PQ Responses - September 18th 2024

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PQ 36023-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support clients for 2023 and to date in 2024, broken down by CHO and LHO, compared to targeted delivery, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36029-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient mental health beds dedicated to older people in the year 2020 and 2024; the number of these beds that are operational; the number of additional beds that are required, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36030-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours delivered to date in 2024, broken down by CHO and LHO; the number compared to targeted delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36031-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours delivered in 2023 and to date in 2024, for each CHO and LHO area, and compared to targeted delivery, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36033-24 - Patricia Ryan

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PQ 36049-24 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in relation to the amyloidosis model of care submitted in August 2020 and approved in October 2022, the areas identified in the model of care that required funding in order to progress to implementation; and the reason the application for the new service development submission did not secure funding.

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PQ 36050-24 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health if, in relation to the amyloidosis model of care submitted in August 2020 and approved in October 2022, preparations are underway to reapply for the new service development submission that did not secure funding; if so, when the application will be submitted; and if it is realisable or acceptable for the national clinical advisor and group lead and assessment officer to attempt to implement the key areas nationally in the absence of funding.

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PQ 36069-24 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been no increase to the National Ambulance Service’s personnel number in 2024, given the rate at which Ireland’s population is increasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36079-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of staff available for respite cover at weekends for children with disabilities at a location (Coaction, Dunmanway, Cork); and the number of children receiving such care, from 2019 to date, in tabular form.

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PQ 36080-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if guidance has been issued from his Department to providers of respite services in relation to including or excluding specific details of respite care in annual contracts with those who are offered respite care; if so, to provide this guidance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36081-24 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the reason annual contracts issued to families of children who are offered weekend respite at a location (Coaction, Dunmanway, Cork) do not include any details and specifications of their respite time per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36084-24 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no cardiologist based in Cavan General Hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the cardiologist previously in place has moved permanently to Drogheda Hospital; if he will examine this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36110-24 - Marc MacSharry

To ask the Minister for Health the commencement and completion dates for the sanctioned new medical block at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36112-24 - Marc MacSharry

To ask the Minister for Health the way he can reconcile the approval and sanction of the appointment of additional hospital consultants without parallel sanction of additional junior doctors, advance nurse practitioners, nurses and administrative back up; if he will strategically link just sanctions together in the interests of best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36201-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health intellectual disability (MHID) teams in the State; the number of MHID’s in each CHO; if there are two MHID teams per 300,000 of population, as recommended in the MHID National Model of Service.

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PQ 36208-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the average duration of the assessment of needs process, per report completed under the Disability Act 2005 in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36209-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health how access to mental health supports have been integrated as part of disability service provision.

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PQ 36210-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of disabled people who have been transferred from a congregated setting into a community setting in 2020, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the number of disabled people who died while living in a congregated setting in 2020, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the number of disabled people who have been placed in a congregated setting in 2020, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36214-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of new residential places for disabled people established in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36215-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of disabled people that were living in respite care as an emergency response to their needs in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36216-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of respite nights available to disabled people in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36217-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of adult disability day centre places provided in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36218-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of personal assistance hours provided for disabled people in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36226-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health when the recruitment embargo will be lifted within the HSE; his Department's plans for recruiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36230-24 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for chemotherapy since their first chemotherapy consultation in increments of one week (i.e., the number waiting one week, two weeks, three weeks, and so on), by CHO, in tabular form; to provide the corresponding data, specifically for Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36231-24 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the model of care for dual diagnosis; the funding given to the model of care; the rollout plan for the model of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36238-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the reason for staff in the West Kerry Community Hospital not being replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36291-24 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE is refusing to employ recently graduated mental health nurses, despite the chronic shortage of mental health nursing staff in the health system and leaving graduates with no option but to emigrate to other countries; if his attention has been drawn to the further devastation that this decision will cause to the Mental Health Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36328-24 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to CAMHS Wexford south in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and up to June 2024; the number of referrals to CAMHS Wexford north in the corresponding timeframe; the number of referrals accepted to Wexford CAMHS south in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and up to June 2024; the number of referrals to Wexford CAMHS south not accepted in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and up to June 2024; to provide the number of referrals accepted for Wexford CAMHS north in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and up to June 2024; the number of referrals not accepted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36361-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if nursing homes support offices are no longer accepting soft copy applications for the nursing homes support scheme, also known as fair deal; if so, when this instruction was issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36363-24 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth for an update on the Áras Attracta trust in care investigation outcome, and costs, as of September 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36368-24 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications made by organisations to become Section 39 bodies in 2023 and to date in 2024, including the names of the bodies; if any new Section 39 arrangements have been entered into by the HSE in 2023 and to date in 2024; the names of the bodies in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36385-24 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 622 of 23 January 2024, when the two adult dual diagnosis services will open in 2024; if they will be open in Q3 of 2024; if not, the reasons therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36386-24 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the reopening of residential dual diagnosis services in Keltoi; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36395-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1365 of 9 September 2024, the number of the 495 applicants for clinical posts in children's disability network team (CDNTs) who were called to take part in the interview process; and the number of those interviewed that were offered a contract with one of the CDNTs.

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PQ 36398-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36399-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36400-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting a physical therapy appointment in CHO2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36402-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a CAMHS appointment in CHO 2; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36405-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded posts which remain unfilled due to the staff ceiling placed on the HSE in the 2024 pay and numbers strategy; the number of these posts in which the recruitment process had begun; the status of recruitment for these posts; if funding for these posts remains in place or if it has been redirected; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36428-24 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will consider the reimbursement of ibrutinib plus venetoclax for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36437-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the policy for nursing homes support offices in respect of accepting applications for the nursing homes support scheme, also known as fair deal (It has come to my attention that some local Nursing Homes Support offices are no longer accepting soft copy applications via email.); if local offices should accept soft copy applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36439-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will provide funding for community neurorehabilitation teams in CHO5 and 8, in line with the 2019 Neurorehabilitation Strategy Implementation Framework which committed to a team in each CHO; the steps he is taking to address the staff shortages CHO1 and 3 (CHO1 has less than one quarter of recommended staffing and CHO3 has half of the minimum recommended staffing.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36446-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the number of palliative care beds and long-stay beds that are available in Valentia Hospital in Kerry; if all of these beds are in use; if not, the number being used; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36447-24 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health the reason an emergency care facility (the Children’s Urgent Care Centre in Blanchardstown is open Monday to Friday 9 to 5pm and Saturday and Sundays 10 to 5pm appointment only when the emergency care at Tallaght is 24/7.) is operating limited hours; the reason bloods are not being taken on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36460-24 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE claims to be saving €4 million per year using biosimilar teriparatide, when the cost of managing fractures is estimated to be increasing by approximately €100 million per year.

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PQ 36463-24 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the reason osteoporosis and arthritis patients have to wait years for a physiotherapy or outpatient appointments when other diseases have access within weeks or months.

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PQ 36464-24 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the reason he spent so much on Covid when a similar number of patients fractured or suffered a fracture-related death during the same time period.

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PQ 36465-24 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many severe osteoporosis patients are unable to use a daily injection or take oral therapy correctly.

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PQ 36466-24 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the reason he is not supporting best practice and standards for DEXA in Ireland and osteoporosis care.

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PQ 36493-24 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of applications in CHO8 for assistive technology in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36502-24 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year costs to recruit 70 additional WTE dentists to work in the public dental service.

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PQ 36503-24 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE specialist gerontologists employed by the HSE working in CHO8 in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36504-24 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year costs to recruit 40 additional WTE specialist orthodontists for public dental service.

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PQ 36505-24 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, and in tabular form; if this number will be further increased by end of 2024.

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PQ 36508-24 - Leo Varadkar

To ask the Minister for Health when the e-learning module to enable GPs to prescribe PrEP privately through their surgeries was last available; when it will be available; and the number of doctors waiting to do the training.

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PQ 36550-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric neurologist attached to University Hospital Waterford 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 36551-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on CAMHS waiting list in Carlow and Kilkenny as of 9 September 2024; if he will provide same figures as of 9 September 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36553-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for the recruitment of additional WTE senior special care dental surgeon for the Carlow-Kilkenny and South Tipperary area of CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36559-24 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children and young persons on waiting list for assessment of needs in CHO5, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36594-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the average cost to the HSE for one hour of work from an agency nurse within the health service.

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PQ 36595-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses working in the HSE for a recruitment agency at present.

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PQ 36596-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid, on average, to homecare agencies by the HSE for one hour of care to a patient.

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PQ 36597-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons recruited to work in the HSE via recruitment agencies in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36598-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by the HSE for agency workers in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabualr form.

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PQ 36600-24 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the current percentage of persons working in the HSE who are agency workers.

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PQ 36620-24 - Seán Canney

To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for assessment and the waiting time for treatment at the pain clinic in UHG; the number of people waiting for treatment; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36633-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated funding allocation for the development of the inpatient mental health support mother-and-baby unit has been agreed; if not, when he expects to announce this allocation; the timeline he is working towards in establishing this unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36653-24 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health if there is currently a tender process for PCCs within CHO4, specifically for the north, north east, and north west Cork area.

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PQ 36714-24 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health if the recruitment ban has been lifted in a hospital (Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo); if so, when this ban was lifted; if the hospital has started recruiting since this date; if so, the number of positions advertised since this date; the name of the positions in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36731-24 - Sean Fleming

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the selection criteria in relation to a pilot scheme (The Pilot Scheme for placing therapists in Special Schools, the number of applications received and the regions in the Country where the pilot scheme is to be based.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36743-24 - Richard Boyd Barrett

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the effective recruitment embargo imposed in St. Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire ( given the recent announcement that the recruitment embargo in the HSE has been lifted,under what the Ireland East Hospital group are referring to as a "pay and numbers strategy"; that this involves a staff quota or celing that has left many departments with staff shortages, possibly unsafe staffing levels, a lack of maternity and sick leave cover); the reason for such a measure; if he will instruct the hospital group to end this embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36746-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health when the new DEXA scanner at Portiuncula University Hospital will be operational; the number of patients currently on the waiting list for an appointment for such a scan; the length of time those patients are on the waiting list, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36764-24 - Dennis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the current status of plans for the development of a new acute adult mental health unit to replace the existing unit at Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36767-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for CAMHS, by CHO, age category, time waiting, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36768-24 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in CAMHS by CHO, in each month to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36773-24 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 29 February 2024, where these facilities are located; what capacity they will have in terms of staff and beds, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36793-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons awaiting a psychology report for mental health intellectual disability services in each of the CHO5 areas; the current expected waiting time for an assessment; and the plans he has to extend services within this area before the end of the year.

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PQ 36794-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health to identify the specialist ophthalmology surgery treatment that is not provided within the State and for which patients are sent to the UK or elsewhere abroad; and the efforts being made to provide these surgeries within the State.

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PQ 36796-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the facilities and specialists that a GP can refer a person to in CHO3 in cases in which the person believes they have ADHD and wish to be diagnosed and appropriately treated by a psychiatrist and get access to medication.

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PQ 36800-24 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the additional funding that was provided in 2024 for additional development measures for childrens' services; and the way this funding was spent this year.

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PQ 36815-24 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant vacancies in model 2 and model 3 hospitals since the consultant contract was introduced, in tabular form.

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PQ 36819-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing two additional critical care ambulances to the HSE on a 24/7 basis.

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PQ 36820-24 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented to the accident and emergency department of Naas General Hospital for each day of August 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 36852-24 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the details on the procurement of the halo gravity traction chairs currently in use or which have been in use over the past several years at Children’s Health Ireland, including the brand, make, model, and supplier of the chairs; and whether these chairs were procured in compliance with Medical Device Regulations (EU) 2017/745, in tabular form.

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PQ 36855-24 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health when an extra ambulance and a rapid response unit with extra staff will be provided to an organisation (after a ten year long campaign by the Connemara Ambulance Crisis Group, an extra ambulance and a rapid response unit plus extra staff was granted, however they are still waiting years for this to be delivered, can the Minister provide an update on when this will be delivered?), following a ten-year wait for same.

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PQ 36946-24 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the total value of funding expended by his Department through its medical card scheme and other Department-funded schemes on the purchase of medications manufactured by a company (Teva) in 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36954-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if changes are being introduced to the ambulance service in Kerry ( Minister, in Co. Kerry thankfully we have a 7-day ambulance service. I believe there are plans to reduce this vital service to 5 days. This will put people's lives in jeopardy.); if so, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36975-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support clients at the end of 2023 and to data in 2024, broken down by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36977-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of days the person who is currently waiting longest for a new home care package to commence has been on the waiting list for; the number of days the person who is currently waiting longest for additional hours has been on the waiting list for, in each CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36978-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours approved for clients but not delivered (i.e., wait listed), in each month of 2023 and to date in 2024, broken down by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36979-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on the HSE home support waiting lists representated as a percentage of the home support hours delivered, in each CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36980-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours delivered to date in 2024, broken down by CHO and LHO by HSE vs independent sector delivery, compared to targeted delivery, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36983-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of hours of disability home support delivered to date in 2024, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and how that compares to disability home support targets.

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PQ 36990-24 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health to detail the criteria to be met for a child to be put on either the Primary Care, CDNT or CAMHS waiting lists.

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PQ 37005-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health for an update, including the construction timelines, on the announced expansion of health centres (Virginia Primary Care Centre.; Ballyconnell Primary Care Centre.; Cavan Town Primary Care Centre).

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PQ 37019-24 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if the supports available to the elderly parents of children with special needs ( Minister parents who are getting older and who have children with special needs that will need full time care are extremely worried about the lack of respite and full time residential care places all over Kerry, particularly in the North Kerry region. When can we look forward to having the situation improved.) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 37023-24 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health to provide details in respect of plans to establish a public assisted human reproductive treatment centre; the status of these plans; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 37039-24 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth for an update on the work of the personal assistance review group to develop a protocol for the eligibility and allocation of personal assistant services based on a universally agreed definition.

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