PQ Responses - May 24th 2022

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PQ 25676-22 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to recruit and retain a safe number of midwives specifically at Letterkenny University Hospital in order to allow for the full implementation of the National Maternity Strategy at the hospital, including the provision for home births which still represent an unmet demand in County Donegal.

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PQ 25688-22 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the measures that he will take to address the severe shortage of speech and language therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25696-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the engagment that his officials had on funding for a centre in Cork (The Rainbow Club Cork City).

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PQ 25725-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health if all citizens in each CHO have equal access to a public health nurse; the waiting time for a public health nurse in each CHO; if there is a charge for a public health nurse in each CHO for those who do not have a medical card; the cases in which the charges are imposed and not imposed, respectively; if all citizens in each CHO have equal access to community intervention teams; the waiting time for a community intervention team in each CHO; the charge to access a community intervention team; and if the charge is imposed in each CHO.

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PQ 25729-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of current expenditure provided to fund services and staff at a hospital (St Vincent’s Hospital) in each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; the number of public staff employed in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25730-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of capital investment by the State on the site of a hospital ( St Vincent’s Hospital) since 1990; the breakdown by year and by project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25764-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if attention of the Director General of the HSE has been drawn to the hacking of computer systems from within the HSE; if such incidents have ever been brought to his attention; if he has had to authorise an independent investigation regarding the hacking of confidential private data within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25765-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of bullying complaints made by HSE employees for each of the past five years.

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PQ 25767-22 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details regarding the Parent Consultation Clinic, invitations which are being sent to parents by children’s disability network teams; if the purpose of the Parent Consultation Clinic is to develop individual family service plans; when the Parent Consultation Clinic was developed; the stakeholders that were involved in the development of these clinics; the specific reasons for the rollout of Parent Consultation Clinics when other methods of developing individual family service plans have been available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25785-22 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the HSE budget for 2021 that was returned or unspent from the South South West Hospital Group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25893-22 - Paul Murphy

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PQ 25894-22- Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of services that are available to both children and adults with myalgic encephalomyelitis; and the actions that the HSE will take to rectify this.

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PQ 25909-22 - Gino Kenny

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the long-awaited and urgently needed primary care centre for north Clondalkin, Dublin 22; if the project delay due to the issue regarding the transfer of the Collinstown Park site to the HSE from the Department of Education has been resolved (given that it is over a year since a previous reply to my PQ on the matter indicated that this was the main issue;.); the date for the construction of the primary centre; the proposed timeline for its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25939-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of funding allocated for the Cork and Kerry region to date; the amount allocated to hospitals and CHOs inclusive of section 38 and 39 organisations in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25966-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of participants in each of the individual placement and support services per county in tabular form; if there are waiting lists for any of the individual placement and support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25967-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health when the evaluation of the individual placement and support services will be published; the cost of each individual placement and support service; the outcomes of each individual placement and support service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26016-22 - Seán Canney

To ask the Minister for Health when the nine neurology nurses specialists needed in University Hospital Galway will be recruited; if his attention has been drawn to patients that are unnecessarily waiting longer for diagnosis and treatment as a result of this shortfall in the western regional centre for neurology; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26147-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have attended symptomatic breast disease clinics, lung rapid access clinics and prostate rapid access clinics in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 26148-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges within public car parking in St. James's and the Mater Hospitals in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 26149-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting one additional full-time consultant anaesthesiologist with a special interest in pain for CHI, Connolly Hospital.

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PQ 26161-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the locations of each sleep apnoea clinic in the public health service; the opening hours of each of these clinics in tabular form.

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PQ 26162-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time cognitive behaviour psychotherapist employed by the HSE in 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 26163-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time paediatric dieticians working in CHO1 in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 26203-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds that are available for adults with intellectual disabilities in the Fingal area; the number that are occupied at present; if and when additional spaces will be made available for the remainder of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26234-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the costs of reimbursing international normalised-ratio test strips and coaguchek machines for those who require warfarin for long-term oral anticoagulant therapy; if his Department will fund these machines and test strips; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26238-22 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion of the investigation into the cremation of the remains of babies at Cork University Maternity Hospital.

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PQ 26239-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the exact location of the new property proposed for purchase by the HSE in east County Cork to be used as a mental health facility; the cost of the property; the planning permission status of the property; the number of residents who will be accommodated; the level of service provision it will involve; if the service will be staffed on a 24-hour basis; the reason that the purchase is being pursued without consultation with the residents of a centre (Owenacurra Centre) and their families regarding its location; the staff members in the HSE who decided on this purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26240-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the exact staffing allocations per discipline and per population of the HSE home-based treatment over the combined east Cork HSE catchment of Midleton, Youghal and Cobh, Glenville; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26241-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the exact staffing allocations per discipline of the HSE psychology of later life service over the combined east Cork HSE catchment of Midleton, Youghal and Cobh, Glenville; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26244-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the planning status of Garnish House, Cork for use as a mental health facility by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26245-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the current and capital cost of establishing and operating a 24/7 multi-agency mental health crisis de-escalating team in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26287-22 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health further an to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 24 February 2022, if he will seek an update on the recommendations by the National Clinical Programme for Neurology for an additional 16 neurological clinical nurse specialists and advanced nurse practitioners in 2022; if these posts have been filled; if there are other plans for further provision in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26289-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE reviews of the disposal of perinatal organs which were due to be received by his Department in November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26295-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health if staff at the new National Maternity Hospital will be guaranteed freedom of conscience and conscientious objection in relation to operations that end the lives of living human beings.

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PQ 26304-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health when the full complement of the 24 additional lactation consultant posts created under the 2022 National Service Plan will be filled; the number of posts that have been filled to date; the timeline for a person to be appointed to all of these posts created; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26383-22 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health when the occupational therapist position in Templemore CHO area 3 will be filled given that it has remained vacant since February 2022 (and it provides such an essential service within the community and it needs to be filled urgently); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26386-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions on which HSE employees have been docked pay for being late; the number that were late by less than 30 minutes; the number by less than 15 minutes; the number by less than 5 minutes, for each month of 2020 and 2021 and 2022 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26406-22 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health if there is any process whereby a person can reclaim the cost of medication which has now been reimbursed by the HSE ( Person sourced licensed medication Epidyolex privately for a number of months prior to it being reimbursed by the HSE at a significant personal cost. As the medication had now been reimbursed (Jan 22), is there any processes whereby costs incurred during HSE assessment process can be recovered to ease the financial impact experienced by this family); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26441-22 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed east Meath primary care centre which is to be located in Bettystown town centre; when he expects work to commence; if other relevant details in this regard will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26443-22 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the proposed Dundalk primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26457-22 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progression of the new 50-bed hospital in St. Joseph's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth; if he will provide other relevant details in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26465-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of subacute community beds in the public healthcare system per 1,000; the total number; the way in which this compares with other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and European Union in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26471-22 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of community optometrists contracted to provide services by CHO area in 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 26480-22 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who have left the dental treatment services scheme in the past six months in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26509-22 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the number of taxi or courier services that were hired in 2020 and 2021 by the HSE to transport abortion pills from a general practitioner to a person who opted to have an abortion since the introduction of telemedicine abortion service in Q1 2020; and the costings for these transport and courier services as budgeted for in 2020 and 2021.

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PQ 26558-22 - Gino Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are registered as patients under the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - May 24th 2022