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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

HEALTH SERVICES

HSE

Finances

• Leaders Questions: HSE finances

• Leader’s Questions: HSE funding
• HSE Budget 2008
• HSE cost-cutting
• €100 million for children with disabilities
• Ensure that funding for new developments in the health services is spent on designated purpose
• Budgets for community care

Staffing

• Vacant posts within HSE

• HSE Recruitment Embargo
• Voluntary Redundancy in HSE
• Health Service Staff

• HSE Personnel Levels
• Level of Personnel in Health Services
• Numbers of HSE and disability service staff
• Moratorium on hiring in HSE

• Development posts in disability sector
• Staff numbers in Department of Health

General

• Policy Control over HSE
• Patient Numbers
• Adjournment Debate: Health Services
• MRSA
• Review of HSE
• Health Care Regions
• Education of HSE staff in congenital disabilities such as spina bifida and hydrocephalus
• Challenges facing the Health Services: Statements
• Number of vehicles owned by HSE for transporting people with disabilities
• Primary care teams
• Money spent on advertising promotions in Dept. of Health
• New HSE structure
• Primary Care Teams
• Revised programme for government and primary care teams
• Number of clients who are currently outside the jurisdiction from each HSE area
• Priority Questions: Organisation of the HSE
• Register of unmet need to identify demand for and availability of disability and health related services has been established as per obligations under the Disability Act 2005
• Will children with Down Syndrome diagnosed in the mild range will be provided with extra support
• If children with Down Syndrome will be regarded as a baseline disability which automatically qualifies a person to receive life-long services

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DENTAL SERVICES

General

• Dental Services
• Dental Services
• Dental services
• Adjournment Debate: Oral Health Problems in Cork
• Dental Services
• Changes to Dental Treatment Scheme
• Dental service for people with a disability in Co. Galway
• Dental treatment services scheme
• Adjournment Debate: Dental services for adults with disabilities
• Cost benefit analysis prior to cutting the dental treatment benefit scheme
• Dental services in Cork University Hospital for children with disabilities
• Number and location of public dental clinics in Cork where young persons with a disability can receive dental treatment under general anaesthetic
• Free dental treatment plan for people with disabilities
• Cuts to dental treatment scheme

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