Written answers

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

  • Departmental Funding
    332. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 3 May 2017, if he will report on meetings that have taken place between his officials and officials from the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    333. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for surgery for a person (details supplied). [22664/17]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a system for supplying automated external defibrillators for families of children with inherited heart conditions; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    337. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22686/17]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    338. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made regarding the reimbursement of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22688/17]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    339. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a bed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22695/17]
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    340. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received an appointment; when an appointment will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Autism Support Services
    341. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a 13 month waiting list for autism services in the CHO area 1 region; the reason this is the case;...
  • Mental Health Services
    342. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that general practitioners in the CHO area 1 are being advised by the HSE not to refer patients to the CAMH...
  • Medical Card Applications
    344. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22703/17]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    345. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a drug (details supplied) in the treatment of systemic Degos disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Occupational Therapy
    346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed by county; the number of occupational therapist vacancies that exist by county; the number of vacancies that...
  • Disability Support Services
    347. To ask the Minister for Health the employment and training possibilities available for a person (details supplied) in terms of training, learning and preparing for work life. [22710/17]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    348. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medicines that the HSE has notified his Department that it does not have sufficient funds in its budget to reimburse; the number of medicines he...
  • Health Services Data
    349. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been seen at a clinic (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22713/17]
  • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
    350. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding speech and language therapy for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22716/17]
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    351. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment can be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22720/17]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    352. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22727/17]
  • Disease Incidence
    353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of a notifiable disease (details supplied) recorded in County Donegal from June 2016 to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
    356. To ask the Minister for Health further to the allocation of an extra €15 million to the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2017, the number of persons in each hospital on day case...
  • HSE Investigations
    358. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE and the University of Limerick hospital group to report on the internal investigation into the premature death of a person (details...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    359. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the drug Respreeza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22763/17]
  • Hospital Beds Data
    360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical and surgical beds in use in Naas hospital; his plans to increase this number in view of the expected growth in population in the area in...
  • Obesity Strategy
    361. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the regional specialist obesity treatment centres used to support persons with obesity in other jurisdictions as part of an...
  • Water Fluoridation
    362. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the practice of water fluoridation should be discontinued in view of the cost and the fact that his Department has on many occasions put...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    363. To ask the Minister for Health when a glucose monitor will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22781/17]
  • Health Services
    364. To ask the Minister for Health the supports a person with a foetal alcohol spectrum disorder can avail of on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22793/17]
  • Mental Health Services
    365. To ask the Minister for Health if a person with borderline personality disorder may be admitted on a voluntarily or involuntarily basis to a psychiatric hospital; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Accommodation Provision
    367. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include phase 3C of Naas General Hospital in his priorities under the mid-term review of the capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise funding under the waiting list action plan for outpatient gynaecological appointments in view of the fact that to date in 2017 the...
  • Hospitals Data
    369. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of persons resident here who have attended the emergency department at Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry, County Down, in each of the past five years, in...
  • Hospital Services
    375. To ask the Minister for Health if persons resident here have access to other services other than dental services, ophthalmology services, ENT services and renal treatment at Daisy Hill...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    376. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a rheumatologist appointment in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22810/17]
  • Obesity Strategy
    377. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which action 3.2 of A Healthy Weight for Ireland is being advanced; the position regarding the development, implementation and evaluation of a code...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    378. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 481 of 7 March 2017, if the proposed surgery for a person (details supplied) will take place here as part of the National...
  • Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme
    379. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the implementation of the report of the vaccine damage steering committee of 2009, which recommended a three-tiered structure of ex gratia...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    380. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 3 May 2017, if the HSE instructed section 39 organisations to reduce their pay scales in line with the HSE and...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm receipt of correspondence from a health campaign and patient advocacy group (details supplied) in County Donegal requesting that he agree to...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will grant further home help hours to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22862/17]
  • Hospital Beds Data
    384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional beds he plans to open in each of the years 2018 to 2022; the estimated capital spend on opening these beds; the number of beds this...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    386. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding provision of mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22874/17]
  • Primary Care Centres Administration
    387. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for recruitment of persons to fill medical and administrative positions in a primary care centre (details supplied) currently under construction....
  • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
    388. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to select a practising occupational therapist for inclusion on the CORU occupational therapists registration board; the way in which...
  • Prescriptions Data
    389. To ask the Minister for Health the data on trends in the prescription of stimulant drugs to children for the past 20 years; if the collected data indicate an overall rise in problems...
  • Diabetes Strategy
    390. To ask the Minister for Health the services in place to manage children with type one diabetes in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22897/17]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
    394. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision to refuse long-term residential care to a person (details supplied) who has applied under the nursing homes support scheme;...
  • Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Eligibility
    395. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with persons (details supplied) as per their request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22920/17]
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    396. To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment for the vacant consultant paediatrician post to provide services for children with type one diabetes in Sligo University Hospital has begun;...
  • Diabetes Strategy
    397. To ask the Minister for Health the services which have been put in place to manage children with type one diabetes on insulin pumps in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
  • Medical Card Applications
    399. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application was closed without taking into account the second medical report that was requested by the HSE for a person (details...
  • Home Care Packages Provision
    400. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost to provide 3,000 extra home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22935/17]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children's disability network teams currently in CHO area 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22936/17]
  • HIQA Inspections
    402. To ask the Minister for Health when a Health Information and Quality Authority inspection was carried out at Solas respite centre in County Sligo; the reason the facility will no longer be...
  • Hospital Services
    403. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision timeline for a second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford in order to deal with waiting lists; and...
  • Hospital Staff
    404. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no early intervention psychologist due to staff maternity leave for the assessment of ASD in Nenagh General Hospital; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    405. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on a waiting list for Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22943/17]
  • Health Services
    406. To ask the Minister for Health the reason school-going children are treated differently if they are referred from Nenagh hospital, County Tipperary or South Tipperary General Hospital,...
  • Medicinal Products
    407. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Products Regulatory Authority supports on its website an information leaflet on the medicine...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite heart surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22952/17]
  • Obesity Strategy
    410. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the benefits of treating persons with obesity in reducing mortality, the comorbidities of obesity, reducing disease...
  • Treatment Abroad Scheme
    411. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the anomalous situation whereby persons here suffering from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome cannot qualify for assistance under the treatment abroad scheme...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    412. To ask the Minister for Health when a five-day assisted living service will be provided to a person (details supplied) with special needs. [22971/17]
  • Home Help Service Data
    413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints in the south Lee area and in the north...
  • Home Care Packages Funding
    420. To ask the Minister for Health the Cork and Kerry community health organisation home care budgets which may be applicable to young persons being cared for at home. [22999/17]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    421. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23000/17]
  • Sunbeds Regulation
    422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sunbed units registered under the Public Health Sunbed Act 2014 in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23006/17]
  • Health Services Provision
    423. To ask the Minister for Health the health supports currently in place for persons suffering from sickle cell disease; and his plans to provide the influenza injection to all persons with...
  • Suicide Prevention
    425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of suicide crisis assessment nurses in the Mater hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23065/17]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    427. To ask the Minister for Health the psychiatric and mental health services and facilities currently available at the Mater hospital; the number of consultants, specialists and nurses working...
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    429. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed location for Drogheda primary care centre, PCC; what the lease and construction costs will be; the services which will operate from the centre; if...
  • HSE Properties
    431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital building projects for both permanent and temporary accommodation; the cost of this expenditure for each of the past five years in...
  • Health Services Provision
    432. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated time envisaged that a person (details supplied) will be fitted with a permanent spinal stimulator since undergoing a trial in July 2016 and...
  • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
    433. To ask the Minister for Health if the national lottery grant funding has been discontinued and moved to Healthy Ireland; the way in which organisations can now access large grant funding for...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    435. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 9 May 2017, if he will recommend steps including the use of trackers, cameras and chaperones to the Health Service...
  • Mental Health Services Staff
    436. To ask the Minister for Health the additional positions which will be required in 2018 over and above those already required under A Vision for Change (details supplied); and the additional...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    438. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the allocation of the service reform fund established between his Department, organisations (details supplied) and the Health Service Executive;...
  • Disability Services Provision
    441. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE or a specified service provider is responsible for meeting the needs of a person (details supplied); the body responsible for meeting their needs in...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    442. To ask the Minister for Health when a MRI will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23115/17]
  • Health Services Provision
    443. To ask the Minister for Health when treatment will be given to a person (details supplied) which is of an urgent nature; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23116/17]
  • HSE Funding
    444. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE funds emergency accommodation services; if so, the details and the amount of funding provided to each of these services in 2015 and 2016 and to date...
  • Disability Support Services Provision
    445. To ask the Minister for Health the psychology services for adults with disabilities and autism available in County Wexford; the number of whole-time equivalent psychologists for adults with...
  • Medical Card Applications
    446. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) who has provided all documentation as requested; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Services Provision
    447. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for an assessment of need for children and adolescents in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23129/17]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    448. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of the drug Respreeza/Zemaira; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23132/17]
  • Medicinal Products Regulation
    449. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to the inclusion of Parkinson's disease as one of the medical conditions for which cannabis for medicinal use could be approved...
  • Home Care Packages Provision
    451. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria, including financial limits, required to qualify for an intensive home care package. [23144/17]
  • Disability Services Provision
    452. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to an invitation to meet a group further to a request by a person (details supplied). [23145/17]
  • Health Services Provision
    453. To ask the Minister for Health the services in place to manage children with type 1 diabetes in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23146/17]
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    456. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a delay in holding interviews for the vacant consultant paediatrician post to provide services for children with type 1 diabetes in Galway...
  • Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy
    458. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide support services for persons in the west of Ireland affected by acquired brain injury (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Health Services Provision
    459. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide physiotherapy and occupational therapy support services for persons in the west of Ireland post-stroke (details supplied); and if he will...
  • Hospital Services
    460. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of running the on-site laundry service at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; the estimated cost to outsource the laundry service at the...
  • Disability Support Services Provision
    462. To ask the Minister for Health if behavioural therapy is available to children in all counties; if not, if children who have been identified as needing such therapy can have it provided in a...
  • Autism Support Services
    463. To ask the Minister for Health the expected publication date of an autism strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23165/17]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    464. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of Respreeza. [23170/17]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    465. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23171/17]
  • Home Help Service Eligibility
    467. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an allocation for home help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23177/17]
  • Hospital Facilities
    468. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the issue of inadequate parking for nurses and staff at Children's University Hospital Temple Street (details supplied); the steps he has...
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    469. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide for an adequate local ambulance service for north-west Connemara, County Galway, where persons endure long wait times for an ambulance...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    470. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for a cataract operation will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23205/17]
  • Medical Card Applications
    471. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23211/17]
  • Drug Treatment Programmes
    472. To ask the Minister for Health the service which will replace a drug treatment project (details supplied) that is being wound down in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Autism Support Services
    473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of autism liaison nurses currently employed in County Wexford; if they are employed on a full-time or part-time basis; the recommended client to...
  • Departmental Legal Cases Data
    474. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of expenditure on litigation claims against his Department and the HSE in each of the years 2011 to 2016, inclusive, and to date in 2017; the number...
  • HSE Health Insurance Claims
    475. To ask the Minister for Health the body which is the insurer for the HSE; the amount of premium paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23219/17]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    476. To ask the Minister for Health if the priority of a neurology appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed following a further urgent referral; and...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    477. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels that should be in place in the urology department in St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and the current staffing levels in place....
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    478. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to provide a new permanent ambulance base at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; his plans to upgrade the temporary accommodation there; and if he...
  • Hospitals Capital Programme
    479. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the refurbishment works at Millstreet Community Hospital, Millstreet, County Cork; if he will provide a timeline for the commencement and...
  • Medical Card Data
    480. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card applications submitted in 2016 by persons diagnosed with cancer; the number of these persons who were granted full medical cards;...
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    481. To ask the Minister for Health the progress regarding the second breast surgeon consultant post at Letterkenny University Hospital; his plans to deploy and utilise the post on a cross-Border...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the Cork University Maternity Hospital gynaecological waiting list who have been receiving treatment through the National Treatment...
  • Health Promotion
    484. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the responsible serving of an organisation (details supplied); and the way in which its services could be utilised in order to promote...
  • Liquor Licensing Laws
    485. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance requiring licensed premises to have an alcohol serving policy as part of the licence renewal process; and if he...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
    486. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to include persons with asthma in the long-term illness scheme or another targeted scheme such as a chronic disease card in the context...
  • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
    487. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to drugs and alcohol task forces throughout the country in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he...
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    489. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date regarding the provision of primary care centres in Dublin South-West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23339/17]
  • National Drugs Strategy
    490. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the new national drugs strategy; when the strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23340/17]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    491. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the delays parents of children on the autism spectrum are experiencing in accessing child and adult mental health services over the past...
  • National Drugs Strategy
    492. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the word "alcohol" was not included in the title of the national drugs strategy, in view of the fact that alcohol was included in the remit of...

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