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Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the implementation of new services to be carried out by pharmacists. [51247/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to follow up on a report (details supplied) commissioned by the HSE on pharmacy fees; the findings of the report; and if it will be published immediately [51245/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 350. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on gynaecological waiting lists by month from 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, for the three Dublin maternity hospitals (details supplied);the numbers waiting less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12, 12 to 8 and more than 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51266/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons being referred to gynaecological services for the three Dublin maternity hospitals (details supplied) for each month in 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51267/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made on supplying a hospital bed to the home of a person (details supplied). [51289/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women that applied to join a group (details supplied) recently; the number that should have been included initially, that is, they met the criteria for joining; the reason they were not invited to join initially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51651/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 426. To ask the Minister for Health when the HPV test will be launched for women nationwide; the reason the September 2018 and 2019 deadline for same was missed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51652/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 427. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to the review of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists into cervical cancer cases, he will request a review of colposcopy practices as outlined in the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51653/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the way in which women and their families were treated as part of the review by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in cervical cancer cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51654/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding for the winter plan was not included in the 2019 HSE service plan and is being included in the Supplementary Estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51655/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for coming here this morning. I would like to start locally with Purple House Cancer Support in Bray. It is an incredible cancer support service that the Minister for Health and I know well. It supports families and cancer survivors all over Wicklow and in south Dublin. It has to leave the premises it is in on an extremely urgent basis. It has found a fantastic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have met representatives of Purple House Cancer Support and discussed this issue at length. They feel strongly that they have been misled by the Minister. Rightly or wrongly, that is what they are saying. They believe that promises made in good faith, which they took in good faith, are not being honoured. The Minister and I both appreciate that proper procedures must, and will, be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That would be great. I acknowledge that the process needs to be followed. The question that Purple House Cancer Support is asking is how long the process will take. It is a reasonable question to ask and the representatives of Purple House need to know the answer. Does it take a week, a month or six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will move on to St. Joseph's dementia care facility in Shankill, which is a national issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It is the best and largest dementia care service anywhere in Ireland. The Minister and I both know it is under imminent threat of closure because the funds being provided by the State do not come anywhere close to covering the cost of the service it runs. The National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, has taken a look at the books of the centre and broadly agrees with the cost that it says is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to know what the position is now. If the board does what the Minister asks in appeal, it will enter next year running a deficit, which directors of an organisation are precluded from doing. My understanding is that a letter issued to the Minister yesterday, which I presume he will receive at some point today, laying out the board's inability to do that. The board will meet tomorrow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The appeals process which the Minister has asked St. Joseph's to exhaust puts it in a position whereby it is potentially legally compromised. It is a three-month appeals process. The Minister said it can be expedited. That is great but if it starts trading next year with a known deficit and no letter of comfort or agreement in place, it is in a difficult position. I ask the Minister, his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Not to the directors through.