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Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Vaccination Programme
Thomas Pringle
841. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce the new Meningitis B vaccine for Meningococcal B Meningitis and septicaemia into the childhood immunisation schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5647/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Primary Care Centre Provision
Billy Kelleher
842. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health regarding the primary health care centre (details supplied) in County Meath, the reason plans for it were cancelled; the reason the centre was not included on the list of 35 primary care centres published by him in July 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5672/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Primary Care Centre Provision
Billy Kelleher
843. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health regarding the primary health care centre (details supplied) in County Meath, the facilities available in the centre at present; the number of general practitioners operating out of the centre; the facilities planned for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5678/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Primary Care Centre Provision
Billy Kelleher
844. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in relation to a primary health care centre (details supplied) in County Meath, if there are plans to make provision for one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5680/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Services
Billy Kelleher
845. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if there will be any reconfiguration of services at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5702/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Services
Billy Kelleher
846. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if any services were withdrawn from Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5703/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Services
Billy Kelleher
847. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if any services were withdrawn from Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5704/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Health Services Staff
Billy Kelleher
848. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of medical-dental staff; nursing staff; health and social care professionals, management-administration staff; general support staff and other staff in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, at end of March 2011, end of March 2012 and end of December 2012, and anticipated for end of December 2013. [5705/13]
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Health Services Staff
Billy Kelleher
849. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of graduate nurses employed in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath; the number of graduate nurses that were taken on in 2010 and in 2011 in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5706/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Primary Care Centre Provision
Billy Kelleher
850. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the details of primary care centres currently open in County Meath; the number expected to be delivered in 2013; the details of same and in 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5707/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Medical Card Applications
Billy Kelleher
851. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he is satisfied with the way that urgent cases are being dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5781/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Services
Billy Kelleher
852. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the redeveloped epilepsy monitoring unit at Beaumont Hospital Dublin, and the new epilepsy monitoring unit at Cork University Hospital, both completed last October but remaining unopened, will be made functional; when he expects the personnel necessary for the units to be recruited; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are currently no functioning epilepsy monitoring unit in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5807/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Health Services Staff
Nicky McFadden
853. Deputy Nicky McFadden asked the Minister for Health his views on the suggestion made by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation that the direct conversion of currently employed agency staff into direct employment would potentially save the Health Service Executive up to €23 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5808/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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General Practitioner Services
Nicky McFadden
854. Deputy Nicky McFadden asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeframe for the introduction of free general practitioner services for those who are entitled to free drugs under the long-term illness scheme and for those in the high tech drugs scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5812/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Legislative Programme
Terence Flanagan
855. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding abortion legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5826/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Departmental Staff Recruitment
Billy Kelleher
856. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his Department employs a full-time legal adviser; if recent reports on spending on legal advice by his Department are accurate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5840/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Departmental Staff Recruitment
Billy Kelleher
857. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he or his Department have considered recruiting extra staff with legal expertise to decrease costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5841/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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HSE Staffing
Patrick O'Donovan
858. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health his plans for a new phase of voluntary redundancies for staff in the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5844/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Ambulance Service Provision
Luke 'Ming' Flanagan
859. Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan asked the Minister for Health if there has been a reduction in ambulance services for those attending medical appointments within the Health Service Executive services; if there has been a change to facilities for transporting non urgent patients, often from their home to hospitals or clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5860/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Social Workers Register
Billy Timmins
860. Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the registration fee for social workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5861/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Public Service Contracts
Peadar Tóibín
861. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the systems in place to ensure that all contractors and sub-contractors employed on construction, refurbishment and maintenance projects funded by the State are fully compliant with Irish and European labour laws and regulations; if he will give an assurance that no contractor or sub-contractor employed on such contracts is in breach of any aspect of Irish or European labour law and regulations. [5863/13]
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Hospital Services
Barry Cowen
862. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a transfer from Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe to Crumlin Childrens Hospital Dublin [5866/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Facilities
Gerry Adams
863. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the date on which the Health Service Executive will announce its findings and plans for the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, following a public consultation process that was completed in 2012. [5875/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Facilities
Gerry Adams
864. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the respite beds and long-stay beds at the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth. [5876/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Facilities
Gerry Adams
865. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if the 30 step-down beds announced for the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, have been put in place to date. [5877/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Facilities
Gerry Adams
866. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, meets the Health Information and Quality Authority standards and requirement to provide for 30 step-down beds; if he took the HIQA standards into account when he announced the commitment to provide 30 step-down beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5878/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Health Services Provision
Gerry Adams
867. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if transport is provided for elderly and frail patients in need of respite care to and from the nursing home in which they receive respite care. [5879/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Primary Care Centre Provision
Jack Wall
868. Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health if he will expand the primary care facility concept to a town (details supplied) in County Galway in the interests of providing accessible community care facilities to the citizens of the area; if he will make the necessary arrangements in his capital budget to implement the programme over the course of the lifetime of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5880/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Primary Care Centre Provision
Jack Wall
869. Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health the time frame in which the primary medical care centres in towns (details supplied) in County Galway will be progressed; when both facilities may expect to open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5882/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Public Sector Pensions Data
Willie O'Dea
870. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health the number of former public servants recruited before 6 April 1995 who receive a public sector pension, including both pensions funded by the Exchequer and through the local government fund, and those pension schemes for which he has responsibility; the age profile of those public servants; if he will provide in tabular form the numbers of public sector pensioners in the following parameters, between €1,000 intervals up to €20,000 and those on more than €20,000. [5893/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Health Services Expenditure
Róisín Shortall
871. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health in the context of recent cutbacks announced in Budget 2013, if he will provide details of the impact of these in relation to all aspects of staffing and funding to St. Michael's House, Dublin, with particular reference to access to swimming pool facilities at weekends; if he will reverse this cut, in view of the immeasurable benefit that this service has provided to date [5923/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Cancer Incidence
Patrick Nulty
872. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate a cancer cluster in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5943/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Medicinal Products Expenditure
Tom Fleming
873. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the cost of comparable generic drugs to the Health Service Executive vis-à-vis the cost to the NHS in Britain; if he will provide examples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5948/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Symphysiotomy Reports
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
874. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 19 December 2012, when the full and completed Walsh report into the practice of symphysiotomy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6065/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Hospital Acquired Infections
Denis Naughten
875. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 6 November 2012, if he will provide end of year figures; if he will further provide corresponding figures for other notifiable hospital acquired infections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6070/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Appointments to State Boards
Éamon Ó Cuív
876. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a nomination has been made to the chairmanship of Horse Sport Ireland; if so, the name of the person nominated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5111/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Road Improvement Schemes
Pat Breen
877. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to introduce a community roads scheme; if he envisages that there will be a change in the eligibility criteria for the scheme, that is, an increased local contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5103/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Capital Programme Expenditure
Sean Fleming
878. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the €286 million of capital funding spent by his Department during December; the reason 31% of his Department's overall capital spend was held until December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5142/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Freedom of Information Requests
Joe McHugh
879. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will release any correspondence between the Marine Survey Office and a company (details supplied) in County Donegal, arising from the inspection of a boat that is owned by a company; if he will release any correspondence that may be relevant to the boat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5179/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Driver Licences
Thomas P. Broughan
880. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the introduction of the EU driving licence and the impact of the new system on Irish motorists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5206/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Road Safety Strategy
Thomas P. Broughan
881. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the new road safety strategy will be introduced in March; the main themes of the proposed new strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5207/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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International Agreements
Joe Higgins
882. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his view on the non-ratification by Ireland, to date, of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 and ILO 188; the basis upon which these standards are not applied here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5248/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Services for People with Disabilities
Joe McHugh
883. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide for all people with a disability in his Department's sectoral plan. [5341/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Tourism Promotion
Tom Fleming
884. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Fáilte Ireland to support and provide funding to Puck Fair, Killorglin and Killarney Summerfest festivals in County Kerry; if he will ask Fáilte Ireland to take into consideration the importance of these festivals to tourism in the county and the very special effort that they are making for The Gathering in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5346/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Departmental Funding
Damien English
885. Deputy Damien English asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all funding programmes in his Department that community, voluntary and sporting organisations may apply to for funding; if he will provide a brief overview of each programme; the opening and closing dates of each programme; the minimum and maximum amounts of funding that may be applied for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5391/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Public Transport Subsidies
Seán Kenny
886. Deputy Seán Kenny asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale behind replacement fees payable by consumers for lost annual tickets-smartcards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5469/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Driver Licence Applications
Dessie Ellis
887. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14 who applied for a category A full motorbike licence and passed his test was denied a class A licence despite having applied and passed his test as well as submitting his certificate before 19 January 2013 [5472/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Harbour Authorities Expenditure
Richard Boyd Barrett
888. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 18 October 2012, the person that authorised the payment of €19,877 to the Chief Executive Officer of DunLaoghaire Harbour Company in lieu of untaken leave or holidays; if it is within current legislation to allow payment in lieu of untaken leave; and if the sum of €19,877 is equivalent to 36 days leave in the case of the Chief Executive Officer in question [5488/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Harbour Authorities Expenditure
Richard Boyd Barrett
889. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 18 October 2012, and the €20,000 payment of a car allowance to the Chief Executive Officer of the DunLaoghaire Harbour Company, he will explain the reason this €20,000 payment shows up in the company accounts as other when for previous Chief Executive Officers it showed up as benefit in kind [5489/13]
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
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Harbour Authorities Expenditure
Richard Boyd Barrett
890. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regard to the overpayment made to a board member (details supplied) of the harbour company, if the moneys have been returned; the amount that was returned; and the method used for its return [5490/13]