PQ Responses - 5th December 2023

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PQ 53197-23 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reasons why the helpline for the neurology nurses in Crumlin Children's Hospital is no longer operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53202-23 - Marian Harkin front page preview

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth further to an issue raised (following my intervention in Dáil Éireann on 19th April 2023 re the re-opening of the hydrotherapy pool at a location Cregg House, Sligo. (https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2023-04-19/speech/148 ), if he can provide an update on any progress made on the re-opening of the hydrotherapy pool at a location; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53215-23 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of CHO areas that have community neurorehabilitation teams in place in tabular form; the date of establishment of the team; the WTE resources assigned for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53226-23 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE registrars in paediatric anaesthesiology at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53228-23 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons daycare centres funded by HSE that are currently based within primary care centres in CHO8 to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53233-23 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health what resources are open to employees who were frontline workers and their employer received their bonuses but the company is now closed and the employer did not pay over the money.

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PQ 53237-23 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 9 November 2023, which centre the two CT scanners and one MRI scanner are based in within the Cavan and Monaghan Hospital group; if a request has been made for additional MRI or CT scanners to be located at Monaghan Hospital; the status of any such request; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53248-23 - Kathleen Funchion

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny has stopped the roll-out of insulin pumps and sensors to monitor the blood sugars in the paediatric diabetes department within the hospital; if he is further aware that the chronic lack of staff has resulted in this centre of excellence for paediatric diabetes unable to staff itself; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53261-23 - Chris Andrews

To ask the Minister for Health if there has been no policy change regarding transgender women receiving breast augmentation as essential surgery (despite the World Professional Association of Transgender Healthcarers (WPATH) that deems this surgery absolutely essential healthcare of transgender women worldwide. Why is an already marginalised community, who have the worst healthcare in the European Union be marginalised even further with the loss of access to healthcare abroad under the Cross Border Directive? Since a decision was previously made to not reimburse the cost of surgery for transgender women receiving breast augmentation under the Cross Border Directive scheme.?); the reason they have lost access to healthcare abroad under the Cross Border Directive; and the reason he and the HSE, specifically under the Cross Border Directive have allowed this blanket policy regarding breast augmentation for transgender women to be adopted.

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PQ 53278-23 - Padraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a home support waiting list in CHO 4, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53280-23 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health what efforts are being made to develop a graded career structure in homecare that rewards and encourages upskilling and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53300-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health if he can clarify the position surrounding a business (Lifetime Care Galway) as to when they ceased their delivery of services, the number of home help support impacted, the contingency plan put in place and if staff were renumerated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53301-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm employees of a company ( Lifetime Care Galway) received a covid recognition grant from the Department of Health for its Mayo and Galway staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53309-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health if the shortage of car parking spaces at University Hospital Kerry will be addressed; if there is a plan to do this; how many extra parking spaces will be created; if the anticipated cost of the project is known if a timeline for delivery of the project exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53312-23 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form, with respect to each hospital in the South, South-West group, the annual budget, capital expenditure, WTE staff, number of in-patient beds, number of consultants, for each year, or year end that the hospital grouping was in place from 2013 up to present day.

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PQ 53333-23 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on each of the proposed elective hospitals for Dublin, Cork and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53362-23 - Micheal Fitzmaurice

To ask the Minister for Health when building works will commence on the planned 50-bed building at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53399-23 - Dara Calleary

To ask the Minister for Health for a list of dentists participating in the GMS scheme in County Mayo.

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PQ 53421-23 - Sean Fleming

To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider opening an extra facility for dental treatment to relieve the backlog at a location ( Portlaoise County Laois to deal with the waiting lists that are in place especially for students who attend school in view of the fact that a few years ago clinics were arranged in Portlaoise and dentists from outside the region were paid an overtime rate to come and clear the backlog which was very successful at that time and this option should be re-considered at this stage.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53442-23 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 1 June 2023, if he will provide an update on the review of the functioning of the existing managed services in respect of the supply and maintenance of wheelchairs; and if a new tender process has been put in place for managed services for medical equipment.

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PQ 53447-23 - Richard Bruton

To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the categories of post which are being exempted from the freeze on recruitment, such as in the area of disability, and whether he can extend this to other areas of acute need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53511-23 - Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth when therapists will be reinstated at a special school (Scoil Mochua CRC, Old Nangor Road, Deansrath, Clondalkin, Dublin 22); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53526-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in reproductive medicine in the regional fertility hub based at University Maternity Hospital Galway to date in 2023.

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PQ 53527-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that will be provided by the National Ambulance Service to the Kerry area.

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PQ 53529-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of day centres for older persons in County Wexford that are funded by the HSE in 2022 and to-date in 2023; and the capacity of each of these day centres, in tabular form.

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PQ 53530-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider rolling out minor injuries clinic in County Leitrim.

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PQ 53532-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of family planning centres in Cork city that are contracted to provide State-funded services only in the years 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53533-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of health related recruitment fairs held in the UK where staff from the Mater Hospital were present seeking to recruit additional nurses, physiotherapist and so on in 2022 and to-date in 2023; the number of job offers per recruitment fairs; and the number of job offers accepted per recruitment fair, in tabular form.

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PQ 53534-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the hepatitis C Home testing kits; and the number of kits that have been dispatched in CHO3.

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PQ 53535-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant anaesthetists working in Mallow General Hospital in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53536-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancies that exist in Portlaoise Regional Hospital; and the length of time each post has been vacant for.

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PQ 53538-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing number in the community psychology team in Carrick-on-Shannon primary care centre.

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PQ 53539-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of foot surgeries performed at Mullingar Regional Hospital to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53540-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of current vacancies in community health posts serving the Donaghmede area including occupational therapist, speech and language therapist and so on.

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PQ 53542-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline how each individual CHO funds interpreting services in GPs; and if he plans to improve access to interpreters in GPs by establishing a central service for use across all CHOs.

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PQ 53543-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant HSE podiatry services positions in County Clare, by location, in tabular form; and the plans to fill any such vacancies.

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PQ 53545-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons at Mercy University Hospital in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53546-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs operating in Louth each year since 2020, in tabular form.

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PQ 53547-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists in each primary care psychology service in Galway by grade, in tabular form.

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PQ 53548-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to recruit three additional WTE senior dietitians for Our Lady's Hospital, Navan.

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PQ 53549-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE midwives currently at the Rotunda Maternity Hospital, in tabular form.

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PQ 53550-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost in 2024 to purchase an additional HSE critical care ambulance to be stationed in both Galway and Cork.

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PQ 53552-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented to the accident and emergency department at Naas General Hospital to-date in 2023.

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PQ 53553-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in respiratory medicine at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53554-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have attended adult cochlear outpatient clinic at Beaumont Hospital in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 53563-23 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to ensure that people living with epidermolysis bullosa have access to mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53564-23 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to ensure that people living with epidermolysis bullosa have access to dental care, given that those affected by the condition may require to travel long distances to receive care in specialist treatment centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53565-23 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to ensure that people living with epidermolysis bullosa have access to additional services such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy in the community, given that it can be difficult for those affected with EB to access these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53579-23 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health if the drug phesgo can be administered by general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53602-23 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if the 182 additional beds, and 28 additional critical care beds committed to in the urgent and emergency care plan have been delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53688-23 - Peadar Toibin.

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who are clinically discharged but who remain in hospital; the number of patients who are clinically discharged in hospital for six months or less, between six months and one year, between one year and 18 months, between 18 months and two years and for more than two years, by hospital.

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PQ 53740-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if a matter (The HSE have just written to candidates for the Paramedic Training course commencing in January 2024 who already have signed contracts to tell them that due to budget constraints the training centre planned in Cork was not going ahead.) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53751-23 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to incentivise working within the public health sector to ensure that fewer professionals leave Ireland and that staff do not feel compelled to supplement their income by working in the private sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure.

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PQ 53752-23 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to ensure that public sector health workers are satisfied to work exclusively within the public health sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure.

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PQ 53753-23 - Pauline Tully

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PQ 53754-23 - Pauline Tully

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PQ 53757-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health who the highest-level public servant is in Waterford University and what title they fall under.

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PQ 53766-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health when the updated novavax Covid-19 vaccine will be available to the public; the specific reasons for the delay in the rol-l out of the updated vaccine to the public following stock being received and EMA approval on 31 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53777-23 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health to detail the total number of vacant posts, by grade, for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 53781-23 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health as part of Government’s response to drug intimidation, if the full-time recommended role for the drug-related intimidation and violence engagement programme has been progressed, and if it has been affected by the recent moratorium announced within the Health Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - 5th December 2023