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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Sufficient funding has been provided, I am informed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Professor Cowan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I ask the witnesses to identify a single issue apart from the need to add additional beds and so on. I remember that we were told some years ago there were 5,000 beds too many in the country and they had to be removed as a matter of urgency in order to concentrate on the specialist work that was to be done. We then heard in recent times there were 5,000 too few beds in the country and they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I have one last question. I thank our witnesses for their information. In terms of matching capacity to demand, is there anything other than what our witnesses told us already that comes to their mind that would make an urgent response to the needs that present now? I refer to, for instance, theatre capacity and availability, use of theatres, closing down of theatres at different times,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Death Certificates (27 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 386. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a full death certificate for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46776/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 532. To ask the Minister for Health if a payment for approved application under the discretionary hardship arrangement in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reinstated, which seems to have temporarily stopped given that the patient still requires the medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47068/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 537. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are under way to ensure that adequate support is provided to home dialysis patients in the context of the current crisis to ensure that they continue to receive their lifesaving and sustaining treatment at home and can afford same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47087/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 567. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a chief pharmaceutical officer to ensure strategic direction for this jurisdiction’s pharmacy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the provision of accommodation for persons on local authority housing lists and those seeking affordable housing can be accommodated in the short term alongside the competing requirements of refugees and the number on the housing lists; if modular housing or wooden chalet-type housing will be urgently...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which an emergency plan exists to provide housing for refugees and those awaiting affordable or local authority housing, having particular regard to the circumstances now prevailing where emergency measures are needed to meet the demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47270/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which housing developments are in hand in each local authority throughout the country, as well as in County Kildare, with a view to alleviating the waiting list for local authority and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47603/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses allocated to each local authority throughout the country, including County Kildare, by way of Part 5 provision arising from private ongoing developments; the extent to which this has reduced numbers on waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47605/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans will be put in place to arrange for modular or chalet-type wooden housing as a means of addressing the severe housing shortage, as well as the shortage of accommodation for asylum seekers, with a view to reducing the dependence on highly priced rental accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the Housing for All programme is expected to meet its targets in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants on the various housing lists held by the various local authorities throughout the country as of 1 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47610/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps, if any, that can be taken to improve the planning process in terms of more rapid determination of applications and appeals to An Bord Pleanála, having regard to the situation in respect of backlogs and waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47612/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.