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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 288. To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of addressing pay inequality in the health service in 2021; if he will provide a breakdown by grade; the position of his Department on this policy issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22902/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on agency staff in 2020 to date across the health service; the breakdown for the amount spent on nursing agency staff to date in 2020; his plans to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22903/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned reduction in prescription charges from budget 2020; when it will be implemented; the additional funding that was provided to his Department for this reduction; when charges for persons over 70 will be reduced to €1 per item and to €1.50 per item for all others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22904/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for a free contraception service, as recommended by the Oireachtas Committee on the Eight Amendment to the Constitution; his plans to provide it by 2021 as committed to by his predecessor in Dáil Éireann; the specifics of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22905/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2021 of reducing prescription charges for all persons to €1 per item with a cap of €10 and to €1.50 per item with a cap of €15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22906/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2021 of removing all inpatient hospital charges, all out patient hospital charges, all emergency hospital charges, all long-term stay charges and exempting all children under 18 years of age from acute hospital charges in tabular form; the total collected for each in 2019; the projected yield for 2020; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing medical cards in 2021 to all terminally ill patients and those diagnosed with cancer, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22908/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing medical card income limits by 5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22909/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for the home support service in 2020; the number of home care packages funded; the projected additional cost of providing a home care package to every identified case in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22910/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the 'flu vaccine programme in 2020; the additional costs arising from the recently announced measures; the number of doses expected to be provided in 2020; the number of doses ordered; the estimated cost to provide the 'flu vaccine free to all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22911/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing free general practitioner care to all children under 18; the status of the current roll-out programme; the additional funding that was provided to his Department to begin the extension to those aged six to eight in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22912/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing the HPV vaccine for free to adults who have not received it but want to access it through their general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22913/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Funding (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 300. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the current funding imbalance for University Hospital Limerick compared to other model 4 national hospitals to bring it to the national average; the projected cost for this in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22914/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Funding (9 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 301. To ask the Minister for Health if there is funding in the HSE capital plan in 2021 for the 96 bed ward replacement block at University Hospital Limerick; the funding to be provided in 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively for this project if any; the projected cost of the block; the expected staffing cost for the block; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22915/20]

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which we will be wholeheartedly supporting. This is a topic about which I have probably spoken more than most in this Chamber and about which I am very passionate. I will divide my contribution into two parts. I do not want to repeat the proposals put forward by others, which I support. As a result, I will just focus on the matters...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: I want to raise a point of clarification.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: That is wrong.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should rule on it. She knows the rules.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: That does not matter. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle knows the rules. The Standings Orders are the Standing Orders and we agree them.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: I have never seen this before.