Parliamentary questions

Health Services Funding

Louise O'Reilly

130. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of increasing the number of nursing home beds to 3,800; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15106/16]

Health Services Funding

Louise O'Reilly

131. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of increasing the number of home help and home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15107/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Louise O'Reilly

132. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of recruiting 621 additional midwives; the cost of recruiting 239 obstetricians and gynaecologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15108/16]

Prescriptions Charges

Louise O'Reilly

134. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of reducing prescription charges by 50 cent, by prescription; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15116/16]

Prescriptions Charges

Louise O'Reilly

135. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of lowering the drug payment scheme monthly limit from €144 to €132; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15117/16]

Medical Card Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

136. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of extending a medical card to all children who are in receipt of a payment under the domiciliary care allowance scheme. [15120/16]

Medicinal Products Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

137. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year savings of immediately setting the ex-factory price for new pharmaceuticals, subject to patent protection, at the price in the lowest priced comparator member state of the European Union. [15121/16]

Medicinal Products Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

138. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year savings that would be realised by immediately introducing generic substitutions for the 60 most commonly used off-patent medications, excluding anti-epileptic drugs, based on reference pricing at 70% below the branded equivalent, by cost and by volume. [15122/16]

Medicinal Products Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

139. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year savings that would be realised from sourcing the 20 most expensive and the 20 most common on-patent pharmaceuticals from the European Union member state with the lowest cost for the drug, by parallel import. [15123/16]

Health Services Staff Data

Louise O'Reilly

140. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten community physiotherapists and hospital physiotherapists at entry level, at the levels of five years experience and at ten years experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15125/16]

Health Services Staff Data

Louise O'Reilly

141. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten speech and language therapists at entry level, at the levels of five years experience and at ten years experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15126/16]

Health Services Staff Data

Louise O'Reilly

142. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten occupational therapists, at entry level, at the levels of five years experience and at ten years experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15127/16]

Hospital Staff Data

Louise O'Reilly

143. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten consultants averaged across the specialties and experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15128/16]

Ambulance Service Data

Louise O'Reilly

144. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing and equipping one ambulance with its complement of personnel and support staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15129/16]

Health Services Staff Data

Louise O'Reilly

145. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of ten suicide crisis assessment nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15130/16]

Nursing Staff

Louise O'Reilly

146. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten liaison nurses in emergency departments in hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15131/16]

Nursing Staff

Louise O'Reilly

147. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten suicide crisis assessment nurses at entry level; and at the levels of five years’ experience; and at ten years’ experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15132/16]

Nursing Staff

Louise O'Reilly

148. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full-year cost of employing ten liaison nurses in emergency departments in hospitals, at entry level, at the level of five years experience and at ten years experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15133/16]

Nursing Staff

Louise O'Reilly

149. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full-year cost of employing ten midwives in emergency departments in hospitals at entry level, at the levels of five years experience and at ten years experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15134/16]

Medical Card Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

150. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the full-year average cost of granting a person a medical card including the care, services and medications that it entails on average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15135/16]

Dental Services Waiting Lists

Louise O'Reilly

151. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for dental assessment and screening between six and eight years and between nine and 11 years of age. [15137/16]

Dental Services Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

152. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the annual expenditure on the public dental service in each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date. [15138/16]

Orthodontic Services Data

Louise O'Reilly

153. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for orthodontic treatment by HSE area in 2008 and at present. [15139/16]

Dental Services

Louise O'Reilly

154. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of the vocational training scheme in dentistry which was paused in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15140/16]

Dental Services

Louise O'Reilly

155. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of restoring the extended gum cleaning entitlement under the dental treatment services scheme. [15147/16]

Dental Services

Louise O'Reilly

156. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of removing the annual cap on fillings which was introduced in budget 2010 under the dental treatment service scheme. [15148/16]

Dental Services Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

157. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the expenditure on the six-monthly scale and polish entitlement under the dental treatment services scheme in 2009. [15149/16]

Dental Services Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

158. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the expenditure on the extended gum cleaning entitlement under the dental treatment services scheme in 2009. [15150/16]

Dental Services Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

159. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the expenditure on fillings under the dental treatment services scheme in 2009. [15151/16]

General Medical Services Scheme Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

160. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if his Department’s estimate of the cost of introducing free general practitioner care for all citizens was between €330 million and €365 million, excluding those younger than six and older than 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15152/16]

Dental Services

Louise O'Reilly

191. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of restoring the bi-annual scale and polish entitlement, under the dental treatment services scheme. [15258/16]

Property Tax Deferrals

Louise O'Reilly

131. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) can get a deferral of the local property tax based on personal circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14294/16]

Ambulance Service

Louise O'Reilly

2. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if he accepts the capacity review of the National Ambulance Service and its recommendations; if he will create a specific stand-alone yearly budget to implement it; when he will implement the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14020/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Louise O'Reilly

4. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of recruitment processes for all grades, groups and categories in the Health Service Executive; if there have been budgetary impediments to the recruitment processes in specific areas; if there has been a problem with recruitment because of budgets; where has this occurred, by area, hospital and location; how he will meet staffing needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14021/16]

Departmental Management Structures

Louise O'Reilly

13. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health why policy issues in respect of abortions as well as oversight of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act are subsumed into the tobacco and alcohol control unit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13693/16]

Nursing Staff

Louise O'Reilly

43. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of the task force on staffing and skill mix for nursing; the status of the pilot of the framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist medical and surgical care settings in adult hospitals in Ireland; the hospitals in which this is being piloted; the timeframe for completing reporting and making recommendations on the pilot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13692/16]

General Register Office

Louise O'Reilly

200. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14023/16]

General Medical Services Scheme

Louise O'Reilly

170. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of a claim that some general practitioners are charging medical card holders for sick certificates; if this is permissible and on what grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13863/16]

Health Services Provision

Louise O'Reilly

682. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of a building in Oldtown, County Dublin which is called a health centre; the services which will be provided in this centre and if these will be health services; if there will be a timescale for the provision of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12809/16]

European Council Meetings

Louise O'Reilly

697. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if he has or will support the Minister with responsibility for environment affairs in France in calling on the European Commission to publish the impact assessment on endocrine disrupters when it is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13174/16]

National Dementia Strategy

Louise O'Reilly

714. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of rolling-out dementia specialist intensive home care packages to all local health office, LHO, areas as was piloted in eight LHOs as part of the national dementia strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13240/16]

Assisted Human Reproduction

Louise O'Reilly

715. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 164 and 165 of 19 May 2016, the indicative cost, based on other jurisdictions, of the public health system providing in vitro fertilisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13241/16]

Assisted Human Reproduction Services Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

716. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the cost of the State covering the medicines required for fertility treatment and for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13242/16]

Assisted Human Reproduction Data

Louise O'Reilly

717. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the moneys spent on tax reliefs on the costs of fertility treatment and for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13243/16]

Aviation Industry Regulations

Louise O'Reilly

845. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Regulation (EU) No 598/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the establishment of rules and procedures with regard to the introduction of noise-related operating restrictions at European Union airports within a balanced approach and repealing Directive 2002/30/EC is in place; if it applies to Dublin Airport and to any future developments at the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12551/16]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Louise O'Reilly

238. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns raised by some members of the public on the reliability of prostate-specific antigen testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11932/16]

Maternity Services Provision

Louise O'Reilly

247. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health to set out the funding that is being allocated for the reorganisation of national maternity services as per the €3 billion allocation in the capital investment plan 2016-21; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the National Maternity Hospital to the St. Vincent's University Hospital campus; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the Rotunda Hospital to Connolly Hospital; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital to St. James's Hospital; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the University Maternity Hospital Limerick to the University Hospital Limerick; and the timeframe for the funding for each of these; and the details of what is covered in these plans within the 2016-2021 timeframe. [11965/16]

Hospital Services

Louise O'Reilly

248. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health to set out the funding that is being allocated for the completion of the new cancer departments at Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Galway as per the €3 billion allocation in the capital investment plan 2016-21; the funding that is being provided for the further investment in existing facilities at Beaumont Hospital; the timeframe for the funding for each of these; the details of what is covered in these plans within the 2016-21 timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11967/16]

Primary Care Centres Expenditure

Louise O'Reilly

249. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health to outline the funding that is being allocated for the provision of over 80 new primary care facilities as per the €3 billion allocation in the capital investment plan 2016-21; the timeframe for the funding; the details of what is covered in these plans within the 2016-21 timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11969/16]

Disability Services Provision

Louise O'Reilly

253. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health to outline the status of a case for a person (details supplied) in respect of a residential plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11983/16]