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To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm information received by parents of young children in Newcastle, County Dublin that no public health nurse service is available in their area; the reason this is the case; if his Department is taking action to ensure a public health nurse service is provided in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on staff shortages in the Dublin mid-west public health nurse network; if vacant positions have been filled; if a full service is now available in all parts of the constituency; and if not, what areas remain impacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made to upgrade and enhance paediatric care and services in CUH; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in relation to the installation of a helipad in CUH ( Minister the service and facility of a helicopter landing pad is of great importance to CUH to allow for the safe and quick delivery of urgent patients to the hospital. This is going on a long time now. As you are aware the previous pad is no longer in use.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to be seen by child and adolescent mental health services by CHO and LHO; and the length of time that persons are waiting to be seen, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will outline his plans for the development of respite services in each LHO of CHO4 for persons with disabilities and their families, including the increase in staffing levels, the facilities that are planned or where works are underway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the respite services in each LHO of CHO4 for persons with disabilities and their families; the number of respite facilities available; the capacity of each facility to care for individuals who need one-to-one care; the number of people who have used these facilities annually in 2021 and 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if staff shortages in section 38 and 39 organisations running CDNT's is similar to the staff shortages in the HSE ran CDNTs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE conducts exit interviews for staff that are leaving the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of people attending the diabetes clinic in Dundalk who are living with type 1 diabetes; the number of people with type 1 diabetes on a waiting list for an appointment for the clinic; the average length of waiting times for those appointments for existing patients and newly diagnosed patients with type 1 diabetes, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if DAFNE carbohydrate counting courses are proceeding at the Dundalk diabetes clinic, either remotely or in person; if so, how many people have completed DAFNE courses at the clinic; how many are on the waiting list for DAFNE courses; the average wating time for patients to get a place on the course; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline how many DSNs/dietitians are currently working in the diabetes clinic in Dundalk, both full-time and part-time; if these posts are solely dedicated to serving people with type 1 diabetes at the Dundalk clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if a new endocrinologist has been appointed to the diabetes clinic in Dundalk; when this appointment will commence; if a new endocrinologist has not yet been appointed; when this post will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health when a new pump clinic will be provided at Dundalk’s diabetes clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if the CHO3 adult ADHD clinic is fully staffed; the number of vacancies, if any, that exist in CHO3, adult ADHD services; what the current caseload of the team serving the CHO3 ADHD clinic is; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the provision of a Parkinson’s nurse specialist for Waterford and Tipperary University Hospitals, following a funding allocation under Budget 2023 for the provision of 22 neurologist speciality nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of all costs associated with the removal of trees in Merlin Woods, Galway to date in 2023; the name of the companies or persons that were commissioned by the HSE for any associated services, including the arborist assessment, the tree-removal works themselves, the clearance of the timber and the tree-planting assessment and any other associated costs, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HSE decision-making process leading to tree-felling works carried out in Merlin Woods, Galway in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health what steps should be taken by nursing home workers where a former employer sought and was paid the Covid bonus payment on their behalf but the worker has not been paid by their now former employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of children diagnosed with scarlet fever and hospitalised due to same in the months October 2022 to March 2023, inclusive, broken down by individual hospital, and the age range of those children affected, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson's disease nurse specialists working in neurology centres in Tipperary University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick and University Hospital Waterford; 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 ensure that appropriate funding is to be provided towards the employment of additional Parkinson's disease nurse specialists in neurology centres, and specifically in Tipperary University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick and University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health to outline where the two new roles, the national clinical lead for mental health and the assistant director for youth mental health will fill into the structures of the HSE; if this can be provided in diagram form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health to outline the access criteria for someone to enter one of the three pilot projects for dual diagnosis; the capacity of each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health what progress is being made with regards to reinstating public health nurse check-ups for infants and children in Newcastle, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health when a public health nurse will be available for residents in Newcastle, County Dublin; the current and levels of public health nurses by area in Dublin mid-west; the plans for recruitment of public heath nurses in Dublin mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapist posts that are currently within children disability network teams in CHO9; 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 list of all Delta calls received by the DFB Dispatch (ERCC) and the National Ambulance Service in Dublin that were responded to beyond the 19-minute target for 2022 (in spreadsheet/database/list format. This record to include the response time, context for the response time, the geographical location breakdown by station area in Dublin.)
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of workers who have not received their bonus payment for work done during Covid.
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To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the vacant position of public health nurse in the Newcastle area has not been filled for some time, which is impacting significantly on the population in that area, including the lack of check-ups for new born babies; when this position will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth his views on providing temporary funding assistance to the families of children on waiting lists for children’s disability network teams to get an assessment of need through a regulated and registered private provider.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of lactation specialist roles and/or public health nurses with a specialisation in lactation that it is planned to establish and fill in each LHO in CHO4 during 2023.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of unfilled positions for speech and language therapists in each of the community disability network teams in Cork, broken down by area.
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To ask the Minister for Health when the €1,000 workers pandemic recognition payment will be paid to agency workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate his latest assessment of the extent of long-Covid, of the optimum services to meet the challenges for such patients, and of the extent to which services are now being made available on an adequate scale to patients; and if he has developed a process to monitor the progress of such patients to ensure that best international practice is applied here.
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To ask the Minister for Health following the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17 to 26 years and the anticipated roll out to women under 30 years from 1 September 2023, if his Department or the HSE are compiling any data on the uptake of this scheme among this age cohort; the other data in relation to this that is being compiled; if it will be used to inform the roll out to further age cohorts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health following the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17 to 26 years, if a system is in place to gather data on the uptake of the scheme; if so, if this data includes the type of contraception opted for; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if the suitability of the current site of St. Patrick’s Hospital, Cashel for a new 60-bed community nursing unit has been determined in light of a planning notice issued notifying intent to demolish the gate lodge at the site; 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 pathway for hospital staff who applied for the pandemic special recognition payment on appeal, were turned down and have no facility to appeal the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in Dublin mid-west by area; the number of vacancies by area; the recruitment plan for public health nurses in Dublin mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the mobile breast screening units that will not return to Mullingar and Athlone until the end of 2023, the number of women who were scheduled to attend these units for screening who will now have to make the trip to Tullamore to avail of this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health when a cohort of agency workers (Agency frontline security staff working in Wexford Hospital throughout the pandemic) can expect to receive their pandemic payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth what appeals process is open to a patient when their symptoms are attributed solely to a diagnosis of ASD, to the automatic exclusion of consideration of other causes of illness or disease with similar symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the key services and supports available to children with learning disabilities such as autism in counties Sligo and Leitrim or CHO1 once diagnosis takes place; the wait list numbers and wait list times for children to see OTs and SLTs publicly; the number of WTE posts for OTs and SLTS in the same region; the number of posts open; the steps the HSE is taking in terms of recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expansion of ambulance services in Athlone, County Westmeath.
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To ask the Minister for Health when the last HIQA site inspection was carried out at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a WTE consultant nephrologist with a special interest in glomerulonephritis at University Hospital, Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint additional WTE consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in urogynaecology at the maternity department at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric ENT surgeries that were carried out at each of the children's hospitals in the years of 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make the non-invasive prenatal tests available free of charge to all pregnant women; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons within CHO5 awaiting respite services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for people with a rare disease to access genetic testing and then to receive a subsequent diagnosis after a referral; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown in tabular form of staff numbers, rank and hours worked (full-time or part-time) at the Department of Clinical Genetics of Our Lady’s Children's Hospital Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the Covid-19 recognition payment to eligible workers in non-HSE and non-section 38 organisations; the number of non-HSE and non-section 38 organisations whose claims have not been processed; when he expects all payments to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time it takes to process an application under the discretionary hardship scheme to provide an explanation for the current delay in processing applications for the scheme in the Dublin West area; if he is aware both pharmacies and families are experiencing huge difficulty in making contact with the Local Health Office section regarding the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 200 of 15 February 2023 and 1151 of 21 March 2023, the number of staff directly employed by the HSE known to be on leave from work for more than one year due to long-Covid symptoms, as evidenced by their receipt of special Covid leave with pay for that period of time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of any contracts awarded to company (CroCon Engineers Ltd) by the HSE; namely, the exact value of each contract, the details of works, and the full costs of any further works undertaken where applicable, the site where the works in question took place and details of any tendering process that may have applied in the awarding of contracts; the HSE manager(s) awarding the contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 31 January 2023 and the subsequent correspondence of the HSE dated 14 February 2023, if the sale of Corlough health centre was publicly advertised; the agents utilised to process the sale; the oversight mechanisms for the sale that were in place by the HSE; the officials that had signed off on the sale agreement; the current status of the proposed sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health when the opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital will be extended to include weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health whether reimbursement payments to abortion-providing GPs was included as part of the €11.5 million figure allocated in 2019 to abortion services; 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 breakdown of the State expenditure, by all categories including GP reimbursement payments of the €9.5 million spent on abortion services in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to fund abortion services in 2021; the breakdown by all categories of expenditure on abortion services in 2021 including GP reimbursement payments, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who provide services under the general medical card scheme, by county in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve the diagnosis capacity and treatment of Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with a group (Tick Talk Ireland) to improve the diagnosis capacity and treatment of Lyme disease in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the action the HSE has taken to recruit a physiotherapist for the rehab unit at St. Columba's Hospital, Thomastown, County Kilkenny, since January 2023 when notice was given; the interim arrangements being put in place to provide the service to patients; and if there is a date on which the full services will resume.
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To ask the Minister for Health the average timeframe wheelchair users are waiting to receive their first wheelchair from application to handover; the average timeframe wheelchair users are waiting for a replacement wheelchair from application to handover; the average cost of replacing a wheelchair; the funding that was allocated for the replacement of wheelchairs over the past five years; the number of people applying for a replacement wheelchair in the past five years; the number of people receiving a replacement wheelchair in the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he is aware that the two senior psychologists working in CHO5 children’s disability network team, Clonmel, have both issued notice of their intent to resign and will be vacating their posts in the coming weeks; the efforts his Department will take to guarantee that these senior psychologist positions are filled immediately in order that the senior psychologist vacancies do not impact on the CHO5 CDNT waiting lists/times; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up mammogram appointment in the Saolta University Health Care Group for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up mammogram appointment in the Ireland East Hospital Group for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up mammogram appointment in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up mammogram appointment in the University of Limerick Hospitals Group for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up mammogram appointment in the South/South West Hospital Group for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up mammogram appointment in the RCSI Hospital Group, in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the Saolta University Health Care Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the Ireland East Hospital Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the University Limerick Hospitals Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the South/South West Hospital Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with bowel cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up colonoscopy in the RCSI Hospital Group in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and to-date in 2023, by each hospital and waiting time period, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of people living in County Donegal who have attended Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry for treatment over the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE plastic surgery registrars working in Beaumont Hospital in each of the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE child and adolescent psychiatrists and clinical psychologists working in CAMHS and Mental Health Intellectual Disability Teams in CHO7 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE ICU nurses working in Tallaght University Hospital in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff by job title working in the pharmacy Department of the Mater Hospital; the number of WTE vacancies by job title within this Department; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time healthcare attendants employed by the HSE working in each health centre and primary care centre within CHO7 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. -
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To ask the Minister for Health when clerical and administration staff who have retired from Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda will receive their pension increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the reason a role is advertised as a part-time position rather than a full-time position (The new role of National Clinical Lead for CAHMS/Youth Mental Health is advertised as 2.5 days per week, yet had a comprehensive and broad definition. Considering the findings of the Maskey Report it could be expected that this position would allow an expert to be employed on a full-time basis, to focus on the role), given the recognised importance of developing and reforming CAMHS and Youth Mental Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the information that is exchanged between the HSE's women's health service and anti-human trafficking team and An Garda Síochána that is, how often such exchanges happen, demographic figures and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of dietitian posts allocated to the 2 CDNTs in South Tipperary; the numbers of those posts vacant; if there are any plans to fill those vacancies with agency staff until the posts have been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of dietitian posts allocated to the 12 CDNTs covering the south east; how many of those are vacant as of 31 March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in each of the 73 CAMHS teams; how many CAMHS teams are fully staffed; the vacancy rates per CAMHS team; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the entitlements that exist for elderly dementia patients living at home; if such entitlement differs around the country (As I understand it, HSE midlands allows for a max14 hrs per week home care while Dublin allows for up to 21 hours home care per week for dementia patients’); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the recommendations contained in the clinical governance and operational arrangements for supporting a model of care for children with life-limiting conditions towards the end of life in the community in Ireland, in particular recommendations 14 and 15; the proportion of posts that have been filled; which posts remain vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding required to ensure that the National Skin Cancer Prevention Plan 2023-2026 is implemented in full; the amount of funding that has been allocated to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been allocated to the lymphoedema model of care to date; if so, the amount of funding that has been allocated, and in what years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health when adult ADHD services will be in place in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays of up to six months in Wexford patients receiving hysteroscopy results; what measures are being undertaken to reduce the waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in response to the finding in the National Report of Children's Disability Networks Team Staff Census and Workforce Review for 2022 that the total therapy hours provided decreased by 6% in 2022 compared to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps he has taken to alter policy and practices in response to decisions by the Coroner's Court relating to infant deaths whereby the HSE and/or publicly-funded hospitals were found to be partially or wholly responsible for the deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent annually on rent for each of the following facilities ( Bandon Primary Care Centre, Bantry Primary Care Centre, Clonakility Primary Health Care Cente, Dunmanway Primary Care Centre, Mizen Primary Care Centre) for the years 2020 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve public adult ADHD services in CHO4, including details of when adult ADHD services will be operating in each LHO in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the average processing time for HSE pension commencements from claim to final approval by division, in tabular form; the target time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the reopening of the day centre in Áras Mhic Dara in Carraroe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients recorded on trolleys at each public hospital in the State in the period from January to March 2023, and for the same period 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 Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth what additional staffing resources have been provided during 2022 and to date in 2023 to the Clare children’s disability network team for the purpose of reducing waiting lists in County Clare; if he will confirm what additional measures have and will be taken to further improve service delivery in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update and to outline his views on the adequacy of existing mental health supports for children in the Louth and east Meath area; if he will identify those supports; if his attention has been drawn to the significant waiting lists for these essential services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health when the replacement general practitioner will start operating in Blarney, County Cork, given the recruitment process has concluded in early March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will engage with the HSE to investigate whether providing group speech and language therapy while children await therapy sessions would be possible to ensure that more children get access to speech and language therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he has considered allowing children to access therapies in a neighbouring CHO, if that CHO has capacity to offer additional services and their own CHO does not; and if he will make a statement on the matter
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will provide additional funding to the MS care centre to provide an additional 1.128 bed-nights per year for people with multiple sclerosis in Ireland, to allow residents to learn more about their MS and find ways to self-manage their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for genetic testing services for rare diseases in Ireland; and the measures that his Department plan to take to improve access and speed of results for patients in need of genetic testing services.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to provide a hospice facility at a location (Newgrange Hospice, Drogheda, Co. Louth); if a capital allocation has been made to the project; if he will confirm a timeline for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the status of adult ADHD services in CHO4 which were intended to be in place by the end of 2022; and if he can confirm when these services will be in place and available.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a long standing commitment to the refurbishment of a building in the old St. Otterans site in Waterford so that community services presently located on the acute hospital campus at UHW could move to this new location thereby freeing up space within the main campus which is badly needed to provide new medical bed space (if he can explain why the refurbishment of this building in Saint Otterans stopped with a renovation of the roof and the site has now been left unworked for a period of almost a year); if he will provide the updated status as to when this building will be refurbished and in a position to receive community services out of the acute hospital campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant occupational therapy roles in children's primary care services by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if there is a Board of Trustees of the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot St., Dublin 4; if so, the names of the Board members; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently awaiting a dental appointment in primary care, by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric orthopaedic appointments, by appointment type, cancelled in January and February 2019-2023, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that dementia and Alzheimer's disease treatment and care are informed by the latest best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the home support waiting list in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE proposals to limit home birth services for women and pregnant people living within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to outline the staffing to caseload ratios used to calculate the numbers, types, and scale of therapists and clinicians required for each CDNT; how regularly these ratios are reviewed; and what processes are in place to reconfigure services according to local needs.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 6 and 19 of 30 March 2023, if he will ensure that young adults with intellectual disabilities in the Cork area are eligible for a personal assistance service in order to travel safely to further education or training centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if applied behaviour analysis is in use in the health service for people with autism; and if so, how widespread the practice is.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on any discussions between his Department and the Irish Dental Association on further revision of the dental treatment service scheme; the plans his Department and the HSE have to ensure that patients in Louth and Meath who have medical cards receive the timely treatment they need in the interim; if he will provide the most recent figures on the number of registered dentists in the scheme in both Louth and Meath as of 1 April 2023; 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 progress update on the new east Meath primary care centre; the latest expected date for completion of the project and for services to commence locally; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health what care pathways are in place for under 18s requiring gender affirming care as a result of clinical psychologist diagnosed gender dysphoria; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health when Tullow, County Carlow will get a primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to shorten significant delays in waiting lists for dental treatments for school children which require general anaesthesia to provide a service that assists the most vulnerable in society; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of public only dentists in or serving County Carlow; the number of dentists in Carlow participating in the dental treatment services scheme/medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if there are plans to provide occupational therapy service for those with mild intellectual disability in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of adult ADHD services in CH04 - Cork covering North Lee, South Lee and North Cork; when these services will be fully in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter concerning cardiology services at University Hospital Waterford (The minister would be aware of the commitment of the government to see seven day 8-8 cardiac catheterization services available at University Hospital Waterford as soon as possible - a new cardiology appointment taking up position in July 2023 will bring the whole time cardiology team equivalent on site to over 5 which can manage the new extended 7 day rota pending further appointments to the service. A budgetary Service plan is required to provide the extension to seven day cath lab activity - will the minister confirm that such a budget is ringfenced and approved within the southwest hospital group budget plan to commence this activity in quarter 2023 with the opening of the second cath lab which is the latest HSE appointed date); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter concerning a laboratory at University Hospital Waterford (The minister will be aware that with the development of a second cardiac catheterization laboratory at University Hospital Waterford some informal medical opinion has circulated suggesting this laboratory could be repurposed periodically to provide for vascular surgical procedures. The vascular unit at University Hospital Waterford has for years been looking for increased funding to accommodate its extension patient lists but also to reduce the need for the transfer of acute procedures outside the region. Understanding the increasing catchment size presenting at University Hospital Waterford and understanding that Waterford and the South East region has the fastest growing population of all the regions of the country will the minister confirm whether a business case for the development of a vascular laboratory has been progressed for UHW by Southwest Hospital Group and if not will the minister give instruction to South West group management to formally begin such a process for presentation to the national capital and property steering committee so that a funding timeline can be established); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times in Tipperary per quarter over the past five years, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of permanent multi-annual funded residential beds for respite in CHO4; what plans, if any, there are for expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to expand the provision of funding for the Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting 12 hours or more at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, in each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and to date in 2023.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the process to include the cancer medicine, verzenios, for reimbursement under the medicine access scheme for persons diagnosed with breast cancer.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant optometry and ophthalmology roles in primary care services by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant psychology roles in children's primary care services by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of vacant speech and language therapy roles in each children's disability network team; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant speech and language therapy roles in children's primary care services by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of vacant physiotherapy roles in each children's disability network team; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant physiotherapy roles in children's primary care services by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the new two-storey laboratory extension at University Hospital Waterford which has received planning permission from the Waterford local authority, if he will confirm the status of this project with respect to ringfenced funding, tender development and contract award and this project's status within the 2023 capital plan ( planning ref 22292); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to install mother-and-baby carpark spaces in the primary care centre, Tuam; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the cath lab and full array of diagnostic cardiac services are now fully operational at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will outline his plans to further develop cardiac services at Letterkenny University Hospital.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the average time it takes to advertise a post (Details Supplied: Psychologist , Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapists) that has been left vacant in children's disability network teams, from the time that the staff member hands in their notice; 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. 332 of 9 March 2023, if a response will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists by CHO and length of wait for January and March 2019-2023, inclusive, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health when the primary care centre project in Ballyhaunis was first approved; when the tendering process was opened and concluded; when the design phase was completed; when did construction initially commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there is a delay of six months or more for people who have retired from employment from section 38 voluntary organisations and voluntary hospitals to receive their pensions; his views on whether this is acceptable; the steps being taken to resolve this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when increased pension payments and arrears will be paid to retired nurses and other HSE staff; and if the payments will be expedited.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have availed of gambling addiction services in the health service in 2021, 2022 and to do date in 2023.
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To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the payment of the pandemic bonus payment for contracted security staff; when he expects this to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new homecare tender to replace the existing tender which is due to expire on 30 April 2023; when he expects this new tender to be agreed; if this new tender will include recommendations for the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants, in particular recommendation six which states that homecare workers should, at a minimum, receive the national living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for homecare packages; the number of persons experiencing delayed discharge from hospital due to a delay accessing homecare; and the waiting lists for home care packages by CHO and LHO, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health if matters in relation to Lyme's disease (Minister if a person has a confirmed diagnosis from another country that they have lymes disease why are we not accepting this fact here in Ireland and when are we going to accept that lymes disease is an issue here in ireland) will be examined and addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the regional eye care and surgical centre in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital; the date this opened, or will open; and the number of patients seen to date.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of days per year that the full capacity protocol has been utilised at University Hospital Limerick for the period 2011 to 2023, tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the estimated cost of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours for people with disabilities respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing one, two and three additional respite centres for people with disabilities in each of the 9 CHOs respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of providing one, two and three additional respite centres for people with disabilities in each of the nine CHOs respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of providing 100, 250 and 400 additional intensive support packages for children with disabilities who have high/complex support needs, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of transferring 50, 100 and 200 people with disabilities, under the age of 65 years, out of a nursing home and into an assisted community home, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of transferring 50, 100 and 200 people with disabilities, under the age of 65 years, out of a nursing home and into an assisted community home, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the capital cost of transferring 100, 200 and 300 people with disabilities out of congregated settings and into an assisted community home respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of transferring 100, 200 and 300 people with disabilities out of congregated settings and into an assisted community home, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 24, 36 and 48 additional planned residential places, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of providing 24, 36 and 48 additional planned residential places, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 26, 52 and 78 additional emergency residential places, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of providing 26, 52 and 78 additional emergency residential places respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the starting salary cost of employing a basic staff grade physiotherapist, a staff grade speech and language therapist, a staff grade occupational therapist and a staff grade psychologist, respectively, for children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if the enhanced homecare package scheme is available in every county in Ireland (Enhanced Homecare Package Scheme is 35 hours Home Help per week.); if it is not, if he will list the counties that the scheme is available in, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to admit patients from ambulances to the ED at Letterkenny University Hospital in each month of 2022 and in January, February and March 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the longest waiting time to admit patients from ambulances to the ED at Letterkenny University Hospital in each month of 2022 and in January, February and March 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health how many cases are involved in the ongoing north Kerry look-back review into CAMHS; how many families/patients came forward; and if he will provide an approximate timeline for the completion of the review.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in 2022 who waited over twelve hours to be treated following presentation at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in 2022 who waited over eight hours to be treated following presentation at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in 2022 who waited over twenty-four hours to be treated following presentation at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health to provide details, in tabular form, on the number of theatre appointments by procedure type that were cancelled at University Hospital Limerick in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of independent dental practices that signed up to the dental treatment services scheme in each of the past five years, broken down by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the amount of funding provided by the HSE to the National Multiple Sclerosis Care Centre in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting one additional orthodontics specialist, one senior dental hygienist and one senior dental surgeon, in tabular form.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent vacant posts by role currently unfilled in each of individual lung rapid access clinics, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologist with a special interest in strabismus working in the public health services in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health to provide the following information in relation to spinal surgeries performed on patients with spina bifida at Temple Street between 2018 and the end of 2022; the total number of surgeries; the number returned to theatre; the wound infection rate among patients; the rate of metalwork failure among patients; the overall complication rate; and to outline the documented process for discussing wound infection/repeat surgeries.
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To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of any external or internal pressure being placed on clinical staff at Temple Street to restart spina bifida-related surgeries in advance of the conclusion of the external review and therefore before any possibility of implementing recommendations from that review.
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To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 571 of 7 March 2023 and 1155 of 21 March 2023, the current projected extended time-frame for the HSEs use of Garnish House, Cork as a mental health facility; the details of consultation with families of residents on the changes to this arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the reason the east Cork HSE catchment area, with a population of circa 100,000, is having its 24-hour staffed residential mental health provision reduced from twenty single-room placements in 2021 to three single-room placements in 2023; the reason a development team due to be set up from May 2022 with a view to developing a new ten bed service for the region has not yet been formed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health to provide a timeline of when works are due to commence on the development of a helipad at the Cork University Hospital site; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health when the oversight group for National Standards for Bereavement Care Following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death under the National Women and Infants Health Programme will be reconstituted; if he will outline the process of how an individual or group can become part of the oversight group; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the amount of Exchequer funding that has been allocated to an organisation (I wish to know how much exchequer funding has been granted to Southdoc (out of hours GP service) with a breakdown of those disbursements and a note on who represents the interest of the taxpayer at board level on Southdoc) for 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all primary care centres open, under construction and planned; the number of centres that are publicly owned, privately leased, and public private partnerships, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of unfilled posts in the disability services area; the proportion of those posts that are full time permanent contracts; and what proportion that are fixed term or temporary contracts.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if a facility (Cavan Hydrotherapy Pool is in operation since the beginning of March 2023. I am seeking information on: 1. How many users have availed of the service in its first month? 2. What are the opening hours for the service? 3. How are service users notified of the service? 4. Are they making the pool available to others users and organisations after hours?) is fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide an update on the staffing levels for the children's disability network teams in Roscommon and Galway.
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To ask the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form from January 2022 to March 2023, the number of times ambulances not typically stationed to operate in County Tipperary were asked to responds to ambulance call-outs in County Tipperary because an ambulance was not available for dispatch within County Tipperary; the average response time for ambulance call-outs in such circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that facilities to apply for the technical aids grant is available in each CHO; to provide a list of the items covered by the grant.
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To ask the Minister for Health to remove all remaining restrictions in maternity units regarding partners attending antenatal appointments and assessment units; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of staffing levels by profession in each of the 73 CAMHS teams across the State; the vacancy levels per CAMHS teams by profession in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultations provided by Shannondoc out of hours service on 24,25, 26 and 27 December 2022 by centre and day, in tabular form; and the number of doctors on duty at each centre for each of the aforementioned dates.
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To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to Shannondoc under the service level agreement in each of the years since 2018, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown of this funding allocation in each year including staff wages; if this funding took account of the Building Momentum pay agreement; if staff benefited from these pay increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health if public monies have been used to fund public relations activities for a heath service provider funded by the HSE (I understand that Shannondoc has contracted Teneo to assist with public relations.); if so, the amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health why there is no longer paediatrics available in Caherciveen, Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that needed Podiatry/Chiropody services in the last year in Caherciveen Hospital, January 2022 to January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health when visiting restrictions at St. James's Hospital in Dublin will be lifted, in particular the requirement to pre-book a visiting slot.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE nursing posts at the Mater Hospital as of 4 April 2023; and when the these will vacancies be filled, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital has 24-7 emergency service or on-call doctor for emergencies.
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To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully subsidising the training of an additional 150 ICU nurses.
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres at both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin; and the hours of the week each of these theatres are opened for, in tabular form.
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To ask the Minister for Health when applications for the special recognition pandemic payment award will be processed for private ambulance staff who worked through and supported the NAS during the Covid pandemic.
To ask the Minister for Health if he can report on the amount of revenue the HSE spent on the cross-Border directive for the year ending 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health when HPV and cytology sample processing for CervicalCheck will be resumed in the Coombe Hospital.
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