PQ Responses - May 5th 2022

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PQ 22424-22 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 22424-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to provide funding for the provision of (the Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System) to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22425-22 - Róisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 22425-22 - Róisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider ringfencing some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme (MMP) Preferred Blood Glucose Strips for adults with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund (the provision of the Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System) for people with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22426-22 - Róisín Shortall front page preview

PQ 22426-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for (Freestyle Libre) that were submitted by individual hospitals for people with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number that were approved; the number that were refused in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; if there are plans to remove the age restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22431-22 - Pauline Tully front page preview

PQ 22431-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the persons appointed to sit on the Assessment of Need Review Group; the details of the terms of reference of this group; if the terms of reference can be accessed by the public; the dates when the group has met; the dates of any future planned meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22446-22 - Mick Barry front page preview

PQ 22446-22 - Mick Barry

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are on the waiting list to access treatment for autism following diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22450-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne front page preview

PQ 22450-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown by date of the last visit by HSE personnel to each school in County Clare with an ASD unit in tabular form.

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PQ 22451-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne front page preview

PQ 22451-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to provide treatment centres or community specialist services to support those with eating disorders in CHO area 3.

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PQ 22452-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne front page preview

PQ 22452-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented to the minor injuries unit at Ennis Hospital in each of the years of 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 22491-22 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 22491-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 6 April 2022, if a breakdown of the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals in each of the hospital and hospital groups in 2021 and to date in 2022 will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22501-22 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 22501-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 359 and 360 of 2 April 2019, the current value and income of each car park, for each hospital for each year since 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22511-22 - Ged Nash front page preview

PQ 22511-22 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to establish a dedicated clinic for sufferers of long Covid on a permanent basis in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22514-22 - Duncan Smith front page preview

PQ 22514-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners providing vasectomy services through GMS contracts across all CHOs for each year for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22515-22 - Duncan Smith front page preview

PQ 22515-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if he has concerns regarding the provision of vasectomy services through GMS contracts in terms of capacity and following recent retirements of general practitioners providing the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22524-22 - Ivana Bacik front page preview

PQ 22524-22 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health the number of designated cancer centres that have an established, designated service to address the psycho-social needs of patients with cancer and their families to date in tabular form; the number of positions across the designed centres that have been funded to date versus the target number; and the number of the funded positions that have been filled to date.

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PQ 22525-22 - Ivana Bacik front page preview

PQ 22525-22 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the progress of the National Lymphoedema Clinical Guidelines.

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PQ 22536-22 - Róisín Shortall front page preview

PQ 22536-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to communications between an organisation ( According to a letter of 26th April 2021 to the Clinical Director of Neurosurgery at the National Neurosurgical Centre Beaumont Hospital, the Independent Assessment Panel (IAP) contacted a neurosurgeon in another jurisdiction to “aid their deliberations” regarding designation of the Major Trauma Centre in the Mater Hospital . It is now known that this neurosurgeon was working in London but there is no record of any communication between the IAP members and this neurosurgeon.) and a neurosurgeon in relation to the decision to designate the Mater Hospital as the major trauma centre; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 22537-22 - Róisín Shortall front page preview

PQ 22537-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by the National Clinical Programme for Neurology and the HSE Scheduled Care Transformation Programme throughout 2021 and 2022 to develop an integrated cross discipline pathway for Huntington’s disease, considering the need for an integrated cross discipline service, which will take responsibility for the coordination of care following a Huntington’s disease diagnosis; the supports that will be made available to families of persons who receive a positive predictive test result; his plans to include the experience and voice of families affected by Huntington’s disease in the development of the integrated pathway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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