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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to projects in the Dublin 9 and 11 areas out of the community safety initiative/community safety innovation fund; the details of the initiatives funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19028/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether community safety initiative/community safety innovation fund monies can be used to support public realm space/park improvements in areas which have suffered from criminality; if so, if she will point to successful examples of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19029/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 642. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 21 March 2024, to provide an update on the status of the proposed vaccine damage scheme; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 662. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the special scheme of paid leave for eligible public health sector employees suffering from long-Covid, following the three-month extension announced on 16 April 2024; if he will replace the temporary scheme with a long-term occupation illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18929/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 663. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the Law Reform Commission's report entitled 'A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding'; his plans in respect of implementing the recommendations; if he will commit to establishing a new and fully independent national safeguarding authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18930/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 683. To ask the Minister for Health if he will add endometriosis to the long-term illness scheme; if this is being considered as part of the development of the National Endometriosis Framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19030/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 684. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the National Endometriosis Framework; the timeline he is working towards for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19031/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 685. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider changes to the age and body mass index limits for fertility treatment; if clinicians have discretion to treat patients over those limits in certain circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19032/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (25 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) by a concerned parent of a child in Dublin 11; the steps he is taking to address the issues raised by the parent; if he will examine this particular case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18623/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to further expand the medical conditions screened for under the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; the conditions currently being considered by the National Screening Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add familial hypercholesterolemia to the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; if this is being considered by the National Screening Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when testing for severe combined immunodeficiency and spinal muscular atrophy will commence under the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme, following the announcement of additional funding to expand the programme in February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to provide further supports and services for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 185. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to introduce a statutory right to homecare; the timeline he is working towards in publishing the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18326/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 675. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the lack of community rehabilitation and support services for stroke and heart failure patients; his plans to address the deficit in services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17978/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register (23 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiation therapists registered by CORU in each of the years since 2017, in tabular form. [17979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register (23 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who applied to CORU for registration as a radiation therapist in each of the years since 2017, in tabular form; and the number whose applications were refused. [17980/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register (23 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for registration as a radiation therapist currently with CORU; and the average wait time for a decision on applications. [17981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 289. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he plans to provide patients with financial support to cover the cost of the strips required to measure warfarin levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (18 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the report of the National Radiation Therapist Review Group; the timeline for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17147/24]