9. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when he expects an improvement in both the numbers on waiting lists and the numbers on trolleys in emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8031/15]
4. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the financial position of the Health Service Executive; his views on whether the executive has sufficient funding to deliver its 2015 service plan without recourse to a Supplementary Estimate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8306/15]
1. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the introduction of free general practitioner care; when the scheme will commence for children under six years of age; when the Bill to provide free GP care to those over 70 years of age will be introduced; how he will address concerns that sick children who are older than six years will not see any benefit from this; if he will widen medical card eligibility to help these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8305/15]
548. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to decline the application for assistive technology in respect of a child ( details supplied) in County Cork. [8078/15]
528. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to concerns (details supplied) by parents of a child with Down's syndrome; if children with Down's syndrome will be provided with an individualised right to resource teaching hours, outside the general allocation system, similar to those whose needs her Department classifies as low incidence. [7892/15]
520. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils in a class in a primary school that entitles the class to a classroom assistant. [7725/15]
519. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils in a class in a primary school that is legally considered to be big; if there is such a provision in law; and when an extra teacher is required to be provided to a primary school by her Department. [7724/15]
470. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will review the decision to decline the Resorcylidene Aminoguanidine, RAG, application in respect of a child ( details supplied) in County Cork. [8112/15]
454. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has funding in its 2015 budget to pay increased salaries to hospital consultants, who were employed on lower pay rates after October 2012. [7966/15]
453. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has funding in its 2015 budget to cover increments for staff in 2015; the level of funding that will be required to pay such increments in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7965/15]
452. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent on agency staff in January 2015; the proportion of the agency's anticipated expenditure on agency staff in 2015 that was incurred in January 2015; how the January 2015 expenditure on agency staff compares with that for January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7964/15]
442. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, based on local health offices-areas and indicating those of 16 years of age and under, and those above 16 years of age, the numbers waiting for orthodontic treatment, at the end of December 2014. [7922/15]
428. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding provided each year since 2010 to each of the local and regional drugs task forces. [7862/15]
427. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding provided each year, since 2010, by the Health Service Executive, to support implementation of the National Drugs Strategy. [7861/15]
426. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, an update on the implementation of each of the 63 actions in the 2009 to 2016 National Drugs Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7858/15]
423. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when he last chaired a meeting of the Oversight Forum on Drugs; the number of times it has met in 2015; the number of times it met in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7844/15]
401. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of public and voluntary hospitals that have single or common waiting lists, a combination of public and private patients combined; if such waiting lists in any of the hospitals are confined to certain specialties; if so, if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7675/15]
364. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the mother's date of birth would ordinarily have been recorded on her file when she was placing her child for adoption; and if, for this or other reasons, the Adoption Authority of Ireland or adoption agencies are likely to have a record of the date of birth of each woman who placed a baby for adoption here since the enactment of the Adoption Act 1952. [8130/15]
343. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Charities Regulatory Authority is inviting applications from schools and other education bodies; if guidance on the registration process for these charities has been developed; and if they will have to pay registration and annual filing fees. [8133/15]
324. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the number of gardaí assigned to each divisional drug unit for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015. [7868/15]
209. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the information that is recorded on a person's birth certificate; and if it includes the mother's date of birth. [8129/15]
161. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form all public-voluntary hospitals that conduct pre-natal tests; if he will provide for each month in 2014 the number of such tests in each of those hospitals; and if he will provide for each hospital in each month in 2014 the number of tests where the hospital was required to seek the test results abroad. [7617/15]
160. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund published a waiting list report for December 2014. [7616/15]
159. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason his predecessor's instruction that the National Treatment Purchase Fund publish its monthly waiting list report, at the same time as the Health Service Executive publishes its monthly performance report, is no longer in force. [7615/15]
158. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health as of 1 February 2015, the number of medical cards issued; the number of general practitioner cards issued; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis. [7614/15]
175. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of the membership of the oversight implementation group for the national rare disease plan; the number of times the group met in 2014; the number of meetings so far in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7319/15]
174. 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. [7317/15]
170. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, for 1 February 2014; and 1 February 2015, for each local health area, the number of medical cards in circulation; the number of general practitioner cards in circulation; the number of which were issued on the basis of the exercise of discretion; and the number of which allocated to people over 70 years of age. [7311/15]
168. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 5 February 2015, if he will provide details of the clarifications his Department provided to the Central Bank of Ireland to assist it in its understanding of the interaction between the private health insurance market and the health system [7304/15]
399. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance at the end of 2014 in the age groups, 17 years and under, 18 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years, 60 to 69 years, 60 to 79 years, 80 years and over. [7081/15]
381. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he satisfied with the inquiry currently underway at Portiuncula Hospital in County Galway; the independence of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6933/15]
336. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when an application from a person (details supplied) in County Cork, for their need of assessment, made in July 2014 will be arranged; the reason they have been waiting so long for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6927/15]
195. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if an application for funding from Daughters of Charity Disability Support Services to open a children’s residential house at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 7 has been received; if the application was successful; if not, the reasons provided by the Health Service Executive for not accepting the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6465/15]
182. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on recent comments by the Minister of State with responsibility for older persons and the director general of the Health Service Executive regarding major works required to bring the executive's long-stay residential care facilities into compliance with the physical environment standards set by the Health Information and Quality Authority, and the July 2015 deadline; and if he will provide reassurance that units of the executive requiring major works are fit for purpose, and his Department has not sought to influence the authority, due to pressures for required residential care beds. [6376/15]
181. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on recent comments (details supplied) by the Minister of State with responsibility for older persons regarding the severe financial pressures upon public nursing homes to meet Health Information and Quality Authority physical environment standards, and the July 2015 deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6375/15]
180. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason there is lack of transparency in respect of the cost of care under the nursing home support scheme, in respect of public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6374/15]
179. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a specific timeframe and commitment in respect of when updated cost of care figures for public nursing units will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6373/15]
161. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Children and Family Relationships Bill will provide effect to the recommendation by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for a simpler procedure for step-parent adoptions, whereby a step-parent could adopt the child without terminating the rights of existing parents, as permitted in France and Austria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6578/15]
160. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Children and Family Relationships Bill will change the current arrangements for step-parent adoption, for example, where at present the only way a woman's second spouse can adopt her child is by her relinquishing her parental rights and the couple then adopting the child together; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6577/15]
120. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his Department, or the Health Service Executive, has carried out, or have plans to carry out, a feasibility study into the possibility of setting up additional test-scan centres at a primary care level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6175/15]
575. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on extending the Cork smokeless-coal-zone to include Midleton; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5613/15]
537. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on concerns (details supplied) regarding information being sought by her Department. [5973/15]
535. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills , in view of the Government's decision before Christmas 2014 to offer a settlement to those who were abused in school (details supplied), if she will provide information on the exact number of the 135 claims that were formally discontinued, as she referred to them, through the State Claims Agency; the number of the 135 cases, following examination by the State Claims Agency, that will be eligible for settlement; if the information is not available, the length of time it will take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5953/15]
534. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills the State's legal reasoning (details supplied) behind the decision to only allow those who were abused after the date a complaint was made regarding a teacher to be entitled to compensation, leaving those abuse victims, who for whatever reason did not come forward or did so too late, without any acknowledgement by the State of what was done to them, and thereby leaving them without any entitlement to compensation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5951/15]
420. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health regarding the home care package, if, where the hours allocated have been divided between spouses and the care provider is not in a position to fill one of the client's hours, that client can have their hours reallocated to another care provider who would be able to fill the hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5672/15]
419. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health regarding the home care package, if a care provider is unable to fill the hours allocated to a client, if the Health Service Executive is entitled to withdraw the hours allocated to that client; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5671/15]
417. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason applications for medical cards from persons, who are in receipt of assistance under the farm support scheme, are not being processed by the Health Service Executive unless the applicant can provide a notice of self-assessment (details supplied); the reason the Health Service Executive will not accept the fact they have little or no tax liability; the reason the Health Service Executive is determined to make these persons undergo this process and oblige them to employ a tax advisor or an accountant at a cost of €500 to prove that they owe no tax; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, in view of this, many of these persons are not taking their necessary prescribed medication, such as for blood pressure, cholesterol, arthritis and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5665/15]
416. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the waiting time for approval for mastectomy prosthesis and surgical bras in every Health Service Executive area throughout the country, including the Dublin areas, those waiting two to three weeks, six weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks and longer since September 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5662/15]
415. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health regarding the provision of mastectomy prosthesis and surgical bras, the difference in the funding provided to Health Service Executive areas throughout the country including Dublin; if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding made available for each item in these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5661/15]
414. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health regarding the provision of swimsuit and swimming prosthesis for breast cancer patients, if the Health Service Executive has stopped approving them in certain areas throughout the country, including Dublin; if so, if he will provide details of the locations; his plans to reinstate this service; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5660/15]