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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (4 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 262. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost in each public and voluntary hospital owing to delayed discharges in January and February 2021, in tabular form. [12432/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (4 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 263. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over that experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours during January 2021; the number during February 2021; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [12433/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (4 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 264. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in January 2021; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90,120 and more than 180 minutes for same in tabular form. [12434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 265. To ask the Minister for Health the details in respect of both Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital for the end of February 2021 or the latest date available for the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four months for treatment; the number waiting four to eight, and more than eight months;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a statutory home care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11010/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received an invitation to take part in BreastCheck each month in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the percentage of persons who accepted an invitation and subsequently attended a screening appointment in each of the specified months, in tabular form. [11925/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received an invitation to take part in CervicalCheck each month in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the percentage of persons who accepted an invitation and subsequently attended a screening appointment in each of the specified months, in tabular form. [11926/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 955. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received an invitation to take part in BowelScreen in each month in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the percentage of persons who accepted an invitation and subsequently attended a screening appointment in each of the specified months, in tabular form. [11927/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: 972. To ask the Minister for Health the specific numbers of tests that are being measured given that it has been mentioned that three tests are being evaluated to ease restrictions, that is, community transmission, hospital and intensive care unit occupancy and progress of the vaccine programme; if a definition of success has been established by the National Public Health Emergency Team,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I welcome the Minister and thank him for giving his time to the committee. I pay tribute also to the Ministers of State, Deputies Rabbitte and Butler, who have been available at any hour of the day or night over the last six or seven months to answer myriad questions, and to the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, who is also very obliging. I want to pay tribute to the Minister's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: That is welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: Excuse me, I am tight on time. If I understand the Minister correctly, it is organic, flexible and evolving. It is not the end of the review and as more supply comes, that allows for increasing flexibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I want to ask about Cabinet discussions with regard to essential workers coming in from overseas. I am happy with a written answer on this. I have no doubt this issue exists and that it is legitimate. Could the Minister give some of the categories of essential workers who must travel in and out of Ireland on a daily, weekly or monthly basis - some kind of categories or a brief overview of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: Unless the Minister can give some indication, I am happy to take the written reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: With regard to the over-85s, on which Professor MacCraith answered on Saturday, we are all inundated with representations that they have not got their GP appointments yet, and some who have got them have had them postponed because of issues with supply. Am I correct in stating that this issue has begun to be resolved from yesterday forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: A number of very well-meaning and generous community organisations in different constituencies offered their facilities where GPs had to buddy up, and they were refused and were a little bewildered by that. The GPs seemed to think the facilities would suffice. Has the Minister any intelligence on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I will move on to a different area, and the Minister is going to love me for asking this question. He inherited the issue, as I think the committee acknowledges. Is it time that some sort of mediative process was introduced into the national children's hospital debate? It is dragging on. It is going on in the background and there is a kind of slinging going on from both sides. It seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (25 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 316. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the access to care fund and the HSE national treatment fund action plan for 2021 announced in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10867/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety Inspections (24 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections of business and commercial premises that have been undertaken by the Health and Safety Authority since September 2020; the outcome of same; if penalties were imposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9400/21]