345 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason she has refused to provide direct funding for clinical trials into muscular dystrophy treatment in the UK that could involve Irish patients.
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344 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the current and rapidly worsening national general practitioner manpower shortage.
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343 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to ensure non-consultant hospital doctors' working hours are reduced and brought in line with working time legislation.
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342 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the health service has not sufficiently implemented the recommendations of the Government working group and the provision of child and adolescent psychiatric services.
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341 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of involuntary admission orders made in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the number in each year that were revoked.
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340 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent findings by an organisation (details supplied) that diagnoses of cancer and asthma, motor neurone diseases and other conditions should be treated in the same way as diagnosis of infectious diseases with full backgrounds of patients being placed on the national register.
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334 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether there are sufficient stockpiles of anti-virals here to protect against the imminent arrival of bird flu particularly in view of a recent statement (details supplied) which warned that waiting until an outbreak occurs to acquire anti-virals is ill-advised as it would be impossible to stockpile after an outbreak occurs due to protection and supply chain constraints.
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333 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to expand the prenatal screening process and implement population based genetic testing as proposed by the chair of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
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332 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she proposes to take to ensure that all organisations under the control of her Department have developed proper data protection plans.
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331 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will carry out an audit of automatic external defibrillators in the community and identify areas where access to those life saving devices is limited or non-existent.
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302 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the increase in newly diagnosed HIV cases; and if there is a need for the urgent development of a national sexual health strategy as recommended by a group (details supplied).
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274 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent comments by a person (details supplied) that more than 1,000 people die or acquire significant disability every year as a result of stroke because they do not get access to advanced clot busting therapy.
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273 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation regarding the provision of a modern centre for the Irish Blood Transfusion Service at Cork as promised almost eight years ago.
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272 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the progress to date of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Emergency Department Task Force Report to set a date for the introduction of a maximum six hour wait time on arrival to admission or discharge.
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271 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to review the ongoing pharmacological training received by doctors in view of two separate studies which found that older patients were receiving inappropriate medications.
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270 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the rates of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis here from 1990 to date in 2008.
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269 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the rent being charged to the private operators of collocation hospitals.
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268 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the rent being charged to those private hospitals which will be collocated on Health Service Executive sites on a contract basis.
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267 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the procedures being followed by her Department in updating the security of its computer systems and data in all its offices following the recent theft of data containing the personal details of 170,000 Irish blood donors.
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266 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish a draft report produced by the Working Group of the Strategy for the Control of Anti-Microbial Resistance in Ireland National Committee which is advocating a radical check-up of building standards in hospitals here to deal with the prevalence of deadly health care associated infections.
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242 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when an appointment will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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241 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the situation of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been refused a replacement artificial leg despite the fact that their present one is badly fitting and is causing injuries.
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382 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount raised from the sale of psychiatric lands and buildings since A Vision for Change was published in January 2006; the amount of the money raised that was surrendered to the Department of Finance on a yearly basis; and the amount of this money that was reclaimed from the Exchequer in order to fund developments in the mental health sector.
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119 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cooperation between social welfare inspectors and other agencies in relation to employers found in breach of employment laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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79 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way he will tackle fraudulent child benefit claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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96 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on threats by ESB unions to impede roll out of smart meters; if the roll out will be funded by the ESB as originally planned; if he will change his position on the transfer of ownership of electricity transmission assets from the ESB to EirGrid in response to the threats; if he is still committed to such complete transfer by the end of 2008 as stated in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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478 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the situation whereby Cork City Council tenants cannot purchase their houses because of a problem with the fee simple; the contacts between Cork City Council and the Land Registry regarding a substantial mapping search in preparation for a proposed compulsory purchase order to Cork City Council of a large number of properties in the Cathedral Road area which are tenant purchase properties where Cork City Council does not have and accordingly is unable to dispose of the freehold interest; the responses the Land Registry gave to the management of Cork City Council by way of update statements regarding inquiries about the updating of the searches; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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567 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when legislation will be introduced that will allow Cork City Council to sell apartments and flats to their tenants who have been waiting many years to purchase and who should be paying off a mortgage instead of paying rent.
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364 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused a clothing allowance under the supplementary welfare scheme.
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239 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused financial assistance towards their taxi expenses in view of the fact that they broke their arm and needed to attend the orthopaedic hospital regularly.
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238 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been told that they have to wait over two years for an out-patient appointment to see a consultant in relation to a knee problem.
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159 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when it is expected that the national speed camera network will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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141 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with the legislation governing regulation of the legal profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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169 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for residency by a person (details supplied).
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24 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects the Green Paper on Local Government Reform to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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179 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the situation of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will further investigate the situation where the elderly and the sick are suffering due to these administrative issues.
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56 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on his objectives in the negotiations of the forthcoming Social Partnership Agreement.
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50 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of applications and the amount applied for in grants under the farm improvement grants scheme received by each of the offices and suboffices of her Department after 22 October 2007 and before 31 October 2007; if each of these applications will be accepted; if not the shortfall in funding needed to complete these applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the percentage targets of total land she expects to achieve in relation to afforestation of land for each of the next ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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299 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for citizenship made by a person (details supplied) in County Cork who reapplied on 27 July 2007 for citizenship having previously applied in 2003 when they were told that they had applied before time.
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638 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1227 of 30 January 2008 in which he states that the future of McCurtain Street Garda Station would be a matter for consideration by the Garda authorities, if he will reconsider the contents of his response in view of the fact that the station has been closed for two years.
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217 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who is 25 years old, has Down’s syndrome with an intellectual disability and a history of cardiac murmur, has been refused dental treatment under general anaesthetic on the grounds that they are too old to receive general anaesthetic treatment.
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149 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Defence the number of retired Defence Forces medical officers employed by the Defence Forces; the types of contracts operated; and the number employed who are beyond the mandatory retirement age of 65.
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159 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Defence the number of annual medical examinations conducted by the Defence Forces Medical Services in 2007; the reason for any shortfall; and the way he proposes to eradicate this deficit in 2008.
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143 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a decision will be made by Pobal on an application made on 14 November 2007 by a committee (details supplied).
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63 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the rules for the primary medical certificate in relation to supports for drivers with a disability in view of the fact that numerous applicants have been refused the primary medical certificate because of the regulations and therefore they are being prevented from buying vehicles which will give them a better quality of life.
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121 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to introduce a special saving incentive account type pension scheme as part of proposals to increase pension coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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109 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the removal of the rule that prevents recipients of lone parent supports from cohabiting with their partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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362 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will investigate a situation where ferry companies’ fare concessions for senior citizens have been gradually eroded since 2005 and in most cases have now been totally eliminated.
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117 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the Referendum Commission on the Lisbon Reform Treaty will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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