177 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number, in relation to the NTPF intention to negotiate the cost of private beds on behalf of the Health Service Executive, of these beds that will be standard beds; the number that will be medium and high dependency beds; 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 way, in relation to the NTPF intention to negotiate the cost of private beds on behalf of the Health Service Executive, she expects the NTPF to achieve this in the absence of nursing home care standards; 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 when the National Standards for Nursing Home Care will be completed and published; 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 reason there are no spare trolleys available for ambulance use at accident and emergency departments; 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 status of the acute medical admission units proposed for Beaumont Hospital; 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 proposed location of acute medical admission units; the stage of delivery these facilities are at; 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 location of acute medical admission units; the stage of delivery these facilities are at; 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 if her attention has been drawn to the areas where there are identified deficiencies in the ambulance service; the steps she proposes to take to deal with the identified deficiencies in this important service; 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 cases in which the Health Service Executive assigned its functions in relation to reviewing any 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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168 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints received by the Health Service Executive under its complaints system up to 31 July 2007; the number received; the number investigated by a complaints officer; the number of complaints that were investigated and concluded within the 30 day time-frame set out in the regulations; the number of cases in which the complainant sought a review of the recommendation of the complaints officer; 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 number of complaints received by the Health Service Executive under its complaints system up to 30 September 2007; the number deemed to be valid; the number acknowledged within five working days of their receipt; the number resolved on an informal basis; the number withdrawn; the number of complaints officers involved in the investigation of these complaints; 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 the number of the 32 local health office areas of the Health Service Executive that have an elder abuse officer who has been appointed to that position in a permanent capacity; 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 measures she has taken to improve cleaning services and enhance security measures for accident and emergency departments as outlined in her accident and emergency ten point plan; 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 the measures she has taken to enhance direct access of general practitioners to diagnostic services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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163 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department is in negotiation with groups to form out of hours general practitioner services; 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 the number of people in receipt of home care packages as per Health Service Executive area for each of the years 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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161 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of high dependency patients in acute hospital care in hospitals (details supplied) who need to be transferred to more appropriate nursing home care; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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160 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 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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159 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioner visit medical cards issued as at year end 2006; the number issued to date in 2007; 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 number of full medical cards issued as at year end 2006; the number issued to date in 2007; 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 the number of beds closed as a result of the cutbacks and recruitment ban; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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156 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing home beds, both public and private, for each of the years 2001 to date in 2007; 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 acute hospital beds, both public and private, in each of the hospitals for 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007; 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 number of catchment area teams that have been established in relation 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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153 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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187 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason taking into account that she and HIQA had no remit over private hospitals in August 2007 but were able to take action on Barrington’s, she did not take action on Barrington’s in 2006 when the same restrictions existed and if her attention has been drawn to the concerns in the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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185 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason she had to wait 19 months to be informed by her Department or the Health Service Executive of serious concerns regarding breast treatment services at Barrington’s Hospital taking into account that a senior official had raised concerns with the HSE; the steps the HSE has taken to ensure that she is informed in a timely manner in future; 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 her views on hospital waiting list figures which were exposed in the media recently; the steps she will take to reduce waiting lists; 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 progress made to improve the situation within accident and emergency departments with regard to her ten point plan for accident and emergency services, her description of the accident and emergency crisis as a national emergency in March 2006, the establishment of a task force on accident and emergency services and the subsequent publication of the emergency department task force report; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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76 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to ensure the continuation of services in the dispensing of methadone to people participating in drug treatment and rehabilitation programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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74 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if, in relation to her statement at the Irish Nurses Organisation annual conference on 21 September 2007 she is still of the view that patient care will not be affected by the ban on recruitment or the cost cutting measures imposed by the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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554 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the grant for group drainage schemes which currently appears to be a maximum of €2,000 per household; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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247 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children when it is expected that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will receive an offer of refund of nursing home charges; the reason the refund system is so slow in carrying out the refund process; if she has plans to improve the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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243 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the levels of staff employed by the Health Service Executive in administration and other non-frontline duties; if it compares well in comparison to other countries with efficient health care services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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221 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide extra funding, staff and resources to address the crisis in obstetrics where maternity hospitals are operating at levels that according to media reports may be putting patients at risk and where birth levels have increased from 49,000 in 1993, to 64,000 in 2006 and are expected to hit 68,000 in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Deputy James Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will review and update the exemption limits on the revenue relief scheme for the transfer of sites from parent to child to bring the exemption limits within realistic current market values as the current exemption limit is approximately ten years old and out of date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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51 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will undertake and fund a comprehensive survey and reclassification immediately of the potentially large clean aquifer in the area of the Nevitt, Lusk, County Dublin, in order to quantify and protect this potentially national water resource for the future needs of the extensive horticultural industry in the area and residential water supply going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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27 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when 100% broadband penetration will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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211 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department in its regulatory role or the Health Service Executive is in receipt or expects to receive law suits for damages arising out the debacle regarding testing for cancer at Barrington’s Hospital, taking into account that the NTPF may have sent patients there and that she as sole shareholder in VHI also facilitated patients to attend Barrington’s Hospital, and that her Department despite information supplied 19 months ago on seven concerns at the hospital failed to act on the information in a timely manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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210 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans her Department has for the mammogram unit and machine in Ennis Hospital; if it will be used in Ennis for cancer screening; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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207 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the rules for short-listing candidates in regard to training schemes in psychiatry; her Department’s policy on ageism at interviews for such courses; the reason that an additional 10% credit for proficiency in Irish and English and in accordance with the legitimate expectation in Administrative Circular 10/71 is apparently being disregarded by interviewing panels in the Health Service Executive western area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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206 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress her Department has made in implementing the recommendations in the Pollock Report and in particular the number of isolation rooms available for cystic fibrosis; her plans to provide more in the near future; the number of specialised nurses the Health Service Executive has employed taking into account the Pollock Report recommendations; her further plans to provide specialised home care staff and assistance for cystic fibrosis patients; if the extra funds allocated in 2006 and 2007 of approximately €7 million have been used for the purpose they were allocated to; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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205 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of law suits her Department and the Health Service Executive are in receipt of regarding the failure to provide adequate and timely assessment of children with autism, cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening and other such services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will deliver 10,000 social and affordable housing units in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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191 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to address the many urgent problems associated with the operation of management companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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102 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make representations to the relevant Garda authorities and put in place new Garda manpower and a dedicated drugs squad to tackle the increasing drugs problem in towns in north Fingal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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67 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of the Board of the Office of Tobacco Control which was appointed in 2002 for a five year term; when its term of office will expire; the arrangements in place to appoint a new board for the Office of Tobacco Control; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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1184 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on introducing grant aid similar to solar panels for wind turbines for use in domestic dwellings which are certified as being suitably located in an area of adequate wind supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1183 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will make representations to the Department of Finance to introduce grant aid similar to solar panels for domestic dwellings in areas certified as having adequate wind supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1137 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will sanction additional library staff for the new expanded library facility which remains closed in Malahide; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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