Results 361-380 of 4,571 for speaker:Colm Burke in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1521. To ask the Minister for Health if will consider establishing a national heart failure registry to equip planners and healthcare professionals with the necessary information for the purposes of reducing excessive mortality and curtail hospital admission rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1522. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to expanding psychological support services to heart failure patients, currently available in only four hospitals in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56632/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to ensure that all heart failure patients are eligible for a medical card and to remove prescription charges, in light of the significant financial pressure faced by sufferers and the anxiety caused by a condition that results in the death of over one in three sufferers within five years; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1524. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding for the investment in practical, social and emotional supports in the community for heart failure patients for the purposes of reducing readmissions and improve quality of life for same, given that such community supports currently do not receive any statutory funding and should be recognised as an integral part of heart failure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1525. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for his Department and the HSE to undertake a full assessment of the economic impact of heart failure on patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1562. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the key recommendations set out in an online submission by an organisation (details supplied) to CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56888/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1563. To ask the Minister for Health that due consideration be given to the development of clarity around the nature of the work of psychotherapists, in particular including the differentiation between psychotherapists from counsellors, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56889/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1564. To ask the Minister for Health that due consideration be given to the setting of the threshold level of entry to the register for psychotherapists at level 9 on the NFQ and that additional proficiencies be added as described in a submission (details supplied) to address the higher educational level, clinical supervision as integral to the programme and personal and professional growth...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1565. To ask the Minister for Health if due consideration will be given to the inclusion within the framing of training programmes for psychotherapists of personal psychotherapy/personal psychotherapeutic experience, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56891/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1566. To ask the Minister for Health if due consideration will be given to revisiting of details around direct observation of clinical practice within training, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission made by an organisation (details supplied) to CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1567. To ask the Minister for Health if due will be given to the revisiting of details around practice placement context and clinical supervision, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission made by an organisation (details supplied) to CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56893/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for fentanyl as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [1055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for codeine as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [1056/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1636. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the review carried out by the Health Products Regulatory Authority on the sale of codeine containing medicinal products; and when that review will be completed. [1057/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1637. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to publish the review of the Health Products Regulatory Authority on the sale of codeine containing medicinal products once it is received by the Department. [1058/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1638. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of increasing the misuse of fentanyl (details supplied); the measures that the Department is taking to tackle fentanyl misuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1059/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1645. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to alerts issued by the HSE on ketamine (details supplied); the measures that his Department is taking to tackle ketamine use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1099/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a review of the requirement for certain apprenticeship applicants to pass the Ishihara colour vision test without the use of corrective lenses, in view of the fact that corrective lenses are available and could be used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56481/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending the SUSI grant scheme to part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56648/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give due consideration to increasing the income threshold for SUSI grants by 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56655/23]