Written answers
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
- Narcolepsy Issues
300. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the St James's Hospital national narcolepsy service has been included in the Estimates 2018 process; and if he will make a statement on the... - Hospital Appointments Status
301. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51426/17] - Departmental Funding
303. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by his Department to each member of a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51439/17] - Bullying in the Workplace
305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints to an organisation (details supplied) regarding workplace bullying that were lodged by nursing and midwifery staff working in the... - Mental Health Services Provision
306. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide 24/7 mental health services in hospitals here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51455/17] - Services for People with Disabilities
307. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken on foot of a report (details supplied) into the care of a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51459/17] - Hospital Appointments Status
308. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); if this appointment will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51460/17] - Transport Support Scheme
310. To ask the Minister for Health when the new transport support scheme will be introduced for persons who require assistance in respect of the old motorised transport grant; and if he will... - Services for People with Disabilities
311. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken by a family (details supplied) that have received a rejection from the HSE early intervention team to access support for a person.... - Hospital Appointments Delays
312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting almost six months for a scan in St James's Hospital. [51480/17] - Hospital Staff Data
313. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in the maternity unit, St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, on 26 to 28 March 2016, by categories (details supplied). [51481/17] - Medical Qualifications
314. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 128 doctors who do not have full specialist training but are currently working in consultant posts as consultants in the health service as... - Nursing Education
315. To ask the Minister for Health the number of students per year from each of the six institutions (details supplied) that run the pre-registration direct entry midwifery degree who did not... - Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
316. To ask the Minister for Health the way an organisation (details supplied) is monitoring and documenting adherence to regulation by midwife registrants; and the penalties for midwife... - Dignity at Work
317. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times sanctions were applied for each of the years, 2012 to 2016, inclusive, by employers and related health care groups to midwives employed in... - Services for People with Disabilities
318. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an educational information officer to help an organisation (details supplied) with its work; and if he will make a statement on... - Hospital Appointments Administration
319. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for a person (details supplied) to attend routine appointments in St Vincent's University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on... - Hospital Staff
320. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given approval for additional ANPs for Letterkenny University Hospital emergency department in 2017; if it had requested additional ANPs; if they... - National Drugs Strategy
321. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be made available under the national drugs strategy to a group (details supplied) in order to allow its worker operate for four days... - Services for People with Disabilities
322. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a permanent speech and language therapist in place in the schools for the deaf in Dublin; and the reason a school (details supplied) does not have... - Primary Care Centres
323. To ask the Minister for Health when the new primary care and mental health services centre in Ballymote, County Sligo, will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51533/17] - Health Services
324. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51536/17] - Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure
325. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an organisation (details supplied) that represents 80% of service providers is not represented on the steering committee to oversee pricing in the... - Disability Services Funding
326. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide additional funding to an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact that this organisation only receives €50,000 per annum... - Alcohol Pricing
327. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the control of below cost selling of beer and spirits in the off licence and supermarket trade in efforts to change in the culture of... - Stroke Care
328. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to increase the number of stroke units; if so, the amount by which funding will be increased; the locations in which funding will be made available... - Hospital Appointments Status
329. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [51547/17] - Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
330. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the home support package for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51551/17] - Stroke Care
331. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to the development of a national stroke strategy with multi-annual funding; if and when preparatory work will be done on same;... - Services for People with Disabilities
332. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 746 of 7 November 2017, the name, the capacity, the date on which they were established and the aegis under which all... - Hospital Appointments Administration
333. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [51575/17] - Speech and Language Therapy Data
335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists in each HSE area in tabular form. [51584/17] - Nursing Staff Data
336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent public health nurses in each HSE area in tabular form. [51585/17] - Mental Health Services Data
337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years on waiting lists for an appointment with their local child and adolescent mental health team; and if he will make... - HSE Waiting Lists
343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for an initial assessment of need to determine severity of a condition or disability from the early intervention teams,... - Disability Services Provision
345. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be provided to the assessment of need office in north Dublin in view of the HSE acknowledgement that it receives the largest... - Medicinal Products Regulation
346. To ask the Minister for Health the persons who will be on the new drugs committee; the qualifications that make them experts in assessing medicines; and if he will make a statement on the... - Mental Health Services Provision
348. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 29 June 2017, the status of the review of a service (details supplied); the timeframe for the publication of this... - Orthodontic Services
349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the provision of braces for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51614/17] - Legislative Process
350. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 21 November 2017, the enforcement issues that have been identified with amendments to the Public Health (Alcohol)... - Cross-Border Health Services Provision
351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the Northern Ireland ambulance service attended to a call in the Border counties; the days on which it attended these incidents; the... - Hospital Beds Data
352. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 8 March 2017, the fully absorbed cost of 100 hospital beds over the course of a year, that is the number of... - HSE Expenditure
353. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE information technology budget for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51674/17] - Electronic Health Records
355. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been spent on the roll-out of electronic health records to date; the spend by year to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the... - Air Ambulance Service
357. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of purchasing one air ambulance helicopter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51678/17] - Hospital Appointments Status
359. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51757/17] - Homeless Accommodation Funding
360. To ask the Minister for Health the associated costs provided by his Department towards the funding one Housing First tenancy. [51772/17] - Ambulance Service
361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the responsibility of ambulance crews on the transportation of persons to and from their homes, for example their access and egress from the... - Hospital Appointments Administration
362. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with haemochromatosis can be treated in outpatient departments when suitable in order to save the €80 charge being imposed on persons when... - Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of various drugs rehabilitation organisations, clinics and other organisations funded by the HSE in the Dublin north-east area; the roles and... - Drug Treatment Programmes
364. To ask the Minister for Health his policy position on methadone; the number of organisations dispensing methadone; and the supports available and plans in place for those on methadone to... - Hospital Appointments Status
365. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51796/17] - Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
366. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the rare disease programme 2014 to 2018; and the details of the expected conclusion of same in 2018. [51797/17] - Electronic Cigarettes
367. To ask the Minister for Health if regulation 30 of Statutory Instrument 271 of 2016 allows retailers to stock electronic cigarettes and e-liquids that have the flavour labelled, for example... - Health Services Provision
368. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to provide long-term full-time care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51824/17] - General Practitioner Data
369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each LHO, in tabular form. [51825/17] - Disability Services Data
370. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide a copy of a report of all assessments of nursing requirements at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a... - Freedom of Information Data
371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which that were fully or partially granted; and the... - Health Services Funding
373. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to the Health Service Executive for the provision of hearing aids (details supplied). [51880/17] - Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
374. To ask the Minister for Health if children with Morquio syndrome who are in receipt of Vimizim will be able to remain on the drug into the future in view of the fact that they have been... - Sunbeds Regulation
375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of non-compliance with the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014 since its enactment; and the number of fixed payment notices served for... - Parking Charges
377. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the high prices of the official car park for Wexford General Hospital; the number of car parking spaces available at Wexford General... - Health Services Reform
378. To ask the Minister for Health if, in his review of Sláintecare, analysis of the longer term cost benefits of the ten-year plan to the health service is being conducted; if not, if the... - Services for People with Disabilities
379. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the decision not to provide funding applied for by an organisation (details supplied) for an education and information officer; and the... - Medical Card Applications
380. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will issue an updated medical card to a person (details supplied) following the person's change of general practitioner; and if he will make... - Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
381. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of funding for the drug Translarna for persons who need it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51930/17] - Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
382. To ask the Minister for Health the medical devices provided for children with disabilities on a medical card (details supplied). [51933/17] - Long Stay Residential Units
383. To ask the Minister for Health if a revised plan for St Joseph's Community Hospital has been submitted to the HSE's national social care division for approval; if the revised plan provides... - Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
387. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre glucose sensor and scanner will be made available to persons with diabetes under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a... - Hospital Beds Data
388. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 15 November 2017, the full complement of beds in St. Finbar's ward at Galway University Hospital; the number of... - National Maternity Strategy
389. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 15 November 2017, the position regarding staffing and facilities at the maternity ultrasound department at Galway... - Vaccination Programme
390. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to introducing a mandatory schools vaccinations programme. [51952/17] - Psychological Assessments
391. To ask the Minister for Health if children in second level education awaiting psychological assessment can avail of the cross-Border directive to access such an assessment; and if he will... - Hospital Appointments Status
392. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment at the ENT unit at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement... - Health Services Funding
393. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a centre (details supplied) is classified as a section 39 employment in view of the fact that it appears to be much more aligned with being a... - Hospital Appointments Status
394. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52021/17] - Hospital Consultant Recruitment
395. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an extra 500 hospital consultants; and the average estimated cost for support staff required per consultant. [52023/17] - Nursing Staff Recruitment
396. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 4,000 nursing staff. [52024/17] - Prescriptions Charges
397. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of abolishing prescription charges. [52025/17] - Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
398. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of reducing the drug payment threshold to €100. [52026/17] - Speech and Language Therapy Provision
399. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 speech and language therapists. [52027/17] - Occupational Therapy Staff
400. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 occupational therapists. [52028/17] - Physiotherapy Staff
401. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 physiotherapists. [52029/17] - Dental Services Staff
402. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 50 dental surgeons. [52030/17] - Ambulance Service Funding
403. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing an additional emergency ambulance fleet; and the full-year cost of additional personnel required for its staffing.... - Hospital Accommodation Provision
404. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 100 critical care beds. [52032/17] - Hospital Transfers
405. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital transfer for a person (details supplied) will be arranged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52048/17]
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