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Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: There are so many people in north Kildare in agony with their teeth. Anyone depending on the medical card scheme is back to Dickensian times. For a supposedly modern state to leave somebody in this situation is degrading and perverse. With dental health affecting heart and brain health, we are storing up problems for the future for our young schoolchildren and others who are facing delays...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will sanction the provision of a neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO 7 for persons affected by neurological injury or disease, given only two of the nine teams promised have been delivered (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2654/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the daily standing charge on electricity bills from Electric Ireland has increased to 0.9563 cent per day, which is reported to be treble the recent cost, meaning there is a charge of €56.42 before one unit of electricity is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63431/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the reason the criteria for home tuition in north Kildare in some cases appear to have changed and now require a psychologist’s report (details supplied); if her Department will take steps to address this unexpected demand and the practical difficulties that have been caused; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Australian teaching qualifications held by Irish emigrant citizens are recognised by the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1228. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to recruit more neurologists given the unacceptable and potentially dangerous length of time that patients are forced to spend on waiting lists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1229. To ask the Minister for Health if the attention of his Department has been drawn to reports that neurologists in private practice have closed their lists to new patients such is the extent of the backlog; his plans to rectify this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63488/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1230. To ask the Minister for Health Ireland’s position in the EU in terms of waiting list length and the numbers waiting for a specialist consultation as a proportion of the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1265. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department will take to address the fact that applications to CORU for registration by key healthcare workers are taking three years to process (details supplied); the reason that CORU will not provide updates on the status of such applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63612/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1303. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the current neurofibromatosis clinic has been left understaffed and underfunded, that it is now closed to new patients, and with an inability to access treatment of serious import to children, their health and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63681/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1304. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there will be a designated neurofibromatosis clinic at the new children’s hospital; if he will ensure that this designated neurofibromatosis clinic will have the full complement of specialisms to include consultant dermatology, neuropsychiatry, psychology and associated teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1305. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which access to the current neurofibromatosis clinic will be restored for all children in Ireland living with neurofibromatosis and therefore requiring its care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63683/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1306. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the condition of neurofibromatosis and medical centres to treat children with the condition do not receive the State’s attention and funding of other neurological conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63684/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1307. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will supply a date by which the lack of appropriate staff and diagnostic equipment at the neurofibromatosis clinic at CHI Tallaght will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63685/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1308. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the current neurofibromatosis clinic is without a resident specialist dermatologist, neuro-psychiatrist and psychologist given that these specialisms are deemed integral to the need and treatment of children with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63686/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1309. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will allow the current neurofibromatosis clinic to accept an OCT machine privately-funded and fundraised by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63687/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 1310. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no current pathway from paediatric to adult care for persons aged 16 years and above with neurofibromatosis; the date on which such a pathway will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63688/22]

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: That was well said by my colleague on the Committee on the Environment and Climate Action. I cannot speak about our forestry strategy without addressing the issue of Coillte and what my comrade Deputy Carthy raised here on Tuesday. It is not often that I am speechless but I was glad I had a couple of days before I got to speak on this issue. The proposal by Coillte to sell 12,000 hectares...

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: Before I come to the issue in question, which is the report on the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, if we are having a debate about hyperemesis gravidarum, I could take part in that as well, having suffered it myself and having been hospitalised with it. To get back to this issue, we are a small State that pays its department heads and health managers handsomely, so the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: As the Minister of State knows, Ireland has one of the highest rates of respiratory illness and disease in Europe. We have the highest rate of hospitalisation in the OECD for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD. Mould triggers and exacerbates respiratory conditions and also causes death, as in the case in England to which my colleague referred earlier. I am sure the Minister of...