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Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Tenant Purchase Scheme
Jack Chambers
239. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allow a person (details supplied) to be included in the tenant purchase scheme; the criteria of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19178/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jack Chambers
430. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of moves towards the provision of an integrated treatment service for all substance users as outlined in the national drug strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19073/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jack Chambers
431. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of cases of substance abuse treated in the past ten years per county, in tabular form; the number of these which received methadone treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19074/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
Jack Chambers
432. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the needle exchange programme; the number of persons which have taken part in the programme over the past ten years per county; if the programme has been rolled out to 65 new locations, as outlined in the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19075/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jack Chambers
433. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the national drug rehabilitation implementation committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19076/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Nursing Staff Data
Jack Chambers
434. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of advanced nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist role; the number of such roles which have been created in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19077/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jack Chambers
435. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on a methadone programme per county over the past ten years; the number on waiting lists for a methadone programme for the same period; to provide the methadone completion numbers, that is, those who successfully came off the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19078/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jack Chambers
436. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner clinics participating in methadone programmes per county over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19079/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jack Chambers
437. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of pharmacies participating in methadone programmes per county over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19080/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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General Practitioner Data
Jack Chambers
438. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of trained level one and level two general practitioners per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19081/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jack Chambers
439. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a clinical and organisational governance framework for all treatment and rehabilitation services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19082/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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HSE Staff Training
Jack Chambers
440. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the development of national training standards for all those involved in the provision of substance misuse services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19083/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure
Jack Chambers
531. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he will seek the policy reasons from the Health Service Executive as to why it refuses to publish revised costs of care in public nursing homes; if he is aware that this is outstanding for five years; if he is concerned about transparency in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19396/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure
Jack Chambers
532. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with his Department's implementation of the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009; if he is aware that under the Act private and voluntary nursing homes are being forced to provide care for fees that are on average 58% below those paid to their public counterparts nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19397/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Jack Chambers
533. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health his plans to act on the report, Accounts of the Public Services 2010, published in 2011 where the Comptroller and Auditor General informed him that the cost of care in Health Service Executive nursing homes was significantly higher than in private nursing homes; if his attention has been drawn to the comments in the report that residents were wrongly charged some €52 million for medicines and therapeutic services in public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19398/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Jack Chambers
534. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that independent research undertaken by the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre states private nursing homes are the majority providers of specialist dementia care; if he is further aware that three quarters of persons who avail of nursing home care are of high or maximum dependency, with 80% of the care provided by the private and voluntary nursing home sector; if he accepts the Health Service Executive claims that it is providing more specialist care as the reason for its higher cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19399/16]
Thu, 30 Jun 2016
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Social Welfare Payments Administration
Jack Chambers
38. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Social Protection why he is continuing to issue correspondence urging recipients under the jobseeker's benefit scheme to use financial institutions instead of using the post office to collect payments. [18700/16]
Thu, 30 Jun 2016
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Community Employment Schemes Operation
Jack Chambers
44. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the details of recent developments at the Blanchardstown Centre for the Unemployed community employment scheme including the efforts he has and will make to ensure it continues. [18701/16]
Wed, 29 Jun 2016
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Gambling Legislation
Jack Chambers
63. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to progress the gambling control Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18655/16]
Wed, 29 Jun 2016
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Garda Youth Diversion Projects
Jack Chambers
64. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding her Department provided to the Garda juvenile diversion programme and to the Garda youth diversion programme in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18745/16]