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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 256. To ask the Minister for Health if chemotherapy sessions for children are being delayed; if so, the details of the delays; the causes of same; the number of children affected; the length of delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52382/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute beds for paediatric oncology; the number that will be available when the national children’s hospital is open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52383/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the cut to the minor injury unit fee will come into effect; if the fee cut is temporary or permanent; if temporary, the date on which the cut will expire; the estimated cost of the measure; and the estimated full-year cost of implementing such a measure by year. [52430/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 267. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding being provided to out-of-hours general practitioner services in winter 2020; and the local breakdown of the allocation in tabular form. [52431/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 275. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund has agreed to fund up to 200 additional beds over the winter; if so, the hospitals in which the beds are to be located, in tabular form; when the beds will be opened; if it is planned that the beds will remain available throughout 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52488/19]

Section 39 Organisations: Motion [Private Members] (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: What do section 39 organisations do? They run about two thirds of the disability services in the country, as well as many of the hospices and much of the education services. They work in our communities in every county and in every town with vulnerable people. They probably work directly with hundreds of thousands of people. Given the importance of section 39 organisations, the importance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 374. To ask the Minister for Health the legal fees incurred by the HSE in each of the years 2010 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [52825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of critical care ambulance service transfers to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [52826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments outstanding for more than two, three and four years, respectively, at the end of November 2019, by each reporting hospital in tabular form. [53000/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the policy in relation to girls who missed out on the provision of vaccines for medical reasons (details supplied). [53034/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Websites (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the reason it is no longer possible to access on the website of his Department press releases and speeches by Ministers in previous Governments over the past 20 years. [53227/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank both witnesses for their statements just now. It is never easy to speak in public. To speak about matters that are so personal and have caused so much hurt and distress is particularly difficult. We volunteer to be in the public eye but neither of our guests is here by choice. I acknowledge the extraordinary work they have both done in patient advocacy. Listening to both of their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: When Ms Walsh raised these concerns with the steering group, with officials and with the Minister, did anybody say to her what might be done to change the committee to make it a place where she might be listened to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Essentially, by raising a flag and saying as a patient representative that there was a problem here, she was not listened to. Rather than anyone taking her seriously, making any changes or asking for her opinion on how it might be made better, she was essentially shut out of the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is infuriating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I am very sorry to hear that and it is outrageous that she has been put through that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Ms Walsh for sharing that with our committee but that is just outrageous. Mr. Teap raised some concerns about the implementation of the Scally report. Many of the recommendations have been implemented, which is obviously welcome. He raised concerns, however, about the ongoing implementation. Are there aspects of this that are particularly important, that he would like to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Teap. I wish to ask both of our witnesses about mandatory open disclosure, about which they have talked. The related Bill was before the Dáil last week on Second Stage. One point I made to the Minister on Second Stage was that it is all well and good telling clinicians through legislation that they have to disclose, which is correct. I imagine the single biggest cause,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Ms Walsh listed this evening, and I have heard her talk publicly about it, numerous and really worrying inaccuracies in the RCOG process. If I understood her correctly, she was given a report that said there was no discordance and no miss and then another report saying that there was. Also, her slide seems to have travelled all over the place. Ms Walsh said something very important about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I asked about supports for the 221+ group and the 159 women. I ask about them because I speak to women from both groups. Maybe the 221+ group is more advanced but certainly, the women in the 159 group do not appear to be getting the administrative, psychological, clinical and financial supports that seem to be needed at this point.