PQ Responses - February 7th 2024

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PQ 4953-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the average daily running cost of an in-patient hospital bed in a model 2 hospital based on data from the HSE healthcare pricing office; the total number of beds in each model 2 hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4954-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the average daily running cost of an in-patient hospital bed in a model 3 hospital based on data from the HSE healthcare pricing office; the total number of beds in each model 3 hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4955-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the average daily running cost of an in-patient hospital bed in a model 4 hospital based on data from the HSE healthcare pricing office; the total number of beds in each model 4 hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4962-24 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking regarding the provision of a dedicated diabetes care unit at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4963-24 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated whole-time equivalents of consultant endocrinologists, dietitians, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff nurses, podiatrists and administrative support posts currently dedicated to the outpatient adult diabetes clinic in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4973-24 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health if University Hospital Waterford, as a model 4 hospital, has contingency plans in place for the staffing of the diabetes unit to ensure adequate cover in the event of staff illness or leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 4982-24 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have started the new insulin pump, in all hospitals within the RCSI Hospital Group, aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or older, for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -

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PQ 4985-24 - Matt Shanahan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions that occurred through the University Hospital Waterford accident and emergency or the acute medical assessment units due to diabetic ketoacidosis in people aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or older in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5000-24 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he is aware that in 2023 children in CHO9 were assessed as part of the assessment of need and or autism diagnostic observation schedule process by a clinician not qualified to conduct such assessment; if he has received a report from the HSE into this matter; if he can provide details of mitigation measures in place to ensure that this cannot be allowed to happen again; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5018-24 - Imelda Munster

To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that are currently operational at the new 30-bed purpose build dementia unit in a nursing home (the Boyne View House Nursing Home) in Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5038-24 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if assistance is available to provide a modular home/log cabin to adults with additional needs to help them to transition to independent living; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5058-24 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the annual budget for the school dental programme for children and to detail, in tabular form, the number of appointments in the years 2020 - 2023, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5065-24 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a National Ambulance Service base (Loughlinstown, Dublin 18), including details, in tabular form, of callouts during the years 2020 - 2023, staffing levels, the number of vehicles attached to the base and an update on any plans to expand the base; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5083-24 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if HSE members currently on a career break are not able to return to work due to the HSE recruitment embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5088-24 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Cashel community nursing unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5116-24 - Charles Flanagan

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision for a new primary care centre (Rathdowney, Co. Laois); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5164-24 - Jennifer Whitmore

To ask the Minister for Health the services currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; how families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; the status of discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5188-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine working in Cavan General Hospital in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 5189-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to increase the number of adult critical care beds in the public health service to 400.

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PQ 5221-24 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health how many speech and language therapists are currently working in each health district; how many positions are currently vacant; and how current number compare to each of the past five years.

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PQ 5283-24 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health to give details in relation to when the new dementia specific weekend day centres are intended to be operational; the locations of same and how carer's/those suffering with dementia can avail of this new and exciting service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5291-24 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the names of the members of the National Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) Service Improvement Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5292-24 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health to identify the ten work-streams identified by the National Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) Service Improvement Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5307-24 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise on a tender process (tender process involving a satellite Haemodialysis Unit at Ennis Hospital); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5309-24 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 18 January 2024, the number of homebirths by county for each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024, tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5312-24 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to provide a service at a hospital ( Coronary care at Ennis Hospital); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5313-24 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to provide a service at a hospital ( Stroke care at Ennis Hospital); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5316-24 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take in 2024 to extend the opening hours of a unit (Medical Assessment Unit at Ennis Hospital – extending the opening hours to 18 or 24 hours); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5317-24 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he will comment on the progress of a unit (Mental health de-escalation unit at University Hospital Limerick); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5318-24 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update and what services will be based out of a unit ( the Surgical Hub at the Scoil Carmel site in Limerick); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5418-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health when the required WTEs will be in place to open the new Nenagh community nursing home; and the date it is expected to be open.

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PQ 5436-24 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are available to people who are dealing with sudden and traumatic deaths of a friend or family member.

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PQ 5462-24 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the HSE period poverty scheme.

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PQ 5485-24 - Bernard J.Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is actively enforcing the relevant provisions of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023 and the EU 2016 Tobacco Products Directive Regulations in non-traditional retail outlets such as mobile phone shops, computer repair centres, gift shops and discount stores which sell vapes; the number of HSE enforcement visits conducted in these non-traditional outlets in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5526-24 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS teams within CHO9 that offer family-based therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and play therapy.

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PQ 5533-24 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of childhood flu vaccines distributed by GPs, pharmacists and walk in clinics in the winter of 2023-2024 period.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5534-24 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE optometrists and opticians working in the Mater Hospital in 2021,2022,2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 5540-24 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health to seek information from the management of all acute hospitals as to whether third party companies are contracted to provide medical consultation, advice, reading of scans and so on, outside of normal working hours, where consultants are already employed and on call for the same acute hospital; if so, the reasons for same; if a lack of IT systems are to blame for such an occurrence; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5542-24 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health if the building utilised by Carrickmacross Social Services, located at Cloughvalley, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan was sold by the HSE to a third party organisation; the reason for such a sale; the details of such sale; the oversight involved and the individuals and structures that approved any such sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5543-24 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health if provision has been made to ensure that Carrickmacross Social Services can continue to use the building and facilities at Cloughvalley, Carrickmacross that is or was in the ownership of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 5595-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health to provide detail on the planned closure of 16 beds across two units in Clonakilty Community Hospital in order to facilitate the opening of a new unit; whether concerns have been raised with the HSE by unions in regards to safe staffing levels in the hospital as a result of the new unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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