to facilitate the use of cannabis treatments under an access programme; when the... - Hospitals Data
194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 20 October 2017 or the latest date on which data for validated bed... - Hospitals Discharges
195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in all public and voluntary acute hospitals at the end of September 2017 or the latest date available; and the number of which... - Emergency Departments Waiting Times
196. To ask the Minister for Health if persons aged 75 years of age or over have experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2017; and if so, the hospital in which... - Hospital Beds Data
197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional beds that will be provided during winter 2017 to help ease hospital overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45545/17] - Health Strategies
198. To ask the Minister for Health the contingency plans in place for health services to cope with a greater 'flu outbreak than is normally experienced; and if he will make a statement on the... - Medicinal Products Licensing
199. To ask the Minister for Health the reason tryptophan is banned here; and the number of other countries in which it is banned. [45548/17] - Health Services Staff Remuneration
200. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to examine the pay inequality that arises when public sector employees receive pay increases while employees section 39 organisations, such as an... - Ambulance Service Response Times
202. To ask the Minister for Health the number of response calls by the ambulance service for the Killarney area that took over 45 minutes to respond to, by month, in each of the years 2014 to... - Hospital Appointments Status
203. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be seen by their consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45581/17] - Disease Incidence
204. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a higher instance of persons with haemochromatosis in specific parts of the country; if so, the variation between the different HSE regions; if... - Respite Care Services Provision
205. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that will be made in 2018 in providing additional respite services (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern... - Services for People with Disabilities
206. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be implemented to deal with anomalies in the provision of services for persons with a disability (details supplied); and if he will make... - Hospitals Patronage
207. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the promised review of the religious patronage and ownership of hospitals and associated facilities; and if he will make a statement on the... - Hospital Facilities
208. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the upgrade of hospital systems to facilitate the MedLIS project for 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the... - Electronic Health Records
210. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the roll-out of the new national information technology systems for maternity hospitals; the expected date for this system to...
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