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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 460. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made on offering the FreeStyle Libre device to diabetic patients over 21 years of age for free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12313/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if a report on the new drugs budget for the HSE 2019 will be provided; the amount that has been spent; the items on which the money has been spent; the amount remaining in view of a media report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11153/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if a detailed analysis of the decision not to make Spinraza available to persons here will be provided including but not limited to the final agreed costs to the HSE and the final agreed costs in all other relevant jurisdictions; if the costs for Ireland are broadly comparable to all other jurisdictions in which Spinraza is being made available; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 1 March 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [11277/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form. [11278/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less for each ambulance station in each month in the year to the end of February 2019 or the latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [11280/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area. [11281/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [11282/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationally in January 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same, respectively in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four months in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital; the number waiting four to eight and more than eight months for treatment; and if the same information will be provided for other spinal patients in tabular form. [11284/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients who were removed from outpatient lists each month in 2018 as a result of validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant in each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [11285/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11286/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11287/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 230. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52, and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11288/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52, and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11289/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11290/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details and timing of proposed works on the N11 southbound at Kilmacanogue, including but not limited to the creation of a third lane; the physical separation between lanes and the development of a greenway at the southern cross roundabout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11192/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Medicines Strategy: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank our guests for their time. It is a hugely important issue. The combination of some miraculous scientific breakthroughs with the eye-watering associated costs is going to pose some big questions for us as a society. We seem to be getting to the stage where, with enough money, one can cure or treat a phenomenally wide and growing range of chronic diseases and conditions, so we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Medicines Strategy: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: One of the areas that Access to Medicines Ireland seems to be examining is what strikes me as a governmental equivalent to what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did. When it tried to encourage large pharma to develop medicines for developing countries, there was not an economic model and, therefore, the foundation offered a prize to which a firm could gain access, which tipped it over...