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Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 805. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not implementing a recommendation to remove oral sex as a reason for differing gay men, bisexual men, transgender men and men who have sex with men from blood donation as recommended by the Social Behaviours Review Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17935/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce an individualised risk assessment for blood donation; the timescale for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17936/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 843. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress or otherwise in the implementation of the Neurorehabilitation Strategy 2019-2021; the number and dates of all meetings of the implementation group held to date; the current status of this strategy; if he will take steps to refocus his officials on this important strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 868. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that sotrovimab is less effective against the BA.2 subvariant of Covid-19; the engagements he has had with the European Medicines Agency and the manufacturer regarding this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18231/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 869. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to include a patient representative on the new national public health emergency team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18232/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 879. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which successive Ministers in his Department have complied with the requirements of sections 31 and 32 of the Disability Act 2005 in each of the past five years; and the way in which they have complied with section 31(2) of the Act. [18332/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 880. To ask the Minister for Health the consultative structures that exist within the HSE or his Department in relation to policy on medical cards and operation of the scheme; if recipients or representative groups of recipients or other stakeholders are routinely consulted on the operation of the medical card and general practitioner visit card schemes; the way in which this is carried out;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 881. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances under which a general practitioner may and may not charge respectively, a medical card holder who requests a letter to be written on their behalf for a health reason; the information or guidance that is available to medical card holders on the definition of appropriate charging in this respect; and the system that is in place to protect...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 889. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the National Immunisation Advisory Committee to complete its evaluation on the clinical effectiveness of providing the HPV vaccine to girls and boys in secondary school who were eligible to receive HPV vaccine in first year but who did not receive it and women up to the age of 25 years of age who have left secondary school and who did not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 890. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects HIQA to complete its cost-effectiveness assessment of providing the HPV vaccine to girls and boys in secondary school who were eligible to receive HPV vaccine in first year but who did not receive it and women up to the age of 25 years who have left secondary school and who did not receive the vaccine when eligible; and if he will make a...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: There is no basis for that.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is not a religious hospital. That is why.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Can we see the contract then, if it exists?

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Can he answer that question?

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Where are they?

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It will be a subsidiary of St. Vincent's.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, it is.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: That is the reality of what you just-----