PQ Responses - November 21st 2023

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PQ 50539-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a lower limb prosthesis in the public health service.

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PQ 50540-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric endocrinologists at CHI Crumlin in 2022 and to-date in 2023; and if this number will be further increased during 2024.

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PQ 50541-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated for the provision of the Primary Childhood Immunisation Programme in each of the years 2021 to 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 50550-23 - Sorca Clarke front page preview

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the additional funding that was provided in 2022 and to-date in 2023 for day services for disabled people; and the additional places created for day services for disabled people.

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PQ 50572-23 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take in relation to the severe strain midwives in CUMH are currently under ( Minister our midwives in CUMH are under severe strain at present. The hours worked are 12 hour shifts and on many occasions a person may have to stay on and do another hour or two with no additional pay and also with no break. This is wrong, it should not be happening. It is a very dangerous situation, the job they are doing is so important.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 50593-23 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently commence a recruitment drive to fill the six vacancies within the south Tipperary service which remain unfilled, in view of the 45km rule, and that national recruitment drives have not resulted in recruitment within the south Tipperary service; when the vacancies will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 50598-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if there are future plans to roll out dialectical behavioural therapy in County Sligo.

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PQ 50599-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacant staff by job title in the accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital as of 13 November 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 50601-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of private insurance patient forms that were completed on admission to Portiuncula University Hospital in each of the years 2021 to date in 2023; and the number of claims that were processed in respect of these forms to health insurance companies in each of the years in question.

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PQ 50602-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental surgeons employed by the HSE working in primary care centres within CHO6 in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 50604-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospice care/ palliative care beds in CHO1; and the location of each.

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PQ 50605-23 - Duncan Smith

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

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PQ 50606-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the last date an external in-person fire safety audit was carried out on behalf of the HSE at Mercy University Hospital; the frequency with which these audits are carried out; and if these audits are published online.

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PQ 50607-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiographers working in South Tipperary University Hospital in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 50608-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the current eye care services available to children aged eight years of age and over in CHO1.

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PQ 50609-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant breast surgeons based at each hospital part of the Saolta Hospital Group in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 50610-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacant consultant posts, by speciality currently at University Hospital Waterford; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form.

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PQ 50611-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of treatment bays in the accident and emergency department at Cavan General Hospital.

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PQ 50612-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the early intervention psychosis services that are currently available in CHO3.

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PQ 50613-23 - Duncan Smith

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

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PQ 50614-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of beds available in South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in each of the years 2020 to date in 2023, by Department.

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PQ 50615-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies, by job title in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory at Beaumont Hospital.

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PQ 50616-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of ceiling hosts delivered to families in CHO4 in 2022 and to-date in 2023.

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PQ 50619-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologist and rheumatologist registrars working in Kerry University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 50620-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in St. Joseph's Hospital, Raheny, Dublin 5 in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 50625-23 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of any supports in place for parents who have to accompany their children for an urgent medical procedure, such as an organ transplant procedure, to assist with costs of accommodation, food, transport, time off work and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 50634-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of eating disorder services at Mount Carmel Hospital; when construction works will be completed; when services will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 50635-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the number of operational eating disorder beds in Linn Dara; when capacity will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 50636-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the eating disorder unit in the new children’s hospital; how many eating disorders beds are included in the plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 50644-23 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health whether consideration was given to the HSE assuming control of a nursing home (details supplied) on 11 February 2021, or on another date in Q1 2021; and the reason a decision was taken not to act on this consideration.

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PQ 50648-23 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health whether CRT geriatricians were considered as part of the HSE team when involved with care in nursing home (Ballynoe) in Q1 2021; and whether an explanation was given for delay in reporting of deaths to the broader HSE team at that time.

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PQ 50660-23 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline how the primary medical needs of residents of the Citywest IPAS facility are met; and if he will make a statement more generally on how GP and primary care functions are met for residents of IPAS facilities

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PQ 50681-23 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to an organisation (the Peter McVerry Trust) by the HSE’s CHO9 social inclusion/addiction services for each year from 2018 to 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 50705-23 - Padraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans by the National Ambulance Service to develop a permanent ambulance base at Buncrana, County Donegal.

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PQ 50734-23 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children who have been reassessed for autism spectrum disorder under a children's disability network team in the past year; the primary reason for reassessing children with an ASD diagnosis; the number of children who had their ASD diagnosis removed in the past year after reassessment; if there are any specific criteria or guidelines that CDNT's follow when removing an ASD diagnosis; the reason for CDNT's refusing to acknowledge or offer a profile of pathological demand avoidance as part of an ASD assessment; if all children who have a single psychological only assessment and not a full multidisciplinary team report will be reassessed; the options open to a family, if the validity of previous professional assessments is questioned and subsequently overturned; and the person or body that will be held accountable if a child is misdiagnosed.

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PQ 50735-23 - James Lawless

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth his plans for the long-term care of young people with acquired brain injury or for any young person in need of long-term care, which would be suitable to their needs as alternative nursing homes.

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PQ 50761-23 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts removed from profile as a result of the memorandums CEO ref 09954 and 10166 of 2023, by grade for each care group, further broken down by service location; the number of headcount posts; the WTE to which these relate; the number which were new posts; and the number which were replacement posts or vacant posts and the number which were related to absence/leave cover, in tabular form.