Results 7,961-7,980 of 26,380 for speaker:David Cullinane

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 855. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in the event of a need for annual Covid-19 vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21166/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 852. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing compositions of each public health department; the number of approved posts by grade, filled and vacant, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21163/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 853. To ask the Minister for Health the additional staff hired for public health departments in 2020 and to date in 2021; the additional posts approved; the number of posts routinely filled by non-HSE hires in each public health department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21164/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 854. To ask the Minister for Health the additional staff brought into public health departments in 2020 and to date in 2021, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; the HSE, agency and secondment breakdown of such posts; the number of posts which will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21165/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 856. To ask the Minister for Health if the new consultant public health medicine posts are additional posts in public health; if all existing posts will be retained and filled as consultant posts are filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21167/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 857. To ask the Minister for Health the role which consultants in public health medicine might play in delivering Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21168/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Communications (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 858. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on integrating public health on an all-island basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21169/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 859. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on developing all-island contingency planning to prepare for future island-wide epidemics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21170/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 860. To ask the Minister for Health the role played by public health departments; the enhanced role he envisages they will play with the additional consultant public health medicine posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21171/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 861. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which public health departments are structured; if this will change with the additional consultant posts; if so, the way they will change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 863. To ask the Minister for Health the prerequisites for adding products to the Medical Cannabis Access Programme; if products can only be added to the Programme if previously prescribed in another EU member state; if so, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21177/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 864. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken an analysis of the overall spending on pharmaceuticals in the health service; if so, the conclusions of same; the recommendations for increasing value for money and for increasing access to innovative treatments or clinical trials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21178/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 865. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken an analysis for minimising the delivery of low value care in the context of the entire health service; if so, the conclusions and recommendations of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21179/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 878. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 941. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to recognising on the basis of currently existing evidence some as-of-yet non-approved Covid-19 vaccines which are being administered in other states for exemption from mandatory hotel quarantine or if the evidence does not support this; if the HPRA has analysed the evidence of the effectiveness of these vaccines not in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 915. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements of persons with endometriosis to medical treatment here and abroad; the extent to which this is covered by the public system; the extent to which this is covered by private health insurance and rights to treatment under same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21390/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 923. To ask the Minister for Health the acute hospitals that have been contacted for lists of heart failure patients with regard to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21407/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 938. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if this practice of requiring training in the absence of a job offer is in line with the policy of his Department and the HSE; the reason agencies hiring on behalf of the HSE for vaccinator roles are requiring vaccinator training of candidates who have been successful in their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 957. To ask the Minister for Health the list of conditions which details were requested on in relation to each of the acute hospitals which have been contacted for lists of patients with regard to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 977. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in which patients of mental health services were prescribed excessive amounts of medication in the previous five years, by county; the types of medication which were excessively prescribed; if there have been incidents of harm as a result of this; if so, the number of cases and extent of harm; the safeguards in place to prevent this; and...