our health service
To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff in receipt of special leave with pay who are suffering from long-Covid; if it is intended to cease this payment for frontline staff who have contracted Covid while carrying out their duties; the supports he intends to offer such staff who continue to suffer long-term effects from Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the unacceptably long waiting lists for CAMHS services in County Wexford including child and adolescent psychology and occupational therapy; the plans he has to address this matter; if he will consider providing supports to families to obtain private treatment for children in urgent need under the treatment purchase scheme; if he will review the current waiting lists and instigate a waiting list initiative within CAMHS similar to the initiative which was run in the National Counselling Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 26 May 2022, if he will list the sites set to provide a service to children; the sites providing long-Covid and post-acute clinics respectively on an interim basis to children; the current number of children awaiting an appointment at each clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the amount of public health nurses in Dublin mid-west in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the amount of public health nurses per CHO area in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the National HSE disability office group that is being set up to develop a revised approach to assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the updated timeline for the resumption of preliminary team assessments given the March 2022 High Court judgement stating that the assessment of need standard operating procedure failed to comply with the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of older people in each county who avail of boarding out; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the amount that his Department spends on boarding out for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to increase the volume of generic medicines used to fulfil prescriptions to achieve the European Union average of 70%; the estimated savings to the annual drug bill as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding funding for a capital project (the Cleary centre) in Donegal town; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged 0 to 18 years who are waiting for first-time intervention in all areas of early intervention in each CHO, by individual area and by each composite LHO within each CHO; the number on the public list; the number on the children’s disability network team list in each CHO in tabular form; and the length of time that they are awaiting intervention by age.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of individualised family service plans that have been issued and accepted by each individual children’s disability network team by CHO area.
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To ask the Minister for Health the details of all allocations over €10 million made by the HSE to commercial service providers and charities over each of the past three years, broken down by service category and exact allocation figure.
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To ask the Minister for Health the details of all workforce planning projects completed in his Department or in the HSE; if these will be published; the details of any such projects currently underway; the timescale for completion of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of monkeypox cases confirmed in Ireland by month since the start of 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if public health authorities' sample for the presence of the polio virus in wastewater; if so, if the virus has been detected since the start of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which authentic statistics are available in respect of the termination of pregnancies at all hospitals throughout the country in each of the past six years, including those undertaken outside the State; the extent to which the 2019 legislation is being observed in the spirit of the letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers in receipt of special leave with pay; the number who have received it for longer than a week or the period of isolation; the number diagnosed with long-Covid in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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