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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for podiatry, by CHO, age category and time waiting, in tabular form. [16956/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for community psychology services, by CHO, age category and time waiting, in tabular form. [16957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for counselling services, by CHO, age category and time waiting, in tabular form. [16958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for CAMHS, by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [16959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for dietetics, by CHO, age category and time waiting, in tabular form. [16961/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges, by hospital, in tabular form. [16962/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages in each month in 2023 and to date in 2024, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form. [16963/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to legislate to raise the legal age of the sale of tobacco from 18 to 21 this year; if so, the timeline he is working towards in progressing the necessary legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 165. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1360 of 9 April 2024, to clarify his Department's definition of an "informal" meeting; to outline the difference between a "formal" and "informal" meeting when engaging with lobbyists; if any records are kept of such "informal" meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16965/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Good morning everyone and I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Certainly, when I was doing some research on this issue I found it very frustrating because so little official data is available from the hospitals providing the clinics or from the HSE itself. I can only imagine how much more frustrating it must be for the witnesses. Last month, I tabled a parliamentary question to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Obviously, there is a considerable lack of patient data. We have been able to get our hands on the basic data on staffing of clinics. It would seem that most of the hospitals have between four and five staff associated with their clinic. However, the opening times of the clinics range from two and a half to four hours per week across all the hospitals. That is a very limited time window...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Limerick has been in the news a lot for some time. I had a question on the number of people on waiting lists and so on. I was told that, in Limerick, nobody is on a waiting list and yet there is a six-month wait time for urgent cases and for non-urgent cases. That logically suggests-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: How there could be nobody on the waiting list. It again points to the dearth of data and the difficulty of doing any kind of analysis on this. What would be best practice for how the clinics should operate, including the staffing complement and the issues they would address with patients?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: My final question is about children. No service seems to be available for children at the moment. The attitude seems to be that children do not get long Covid. Have many people contacted LCAI about children who have the symptoms of long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I will start on the issue of data, which I spoke about in the previous session. If we do not have decent data, we cannot measure anything and we do not know about performance. Many of the replies I received from the HSE show poor-quality data, and that is not acceptable with an important programme like this one. Why is it that patient-level data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: But that is not collated. Is that what Dr. Ní Bhriain is saying?