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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
467 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [14251/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
445 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application made by the governing body of Cork Institute of Technology for designation as a university in accordance with Section 9 of the Universities Act 1997. [13968/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
393 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on his recent decision not to continue funding support agencies after 31 April 2008 with particular reference to the loss of the south and mid-west region of the support agency which they have been working with for the past four years. [13967/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
325 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if pension protection is to be offered to encourage volunteers for overseas aid development programmes. [14189/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
239 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when the remaining sections of the Public Health Tobacco Act 2002 will be implemented and specifically legislation covering in store advertising. [14264/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
234 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the discussions that have taken place with the Irish Medical Organisation with regard to future initiatives on nurses prescribing. [14256/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
231 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is planning to deregulate general practitioner GMS lists before the end of 2008; and the rationale behind those plans. [14231/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
230 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of tuberculosis reported here from 2002 to 2007 inclusive and to date in 2008. [14230/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
229 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent comments made in a publication (details supplied) that shortages of the BCG vaccine since October 2007 have left many children at risk of tuberculosis; and if she will direct the Health Service Executive to review the national TB services as a matter of urgency. [14229/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
228 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she audits the National Treatment Purchase Fund referrals; and, if so, if she proposes to publish the outcomes of the patients it refers. [14228/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
226 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department audits the level of private practice in all specialties in public hospitals; and if it is done on a consultant basis. [14226/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
225 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent comments by an association (details supplied) that seven emergency departments nationwide have been identified as unfit for the purpose by the Emergency Department Task Force and are in that condition two years after she declared emergency departments overcrowding, a national emergency. [14222/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
224 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation whereby a new fully equipped accident and emergency unit at the Mercy Hospital, Cork, is lying idle whilst the present unit elsewhere on the campus of the Mercy University Hospital was deemed unfit for its purpose over two years ago, is tiny and does not have enough space for the demands on it. [14221/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
223 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will direct the Health Service Executive to make its board meetings public and accountable in the interest of transparency in view of the fact that many major decisions affecting the lives of people are being made behind closed doors by a body which in the main is not accountable to Dáil Éireann. [14220/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
222 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to commission a patient impact assessment by consulting with doctors and patients before changes are made in the delivery of cancer services at hospital level. [14219/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
221 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the slow roll-out of the Health Service Executive’s primary care teams and the fact that meetings have been held between the Health Service Executive and general practitioners over a three year period with very little progress being made. [14218/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
218 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a recent UK study presented recently at the Irish Medical Organisation conference which found a 1% increase in mortality with each 10 km increase in journey distances from hospitals; and the way she can reconcile the contents of that study with her proposals to close down local hospitals in favour of a centralised programme. [14211/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
216 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the new Health Service Executive report which suggests that the number of patients on hospital waiting lists has increased by nearly 10% owing to staff and bed shortages and that this report has come nearly four years after she declared overcrowding in hospital emergency departments a national crisis; and the action she will take regarding the situation. [14202/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
227 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a situation where ten laboratories currently providing diagnostic gynaecological cytology services are disqualified for inclusion under the terms of the national cervical screening programme in view of the fact that they do not fulfil the necessary criteria, particularly the criteria to have full accreditation and that, as a result, tests will have to be sent abroad; and if she will confirm that 39,000 tests were sent to a US based laboratory in 2007 for processing due to excessive waiting times here. [14227/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
215 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation where at least 60% of cervical smear tests carried out at Health Service Executive hospitals will be sent abroad once a tender process for cytology screening services is complete. [14201/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
214 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent report which stated that up to 90% of asylum seekers experienced depression and feelings of worthlessness within six months of arriving here. [14196/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
213 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the new 100 bed community nursing unit in Ballincollig to be opened for use. [14195/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
212 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on plans for a new hospital at the site of St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cork, to provide services for the elderly; and the other plans she has for that site. [14194/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
211 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the initiatives she proposes to take to deal with the problems of gastroenteritis in the community which is a preventable disease and which according to recent research by Trinity College Dublin, is costing Ireland more than €135 million each year. [14193/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
210 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent comment made by the director of stroke services in Tallaght Hospital that at least 400 lives could be saved every year by improving the delivery of stroke services; and the reason the proposals for a national rehabilitation centre to be located in Cork have been scrapped. [14192/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
209 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent arson attack on the unoccupied St. Kevin’s Unit on the vacant site of Our Lady’s Hospital, Lee Road, Cork and the damage that was done in that arson attack; and the cost of security services on an annual basis over the past six years for that site. [14191/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2008
208 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on Our Lady’s Hospital, Lee Road, Cork; and the plans she has in order to eliminate what is considered to be the biggest derelict site on the northside of Cork City, most of which has been unoccupied since 2003. [14190/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2008
117 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce a more regional structure for the Health Service Executive with greater autonomy in managing budgets for four regional divisions. [13453/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2008
113 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a consultant’s report from management consultants (details supplied); and if there is a recommendation to regionalise the Health Service Executive. [13426/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2008
112 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce restrictions over the practices of private cosmetic surgery clinics here and particularly the way cosmetic surgery procedures are advertised. [13425/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2008
111 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the status of the common contract document finalised by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association and the Irish Medical Organisation. [13424/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2008
110 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation where the Health Service Executive and Cork University Hospital have been forced to down-size their original plans for a multi-storey car park and helicopter landing facilities in Cork University Hospital for urgent cases as a result of the proposed co-located hospital on campus and that this proposal for a helipad was contained in the hospital strategy plan from the year 2000. [13423/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 April 2008
85 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the specific measures she will introduce in the agricultural sector to meet Ireland’s national target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 3% per year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13015/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 April 2008
114 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine a situation where FÁS in the south west region are stating that the programme for long-term unemployed people who are over 55 years of age, which was introduced in November 2004 and which would allow people to stay on community employment schemes for up to six years and which was subsequently increased by a further year for those in receipt of disability payments, is over-subscribed in that age category at present and they can not facilitate applications which has been the case for quite some time; and when places in that particular category will be available again. [12543/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 April 2008
16 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will set up an independent commission to review the 152 Gaeltacht electoral areas and boundaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12376/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
1044 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will negotiate with An Post with a view to issuing a stamp to commemorate Irish soldiers who died in the service of the United Nations peacekeeping forces. [11912/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
604 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on the Government’s plans to terminate the contracts of all the agencies nationwide who are supporting the community development programmes which seem to be happening as a result of the recent cutbacks which have also affected the Health Service Executive and which will leave community development programmes, run by unpaid voluntary management committees, without the support they have had to date. [11626/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
381 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent decision made by general practitioners to distance themselves from the national roll-out of the national cervical screening programme. [11911/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
365 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation where the National Treatment Purchase Fund is in the process of engaging a public relations firm to improve its image; and her views on whether this is an acceptable way of spending taxpayers' money. [11828/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
364 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation whereby patients dealing with the National Treatment Purchase Fund are receiving treatment paid for by the fund at the same hospital from which their names had been taken from waiting lists; and her views on whether this practice is disrupting the core activities of such hospitals. [11827/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
357 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent Inhale report which stated that the reason Ireland had such a high level of respiratory disease was either genetic or possibly climate related, that health education was failing the socially deprived groups and that health prevention attempts had failed to reach these groups and had only been effective among middle and upper class sectors. [11791/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
356 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent Health Service Executive report which states that it needs an additional 1,863 full-time equivalent health staff to fulfil the service targets outlined in its national health plan 2008; the action she will take in relation to this matter; and the projected cost of the target. [11790/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
355 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce acute medical admissions units in all of the acute hospitals nationally and the accident medical admissions unit model be introduced to improve outcomes rather than efficiency. [11789/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
354 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a cardiac arrest registry in order that ambulance response times could be accurately recorded. [11788/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
353 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a recent study (details supplied) which showed that only in about 10% of cardiac cases is the defibrillator reaching the cardiac arrest victim within the five minutes standard time. [11787/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
352 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps taken in the two years since the Task Force on Sudden Cardiac Death recommended an audit of all new cardiovascular services. [11786/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
351 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation whereby the Irish Medical Organisation’s independent patient information website has been taken completely off-line and its future is in doubt as a result of a disagreement with her Department over funding. [11785/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
350 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason she and the Health Service Executive have not responded to a document that the Expert Advisory Group on Diabetes submitted for consideration before the end of 2007. [11784/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
347 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent comments by the chief executive of the Irish Medical Organisation that the health services here will take many years to recover lost ground as a result of short-sighted cutbacks imposed by the Health Service Executive in the latter half of 2007. [11772/08]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 April 2008
346 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent submission by an organisation (details supplied) to the Government alcohol advisory group that the legal limit for the purchase of alcohol products be increased to 21 years. [11771/08]