PQ Responses - June 20th 2023

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PQ 29079-23 - Richard Boyd Barrett

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 16 May 2023, the reason for the removal of the service; if there is an intention to replace the service; if not, where else the service might be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29083-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health if targeted international recruitment with an agreed relocation allowance is taking place to fill vacant therapist roles in primary care services; if not, if there are plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29101-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO1; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29102-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29103-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO3; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29104-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO4; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29105-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO5; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29106-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO6; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29107-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO7; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29109-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO9; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29110-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO1; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29111-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29112-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO3; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29113-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO4; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29115-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29116-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO7; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29117-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO8; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29118-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO9; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29119-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO1; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29120-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29121-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO3; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29122-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO4; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29123-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO5; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29124-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO6; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29125-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO7; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29126-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO8; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29127-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO9; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29128-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO1; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29129-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29130-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO3; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29131-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO4; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29133-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO6; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29134-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO7; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29135-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO8; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29136-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a physiotherapy appointment in CHO9; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29153-23 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric ophthalmologists attached to both CHI Crumlin and CHI Temple Street 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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PQ 29154-23 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE advanced nurse practitioners for diabetes in pregnancy working in each maternity unit in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29155-23 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE cardiac physiologists attached to University Hospital Waterford in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29156-23 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction rehabilitation, detox and stabilisation beds opened in CHO5 in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29179-23 - Padraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the HSE Amyloidosis Working Group report, a new model of care and national guidelines, which was submitted in August 2020, approved in October 2022 and remains uncirculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29183-23 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health when he expects implementation of the guidelines set out in the HSE Amyloidosis Working Group report, a new model of care and national guidelines, which was submitted in August 2020, and approved in October 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29184-23 - John Brady

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that are currently on the waiting list to attend a weight management clinic (St Columcilles Hospital, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin) by CHO, in tabular form broken down by length of time 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 months and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29185-23 - John Brady

To ask the Minister for Health how many people are currently attending a weight management clinic (St Columcilles Hospital, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29186-23 - John Brady

To ask the Minister for Health when the weight management new patient clinic will resume at a hospital (St Columcilles Hospital, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin); how many dietitians there are at this clinic at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29220-23 - Martin Browne.

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of available children's residential places across CHO5 at present; the number of those that are currently filled on a full-time basis; and the various levels of priority in place for children seeking residential placement.

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PQ 29221-23 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children who are assessed to be a priority one for residential placement across CHO5; the waiting times for those children waiting for residential placement from the time they entered the system; if funding has been given to increasing full-time residential capacity in CHO5; and if so, to provide details.

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PQ 29240-23 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the current eye care services available to children aged eight years and over in CHO9.

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PQ 29241-23 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health how many children in the CHO9 area that have been referred to HSE eye clinics, having failed the school screening services for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively.

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PQ 29242-23 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the current average wait time for an appointment with HSE eye clinics for children in the CHO9 area.

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PQ 29243-23 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the current average wait time for an eye examination for children in the CHO9 area.

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PQ 29244-23 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a standardised eye-care programme for children aged eight years and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29258-23 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health to list the project expenditure and total annual quantum of capital expenditure with associated and relevant capital project name and reference details under the expenditure heading of acute, community health, mental health and each and any other relevant capital expenditure heading with details thereof on the campus in Cork University Hospital, Galway University Hospital, Limerick University Hospital and Waterford University Hospital, in each of the years 2013 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29276-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department’s look-back review into Kerry CAMHS should go back further than July 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29276-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department’s look-back review into Kerry CAMHS should go back further than July 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29286-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the reason only one consultant is carrying out paediatric ENT surgeries on patients in CHU (Minister is there any plans for CUH to have more consultants carrying out Paediatric surgeries on ENT patients. When the one consultant is off on annual leave no surgeries are carried out and this is then leading to further waiting lists); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29290-23 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the most up-to-date number of children on waiting lists across all of the CDNTs in CHO9, in tabular form; the breakdown of children on waiting lists for occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy across all the CDNTs in CHO9; the most recent date this data was collected; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29298-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health to list the hospitals with the National Acute Oncology Nursing Service to assist patients undergoing active cancer treatment in avoiding attending the emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29299-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if the National Acute Oncology Nursing Service is in place in Letterkenny University Hospital to assist patients undergoing active cancer treatment in avoiding attending the emergency department; if not, if there is an alternative system in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29342-23 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing parking charges at public hospitals for cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29345-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of vacant roles in occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and psychology broken down by discipline in each CDNT in CHO1; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29346-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29347-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29348-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29349-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29350-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29351-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29353-23 - Denis Naughten

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PQ 29365-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 599 of 25 April 2023 and 622 of 16 May 2023, if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the change of scope of works to the Carraig Mór intensive care mental health facility (such that a projected cost of €4.5 million in May 2021 had increased to €14 million by May 2023) in Cork ; if these changes involve an increase in bed capacity; if so, by how much; the number of service-users who will be accommodated on site when the building works are complete; if these will include service-users referred for acute admissions as well as long-stay residents; the breakdown of bed capacity for each cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29366-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 599 of 25 April 2023 and 622 of 16 May 2023, the reason the HSE cited a figure publicly in 2021 of €4.5 million to renovate the Carraig Mór mental health facility in Cork without accounting for design team costs, site works, surveying works, VAT and other essential costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29367-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of grievance and dignity at work cases submitted by HSE employees to management and recorded by employee relations in each CHO in 2022 and to date in 2023; the duration in each case that the employee waited or is waiting for a grievance or dignity at work hearing to take place since submitting their complaint, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29380-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of inpatient beds for CAMHS; if he will explain the difference between the numbers cited in Parliamentary Question No. 626 of 31 May 2022 and those in the Mental Health Commission’s Annual Report 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29382-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work carried out by the Changing Lives Initiative to date; the plans that are in place for the further roll-out of the Changing Lives Initiative; what funding is available; what steps are being taken to secure additional funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29384-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists by CHO and length of wait for May 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29385-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO1 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29386-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO2 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29388-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO4 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29389-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO5 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29390-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO6 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29391-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO7 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29392-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO8 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29393-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO9 in 2022 and 2023; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29394-23 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has any plans to introduce an over eight’s voucher scheme for optometry assessment and treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29400-23 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth when the HSE will establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the CHO8 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29404-23 - John Brady

To ask the Minister for Health when parents in Ireland can expect to have their babies screened for severe combined immunodeficiency disease as part of the heelprick test, given his announcement that it is to be included in January of this year; the other diseases that use the same T-cell receptor excision circle screening and may be added to the newborn screening programme easily as a result; the resources that the HSE has requested from his Department in order to implement this new screening methodology; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29435-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff, by job title, working in the eating disorder teams based in CHO7 and CHO9; the number of WTE vacancies, by job title, in each of these teams; and when each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form.

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PQ 29436-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of laparoscopic gastric bypass surgeries performed at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 29444-23 - Finian McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health to outline how donors to St. Brigid's District Hospital Carrick-on-Suir can claim their money back after the hospital was closed in 2020.

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PQ 29454-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how much each section 38 and 39 organisation receives from the HSE per hour to fund personal assistant services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29491-23 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need applications received by CHO in each of the last five years, in tabular form.

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PQ 29493-23 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if children referred to children's disability network teams by a GP, public health nurse or other health official are automatically added to the assessments of need waiting list as covered by the Disability Act 2005; if not, if they are added to a separate list that is not covered by the Act; where a separate list that is not coved by the Disability Act 2005 is maintained, how a child can be added to the assessments of need waiting list covered by the Act; if this requires an application via an assessment of needs officer; the number of children on a separate list that is not covered by the Act, by CHO; their duration on this list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29494-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health regarding the funding allocation for public nursing homes under the HSE's jurisdiction, if there has been an increase in funding per resident in 2023 for public nursing home; if so, the amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29576-23 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health how many of the 22 neurologist speciality nurse positions that were announced have been filled to date; if he will list the areas that still have vacancies in these positions after funding being allocated to hire these nurses, by HSE region, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29578-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the major capital works that were carried out at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in 2022 and to date in 2023; the nature of these works; and the additional capital works that are scheduled to be carried out at this hospital over the next 12 months, in tabular form.

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PQ 29579-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost to recruit one additional WTE genetic consultant and one extra WTE genetic counsellor, in tabular form.

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PQ 29580-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at Portiuncula University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 29581-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE orthodontists employed by the HSE in CHO5 in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 29582-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical specialist physiotherapists in musculoskeletal triage at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased.

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PQ 29584-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the early intervention psychosis services currently available within CHO8.

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PQ 29585-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE plastic surgeon registrars working in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 29589-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the origins of emails sent by clerical staff of the Cork HSE mental health services on 7 January 2021 offering the possibility of priority Covid vaccines to non-patient facing staff, including several senior HSE managers ( at a critical stage of the pandemic when long-stay patients and nursing staff in a number of local mental health facilities had not yet been scheduled for vaccines); the HSE managers responsible for making these offers of priority vaccines to colleagues; if the CEO of the HSE is aware of this possible breach of the vaccine scheduling protocol in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29598-23 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm that the Health Service Executive is planning a new cancer unit and public health care centre for its site on Davitt Road; if the primary care centre is built on this site; if he can confirm that the current public health care centre on Curlew Road will remain in place; and if he can guarantee that the Mother McCauley Centre and all of its current services will remain in place at this site.

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PQ 29616-23 - Aengus O'Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current staffing position of CDNT1 in Brú Caoimhín, Dublin 8, and CDNT 3 at Armagh Road, Dublin 12; the vacancies that exist; the length of time those positions are vacant; and whether private services have been contracted to address a growing waiting lists for each of the services meant to be offered by the Community Disability Network Teams.

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PQ 29622-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health about a bus route being added for patients from Killarney to Kenmare Hospital ( Minister In the evenings as the latest bus is at 3pm which is still very early. There have been talks about this later route being put in place however they have been told that there is a shortage of bus drivers, does the minister know of this route and if so does he know when this service will become available to patients travelling from Killarney to Kenmare Community Hospital.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29624-23 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department is considering funding medications and therapies for persons with early onset Parkinson's (Infrared light therapy products manufactured by Symbyx and Charco neurotech); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29654-23 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the average annual cost of an addiction rehabilitation bed.

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PQ 29658-23 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the timeline he is working towards for publication of the Roadmap for Progressing Disability Services which was said to be in development in June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29678-23 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the over-eights eye-care scheme across the nine HSE CHOs; whether he believes a dedicated national programme is required in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29714-23 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health what his plans are for a disused building that could be potentially made available for homeless/family/refugee housing (St John's Hospital, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29720-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth for an update on the Roadmap for Progressing Disability Services; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29782-23 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health the number of facilities that have closed and ceased operations, by name and location, since the payments were awarded, of the recent TAPS payments of nearly €150 million distributed to nursing homes throughout the country to help manage the response to Covid-19, in tabular form; if any nursing homes voluntarily returned monies to his Department for any reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29790-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of public representatives who applied to HSE management for consent to make political videos on the grounds of HSE health settings in CHO4 for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022; the names of the HSE representatives who monitored the making of those political videos, as per the HSE communications policy; if applicable, the number of public representatives who made such political videos on HSE grounds without consent and who were later contacted by HSE management in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29813-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if South Doc services will remain unchanged in the Kerry area ( Minister can I receive reassurance that the present structure of South Doc will remain unchanged in the Kerry area. For example, Kenmare, we do not want to see a structure where the service will be eliminated, centralised or be interfered with in any way.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29834-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a call by an organisation (details supplied) for an end to a significant geographical inequality in children’s eye-care and for a national public eye-care programme for children over eight years; the steps his Department is taking to tackle this inequality; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 29838-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 31 May 2023, to publish the findings of the Joint Review commissioned by the HSE and Tusla to establish the circumstances of this issue and the learnings from it (Woodbrook Lodge, Co Monaghan).

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