PQ Responses - April 30th 2024

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PQ 18735-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the MIDOC in Birr, County Offaly closed; if there are plans for it to reopen; if there is an assessment of accessibility of primary care in Birr; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18737-24 - Darren O Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the work of an organisation (the Irish Heart Foundation) to provide heart and stroke services; if he has plans to work with the foundation to expand services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18740-24 Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns that heart failure patients are not sufficiently supported when out of hospital; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18741-24 - Darren O Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the significant support services that are offered by an organisation (the Irish Heart Foundation); if he aware of concerns that their current funding model is unsustainable; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18754-24 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will finalise its pay and numbers strategy for 2024.

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PQ 18755-24 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make access to Mehta growth guidance casting for infantile idiopathic scoliosis available for children in the State, whether through access to care in the State or through access to care abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18757-24 - Joe Carey

To ask the Minister for Health if all clinical staff in the emergency department of UHL have received training in the National Clinical Guidelines No 6 Sepsis Management; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18786-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current number of staff employed by each CDNT; and the current number of unfilled positions; by role, in tabular form.

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PQ 18790-24 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health the travel options that may be available to an elderly patient travelling from Thurles, County Tipperary, to Croom, County Limerick for a rheumatology appointment, who has no other means of transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18795-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health what percentage of mental health difficulties are addressed at primary care level, secondary care level and tertiary care level, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18796-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the current wait time for an appointment with primary care psychology; the number of persons on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18797-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels of the child and adolescent mental health services, the adult mental health services and the old age psychiatry services, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18801-24 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth how he and his Department will ensure that the Government urgently puts funding in place to develop the HSE clinical pathway for functional neurologic disorder and the multidisciplinary teams urgently required; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18803-24 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding current staffing levels of paediatric epilepsy services at University Hospital Limerick; the number of current vacancies which may exist within the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18809-24 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a day centre for older people in an area (Vernon Avenue Health Centre Clontarf East, Dublin 3) where there is currently no suitable centre for public health nurses to make a referral to; if this can be considered to prevent social isolation and assist families in providing care; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18814-24 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth what plans exist to increase the provision of residential care and supported independent living for adults with disabilities in the north Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18849-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland who currently use telecare systems either in their home, in nursing or care homes and/or in assisted-living facilities to monitor, support or protect the health and well-being of vulnerable people; the annual spend on such devices for each of the past five years from 2019 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18882-24 - Parick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health if reports of transgender people being denied blood tests by GPs will be investigated by the HSE clinical lead for transgender services.

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PQ 18887-24 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for blood tests to be taken on a person that present themselves as a suspected spiked victim; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18889-24 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the total number of cases of spiking that have occurred between 2022, 2023 and 2024, including Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18893-24 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in Palmerstown; the number of vacant positions; if developmental checks are being carried out for children in the Palmerstown area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18896-24 - Matt Carthy

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PQ 18897-24 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth further to the announcement by the Minister of State of an interim overnight respite service for children with disabilities being sanctioned at Castleblayney, County Monaghan, the service provider that will be contracted to operate this service; the address of the service; the number of children that will be provided with respite at this service; the criteria that will apply for children to receive this service; the duration of the contract concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18900-24 - Catherine Murphy

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

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PQ 18901-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of house calls visits carried out by doctors in each treatment centre on D-Doc services in each of the past 28 days, in tabular form.

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PQ 18902-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have applied for treatment to date in 2024 under the publicly funded fertility treatment scheme.

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PQ 18903-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in public car parking charges at Tallaght University Hospital in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 18904-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the current number of teams for each of the national clinical programmes in early intervention in psychosis, perinatal mental health and eating disorders; and the current staffing levels for each of those teams, in tabular form.

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PQ 18905-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant in intensive care medicine at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 18914-24 - Catherine Murphy

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

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PQ 18943-24 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE's CHO8 intends to provide any financial support to an organisation (the Irish Heart Foundation) to deliver important supports in the community in the administrative area for those who have experienced heart events or stroke; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18944-24 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth what level of reimbursement is available to parents seeking private therapeutic interventions where their Childrens Disability Network team is unable to provide these treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18945-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health are there functioning stroke units in Cavan, Letterkenny and Naas as of April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18946-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of stroke units that meet the minimum requirements under the stroke guidelines to be a stroke unit since the publication of the National Stroke Audit and as of April 2024; where are these located; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18947-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health what budget has been set aside to work with key stakeholders to improve public knowledge on stroke and risk factors for stroke; is this recurrent funding; what stakeholders are being worked with; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18948-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health what problems and issues have arisen from the lack of a structured programme of recurrent funding for the National Stroke Strategy; what recommendations of both the National Stroke Strategy and the Irish National Audit for Stroke are not able to be implemented as a result of the lack of a structured programme of recurrent funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18949-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health what structured programme of recurrent funding is needed for the National Stroke Strategy to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18950-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts that have been approved for the National Stroke Strategy to date; the number of these that have been filled; the number of these that have been withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18951-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the reason patient access to acute stroke unit beds has remained at an unacceptable level for several years; what action is being taken to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18968-24 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have been seen weekly, by each discipline (i.e., SLT, OT, CNS, ANP and NCHD), by each team within the two CAMHS teams in south Tipperary, Clonmel team 1 and team 2 since January 2024 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18969-24 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients referred to CAMHS (Clonmel teams) who have not been accepted but seen by a CAMHS consultant by way of an ECA in hospital since January 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18991-24 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health what plans are in place for the recruitment of a consultant neurologist for Wexford hospital and a dedicated outpatient neurology service, as recommended in the 2016 National Model of Care for Neurology Services in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19010-24 - Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health the current WTE posts filled and unfilled, respectively in south Tipperary primary care services, broken down by discipline for physiotherapy, occupational therapist, speech and language therapy, psychology, dietician, audiology and ophthalmology; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19011-24- Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to reduce paediatric primary care wait lists in south Tipperary; if he will give a commitment to improve the waiting times for children waiting to access these much needed appointments in 2024, many of whom are waiting over 12 months for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19061-24 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if workers in a facility ( Crannog Nua Special Care Unit Portrane; and was identified in the first phase of Covid-19 as an environment where the young people and staff would be exposed to Covid-19 and an environment that warranted the inclusion within the sequence ‘group 1’ of the vaccination programme, with ‘health and social care professionals’ being identified as being eligible for the payment) will received the pandemic special recognition payment, given this facility provides 24-hour care to vulnerable and at-risk young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19075-24 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1586 of 9 April 2024, to provide a breakdown of funding made under the sexual health and crisis pregnancy programme to organisations which focus on crisis pregnancy counselling, in each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19131-24 - Ruairí Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the measures being taken by his Department to review and improve the waiting times and outcomes for assessment of needs, the provision of therapies for children with disabilities through the CDNTs, primary care and adult services for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19196-24 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the CAMHS staffing levels compared to the Vision For Change requirement in each of the teams in CHO4.

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PQ 19197-24 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the projected timeframe for the demolition of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, and commencement of works on the replacement service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19209-24 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking in relation to the delivery of health services and supports to those suffering with chronic fatigue syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19215-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to detail the community-based supports that are available to people who have acquired a disability due to stroke, heart attack or accident; the measures he is taking to increase these community-based supports for people with an acquired disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19223-24 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he can provide an update on when a special school in Cork (St, Killian's Mayfield, Cork) will receive access to therapies considering there are still no therapists in place at the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19228-24 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he is aware that the number of children overdue an assessment of need in Cork North Lee is at its highest rate since Q1 2019.

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PQ 19235-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care centre in Tullow; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19236-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health if there is to be an injury clinic provided in Carlow town; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19237-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health if there is to be a primary care centre provided in Borris, County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19246-24 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if a medicine (Fosteo injection for persons with osteoporosis) can be made available under the medical card scheme for a patient where the current medicine, available under medical card scheme, has given them a bad reaction.

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PQ 19298-24 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 19 April 2023, if there is a timeline for completion of the development of a helipad in CUH; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19300-24- Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the recruitment of the outstanding nurses promised as part of the 2018 Valproate Response Project, for which funding was confirmed in 2022; if advertising of the positions and interviews have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19306-24 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health if it is the policy of his Department that all public water schemes are fluoridated; if not, the schemes that have fluoridation and those that do not, respectively; the total cost of fluoridating water; the amount of this cost borne by the Exchequer by way of grant to Uisce Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19313-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health when the last national immunology strategy was delivered; if the recommendations of the strategy were achieved; and when a new strategy will be produced.

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PQ 19339-24 Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing complement of the Hospital of Assumption, Thurles, providing the staffing number, by grade.

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PQ 19343-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the implementation steps to be taken in 2024 to deliver the National Stroke Strategy; the specific additional budget provided in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19344-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current status of the rehabilitation unit at Roscommon University Hospital; the capital allocation for the project in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19412-24 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in Cork city and Cork county which have ceased providing medical card services over the past five years; if he will provide an overview of the dental services currently offered to medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19418-24 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establishing a clinical care programme for those living with lung fibrosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19441-24 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the reason public funding of CAR-T immunotherapy for leukaemia patients is limited to under 26 years of age; if consideration has been given to extending the age for funding of treatment option to beyond the age of 26 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19443-24 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or any agency of his Department has assessed any potential health impacts to people who reside near windfarms/wind turbines including the impacts of any noise and flicker coming from wind turbines; if the Department has or compiles any data in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19455-24 - Brendan Smith

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a project (The need to provide a new day activation unit in Cavan town at an early date to replace the outdated and unsuitable clogher house facility. This new centre will have trainees from all over county Cavan and needs to be centrally located in the county which is in the Cavan town area) will proceed to the next stage at an early date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19466-24 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health if he will support and implement the call from a group (the Neurological Alliance of Ireland) for a consultant neurology service to be based in Letterkenny University Hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19467-24 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the reason memory assessment support services for persons with dementia and their families has not been rolled out in County Donegal.

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PQ 19468-24 - Pádraig Mac Locahlainn

To ask the Minister for Health when the Saolta University Healthcare Group will meet with TDs, Senators and HSE forum county councillors in County Donegal to update them on the progress made in addressing the grave concerns of over 100 GPs and hospital consultants in the county about the level of health services being provided at Letterkenny University Hospital and the solutions that they had put forward late last year; and if the Saolta University Healthcare Group will commit to a dedicated meeting with those County Donegal public representatives every three months to update them further on the progress made, as previously committed to.

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PQ 19469-24 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the numbers employed in WTE in each category (Table with the following categories detailed: Consultants , Registrars , SHO/ Interns , Medical/ Dental, other, Nurse/ Midwife Manager , Nurse/ Midwife Specialist & AN/, Staff Nurse/ Staff Midwife , Nursing/ Midwifery Student , Nursing/ Midwifery other) in each public/voluntary hospital in March 2024 or the latest date available, in tabular form.

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PQ 19470-24 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the reason public funding of CAR-T immunotherapy for leukaemia patients is limited to under 26 years old; if consideration has been given to extending the age for funding of treatment option to beyond the age of 26 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19472-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the timeline for full reimplementation of services provided by the Kildare network disability team, with particular reference to the urgent provision of occupational therapy, speech therapy, clinical psychology and social worker services; the positions in this team currently vacant and yet to be filled; the timeline for filling such positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19474-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the average age of early intervention for children in the CH07 area for vital supports and assessments including assessments for autism and ADHD; the extent to which this wait time has fluctuated in the past seven years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19475-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current number of positions waiting to be filled, including appropriate cover for maternity leave, in the fields of occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and psychology in the CH07 area; when it is anticipated that all available positions will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19480-24- Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the concerns of parents of children with mental health problems are regularly monitored, with a view to ensuring the availability of adequate residential places; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19505-24 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the nature of and current situation with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 16 October 2014 that it was sending Ireland a letter of formal notice (INFR(2014)4131) in respect of the working time of social care workers under the responsibility of the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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