PQ Responses - May 21st 2024

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PQ 22358-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE secretaries part of the ophthalmology department responsible for making appointments for patients for eye injections within the outpatients eye clinic in the Mater Hospital in each of the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the hours and days of week each secretary is based at the hospital in tabular form.

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PQ 22359-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatres currently in use at St. James's Hospital; the hours and days of the week each theatre is available for procedures in tabular form.

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PQ 22360-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year costs needed to increase the number of neonatal high dependency unit beds from six to fourteen in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin

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PQ 22363-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general and hepato-pancreato-biliary and liver transplant surgeons at St. Vincent's University Hospital in each of the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form.

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PQ 22373-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of WTE staff grade psychologists, dieticians and child and family support workers employed in the north Kildare Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form.

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PQ 22407-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has considered adding extra acute beds to Nenagh General Hospital.

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PQ 22410-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently on HSE recruitment panels for all disciplines in CHO3 as of 13 May 2024 by discipline and job type, in tabular form.

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PQ 22426-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to recruit another peer support facilitator with the psychiatric team in UHK in view of the fact there are currently only two positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22448-24 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of each of the eight recommendations in the “Overview Report of HIQA’s Monitoring Programme against the National Standards for Safer Better Maternity Service, with a focus on obstetric emergencies” (2020); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22449-24 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the revised National Maternity Strategy Implementation Plan 2021 – 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22451-24 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health pursuant to the revised National Maternity Strategy Implementation Plan 2021 – 2026, the status of the establishment of a clinical audit function for maternity services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22452-24 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health pursuant to the revised National Maternity Strategy Implementation Plan 2021 – 2026, the status of plans to develop a research strategy for Irish maternity services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22455-24 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health pursuant to the revised National Maternity Strategy Implementation Plan 2021 – 2026, the status of the promised detailed national standardised dataset to support the effective monitoring and evaluation of the maternity and infant care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22462-24 - Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the current situation at the child and adolescent mental health services at Nenagh Health an Centre, County Tipperary, where there is currently no occupational therapist is in place (details supplied); the status of the recruitment process for this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22494-24 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people ( Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection) who were actively using the health service, by county between 1 February and 1 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22499-24 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the data which will be reported through the health performance visualisation platform, in tabular form; the relevant metrics and indicators which will be measured and monitored; and the regularity of reporting.

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PQ 22511-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health when students will be called for an appointment with the school dentist ( Minister when is it expected that 4th & 5th & 6th class students in Gneeveguilla National School , Co Kerry will get called to the school dentists?); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22521-24 - Danny Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter concerning provision of CAMHS psychotherapists in Tralee (I ask why no cover has been put in place for the CAMHS Psychotherapist in the Tralee area who is on maternity leave. The families of Children and young adults have no option but to pay for private appointments as there is currently no cover. Will these patients be reimbursed for the costs of private appointments?); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22535-24 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the total number of clients engaged with CDNTs, broken down by area; and the number of such clients who have an individual family support plan.

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PQ 22536-24 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the policy basis for individual family support plans; the purpose of them within the services provided to families; the role they play in ensuring supports for individuals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22584-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a dietitian service in County Kerry (Minister I have constituents who are waiting up to 6 years to be seen by a dietician in Co Kerry. Is this service not available as 6 years is an extraordinary length of time to be waiting.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22631-24 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 8 May 2024; the actions he intends to take in order to ensure that children have adequate access to orthodontic treatment in situations whereby their clinician retires; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22655-24 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is actively monitoring the H5N1 outbreaks in farm animals in the United States; if the HSPC is actively monitoring for H5N1 in Ireland; if his Department is collaborating with relevant international organisations to assess potential risks and impact to public health in Ireland; if he will outline the efforts being undertaken by his Department to address the possibility of an H5N1 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22671-24 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the breastfeeding support service in Dunboyne County Meath was cut; if he will immediately review this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22714-24 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the reason for the delays in reopening respite services in the Ard Aoibhinn Unit in Carndonagh, County Donegal; when he expects a HIQA inspection to be carried out at the unit; and if he can provide an ongoing update on same, until such a time that it reopens.

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PQ 22728-24 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the status of MRI cancer screening in St. James's Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22762-24 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply details of the level of grant aid support from his Department and the HSE to each community cancer support centre in the State in each year since 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22769-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if psychology training courses will be funded for an intake of trainees September 2024; and if he has considered the impact on service provision of there being a fallow year for training courses as a result of the recruitment embargo, given widespread problems with recruitment and retention in disability, primary care and CAMHS services.

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PQ 22771-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the details of efforts to recruit psychologists to the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care psychology services in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; if additional staff were recruited or if existing staff were transferred between those services in each instance; and the number of psychology staff in-situ in each of the services at year-end, in tabular form.

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PQ 22772-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to primary care psychology in CHO4 for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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PQ 22773-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to CAMHS psychology in CHO4 for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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PQ 22794-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide more resources towards inspections of vaping products entering the country and add to the 40 inspection checks for vaping products set out in the HSE's National Service Plan 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22795-24 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans to increase the number of test purchase inspections for vapes, as set out in the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023, from the planned number of 340 set by the HSE (to cover both vapes and cigarettes); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22834-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the total number of BowelScreen invitations issued, by county, in each of the years from 2021 to 2024, in tabular form; the corresponding number of people, per county, who returned a completed FIT test in these same years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22837-24 - Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health the current state of the school dental service; if he is aware that in certain circumstances the service is only providing access for emergency cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22872-24 - Michael Fitzmaurice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of Guillain Barre syndrome cases in Ireland from 2018 to 2023 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22896-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ENT surgeons and WTE ENT registrars at the Mater Hospital in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 22914-24 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the appointment of dermatology consultants at Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital; the stage the recruitment process is at; the timeframe for when consultants are to be place if they are not already; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22917-24 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Pathfinder programme based at Tallaght Hospital has been wound down; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 22940-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior house officers in orthopaedics based at Monaghan General Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 22941-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost of providing three additional critical care ambulances available on a 24/7 basis in each HSE region.

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PQ 22942-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who presented at the accident and emergency department of Cavan General Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 22943-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health to identify the specialist vascular surgery treatments that are not provided within the State and for which patients are sent to the UK or elsewhere abroad; and the actions that are being taken to provide these surgeries within the State.

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PQ 22948-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of WTE child psychologists working as part of Monaghan children's disability network team in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased.

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PQ 22974-24 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Roscommon and Galway on waiting lists for home care; the average wait time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23001-24 - Robert Troy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 564 of 14 May 2024, to outline any financial assistance available to patients dependant on oxygen tanks, especially towards the purchase of the cylinders of oxygen.

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PQ 23009-24 - Danny Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (What is waiting time to be seen by a child Psychiatrist under CAMHS Kerry and following the assessment how long before the results are provided to the parents of the child /teen?); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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