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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant in emergency medicine posts at Mercy University Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45828/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in Croom Orthopaedic Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if this number will be further increased; and if so when. [45829/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE reconstructive plastic surgeons at St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45830/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant neuroradiologists at Cork University Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45831/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Mallow General Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date, in 2023 in tabular form. [45832/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists working in Donegal primary care services and services for older persons in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of older persons waiting to see a physiotherapist in Donegal as of 11 October 2023. [45833/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances, motorcycles and rapid response vehicles available in County Monaghan in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45834/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented to the accident and emergency department of St. Vincent's University Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45835/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 355. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of what the non-core current allocation of €1.032 billion will be used for in 2024; to which programmes or uses this will be applied; a breakdown of the €13 million in non-core capital spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45938/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 356. To ask the Minister for Health how much has been spent on agency staff in 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45939/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 357. To ask the Minister for Health how many additional acute hospital beds have been delivered in 2022 and 2023 to date; how many he expects for 2023 in total; what is the expected target in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45940/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 358. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of the 1,500 rapid-build hospital beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45941/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 359. To ask the Minister for Health how much has been spent on the NTPF in 2022 and to date in 2023; what is the expected spend for 2023; what the allocation is now for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 360. To ask the Minister for Health how much has been spent on leasing capacity in private hospitals in 2022 and 2023, respectively; the projected spend in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45943/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2024 (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 361. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if additional funding has been secured in Budget 2024 for the implementation of the safe staffing; how much funding is in place for phase two of the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill Mix; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45944/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 362. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of allocations of spending under the waiting list action plan to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45945/23]

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: I thank Deputy Cullinane and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. The Minister provided a few quotes as to what our front-line workers were hearing. When he is summing up, perhaps he could say where those quotes come from. I do not believe they came from the proposers of the motion. They are not from me and I do not believe they will come from the Deputies who will speak...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: I have watched it on screen. I say this in the context of a debate of this nature when many of us, including the Minister, are trying to be serious about this very concerning budget. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health earlier, we heard from Bernard Gloster, CEO of the HSE, and Robert Watt, the Secretary General of the Department of Health. While both were coming at it from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the case of a child with special needs (details supplied) who is collected from Swords at 7 am before their bus makes a two-hour trip to Donabate, Portrane, Kinsealy, Ballymun, Baldoyle and, finally, to Blackrock, and then spends another 1.5 hours on the return journey home; if she will consider splitting the route and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will take steps to ensure that the household package, including the free fuel scheme, is paid to a person (details supplied) who now lives alone due to the death of their spouse. [46632/23]