185. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health to outline the findings and recommendations of the review conducted by his Department in conjunction with the Health Service Executive of the corporate functions and resources, staff and budget of the various corporate, support and shared services as they currently exist within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48731/14]
184. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health to set out the date in 2015 when the age range extension of BreastCheck for women from 65 to 69 years of age will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48730/14]
183. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the work of the Department with the Health Service Executive and the State Claims Agency to develop a risk-based approach to provision of indemnity to services and professionals was completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48729/14]
182. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the new patient safety agency will be established on an administrative basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48728/14]
181. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the Department programme management office was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48727/14]
529. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the Health Service Executive to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is heavily dependent on home care and has been having difficulties with the supply of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48462/14]
445. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the model of financing and provision of mental health service as provided by Aspen in Lucan, County Dublin, has been endorsed by the Minister for Justice and Equality, his plans to extend this model of provision to other types of care provided by the health service or to other parts of the country with regard to mental health service provision. [47942/14]
442. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the refunds of prescription charges to persons on the long-term illness scheme who had to use their general medical services cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47934/14]
430. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on concerns expressed by senior managers in the National Ambulance Service to Health Information and Quality Authority inspectors (details supplied). [47781/14]
287. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department was consulted by the Department of Health regarding the regulations implementing lifetime community rating in the health insurance market. [48265/14]
150. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a cancelled eye operation in respect of a person (details supplied) will be rescheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47528/14]
148. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have their eye operation carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47526/14]
92. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork had their single farm payment penalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47499/14]
316. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 November 2014; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date; and the number for each type of card assigned to over 70s on that date. [46909/14]
305. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a health insurer (details supplied) will receive authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland by 31 December 2014; if not, the extension that will be provided to the health insurer to continue to seek authorisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46827/14]
304. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the measures his Department plans to introduce to improve the procurement of medicines in order to realise savings in the drugs budget as outlined in the Health Service Executive national service plan for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46826/14]
303. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the €95 million in projected savings outlined in the Health Service Executive national service plan published on 27 November 2014 include savings to be realised as part of revised agreements on drug pricing to be agreed during 2015 with representatives of the Irish pharmaceutical industry; if so, the amount of savings envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46825/14]
302. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when talks to renegotiate existing pricing agreements with the representatives of the Irish pharmaceutical industry will commence in 2015; if his Department has set a date for the conclusion of these negotiations; the top line priority outcomes of his Department from these negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46824/14]
301. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in detail the measures that will be introduced to achieve projected savings of €95 million from the annual drugs budget as outlined in the Health Service Executive national service plan for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46823/14]
408. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of the challenges facing rural general practitioners practices and in more deprived urban areas, if the National Association of General Practitioners will be involved in any negotiations or consultations he, his Department or the Health Service Executive will undertake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46122/14]
407. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the National Association of General Practitioners has secured a negotiating licence, if it will be included in any negotiations or consultations he, his Department or the Health Service Executive will undertake with regard to GP services and contracts, and with specific regard to those under six years of age and those over 70; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46121/14]
406. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive will be introducing charges for the provision of inpatient respite care services - which it has not done up to now - in January 2015; the estimated revenue that will be raised from this charge in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46120/14]
398. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a continuing shortage of BCG vaccines; the action the Health Service Executive is taking to deal with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46066/14]
380. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland has increased the retention fee from €100 to €150 for 2015; if his Department was consulted or offered a view on the increase now being demanded; his views that a 50% increase is unjustified in view of inflation running at 2.2%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45819/14]
377. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if families of transplant patients who have to travel overseas are entitled to financial assistance; and if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who claims that subsistence is still outstanding to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45804/14]
374. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of areas nationwide where brain natriuretic peptide is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45788/14]
373. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health regarding the staffing levels at Naas General Hospital, the resources that have been assigned to cover both the old and new wings of the hospital; his views that this is sufficient; his plans to assign further resources in the context of recent warnings from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation on understaffing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45786/14]
328. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if Garda reserves will be invited to apply for the next round of recruitment for An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46041/14]
164. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if grant aid will be made available to assist primary schools with the ever-increasing requirements of her Department in compiling the pupil online database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45575/14]
163. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to lift the moratorium on filling posts of responsibility in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45574/14]
153. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form for each public-voluntary hospital, the numbers waiting in September 2014 for coronary bypass operations, indicating the numbers waiting zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine months to 12 months and more than 12 months. [45713/14]
143. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health with regard to public-voluntary hospitals, if he will provide in tabular form for each month in 2014 and for each of those hospitals the number of elective admissions that are private patients and the number that are public patients. [45649/14]
601. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department, or any agency of her Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45340/14]
589. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or any agency of his Department have awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45354/14]
559. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department, or any agency of his Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45342/14]
536. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department, or any agency of his Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45345/14]
477. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department, or any agency of her Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45344/14]
418. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department, or any agency of his Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45347/14]
384. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health with regard to the rebate of prescription charges to persons with medical cards under the long-term illness scheme, the maximum rebate available per person; the total number of applications for rebates that have been made; the number of rebates that have been paid; the number of approved rebates that have yet to be repaid; the number of applications that have not yet been decided on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45398/14]
379. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his Department, or any agency of his Department, have awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45348/14]
359. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of contracts currently in place between the Health Service Executive or agency thereof and Northgate Public Services; the date any such contracts were contract and the value of each [45137/14]
358. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the value of a contract (details supplied) to install critical quality and safety patient software in State hospitals in hospitals in the west and northwest [45136/14]
357. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a contract (details supplied) to install critical quality and safety patient software in State hospitals in the west and northwest was awarded [45192/14]
334. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the costs incurred to date by his Department with regard to the programme for Government commitment to introduce universal health insurance [44997/14]
328. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland published annual reports for 2012 and 2013; and if same are available on-line [44940/14]
323. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when or if National Immunisation Advisory Committee will make a recommendation with regard to the Meningitis B vaccine in the primary childhood immunisation programme here [44901/14]
319. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will enquire and investigate the high level of cancers diagnosed over the years in areas (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44869/14]
309. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department, or any agency of his Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45341/14]
295. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department, or any agency of her Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45350/14]
257. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Defence if his Department, or any agency of his Department, has awarded any contracts to a company (details supplied) since 9 March 2011. [45343/14]