Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Medical Card Reviews

Clare Daly

587. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will restore a medical card to person (details supplied) and issue an explanation to the family as to why it was removed. [20986/14]

EU Regulations

Clare Daly

614. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation regarding the payments that are received from the British state in respect of persons who were resident in the United Kingdom regarding cover for health care; where this money is accounted for; the reason such citizens have continued to pay for health care despite it being paid for by the British Government on their behalf; and the action he will take regarding same. [21299/14]

Dental Services Waiting Lists

Clare Daly

652. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who is in need of emergency dental treatment has been waiting for the past 18 months for an appointment; and the action he will take regarding same. [21520/14]

Health Screening Programmes

Clare Daly

177. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health with regard to the national bowel screening programme, the reason only one sample is taken when in Britain a week's samples are examined; and the level of personal data requested without which the kit will not be released, including mother's date of birth, which would not be known. [19805/14]

Maternity Services

Clare Daly

735. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the current total annual cost of the maternity and infant care antenatal combined care scheme, including a breakdown of the amount that goes to general practitioners and the amount to hospitals. [18692/14]

Maternity Services

Clare Daly

736. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the average number of visits for each woman under the maternity and infant care antenatal combined care scheme. [18693/14]

Midwifery Services

Clare Daly

737. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when he will act on the recommendation from the 2003 Brenner independent review of the pilot domiciliary projects to the domiciliary birth group for a more equitable and comprehensive midwifery-led service. [18694/14]

Maternity Services

Clare Daly

738. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will set out the membership of the newly-formed national review group of maternity services; if he will confirm that this includes lay representatives from the maternity services implementation group from the west-north-west hospitals group and childbirth support groups such as AIMSI, the Home Birth Association and Cuidiú. [18695/14]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

813. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the basis upon which he deems that hospitals need business plans and his further views that this promotes an ethos of treating health as a commodity. [19052/14]

Hospital Services

Clare Daly

814. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the Rotunda Hospital's business plan. [19053/14]

Disability Diagnoses

Clare Daly

866. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a directive has issued that the Health Service Executive can disregard the professional diagnosis of autism and therefore deprive children of access to services or an appropriate education. [19340/14]

Disability Diagnoses

Clare Daly

867. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if there has been a policy change whereby the Health Service Executive will not furnish a written diagnosis to parents which can be used by them in seeking appropriate extra support services in relation to their child's schooling. [19341/14]

Hospital Staff

Clare Daly

870. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 642 of 8 April 2014, the organisations that provided the funding for the extra remuneration for senior Rotunda hospital staff in order that we can ascertain that those paying the money were not directing hospital policy. [19349/14]

Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme

Clare Daly

561. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the provisions in place to aid disabled drivers and passengers who are not in a position to afford a vehicle that has been specially constructed or adapted for use by a disabled person and thus cannot avail of the benefits afforded to those under the disabled drivers and passengers scheme. [17591/14]

Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

627. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will conduct a Health Information and Quality Authority based investigation into allegations regarding the safety of service users and staff at St. Joseph's ID services in Portrane in regard to improper staff appointments; the high volume of assaults by clients on each other and on staff and the high number of under-recorded seclusions, restraints and unsafe practices regarding clients. [17806/14]

Home Care Packages

Clare Daly

662. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to set out his views on recent revelations regarding over-payments made to the chief executive of Fingal Home Care; and the procedures in place to recoup the money for the taxpayer. [17962/14]

HSE Staff Remuneration

Clare Daly

179. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the chief executive officer and a number of senior executives receive top-up payments to their salaries in Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross; if these payments are authorised; and from what source they originate in view of the fact that this is an institution covered by the section 38 clause of the Croke Park agreements. [17061/14]

Hospital Staff

Clare Daly

642. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 26 March 2014, if he will reply to the question which had nothing to do with whether the additional remuneration being paid to five senior managers came from fundraising by the Friends of the Rotunda, but rather sought to clarify what organisations paid that extra remuneration in order to ascertain that there was no untoward interference with medical decisions or ethos. [16478/14]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

644. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be provided with a home ventilation system in order for them to live at home with motor neurone disease. [16501/14]

Hospital Staff

Clare Daly

689. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure educational and awareness training among the medical profession regarding being alert to the symptoms of sepsis and taking prompt action. [16808/14]

Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation

Clare Daly

260. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will undertake a series of initiatives to raise awareness about Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, ensuring sufferers have access to the treatment abroad scheme and to recognise it as a long term illness. [15868/14]

Care of the Elderly Provision

Clare Daly

101. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the oversight that exists of providers of home care packages; and his plans to ensure that patients and their families receive appropriate care and assistance in their homes. [14913/14]

Ambulance Service Provision

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will order a fully independent national capacity review of the ambulance service throughout the country [14912/14]

Departmental Funding

Clare Daly

512. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) is a charitable organisation, compliant with public pay policy and with public policy as it relates to Health Service Executive-funded charities on employer contributions to employee pensions; if it has been so compliant since 2004; and if not, the steps that have been taken to remedy this. [9363/14]

HSE Funding

Clare Daly

547. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of State funding provided to a survivor organisation (details supplied). [15030/14]

HSE Funding

Clare Daly

548. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the safeguards and oversights that are in place regarding State funding that is provided to institutional survivor organisations such as (details supplied). [15031/14]

HSE Funding

Clare Daly

549. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive funding for groups such as (details supplied) is based on the number of survivors who use such services; if these survivors and numbers are verified by the appropriate Department; and, if so, how. [15032/14]

Health Services

Clare Daly

212. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the costs of establishing and running the What's Up Mum website; and the reason information on midwives and their role and services are virtually excluded from mention on the site. [14401/14]

Hospital Staff

Clare Daly

213. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the organisations or persons paying the additional remuneration or benefits to five senior managers at the Rotunda Hospital, in the interests of democratic accountability, particularly with regard to business plans for the hospital. [14402/14]

Hospital Charges

Clare Daly

214. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views regarding hospitals using unregulated debt collection companies to pursue sick persons for outstanding hospital charges, including sending a letter to a person (details supplied) who had paid half and made an arrangement with the hospital for the remaining €50, but received two threatening letters from a debt collection agency, the second asking the person who was going to know if he did not pay immediately. [14404/14]

Nursing Home Services

Clare Daly

215. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to bring nursing homes and home care operators under the Health Information and Quality Authority; and the recourse open to persons who have received substandard levels of care from these organisations. [14406/14]

Departmental Staff Expenses

Clare Daly

225. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the protocol in relation to assistant principal officers and principal officers using their private cars and claiming unvouched expenses when official cars are available in his Department; if he has received any complaints regarding same; and the oversight that is in place to deal with same. [14844/14]

Haddington Road Agreement Savings

Clare Daly

1066. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason section 38 and 39 voluntary organisations are being asked to complete the Health Service Executive Haddington Road Agreement cost reduction database for social care, primary care, mental health and health and well-being form as they have already furnished the section 38 and 39 renumeration package details; and if staff in these organisations, therefore, now have the same entitlements to pensions, increments and other benefits applicable to public servants covered by Haddington Road. [13359/14]

Proposed Legislation

Clare Daly

205. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the consultation process between his Department and the general public in relation to the advance health care directives and the new capacity legislation. [12284/14]

Hospital Charges

Clare Daly

508. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the Mater Hospital and possibly others are passing on uncollected debts within a very short space of time to debt collection agencies who are writing to vulnerable citizens in a very threatening way, threatening the sheriff and other tactics which is causing huge stress; and his views on whether such behaviour is appropriate. [11584/14]

Hospital Charges

Clare Daly

516. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid by each of the Dublin hospitals to debt collection agencies in relation to outstanding hospital charges for each of the past five years; the stage at which an outstanding debt was passed on to debt collection agencies; and his views on whether such a practice is appropriate. [11628/14]

Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure

Clare Daly

519. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health with respect to the hepatitis C tribunal accounts for 2008 and 2009, if he will accept that the amount entered for total payments for 2008 in its 2009 document does not remotely match its entry in the 2008 document and that an equivalent distortion occurred in two other entries further down that column of data; and if, in view of these fundamental errors and the lack of transparency provided to Dáil Éireann in previous replies, he will instruct the tribunal to hand over its financial records, including all of its banking records, to an independent auditor and that an independent audit then be laid before Dáil Éireann. [11658/14]

Clinical Trials

Clare Daly

261. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients at Tullamore Hospital involved in a medical trial involving the use of bioactive glass in the treatment of resistant osteomyelitis. [11410/14]

Ambulance Service Response Times

Clare Daly

492. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the ambulance emergency response times for north Kildare from July 2013 to date in 2014. [10931/14]

Hepatitis C Compensation Payments

Clare Daly

632. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 689 of 18 February 2014, if he will confirm that the accounting error he specifies in his reply also occurred in the previous year, 2008, and that when his reply refers to a €106,672,203 surplus, it was in fact an accumulation over 2008 and 2009; if he has sought or acquired any additional information with respect to the decision to reformat the online tribunal report in 2010 and 2011; if he will disclose whether his Department was responsible or whether the tribunal made that change; if his attention has been drawn to what recent additions were made to those PDF reports for 2010 and 2011 and if hard copies of the full tribunal annual report for the years 2007-2012 are held in the National Archives; if he will identify what public funds are held in his Department's two relevant special accounts; the total disbursement to date; the way the disbursements are co-ordinated; and how often the Committee of Public Accounts examines his Department's administration of these disbursements. [9714/14]

Public Health Policy

Clare Daly

637. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there is an investment in highlighting and informing the public about the dangers of endometriosis which is a particular issue with regard to women's health. [8963/14]

Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage

Clare Daly

693. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the drug Fampyra is not being made available under the drug payment scheme in view of the fact that it proved very beneficial for sufferers of multiple sclerosis who had been using it for the past year and a half on trial. [9485/14]

General Practitioner Services

Clare Daly

232. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will immediately engage with general practitioner representatives to agree a suitable contract for the under six medical card scheme in view of the serious problems identified by these representatives with the contract which has been drafted. [8556/14]

Hepatitis C Compensation Payments

Clare Daly

689. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason various figures outlined in Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 6 February 2014 contradict published accounts on the hepatitis C website; if he will explain the way payments figures were treated in the two accounts held by his Department; and if he will request a comprehensive, independent audit of the hepatitis C tribunal with particular reference to a fictitious surplus built up over two years. [7550/14]

Midwifery Services

Clare Daly

24. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will remove the public services recruitment embargo in respect of midwives as a matter of urgency in view of the closure of Mount Carmel Hospital, which is placing further pressures on maternity hospitals to accommodate 1,200 additional births every year, and in view of the confirmation of severe midwifery staffing shortages, which are jeopardising pregnant women’s care and which have been known to his Department since 2006 and to the Health Service Executive since 2008 when its own KPMG study reported a shortage of 221 midwives in the greater Dublin region. [6706/14]

European Court of Human Rights Judgments

Clare Daly

62. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he has assessed the implications of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in a case (details supplied) for the 250 or so legal actions for medical negligence taken by survivors of symphysiotomy and pubiotomy. [6707/14]

Hospitals Building Programme

Clare Daly

256. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to organise a public briefing for the community in Portrane and Donabate and elected public representatives with regard to the redevelopment plans currently on display by Fingal County Council relating to the redevelopment of lands at St. Ita's Hospital in Portrane. [7363/14]

Health Services

Clare Daly

568. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been given the medical treatment they were promised [6176/14]

Environmental Policy

Clare Daly

635. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the health implications arising from Professor Jacqueline McGlade's report for the European Environment Agency in terms of assessing the cost of air pollution, which the Irish Environmental Forum has put before him showing the effects emissions from the seven plants are causing to the health of people and the impact this is having on the health service. [6779/14]

Hepatitis C Compensation Payments

Clare Daly

238. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 708 of 28 January 2014, if he will conduct a comprehensive audit of the hepatitis C tribunal in relation to the specific issue of the €100 million surplus which accumulated in two years; if he guarantees to the Oireachtas that no mishandling of public moneys has occurred; and if he will agree to provide the health committee with full access to all records of the tribunal which can show that this surplus was used on award payments. [6043/14]