PQ Responses - June 27th 2023

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PQ 30496-23 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health if he will furnish this Deputy with the details of capital funding for a second CT scanner and build under capital submissions for the RCSI hospital group to be completed by December 2023; when plans were drawn up in relation to Connolly Hospital; when a project manager and design team was established; and if he will provide an update on the progress made to date.

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PQ 30497-23 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any delay with the progressing of a second CT scanner for Connolly Hospital; and if his attention has been drawn to the long delays being faced by critically ill patients in terms of diagnosis due to the lack of a second CT scanner.

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PQ 30498-23 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been spent in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, by Connolly Hospital on the out-sourcing of scans and tests to the private sector; if his Department has ever sought to determine what delays are entailed in patient treatment are due to the outsourcing by the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30503-23 - Seán Canney

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a targeted, funded strategic capital investment programme for mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30518-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider and or reevaluate the cessation of the national contract for the vasectomy procedure; and if he will also provide the number of persons currently waiting on the list for the procedure.

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PQ 30570-23 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the number and proportion of people referred by their GP to pigmented skin lesion cinics electronically, in each of the months from 2020 to 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 30572-23 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of patients on active cancer treatment admitted to hospital for treatment through emergency departments, in each of the years 2017 to 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 30573-23 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of patients commencing radiotherapy treatment within 15 working days of being deemed ready to treat in each of the years 2012-2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30574-23 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of cancer treatment patients receiving a treatment summary and care plan in each of the years 2017 to 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 30575-23 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of patients with metastatic cancer given chemotherapy in last month of life in each of the years 2012 to 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 30577-23 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of patients on cancer therapeutic clinical trials in each of the years 2012 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30738-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the current rates of car-parking at University Hospital Kerry; if he will clarify whether there have been any increases or decreases in charges since 2018; the amount that has been generated in total by car-parking charges at the facility in the years 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if he will provide a detailed breakdown of where the revenue from car-parking at the facility went to and what it was spent on; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30739-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the damage that was caused by the recent flooding event at University Hospital Kerry; the monetary cost of the damage; if the event could have been prevented; which locations in the facility were directly impacted by flood waters/leaks; the disruption to patients, both immediate and delayed that was caused; if management has a plan to deal with any future similar events; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30741-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting on trolleys at University Hospital Kerry each day in May 2023, in tabular form; if an explanation can be provided for the figures on each of these days; if these figures are the worst ever monthly total at UHK; if he has had direct contact with management concerning this; if so, if he will provide details of any such communications; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30742-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of all current staffing levels at University Hospital Kerry, with a comparative breakdown for each year since 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30744-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of presentations at University Hospital Kerry emergency department in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30745-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the current number of staff vacancies across all departments and details of each vacancy at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30746-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of births at University Hospital Kerry maternity ward in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in tabular form; the staffing level breakdown in the department for each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30747-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the details of future capital works planned for University Hospital Kerry; the breakdown of each facility; the corresponding timeline in each case; the costs associated with each development; if additional staffing will be required to operate each facility; if so, the details in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30750-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the HSEs communication policy for persons wishing to record, film or take photographs on a HSE site.

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PQ 30766-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will continue to fund a bus service for young people to attend disability day services and training in Bantry, County Cork, until an alternative suitable public route is in place.

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PQ 30771-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that a national vasectomy services contract is in place for all areas of the State to enable medical card holders access this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30812-23 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the unfairness in the treatment of diabetes patients in Ireland where Free Style Libre is decided on age criteria rather than clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30813-23 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health what plans he has in place to ensure diabetes patients have access to a glucose monitoring technology (FreeStyle Libre), which has become a standard of diabetes care across Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30814-23 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if he recognises that remote monitoring of diabetes patients’ conditions will free up much-needed doctor and hospital appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30815-23 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the current process whereby access to a diabetes glucose monitoring technology discriminates against patients in terms of age (Technology – FreeStyle Libre · Children who commence their treatment on FreeStyle Libre are forced to take on another treatment at 18 years of age) and is tantamount to deprivation of access to people with a disability and needs to be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30841-23 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children aged zero to 18 years of age in each CHO and by individual area, awaiting first-time intervention in all areas of early intervention; the number on the public list; the number on the CDNT list in each CHO; and the length of time they are awaiting intervention, by age, in tabular form.

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PQ 30859-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown, by CHO of the provision of optometry services for all ages; what is and is not covered; the waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30923-23 - James O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the after-hours GP service for Mallow, Fermoy and Mitchelstown; if his Department will intervene to find GPs who will work late shifts to keep this important service operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30935-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the difficulties that owners of homes with defective concrete blocks are having in fully accessing the fair deal scheme; how he proposes to address these difficulties; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 30939-23 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health for details on the sun smart sun screen campaign; where it is being piloted; for how much and under what criteria it might be deemed successful and expanded; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31030-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health for a reply on (Is written documentation provided to HSE retirees when there is an arrears payment made to their pension.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31032-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health for a reply on (Is there a system in place where those on a HSE Pension receive automatic increases or do they have to contact National Pensions management, Manorhamilton or the relevant area pension area office directly.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31036-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1154 of 21 March 2023 and 597 of 25 April 2023, if he will provide an update on the formation of the development team, announced by Cork HSE management in May 2022, tasked with conducting an options appraisal for the construction of a new ten-bed mental health rehabilitation/continuing care residential service in Midleton, County Cork; the names of HSE management staff who have been appointed to the team; the dates of any development team meetings held to date or engagements with the local authority; if he will provide details on progress the development team has made on identifying a site for the service over the past thirteen months and on the acquisition of capital funding; if he will provide an update on the timeframe for commencement and completion of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31040-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify the national mental health policy guiding Cork HSE management in its plans to replace long-stay mental health facilities in hospital campus locations in St. Stephen's Hospital and St. Finbarr's Hospital with new congregated settings involving a 50-bed unit in St. Stephen's Hospital and a 20-bed unit in St. Finbarr's Hospital; if he will provide an estimate of the cost of these services, if they are pursued; if any similar mental health service projects are being proposed in other CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31041-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the names of the companies or individuals contracted by the HSE to remove 70 trees from Merlin Woods in 2023; the name of the arborist who carried out an assessment of the trees in advance of the works; if he will provide details of how the timber from the removed trees was disposed of, and in particular the destination of this timber and its use; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31045-23 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health to clarify, based on Section 10.1 of the abortion review report, whether babies have been born alive having survived late-term abortions in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31060-23 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health if he can clarify whether the main vaccination centre for CHO 8 is going to be located in Ardee, County Louth ( If so, How are the Institutions (Nursing Homes, Prisons etc) going to be served? How are the Housebound going to served? If the proposed Mobile and Pop Up Centres will be managed by County Louth to serve all the 6 counties in CHO 8?).

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PQ 31092-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of additional respite hours that would be delivered by opening two extra full-time, six-bed respite centres.

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PQ 31095-23 - Sorcha Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the HSE has advertised for the post of consultant otolaryngologist since January 2022.

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PQ 31096-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated to each hospital part of Ireland East Hospital Group in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 31097-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres in use at Mullingar Regional Hospital.

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PQ 31099-23 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of queries logged with HSE MyOptions (including phone calls and chat queries) in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023, categorised in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31100-23 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of initial consultations for termination of pregnancy services that were provided by general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31113-23 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE Health Sector Employment Report for April 2023 does not contain the equivalent staff breakdown details for Cork University Hospital, which are provided for the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary University Hospital.

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PQ 31119-23 - Richard Boyd Barrett.

To ask the Minister for Health to make the appropriate changes so that the living alone allowance is not assessable income for medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31120-23 - Richard Boyd Barrett

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that the living alone allowance is not assessable income for medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31191-23 - Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure the prompt implementation of the 2% pay increase for all public nurses (regarding the delayed 2% pay increase that was due to all public nurses, since March 2023; I request your urgent attention to this matter and urge you to ensure the prompt implementation of the 2% pay increase for all public nurses; timely recognition of their hard work and dedication is crucial, especially considering the cost of living challenges faced by nurses and their vital role in our healthcare system); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31223-23 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health what services are available under the dental treatment services scheme in Ballinasloe; the action that is being taken to ensure that medical card holders can access dental services in Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31227-23 - Paul McAuliffe

To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the health infrastructure projects currently underway in CHO9; the projects completed since June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31254-23 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the capital allocations that have been made by his Department to the Disability Capital Programme in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the portion of this allocation in each of these years that went to provide community-based supported housing for people with disabilities being transferred from congregated settings; the portion of this allocation in each of these years that went to provide community-based supported housing for people with disabilities under the age of 65 years being transferred from nursing homes, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31256-23 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health if the part-time psychiatric nurse service, provided to clients in County Sligo, will be re-instated (I have been contacted by a number of service users of HSE psychiatric nursing services in the West Sligo, Easkey, Dromore West area in regard to the withdrawal of these services. The services users, some of whom live in the HSE owned Radharc na Mara housing, Easkey, Co. Sligo had access to a psychiatric nurse three days per week on a part-time basis, who called to their houses to provide mental health services. It is my understanding this service was withdrawn, with no notice given to the service users and they are understandably very upset that this service will no longer be in place to support their mental health needs and I would ask for your very best consideration of this issue, which is providing a lifeline to many); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31259-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health if hospital management at UHK has considered the provision of modular housing on peripheral greenfield areas on the hospital campus to incentivise medical staff to fill vacancies in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31261-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health if hospital management at UHK has commenced exit interviews of medical staff resigning from positions at UHK; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31262-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses who have resigned from positions at UHK in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31263-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have resigned from positions at UHK in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31265-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of beds in use at UHK; how this compares to each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31267-23 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to address issues of concern at UHK since the engagement of the HSE National Director of Acute Operations in November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31282-23 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of residential services for people with disabilities provided by each voluntary NGO provider; the location of each centre; the costs of this provision per centre for the years 2021 and 2022; the bed placement capacity of each centre in 2021 and 2022; the average occupancy level for each centre in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31283-23 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of residential services for people with disabilities provided by each private for-profit provider; the location of each centre; the costs of this provision per centre for the years 2021 and 2022; the bed placement capacity of each centre in 2021 and 2022; the average occupancy level for each centre in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31284-23 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of residential services for people with disabilities provided directly by the State; the location of each centre; the costs of this provision per centre for the years 2021 and 2022; the bed placement capacity of each centre in 2021 and 2022; the average occupancy level for each centre in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31288-23 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare hours provided by each voluntary NGO provider in the years 2021 and 2022; the costs of this provision per provider for the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31321-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the complications, if any, that have been associated with the use of magec rods in Crumlin Hospital, specifically related to end cap separation as well as metalosis.

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PQ 31322-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health to outline the complication and re-operation rate for spinal operations performed in Temple Street of patients with spinal muscle atrophy; if this is implant-dependent; if all implants used in these cases are licensed for this use; and which medical supplier or distribution company these implants have been purchased from.

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PQ 31323-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health what consent processes regarding spinal operation cases are followed at Crumlin Hospital and Temple Street.

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PQ 31376-23 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health what supports are in place regarding housing and aftercare for a person who has been admitted involuntarily into care under the Mental Health Act 2001 and who can no longer return to the family home upon their discharge; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31378-23 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health how many people with mental illnesses known to the State or HSE are currently living in emergency accommodation; how many people living in emergency accommodation have come straight from psychiatric care; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - June 27th 2023