Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Disease Awareness

Clare Daly

190. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will initiate an awareness campaign in relation to the signs /symptoms of type one diabetes particularly in relation to children, along the lines of the awareness campaign operating in Britain which has had considerable success [5872/14]

HSE Legal Cases

Clare Daly

614. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if there will be further legal action taken regarding the financial irregularities uncovered at an organisation (details supplied) in 2012. [5601/14]

Air Pollution

Clare Daly

640. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason he has refused to investigate a public report, put before him by the Irish Environmental Forum, which was published by Professor Jacqueline McGlade of the European Environmental Agency entitled, The Cost of Air Pollution. [5100/14]

Departmental Investigations

Clare Daly

208. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason he will not investigate documents from the Cappagh Farmers Support Group relating to an investigation (details supplied). [4716/14]

Hospital Appointments Administration

Clare Daly

701. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans for a hospital accompaniment service for elderly or vulnerable citizens who might otherwise miss important hospital appointments and fail to adequately engage with the medical profession. [3669/14]

Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure

Clare Daly

706. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to risks or improprieties which led to his decision to overhaul completely the staff of the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation tribunal in Autumn 2012; and his views on the manner in which the tribunal operated its financial affairs from 2007 to 2012. [3768/14]

Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure

Clare Daly

707. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will put on record any financial data, consultants' reports or relevant disclosures that he relied upon to overhaul the staff of the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation tribunal. [3769/14]

Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure

Clare Daly

708. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if there was a budget deficit carried over on the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation tribunal accounts of €17 million in 2007, which improved to a €106.6 million surplus in 2009; and the reason the tribunal switched the format of its online reports in 2010 in a manner which prevented tracking and public accountability of this item on its accounts. [3770/14]

General Practitioner Services Provision

Clare Daly

741. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when the free general practitioner care system for children aged five and under will come into effect. [3980/14]

Consultancy Contracts Expenditure

Clare Daly

610. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the amount his Department spends on an annual basis in payments to consultancy firms (details supplied). [2479/14]

HSE Staff Remuneration

Clare Daly

834. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the persons in the Rotunda Hospital in receipt of a top-up payment and the amount of same according to the recent Health Service Executive audit. [1131/14]

Hospital Staff Data

Clare Daly

835. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in the context of the Health Service Executive commissioned KPMG study of the three Dublin maternity hospitals in 2009, which stated they were a total of 293 staff short of what is required by best international standards for safety; the midwifery staff numbers in 2009 for each of the three hospitals; and the current numbers of midwifery staff. [1132/14]

HSE Staff Remuneration

Clare Daly

836. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the current starting salary for a newly qualified midwife. [1133/14]

Medical Negligence Claims

Clare Daly

10. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will alter his proposals for a redress scheme for the victims of symphysiotomy to take account of the concerns of their representative organisation SoS and instead that a mechanism for dealing with medical negligence and the lifting of the statute of limitations would be facilitated in order to secure proper compensation. [53985/13]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

35. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the disproportionate numbers of maternal deaths to women of black minority ethnic status and the action he will take regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53984/13]

Drugs Crime

Clare Daly

221. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will reverse the funding cuts to the national drugs task force which has resulted in funding to policing forums being dramatically eroded; and the plans he has to ensure that the policing forums are adequately financed. [54513/13]

Community Development Projects

Clare Daly

544. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the arbitration award due to the Northern Meath Community Development Association is paid without delay. [53686/13]

Irish Blood Transfusion Service

Clare Daly

607. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the policy of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service Board relating to donor acceptance criteria where third party information is received; and the way this policy is communicated to the donor. [54181/13]

Residential Institutions Issues

Clare Daly

210. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to a parliamentary question of 4 December 2013 regarding mother and baby homes, the institutions other than the National Archives where copies of inspections into mother and baby homes are held. [53341/13]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

503. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if funding is available for students with mild or moderate special needs to be taken on to do some basic training in hair and beauty therapy with a registered hairdresser; and the way such an initiative could be pursued. [52727/13]

Sexual Offences

Clare Daly

536. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to deal with the allegations of sexual abuse from hundreds of victims who have been pursuing their claims for almost 20 years against a surgeon (details supplied) in County Louth. [53007/13]

Residential Institutions

Clare Daly

158. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of mother and baby homes that were inspected in the State prior to and after the passing of the 1952 Act; under what authority were they carried out and the actions taken; and where the records of such inspections can be found and viewed. [52059/13]

Tobacco Control Measures

Clare Daly

391. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the way in which he proposes to generate €5 million from increasing licence fees for tobacco retailers in view of the fact that these retailers paid a one off fee of €50 and many small operators have very tight profit margins. [51666/13]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

441. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health where the responsibility lies for Dáil Éireann being misled by his response to parliamentary questions tabled by me on seven occasions, between 19 May 2011 and 19 November 2013, in which he stated he had been advised that the circumstances surrounding a patient's death were investigated by the Health Service Executive under the national incident protocol, yet at the resumed inquest into the death of a person (details supplied), it emerged that the only investigation was an internal one, which was carried out by the staff of the Rotunda Hospital, appointed by the master of that hospital who approved the report between two and four weeks before the members of the review team signed off on it; and the action he proposes to take regarding same. [51734/13]

Health Services Staff Data

Clare Daly

602. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the total number of general practitioners, GMS and non-GMS, currently working here; the number of GPs who qualified from the training schemes in the past five years still working here; the number of GPs that will be needed to provide universal health care to the population by 2016; and the plans in place to meet the shortfall. [50341/13]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

603. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the progress of the working group headed by Professor Brian MacCraith, President of DCU, to look at general practitioner recruitment issues; if representations have been sought from the IMO, ICGP and NEG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50342/13]

Health Services Staff Data

Clare Daly

604. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in relation to the 217 general practitioners who have taken up GMS lists since the opening of the scheme, the number already working as assistants in a practice; and the number of GPs that have applied for the GMS lists that were advertised in the last year. [50343/13]

Health Services

Clare Daly

205. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health with regard to the response he received from the Health Service Executive in relation to a person (details supplied), if he will inform the Health Service Executive that contrary to their statement that they had not received a referral to the north Dublin early intervention team for the child in question and that their waiting list was not closed, that such a referral was in fact made and therefore to instruct the HSE to amend this error and deal with the child's needs. [49866/13]

Health Services Staff Data

Clare Daly

625. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will explain the relationship between the Right of Place survivor group and the Health Service Executive; if he will confirm that employees of Right of Place are direct employees of the HSE. [49267/13]

Community Care Provision

Clare Daly

636. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if community physiotherapy services in County Kildare have been reduced, or have been terminated; if community physiotherapy services in north Kildare have been reduced, or have been terminated; if funding for community physiotherapy services has been reduced in Kildare or in north Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48883/13]

Accident and Emergency Services Provision

Clare Daly

637. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the protocol in relation to the calling of emergency services, with particular reference to an incident (details supplied); and the remedy open to the citizen in this case. [48884/13]

Hospital Investigations

Clare Daly

638. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if all 11 recommendations following Health Service Executive investigations following the death of a person (details supplied) including No. 7, have been fully implemented in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. [48890/13]

Hospital Investigations

Clare Daly

639. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, has updated its guidelines on the management of intrauterine death to include lowering the dosage of Misoprostol to reflect recommended standards in RCOG. [48891/13]

Hospital Investigations

Clare Daly

640. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the RCPI-IOG guidelines regarding the use and dosage of Misoprostol were not implemented, as per Health Service Executive recommendations. [48892/13]

Child Safety

Clare Daly

652. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that toothpaste containing fluoride has a child-proof cap and carries a poison warning. [48986/13]

Health Services Issues

Clare Daly

202. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the supports available to a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [48784/13]

HIQA Investigations

Clare Daly

22. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will order a Health Information and Quality Authority investigation into the circumstances of the care of a person (details supplied) in line with the HIQA investigation into the death of Savita Halappanavar. [48053/13]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

24. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive and its national director of quality and patient safety continue to quote the undercounted figures on maternal mortality collected by the Central Statistics Office in order to claim that our figures are among the best internationally, while not using the actual figures on maternal mortality collected by Maternal Death Enquiry Ireland, the officially commissioned body tasked with monitoring these figures accurately. [48054/13]

Medical Card Eligibility

Clare Daly

416. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some people are losing out on their medical cards because they are under the care of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service for assistance with mortgage arrears and appear to have false positive income bringing them over the limit of a medical card; and the action he will take regarding same. [47995/13]

Food Safety

Clare Daly

1007. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to monitor the levels of radiation in food and fish from Japan as a result of the Fukushima radiation leaks. [45719/13]

Health Services Staff Training

Clare Daly

1013. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if training has been provided to staff in the Health Service Executive who are dealing with persons with a mental health condition; and if not, if he will justify this in view of how vulnerable these citizens might be. [46354/13]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage

Clare Daly

1066. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Health Act 1970, in order to include colitis and Crohn's disease as a long-term illness which should be covered by the disability scheme [45914/13]

Care Services

Clare Daly

1226. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will release the report commissioned into financial irregularities discovered at Fingal Home Care in 2012 [46870/13]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

242. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to a parliamentary question tabled on 17 October 2013 the number of children and the number of visits children had to the urologist in St. George's per year over the past five years; if a lower starting salary and the fact that the position is split between Crumlin and Temple Street has acted as a barrier to persons applying for the urologist position. [45405/13]

Treatment Abroad Scheme

Clare Daly

221. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was refused access to the Health Service Executive treatment abroad scheme although they cannot access the necessary treatment here. [44035/13]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

231. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will justify the fact that there has been no paediatric urologist at Temple Street Hospital despite the absolute requirement for such a position to be available for treating children with spina bifida who could die from kidney failure and that they will commit to the provision of a urology monitoring system at the hospital [44081/13]

Primary Care Centres Provision

Clare Daly

214. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of local health centres or clinics which were closed over this Government's term in office. [42979/13]

Cochlear Implants

Clare Daly

193. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the provisions being put in place for the implementation of a programme to provide for bilateral cochlear implants. [42662/13]

Care of the Elderly Provision

Clare Daly

569. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the policy document, Towards a Restraint Free Environment, is being implemented at the Yeats ward in the Fairview community unit, Dublin 3. [42220/13]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

573. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure there are no further cuts to protect services at providers such as Prosper Fingal. [42267/13]