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Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Mental Health Services Provision
Colm Keaveney
819. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, details of each child and adolescent mental health service by Health Service Executive administrative area, broken down into speciality or role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22109/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Mental Health Services Funding
Colm Keaveney
820. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the financial performance in the year to date 2015 for each mental health service, broken down by Health Service Executive administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22110/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Mental Health Commission Remit
Colm Keaveney
823. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health how many prosecutions the Mental Health Commission recommended be taken, or has initiated, under Part 2 or Part 5 of the Mental Health Act 2001; if is he satisfied with this level of enforcement activity; if he will consider giving the commission powers similar to those that the Health and Safety Authority has to provide for the enforcement of the Mental Health Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22129/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Hospitals Data
Colm Keaveney
844. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive keeps a record of the total number of denial of liability letters and notes issued by nurses in acute hospitals to hospital management; if not, why not; if so, if he will provide, in tabular form, for every acute hospital and for each month from January 2014 to May 2015, inclusive, the total number of such letters or notes received by management in hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22234/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Mental Health Services Provision
Colm Keaveney
845. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, separately for each of the community mental health teams in each Health Service Executive administrative area, broken down into speciality or role, the total staffing headcount currently active on the payroll; the total number of vacant positions that are being actively recruited for; the projected required staffing levels required to deliver the service in accordance with the executive's service plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22235/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Health Services Data
Colm Keaveney
846. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons waiting for their first appointments for talk therapies, for example, psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling or counselling psychology approaches and so on, for zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 18 months, 18 to 24 months, and more than 24 months, detailed in separate tables, the national figures, and then one for each Health Service Executive administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22236/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Colm Keaveney
848. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time, mean and median, for an orthopaedic inpatient treatment in the Saolta University Health Care Group; if he will confirm if the Saolta University Health Care Group has the necessary specialist personnel required to carry out orthopaedic spinal surgery; if not, when will this situation be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22241/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Colm Keaveney
850. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has been on the waiting list since 6 March 2015 and is suffering considerable continuous pain can expect to receive an appointment for an MRI scan, necessary to determine the cause of the person's condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22243/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Mental Health Services Provision
Colm Keaveney
854. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of children waiting for their first appointment for child and adolescent mental health services for zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 18 months, 18 to 24 months, and more than 24 months, detailed in separate tables, the national figures, and then one for each Health Service Executive administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22253/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Mental Health Services Provision
Colm Keaveney
855. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, broken down by month from January to May 2015, and into each child and adolescent mental health service in every Health Service Executive administrative area, the total number of children admitted to adult inpatient psychiatric units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22254/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Hospital Appointments Delays
Colm Keaveney
861. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has been awaiting an urgent MRI scan, vital to monitor a brain tumour, since November 2013 when they were informed that the waiting period would be six months, will receive an appointment for this scan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22291/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Death Penalty
Colm Keaveney
895. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will intervene to seek to secure the release of a person (details supplied), who is currently on death row in Pakistan for the crime of blasphemy; the actions he will take to encourage other European Union States, and the European Union itself, to seek the release of this person and to end the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21486/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Road Network
Colm Keaveney
1156. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria that were used to award the State contract to operate three motorway service stations (details supplied) on behalf of the National Roads Authority; the company that has been identified as the preferred bidder; the number of companies competing for the contract that sought State subsidies for the operation of the stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21233/15]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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Natural Heritage Areas Designation
Colm Keaveney
1191. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 1142 of 4 November 2014, when she plans to bring forward the legislation referred to; whether she has plans to remove the natural heritage area designation from a townland (details supplied) in County Galway; if so, when that process will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21251/15]
Thu, 28 May 2015
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Services for People with Disabilities
Colm Keaveney
4. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health the measures he will put in place to reduce waiting lists for disability-specific services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21017/15]
Thu, 28 May 2015
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Mental Health Services Provision
Colm Keaveney
35. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the deterioration in the relationship between staff and management in the psychiatric unit of University Hospital Galway, resulting from serious concerns over the physical condition of the unit, staffing levels, and the effect of both on the welfare of patients in the unit [20767/15]
Thu, 28 May 2015
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HSE Waiting Lists
Colm Keaveney
42. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health his proposals to reduce waiting lists for a range of disability-specific services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20766/15]
Thu, 28 May 2015
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IBRC Liquidation
Colm Keaveney
71. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Finance further to Question No. 285 of 12 May 2015, if he will provide details of the competitive sales process devised by the special liquidators; if performing borrowers were allowed to bid on their loans as part of the liquidation process; the number of the successful bids that were for less than 100% of the value of the loans; the difference, in millions of euro, between the value of these loans and the amount paid by the successful bidders in the liquidation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21087/15]
Thu, 28 May 2015
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IBRC Operations
Colm Keaveney
73. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Finance if he was aware, at the time, that a significant shareholder in Siteserv was acting as a mediator between the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and a person (details supplied) in the months after the sale of Siteserv to that person and another person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21095/15]
Wed, 27 May 2015
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Services for People with Disabilities
Colm Keaveney
6. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he accepts that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, by ceasing to fund the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency, is undermining the inclusion of disabled children in mainstream services and ignoring the rights of vulnerable disabled children and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20407/15]