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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 260. To ask the Minister for Health when day centres (details supplied) in County Sligo will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47152/21]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: The number of men, women and children on waiting lists is truly shocking. I do not use that word lightly or often but "shocking" is an appropriate word to describe the fact that nearly 18% of our population is on a healthcare waiting list. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. While the national figures are stark, the figures in the north west, at Sligo University...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if information on the stated need to consider environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider setting up an expert panel to investigate and quantify the extent of the use of defective concrete blocks in construction to assist local authorities where relevant, in view of the fact it is viewed as a waste of time and resources if each local authority must individually put that expertise in place....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delay in providing a broadband connection point under the National Broadband Plan to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are circumstances in which the fees for an application for naturalisation can be waived. [46347/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 793. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; his views on whether psychosocial support in paediatric diabetes care should be available in each team; the reason there is no access to this support outside of Dublin paediatric diabetes services; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 801. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding in budget 2022 to provide a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse in all 18 does adjustment for normal eating, DAFNE, certified diabetes centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46644/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if the extra funding required to provide the appropriate diabetes staffing resources to provide access to the dose adjustment for normal eating programme for all persons with type 1 diabetes will be made available in the upcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46645/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 702. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he is putting in place as a matter of urgency to deal with the backlog in the CervicalCheck screening; his further plans with regard to the number of women who are required to have retests due to the time delay in testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46236/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 703. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3083 of 27 July 2021, if the daily transport charge being charged to service users in CHO1 is also being levied throughout all other CHO areas. [46239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position in regard to the full reopening of day centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46570/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 791. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; his views on the fact that psychosocial support in diabetes care is not formally embedded as part of diabetes management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46634/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 790. To ask the Minister for Health when the specialist community diabetes teams under the enhanced community care programme be appointed; if it will be available to all persons with diabetes free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a diabetes psychology resource to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the Integrated Model of Care for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease Implementation Guide; his views on whether access to psychosocial support in these teams should be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46635/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 794. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility to the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips to all women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy; his views on the decision to remove them from the scheme; if he will now reverse the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46637/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 795. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46638/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 796. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme since its inception; the number of persons who avail of the programme; the number of general practitioners who provide the programme; if the programme has been evaluated; if an audit of the programme has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46639/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme to all persons with type 2 diabetes; his views on whether it is equitable that persons with type 2 diabetes without a GMS or general practitioner visit card but otherwise meet the HSE criteria for uncomplicated type 2 diabetes, to be managed in primary care, are excluded from the programme; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 798. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE medicines management programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes, who are over 21 years of age, based on clinical need;...