Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]