156 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by Health Service Executive officials on transport costs, including air travel, public transport and mileage costs, per annum since 2005 to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of non-Civil Service staff employed in her Department; the roles of these staff; the cost of these staff to the Exchequer; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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154 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposed Health Service Executive staff redundancy programme; the number and categories of staff involved; the projected cost of the programme; when she will proceed with the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of health care regions and the geographical area they will encompass with regard to Health Service Executive reforms; the extent of streamlining management levels envisaged; 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 the portion of the €110 million ring-fenced for the implementation of the fair deal for nursing home care that has been spent to date; and what this has been spent on; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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152 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her views, with regard to the €110 million ring-fenced for the implementation of the fair deal for nursing home care, on allowing fair deal funding to be used to enhance nursing home subvention supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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44 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the consultation process on the postal sector; if he will provide a detailed timetable of when he plans to publish a report and to undertake the first action in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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23 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding his pilot project for smart metering; the level of success and take-up it has had; the future action he plans in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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290 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science when the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is expected to be completed; when he expects to publish the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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195 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the average waiting times for orthodontic assessment and treatment services for children, per Health Service Executive area, for each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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194 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the average waiting times for orthodontic assessment and treatment services for adults, per Health Service Executive area, for each of the past three years; 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 average waiting times for occupational therapy assessment and treatment services for adults, per Health Service Executive area, for each of the past three years; 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 the average waiting times for speech and language assessment and treatment services for adults, per Health Service Executive area, for each of the past three years; 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 average waiting times for speech and language assessment and treatment services for children, per Health Service Executive area, for each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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190 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if a microbiologist has been appointed to St. Columcille’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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189 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the category of staff to be recruited with regard to the 34.5 whole time equivalent infection-control staff that have yet to be recruited out of the 52 infection-control staff announced in 2006; when this recruitment process will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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188 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the process by which a hospital acquired infection becomes a notifiable disease; if she will provide a complete list of notifiable diseases; the infections she will add to this list; 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 the number of beds that will be standard beds in regard to the intention of the National Treatment Purchase Fund to negotiate the cost of private beds on behalf of the Health Service Executive; the number that will be medium and high dependency beds; 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 how she expects the National Treatment Purchase Fund to negotiate the cost of private beds on behalf of the Health Service Executive in the absence of nursing home care standards
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185 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when she will approve the National Quality Standards for Residential Care Settings; 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 the number of cases in which the Health Service Executive assigned its functions in regard to reviewing a recommendation, made by a complaints officer, to another body; the identity of the body to which it has assigned such functions under section 49(4) of the regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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183 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the income thresholds for qualification for a full medical card and for a general practitioner visit card, indicating the thresholds for single persons, married couples and single parents; the way in which they vary between age categories and the category of married couples, one of whom is over 70 years and one of whom is not, and that of dependent children; her plans to review income thresholds; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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182 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioner visit medical cards issued as at year end 2007; the number issued for the first six months in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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181 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of full medical cards issued as at year end 2007; the number issued for the first six months in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of catchment area teams established in regard to the Vision for Change strategy; the number that are fully staffed; the geographic area covered by these catchment areas; the population of each of the catchment areas; the name of the person with managerial responsibility for mental health services in each of the catchment areas; 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 status of the nursing home refund scheme for the repayment of illegal nursing home charges; the number of claims received and completed to date; the amount refunded to date; the number of applications that have been rejected; the reason they have been rejected; the cost of the scheme; the cost of administering the scheme; the average time for an application to be processed; when she expects the scheme to complete its work; 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 details of all advice sought by the Health Service Executive regarding co-location; the cost of this advice; 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 the assessment carried out on the staffing implications related to co-located hospitals; her views on whether this will increase the difficulties encountered in recruiting staff for certain posts in the public health system; 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 cost to the Exchequer of co-located private hospitals with a breakdown of the cost for each of these hospitals; the amount of tax relief involved with these hospitals; 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 the number of hospital beds which will be provided under the co-location hospital scheme; the number of beds which will be provided at each site; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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174 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the consortia involved in the provision of co-location hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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173 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the details of the assessors who established the commercial value of each co-location site; the commercial value identified for each site; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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172 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of her co-location hospital plan with regard to recent reports that banks are reluctant to commit financing to operators; the action she will take in the event that an operator proves unsuccessful; her plans to amend co-location agreements in order that the State will buy the hospital in the event of a default; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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171 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the names of the proposed sites for co-location hospitals; the progress to date in each location; if the tendering process has been completed; the names of those awarded each tender; the cost of the facility in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of public and private acute hospital beds in each hospital from 2005 to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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169 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of permanent nursing and midwifery posts in each of the acute hospitals in the mid west and north east regions; the number of these staff who work fulltime; the number of posts which are currently vacant or being filled on a temporary basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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168 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff employed in the Health Service Executive by grade category for the past six years to date; the number of staff employed by service pillars; the number employed on a regional basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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167 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the levels of absenteeism in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date 2008; the breakdown of absenteeism among staffing categories; the associated cost of agency staff as a result of this absenteeism; the action the Health Service Executive has taken to reduce absenteeism; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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166 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive requires her approval to allocate and expend national development plan capital expenditure; 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 if she will confirm that an assessment of need for long-stay beds for older people was carried out in 2006; when the report on this assessment will be made public; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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164 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to the need for additional long stay beds for the elderly in the greater Dublin area, she is satisfied that the 300 long-stay beds for the elderly currently being developed in the Health Service Executive south represents an appropriate prioritisation of the resources allocated to the HSE; if the planned expenditure, as reflected in the high capital cost of each project represents value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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112 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of co-location hospitals in terms of tax relief to date; the estimated cost over the five year programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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789 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made on the Programme for Government commitment to double the penalties for all offences relating to the sale of alcohol to children, the purchase of alcohol for children and the breach of the restrictions on the presence of underage persons on licensed premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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788 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made on the Programme for Government commitment to a code of practice on the sale of alcohol with the off-licence trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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619 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress made on the Programme for Government commitment to implementing the Fottrell Report recommendations on undergraduate places in medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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618 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress made on the Programme for Government commitment to implementing the restructuring of medical education, including an increase in training places and postgraduate medical degrees; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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360 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of requests made by the Health Service Executive for approval to transfer funding allocated for a particular purpose or service to another service; the amount of money involved; the services from which the moneys were transferred from; the services to which the money was transferred to; the number of these requests which have been approved, refused and are awaiting a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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305 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the programme for Government commitment to ensure primary schools educate children about positive bodily self-image; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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304 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the programme for Government commitment to continue to encourage breast-feeding; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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303 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the programme for Government commitment to promote coexistence of complementary and conventional medicine; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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