129 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the level of absenteeism in 2009 in the Health Service Executive; the breakdown of absenteeism among staffing categories; the associated cost of agency staff as a result of this absenteeism; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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128 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number and percentage of permanent and temporary posts per grade category in the Health Service Executive as at June 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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127 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of social workers employed in the Health Service Executive; the various grades of social workers; the number who are job sharing; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of management and administration staff broken down by grade on 1 January 2005 and the end of June 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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125 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of psychiatric nurses working in mental health services broken down by grade on 1 January 2005 and the end of June 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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124 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses and midwives broken down by grade on 1 January 2005 and the end of June 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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123 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of staff categories within each grade category, for example the details on all nursing grades; the number of staff per category and the pay scale for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff employed in the Health Service Executive by grade category (details supplied) as at the end of 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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110 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of doctors who have contracted to offer general practitioner services in the proposed primary care centre at a site in Castle Islands, Balbriggan, County Dublin; the number of staff and categories of staff who will work at this centre; the range of services that will be offered; the size of the centre; the estimated build cost and site cost; who will fund the project; if there will be diagnostics available in the centre such as X-ray, endoscopy, dexa scanner and so on; if a minor surgery facility for day surgery will be available; if there will be a gym and physio rehabilitation facilities in the building; the completion date for this project; if planning permission has been applied for; if funding has been allocated and maintained in the capital budget for this project; the position regarding the properties in Balbriggan that will become unoccupied if this centre is built; if direct public transport facilities will be available to the centre; the catchment area the centre intends to serve; the projected population of Balbriggan if all zoned lands were built on; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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143 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of bed days lost in each acute hospital due to delayed discharge in 2008 and for the full year in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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142 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of day case and inpatient procedures cancelled per hospital in 2008 and for the full year in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether a stated objective for the introduction of the health insurance levy, that is to keep the cost of health insurance down, has not been achieved and that the health insurance levy has forced costs up; that this levy fails to motivate the Voluntary Health Insurance to drive costs down.
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129 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she expects that Voluntary Health Insurance will now fail, for a third time, to achieve the deadline set by her for approval by the Financial Regulator; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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128 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans regarding the future of Voluntary Health Insurance, VHI; her further plans regarding part or total privatisation of the VHI; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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127 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if it is normal insurance practice to fund pricing decisions by running down reserves; if the pricing policy executed by Voluntary Health Insurance management is contributing to an increase or reduction in the level of reserves in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reserve policy being executed by Voluntary Health Insurance; the level of reserves the management set as an objective to achieve by the end of 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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125 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the level of reserves and solvency in Voluntary Health Insurance at the end of October 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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157 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the funding for the newly opened crèche at a location (details supplied) in County Dublin when there appears to be a deficit in start up funding that has put the crèche in danger of closing after an allocation of more than €1 million in capital funding; if she will resolve this situation in order that the crèche and voluntary and paid workers will continue to provide this much needed service to disadvantaged families in the current economic climate; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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29 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a survey carried out by An Garda Síochána which concluded that members of the public rated youth crime as a major national problem; his views on this finding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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146 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of people attending the emergency department of Galway University Hospital who required isolation due to underlying medical conditions such as cystic fibrosis, neutropenia and so on who would be very susceptible to MRSA, VRE and C. difficile; the number of these patients who were isolated; the number this represents as a percentage of those who require isolation but were not from January to September 2009; the figures on a monthly basis for the number of persons who required isolation and the number of persons who actually were isolated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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184 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the negative impact recent changes to the CervicalCheck screening programme are having on women’s access to the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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34 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of contracts or leases that have been signed by the Health Service Executive with general practitioners in respect of primary care centres; the location of these centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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32 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the hospitals that are cutting back on services ahead of Christmas 2009 to balance the books; the nature of those services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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50 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to implement a framework for the development of shared services and outsourcing across the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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190 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the impact on smoking prevalence of the 25 cent increase on the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes, imposed in the 7 April 2009 supplementary budget; if the price rise has resulted in a reduction in smoking among teenagers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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186 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when she plans to publish the consumer research on food labelling commissioned earlier in 2009; her views on the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on the provision of food information to consumers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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148 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her best estimate or that of the Health Service Executive of the percentage of the population who have hereditary haemochromatosis; the number of persons diagnosed with this condition; the number of persons who needed a liver transplant as a result of the condition; the number of persons who have had severe kidney and pancreas damage as a result of the condition; the estimated cost of the condition to the public health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take on foot of the recommendations in the vaccine damage report released recently; if she plans to implement the recommendations; the recommendations she intends to implement; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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113 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the recommendations of the vaccine damage steering group report, published on 17 November 2009, have been accepted by her; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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112 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the percentage increase in VHI premiums sanctioned by her per annum from 1997 to 2008 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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250 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will enquire into the practice of health providers such as hospitals and other health facilities refusing to reuse certain equipment (details supplied) which is perfectly fit for the use it was designed and also refusing to take back such equipment for reuse when the patient no longer has a need for it in view of her search for efficiencies and savings in the health budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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241 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the advisory group on no fault compensation for brain-damaged infants has not met since its last meeting scheduled for May 2008 was cancelled; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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240 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the details on the advisory group on no fault compensation for brain-damaged infants, including the terms of reference of the group; when the group was set up; the dates the group has met since establishment; the date the group will report; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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104 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans to replace the health insurance levy scheme with a risk equalisation scheme; the timeframe for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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103 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will expect to have a peg feed put in place at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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75 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance his view on the recommendations of the interdepartmental review group made in 2002 on tax concessions for disabled drivers and disabled passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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74 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the tax concessions for disabled drivers and disabled passengers; the number of persons that have benefited from the credit for each of the past ten years for which the most recent information is available; the cost per annum for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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73 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the blind person’s tax credit; the value of the credit; the number of persons that have benefited from the credit for each of the past ten years for which the most recent information is available; the cost per annum for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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72 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the dependent relative tax credit; the number of persons who have benefited from the credit for each of the past ten years for which the most recent information is available; the cost per annum for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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71 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the allowance for employing a carer; the value of the allowance; the number of persons that have benefited from the allowance for each of the past ten years for which the most recent information is available; the cost per annum for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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70 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the incapacitated child tax credit; the value of the tax credit; the number of persons that have benefited from the credit for each of the past ten years for which the most recent information is available; the cost per annum for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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69 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the tax relief for long-term care introduced in 2001; the eligibility criteria for same; the number of persons that have benefited from the relief since its introduction; the cost per annum for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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68 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the permanent health benefits scheme; the number of persons benefiting from this for each of the past ten years for which most recent information is available; the cost per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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67 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the details of the tax relief for nursing home expenses; the number of persons benefiting from tax relief for nursing home expenses; the number benefiting for each of the past ten years for which most recent information is available; the cost per annum for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if patients registered under the nursing homes support scheme in public hospital care who do not have a medical card will be charged additional moneys for care services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, special incontinence wear, special bandages and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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179 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the role the county registrar will play in approving care representatives to the nursing homes support scheme; if county registrars have been briefed on the processes and procedures with regard to this; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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178 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding she will make available to the nursing homes support scheme in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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177 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children, with regard to private nursing homes approved under the nursing homes support scheme, if the €190 licensing fee per designated place in a nursing home was included in the detailed costing that formed part of the negotiations on the cost of care with the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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202 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of clinical directors to be appointed in Dublin hospitals; the number of associated business managers and support staff who will be appointed to service the clinical managers and business managers; the salaries and other costs associated with these appointments; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programme recommendation that staff should be required to work the weekly basic contracted hours for their grade within the span of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on a five day over seven day basis; the estimated savings from same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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