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Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 651. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on providing abortions and associated services to date; the steps taken with regard to the human remains when an abortion takes place; the counselling services offered by the State, voluntary sector and so on for women with unplanned pregnancies; the amount being spent on the provision of counselling services for women with unplanned...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 652. To ask the Minister for Health if the analysis of PCR tests has changed in line with new WHO guidelines issued on 21 January 2021 (details supplied). [5187/21]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 667. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of a breach of Covid-19 guidelines and restrictions at a residential care facility (details supplied) in County Cork, which has allegedly resulted in a cluster of cases arising from the event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5230/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting appointments under the National Counselling Service in County Laois; the waiting times for each service for choice and partnership approach, CAPA, counselling in primary care, CIPC, and counselling for former residents of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5378/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting appointments under the National Counselling Service in County Meath; the waiting times for each service for the choice and partnership approach, CAPA, counselling in primary care, CIPC, and counselling for former residents of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5379/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if a plan exists for dealing with residents in nursing homes who were away from their nursing home on the day the other residents received their first dose of the vaccine. [5555/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if hospital staff who have been deemed close contacts of those who have tested positive for Covid-19 are being tested; the number of hospital staff nationwide who are close contacts currently awaiting tests; and the average wait time for same. [5556/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute mental health units in Dublin that are closed due to outbreaks of Covid-19; and the number of units that are full due to the increased pressure on the remaining units. [5711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 823. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity regarding suicidal persons or persons with mental illness who require psychiatric admission in the Dublin area; and if such persons are being admitted to hospital. [5712/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 824. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatric beds available in the Dublin region. [5713/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 825. To ask the Minister for Health the average and expected wait time for a psychiatric bed in the Dublin region in the week of 25 to 31 January 2021; and the contingency plans that have been put in place to deal with the crisis. [5714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have successfully sued the HSE in relation to cervical cancer screening in each of the years since 2018. [5741/21]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 843. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider using ivermectin and colchicine in the treatment of Covid-19 [5803/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: People understand the logic that the salary of a person who holds such massive responsibility will be commensurate with that responsibility. People's jaws dropped right across the country when the figures that we are discussing today were publicised. The Minister mentioned the fact that we are competing internationally on this, but the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the USA earns...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The people working in the healthcare service currently will note the key difference between the Minister's approach to them and his approach to this particular position. His approach to increasing the salaries of those within the health service is in the future tense, while his approach to this particular salary is in the present tense. That is a world of difference for the lives lived by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: On that point, there has been very little talk to date about what the next two to four years will hold but there is no doubt that our budget deficit will have to be dramatically reduced. Historical evidence suggests that under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, much of that reduction will take the form of tax increases for low and middle income earners and cuts to public service investment....

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Last Friday, a 69-year-old man known as Iggy, who was originally from Poland, was found dead in a laneway off Little Catherine Street in Limerick city. Pauline Casey and Sarah Beasley, an Aontú representative and homeless activist in Limerick, knew Iggy from their work in helping the homeless. They spoke to Iggy on the night he died. This was especially poignant for Pauline because...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I also raised at that time the fact that homeless people who were not from Dublin and who were presenting to homeless facilities were being turned away and told to go back to their own counties. This was despite the fact that another arm of the State was telling them not to travel because of the Covid-19 restrictions. Months after I raised that issue, the Minister appeared on the "RTÉ...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: People listening to this debate will think that it is absolutely scandalous and flabbergasting that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage does not know the number of people who die in homelessness in 25 of the 26 counties which this State, that there is no process to collect information in this regard or collate it centrally and that such information is not at his...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: When Covid-19 first flared in Ireland last year, I asked the Tánaiste, who was then the Taoiseach, to stop the flights which were coming in from northern Italy. He said "No", and when I asked why he said that the European Centre for Disease Control, ECDC, was advising against it. I asked what was the ECDC's rationale for advising against it and the Tánaiste said that he did not...