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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 321. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding her Department contributes to medicines research and development annually; the budget holders, for example, Science Foundation Ireland or Enterprise Ireland, responsible to her Department; the extent of their funding allocations for medicines research and development; the principles which guide this funding;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 350. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the development of a new sepsis screening tool (details supplied); if consideration is being given to utilise this new technology in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41758/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 369. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 740 of 17 November 2017, the principles which guide this funding with specific reference to intellectual property rights and return on public investment; the mechanisms of oversight, transparency and accountability in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41878/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 370. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recently published document (details supplied); the extent to which public funding is contingent on these principles or ambitious to be contingent on these principles; his views on a move towards greater return for public investment in health research and investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41880/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the international call for a new requirement to be introduced according to which all beneficiaries of public funding for biomedical research and innovation for treatment, prevention or diagnosis of seriously debilitating or life-threatening diseases shall commit to access, effectiveness, affordability and availability...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 389. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make naloxone available as an over the counter medicine to those properly trained in its administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41955/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Estimates Process (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 423. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the large increase in funding under section H of the health Estimates for 2019 from €96 million in 2018 to €491 million in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42056/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Estimates Process (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 441. To ask the Minister for Health further to the budget 2019 announcement that €20 million extra would be provided for the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2019, the reason only €10 million extra is provided in the health Estimates published; and the way in which it is proposed to make up the shortfall. [42163/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Estimates Process (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the 58% rise in funding in 2019 for developmental, consultative, supervisory, regulatory and advisory bodies. [42166/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Estimates Process (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the current estimate of the outturn in health spending in 2018. [42264/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 437. To ask the Minister for Health the prosthetic services provided to the health service by a contractor (details supplied); the value of the contract paid to this contractor for each year for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42140/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to spend the extra capital funding allocated to the health area in 2019. [42165/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2019 (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the year one measures set out in table 8 of the Sláintecare report that were funded as part of budget 2019; and the extent to which they were funded in each case. [42167/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2019 (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 445. To ask the Minister for Health the measures set out in table 3 of the Sláintecare report that were funded as part of budget 2019; and the extent to which they were funded in each case. [42168/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Training (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 446. To ask the Minister for Health the respective number of extra training places for general practitioners, consultants and primary care staff that will be funded in 2019. [42169/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 465. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a campaign by a society (details supplied); his further views on the society’s call to abolish inpatient charges for all patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42290/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Funding (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 466. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a request by an organisation (details supplied); if a request for a further €600,000 annual investment will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42291/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to outline the changes in 2019 in the amount of benefit parents can enjoy under the universal element of the affordable childcare scheme. [42278/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schools that will benefit from the new hot school meals pilot programme for DEIS schools announced in budget 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42288/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his target for the number of housing units that will be built by the State in 2019. [42253/18]