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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical graduates who emigrated in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47227/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public and private nursing home beds in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47228/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided annually by the HSE in each of the years 2017 to 2020; the number of home help hours provided in these years by private companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47229/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on mental health in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47230/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents currently accessing CAMHS; the number of children currently on the waiting list for initial assessment by CAMHS; the length of time they have been waiting for an initial assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47231/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine booster programme for vulnerable persons; the way appointments will be issued; the basis on which vulnerable patients are being decided; the criteria being used to determine the higher risk category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47234/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the timelines for the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine booster programme for all vulnerable persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47236/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if cardiac patients will be contacted in the early stages of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine booster programme for vulnerable persons; if heart failure patients will be considered as vulnerable patients given their high-risk category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47235/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the total sum spent on, by or through or allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund since its inception by year to date; the number of procedures it facilitated in each year to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated or will be provided for the recruitment of staff in the second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46873/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to providing additional cardiologists for the second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; the number of additional cardiologists being sought; and the funding allocated for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46874/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I welcome all of our guests. We had a number of private briefings on this issue and I thank all of those who provided those briefings. This is a new area. I hope we are moving in the right direction to enable the availability of products under licence or prescription. I know it is going to take some time for this new process to bed in. Dr. Nolan, in her opening statement, referred to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Okay. Am I correct that five products are currently under active review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Of those four products, or perhaps more, that have been placed on Schedule 1, how many will be available this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I understand that. Perhaps Dr. Nolan cannot answer that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I understand that. I am just trying to figure out how many products will be available. People will want to know when any of these products will be available under the programme. I know there is a process and there is a role for the providers but I want to know the number of products that will be available on prescription under this programme. We know that six will be listed in Schedule 1,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Perhaps I will put those questions to Mr. Flanagan. Of those products that have been placed on Schedule 1, and I know there was reference to this issue in his opening statement, does he anticipate that only one will be available this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: One of those products will be available this year. What about next year? Do we know how many we anticipate being available then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I accept that. Mr. Flanagan may be unable to say definitively what might happen next year. We are holding a hearing here today to try to get as much information as possible for the public. Is it fair to say that the best I can tell people if I am asked is that there is potential for six products to be placed on Schedule 1? In the best case scenario, one of them will be available to...