PQ Responses - January 25th 2022

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PQ 2883-22 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant endocrinologists for adults who are based in Letterkenny University Hospital.

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PQ 2885-22 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health if care for adult diabetes patients at Letterkenny University Hospital has evolved to include insulin pump starts; the number of adult diabetes patients with pumps that are attending the hospital; and the frequency with which they get review appointments.

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PQ 2887-22 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who are currently on the diabetes pro-wellness team at Letterkenny University Hospital; the person who is the lead staff member; and the number of staff who have been relocated to Covid-19 care in recent times.

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PQ 2928-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare support hours being provided in County Carlow in 2022; the way this compares to 2020 and 2021; the number of persons currently waiting for homecare in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2929-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the current waiting time for the National Gender Service which stands at over two years from the initial referral; his views on the adequacy of this timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2930-22 - Jennifer Murnane O Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for occupational therapy by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form; if his attention has been drawn to lengthy waiting lists countrywide; if there are plans to support those waiting to access a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2961-22 - Pat Buckley

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the St. Raphaels Covid-19 test centre in Youghal, County Cork has been removed from the HSE website; if the HSE plans to cease its testing operation in Youghal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2963-22 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of general practitioners in the Newbridge area of County Kildare; his plans to encourage general practitioners to set up in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2964-22 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the vaccine for children between five and 12 years of age is administered in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2965-22 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of general practitioners in Monasterevin, County Kildare; his plans to encourage general practitioners to set up in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2966-22 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of general practitioners in Kildare town, County Kildare; his plans to encourage general practitioners to set up in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 2967-22 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of general practitioners in Athy, County Kildare; his plans to encourage general practitioners to set up in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3033-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in creating the HSE grade of orthodontic therapist; the steps he has taken to expedite the creation of such a grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3036-22 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve additional resources for HSE Covid-19 helplines during the period of high demand; if he will implement a waiting system that advises the user of their place in the queue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3039-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired for each area of early intervention by CHO and LHO in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 3054-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of items the HSE has provided to nursing homes in CHO1 under grant aid from 2010 to date.

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PQ 3110-22 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a multi-annual budget to support the ongoing running of section 39 residential addiction support and treatment centres such as Bushypark in Ennis, County Clare to replace the current annual model based on service level agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3111-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to the provision of additional staffing resources in order to ensure that sufficient staff are in place in hospital wards in order that inpatients with Covid-19 can be facilitated with a family video call in the cases in which family members are not allowed visit due to Covid-19 being on the ward given that ward staff are unable to facilitate video calls as a result of their existing workload; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3121-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled appointments in the past year for hospitals for services for disabled persons; his plans to ensure disabled persons can access services and appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3122-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the steps the HSE is taking to provide a full-time doctor in the dispensary premises at Ballynacargy, Mullingar, County Westmeath to replace the doctor who has recently retired and ensure that perons in the area can continue to avail of medical services and attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3123-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE building and property department has plans in place to upgrade, refurbish and extend the HSE dispensary premises at Ballynacargy, Mullingar, County Westmeath to modernise same and ensure it has adequate capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3151-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if vacancies remain at a facility (E-Mental Health Hub, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon); if so, if he will provide a list of such vacancies; the services that remain unavailable at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3164-22 - Neale Richmond

To ask the Minister for Health if he will work to introduce specialised training for counsellors and therapists on sexual violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3173-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the hours during which the critical care retrieval service for children is currently available; the reason this does not operate on a 24/7 basis; the alternatives that are in place when this service is not available; if there are plans to extend this to a 24/7 service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3208-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the reason PCR sites in Mallow and Youghal, County Cork have been removed from the online option; and if a commitment will be made to providing local PCR testing in County Cork.

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PQ 3239-22 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to establish palliative care beds in St. Anthony’s Hospital, Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3266-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken by his Department to ensure that staff employed at MyOptions are trained in providing practical information to women on positive alternatives to abortion to ensure the counsellors are fulfilling the promise of providing informed consent in view of a recent research investigation carried out by a group (Students For Life,; which produced evidence that suggests HSE MyOptions counsellors are frequently the first to promote abortion as a solution to unplanned pregnancy and are incapable or unwilling to provide information on alternatives to abortion in significant depth).

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PQ 3286-22 - Seán Canney

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases that have been recorded in which births of infants born alive following a termination of pregnancy as defined in section 2 of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 have been registered as a live birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3287-22 - Seán Canney

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of deaths of infants born alive following a termination of pregnancy as defined in section 2 of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 that have been notified under section 42A (1) of the Civil Registration Act 2004 as amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 3291-22 - James O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of neurology nurses for University Hospital Waterford; if he has plans to address the urgent need for these positions to be filled; his views on the recommendation by an association (Neurological Association of Ireland ) of the urgent need for six extra neurology nurses at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3366-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the cost to the Exchequer of ShannonDoc services in County Clare between 2017 and 2021, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3367-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours provided at each of the locations in County Clare in which ShannonDoc services operate in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 3368-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the level of demand, that is, appointments sought and scheduled by each of the locations in County Clare in which ShannonDoc services operate in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form. -

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PQ 3369-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of in-person home visits and virtual consultations provided through each of the locations County Clare in which ShannonDoc services operate in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 3377-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the ongoing attendance and visiting restrictions in hospitals; if the current HSE guidance will be reviewed to allow families and friends to visit their loved ones in hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3387-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has considered a recommendation from the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics which states that venetoclax in combination with obinutuzumab should be considered for reimbursement for patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3388-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the booster campaign for immunocompromised persons who were offered a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as part of their primary vaccine regime; if these persons were offered booster appointments; if not, if they were required to book appointments themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3397-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether not offering contact details for abortion services is a sign that a pregnancy service is disingenuous; and his further views on whether the HSE should be campaigning against pregnancy services that do not offer telephone numbers for abortion services (it was reported in a media outlet today that a HSE spokesperson has said that not providing advice and supports and information on abortion services was a sign of a “disingenuous” pregnancy service).

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PQ 3414-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether high-grade medical masks must be a priority for carers as well as nurses and teachers; the steps his Department has taken to distribute free high-grade masks to carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3422-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies by job title at the renal dialysis unit at Cavan General Hospital; the estimated full-year cost of filling each of the vacancies; when each of the vacancies will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3483-22 - Alan Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to significant backlogs in registering a birth in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3485-22 - Alan Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if funding from his Department has been allocated for the purpose of recruiting additional neurological clinical nurse specialists for Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3487-22 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding that has been allocated to each CHO area to facilitate persons under the age of 65 who have been inappropriately placed in nursing homes to leave long-term nursing homes and to be supported to live in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3490-22 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently being actively recruited for to fill posts in the team 1 Sandymount Children’s Disability Network Teams (Baggot Street, Donnybrook, Ranelagh, Sandymount, Irishtown, Blackrock, Stillorgan); the number of these vacancies that are new positions; the number of these vacancies that are to fill existing but unfilled roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3502-22 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a breakdown for each related allocation for both years in tabular form.

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PQ 3514-22 - Bríd Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff employed by the health service during the pandemic by role.

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PQ 3565-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent tissue viability nurses in position within each primary care area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3566-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalen tissue viability nurses in position in the Cavan and Monaghan region in which those nurses are based; if there are plans to increase this number; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3570-22 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the Donegal Travellers primary healthcare project has been prevented from paying increments to its staff since 2008; if this is Departmental policy; if not, if the HSE has acted alone in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 3600-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary school children who missed dental screenings due to external circumstances such as school building closures and redeployment of staff that will be accommodated in the future.

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PQ Responses - January 25th 2022