71 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to demands for large increases in charges for disability services in a reported case (details supplied) of up to 85%; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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70 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the legal position and her policy on demands by care institutions in the State that residents or clients hand over their social welfare books or pension books to these institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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Deputy James Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the provisions she has taken to protect the jobs of 1,100 people at SR Technics following the announcement today of asset stripping by the company.
170 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the failure of the Health Service Executive to provide suitable and adequate services to one teenager has deprived other families of children and adults with special needs much needed respite by denying them access to this respite facility (details supplied); the provisions the HSE midlands area has made to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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158 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the clinical role of public health doctors in the management of a flu pandemic; the persons who are the front line service providers in the event of such a pandemic; if there is a clearcut modus operandi for obtaining swabs and having these swabs brought in a timely fashion to a virology laboratory; if the public health and community care doctors will see, screen and treat patients out of normal nine to five office hours; if so, the location at which they will do so; if, in the event of the public and community care doctors refusing to see patients out of hours they are then in breach of their contractual obligations; if a patient is in need of tamiflu after pharmacy normal working hours, the location at which this will be available; the arrangements in place to communicate in real time to a general practitioner; the role they will play in an outbreak; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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292 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the application for grant approval for a swimming pool for a club (details supplied) in County Dublin; if he has made a decision to support this project which Fingal county manager has recently recommended to him; the conditions he will recommend to ensure the swimming pool facility is accessible to the general public from Balbriggan and nearby towns; the projected completion date if he issues a decision to support the Balbriggan-Balrothery project; if the necessary ancillary private funding is in place to bring the project to a successful conclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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196 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on funding fertility treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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193 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of nurses who were working at Cashel Hospital, County Tipperary, prior to the transfer of surgical services to Clonmel; if these nurses are still employed at Cashel; the areas to which they have been redeployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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192 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that funding will be in place to continue the support training and education service for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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191 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of heart, and single and double lung transplants carried out in the Mater heart-lung unit and in the Freeman Hospital cardio transplant unit in the year ending March 2008; the number of consultants, non-consultant hospital doctors, transplant nurse co-ordinators and transplant specialist nurses employed in each of the units in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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187 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the accounting systems and the financial arrangements in the National Rehabilitation Hospitals, Dublin, both at Clontarf and in Dun Laoghaire, in view of a communication (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy James Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has a role in regulating auctioneers to encourage them to display realistic prices in their promotion of properties that reflect the market value of properties they are selling (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Deputy James Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will look favourably on a request to transfer a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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421 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the provision of a social welfare office for Balbriggan where unemployment is in the thousands and where there appears to be still no permanent social welfare office despite there being many commercial premises close to public transport available to lease there; and if she will make a statement on this matter which has been on going for over four months.
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262 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if, further to a newspaper report (details supplied), the Health Information and Quality Authority quality review of the remaining seven cancer centres has been completed; if she has received a copy of these reports; if she has been briefed on the findings of these reports; if these reports will be published; 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 when she will publish the report of the inquiry into the deaths of persons (details supplied) in view of the fact that it has been finished since October 2008 at considerable cost to the taxpayer, and the importance of the report in the context of the lack of social services and the continuing risk to families and children in particular; if she will commit to publishing this report in full; 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, further to her statement in Dail Éireann on 10 March 2009, the amount that is spent on private health insurance, out of pocket medical expenses (details supplied) and health insurance provided by public employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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175 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a medical card due to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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162 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if adequate funding will continue to be made available for the provision of training programmes in Prosper Fingal in September 2009 for adults who attend the long term disability services provided by Prosper Fingal; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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165 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the report on options for compensation in respect of individuals damaged by a vaccine (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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198 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of new school buildings for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin which is currently accommodated in prefabricated buildings; the reason another school remains idle; when this new school building will be put in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will bring in mandatory standards regulations to force county councils to ensure all council homes are properly insulated with draught proof modern doors and windows; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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24 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if EU-US relations have been strengthened by the recent visit of President Obama to Europe; the agreements that were reached at the Prague summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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351 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount that is used in the calculation of income regarding the assessment of income for an over 70 years medical card and in particular the calculation of interest on savings; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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350 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the provision that has been put in place to provide speech and language therapy for a child (details supplied) in County Meath; the alternative arrangements that have been put in place to provide cover; when will this much needed service for this child will recommence; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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349 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided as soon as possible to purchase a wheelchair for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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346 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 to come before Dáil Éireann for Report Stage; when she expects the legislative process on the Bill to be completed; if she will confirm that the required funding is in place in 2009 to implement the proposed provisions of the Bill; the amount of funding which has been provided for 2009 and estimated for 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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261 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount of legal fees and costs and damages incurred in respect of 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009 by her Department on human resources issues specifically bullying; the amount of the largest claim incurred or settled in that period; the amount incurred on legal fees and costs and damages by the Health Service Executive on human resources issues specifically bullying for these years; the amount of the largest claim incurred or settled in that period; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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257 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the moneys and resources in the letters of allocation to the Health Service Executive, the Eastern Regional Health Authority and former health boards in relation to Traveller health development from 1998 to 2008; the cost centres the moneys were allocated to in the HSE, ERHA and former health boards; the name of the cost centres; if the moneys were used year on year; the amount currently allocated to Traveller health; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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262 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on proposed bonuses for management in the Health Service Executive; the proposed bonuses to senior management and in particular a proposed bonus for the chief executive officer of the HSE; if a bonus has been proposed; the amount of same; if it has been approved by her, the board of the HSE and the Department of Finance; if it will be awarded; when it will be awarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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237 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on proposed bonuses for management in the Health Service Executive and in particular a proposed bonus for the chief executive officer of the HSE; if a bonus has been proposed; the amount of same; if it has been approved by him and the board of the HSE; if it will be awarded; when it will be awarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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49 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the amount of money spent to provide for artwork in the new disability centre in Athlone, County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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48 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of women here being routinely screened by BreastCheck as at 31 January 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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314 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide funding in the form of an EOSG grant to a student (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the saving that will be made from the return of 19,445 over 70 years medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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99 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when the over 70 years medical card approved at end of January 2009 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; when original bank documentation will be returned to the person; the time lines for approval and issue of the over 70 years medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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96 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that the rehabilitation unit in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, is the only facility in use for public patients, a temporary arrangement allowing facilities at Cobh, County Cork, in a private clinic will be made available to medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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175 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider her decision to suspend the roll-out of the cervical cancer vaccination programme for 12 year old girls; 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 the estimated full cost per year of the roll-out of bowel screening; when the national bowel screening programme will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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201 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the details of all instructions issued to general practitioners to limit access, reduce prescribing rates, or withdraw certain drugs, medicines and nutritional supports provided by State drugs schemes, including a list of all drugs, medicines or supplements affected; the estimated cost savings to be achieved from each of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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37 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will roll out the national retinopathy screening programme in view of the fact that retinopathy screening for people with diabetes is highly cost effective in terms of the long-term health gain and money saved through prevention and in view of the recent publication of the Health Service Executive report recommending the programme; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason only eight of the additional 14 fast-tracked cystic fibrosis beds promised to be put in place by the end of summer 2008 have been delivered; the further reason that the remaining beds have not been delivered; 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 her views on the situation in hospital accident and emergency departments in view of the fact that almost 400 patients are lying on trolleys throughout March 2009; her plans to address this problem or if she is resigned to seeing patients continue to lay on trolleys; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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178 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm that he will, at some date in the future, provide a new school at Hedgestown, Lusk, County Dublin; if he will confirm same in writing to the board of management and Fingal County Council in order that the board of management can proceed with the purchase of the two acre school site from Fingal County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to address the shortage of neurosurgery at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be admitted to the Beaumont Hospital neurosurgical unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a child (details supplied) in County Dublin who has been assessed by the Health Service Executive orthodontic services as requiring treatment in a 5A category in December 2008 and was initially told the waiting list was 12 to 18 months has now been advised that the waiting list is three years; if regular check ups will be considered to assess whether earlier intervention may be necessary; her plans to address the lengthening waiting lists for these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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117 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the Health Information and Quality Authority staffing structure and pay rates for persons due to be involved in the inspection and registration of nursing homes; the locations at which the HIQA inspection staff and offices will be located; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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115 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on a newspaper article (details supplied); her plans to address this situation; if she has communicated with the Medical Council on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason more than 2,000 children attending schools (details supplied) in County Cavan have no dental screening service or adequate dental surgery facilities which service is available in schools in other parts of the country; and the way she will address this dental service deficit.
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490 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if restrictions have been placed on fertility drugs made available under the drugs payment scheme; the fertility drugs available under that scheme; the drugs which have been excluded; the effect such exclusions would have on the success or otherwise of fertility treatments; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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