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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 58. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the preparation of a business plan under the public spending code for the new national maternity hospital. [17065/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application for the authorisation of fifth freedom operations by an airline (details supplied) in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17389/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 430. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 751 of 1 March 2022, the consideration he has given to the need for an additional 100 neurology nurse specialists; the timescale for approval of these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17346/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 443. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on which workers will be entitled to the Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment recently announced for healthcare workers; when workers can expect this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17410/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure that persons with solar panels on their homes and smart meters whose excess units are going into the electricity grid will either get their units back or else have them taken off their bills, given the worsening cost of energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18327/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18234/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an enhanced illness benefit and jobseeker’s allowance increase claim for a couple (details supplied) in Dublin 6; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17887/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 801. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the delivery of paxlovid in view of its availability in other European Union countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17884/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to media reports (details supplied) of difficulties for patients accessing sotrovimab; the steps he is taking to address shortcomings in the treatment pathway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17885/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 803. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, if any, for a communications campaign in respect of accessing Covid-19 antiviral treatments; the steps he has taken to ensure patients are aware of the pathways to treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17886/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 805. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not implementing a recommendation to remove oral sex as a reason for differing gay men, bisexual men, transgender men and men who have sex with men from blood donation as recommended by the Social Behaviours Review Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17935/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce an individualised risk assessment for blood donation; the timescale for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17936/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 843. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress or otherwise in the implementation of the Neurorehabilitation Strategy 2019-2021; the number and dates of all meetings of the implementation group held to date; the current status of this strategy; if he will take steps to refocus his officials on this important strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 868. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that sotrovimab is less effective against the BA.2 subvariant of Covid-19; the engagements he has had with the European Medicines Agency and the manufacturer regarding this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18231/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 869. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to include a patient representative on the new national public health emergency team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18232/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 879. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which successive Ministers in his Department have complied with the requirements of sections 31 and 32 of the Disability Act 2005 in each of the past five years; and the way in which they have complied with section 31(2) of the Act. [18332/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 880. To ask the Minister for Health the consultative structures that exist within the HSE or his Department in relation to policy on medical cards and operation of the scheme; if recipients or representative groups of recipients or other stakeholders are routinely consulted on the operation of the medical card and general practitioner visit card schemes; the way in which this is carried out;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 881. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances under which a general practitioner may and may not charge respectively, a medical card holder who requests a letter to be written on their behalf for a health reason; the information or guidance that is available to medical card holders on the definition of appropriate charging in this respect; and the system that is in place to protect...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 889. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the National Immunisation Advisory Committee to complete its evaluation on the clinical effectiveness of providing the HPV vaccine to girls and boys in secondary school who were eligible to receive HPV vaccine in first year but who did not receive it and women up to the age of 25 years of age who have left secondary school and who did not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 890. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects HIQA to complete its cost-effectiveness assessment of providing the HPV vaccine to girls and boys in secondary school who were eligible to receive HPV vaccine in first year but who did not receive it and women up to the age of 25 years who have left secondary school and who did not receive the vaccine when eligible; and if he will make a...