PQ Responses - April 23rd 2024

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PQ 17303-24 - David Stanton

To ask the Minister for Health the reason a building (The McAuley Day Care Centre, Midleton, Co. Cork.) is not currently open and operating; when he expects the service to resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17312-24 - John McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health the number that applied for the position of ambulance base supervisors with the National Ambulance Service; the number of applicants that had a formal interview; the number of successful candidates; the number of vacant paramedic positions throughout the organisation; the plan to fill each vacancy; the budget for the service for each of the past five years; the response time for ambulances from time of call to time of arrival at the patients location; the status of the plan to modernise and transform the service; the number of advanced paramedics currently employed in the organisation; the base to which they are attached; and the number of qualified paramedics that are currently undertaking training courses to qualify as an advanced paramedic.

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PQ 17325-24 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health when the amyloidosis model of care, which was approved by the HSE in 2022, will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17350-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the current ambulance response times across west Cork; the number of ambulances available in the area; and the number of paramedics assigned to the area.

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PQ 17410-24 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Mullingar Regional Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17413-24 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant urologists and urology registrars part of each hospital in the Ireland East Hospital Group in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17414-24 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of births in the maternity unit of Mullingar Regional Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17434-24 - Joe McHugh

To ask the Minister for Health when the diagnostics for bloods will be reinstated for GPs in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17445-24 - Michael Fitzmaurice

To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that approximately 15 retired GPs over the age of 72 unhesitatingly responded to the pleas of the HSE to remain in their posts, given the critical shortage of family doctors in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17451-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having low to medium support needs; and the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having high to intensive support needs, in tabular form.

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PQ 17452-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the capital costs of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people; the first-year current costs of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people; and the full year current cost of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people, in tabular form.

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PQ 17453-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the capital costs of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people; the first-year current costs of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people; and the full year current cost of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people, in tabular form.

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PQ 17454-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the Department's target is for the provision of respite places for disabled people over the next three, six and nine years, in tabular form.

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PQ 17455-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the amount of funding allocated for the provision of home respite support packages that is within the Department's pre-committed current expenditure baseline.

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PQ 17456-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if the current allocation for delivering existing levels of home respite supports for emergency cases including funding for the 420 packages put in place in 2022 and maintained in 2023 as well as the additional 27 packages delivered in 2023 is within the Department's pre-committed current expenditure baseline.

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PQ 17457-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the first-year costs of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours; and the full year costs of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours, in tabular form.

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PQ 17459-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the capital costs of providing one additional adult day service centre; the average number of places provided in an adult day service centre; the first-year current costs of providing 500, 1,000 and 1,500 additional adult day service places; and the full year current costs of providing 500, 1,000 and 1,500 additional adult day service places, in tabular form.

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PQ 17463-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current costs of filling all vacant posts in children's disability network teams; the number of vacant posts in children's disability network teams where funding is already committed; the number of vacant posts in children's disability network teams where funding has not already been committed; and the current costs of filling the vacant posts where funding has not already been committed.

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PQ 17473-24 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of children from 2019 to date under 18 years of age awaiting appointments to see the CDNT teams in each area in County Wexford.

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PQ 17475-24 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide an update on the current positions vacant across each section of County Wexford’s CDNT; when it is expected vacant positions will be filled in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17482-24 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the details of any analysis carried out or commissioned by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department into the number of hospital-based diabetes clinics in Ireland that currently meet the recommended staffing levels of multidisciplinary diabetes team members, including consultant endocrinologists, advanced nurse practitioners, diabetes nurse specialists, dietitians, psychologists; the steps being taken to ensure that recommended multidisciplinary diabetes staffing levels are met in all paediatric and adult diabetes clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17484-24 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the recommended staffing levels of multidisciplinary diabetes team members (consultant endocrinologists, advanced nurse practitioners, diabetes nurse specialists, dietitians, psychologists) per 100 patients for a paediatric diabetes clinic and an adult diabetes clinic; to provide information on the number of hospital-based diabetes clinics that meet these standards; which hospital-based diabetes clinics meet these standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17497-24 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will consider making an financial allocation to Castleblayney care group in order to provide a community centre/facility in conjunction with the housing development for people with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17498-24 - Richard Bruton

To ask the Minister for Health the most common technology aids provided under the medical appliances scheme offered by the HSE; the number sanctioned in each of the past three years; if an evaluation has been carried out on the effectiveness of such technologies to keep people independent in their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17508-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the recruitment embargo on cardiac services; the number of positions that cannot be filled; if services will be affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17509-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the recruitment embargo on stroke services; the number of positions that cannot be filled; if services will be affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17570-24 - Kathleen Funchion

To ask the Minister for Health the reason Caredoc staff in County Carlow have not been listed by the HSE / KOSI for payment of the Section 39 payrises, despite being informed that they are Section 39 employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17572-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will detail, with regard to the findings of the Disability Capacity Review to 2032, the number of residential disability respite centres his Department is targeting to deliver by 2032.

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PQ 17573-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will detail, with regard to the key objectives and actions of the Action Plan for Disability Services 2024 – 2026, the number of residential disability respite centres his Department is targeting to deliver over the lifetime of the plan.

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PQ 17574-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the total number of residential respite centres that were delivered up to December 2020; the overnight respite capacity of these centres; and the day-only respite capacity of these centres.

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PQ 17608-24 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health when the eating disorder out-patient facility is due to open in Mount Carmel; the operational capacity of this facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17609-24 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the increased bed capacity for the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders; the funding allocated for eating disorder beds in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17618-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the adult and children overnight services that are currently operating in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17622-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant respiratory medicine and respiratory medicine registrars based at Beaumont Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17623-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients aged 40 years and younger diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17633-24 - Brian Stanley.

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a hospice for the midlands region; to outline the level of funding available; and the approximate timeline for provision of the facility.

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PQ 17654-24 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology and the waiting times under primary care in counties Roscommon and Galway.

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PQ 17655-24 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of services and supports currently available in a service (E-Mental Health Hub, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon) for young people and for older people under psychiatry of later life; the operating days and times of these services; and the number of people being supported to date in all services.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17656-24 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if there are vacancies in a service (E-Mental Health Hub, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon); if so, the length of time the vacancy has been there; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17682-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns raised by HSE home support service workers who fear the recruitment freeze in the health service is accelerating the privatisation of home support services; the steps he is taking to protect and grow HSE home support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17683-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that HSE home support service is not listed on hospital discharge forms, but private care companies are included as an option; the reason this is the case; and if he will ensure that the HSE home support service is listed.

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PQ 17696-24 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to provide the recommended staffing levels of multidisciplinary diabetes team members (consultant endocrinologists, advanced nurse practitioners, diabetes nurse specialists, dietitians, psychologists) per 100 patients for a paediatric diabetes clinic and an adult diabetes clinic; to provide details of the number of hospital-based diabetes clinics that meet these standards; the hospital-based diabetes clinics that meet these standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17732-24 - Eamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health when multidisciplinary diabetes team members consisting of consultant endocrinologists, advanced nurse practitioners, diabetes nurse specialists, dietitians, psychologists for both a paediatric diabetes clinic, and an adult diabetes clinic will be set up in each region as recommended; the number of hospital-based diabetes clinics that meet these standards at present and their location; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17742-24 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the process for a disabled person to apply for a personal assistant through the HSE; if it is the same process in all CHO areas; what is the process for allocating hours to a person once a decision is made that a person qualifies for a personal assistant; if he will provide in tabular form a guide of the number of hours that can be allocated to a person based on their needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17758-24 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status if the audiology clinic in Tuam primary care centre, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17816-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by HSE to meals on wheels service providers in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17818-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time healthcare assistants employed by the HSE working in each health centre and primary care centre within CHO7 in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17819-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests made to the HSE for a meals on wheels service for individuals via the public health nurse in 2023; and the percentage of those requests that were approved, in tabular form.

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PQ 17820-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant gastroenterologists and WTE gastroenterologist registrars based in St. James's Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17821-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking indicators; the level to which this training has been provided; and if this training is provided on a regular basis.

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PQ 17822-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers and nurses employed by CAMHS mental health intellectual disability within CHO7 in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17823-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of each HSE funded day care centre within CHO7 as of 10 April 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17824-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of each HSE funded respite centre within CHO7 as of 10 April 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17825-24 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have been admitted to CHI Crumlin and have been in the hospital for 28 or more continuous days in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 17871-24 - Danny Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to have a specialist nurse in Kerry for the many people who have Parkinson's disease and at the very least need to have access to a nurse in their own county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17878-24 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the reason subsistence payments to nursing students working under the Cope Foundation have not being paid.

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PQ 17884-24 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, if the staff census is using all the CHO numbers, HSE employees only or non-HSE employees.

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PQ 17885-24 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, with the new breakdown, if he will instruct the HSE to clarify the reason the numbers are still not matching up; what parameters the staff census uses, i.e. CDNT exclusive or if they include hospitals and/or complex needs schools as well; if so, if the HSE will provide percentages for which portion is for CDNTs, and which portion is dedicated to each additional area .

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PQ 17889-24 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE became aware that construction work on the development of Ballyhaunis primary care centre was to come to a halt in 2021; the reasons cited for stopping works at that time; who communicated that information; how that information was relayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE became aware that construction work on the development of Ballyhaunis primary care centre was to come to a halt in 2021; the reasons cited for stopping works at that time; who communicated that information; how that information was relayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17890-24 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health the various completion dates for Ballyhaunis primary care centre that have been cited or provided to the HSE over the course of its development; when those dates were provided; who communicated that information; how that information was communicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17891-24 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health what contractors the HSE has been in contact or engaged with concerning the development of Ballyhaunis primary care centre; the details of those contacts and engagements; the dates of those contacts and engagements; the nature of those contacts and engagements; the details covered in those contacts and engagements; if the information could be provided, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17919-24 - Danny Healy-Rae.

To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (I again want to raise the issue that there is no Urologist available at University Hospital Kerry, presently very sick patients have no choice but travel to Cork to attend a Neurologist. I ask that this issue is prioritized.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17942-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the incidence rate of shingles for those aged under 50 and over 50 years, respectively for each of the past five years to date.

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PQ 17945-24 - John McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the meals-on-wheels service operated by the HSE in Kilmoganny, County Kilkenny; if each recipient of the service has been consulted on the changes being considered; if alternative arrangements are being made to accommodate those that need the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17967-24 - Joe McHugh

To ask the Minister for Health the reason dermatology services at Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital have not been included as priority areas of focus in the National Waiting List Action Plan, given the high proportion of patients waiting over 18 months (per NTPF) for dermatology services in both hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17970-24 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with type 1 diabetes attending the adult diabetes service in Letterkenny University Hospital; the number waiting less than 12, between 12 and 24 and waiting more than 24 months for an endocrinology appointment; and the longest waiting time for an appointment.

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PQ 17978-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (Irish Heart Foundation) regarding the lack of community rehabilitation and support services for stroke and heart failure patients; his plans to address the deficit in services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 17983-24 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with type 2 diabetes who attend the adult diabetes service in Letterkenny University Hospital; the number of those who are waiting less than 12 months for an appointment; waiting between 12 and 24 months for an appointment; waiting more than 24 months for an appointment; the longest waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18001-24 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the myalgic encephalomyelitis working group established by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18016-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health when and how did the HSE contact HIQA to inform them they were not going to be applying for registration of the new Nenagh community nursing home in 2024.

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PQ 18029-24 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the reason there is currently no funding plan for a Healthy Food Made Easy Programme in County Clare; the reason no facilitator is in place for the delivery of this programme in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18030-24 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if a social prescribers programme is operating in Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18031-24 - Aindrias Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide details of the current levels of staffing for Cork University Hospital's paediatric epilepsy services; the number of positions which are currently vacant; the number of recruitment processes which are underway (if any) to fill these vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18032-24 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline plans his Department has to recruit dentists into the HSE dental service so that the huge backlog of children awaiting dental treatment in CHO3 can be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18047-24 - Robert Troy

To ask the Minister for Health to arrange for a proper boundary wall to be erected between Lakepoint housing estate and the HSE building in Lakepoint, Mullingar, as there is currently a timber fence at this location but a proper wall needs to be built to discourage people climbing over the timber fence.

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PQ 18075-24 - Joe McHugh

To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of a group (the diabetes Type 1 group) in Donegal to address the current crisis in the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18117-24 - Ciaran Cannon

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned disposal of the St. Brigid’s Hospital Campus in Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18118-24 - Ciaran Cannon

To ask the Minister for Health for details of the staffing required for the new 50-bed ward block at Portiuncula University Hospital; whether such requirements will be met when the new ward block is complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - April 23rd 2024