PQ Responses - November 22nd 2023

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PQ 51193-23 - Ivana Bacik front page preview

PQ 51193-23 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need for promotion among healthcare staff of impartial information on the health effects of gambling, separate to that provided by organisations which receive funding from the gambling sector.

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PQ 51284-23 - Carol Nolan front page preview

PQ 51284-23 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to outline what national or international evidence or research, apart from data in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the National Disability Strategy 2004, the Education for Persons with Special Education Needs Act 2004, and the Disability Act 2005, was undertaken or considered in devising the progressing disabilities services programme; what models of implementation elsewhere, if any, were examined; his views on the conceptualisation of the PDS programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51308-23 - Peadar Toibin front page preview

PQ 51308-23 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of children under the age of 12 years who have been referred for a public psychological assessment for autism, specific learning disabilities including dyslexia and dyspraxia, and ADHD for each category, by year, from 2019 to 2023, and by county (who are waiting (under a year, 1, 2, 3 years and 4 years or more) for an assessment as of 2023 or the most recent year for which data are available by county; who have had a completion of assessments by (i) year (2019-2023) and by (ii) county); to provide a breakdown of the number of persons in a senior psychologist post working on assessments, by county, for the latest available year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51316-23 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 51316-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of staff at the end of each month for all the CDNTs nationwide from January 2022 to April 2023; the number of allocated positions; the number of vacant posts; the number of staff on leave that is, maternity, parental and so on; the caseload; the number of individuals open and/or active; the number of individuals waitlisted, subcategorized into the number waiting longer than three, six and 12 months; the health and safety metrics; the number of complaints filed; the AIM support metrics; the number of administrative staff versus therapeutic staff; the total number of individuals awaiting contact; the number of individuals awaiting assessment; and the number of individuals awaiting therapeutic services, in tabular form.

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PQ 51322-23 - Sean Sherlock front page preview

PQ 51322-23 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the budget line afforded to a project (he planned new ambulance base at Mallow, Co Cork).

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PQ 51328-23 - Alan Kelly front page preview

PQ 51328-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant oncologists based at Cork University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 51329-23 - Alan Kelly front page preview

PQ 51329-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the extra funding and or personnel that will be allocated towards thrombectomy services in 2024. -

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PQ 51330-23 - Alan Kelly front page preview

PQ 51330-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to CHOs 3 and 5 for prosthetics in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 51415-23 - Martin Browne front page preview

PQ 51415-23 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to opening medical assessment units at Nenagh, Ennis and St John's hospitals on a 24-hour basis in light of the continued high number of presentations at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51421-23 - Pearse Doherty front page preview

PQ 51421-23 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health if there are properties in the Pettigo area of County Donegal that are owned by the HSE but not currently being used; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51458-23 - Thomas Pringle front page preview

PQ 51458-23 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current position regarding funding for a capital project (the Cleary Centre) in Donegal town; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51513-23 - Mark Ward front page preview

PQ 51513-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health to outline the catchment areas for consultant psychiatrists in the Galway area; if an individual can be seen by these services outside of their catchment area; and to outline the options available to individuals who do not have a consultant psychiatrist in their catchment area.

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PQ 51515-23 - Mark Ward front page preview

PQ 51515-23 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if resources are in place to provide a primary healthcare centre in Collinstown, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; if he will provide an update on the provision of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51554-23 - Patricia Ryan front page preview

PQ 51554-23 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the saxenda injection and the prescription/testing process for same: to clarify what procedural/approval procedures are in place for GPs/primary care centres with regard to test analyses/approval of the suitability of possible candidates for injection of the drug saxenda; if a consultation process with all doctors in a GPs/primary care centre is required before approval/suitability for the injection is given ( Some patients have reported that, following referral by their hospital consultants to their GPs/Primary care and undergoing the requisite tests, the GPs/Primary Care Centres are delaying giving decisions due to their stated necessity to discuss with their colleagues, the delay meaning the tests are out of date and must be repeated, causing undue stress to the patients concerned.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51555-23 - Patricia Ryan front page preview

PQ 51555-23 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on primary healthcare nursing staff levels and numbers of patients covered, including public health nurses, in the south Kildare area, with particular emphasis on rural areas, the distances required to be covered by each PHN, and the individual PHN’s ability to attend to rural patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51561-23 - Patricia Ryan front page preview

PQ 51561-23 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the proposed transfer of 68 elderly residents from units in Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin, to Bartra nursing home in Clondalkin, he will clarify the reason 68 vulnerable elderly residents in Cherry Orchard Hospital (many in receipt of palliative/end of life care or with advanced cognitive issues) have, in November last, received urgent notice they are being relocated en masse to another nursing home facility In Clondalkin by 20 November 2023, that that notice was given inconsistently or in some cases not at all, and the decision taken by the HSE without consultation with residents’ families; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51562-23 - Patricia Ryan front page preview

PQ 51562-23 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the HSE’s proposed moving of 68 very vulnerable residents with complex care needs from Cherry Orchard Hospital to an alternative nursing home in Clondalkin, he will clarify how the decision to transfer them was made, in the absence of consultation with either residents affected or their families; if any consideration was taken to establish whether any other, less distressing/disruptive alternative was available on the hospital campus, to minimise the stress and trauma this move would cause to these very vulnerable people, many of whom suffer from cognitive difficulties, have very complex care needs and/or are in receipt of palliative/end-of-life care.

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PQ 51563-23 - Patricia Ryan front page preview

PQ 51563-23 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the transfer of 68 very vulnerable elderly and frail residents from Cherry Orchard Hospital on foot of an ‘urgent evacuation’, he will clarify if he or his Department were aware that the HSE was made fully aware by HIQA of the issues surrounding the current ‘urgent evacuation’, at the end of June 2021, yet no works were commenced/undertaken in the intervening two-and-a-half years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51564-23 - Patricia Ryan front page preview

PQ 51564-23 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the ‘urgent evacuation’ of 68 vulnerable residents from Cherry Orchard Hospital, he will explain in detail, giving dates, of when the agreement between the HSE and Bartra to accept transfer of the 68 residents, specifically with reference to the date of the notice of that transfer as given, inconsistently, to the affected residents and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51568-23 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 51568-23 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the HSE workforce targets for 2023 across each discipline; and the progress to date on each target, in tabular form.

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PQ 51569-23 - Roisin Shortall front page preview

PQ 51569-23 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of employment offers made by the HSE that have been withdrawn as a result of the recruitment freeze; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51570-23 - Róisín Shortall front page preview

PQ 51570-23 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the disciplines excluded from the HSE recruitment freeze; the number recruited in each of these disciplines to date in 2023; the total number of staff in each of these disciplines; the expected workforce targets for each of these disciplines in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51571-23 - Róisín Shortall front page preview

PQ 51571-23 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health his views on the HSE recruitment freeze across almost all disciplines; the steps he is taking to ensure that patient care is not compromised as a result of this decision; to outline the impact of this decision on workforce planning taking place in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51572-23 - Róisín Shortall front page preview

PQ 51572-23 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the HSE recruitment freeze on recommendations one, three, four and 12 of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants, respectively, given that each of these recommendations relates to recruitment and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51586-23 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 51586-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will invest in additional home care, outreach care and mental health supports for people living with epidermolysis bullosa; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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