PQ Responses - October 3rd 2023

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PQ 42110-23 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls to the National Ambulance Service in County Monaghan during 2023; the number therein in which an ambulance arrived within 15 minutes, over 15 minutes and within 30 minutes, over 30 minutes and within 45 minutes, over 45 minutes and within 60 minutes, over 60 minutes and within 90 minutes, over 90 minutes and within 120 minutes and over 120 minutes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42114-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of respite places in each CHO area; the number of respite places in each CHO that are reserved for emergency care; if there are plans to expand on existing services; and if he will clarify whether the HSE uses projections and or forecasting demand on respite places.

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PQ 42177-23 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the pathway for an 18-year-old who is still in secondary school to access assessments for ADHD/ADD in Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42186-23 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the protocol in place for the investigation of adverse incidents in labour; the criteria which determine whether a concise or comprehensive incident review is carried out; if it is the case that a comprehensive review is carried out in all cases of maternal death but not in the case of the death of a baby; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42187-23 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the HSE’s obstetric event support team within the National Women and Infant Health Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42197-23 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health to include the drug ketamine, used for cerebral palsy patients, in the long-term illness scheme.

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PQ 42201-23 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health if the Minister is considering the repeal of the requirement for a consultant's signature to sign off on the prescribing of cariban, as some GPs feel that they should be able to prescribe this without there being a financial penalty to the woman ( Details concerning the drug Cariban in the treatment of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, at present, a consultant is required to sign off on initiation of this medication to give a brief period of access to this medication through the Drugs Payment Scheme; is the Minister considering the repeal of the requirement for a consultant's signature as some GP's feel that they should be able to prescribe this without there being a financial penalty to the woman. Cariban is the first line treatment for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and GP's have informed me there is no medical reason for a consultant to be involved in the initial prescribing; or that it should be outside the Drugs Payment Scheme and can the Minister make a statement on the matter.); and if he will make a statement on the matter. -

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PQ 42203-23 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the maximum bed capacity in Áras Mhic Dara, An Cheathrú Rua each year from 2018 to 2023, in tabular form; the number of beds that are currently occupied; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42204-23 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if respite and end of life care is currently provided in Áras Mhic Dara, An Cheathrú Rua; if so, the number of respite spaces currently available; if not, when these services were terminated; what is being done with those bed spaces now; what analysis was conducted as the basis for ceasing the services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42205-23 - Dara Calleary

To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are significant delays in COS Scheme - Community Opthalmic Physicians employed by HSE.

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PQ 42218-23 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the orthodontic treatment waiting list in each of the last 3 years and to date in 2023; to provide the data on 6 month incremental basis; to provide the data per CHO; to provide the data with reference to the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42219-23 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have availed of the cross border directive scheme (CBD Scheme) to receive orthodontic treatment in each of the last 3 years; to provide the data per CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42222-23 - John McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the reasons why the dental hospital theatre list at CUH was suspended on 7 April 2023; if the reasons that caused the suspension have now been rectified to the extent that another suspension will not occur; if those on the waiting lists, both children and adults, will be fast tracked for treatment and if so what plan is in place; if students training for oral surgery and dental nurses will be provided with supports for exams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42225-23 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health to detail, in tabular form, the remuneration packages in place for each of the hospital group CEOs presently in position; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42227-23 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health if, given that the advisory board of Southwest Hospital Group has been disbanded for some time, he can outline what oversight and governance is in place at SSWHG to decide performance and remuneration parameters applying to the executive management, roles and functions; if he is comfortable that relevant governance is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42228-23 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health if, given the recent media revelations regarding various benefit in-kind payments allocated to senior public-funded roles including the reimbursement of motor car BIK, he can give undertakings that the chief executive roles of hospital groups are not receiving any such like or additional benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42252-23 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health how many recruitment processes for a clinical lead in any area of the Irish health service initiated since 8 February 2020 to date have not included among the job specifications a requirement of clinical experience in the relevant area; if he will list the recruitment processes that did not include the requirement of clinical experience.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42254-23 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children, per county, who are waiting on scoliosis treatment; and if he will provide a breakdown of the time spent on the waiting lists, per county.

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PQ 42266-23 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a minor injuries clinic in the community hospital in Donegal town (There are serious overcrowding issues and chronic waiting times in both Letterkenny and in Sligo Hospital, Emergency Departments and Donegal Town is ideally situated to cover a large area of South and West Donegal and already has a working X-ray machine in place. Most services have moved from Donegal Community Hospital to Donegal Town, Primary Care centre so there is now plenty of room for the Minor Injuries Clinic in Donegal Town Community Hospital); and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 42284-23 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health to address the outstanding requests for the PSRP from voluntary section 39 funded organisations and to provide an explanation for delays on the payment for staff members still awaiting this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42308-23 - Danny Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth for an update on a service (For people with disabilities who have limited mobility, is there any service available to provide assistance with house work, laundry etc so they can continue to live independently. In the past the home help service of the HSE assisted with this but now this is only for personal care so they cannot help with house work. Without such help , people who would prefer to remain living at home will need to go into full time care which would cost the state a lot more.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42315-23 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card holder, who cannot secure an appointment with a dentist providing medical card services in their area, can avail of any other scheme to help with the cost of emergency dental treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42316-23 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a list of dentists providing treatment until the medical card scheme; if so, if such a list can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42321-23 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of psychologists available to children in south Tipperary within the CDNT/ primary care services; the number of vacancies; if, where a child is unable to access a psychologist within the CDNT services, they can be transferred to primary care; the number of psychologists recruited to each service over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42378-23 -Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation devices that are currently available in each hospital, in tabular form.

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PQ 42379-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of day and night shift leaders in the ICU departments of Tallaght University Hospital, St. James's Hospital and St. Vincent's University Hospital, in tabular form.

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PQ 42380-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of gallbladder surgeries performed at the Mater Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 42381-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff, by job title, working in each minor injuries unit, in tabular form.

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PQ 42382-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE neuropsychologists in Beaumont Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 42383-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior physiotherapists in paediatric endocrinology and paediatric obesity at CHI Temple Street in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 42384 -23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE accident and emergency department nurses in Naas General Hospital in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be increased.

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PQ 42390-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of applications in CHO7 for assistive technology in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 42414 23 - Richard Bruton

To ask the Minister for Health the expected number of medical card holders and the expected number of GP-only card holders; and the respective total number of people who will have cover under these cards.

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PQ 42436-23 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health if any reviews or studies have been conducted by his Department into the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in the construction buildings providing health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42452-23 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current status of the application for a new 97-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital; if the updated public spending code will expedite delivery of the capital project proposal at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42453-23 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to CAMHS in CHO2 in 2022 and to date in 2023; the number of those referrals which were refused; the number currently on the waiting list; the current waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42465-23 - Richard Bruton

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth when vacancies in speech and language and occupational therapists in the north Dublin HSE region will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42475-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the ongoing issues experienced in relation to the dialysis machines in Tallaght Hospital (A dialysis patient attending Tallaght Hospital has informed us, even though some machines are new, there are constant breakdowns and issues with the machines); what actions his Department will take to resolve this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 42501-23 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing home beds in County Wexford, both public nursing homes and private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.