233 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reduction in services that has taken place over the past six months at the South Infirmary, Cork and those planned over the next 12 months including ward closures and limitations on operating hours.
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231 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reduction in services that has taken place over the past six months at Mallow General Hospital, Cork and those planned over the next 12 months including ward closures and limitations on operating hours.
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229 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reduction in services that has taken place over the past six months at the Mercy Hospital, Cork and those planned over the next 12 months including ward closures and limitations on operating hours.
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234 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number and names of consultants operating at St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Gurranabraher, Cork in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the plans in place in the case of those who have retired to have them replaced.
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232 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number and names of consultants operating at the South Infirmary, Cork, in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the plans in place in the case of those who have retired to have them replaced.
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230 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the numbers and names of consultants operating at Mallow General Hospital, Cork, in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the plans in place in the case of those who have retired to have them replaced.
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228 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number and names of consultants operating at the Mercy Hospital, Cork, in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the plans in place in the case of those who have retired to have them replaced.
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85 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the position they are at on the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and the length of time her Department expect them to be waiting before they are called in view of a recent commitment that they would be seen shortly.
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82 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason sun cream which is required by persons with albinism cannot be obtained on the medical card despite it being prescribed by their doctor.
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235 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused a refund under the nursing home repayment scheme for their brother.
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151 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Finance his views on the implications of the shortfall in tax receipts to date in 2008 for public policy.
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99 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the progress being made to find a satisfactory system for deposit protection in credit unions.
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288 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make known to the Iranian Government his deep concern for the worsening human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and particularly with reference to the Baha’i community whose leaders have been arrested in house raids and are being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison.
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251 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to advise Irish football fans planning to travel to the Euro 2008 tournament this summer to ensure that they are vaccinated against measles in view of the warning given by a public health specialist (details supplied) regarding major outbreaks of measles in Austria and Switzerland who are hosting the competition.
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250 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent review of medical schools carried out by the Medical Council which states that interns are taking consent for procedures they do not fully understand and are being instructed to act above their grade; and her views on this recent finding.
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249 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the reason a drug to treat multiple sclerosis (details supplied) is not properly available here despite receiving major backing from doctors after new research was published in the United States supporting its use.
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248 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to publish draft infection prevention control standards.
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247 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of permanent non-agency nurses working in the health service in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008.
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246 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of agency nurses employed in the health services in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the cost of the employment of agency workers in each year.
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228 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork had been told that they will receive a replacement mobility scooter to replace their present one which has been broken for almost four months but that there is a long waiting list and they could not get an indication as to when they would receive the replacement scooter.
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20 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Defence the amount of free telephone call time that will be available to each of the Irish troops in Chad per month in order to enable them to communicate with their families here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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23 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Defence the arrangements that have been made for the supply of fresh food to the Irish troops in Chad; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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395 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied); and when sanction will be given to proceed with the construction of the badly needed extension.
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147 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress in the past 12 months in securing for farmers advance notice of cross compliance checks; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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99 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has received EU health check proposals due to be published shortly; the impact the proposals will have on Irish agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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80 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will undertake an awareness campaign to assure people about the new social services card for collection of social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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528 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement arising from Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 23 April 2008 in which he failed to respond to part of the question which asked the regularity with which the working group examining the proposed sale of local authority apartments has met and, the dates on which it has met since being set up.
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167 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a payment will be made under the health repayment scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Cork, in respect of their deceased brother, especially in view of the fact that they were informed on 21 November 2007 that they were entitled under law to get a grant of representation and that they would be contacted shortly; the reason the letter they received dated 21 November 2007 was unsigned; and if she will instruct all public officials to sign their names to official letters.
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165 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the announced closure of St. Catherine’s ward at the Mercy Hospital, which will have a seriously negative effect on the quality of service for those who require the services of a female surgical ward.
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491 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Defence if his Department has implemented a patients charter for the Defence Forces which would identify the rights of military personnel in receiving medical services.
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212 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to deal with the situation whereby 6,000 health care workers face fatal hazards from needle stick injuries.
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211 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent disclosures that several mental health projects funded in 2006 and 2007 will not come on stream until later in 2008 at the earliest; and the projects these are.
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210 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce a programme whereby all patients over 65 years of age should be tested for Alzheimer’s disease (details supplied).
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209 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent comments made by medical experts that the shortage of general practitioners here is one of the reasons there are major bottlenecks in introducing a feasible and affordable health care system as contained in the report Social Health Insurance: Further Options for Ireland.
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208 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent report into stem cell therapies prepared by the Irish Council for Bioethics which calls for research to be carried out on human embryos.
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207 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent figures published by the Health Service Executive which show that in 2007 there was a rise in alcohol consumption here for the first time in four years.
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206 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on a recent report (details supplied) that the National Director of Estates in the Health Service Executive has issued an instruction that assets and properties may not be disposed of at present.
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137 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation where a person (details supplied) in County Cork received an appointment in the Cork University Hospital for 2 February 2009 to have their eyes examined; and if the appointment will be brought forward in view of their condition and age.
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146 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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389 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Defence if he proposes to set up an independent expert to lead a study on the way medical services for the Defence Forces might best be delivered.
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145 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to provide the necessary resources to create a national reference laboratory to identify types of clostridium difficile in health facilities.
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144 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to introduce a ban on additives in children’s food as called for by an association (details supplied).
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127 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the personnel census for the first quarter of 2008 for the Health Service Executive as well as for the last quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2007.
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126 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent comment by a person (details supplied), that general practitioners are in danger of suffering from heart attacks and other medical problems because of the workload that has been foisted upon them.
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124 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a six year audit of cancer services at St. James’s Hospital which has shown dramatic increases in urological and other cancers and that this is the first audit carried out here to provide long-term outcome data on cancer patients which enables for the first time a comparison of cancer care at the hospital with international standards and benchmarks; and if she will urge other hospitals to carry out such an audit (details supplied).
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123 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce specialist transplant co-ordinators in all of the regional acute hospitals here in order to increase the low rate of conversion of potential donors to recovered organs.
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122 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason emergency admissions to psychiatric institutions are being delayed for several days due to the lack of such specialist services as stated by a person (details supplied) at the recent Irish Medical Organisation annual general meeting.
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220 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a working group examining the proposed sale of local authority apartments and flats under the tenant purchase scheme; the terms of reference of same; when it was set up; the regularity with which it has met; the dates on which it has met since being set up; and the membership of that working group.
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573 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the recent findings that the lack of a forensic medical examiner service here is failing victims of serious crime, detainees and doctors (details supplied).
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