25 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the estimated cost of purchasing Kyoto carbon credits up to 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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111 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the locations at which the €120 million to provide services for a growing and aging population will be allocated and spent; 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 funding being provided for the implementation of the fair deal scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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109 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the €50 million required for the implementation of a Vision for Change has been made available in Budget 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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108 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the €50 million multi-annual funding, promised in 2004, has been made available to the disability sector for 2009; 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 the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to double the income limit eligibility of parents of children under six years of age and treble them for parents of children with an intellectual disability of less than 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[36360/08]
102 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to index the income thresholds for medical cards to increases in the average industrial wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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255 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) has not been offered a home care package or a suitable nursing home place; if a care package will be supplied to aid their family in taking that responsibility; if she will look on this request favourably; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the funding for a special needs assistant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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252 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on a media report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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118 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on increasing the living alone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received the funds required for their rehabilitation programme.
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337 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science the way his Department will provide national school places in Donabate, County Dublin for 27 boys in September 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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82 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the way the National Treatment Purchase Fund will negotiate the cost of private beds on behalf of the Health Service Executive in the absence of the Health Information and Quality Authority Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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81 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the role the National Treatment Purchase Fund will have in identifying and recommending nursing homes under the nursing home support scheme; when it will begin this role; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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79 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of claims lodged with the State Claims Agency for compensation as a result of patients acquiring hospital infections; the number of cases settled to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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78 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost of administering the nursing home repayments scheme; when the nursing home repayment scheme will complete its work; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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77 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications received under the nursing home repayment scheme; the number of applicants issued offers to date; the number which have appeals made by the scheme; the number of appeals decided; the number of appeals which have received an increased offer; the number of appeals officers employed by the scheme; the number of payments made to date; the cost of same; the number of applications to be decided upon; the average waiting time to process an application; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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71 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the specific plans she has to deal with the need for approximately 2,000 citizens who are amputees and who must pay for their own prostheses costing between €5,000 and €10,000, in view of the fact that they are neither covered by medical card or private health insurance, and that such prosthesis are provided free of charge in Northern Ireland and in the other European States; 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 when a consultant specialist in diabetes will be able to see a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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69 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans to properly resource the child and adolescent mental health services in order that timely interventions are provided for children identified by their schools as at risk and in need of such intervention, in particular in north County Dublin (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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68 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide for the continuation of surgical services at Bantry General Hospital (details supplied); if the Health Service Executive has commenced recruitment of a new consultant surgeon or other such arrangements to maintain surgery at Bantry General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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67 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department, the Health Service Executive or the Health Information Quality Authority has plans to monitor, collate and report on a regular basis on the death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at hospitals here to identify variations if they exist, to address such variations with corrective action and to improve standards in hospitals by publishing such data; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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80 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Information and Quality Authority Draft Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People will be approved; the status of the regulatory impact assessment; when this procedure will be completed; when the standards will apply; if they will apply compulsorily; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the proposed prison at Thornton Hall; if funding is in place to build the facility; if a binding contract has been entered into with the preferred bidder under PPP; his views on recent media speculation (details supplied) that 25 banks have withdrawn funding and support for the €400 million prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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113 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of full medical cards issued for each of the years 2004 to date in 2008; the percentage of the population those numbers represent; 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 number of general practitioner visit only medical cards issued in each year since these cards became available; the number of such cards issued to date in 2008; 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 elderly people or patients awaiting funding for nursing home beds per county and per Health Service Executive area, specifically in north Dublin City and County and in total here; her plans in the short term to address the shortfall in funding in this area which is causing hardship and clogging up acute hospitals through no fault of the patients who cannot leave hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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109 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the present day build cost of a 55 to 60 bed community nursing home unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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111 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of over 70s medical cards issued for each year since the over 70s medical card became available; the number of such cards issued to date in 2008; the total fees awarded to general practitioners for those specific medical cards; the fees paid to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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108 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the estimated cost of means testing the over 70s medical card per person and, in total, for the current number of over 70s medical cards issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the funding and financial arrangements in place to build a new central mental hospital at Thornton Hall; the financial arrangements intended, that is, if the project will be funded by direct Government investment or by way of public private partnerships; the projected cost of the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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106 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she appointed an expert group in 2007 to develop the personal health check programme promised in the programme for Government; if so, if the report of the group has been published; the funding she put in place to implement the promise to provide a personal health check programme; when it will be rolled out nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[34325/08]
105 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of recommendations of the National Strategy for Tackling Obesity her Department or the Health Service Executive has implemented; the percentage of the number of recommendations that represents; the funding that has been provided to implement the recommendations; the timeframe for the completion and implementation of the recommendations of the National Strategy for Tackling Obesity; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[34324/08]
104 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of the recommendations of the working group on alcohol abuse established under Sustaining Progress that have been implemented as promised in the programme for Government; the funds that have been set aside to do so; when the recommendations will be implemented in their entirety; 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 cervical vaccine will be introduced; the funds that have been set aside to introduce it; the vaccine or vaccines that have been chosen; the cost per patient and in total; the number of vaccines expected to be administered and to which age groups; if appropriate arrangements have been made with the medical professions to roll out the vaccine nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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102 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has been mandated to report on the fluoridation of water; if it has been resourced to do so; when the report will be completed and published as promised in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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101 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount of the €2.1 billion promised in the programme for Government that has been invested in the primary care capital investment programme in the national development plan; the percentage of the €2.1 billion that represents; when the programme will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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100 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has index linked the income thresholds for medical cards to increases in the average industrial wage as promised in the Programme for Government; if she has doubled the income limit eligibility for parents with children under the age of six and trebled them for parents of children with an intellectual disability under the age of 18 as promised in the programme for Government; 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 the amount of the €2.4 billion acute hospital capital programme in the national development plan that has been expended to date; the percentage that represents of the target; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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98 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of the 1,500 public only hospital beds promised in the programme for Government that have been provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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97 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of the 2000 extra consultants promised in the programme for Government who have been appointed; the percentage that number represents of the 2,000 promised; the specific funds that have been allocated to recruit 2,000 consultants in 2008; the estimated cost in 2009 and other years thereafter; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of new, not replacement, accident and emergency consultants who have been appointed as promised in the national development plan; 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 the number of local injury clinics as promised in the programme for Government that have been established; the location of same; the hours they are open to the public; the services available therein; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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94 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of chest and pain respiratory clinics that have been established as promised in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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93 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of extra post graduate training places that have been provided for clinical psychologists as promised in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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92 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount of the estimated €800 million from the sale of existing mental hospitals that has been realised; the use to which the moneys received has been put; the length of time her Department had those moneys; the mental health purpose for which they will be used in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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91 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of multi disciplinary mental health teams that have been established nationwide; the number of teams it is estimated that will be needed; the number of staff; the cost of establishing such teams; the timeframe for these teams to be in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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