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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 578. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of management to patients in the public and voluntary hospitals; and the way this compares to private hospitals. [56933/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 579. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage increase in cost to the State on average in the delay of scoliosis operations on an annual basis. [56934/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce universal healthcare for children. [56935/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide weekly statistical updates to Deputies on the Covid-19 virus (details supplied). [57163/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 617. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to provide 100 additional neurology nurse specialists across Ireland; his plans to add eight extra nurses for the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in which the numbers fall short of current international guidelines of 14 and patients are waiting longer for diagnosis and treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds closed in Kerry General Hospital in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [57519/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on waiting lists for appointments at Kerry General Hospital. [57520/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments either cancelled or postponed at Kerry General Hospital since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. [57521/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 695. To ask the Minister for Health if a second temporary replacement doctor will be allocated to a general practitioner practice (details supplied) from which two doctors have recently retired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57528/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which general practitioners are giving blanket refusals to see medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57529/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who have retired in County Kerry in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [57530/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 698. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has a reserve of healthcare staff or professionals to assist with general practitioner clinics in instances of staff shortages or staffing emergencies arising from Covid-19; and if so, if he will provide details on such reserves. [57531/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has a reserve of healthcare staff or professionals to assist nursing homes in instances of staff shortages or staffing emergencies arising from Covid-19; if so, if he will provide details on such reserves; and if he will outline the number of reserve staff currently available in each county. [57532/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: What are the limits?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: There are 14,000 beds now, compared with 22,000 before.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Research we in Aontú carried out in recent times found that over 200 children who are known to child protection services have died over the past ten years. Some 42 children died while in State care and 164 children who were known to child protection services died. Half of the children who died while in State care died either by suicide or by drug overdose. Twelve children were...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: First, many people who are working in child protection services are doing the best they can under the circumstances they are in, but there are things we can do to fix this. In the first place, there is a major correlation between economic and societal disadvantage and some of these outcomes. As a State, we must lift these communities out of poverty and strengthen those families. There are...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I pay tribute to Deputy Gino Kenny on his speech. He always speaks from the heart. He made a very important contribution to the record of the Chamber today. Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhairt ar an ábhar seo. I, like most Deputies, have received emails and telephone calls from survivors, including people born in a mother and baby home and women who gave birth in one. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm reports that the Covid programme office at St James’ Hospital sent a text message to staff on 15 November instructing that all staff that are household close contacts may attend work if they are fully vaccinated and remain asymptomatic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57650/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the action he or his Department is taking following an email the Minister received dated 23 July 2021 from a person (details supplied) regarding the treatment of a patient / family of a patient in St Vincent’s Hospital. [57651/21]