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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: 481. To ask the Minister for Health when a MRI appointment for a child (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48403/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: Three years.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: The reply to a recent parliamentary question revealed there were 61 vacant psychiatric positions, including 13 in community healthcare organisation area 4, covering cork and Kerry. Those positions were in child and adolescent psychiatry, the psychiatry of learning disabilities, the psychiatry of old age as well as general psychiatry. Ireland has six consultant psychiatrists per 100,000...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: I do not doubt the Minister of State's sincerity and efforts to try to address the terrible deficit in our disability services and the resources available for that. The figures we have differ from the figures the Minister of State has presented here. These come from parliamentary questions. These figures tell us that CHO 4, which is Cork and Kerry, has 1,1192 waiting who have been waiting...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: The Acting Chairman interrupted Deputy Buckley before his time was up. He has been interrupting all his life.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (5 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if the annual €51,000 subvention from the HSE to a centre (details supplied) is for the purpose of paying rent for a unit in Castleisland, County Kerry; if so, the reason this is being paid through the centre; the number of years this has been the practice; and the purpose for which that premises is used. [51183/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Women's Resource Centres (6 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: At 11.30 a.m. today the Tralee Women's Resource Centre closed after 32 years. For the past 32 years the centre has provided a tremendous service to women in Tralee and indeed women from outside of Tralee, including many areas out towards north and east Kerry. I pay tribute to the staff who worked there and voluntarily gave of their time to the women of Tralee. The centre made a tremendous...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Women's Resource Centres (6 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: Much of the Minister of State's reply is part of the review I have with me. It is important to note the services that the centre provided. They included counselling in situations of crisis pregnancy. We have just spent days and weeks debating the Bill on abortion here. The centre also supported women affected by domestic and gender-based violence, which is increasing in many areas, as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (11 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 385. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to have an increase in the cost of long-term care sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52139/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (12 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the ongoing pair trawling for sprat in estuaries and bays in view of the concern of conservation organisations and persons; and the way in which he plans to remedy this practice. [52410/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (18 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: The closing date for submissions regarding the proposed closure for the River Feale and, obviously, the Galey and Brick as well was 13 December. This affects 50 to 60 fishermen who are actively involved in that fishing sector. There are 27 licences currently operating on that river, down from over 50 licences in 2011. Many of those involved are generational fishermen. Their fathers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (18 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: The proposal by IFI and the scientific report are based on a counter on a fish pass that comprises approximately 6 ft to 8 ft of a river that is 100 m wide. Two other fish passes do not have counters. Two tributaries, the River Brick and River Galey, do not have counters. The proposal is that draft net fishing not be permitted on the river for one year. I know very well that if it is not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: On 27 November, Deputy Pearse Doherty raised the fact that half the positions in child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, teams throughout the State are vacant and have been for some time. The Taoiseach accepted that CAMHS was not up to scratch in many areas and said he would look for a report on a comparison of its resources, staffing and outcomes. Has the Taoiseach received that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 313. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) with severe health problems will receive an appointment at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53589/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure (19 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the FreeStyle Libre diabetes monitoring system per patient. [53881/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Licences (19 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 464. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of draft salmon licensing. [53833/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Licences (19 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to allowing draft salmon licence holders the option of transferring licences to family members or offer for public sale; and if consideration will be given to making a compensation package available for draft salmon licenceholders who previously declined a compensation package. [53834/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Jan 2019)

Martin Ferris: 732. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an operation to remove cataracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1286/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (16 Jan 2019)

Martin Ferris: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures an individual can take to remove an association between them and planning applications made in their name without their knowledge. [1832/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Diagnoses (22 Jan 2019)

Martin Ferris: As the Minister of State is probably aware, last week the health committee highlighted that there are massive delays throughout the country for children who need a special needs assessment. He is also aware that under the Disability Act 2005, the assessment of need must start within three months of the completed application being received by the HSE and that the assessment, outside of...