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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 820. To ask the Minister for Health the operational status of the gay men’s health service; when these services will fully resume; his plans for expanding these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8480/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 821. To ask the Minister for Health the current resources allocated to STI home testing kits; his plans to increase same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8481/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 863. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSPC will resume publishing underlying conditions in Covid-19 cases data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8588/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 880. To ask the Minister for Health the supports and multidisciplinary gender-identity service the HSE has in place for persons needing assessment for gender-identity related issues; his plans to put in place the necessary services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8666/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 881. To ask the Minister for Health if referrals are continuing to the gender-identity development services in the UK (details supplied); if the service is referring persons back to the HSE; if the service will be in place to deal with persons caught on waiting lists for the UK service, which is not accepting new referrals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8667/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 882. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant posts by hospital group and hospital, respectively, filled by tenure, permanent, temporary, locum, agency and vacant consultant posts by discipline and specialty, in tabular form; the length of time the vacant posts have remained vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8669/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 890. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to hire additional clinical nurse specialists in order to support social work and psychology supports at Mullingar Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8681/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 894. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which persons in group 7 of the vaccine roll-out will be identified for vaccination; if this will be done by identification based on medical records or if it will require self-identification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8690/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 925. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding expanding the medicinal cannabis access programme; his plans for operationalising the programme and regarding delivery of medicinal products; the way in which he envisages the programme functioning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8798/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 926. To ask the Minister for Health the number of exemptions for cannabis products given under the ministerial licence; the products which have been made available by licence; his plans to harmonise this with the medicinal cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8799/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 927. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work underway to review and revise difficulties with the medicinal cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8800/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: 937. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for advancing an inquiry into the use of mesh implants and sodium valproate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8811/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: I welcome Ms Justice Laffoy and her team. I hope she is well. I wish them well in their important work. It is an issue in which we on the joint committee have taken a keen interest. As I am sure they will be aware, there were a number of examinations into nursing homes and residential care facilities in recent times, obviously, because of Covid, and there were a number of reports....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: I will look back a little before I ask some questions about the solutions that Ms Justice Laffoy spoke about. I would support her statement that their assessment of the law on this area needs to be comprehensive and that the recommendations need to be solutions-focused, practical and workable, and provide adults at risk of abuse and neglect with the best possible legal protections....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: The IASW has raised with us a number of genuine concerns that go to the heart of the need for adult safeguarding legislation and a statutory basis for the framework. Currently, there is no legal right of entry for any independent inspector or social work team into a private nursing home. This is one of the issues that arose in many of the investigations. The IASW wrote in its submission:...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: I will finish, since my time is probably up. I am sorry - did Ms Justice Laffoy wish to speak?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: I will make a final point and perhaps Ms Coen can contribute then. I wish everyone on the commission well in what it is doing. These are long-standing issues and, as Mr. Byrne stated, there are social workers and others working on the ground who have direct experience of many of them. The majority of care settings, include nursing homes and other residential care services, provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: Dr. Mulligan can start. I am not sure Ms Caulfield can hear us.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: The Minister's response does not answer the question at all. The question I posed concerned whether these people are going to be considered as a distinct cohort in their own right. I think they should be. The Minister has obviously looked for a clinical assessment. I do not know what that assessment has been. While it does have to be underpinned medically, these are people who we all...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: I hope we will get progress on this issue, and I think everybody accepts it is an urgent issue. My final question concerns category 6 key workers. The decision to not use the AstraZeneca vaccine for those aged over 65 years old means that the people in this key worker group will be the second next category to be inoculated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. There is still no definition of who...