276 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of infection control committees and teams that have been put in place in each hospital to date as recommended in the Health Service Executive infection control action plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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275 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of the consultants contract; the progress that has been made on finalising the negotiations on a revised contract; the issues that remain unresolved; when the revised contract will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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272 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children her views, in view of the important revelations by various medical professionals (details supplied) on withdrawing the so-called gagging clause in the proposed consultants contract in order that future failings in the health service are brought to the attention of the appropriate authorities and to her attention, if that is deemed necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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238 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the proposals in place to fund, staff and resource HIQA to meet its remit under the fair deal, to have in place an inspectorate to inspect and evaluate private and public nursing homes here and to supply details of the amount of extra funding, staff numbers required and number of homes that have to be inspected; when all nursing homes will be inspected under the proposed new nursing home standards; when new regulations will be introduced by her Department to facilitate those new nursing home standards; 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 the action she will take to address the concerns and results of the recent National Hygiene Services Quality Report into hygiene in hospitals; her proposals to monitor or enforce changes in regulations pertaining to hospitals to enforce accountability for hygiene on the hospital management, individual hospital managers and hospital staff in a similar manner to the accountability enforced by health inspectors in restaurants where both the owner of the restaurant and the employee can be summonsed and fined for engaging in unsafe, unhygienic work practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the suite of sanctions available to enforce hygiene standards in hospitals; her views on whether the sanctions are adequate to address the recent hygiene report issued by HIQA and other hygiene situations that could arise in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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231 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the process by which the minimum price of various packets of 20 cigarettes is calculated; the legislative provisions that support this measure; the reasoning behind the recent increase in the minimum price of some cigarettes which occurred on 19 November 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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219 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will supply home support for a child (details supplied) in County Cavan with cerebral palsy and worster drought syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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60 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science when construction work will begin on a new national school in Laytown, County Meath; 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 person who carried out the review of recruitment procedures for locum consultants; the date the review was completed; the recommendations made by the review; if the recommendations have been implemented; if she will make a copy of the review available; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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445 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve the application and continuation of home tuition allowance for a child (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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209 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the staffing for dental services in the Cavan/Monaghan region where only two part time dentists are available to service a child population of 25,000, resulting in an emergency case only dental service in that area; her plans to address the inadequate dental service in Cavan/Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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75 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the allocation of cancer services to Mullingar, Tullamore and Portlaoise Hospitals (details supplied) were approved by her; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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216 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the estimated cost of administering the nursing home repayment scheme (Donations) fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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198 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department or the Health Service Executive received a letter from a medical professional expressing concern about cancer services at Portlaoise Hospital prior to the recent letter referred to in the media from a consultant in 2005; if so the action that was taken on foot of that letter; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on granting leave to remain or extending the visa of persons (details supplied) on humanitarian grounds as the two people in question assist their daughter who is a widow and they are financially independent and not a burden on the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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78 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that it is official Health Service Executive and her Department policy that the communicative value of Irish speaking NCHDs particularly in Gaeltacht areas is considered to be irrelevant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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75 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the numbers of nursing students leaving training for the past six years from areas of general nursing, mental health, and intellectual disability; the number by location; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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45 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the action she took to address the concerns raised in a letter she personally received from a consultant in Portlaoise in 2005 expressing their concerns regarding the quality and reliability of services in the radiology department in Portlaoise General Hospital; if she will assure Dáil Éireann that no further such letters lie languishing in her Department from concerned health professionals regarding specific issues of concern in hospitals and care homes; the procedures and action her Department takes to address such concerns; the systems in place to ensure early warnings from such staff are acted upon in order that they are followed up by her Department in a timely manner in order to avoid situations like that of mammogram misdiagnosis in Portlaoise General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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43 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on recent discussions with pharmacists; if progress has been made; if not, the plans her Department has to ensure continuity of supply of medicines to pensioners, social welfare recipients and other patients on medical cards and various refund schemes that may be affected by the pharmacists’ threat to withdraw from such schemes on 1 December 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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89 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department provides funds to the Irish Patients’ Association; 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 if the Hanly report is Government policy; if so, the way it will be possible to reduce junior doctors to 2000 when it is clear that almost 1000 junior doctors are thought to be eligible for contracts of indefinite duration; the way, in view of the fact that plans are well advanced to increase graduates from medical schools to over 700 per year, the system will accommodate training places for these doctors as it appears there will be very few places available for them; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children his views on the practice of admitting patients to Connolly Hospital to a bed in order that they can be transferred to another bed via ambulance to St. James’s Hospital for plastic surgery, when the Connolly Hospital plastic surgeon is on leave; her views on whether this practice is a waste of taxpayers' resources; 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 reason the patients in Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown in need of the services of a plastic surgeon are not referred to alternative plastic surgeons in other hospitals when the incumbent half time plastic surgeon is on leave; 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 if, regarding junior doctors’ travel expenses for specialist training here, she will report on the revolving annual fund of 1 million punts annually negotiated and agreed seven years ago, taking into account that medical line managers tell junior doctors there is no line item in their hospital budgets for this item and cannot pay out of the fund, which at today’s figures would amount to a cumulative €10 million; the action taken in relation to this money; 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 training grant for NCHDS agreed between HSEA and IMO, in particular the amount of the grant with a breakdown on what the grant is spent on and if it is being spent on the purpose which it was agreed for, namely, training courses, seminars, lectures and textbooks for junior doctors; 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 if, regarding the current controversy on cancer services at Portlaoise Hospital, the radiologist and pathologist concerned were on the register of medical specialists; if they were did they get onto the register by completing higher specialist training in the relevant field here or were they approved on recognition of their training being equivalent; if so the mechanisms in place to ensure that these doctors placed on the specialist register are actually capable of working as a competent specialist; the assessment they undergo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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358 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if Romanian nationals legally resident and educated here are entitled to grant assistance for third level education; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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357 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science the EU residents here who are entitled to grants for fees and other assistance for third level education in colleges in Ireland; the conditions that may be applicable; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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356 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if Polish residents, resident and educated here, are entitled to grant support for third level colleges in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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208 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of members on the board of the Health Service Executive; the attendance rate of each board member at meetings of the HSE; the fees paid to each board member; the expenses that have been paid to each board member; the amount of times the board of the HSE meets; the persons who have retired from the board and the persons who have replaced them; the criteria used to determine who retired and any other relevant information; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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94 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science her plans to address the growing demand for second level school places in Swords, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on issuing a work permit to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin to enable them to apply for employment in their profession as a management accountant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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179 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views, in view of the long waiting times for workers who have work permits for over five years and have applied for naturalisation or long stay visas where current processing times are now heading for three years, on issuing new regulations for a three year flexible free work to permit those workers who have applied for naturalisation or long stay visa permitting the worker to apply for work in whatever sector they are qualified in and has held a work permit in Ireland for five years to permit the employee to apply for work and offer their skills to other employers in their sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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527 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a decision on the application for a licence for a hunt (details supplied) will be made as all additional queries and information have been supplied to his Department by the hunt; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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461 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an enquiry which was announced earlier in 2007 in relation to the unlawful death of a person (details supplied); the number of interviews that have been held; the number of persons interviewed; the number of Gardaí interviewed; the projected completion date of the enquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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182 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has carried out a report or review on care and conditions in St Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin; if her Department has received a copy of the report or been informed of the contents of the report; if so, if her Department or the HSE will make the report available to Members of the Oireachtas; 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 if an independent review or report has been carried out on care and conditions in St Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin particularly covering the years 1995 to 2002 or thereafter; if a copy of the report will be made available to Members of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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209 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the process used to arrive at the decision to relocate the Central Mental Hospital from Dundrum to Thornton Hall prison site in north County Dublin; if expert committees or the relevant officers in the Health Service Executive and the management of the Central Mental Hospital were consulted on the suitability of the site for the purpose of a central mental hospital, prior to the decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the process that was used to arrive at the decision to relocate the Central Mental Hospital from Dundrum to the proposed prison site at Thornton Hall in north County Dublin; if expert committees, staff management or senior Health Service Executive officials were consulted on the suitability of the site for the purpose of a central mental hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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213 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that funds realised from the sale of assets, hospitals and lands in the mental health sector will be ring fenced for future investment in that sector, if the Department of Finance agree to ring fence the said funds for investment in mental health services and investment plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that funds realised from the sale of hospitals and lands and assets in the mental health sector will be ring fenced for future investment in the mental health services sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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61 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the international diplomatic and political initiatives planned to bring about a synchronisation of the regulatory and approval mechanisms of the US FDA, the EFSA and the FSAI.
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72 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of funding in the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if the fund is adequately resourced to meet the demand from patients for operations and procedures; 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 if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a clinic (details supplied) has been closed down in the last number of weeks at the orthopaedics hospital in Clontarf; the reason this clinic which treats up to 60 people a week has been discontinued; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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413 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction an extension at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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203 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of adult community mental health teams that have been established to date in respect of the Vision for Change strategy; the number that are fully staffed as recommended in Vision for Change; the composition of these teams; the number of positions that remain to be filled; the geographic area covered by these teams; the population of each of the areas; 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 child and adolescent community mental health teams that have been established in respect of the Vision for Change strategy; the number that are fully staffed as recommended in Vision for Change; the composition of these teams; the number of positions that remain to be filled; the geographic area covered by these teams; the population of each of the areas; 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 amount of money donated to the repayment scheme donations fund in respect of the nursing home refund scheme for the repayment of illegal nursing home charges; the services that have or will benefit from this fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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