PQ Responses - November 30th 2022

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PQ 59597-22 - Jennifer Carroll MacNeill front page preview

PQ 59597-22 - Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department is taking to reduce a 52-week wait for an endometriosis excision surgery, considering that further delay to this type of surgery may impact severely on women's reproductive health; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59633-22 - Eoin Ó Broin front page preview

PQ 59633-22 - Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons seeking cervical screening from CervicalCheck centres are being refused appointments if they are not registered patients of the GP surgery in which the screening is taking place; if this is correct given that CervicalCheck advise via their website that people do not have to be a registered patient of a surgery in order to obtain cervical screening in a centre; if he will provide an explanation for the discrepancy in information; and if he will outline the correct process through which persons can obtain cervical screening in the case that their own GP surgery does not provide the service.

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PQ 59642-22 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 59642-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages; the number experiencing delayed discharge from hospital due to a delay in accessing homecare; and the waiting lists for homecare packages by CHO and LHO in tabular form.

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PQ 59643-22 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 59643-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for an assessment for homecare packages by CHO, age, category and the length of time waiting in tabular form.

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PQ 59644-22 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 59644-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the current number of delayed discharges per hospital in tabular form; and his views on the actions being taken to reduce this number.

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PQ 59658-22 - Richard Bruton front page preview

PQ 59658-22 - Richard Bruton

To ask the Minister for Health if a list will be provided of all schemes and programmes under the remit of his Department for which a means test applies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59720-22 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 59720-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of funding for drug and alcohol addiction services from all sources for each county in each of the past five years to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59724-22 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 59724-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing back-up power supply batteries for hydraulic beds with pressure mattresses for home-based HSE patients, using HSE supplied equipment given that the beds being supplied by the HSE currently have no back-up batteries or power supply units, which could lead to patients having to be re-hospitalised in the case of a power cut; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59846-22 - Eoin Ó Broin front page preview

PQ 59846-22 - Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse positions in each CHO area; the number of vacant public health nurse positions in each CHO area and the specific geographic areas within each CHO that currently have no public health nurse in place; and if any interim measures are being put in place to ensure universal access to public health nurses in tabular form.

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PQ 59847-22 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 59847-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to proposals put forward by an association (Psychiatric Nurses Association. St. Ita’s Hospital Campus, Portrane, Co. Dublin; *sixty beds remain unopened at the new National Forensic Mental Health Service (NFMHS) in Portrane, Co Dublin, because of a lack of staff to open all 170 beds and services there; *there are already 25 vacancies in the recently opened forensic mental health service, Portrane; *currently there is alse 85 nursing vacancies in St Joseph’s Mental Health Intellectual Disability Services, also at Portrane; *ideally re-utilising the currently vacant historical buildings) that subsidised nursing staff accommodation should be provided at a location as well as at other possible locations, to help address the serious issues with recruitment of mental health nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59854-22 - Eoin Ó Broin front page preview

PQ 59854-22 - Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that public health nurses in CHO have been moved to Cherry Orchard Hospital.

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