Neville, DanTuesday, 2 October 2007 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Adjournment Debate - Child Care Services.
A minute and a half is very little time. If I had known that, I probably would have withdrawn the matter and resubmitted it at a later date. I wish to raise the issue of the replacement of staffing f...
Written Answers - Mental Health Services.
Asked the minister: her views on whether €25 million per annum is the maximum resources that the system could absorb; and if so if this is the maximum revenue available with due recognition to the long term economic and...
Asked the minister: if the €25 million in 2006 and 2007 have been targeted mainly at catchment and the low average funding areas that exhibit social and economic disadvantage as recommended in A Vision for Change. 
Asked the minister: the outputs that have been delivered on the €25 million per annum in 2006 and 2007. 
Asked the minister: if funds to mental health services have been diverted to other services areas; and if so, the measures that should be introduced to protect mental health budgets at central and regional levels. 
Asked the minister: her views on whether she should apportion a floor budget of 12% of the total health spend to mental health services. 
Asked the minister: if in relation to budgeting as a tool for promoting effectiveness and efficiency through accountability, the Controller and Auditor General should conduct a follow up special report into the mental h...
Asked the minister: the progress in the implementation of the management and organisational changes recommended in chapter 16 of A Vision for Change. 
Asked the minister: the management and organisational changes recommended in chapter 16 of A Vision for Change that fit with the Government’s transformation plan. 
Written Answers - Child Care Services.
Asked the minister: if she will introduce a quality mark for crèches following worried patients complaints to the Health Service Executive revealing a series of shocking incidents in childcare facilities. 
Written Answers - Cancer Screening Programme.
Asked the minister: her views on the fact that tens of thousands of cancer and smear tests are being carried out at hospital laboratories here which are not accredited and that only 30% of crucial diagnostic work is bei...
Written Answers - Suicide Prevention.
Asked the minister: the savings in the instruction by the Health Service Executive to the suicide resource officers to cancel all meetings, training seminars and training course on suicide and suicide prevention in hote...
Written Answers - Mental Health Services.
Asked the minister: if there are barriers to adequately resourcing the mental health service beyond those detailed in A Vision for Change. 
Asked the minister: if she will produce and implement a plan for A Vision for Change giving annualised funding projections. 
Asked the minister: the way funds expended on mental health services are tracked and reported by the Health Service Executive and her Department. 
Asked the minister: her views on whether mental health services are under-funded; and if so, the reason for same. 
Asked the minister: her views on whether the amount of funding allocated to mental health is inequitable compared with other areas of health; and if so, the reform necessary to ensure equity in the mental health service...
Written Answers - Departmental Expenditure.
Asked the minister: the way capital allocations for 2007 are proceeding. 
Asked the minister: the capital projects in mental health that were completed in 2006 in view of the fact that in both 2005 and 2006 the Health Service Executive underspent its capital vote; and if any of this was in me...
Written Answers - Mental Health Services.
Asked the minister: if a plan and timetable for closure of mental hospitals and release of funds has been produced. 
Asked the minister: her views on extending the National Treatment Purchase Fund to mental health services. 
Asked the minister: if she provided dedicated funding for mental health service research as recommended in A Vision for Change. 
Written Answers - Child Care Services.
Asked the minister: the way the additional funding designated for the development of child and adolescent services is being expended to date. 
Written Answers - Cancer Screening Programme.
Asked the minister: the position in relation to the re-examination of breast cancer test records at Barringtons Hospital in Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. 
Asked the minister: the breast cancer units that are closed and are planned to be closed around the country. 
Written Answers - Departmental Programmes.
Asked the minister: if he will confirm recent reports that thousands of euro are to be spent in promoting the Transport 21 programme again; the reason for same; and the budget allocated. 
Written Answers - Employment Support Services.
Asked the minister: his plans for business for the provision of employment in business and industry at the business park, Askeaton, County Limerick. 
Written Answers - Anti-Poverty Strategy.
Asked the minister: his views on the fact that a total of 290,000 people here including one child in every ten are living in consistent poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. 
Written Answers - Grant Payments.
Asked the minister: the reason for delay in approval of grants and approval to complete work under the farm improvement scheme in County Limerick. 
Written Answers - Human Trafficking.
Asked the minister: if he will respond to the official report from the Welsh Assembly Government specifically naming Ireland as a route for bringing illicit human cargo into the United Kingdom. 
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