PQ Responses - March 28th 2023

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PQ 14643-23 - Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware there is currently a wait of 12 months, or more, for an initial community occupational therapy appointment in an area (CHO7 - Community Occupational Therapy. The HSE advises the service is currently seeing clients referred in July 2021.); and the action the HSE are taking to ensure appointments for this service are available in a shorter, more reasonable timeframe.

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PQ 14672-23 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the National Clinical Programme for ADHD in adults; how many ADHD clinics have been opened; when the Programme is set to be fully implemented; the length of the waiting lists in the operational clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14673-23 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the pathways that are in place for adults to access an assessment for autism spectrum disorder through the HSE; his plans to increase capacity for adults seeking an ASD assessment through the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14677-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of rental baby monitor units for deaf parents his Department owns; the cost of each unit; the make and models of the units; and if a cost-based analysis has been undertaken to examine if it would be more productive for his Department to buy the units as opposed to leasing them.

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PQ 14689-23 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided for tobacco cessation services from 2011 to 2022, and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14706-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the number of women waiting for an appointment for the endometriosis clinic in the Coombe Hospital; the average waiting time at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14709-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if the mother-and-baby inpatient perinatal mental health unit will be in place in Q4 of 2024, as outlined in Sharing the Vision; if a site has been chosen; when it is expected to open; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14710-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has made accommodation for the provision of a new 10-bed impatient adult eating disorder service; if a location has been found; when it will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14711-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on securing accommodation for the 3 priority areas of Limerick, Galway and Cork for perinatal services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14715-23 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1156 of 18 January 2023, if further details can be provided on bed-capacity analysis for Galway University Hospital; in terms of the figure of 222, what this addition would bring the capacity to; and if details can be provided on the requirement for an extra 24 beds in Portiuncula hospital; and if he will clarify whether or not this takes into account the new 50-bed block currently under construction.

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PQ 14772-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding for a five-year hypertension awareness and behaviour change campaign led by an organisation (the Irish Heart Foundation); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14774-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health what funding has been made available for the national stroke strategy; what is the funding being used for; what actions are being implemented in 2023 as part of the national stroke strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14775-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds for stroke patients in Ireland; the deficit that exists for the population on the basis of recommendations contained in the UK's National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke on the care to be provided for persons who have suffered a stroke; the estimated cost of meeting the staffing requirements for a single bed in a stroke unit; the estimated cost required to meet the increase in the incidence of strokes; the additional staffing needed for the development of acute stroke unit bed capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14776-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of stroke units that operate below the recommended nurse and or staffing level; the estimated cost of putting the recommended staff levels in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14777-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals with access to clinical psychology as part of stroke unit care; the estimated cost and staffing associated with ensuring that this service is available to all stroke units; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14778-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs associated with the further development of the early supported discharge of people who have suffered a stroke; the current staffing deficits in existing teams that are below the level recommended by the national stroke programme; the estimated costs to ensure that staffing deficits are addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14783-23 - Seán Canney

To ask the Minister for Health the longest time that a child who is classified as urgent, semi-urgent and non-urgent is waiting for an MRI scan in UHG; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14786-23 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of whole-time equivalent (WTE) positions at University Hospital Limerick and within the UL Hospitals Group on 31 January 2020 and on 31January 2023 by profession, in tabular form, to include consultants, non-consultant hospital doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals such as pharmacists, occupational therapists, radiographers, physiotherapists, accountants and administration personnel; if he will provide the number of said personnel employed via agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14787-23 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors and nurses employed at University Hospital Limerick and within the UL Hospitals Group engaged in administrative roles who no longer involve direct medical care on 31January 2020 and on 31 January 2023.

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PQ 14809-23 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health what measures are in place to reduce audiology lists in Limerick for those under the age of 4 years and those over the age of 4 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14810-23 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health what plans are in place to reduce waiting times for children to receive speech and language therapy in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14811-23 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care hours delivered, by CHO, by month, in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 14812-23 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care hours provided directly by the HSE in 2019-2022, by CHO by year; the number provided by voluntary providers on behalf of the HSE; and the number provided by private providers on behalf of the HSE.

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PQ 14822-23 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the reason the hydrotherapy pool facility at (details supplied) services in Cavan still remains closed despite assurances given nearly a year ago that it would be up and running within months; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14867-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if a person with a disability (visually impaired/blind) can apply for a computer with accessible software under the technical aids grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14868-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will clarify the requirements of disability service providers to have complaints procedures in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14869-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to make the medical assessment unit in Bantry General Hospital a 24 hours a day service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14870-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide appropriate levels of staff in the SouthDoc facilities in Castletownbere, Bantry, Skibbereen, Dunmanway, Clonakilty and Bandon; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14871-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all the details on the SouthDoc website are up-to-date and correct.

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PQ 14872-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health 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.

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PQ 14873-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health 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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PQ 14874-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the number of family forums established as part of Progressing Disability Services; if each children’s disability network team has or has not an operational family forum; the number of times family forums meet annually; the process by which the views expressed through each forum impact of policy and service delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14875-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the obligations of disability service providers for adults to operate family committees and forums for families to share their views on aspects of service provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14931-23 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health if a child who is assessed privately for a speech and language disorder, can then seek access to HSE supports based on the opinions of a private medical professional; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14932-23 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can provide a list or database of private speech and language therapists that are approved by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14933-23 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if his Department can provide a list or database of private medical professionals who can carry out an assessment of needs that the HSE approves of; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14934-23 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the reason a child who is on a waiting list for speech and language assessment cannot also be on a waiting list to be assessed for potential autism spectrum disorder diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14941-23 - Dara Calleary

To ask the Minister for Health have made efforts since 2017 in procuring versatis at a better rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14950-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the reason home care assistants (Minister home care assistants in North Kerry are being asked to submit sick pay and travel expenses online. Surely there has to be option in doing this? Not everyone has a smart phone or access to the internet. Some of these assistants are elderly themselves and would not be ''tech savvy''.) in north Kerry are being asked to submit their sick pay and travel expenses online; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 14951-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to reduce the waiting list at the University Hospital Limerick diabetes outpatients clinic; the number of people currently on the waiting list; and if he will also provide the number of staff by role to include consultants assigned to the clinic.

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PQ 14953-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify who is eligible to access chronic disease hubs.

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PQ 14970-23 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will support an urgent matter (Can you advise and support the family of a young Downs Syndrome adult who is blind, in how to access a guide dog for the blind, any contact details and the process. Adult under the care of Prosper Meath Services in Co. Meath.).

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PQ 14979-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacant nursing posts at the National Forensic Mental Health Service; the estimated full-year cost of filling these vacancies; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form.

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PQ 14980-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges within public car parking within Rotunda Maternity Hospital in the 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 14981-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies by job title in the HSE National Antimicrobial Resistant Team; the full-year cost of filling each of the vacancies; and when will these vacancies be filled, in tabular form.

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PQ 14983-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting additional one WTE information scientists with a MSc in genetic counselling and additional one WTE information scientist with a MSc in clinical neuroscience for the HSE national rare diseases office.

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PQ 14984-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of podiatrists including addresses that are accepting new medical card holders aged over 65 within CHO9, in tabular form.

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PQ 14985-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE accident and emergency nurses at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased.

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PQ 15036-23 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health if a person with dementia, who is in receipt of maximum 22.5 hrs home help per week, could also avail of the dementia home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15111-23 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health if it the responsibility of staff of a nursing home to provide a third party (KOSI Corporation Limited) with copies of their payslips to facilitate the pandemic bonus payment or if this function should be carried out by their employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15216-23 - Alan Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the current HSE infrastructure relating to maternity healthcare services, in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15217-23 -Alan Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the number of women referred to the Rotunda Hospital from north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15218-23 - Alan Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the number of postnatal women referred from the Rotunda Hospital to the district health nurse in north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15237-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for 8-16 years olds in CHO8, per test centre, age, and the length of time on the list, in tabular form.

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PQ 15249-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for 8-16 years olds in CHO8, per test centre, age, and the length of time on the list, in tabular form.

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PQ 15250-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the waiting times for women to access public gynaecological services, with particular reference to women diagnosed with adenomyosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15255-23 - Denis Naughton

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in counties Roscommon and Galway currently awaiting public eye examinations; the current waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15279-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth how many children under the age of 18 years are awaiting speech and language therapy in County Mayo; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15280-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the average waiting time for development assessment of needs for children who present with signs of delayed development in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15281-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth how many people are employed through the HSE in occupational therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and speech and language therapy in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15284-23 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if supports will be provided to the operators of the Tuam meals on wheels service, County Galway to prevent its closure at the end of the March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15291-23 - Pat Buckley

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth how many assessments of needs, cases for children with disabilities has been outsourced to the national treatment purchase fund in 2020, 2021 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15317-23 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to access an appointment in a long-Covid clinic; how many people are currently waiting for an appointment; the current staffing in these clinics; the action will he take to reduce these waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15321-23 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he can advise what the budget was for disability residential care for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15323-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health when retired nurses will receive their two overdue pay rises as per the building momentum pay deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15331-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule by CHO area of the number of primary school patients in the backlog and or have not had their in-school eye, hearing and dental checks.

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PQ 15341-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health when the BreastCheck programme for 52 and 53 year olds who were never called for their initial BreastCheck appointments, due to Covid restrictions at the time, will be rescheduled; the processes that are in place to address this backlog; the information that has been communicated to this cohort to update them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15342-23 - Peter Burke

To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary staffing levels will be approved to allow for the MRI scanner at Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar to become fully operational; the timelines for the commencement of this service; the budget that has been approved for this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15383-23 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a primary care centre in New Ross, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15384-23 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting services with the Children's Disability Network Team in New Ross, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15387-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the services that can be accessed via the treatment abroad scheme for children facing unacceptably long waits for assessment of need and early intervention; which therapies that are covered; if there are any particular qualifying criteria that parents of these children have to satisfy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15486-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant transplant surgeons based at each hospital that is part of the South, South-West Hospital Group in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 15488-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that currently have a helipad within their grounds and that is in use, in tabular form.

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PQ Responses - March 28th 2023