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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (18 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 212. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE home care services budget for 2019; the number of hours to be provided; the number of recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18363/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Training (18 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of increasing general practitioner training places from 202 to 274. [18377/19]

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: On accountability, the terms of reference were changed so that PwC could identify individuals and individual companies. When we started finding out about the cost overruns in January, I asked the HSE and the development board if any sanction of any kind has been taken against anybody, individually or commercially. Anyone who has worked in the commercial world around big projects such as...

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: At the Select Committee on Health I asked the Minister whether an instruction had been given to PwC, further to the Dáil vote, which included that of his own party, that analysis be done of the cost and timing implications of a site move. The Minister said that he did not know whether he had passed that request on to PwC and he said that he would come back on that. Did the Minister do...

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it eight minutes for us all?

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: We might just go back and forth, if the Minister agrees.

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Let me start with the Coombe. I acknowledge we are here to talk about the PwC report, to which I will come, but the matter of the Coombe is intrinsically related. The Minister had to leave momentarily when I was asking questions. He told me last week no funding has been allocated this year to even begin the design and planning phase for moving the Coombe to the site of the maternity...

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government is breaking new records in healthcare all the time. It is spending a record €17 billion this year on health, which is up a record €3.5 billion in the past three years. A record 80,000 women are waiting for their CervicalCheck results. This figure has increased since the free test was stopped in December. A record 101,000 men, women and children are now waiting...

General Practitioner Contractual Reform: Statements (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Aylward. It is good to get the detail but I find this exercise very frustrating. The outline of the deal was agreed about two weeks ago. The GPs have not seen it, the public have not seen it, and we have not seen it. We are being given pages of facts and figures now. We have not seen them before. I have asked the Department for them and I have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the opportunity of the recent sanctioning of a new primary school for Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow, will be used to investigate the options for ensuring a one-site school for the existing primary school (details supplied). [17547/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the situation for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine obtaining work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17543/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a fast-track visa programme for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine will be considered to obtain work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17544/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 261. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the situation for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine obtaining work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17545/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 262. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a fast-track visa programme for skilled construction workers (details supplied) from Ukraine will be considered to obtain work visas for here in the context of the acute shortage of such skilled workers here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17546/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 288. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a HSE plan for a respiratory consultant in Tralee University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17296/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a residential centre for autism (details supplied) in County Kerry has not been opened five years after it was finished. [17297/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 352. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish a UK review of orthodontic services here carried out between 2012 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17541/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the publication of an audit of orthodontic services begun in 2015 after the HSE received a highly critical report from two UK experts into allegations that children’s teeth were damaged by HSE orthodontic services more than a decade previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17542/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 354. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times he interacted directly with a person (details supplied) in person, by telephone, email or in another way; the issues discussed; if his officials attended the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17548/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (16 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of new ambulance bases at Ardee, Mullingar, Limerick, Cork and Galway. [17734/19]