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Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason emergency admissions to psychiatric institutions are being delayed for several days due to the lack of such specialist services as stated by a person (details supplied) at the recent Irish Medical Organisation annual general meeting. [15939/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce specialist transplant co-ordinators in all of the regional acute hospitals here in order to increase the low rate of conversion of potential donors to recovered organs. [15940/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a six year audit of cancer services at St. James's Hospital which has shown dramatic increases in urological and other cancers and that this is the first audit carried out here to provide long-term outcome data on cancer patients which enables for the first time a comparison of cancer care at the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent comment by a person (details supplied), that general practitioners are in danger of suffering from heart attacks and other medical problems because of the workload that has been foisted upon them. [15949/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the personnel census for the first quarter of 2008 for the Health Service Executive as well as for the last quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2007. [15950/08]

Written Answers — Food Safety Authority: Food Safety Authority (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to introduce a ban on additives in children's food as called for by an association (details supplied). [16086/08]

Written Answers — National Reference Laboratory: National Reference Laboratory (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to provide the necessary resources to create a national reference laboratory to identify types of clostridium difficile in health facilities. [16087/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Surveys: Departmental Surveys (29 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 389: To ask the Minister for Defence if he proposes to set up an independent expert to lead a study on the way medical services for the Defence Forces might best be delivered. [16088/08]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (23 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 220: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a working group examining the proposed sale of local authority apartments and flats under the tenant purchase scheme; the terms of reference of same; when it was set up; the regularity with which it has met; the dates on which it has met since being set up; and the membership of that working...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on Our Lady's Hospital, Lee Road, Cork; and the plans she has in order to eliminate what is considered to be the biggest derelict site on the northside of Cork City, most of which has been unoccupied since 2003. [14190/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent arson attack on the unoccupied St. Kevin's Unit on the vacant site of Our Lady's Hospital, Lee Road, Cork and the damage that was done in that arson attack; and the cost of security services on an annual basis over the past six years for that site. [14191/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent comment made by the director of stroke services in Tallaght Hospital that at least 400 lives could be saved every year by improving the delivery of stroke services; and the reason the proposals for a national rehabilitation centre to be located in Cork have been scrapped. [14192/08]

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the initiatives she proposes to take to deal with the problems of gastroenteritis in the community which is a preventable disease and which according to recent research by Trinity College Dublin, is costing Ireland more than €135 million each year. [14193/08]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on plans for a new hospital at the site of St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Cork, to provide services for the elderly; and the other plans she has for that site. [14194/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the new 100 bed community nursing unit in Ballincollig to be opened for use. [14195/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent report which stated that up to 90% of asylum seekers experienced depression and feelings of worthlessness within six months of arriving here. [14196/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation where at least 60% of cervical smear tests carried out at Health Service Executive hospitals will be sent abroad once a tender process for cytology screening services is complete. [14201/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a situation where ten laboratories currently providing diagnostic gynaecological cytology services are disqualified for inclusion under the terms of the national cervical screening programme in view of the fact that they do not fulfil the necessary criteria, particularly the criteria to have full...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the new Health Service Executive report which suggests that the number of patients on hospital waiting lists has increased by nearly 10% owing to staff and bed shortages and that this report has come nearly four years after she declared overcrowding in hospital emergency departments a national crisis;...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a recent UK study presented recently at the Irish Medical Organisation conference which found a 1% increase in mortality with each 10 km increase in journey distances from hospitals; and the way she can reconcile the contents of that study with her proposals to close down local hospitals in favour of...