Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]