251 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if she or officials in her Department were presented with the report into the death of persons (details supplied) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if so, the date in each case when they were presented.
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250 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if the ward round is recognised by the Health Service Executive as the primary mechanism for direct multi-disciplinary communication; and when a midwife will become involved in the ward round at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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249 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, since receiving the report of the review group, to ensure the assistance of a clinical haematologist is sought at an early stage when dealing with coagulopathies at the hospital.
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248 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will recruit and put in place administrative and clerical support for clinicians in management roles at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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247 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken by the Health Service Executive at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, since receiving the report of the review group, to ensure protected time is given to consultants, midwives and nursing managers for administrative duties at the hospital.
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246 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if there is a review underway of workload distribution in the obstetric department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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245 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken by the Health Service Executive, since receiving the report of the review group at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, to develop a consistent and professional methodology for investigating and managing serious adverse events.
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244 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to provide safe patient care in the anaesthesia department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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243 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will adopt the international surviving sepsis campaign, particularly at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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242 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when a programme of continual assessment of staffing levels, skill mix and workload will be put in place at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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241 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken by the Health Service Executive, since receiving the report of the review group into the death of persons (details supplied) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, to streamline its process to ensure safe staffing levels at the hospital.
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240 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when medical and midwifery staffing levels will become commensurate with the recommendations from Safer Children 2007 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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239 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when it will become procedural for advice to be documented if patients are being allowed home or sent home with suspected or confirmed ruptured membranes at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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238 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when guidelines will be put in place as policy for diagnosing and managing ruptured membranes in patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
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237 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when the lead clinician will be clearly identifiable for the care of each patient in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; when clear instructions and observation goals and appropriate responses will be given by lead clinicians to the case midwife or nurse and medical team; when it will be incumbent on the primary consultant and their team to ensure timely follow-up of all tests; and the way this will be audited.
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236 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when the maternity unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda will review its strategy for care of critically ill women.
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235 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will provide adequate training and resources to ensure patient care is dictated by their needs; if it is policy to ensure such care will commence upon the recognition of patients estimated ICSI level of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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234 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will invest in a physiological observation and trigger system as recommended by the review team in their report into the death of persons (details supplied) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; when the hospital will have such a unit in place; and the reason for the delay in providing such a unit to date.
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126 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of job losses that will result if his plan to increase class sizes comes into effect; and if he will reverse this decision.
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138 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Transport the number of Irish Coast Guard stations in this State; the locations of these stations; the expenditure for each station in each of the past three years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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63 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to review issues surrounding sell-by dates and labelling procedures on imports and Irish produce as raised by a number of Irish producers following the closure of Cappoquin chickens.
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62 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the assistance offered to Cappoquin chickens following news of its liquidation in early September 2008.
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382 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure that the proposed works under the precinct improvements programme in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 8 commence as originally agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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381 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure the proposed works under the precinct improvements programme in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 8 commence before the end of 2008 as originally agreed by him in his correspondence to residents on 29 August 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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434 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a school (details supplied) in County Donegal has made an application for the school meals programme; and if their application was successful.
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150 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the bodies that she has met to discuss their pre-Budget submissions in relation to her Department’s expenditure.
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126 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on whether the Combat Poverty Agency should remain as an independent body.
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96 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive corporate finance will make available to a service (details supplied) funds which are approved by her and by the Health Service Executive senior management; the reason for the delay in transferring these funds; the person who is responsible for these delays; the action that will be taken in relation to the person responsible for these delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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357 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the revenue that would be raised by abolishing the ceiling on PRSI in 2009.
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289 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made by him on the application by persons (details supplied) in County Louth for certificates of naturalisation; the stage the applications are at within his Department; if his attention has been drawn to the exceptional circumstances in this case and the need for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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288 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth had their residency revoked in 2005; the present status of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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193 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the projected savings to be made if all civil servants above principal officer level, and employees in State agencies at the same level, continued to have their pay frozen for the duration of the new pay deal.
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192 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the projected savings to be made if all civil servants above principal officer level, and employees in State agencies at the same level, were to take a pay cut of 3% in 2009.
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181 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants employed at principal officer level and above; and the annual savings to the Exchequer from a 3% wage cut for those at this level and above; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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67 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the wastage of Garda resources, in terms of the vehicle fleet, identified by the Comptroller and Auditor General in his 2007 annual report; and if he will take steps with the Garda Commissioner to ensure a more cost effective use of resources in the future.
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145 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of increasing all personal basic rates of social welfare at present set at €197.80 to €225.
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565 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided for construction of permanent school buildings at a school (details supplied) in County Louth; the reason funding has not been made available in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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242 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the amount that would be saved were he not to pay into the National Pensions Reserve Fund in 2009.
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171 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to intervene to address the crisis in dermatology services in the north-east Health Service Executive region in view of the chronic waiting list at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and further in view of the fact that St. James’s Hospital in Dublin has been unable to accept patients, as heretofore, from outside its official catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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168 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the orthopaedic unit at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, which serves the entire north-east region of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath remains fully operational and is not closed for any period to make savings at the cost of patient care; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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228 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if MABS have reported an increase in the numbers attending their advice services to date in 2008; and if her attention has been drawn to the funding or capacity shortages being experienced by the body.
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99 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether the proposals contained in the Programme for Government to cut income tax rates will undermine the State’s ability to fund essential public services in view of recent economic developments which demonstrate the dangers inherent in an over-reliance on taxes related to construction and consumption.
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85 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the annual revenue that would be raised from a 5% increase in deposit interest retention tax.
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62 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the plans he has to increase taxes in view of the contraction in tax revenue, income and other taxes which were cut at a time when the tax receipts were bloated by the taxes related to consumption and construction.
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1830 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the amount that was spent by his Department on consultants in 2007 and to date in 2008.
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1633 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount that was spent by his Department on consultants in 2007 and to date in 2008.
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