PQ Responses - February 1st 2022

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PQ 4264-22 - Seán Haughey

To ask the Minister for Health if he will recommend that hyperemesis medication taken by pregnant women be covered by the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4265-22 - Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

To ask the Minister for Health the status of a site for public services for adults with ADHD in CHO6; the timeline for the same; if a consultant psychiatrist was appointed in quarter 4 of 2021 with service provision commencing at the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4296-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in implementing each measure from the 2019 Labour Court recommendation on the terms and conditions of nurses and midwives; the amount spent each year on these measures; the estimated full cost for each measure in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4337-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health when dental services will resume in St. Joseph’s Community Hospital, Stranorlar, County Donegal.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4338-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list with each HSE dental and orthodontic services in County Donegal in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4352-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeframe for when the new outpatient ophthalmology services for the South/South West HSE area currently being developed in Ballincollig, County Cork to be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4353-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health when the required funding will be made available to the South/South West HSE area to enable it to fully equip the new outpatient ophthalmology services currently being developed in Ballincollig, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4513-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded and open critical care beds; when the next critical care bed census will report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4516-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if either the drug xonvea or cariban will be reimbursed for pregnant women suffering nausea and hyperemesis which does not respond to conservative management; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4521-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to expand the weight management services throughout the country.

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PQ 4522-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a need for a publicly funded service to get excess skin removed for those who have gone through bariatric surgery.

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PQ 4524-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the digital summary patient records system; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4525-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of each major information and communications technology digital transformation and modernisation project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4526-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the year-on-year nominal change in headcount and whole-time equivalent for each staff grade in the public health service at December in each of the years 2018 to 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 4527-22- David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional consultant posts budgeted for in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 4528-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of each major information and communications technology digital transformation and modernisation project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4529-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres in operation by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4530-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres that opened in 2021, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4531-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of each existing primary care centre project and expected status by county, by the end of 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4538-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects currently being developed or underway; the number of wards and beds these will provide; if these are replacement or additional to total stock; the timeline for completion and the next major milestone; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4540-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for audiology appointments per CHO and former LHO by quarter during 2021 and to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4541-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the backlog in audiology appointments in counties Cavan and Monaghan; when he expects the backlog to be cleared; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4550-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time medical, nursing and dental staff by job title working in the dental clinic at Roscommon University Hospital; the number of vacancies by job title within the clinic; and when each vacancy will be filled in tabular form.

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PQ 4555-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the annual spend on private ambulances from 2018 to 2021.

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PQ 4556-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 75 years of age waiting over 24 hours in an emergency department for hospital beds.

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PQ 4557-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of homecare waiting lists; the number of hours budgeted for compared to the hours that were provided in 2020 and 2021; the number budgeted for in 2022; the number of whole-time equivalents required to deliver the unspent hours from 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4558-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of speech and language therapy waiting lists for children; the number waiting more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4559-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of occupational therapy waiting lists for children; the number waiting more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4560-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of physiotherapy waiting lists for children; the number waiting more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4566-22 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health if a definitive start date will be provided for the two newly-appointed psychologists to the Celbridge and Kilcock primary care centres; when a start date will be agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4572-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges and bed days lost by hospital in each quarter for 2020 and 2021.

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PQ 4582-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the elective throughput in each model 3 and 4 hospital in each month of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 4777-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the value of payments made to general practitioners in 2019, 2020 and 2021 for practice managers.

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PQ 4783-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on implementing each enhanced community care reform in 2021.

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PQ 4786-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of active dentists on the dental treatment services scheme by county in each month in 2021.

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PQ 4787-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for dental surgery and orthodontics by county at year end 2021

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PQ 4788-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the total payments made to dentists on the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2018 to 2021.

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PQ 4790-22 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of paid employees working in the addiction sector.

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PQ 4831-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical postgraduate intern training places across the State by specialty in tabular form.

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PQ 4832-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical specialist trainee places across the State by specialty in tabular form.

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PQ 4833-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered including cariban (pyridoxine, doxylamine) on the medical card and drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4837-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children waiting for assessment of needs by county and waiting periods of less than 3, 3 months plus, 1 year plus and 2 years plus.

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PQ 4839-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken to support women and pregnant persons with hyperemesis who face significant financial costs to access HSE recommended treatment of pyridoxine and doxylamine; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4840-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health if there are any licenced brands for treating hyperemesis that have an application for reimbursement on the drugs payment scheme card and the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4841-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and pregnant persons that required hospital care as a result of untreated hyperemesis or dehydration or other effects of hyperemesis in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

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PQ 4873-22 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services in Galway city and county by area; the number of children that have been waiting 3, 6, 9 months, 1 year, 18 months and 2 years, respectively; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4877-22 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the cost of dialysis transport to the HSE for 2019, 2020 and 2021 for patients requiring access to this vital therapy; the breakdown of the cost by each hospital group; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4879-22 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health if posts have been filled for both the ophthalmologist and optician contracted by the HSE to deliver primary care services for children in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4905-22 - Róisín Shorthall

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to deal with the backlog in the BreastCheck national breast cancer screening programme; the reasons women under 50 years of age are not included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4992-22 - Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that contracted under the dental treatment service scheme for medical card holders in each of the years since 2016; the range of payments made to participating individual dentists for each of those years; the total cost to the Exchequer of the scheme for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5000-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres that have been developed to completion in 2019, 2020 and to 31 December 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5001-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is on target in delivering additional primary care centres for 2022; the number of additional primary care centres that will be fully operational by Q4 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5002-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocation for 2022 for the expansion and development of primary care infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5004-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare professionals employed under community intervention teams in 2019, 2020 and to 31 December 2021; the number employed by county and region in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5018-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the implementation of a new eye-care programme for school-going children ( in which optometrists who have the capacity, state of the art equipment and the expertise to lead out on the delivery of such a programme would be enlisted for this programme, relieving pressure on the HSE community health areas and hospitals, and where onward referral is required that optometrists would communicate with Ophthalmology and HSE Orthoptist colleagues through established secure electronic systems); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5067-22 - Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health the number of practices that hold dental treatment scheme contracts with the HSE by county; the number of notifications which the HSE has received in 2021 of dentists seeking to resign from the dental treatment service scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5071-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of baseline acute inpatient beds open and funded including those which have been funded, opened and fully staffed but are closed for illness or infection prevention reasons at year end 2021.

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PQ 5073-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health further to a previous Parliamentary Question, the number of the 688 acute inpatient beds which opened which were newly opened; and the number of existing beds that were funded on a temporary basis.

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PQ 5088-22 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners currently engaging in CareDoc services in CHO5 broken down by those contracted to do so and those providing the service.

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PQ 5107-22 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the amount Cork University Hospital has paid to patients for preventable incidents in the past three years in tabular form.

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PQ 5167-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the role of the liaison officers appointed to work with the persons affected by the CervicalCheck scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5168-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if he will make available the document concerning liaison officers for persons affected by the CervicalCheck scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5169-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the retrospective audit that will be offered for persons affected by the CervicalCheck scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -

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PQ 5171-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health his views on making a medication (pyridoxine/doxylamine, often referred to by the brand name Cariban) for hyperemesis gravidarum to be reimbursed on the drugs payment scheme and medical card.

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PQ 5174-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the longest duration experienced by a CHO4 mental health service staff member in a formal grievance case in 2020 and 2021; the total number of weeks from the submission of the grievance by the staff member to feedback being received following a stage 2 hearing; and the average duration of a HSE grievance case from the time of submission to the receipt of feedback by the staff member from a stage 2 hearing.

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PQ 5175-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the conditions under which the nationally agreed recruitment panel process for HSE adult mental health psychologists can be bypassed by management for particular appointments either through local interviews or unadvertised appointments by transfer; the human resources policies that may enshrine these exceptions to the recruitment process; and if these exceptions have been agreed to by trade unions.

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PQ 5176-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of appointments to HSE adult mental health psychology posts projected to bypass current national recruitment panels through local interviews or unadvertised appointments by transfer; the sanctioning process involved in these exceptions to the nationally agreed recruitment panel process; and the lines of management responsible.

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PQ Responses - February 1st 2022