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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1809. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of formal cross-Border healthcare provision, cooperation and integration; the services and locations in which this occurs, such as the paediatric congenital cardiac services in Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin or in the North-West Cancer Centre, County Derry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15531/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1824. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for implementing the progressing disability services programme; the changes this will result in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15607/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1825. To ask the Minister for Health if children with disabilities will still be able to access disability services based on the location they go to school as opposed to their home address under the progressing disability services programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15608/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1826. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will consult with parents whose children are affected by the changes under the progressing disability services programme to ensure that changes to children’s disability services do not worsen accessibility or convenience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15609/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1831. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to each cross-Border health and social care service for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1832. 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. [15622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1862. To ask the Minister for Health the policy regarding vaccination of persons resident in hospices; the visiting restrictions imposed on such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1863. To ask the Minister for Health the policy for vaccinating new residents of long-term residential care facilities who were not discharged from a clinical setting; the policy for vaccinating new residents of long-term residential care facilities who were discharged from a clinical setting; the timeline for vaccination; if they must be vaccinated ahead of residency at a long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1889. To ask the Minister for Health if elderly persons having to travel distances to receive their vaccine will be eligible for reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15817/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1902. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on Covid-19 testing and tracing in 2020; the amount budgeted for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15843/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1903. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on Covid-19 testing and tracing in 2021 to date; the amount budgeted for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1904. To ask the Minister for Health the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15845/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1905. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent funded, filled and vacant positions in testing and tracing; the basis on which they are filled as a percentage of full-time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15847/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 2052. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16270/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 2098. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by her Department, agency and budget line item; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16280/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I welcome all the witnesses. I want to use my time as productively as I can. I want to start with Mr. Quinn. Obviously, if Mr. Quinn needs to refer to his colleagues that is fine but, in terms of a fluid conversation, if Mr. Quinn has the answers, he himself might reply. I want to focus in on the powers of enforcement and regulation and the area of accountability when it comes to nursing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: My time is short and I ask people to be as succinct as they can in responding. Essentially, Mr. Quinn is saying that HIQA would want to have the possibility of improvement notices that HIQA could serve. Would that be similar to what the Health and Safety Authority and the food authority do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Is Mr. Quinn talking about similar type notices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I want to come back to enforcement. HIQA has the powers of investigation in not only private nursing homes, but all nursing homes. In terms of the private sector, one of the criticisms that has been levelled at the HSE was that the HSE, as a purchaser of services, did not have sufficient knowledge of the private sector. I am looking for Mr. Quinn's view on this as the regulator. Would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Is Mr. Quinn's view, as the regulator, that there was not sufficient knowledge of the private sector within the HSE?