PQ Responses - September 30th 2020

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PQ 27360-20 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 27360-20 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies across the health service by CHO, hospital group and hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27402-20 - Mark Ward front page preview

PQ 27402-20 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if a model of care has been drafted in relation to the National Clinical Programme for Dual Diagnosis; if it has been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27439-20 - Mark Ward front page preview

PQ 27439-20 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the bed capacity available for HSE patients in private mental health care facilities; the process to avail of same; the breakdown of bed capacity in each private mental health care facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27440-20 - Emer Higgins front page preview

PQ 27440-20 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health the reason Covid-19 advertisements do not feature hard-hitting messages on the impact of the virus similar to road safety and anti-smoking advertisements; his plans to target hard-hitting ads towards young persons highlighting the potential long-term health consequences to them if they contract Covid-19 and the impact if they infect older members of their family; his plans to copy the successful strategy of road safety advertisements by featuring survivors of Covid-19 and relatives of those that have passed away from the virus in advertisements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27441-20 - Emer Higgins front page preview

PQ 27441-20 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health the evidence that demonstrates the impact of anti-smoker advertisements; if the evidence shows that hard hitting messages are more effective; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27446-20 - Mark Ward front page preview

PQ 27446-20 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons presenting at emergency departments with suicide attempts, self-harm injuries and overdose by location in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27484-20 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 27484-20 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the Be on Call for Ireland pool; the number that have been assigned or placed in services; the number of staff hired through Be on Call for Ireland with HSE contracts; the number with agency or temporary contracts; the reason staff are being hired as agency or temporary staff when there is a demonstrated need for them to be employed as HSE staff; if his Department is seeking to avoid employer obligations by hiring staff as temporary or agency staff; if all employed to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic are working on valid contracts; the number that are working on temporary contracts which have expired; if he can guarantee that not a single worker brought on to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic is working on an expired contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 27489-20 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 27489-20 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the reason some community testers and contact tracers and those offered jobs through Be on Call for Ireland and other recruitment pathways to join the health service are only being offered temporary employment through agencies and are not being employed directly by the HSE or his Department; if this is congruent with the objective of employing a dedicated testing and tracing workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27516-20 - Alan Kelly front page preview

PQ 27516-20 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the €600 million announced as part of the Winter Plan that will be allocated to University Hospital Limerick; if a crisis response to the overcrowding in the emergency department of the hospital will be sanctioned as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27529-20 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 27529-20 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the rehabilitative supports being made available to mesh injured patients; if expedited pain management physio and counselling treatment will be delivered in line with the CMO report on the matter; if this can be accessed privately instead of through the public system; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 27533-20 - Seán Canney front page preview

PQ 27533-20 - Seán Canney

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the fact that 75% of the available speech and language therapists in HSE Community Healthcare West are redeployed to either testing or contact tracing including speech and language therapists from both primary care and social care and the detrimental effect it is having in the delivery of services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27580-20 - John Lahart front page preview

PQ 27580-20 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health the definition of a sub-acute bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 27582-20 - John Lahart front page preview

PQ 27582-20 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health the location of the 631 additional rehabilitation beds to be provided under the HSE Winter Plan; the number that will come on stream each month from 25 September 2020 until April 2020; and the number of rehabilitation beds that will be available nationally when the provision comes on stream in tabular form

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PQ 27583-20 - John Lahart front page preview

PQ 27583-20 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health the location of 530 repurposed community beds pledged in the HSE Winter Plan to support the home first pathway; the services from which they are being repurposed; and the alternative provision being made in the services from which these beds are being repurposed in tabular form

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PQ 27584-20 - John Lahart front page preview

PQ 27584-20 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 4.76 million additional home support hours hat will be provided in each LHO area over the course of the HSE Winter Plan; and the number of home support hours that will be provided in each as a result of the provision by each LHO in tabular form

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PQ 27626-20 - Carol Nolan front page preview

PQ 27626-20 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by his Department for the provision of adult and paediatric palliative care in each CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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