PQ Responses - May 17th 2022

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PQ 24110-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the National Office Of Mental Health and Wellbeing to establish a national student mental and emotional helpline following a recommendation at the West Regional Health Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24123-22 - Rose Conway Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the 13-bed build intended to facilitate the larger 50-bed development resulting from the National Capital and Property Steering Committee held on 26 April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24125-22 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a Parkinson’s specialist nurse is provided to patients in the south-east region particularly south Tipperary as it is clear that this resource is missing in the area, and it is required in order to provide the highest standard of care to Parkinson’s patients in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24134-22 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the disbursement of the Covid pandemic recognition payment; and the date when qualifying recipients in County Galway will receive their payment.

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PQ 24147-22 Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of public hospitals that issue both public and private outpatient appointments for ultrasound, MRI and CT scans; the corresponding number of patients awaiting an outpatient procedure; the average wait under each category in each hospital for both public and private appointments, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24149-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the total revenue and net revenue generated by each hospital car park for each hospital in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24151-22 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 755 of 1 March 2022, the specific locations in County Wexford in which the HSE public dental service is providing emergency cover for medical card patients who are unable to access a service from their local dentist; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24154-22 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons under 18 years of age who are currently waiting to commence orthodontic treatment in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24161-22 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the current list of notified and compliant nicotine inhaling products that is, e-cigarettes and refill containers as held by the Health Service Executive in accordance with Regulation 26 of the European Union (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco and Related Products) Regulations 2016 (as amended).

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PQ 24162-22 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to make public and regularly update the publicly available version of the list of notified and compliant nicotine inhaling products that is, e-cigarettes and refill containers as held by the Executive in accordance with Regulation 26 of the European Union (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco and Related Products) Regulations 2016 (as amended).

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PQ 24167-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make kaftrio available to children with cystic fibrosis who have only one delta F508 mutation and as such have no other suitable modulator; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24174-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the difficulties in recruiting occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24186-22 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that cariban is not on the drug payment scheme ( Minister why is the drug Cariban not on the drug payment scheme and when should woman who take it from pregnancy related issues expect it to be on the scheme); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24228-22 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the community response plan that is in place by county or other geographic breakdown in each of the years from 2010 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24229-22 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that a community response plan has been invoked by county or other geographic breakdown during each of the calendar years from 2010 to 2021, in tabular form

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PQ 24234-22 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1554 of 26 April 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of staffing vacancies within CDNTs in CHO3 and CHO5 based on professional disciplines.

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PQ 24260-22 - Louise O Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number retail outlets registered to sell tobacco on the National Register of Tobacco retailers in 2021 to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24262-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided for tobacco cessation services from 2011 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24309-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015.

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PQ 24355-22 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health when day services in community hospitals across County Donegal will commence for the elderly who have had no services since early 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24366-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase affordability and access to cariban by considering it for reimbursement as an exempt medicinal product under the medical card while the report from the HSE Medicines Management Programme on the drug is being considered (it was stated that this was not possible before as Cariban was wrongly considered a food supplement in Ireland ); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24367-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and pregnant persons who required hospital care as a result of untreated hyperemesis or dehydration or other effects of hyperemesis to date in 2022.

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PQ 24395-22 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the establishment of an android and smart phone application which would provide parents of newborns with a 24/7 support system with on-demand access to leading maternal and paediatric experts.

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PQ 24396-22 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time midwives in each of public maternity units here as of 1 May 2020, 1 May 2021 and 10 May 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 24397-22 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time community development workers funded by the HSE to work in addiction services in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 24398-22 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of locations and practitioners that publicly provide frenotomy services for babies with tongue tie issues.

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PQ 24444-22 - Sean Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of paediatric patients on the waiting list for audiology services in the HSE community audiology service in the Russell Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24; the average waiting time to access services; and the number of paediatric patients that have been waiting for longer than two years.

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PQ 24457-22 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if the situation in relation to the landing of helicopters (Minister, with regard to Medivac and the landing of helicopters, why is the situation allowed to continue now where in South Kerry for example, Portmagee, Valentia Island or Cahersiveen, the nearest medivac landing location is recorded and down as Sneem football field. Surely this is ridiculous considering that we have football fields in South Kerry and other closer locations. In the interest of safety could this be looked into) in County Kerry will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24474-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the value of refunds by the HSE for blood tests for which patients were charged by general practitioners in each of the years since 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24478-22 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider increasing the mileage and wear and tear allowances currently provided to staff that provide end of life and palliative care services in the home in the HSE mid-west region in view of the rising costs in both fuels and car repairs which means that the allowances currently being provided are making this job uneconomical for many; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24537-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health if ambulances are bringing patients to the accident and emergency department of Navan Hospital; if ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals for any reason; and if patients are being picked up in County Meath who could be treated in Navan but are being brought elsewhere.

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PQ 24593-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Coombe to resume screening of cervical cancer samples; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24594-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the National Cervical Screening Laboratory and the recrutiment of staff; the steps he is taking to address the shortage of cytopathology staff; when he expects that all cervical cancer samples will be screened in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24604-22 - Sean Sherlock

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PQ 24625-22 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to issue a directive for any remaining maternity restrictions in hospitals to be lifted completed where there are still restrictions on partners attending ante-natal and scan appointments and visiting after birth if he will explain the reason that is the case; the reason maternity services across the country are not equitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24639-22 - Charles Flanagan

To ask the Minister for Health the up to date position regarding the proposed new primary care centre for Rathdowney, County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24690-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of 42 24-hour staffed residential mental health placements along with a rehabilitation mental health team in the north Cork HSE catchment area while east Cork, with a similar population size, is due under current HSE plans to have all or most of its 24-hour staffed placements removed while continuing to lack a rehabilitation mental health team; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24691-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the length of time that the HSE plans to continue its use of Garnish House, Cork as a mental health facility; if Garnish House has planning permission for use as a mental health facility for as long as it has been in operation and into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24709-22 - Peter Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the machine to read an internal cardioverter-defibrillator; and if same will be considered for the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath.

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PQ 24750-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health when the primary care centre in Carrickmacross will become operational; the services that will be available in the centre at that date; the services that will become available at a later stage; the number of professionals and grades that will be based in the centre associated with each service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24752-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the health of mothers for each year the building of the new Maternity Hospital is delayed; the number of wards that are operating at over capacity; the level of over capacity use in each of these wards; the capacity of the hospital; the number of patients in the hospital at any one time; the patient to doctor ratio; the patient to nursing ratio; the number of babies who are in the neo-natal intensive care unit; the patient to consultant ratio; and the way that these ratios compare to best practice.

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PQ 24756-22 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the investigation into allegations made by a whistle-blower in April 2020 as a protected disclosure, regarding the care of patients during Covid-19 at St. Marys Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin; the date this report was completed; when it will be published; the cost of the investigation to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24764-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for adult day care services transport for each centre operating day care services in tabular form.

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PQ 24790-22 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if non-medical frontline staff in the health sector that is, administration staff, security, cleaning staff and so on, that worked in hospitals throughout the pandemic will be entitled to the pandemic bonus payment.

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PQ 24802-22 - Seán Haughey

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for appointments for general adult mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24803-22 - Sean Haughey

To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the new opening of the new National Forensic Mental Health Service in Portrane; the reasons for the delay in the confirmation of an opening date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24807-22 - Neale Richmond

To ask the Minister for Health if contact tracers are eligible for the Covid-19 bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24844-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of young adults who are on waiting lists for respite services in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24879-22 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the number of recorded cases of infection from hospital utensils and equipment and so on, in each acute hospital in each of the past five years.

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PQ 24905-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for when the 24 additional lactation consultants outlined in the Women’s Health Action Plan 2022-2023 will be filled; when this recruitment process will be completed; when access to such supports will be made available on maternity wards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24926-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if the new lactation consultants posts promised for 2022 has been filled; if those recruited have commenced employment in that role; the total number of publicly funded lactation consultants currently working by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24945-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for medical device support that her Department received from children under the age of 18 years by county in the year 2022 to date, in tabular form.

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PQ Responses - May 17th 2022