320. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when he will publish the international evidence review on independent hospital trusts undertaken by the Health Research Board at his Department's request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16650/15]
319. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of home help hours allocated in each local health office area; and the way this compared to the targeted allocation as a percentage. [16647/15]
318. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason for the undershoot of 13.85% against target in the provision of home help hours in counties Cork and Kerry, community health care organisation area 4, in January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16646/15]
316. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on claims by the former director of the national pancreas transplant programme that Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, is abandoning patients on the waiting list and that the hospital and the Health Service Executive are taking an unethical and callous approach by seeking to wind up the transplant programme without telling patients; his views that it is unconscionable that four months after the retirement of the director no plan has been made for seriously ill patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16644/15]
138. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards and the number of general practitioner cards as of 1 April 2015, and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [16092/15]
132. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce alternative treatments for opioid dependency such as Buprenorphine; when these treatments will become available; the way patients will be able to access these treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16011/15]
157. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when disability and health organisations will be informed regarding funding following the cross-departmental review that was due to be completed at the end of last month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15871/15]
129. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, from 2011 to date in 2015, the level of funding provided to Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa in County Cork; the number of teachers employed for the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15844/15]
106. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical detox beds available, in each year from 2008 to 2015, for rehabilitating drug addicts; the location of these beds; the cost of each bed; the waiting time to access one of these beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15900/15]
102. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W will have a cervical spine operation at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15867/15]
100. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will reverse the cuts to the Daughters of Charity budget; the reason respite provision for children and adults with an intellectual disability has been reduced and sidelined in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15860/15]
99. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason there are no crisis intervention beds available for adults with an intellectual disability in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15859/15]
98. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive facility, Cuan Ros on the Navan Road, Dublin 7, is under consideration to be used as a step-down facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15858/15]
532. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if exceptions will be made on a case basis, to allow home helps to care for members of their family, in cases where persons are unwilling to allow strangers into their home [15789/15]
518. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns (details supplied) regarding the resignation of a surgeon from the kidney and pancreas transplantation team in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if his and-or the Health Service Executive's attention was drawn to the surgeon's concerns prior to the surgeon's resignation; and the action he is taking to ensure that a full team of surgeons is in place at the kidney and pancreas transplantation unit as soon as possible. [15625/15]
507. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health following the second anniversary of the launch of the Government's flagship Healthy Ireland policy on 28 March 2015, the progress that has been made in each Department to deliver on the objectives of the policy; the action that has been taken to establish the robust monitoring and evaluation mechanisms promised in the report; the number of staff members in his Department who are working full-time on delivering on the Healthy Ireland agenda; the funding that has been specifically allocated to this initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15590/15]
487. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of promotions that have been put in place for staff in the Health Service Executive since September 2014; and if he will provide this information in tabular form divided by category of employment and Health Service Executive region. [15493/15]
459. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the inpatient profiles, that is, public and private, and the elective emergency mix for January 2015, in the manner provided on the December 2014 Management Data Report (details supplied). [15375/15]
452. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has entirely removed the previous breakdown on the private-public mix by hospital from its monthly data report, in view of the fact that providing a generic percentage for all acute hospitals is entirely meaningless, and that this means that a significant number of public hospitals could be breaching their 20-80 mix, and this information would no longer be publicly available. [15344/15]
449. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has been on the waiting list since 2011 will be provided an orthodontic appointment. [15331/15]
436. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health following the second anniversary of the launch of the Government's flagship Healthy Ireland policy on 28 March 2015, what action the Cabinet committee on social policy, which has overall responsibility for the implementation of the policy, has taken; the further action he has taken over the failure to publish an implementation plan and outcomes framework in 2013, as promised; the reason there has been such a lengthy delay; when the implementation plan and outcomes framework will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15589/15]
321. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of applications for increases in remuneration received by his Department since 1 January 2014; the details of the application for increase, that is the posts and levels of increase involved; and whether the application was approved. [15494/15]
144. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of the revised costs for free general practitioner care for under sixes, his Department's current estimate of the full year cost of providing free general practitioner care to the population as a whole. [15053/15]
143. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of his Department’s statement last week that in a full year, the additional cost of the universal under-six service, including the preventative wellness checks and arrangements for management of asthma in general practice, would be approximately €67 million, the additional funding that will be provided in 2015, in view of the fact that €25 million was allocated in budget 2015 and the subsequent Health Service Executive Service plan. [15052/15]
42. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he expects the fall in the number of day cases in our hospitals in 2014 to continue in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14651/15]
36. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the financial position of the Health Service Executive; his plans to introduce a Supplementary Estimate on foot of recent announcements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14652/15]
28. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the way his Department can assist the private and voluntary nursing home sector, which is experiencing difficulties in the recruitment and retention of nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14653/15]
24. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the proposals in place to address the long waiting times for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14654/15]
8. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the waiting time targets for scheduled inpatient and day case treatment and outpatient consultant appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14650/15]
1. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to implement his proposals for free general practitioner care for all children under six years of age; the projected annual cost of this plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14852/15]
874. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding driving tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14346/15]
560. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if persons currently working and paying taxes in Northern Ireland and availing of the National Health Service there, but who are resident in the Republic of Ireland, will have to pay lifetime community rating on private health insurance if they take out a policy when they retire from working there after 1 May 2015. [14415/15]
550. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the steps taken to implement the proposal, as discussed with him during a meeting with Our Children's Voice representatives on 4 February 2015, for an agreement to allow children with life-limiting and terminal conditions to access cross-Border care in hospitals in Enniskillen, Derry and Belfast, and to allow them to receive respite and end-of-life care in Belfast Children's Hospice, instead of having to endure lengthy four-hour journeys to Dublin for the provision of such services. [14351/15]
549. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the date that the community-based paediatric palliative care nurse will begin in Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal. [14350/15]
454. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the investigation into the case of a person (details supplied) who was a patient at Redwood, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13888/15]
159. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13666/15]
158. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular format, for March 2014 and March 2015 and for each local health area, the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme; and the length of time waiting. [13665/15]
157. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, for 1 March 2014 and 1 March 2015, for each local health area, the number of medical cards in circulation generally, and also for those over 70 years of age; and for each of these the number of which were issued on a discretionary basis. [13664/15]
154. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he has further extended the date by which the board of the Voluntary Health Insurance must acquire the necessary capital reserves to make an application for authorisation by the Central Bank of Ireland. [13659/15]
112. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 724 of 24 March 2015, if either the Rotunda Hospital or the Coombe Hospital in Dublin will be relocating to the Mater or Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, as recommended in the 2009 KPMG report; if either hospital has indicated a desire to move to those proposed locations or to move to a different co-location with another acute hospital; and his views that any relocation or co-location would only be with an acute hospital in the same hospital group. [13542/15]
644. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reconsider the decision not to fund Ballymun Whitehall area partnership under the social inclusion and community activation programme, in view of the vital services the partnership provides in an area of socioeconomic disadvantage, and the devastating impact its closure will have on the local community. [12960/15]
582. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will remove the registration fee for apprenticeships which in some cases is now €900 and is creating an obstacle to persons undertaking apprenticeships. [13043/15]
492. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if safeguards are being put in place to ensure that non-Health Service Executive hospitals are not competing for funding with a block of Health Service Executive hospitals within the groups in circumstances where the allocation of funding is controlled by a manager appointed by the Health Service Executive; and the powers the manager of a hospital group will have to withdraw resources, assets or staff from non-Health Service Executive hospitals within the group. [13175/15]
491. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the safeguards being put in place to maintain the autonomy of non-Health Service Executive hospitals within hospital groups; and the extent to which hospital group managers may interfere with that autonomy. [13174/15]
490. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a conflict of interest arises in respect of the chief executive officers of hospital groups being appointed by the Health Service Executive to manage the resources, assets and staffing of hospital groups containing both Health Service Executive hospitals and non-Health Service Executive hospitals; and, if so, the measures being put in place to mitigate that conflict. [13173/15]
481. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reasons he has ceased providing mental health services to children and adolescents in Gorey in County Wexford and forced families from north Wexford to seek support in Enniscorthy in County Wexford; and if he will reverse the decision. [13040/15]
390. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the sexual offences Bill 2015 providing for criminalisation of the purchase of sex; and her plans to have it enacted. [13048/15]
197. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12506/15]
171. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will carry out a fresh review of the levels of socio-economic disadvantage in primary and post-primary schools, with a view to including new schools in the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme; and if the criteria used will take account of the fact that parents with mortgages may, depending on their circumstances, be in as much financial distress as local authority tenants. [12297/15]
162. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will assist a lone parent (details supplied) who can no longer receive funding to complete a postgraduate course due to the removal of the one-parent family payment, the removal of that person's entitlement to the back-to-education allowance and the special rate of grant for disadvantaged students, and the removal by her Department of maintenance grants for new postgraduate students from the 2012-13 academic year. [12210/15]