PQ Responses - February 16th 2022

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PQ 8460-22 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh front page preview

PQ 8460-22 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that there may be in very small number of cases between receiving a Covid-19 vaccine and shingles in some studies likely connected to the stress around receiving the vaccine; if such linkage was shown in Ireland; the additional steps that can be taken to make persons more at ease when they are being administered a vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8465-22 - Duncan Smith front page preview

PQ 8465-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health when the National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital in Portrane will be fully operational; the overall cost of the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8523-22 - Imelda Munster front page preview

PQ 8523-22 - Imelda Munster

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding in the upcoming budget to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8524-22 - Imelda Munster front page preview

PQ 8524-22 - Imelda Munster

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8525-22 - Imelda Munster front page preview

PQ 8525-22 - Imelda Munster

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for FreeStyle Libre that were submitted by individual hospitals for persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number that were approved; the number that were refused in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; his plans to remove the age restriction on FreeStyle Libre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8550-22 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 8550-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which hospital-based training places across the medical profession are coordinated between the Department, the HSE and training bodies; his plans to improve upon this model; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8594-22 - Sean Fleming front page preview

PQ 8594-22 - Sean Fleming

To ask the Minister for Health when a service by the HSE will go to tender; when contractors will be appointed as a result of this tender (The Private Ambulance Service); and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 8621-22 - Sean Canney front page preview

PQ 8621-22 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for urgent and non-urgent referrals to the symptomatic breast cancer clinic at University Hospital Galway; the number of patients that are on the urgent and non-urgent referral waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8622-22 - Pearse Doherty front page preview

PQ 8622-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plan to have a full-time consultant ophthalmologist located in Letterkenny, County Donegal to address high waiting lists for eye care in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8630-22 - Colm Burke front page preview

PQ 8630-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the progress of his Department and the HSE in prioritising the development of primary care eye teams in CHO6, CHO7 and CHO9 in 2022 with a view to extending these teams to other CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8631-22 - Colm Burke front page preview

PQ 8631-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the transfer of care for children aged 8 plus years to local optometrists to reduce waiting lists and enhance access to primary eye care services; if the anticipated six- to-nine-month timeframe for conclusion of this project in 2022 is on target; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8651-22 - Cian OCallaghan front page preview

PQ 8651-22 - Cian OCallaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the community mental health team servicing north Dublin cannot take referrals for adult ADHD assessments due to not having the capacity and expertise and is advising persons to wait for the commencement of the National Clinical Programme or to seek private healthcare; the steps he is taking to resolve the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8691-22 - Eamon O Cuiv front page preview

PQ 8691-22 - Eamon O Cuiv

To ask the Minister for Health when the new care unit replacing St. Anne’s, Clifden and Clifden nursing home will go to construction; the progress made with this project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8708-22 - Denis Naughten front page preview

PQ 8708-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the status of each of the recommendations in the Roscommon and Mayo audiology misdiagnosis report; the date of the complete implementation of each outstanding recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8753-22 - Róisín Shortall front page preview

PQ 8753-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the consultancies engaged by the HSE in the past three years with a value in excess of €2 million in addition to the purpose of the consultancy work and its value.

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PQ 8802-22 - Louise O'Reilly front page preview

PQ 8802-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if the audit on spending to date on the new national maternity hospital enabling works at Elm Park has been completed; if so, if he will provide a copy of the audit report; if not, if there is an expected date for completion; and the reason that the late 2021 completion date was missed.

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PQ 8803-22 - Louise O'Reilly front page preview

PQ 8803-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of whether the Comptroller and Auditor General has determined that a value for money special report is required for the new national maternity hospital given the comments by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the audit on the spending ( given the Comptroller and Auditor General said, of the audit on spending to date on the new National Maternity Hospital enabling works at Elm Park, that on completion “Any issues arising from the audit will be evaluated and at that stage I will consider whether there is merit in carrying out a value for money special report”); if so, if he is of the view that such a report will apply to the entire new national maternity hospital project at Elm Park; when it is expected such a report will be completed; and if the report will be publicly available.

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PQ 8805-22 - Louise O'Reilly front page preview

PQ 8805-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if all new national maternity hospital enabling works are now completed; if not, the further works that are in progress or not yet started; and the projected end total cost of these enabling works.

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PQ 8807-22 - Bernard Durkan front page preview

PQ 8807-22 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which an efficient, effective and expeditious procedure exists to facilitate medical staff, consultants, doctors, nurses or other medical professionals who in response to advertisements have applied to join the health services but in some cases have been waiting for an inordinate amount of time for a reply resulting in some applicants going to other jurisdictions; if these issues can be identified and resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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