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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (12 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 304. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours by local health area provided in each month in 2016 and to date in 2017 in tabular form. [18718/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (12 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages currently being provided by local health office area on a seven-day-week basis, on a five-day-week basis and less than five days a week, respectively, in tabular form. [18719/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in March 2017 in tabular form; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 120 minutes and 180 minutes, respectively, to hand over patients, receive their trolley and return to responding to calls, in tabular form. [18720/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. Some of the technical issues have been covered by other Deputies and Senators. My questions relate to the Bill and the Health Products Regulatory Authority's recommendation on the access programme. When the Department of Health was asked for its views on the Bill did the Chief Medical Officer have any input in that regard? Did that office express any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Will that be a statutory instrument or a ministerial order?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Inquiry into Child Abuse (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether recent reports that an organisation (details supplied) has paid the amount it owes to victims of abuse are accurate; if so, the manner in which this has been done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20508/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has received a submission made by persons (details supplied); if he will include these properties in the regeneration scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19409/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Stroke Programme Implementation (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1071. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the outgoing clinical lead of the HSE’s national stroke programme has warned of an imminent crisis due to the failure to invest in services to meet an expected 50% increase in stroke within the next eight years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Stroke Programme Implementation (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1072. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to a lack of modest investment in services, the average length of stay of stroke patients in acute hospitals is now increasing and direct discharge to nursing homes is up by 2.3%, which alone has added €17.25 million to the cost of nursing home care to the State; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Stroke Programme Implementation (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1073. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure ongoing clinical leadership within the national stroke programme in the face of the challenges to service delivery caused by a soaring stroke rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Stroke Programme Implementation (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1074. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the rate of admissions to stroke units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20546/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Stroke Programme Implementation (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1077. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of rolling out early supported discharge programmes nationally for stroke patients in circumstances in which this would improve patient outcomes and free up acute hospital beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20549/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1075. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve inadequate levels of nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, clinical nutritionists and speech and language therapists for stroke patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20547/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1076. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that have access to a medical social worker and a neuropsychologist, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1078. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons under 65 years of age now account for one in every four strokes, yet home care packages are not tailored to the specific needs of persons that could be living with the side effects of strokes for decades; if he will create an entitlement to home care which is appropriate for stroke survivors of all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 1079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists serving stroke patients here; his views on whether this is adequate to treat the often complex emotional and psychological impacts of stroke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20553/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Hospitals Patronage (3 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 2. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the ownership and governance of hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21080/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Hospitals Patronage (3 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to review the ownership and governance of hospitals and whether he will make a statement on the matter. Since I tabled the question, he said we should embark on a national conversation about ownership and divestment of health facilities to the State. Will he elaborate on where he sees that conversation going?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Hospitals Patronage (3 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister. There is a Private Members' motion to be discussed tonight in that context and we can elaborate on it then. Much focus over the past fortnight has been on the ownership of St. Vincent's Hospital but we are ignoring the fact that the National Maternity Hospital is a voluntary hospital in itself. The Coombe, which is intending to transfer to St. James's Hospital, is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Hospitals Patronage (3 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: The conversation has started and minds have certainly been concentrated in the past number of weeks. The Minister indicated that many of the hospitals are voluntary or have other forms of governance. In the conversation that must take place about divestment or ceding of ownership, we should be conscious of the fact that we cannot pass Bills of attainder and seize hospitals. We must do what...