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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 364. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the 23,000 plus persons funded by the nursing home support scheme have undertaken the common summary assessment report, as required for every applicant applying for the scheme, and by consequence have all been assessed by a multi-disciplinary team of health professionals as requiring nursing home care; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 365. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that persons being transferred to nursing home care are presenting with increasingly complex and high dependency care requirements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6706/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 366. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether, for thousands of older persons across the country with high dependency care requirements, nursing home care is best suited to meet their care needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6707/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards Regulation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the European Union’s rapid alert system for food and feed has received a notification from Ireland from 2010 to 2016 per annum, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6915/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards Regulation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the communications he has had with his UK counterpart with regard to the UK's continued participation in the European Union’s rapid alert system for food and feed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6916/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-planned list for the end of each year from 2002 to 2010, in tabular form; and the numbers waiting on the list at those times for zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months and more than 18 months. [7074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 456. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-admit list for the end of each year from 2002 to 2010, in tabular form; the numbers waiting on the list at those times for zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months and more than 18 months. [7075/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recent agreement under which the time and one-sixth twilight payment to nurses working in the evening was restored in return for taking on tasks previously carried out by doctors; and if this payment has been restored to nurses working in all HSE and voluntary hospitals. [7107/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if the tasks previously carried out by non-consultant hospital doctors are being undertaken by nurses in all HSE and voluntary hospitals; and if not, the details of the hospitals in which this is not happening. [7108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 507. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Healthlink referrals from general practitioners that have been classified as received but not yet acknowledged; and the average time period between receipt and acknowledgement. [7228/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 541. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scoliosis surgeries for public patients carried out in 2016; and the hospitals in which they were performed, in tabular form. [7412/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Will the Minister outline the Government's policy on health? Is it still talking about disbanding the HSE? Is it talking about establishing hospital trusts? While we criticise the HSE, we, and everybody else, are unsure as to the Government's stated policy on the HSE, whether it is to be reformed or abolished, and how we underpin our health services. While we criticise management, there...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: What about Michelle O'Neill?

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I am sharing with Deputies Marc MacSharry and Michael Moynihan. I welcome the opportunity to debate this issue because the "Living On The List" programme by RTÉ's "Prime Time Investigates" was a devastating critique of what was is happening daily in people's lives throughout the country. The sad reality is that it is nothing new. In that context, in the area of scoliosis, on 16...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: We also proposed that, but let us be under no illusions. The Minister is a bit like a nasty jockey on a very tired horse that is trying to get him up to the line and using the whip too much. The bottom line is that the HSE simply has not got adequate resources in certain areas to deal with these waiting lists and there is consistent spin in the past week that it is all the HSE's fault. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funds are released to provide immediate respite care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6440/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-planned list for each month in 2016 and for January 2017; and the number waiting on the list for up to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months, and more than 18 months, in tabular form. [6517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-planned list for the end of each year 2011 to 2015 inclusive in tabular form; and the number waiting on the list for up to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months, and more than 18 months, in tabular form. [6518/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-admit list for each month in 2016 and for January 2017 in tabular form; and the number waiting on the list for up to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months, and more than 18 months. [6519/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-admit list for the end of each year 2011 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form; and the number waiting on the list for up to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months, and more than 18 months. [6520/17]