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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (1 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 423. To ask the Minister for Health the regional breakdown of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement procedures performed throughout the State on a regional and hospital basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28900/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (1 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 456. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable practice across the health service for patients receiving end of life care at a hospital to be moved into a nursing home; if there is an obligation for patients or their families to sign up for the fair deal scheme in order to be moved to a nursing home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29113/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Will the Taoiseach confirm to the House whether the new revised national development plan, NDP, will be published before the recess next week? Along with other Deputies and Senators from Tipperary, I had a meeting with Tipperary County Council yesterday evening where there was deep concern that the N24, a very important strategic corridor supported by all the local authorities, could be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Waterford to Cahir and Cahir to Limerick Junction proposals are going forward. Will the Taoiseach commit that this strategic corridor will remain part of the NDP?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination last met; and when it will next meet. [33146/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Has the co-ordination committee discussed antigen testing at all? The reason I specifically ask is this co-ordination committee co-ordinates things, I presume. It seems there is quite a divided and confused approach across the public service regarding antigen tests. As the Taoiseach knows, I have been raising this issue since last October, when we were still in Leinster House - it is so...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work, role and staffing of the recently established social dialogue unit in his Department. [33147/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will ask about two priorities for this unit. A motion from my Labour Party colleague, inner-city Councillor Kevin Donoghue, was passed by Dublin City Council last night. It was a very interesting motion on something we have been pushing to have considered for some time. It called on Dublin City Council's chief executive to engage with trade unions representing council staff with a view...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: It certainly would not suit us.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Is it something the Taoiseach would consider and this unit will look into? That is what I am asking. Does the Taoiseach endorse it? We all have to rebalance our lives after the pandemic. The second issue, which I do not have time to dwell on, is that of a catch-up programme for schools. My colleagues, Deputy Ó Ríordáin and Senator Bacik, have been pushing this for some...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 553. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures provided to patients who are covered under the general medical scheme for the treatment of heart valve disease; the proportion of such patients treated using transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30245/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private patients treated in public hospitals for heart valve disease; the proportion of patients treated using transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 555. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE have taken a position on the HIQA recommendation contained in its health technology assessment of trans catheter aortic valve implementation in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at low and intermediate risk of surgical complications published in November 2019; if these recommendations will be adopted and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: My request of the Taoiseach today is a positive one. Eighteen months ago, doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, laboratory scientists and multiple other workers across our hospitals and primary care system faced a nightmare scenario with regard to Covid-19. Our healthcare workers reported to the front-line of the fight against Covid-19 with little or no personal protective equipment, PPE,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: I genuinely accept what the Taoiseach says, but the time for platitudes is over. I know a couple who are working in the healthcare service and have a number of children. Childcare cost them thousands of euro, even with family help and a discount. I know of a nurse who was clamped multiple times and whose neighbours volunteered to pay the fines for her. I could tell the Taoiseach stories...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: If the Government gives the HSE the capacity to do this, it will do it. Will you please do that? At this stage, we have - have to - to acknowledge the work and efforts of all these workers. Platitudes, I am sorry, do not work anymore. That does not show respect.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: It had no power yesterday.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: The HSE said yesterday that it was not even in a position to engage.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Taoiseach has said many times that we must use every tool in our arsenal in regard to Covid-19. I want to ask what is being done regarding all the technologies for proper air ventilation. We know that Covid-19 is spread in the air more so than on surfaces, so ventilation is critical. We need to use better disinfection systems. I have written to the Taoiseach and the Minister recently...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: -----regarding proper use of new ventilation techniques and technologies?