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Tue, 6 Nov 2012
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Northern Ireland Issues
Gerry Adams
1168. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area; the number of whole time equivalent staff assigned to these matters; the grades involved and the amount of time each grade spends on North South Activities as a proportion of their WTE employment; the co-ordination arrangements that have been put in place; if there are any current vacancies in North South Co-operation unites; the duration of this vacancy and the steps being taken to fill the vacancy [48547/12]
Tue, 6 Nov 2012
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Mental Health Services Provision
Gerry Adams
1170. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at present in the community mental health teams across here and the location and grade where the vacancy occurs [48591/12]
Tue, 6 Nov 2012
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Mental Health Services Provision
Gerry Adams
1171. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at present in the child and adolescent mental health teams here and the location and grade where the vacancy occurs [48592/12]
Wed, 24 Oct 2012
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Home Help Service Provision
Gerry Adams
234. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 11 October 2012, if he will provide figures in tabular form of the number of persons in receipt of home help hours; the number of hours delivered in County Louth in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and currently in the aftermath of the additional cuts announced by him in August [46596/12]
Wed, 24 Oct 2012
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Departmental Offices
Gerry Adams
235. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if there is a North South Co-operation unit in his Department; the number of staff working in the North South Co-operation unit; the number of staff who have worked in the North South Co-operation unit in each year since 2007. [46619/12]
Wed, 24 Oct 2012
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Gerry Adams
237. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to develop a primary care centre in Dundalk, County Louth by means of operational lease process [46635/12]
Tue, 23 Oct 2012
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Appointments to State Boards
Gerry Adams
603. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form all appointments to State boards under his ambit since the Government took office; when the person was appointed; if the position entitles the holder to remuneration and if so the amount in each case; if the appointment was made in accordance with new procedures whereby Departments has to invite expressions of interest from the public in vacancies on the boards under their aegis. [45806/12]
Tue, 23 Oct 2012
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Appointments to State Boards
Gerry Adams
604. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of chairs of State boards that have been appointed since the Government came into office; if there is a remuneration for the position and if so the amount of same; if the appointee was required to go before Oireachtas Committees to discuss what they have to offer to the particular Board or Committee to which they are being appointed. [45822/12]
Tue, 23 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
648. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the cuts to staff and services in County Louth and County Meath hospitals as a result of the cuts to agency and overtime announced him and the number of staff and hours that have been cut [46228/12]
Tue, 23 Oct 2012
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Home Help Service Provision
Gerry Adams
650. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of home help hours being supplied to persons from County Louth in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and the number being supplied now [46234/12]
Tue, 23 Oct 2012
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Care of the Elderly Provision
Gerry Adams
687. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he has made a budgetary allocation for the provision of 30 step-down beds in the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth [46394/12]
Tue, 23 Oct 2012
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Departmental Agencies
Gerry Adams
702. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in a tabular form a list of quasi-governmental organisations and agencies that have been created since 9 March 2011;the date on which the body was created; the name of the body; the 2012 budget for the body; the number of employees of the body and if the body engages manpower resources from outside the body. [47127/12]
Wed, 17 Oct 2012
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Nursing Home Services
Gerry Adams
284. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the plans that have been put in place to ensure Saorview will be available in all Health Service Executive residences and public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45071/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Health Services Expenditure
Gerry Adams
577. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the projected cost over run for the health services will be in 2012. [44113/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Universal Health Insurance Provision
Gerry Adams
578. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health when the White Paper on Financing Universal Health Insurance will be published. [44114/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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General Practitioner Services
Gerry Adams
579. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health when he intends to provide free general practitioner care for claimants under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44115/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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General Practitioner Services
Gerry Adams
580. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he is in talks with the Irish Medical Organisation and the Competition Authority in relation to the issue of free general practitioner care; when such talks are likely to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44116/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Mental Health Services Funding
Gerry Adams
581. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the amount of the €35 million announced in the budget for mental health services that has been spent on mental health services; if he will provide a breakdown of the way in which this money has been spent; the number of staff promised to be employed under this scheme that are now in place [44117/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Care of the Elderly
Gerry Adams
582. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if the Special Delivery Unit request for a fund to provide intermediate options for older people to allow them to receive care in their own homes was put in place; the amount of this fund that was put in place; the new initiatives the SDU have brought forward on the basis of this fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44118/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Gerry Adams
583. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of adult patients waiting for six months or longer for a procedure and the comparable figure for when he took office. [44119/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
Gerry Adams
584. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the progress he has made in attempting to reduce the health services pay bill for medicines; the amount of the planned €124 million savings in this area will actually be realised. [44120/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Hospital Charges
Gerry Adams
585. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the progress he has made in his plans to charge health insurers for the cost of beds they use in public hospitals ; the amount of the planned €143 million in savings will actually be realised in 2012. [44121/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Departmental Staff Remuneration
Gerry Adams
586. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health in view of his recent claims that 70% of his Department's budget goes on pay, if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of how much of his Departments Budget does goes on pay and if he will provide percentage figures for same. [44122/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Gerry Adams
587. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health further to his response to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 26 September 2012, if he will provide in tabular form the comparable figures for when he took office [44123/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Health Services Staff Issues
Gerry Adams
588. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant posts in the State currently vacant; the reasons these posts are vacant; the location of these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44124/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Digital Television Service Provision
Gerry Adams
599. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he plans to install Saorview compatible equipment in public nursing homes; if it will be financed by his Department; if so from which funding stream; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44158/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Digital Television Service Provision
Gerry Adams
600. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the tender process and negotiations with digital receiver set-top boxes manufacturers and licensed installers, undertaken to ensure a quality of service but also to ensure that citizens received value for money in the context of plans to install Saorview compatible equipment in public nursing homes [44159/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Digital Television Service Provision
Gerry Adams
601. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if only a single Saorview box will be allocated for use within the communal area of public nursing homes; the arrangements that will be put in place for patients who are confined to their own rooms [44160/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Gerry Adams
615. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Louth is currently on a waiting list for an insulin pump at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; their position on the list; the length of time they may expect to wait to be fitted with a pump; the average waiting time for children in the County Louth area to wait to be fitted with an insulin pump and the comparable statewide average waiting time [44202/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Home Help Service Provision
Gerry Adams
703. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of home help services in County Louth; the total number of home help hours the persons in these specified areas currently receive; the number of hours that will be lost to the persons in these specified areas as a result of the planned €130 million cut to home help services; the number of persons in these specified areas who will be affected by these cuts; the savings to the Health Service Executive that will accrue from the cuts of these specified areas; the number of persons in these areas who will be left with no home help services as a result of the cuts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44801/12]
Thu, 11 Oct 2012
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Gerry Adams
184. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of primary care centres that are being developed by leasehold and if Dundalk, County Louth is one of the sites to be developed by leasehold [43837/12]
Thu, 11 Oct 2012
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Gerry Adams
188. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the position regarding surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43849/12]
Thu, 11 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
193. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the cut backs that have been implemented in the Louth Meath Hospital group from 1 October in relation to the use of agency staff; if he will set out in detail the reductions in staff in the various hospitals and in each of the staff disciplines; if he will provide a comparative to the staffing levels in each of the hospitals in 2011; if risk assessments have been carried out in relation to the impact of these reductions; and if he will, detail the findings of the risk assessments [43866/12]
Thu, 11 Oct 2012
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Home Help Service Provision
Gerry Adams
194. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of home help hours that were cut from County Louth as a result of the cutbacks announced in Budget 2012; how many further hours in County Louth as a result of the decision to cut a further €8 million in spending on home help hours between now and the end of the year [43867/12]
Wed, 10 Oct 2012
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Gerry Adams
243. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the position that Dundalk, County Louth, held on the list of 200 centres which were identified for proposed primary care centres by officials based on a scoring system based on deprivation levels, their assessment of service priorities in an area and on assessment of available accommodation; the reason Dundalk was not one of the 35 sites announced for primary care centres by him in July 2012; his reason for removing Dundalk from the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43609/12]
Wed, 10 Oct 2012
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Gerry Adams
248. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of 200 sites that were identified for proposed primary care centres in order of the priority determined by officials based on a scoring system based on deprivation levels, their assessment of service priorities in an area and an assessment of available accommodation [43621/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
618. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he intends to close the laundry department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth and outsource that work to a private contract company [42933/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
619. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if any reports have been carried out in relation to the operation of the laundry service within the Health Service Executive North East region; and if any of these reports recommended the contracting out of this service [42934/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
620. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the savings to be made by contracting out the laundry service in Drogheda Hospital, County Louth, and if any effort was made to engage with staff to streamline services or reduce costs rather than privatising the service [42935/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
621. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situations in the UK in which hospitals have re introduced a laundry service as a result of their dissatisfaction regarding the service provided by subcontractors and by the increased cost of the service; if any of these case studies were considered before a decision was taken to close the laundry department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth [42936/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
622. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the total cost of preparing the options appraisal report in relation to the future of the Cottage Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth [42937/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Ministerial Adviser Appointments
Gerry Adams
625. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a list in tabular form of the advisors he has employed in his Department; the salary of each and the start date of each advisor. [42961/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Mental Health Services Report
Gerry Adams
636. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in the development of community-based mental health services since he came to office; with respect to the promised 370 staff for adult child and adolescent community mental health teams, 34 staff for suicide prevention and 10 staff for primary healthcare counselling services, the number of these posts that have been filled and are now in position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43010/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Gerry Adams
637. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres in operation across the State; if he will provide a list of these sites and the locations of same; if he will provide information on the services available at each site and the staffing based at each site [43011/12]
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
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Health Services Staff Issues
Gerry Adams
190. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the 2011 utilisation of agency figures for the Louth Meath Hospital Group on which the reduction of 50% will be implemented from the 1 October 2012. [42085/12]
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
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Nursing Home Accommodation
Gerry Adams
200. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the cost per bed in each of the public nursing home units in County Louth; if the cost of beds in St. Joseph's in Ardee, County Louth has increased or decreased since the Health Service Executive decided to withdraw respite care from St. Joseph's and close a ward [42167/12]
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
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Broadcasting Service Provision
Gerry Adams
202. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the plans being put in place to ensure SaorView will be available in all Health Service Executive residences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42172/12]
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
204. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42188/12]
Thu, 27 Sep 2012
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Hospital Staff Issues
Gerry Adams
59. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive have carried out an impact assessment of the effect on patient care of the further restrictions on overtime and use of agency staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40998/12]
Thu, 27 Sep 2012
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Hospital Services
Gerry Adams
60. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a senior clinician at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth has written to the Health Service Executive stating that proposed cuts to intensive care and operating theatres could lead to increased morbidity and mortality of critically ill patients; if he will immediately instruct the HSE not to proceed with these and other threatened cuts at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40997/12]