Written answers

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

  • Motorised Transport Grant
    630. To ask the Minister for Health when the motorised transport grant will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14982/18]
  • Food Labelling
    631. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland is confined to only EU regulations on nutritional labelling or if there is scope for member states to introduce further minimum standards in respect...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of students in preschool facilities, primary level and second level, respectively, who are awaiting an assessment of need in each county in tabular...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    633. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15650/18]
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    634. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reversal of the Haddington Road agreement under the financial emergency measures (details supplied). [15658/18]
  • Motorised Transport Grant
    635. To ask the Minister for Health if a motorised vehicle grant for persons with disabilities which was discontinued a number of years ago will be reintroduced; and if he will make a statement...
  • Health Services Staff
    636. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychotherapists employed on full-time permanent contracts by the HSE nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14944/18]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    639. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the large discrepancies in fees payable to the HSE and private nursing homes under the fair deal scheme in County Wexford;...
  • Hospital Equipment
    640. To ask the Minister for Health if each of the 12 hospitals which had the a fetal monitor (details supplied) in use will be reviewed individually to ascertain if safety was compromised at...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    642. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14958/18]
  • Hospital Overcrowding
    643. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to find interim solutions to the overcrowding in the emergency department at University Hospital, Limerick; if modular units are under consideration;...
  • Hospital Charges
    644. To ask the Minister for Health if patients that spend the entirety of their stay at a hospital on a trolley are subject to the €80 levy; the revenue that was raised from this levy in...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    645. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they will receive a hospital appointment. [14966/18]
  • HSE Staff Data
    646. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 276 of 8 March 2018, the name, title, level and division of each person within the HSE's management structure of CHO5,...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    647. To ask the Minister for Health if home supports will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14988/18]
  • General Practitioner Training
    649. To ask the Minister for Health the number by which the specialist training scheme in general practice was over or under subscribed in each of the past ten years; the number of places in each...
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    650. To ask the Minister for Health the health or other benefits of cigarettes versus nicotine reducing cigarettes (details supplied) or vaping; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Staff Data
    651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic procedures in the public system that were carried out by a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and their team (details supplied) at...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting and the length of time they have been waiting for an appointment with an orthopaedic surgeon (details supplied) at University...
  • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
    654. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to the various drugs and alcohol taskforce groups nationally since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15010/18]
  • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
    657. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the misuse of drugs within the Traveller community; the steps that have been taken to deal with this matter; the additional resources that have...
  • Drugs-related Deaths
    658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the increasing number of drug related deaths and suicides taking place in south-west County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    660. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [15021/18]
  • General Practitioner Contracts
    661. To ask the Minister for Health the status of reforms to the general practitioner contract in view of his recent public statement committing to same. [15030/18]
  • General Medical Services Scheme Data
    663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with a medical card in County Louth assigned to a general practitioner by the HSE having been unable to find a general practitioner...
  • Medical Card Data
    675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth who hold a medical card and a general practitioner only card, respectively. [15044/18]
  • Medical Card Applications
    676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth awaiting a decision on a medical card application. [15045/18]
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    677. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment for over three years can expect to secure treatment; and if he will...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    678. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a leg brace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15063/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    679. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15064/18]
  • Occupational Therapy
    680. To ask the Minister for Health if an occupational therapy assessment required for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; if the required services will be implemented following this...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    681. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be made for a person (details supplied). [15086/18]
  • Hospital Services
    682. To ask the Minister for Health if the contract for dialysis services in County Kilkenny is being put out for tender; the length of time the current operator was reviewed over the past four...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility
    683. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include outpatient, CAMHS and child psychology appointments to be converted under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in order to address...
  • Respite Care Services Data
    687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of respite care offered to families of children with disabilities provided by each of the local health offices in each community healthcare...
  • Home Care Packages Data
    689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages provided by each of the local health offices in each community healthcare organisation area in each of the years 2012 to 2017...
  • Dental Services
    690. To ask the Minister for Health if a dental service (details supplied) is to close; if so, the location to which existing clients will be directed; his views on whether this is best practice...
  • Hospital Staff
    691. To ask the Minister for Health the person providing anaesthesiology services at Bantry General Hospital; the location at which he or she is based; the level of specialist training he or she...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    692. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15132/18]
  • Respite Care Services
    693. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding to provide respite care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15134/18]
  • Health Services Provision
    694. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the delays in developmental appointments for babies in the Ballymun health care facility; and the detail of the nurse shortage...
  • Respite Care Services
    695. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the serious funding issues at an organisation (details supplied) at which an extensive waiting list for all forms of respite...
  • Health Services Access
    696. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment of need for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15144/18]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    697. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to publish the review of pricing system for long-term residential care facilities as per recommendations made within the review of the fair deal...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    698. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15149/18]
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    699. To ask the Minister for Health when COPD will be made a long-term disease in order that persons with same will be entitled to access the long-term illness book; and if he will make a...
  • Counselling Services Provision
    700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents in County Mayo receiving counselling and services from CAMHS; the number of staff who are providing these services in...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    701. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15159/18]
  • Hospital Admissions
    702. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15160/18]
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund Payments
    703. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding per patient under the NTPF for a facility (details supplied) in County Cork; and if there will be an increase in the NTPF payment. [15170/18]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    704. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his Department in those...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    705. To ask the Minister for Health if the long delays for operations and outpatient appointments in the urology department in St James's Hospital (details supplied) will be examined. [15214/18]
  • Hospital Accommodation Provision
    706. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding being provided in the 2018 health budget to open the 28 additional inpatient beds in University Galway Hospital; when these beds will be...
  • Home Care Packages Data
    707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of winter home care packages provided during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively, by county and in tabular form. [15221/18]
  • Health Services Data
    711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of transitional care beds provided during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively, by county and in tabular form. [15225/18]
  • Diabetes Strategy
    713. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 27 February 2018, when the tender process will be completed and a contractor appointed in view of the fact that...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    720. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15250/18]
  • Hospital Procedures
    722. To ask the Minister for Health the status of work within his Department to address the concerns of persons affected by the use of mesh implants; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
    723. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a task force (details supplied) has been without a co-ordinator for some time and this is affecting the...
  • Pharmacy Services
    724. To ask the Minister for Health the direction he plans to give the HSE in relation to a matter (details supplied); when the instruction will be given; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    725. To ask the Minister for Health the overtime rate for interns in each hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15276/18]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    726. To ask the Minister for Health the counties that do not take emergency primary care psychology appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15284/18]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    727. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Versatis plasters and patches are not covered by the medical card. [15290/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    728. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a surgical procedure for a person (details supplied); if a date for this appointment will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    729. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in finding a replacement for a person (details supplied) who has retired; if there is a start date for a new consultant; the steps he...
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    730. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 26 September 2017 and further to a request made by the HSE to the islands division to acquire an identified site...
  • Mental Health Services Staff
    731. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstitute the position of a full time psychiatric nurse at the health centre in Easkey, County Sligo in view of the inadequacy of the health...
  • Emergency Planning
    733. To ask the Minister for Health the reason health centres in west County Sligo were told by the HSE not to provide dinners in the centres to old and vulnerable persons during Storm Emma; and...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    734. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of nursing home owners in relation to the disparity of fees payable under the fair deal scheme between HSE and...
  • Health Services Provision
    735. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE are examining ways to ensure that persons with conditions such as multiple sclerosis, MS, have timely access to life changing...
  • General Medical Services Scheme
    736. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many general practitioners' practices particularly in the north County Dublin area are charging persons with...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    737. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to extend the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system to the entire population for persons with type 1 diabetes on the long-term illness...
  • Mental Health Services Data
    738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, area who were awaiting a child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS appointment...
  • Mental Health Services Expenditure
    740. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of agency fees spent within mental health services from June 2017 to December 2017 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15338/18]
  • Legislative Measures
    742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission in each of...
  • Hospital Procedures
    743. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a procedure for a person (details supplied) took much longer than usual; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15358/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    744. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Tallaght Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15359/18]
  • Hospital Facilities
    745. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the laundry department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; the short to medium term plans for the department; and if he will...
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    747. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 28 March 2018, the future of the provision of this service at Sligo University Hospital beyond 2019; the reason...
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    748. To ask the Minister for Health the status on the provision of respite care in County Louth following the recent HSE forum held to include the recommendations from key stakeholders and...
  • Hospital Car Parks
    749. To ask the Minister for Health the process of the recently announced review of hospital car park charges; the estimated date of completion and other details that relate to same; and if he...
  • Medical Card Data
    750. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the fact that the charges imposed on medical card holders by some general practitioners for the completion of forms such as a driver...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    751. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre monitoring system will be made available under reimbursement to children with type 1 diabetes who receive insulin from an insulin pump...
  • Health Services Staff
    753. To ask the Minister for Health further to a deferred reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 444 and 452 of 27 February 2018 by the HSE (details supplied), if a further breakdown of the table...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    754. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to access for all type 1 diabetes patients to the FreeStyle Libre device under the reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Staff Grades
    755. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time staff at AP level working in his Department's mental health unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15435/18]
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    756. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to his Department's mental health unit in 2017; the funding spent by the unit in 2017; the 2018 budgetary allocation to the unit in terms...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    757. To ask the Minister for Health the draft legislation, law or policy that each AP in his Department's mental health unit has worked on during 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Staff Grades
    759. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at AP level working in his Department by actual numbers and whole-time equivalents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15439/18]
  • Health Services Provision
    760. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Alzheimer’s unit located in a day centre (details supplied) in Dublin 15; his views on concerns that the HSE is planning to cut funds...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
    761. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues with regard to the fair deal scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15455/18]
  • Hospital Services
    762. To ask the Minister for Health when the consultation process being conducted by his Department in respect of the delivery of clinical services at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise,...
  • General Practitioner Services Provision
    763. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of general practitioners here with particular reference to the lack of same in the Fingal area of County Dublin; and the strategies in...
  • Palliative Care Services Provision
    765. To ask the Minister for Health if palliative care in the home will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15475/18]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    766. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to reduce the lead-in time for reimbursement of a new medicine by the HSE in order to ensure speedy access to new and effective...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15491/18]
  • Abortion Services Provision
    768. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with the representative organisations representing general practitioners regarding his proposal to deliver a general practitioner led...
  • Liostaí Feithimh Ospidéal
    771. To ask the Minister for Health cad é an t-am feithimh le haghaidh coinne ag clinic cluas, sróine agus scornaí na n-othar seachtrach in Ospidéal an Mater. [15576/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    772. To ask the Minister for Health if treatment will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15578/18]
  • Hospital Facilities
    774. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has received an application to provide a modular catheterisation laboratory at WRH; his plans to provide funding for such a...
  • Health Services
    775. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to resolve the issues raised by the family of a person (details supplied) regarding the care of the person and the high level of medication the...
  • Pharmacy Services
    776. To ask the Minister for Health the reason pharmacists are obliged to ask patients to return weekly to collect regular medication when it is deemed necessary for safety and compliance reasons...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    777. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [15593/18]
  • Medicinal Products Prices
    779. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a difference which exists in the cost of medications purchased on prescription through the drug payment scheme and the same medication purchased...
  • Health Services
    781. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an information campaign on the contribution calcification testing could play in reducing the incidence of heart attacks; and if he will...
  • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
    782. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide cannabis-based medicine for epilepsy under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15606/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who failed to attend new and review hospital appointments in 2017, by hospital; if this was an increase or decrease in numbers from 2016...
  • Health Services Funding
    784. To ask the Minister for Health the approved annual budget of Cavan-Monaghan HSE and Meath-Louth HSE; and the amount spent by Cavan-Monaghan HSE and Meath-Louth HSE on transport for patient...
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    785. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that decades of underinvestment in neurological services has resulted in Ireland having the lowest ratio of...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    786. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to create multidisciplinary centres to help in the management of neurological conditions such as Huntington's disease and advanced Alzheimer's; and...
  • Hospital Services
    787. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 20 March 2018, the current position with the development of the neurolink service at St. Vincent's University...
  • Health Services Provision
    789. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 20 March 2018, the stage the development of nurse-led clinics is at; the geographical spread of the clinics; and...
  • National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019
    791. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010–2019, in tabular form. [15626/18]
  • Health Services Funding
    792. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided in each year since 2010 for the implementation of the national cardiovascular health policy, in tabular form. [15627/18]
  • Hospital Services
    793. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals providing cardiac rehabilitation, in tabular form. [15628/18]
  • Hospital Staff
    794. To ask the Minister for Health if all hospital cardiac units have positions (details supplied); and if not, the positions unfilled in each hospital cardiac unit, in tabular form. [15629/18]
  • Hospital Services
    795. To ask the Minister for Health the status of cataract treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/18]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    796. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the dedicated cystic fibrosis unit at Beaumont Hospital; when this unit will be completed and fully operational; and if he will make a statement...
  • Proposed Legislation
    797. To ask the Minister for Health when the Human Body Organs and Human Tissue Bill 2008 will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15636/18]
  • Hospital Services
    798. To ask the Minister for Health when the seven pre and post transplant rooms in the Mater hospital will be operational and fully staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15637/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Delays
    799. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) is waiting for an operation; the reason for the delay in a hospital appointment;...
  • Maternity Services
    800. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations that have been fully implemented and yet to be fully implemented, respectively, of the total of 33 recommendations that were made in three...
  • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
    801. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1077 of 11 September 2017, the status of the establishment of a registration board for regulation of counsellors and...
  • Hospital Services
    802. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parlimanetary Question No. 453 of 30 May 2017, if autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation treatment for multiple sclerosis will be made...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    804. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed at Portiuncula hospital, Ballinasloe. [15662/18]
  • Emergency Departments Data
    808. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department attendances in each of the years 2009 to 2017, and to date in 2018, at Portiuncula hospital, Ballinasloe. [15666/18]
  • Hospital Beds Data
    809. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [15667/18]
  • Emergency Departments Data
    810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on hospital trolleys in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018 at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe. [15668/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    811. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient hospital cancellations at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [15669/18]
  • Hospitals Data
    812. To ask the Minister for Health the spending on agency staff at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2009 to 2017. [15670/18]
  • Hospital Transfers
    813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients outsourced from Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe to other hospitals in each of the years 2009 to 2017; the speciality concerned in each...
  • Hospitals Expenditure
    814. To ask the Minister for Health the annual operational spend at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2009 to 2017. [15672/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting up to three months for a CT scan at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [15674/18]
  • Hospitals Data
    826. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures cancelled in which a patient did not attend for Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2009 to 2017....
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    827. To ask the Minister for Health if a text alert system to remind patients of their upcoming appointment is in place at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway. [15685/18]
  • Hospitals Data
    828. To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatres and operational theatres at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2009 to 2017. [15686/18]
  • Hospital Facilities
    829. To ask the Minister for Health the status of all theatres at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway. [15687/18]
  • Patient Data
    830. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons placed in nursing homes who were patients at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [15688/18]
  • Hospital Procedures
    831. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiology examinations and procedures carried out at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2011 to 2017. [15689/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on outpatient waiting lists at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; and the procedure and associated waiting times involved....
  • Hospital Car Parks
    833. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money collected through parking charges at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [15691/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    834. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for scans at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in 2017. [15692/18]
  • Health Care Professionals
    835. To ask the Minister for Health if members of an association (details supplied) are recognised to gain employment with the HSE; if not, the reason therefore; if they will be recognised once...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    836. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff on sick leave at University Hospital Kerry; the amount it is costing to agency backfill as a consequence of this leave; and if he will make...
  • Patient Data
    840. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons registered with coronary arterial disease and peripheral arterial disease around the country; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • General Practitioner Data
    844. To ask the Minister for Health the amount a general practitioner receives per annum for each category of a general practitioner card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15710/18]
  • Occupational Therapy Provision
    845. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will have an assessment by an occupational therapist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15720/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    846. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15721/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    849. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the serious increase in hospital waiting lists over the past seven years; if his Department is making proposals to the...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    850. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of children disability teams under the progressing children disability services report; if managers have been appointed to...
  • HSE Reports
    851. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to receive the HSE review of section 39 organisations and be in a position to lay the review before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    852. To ask the Minister for Health the additional staffing resources that will be provided at a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15755/18]
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    857. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with respite or long-term care. [15783/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    859. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a MRI in Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [15785/18]
  • Primary Care Centres
    860. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the closure of the Dunleer health centre is due to health and safety concerns or a lack of infrastructural investment in the centre over...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    862. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for cataract surgery in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. [15809/18]
  • Home Help Service Provision
    863. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help hours can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15825/18]
  • Hospitals Data
    864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of colonoscopy procedures performed in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in each public hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    865. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who has been waiting over two years and three months for a MRI can be seen under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    866. To ask the Minister for Health when construction will commence in Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; the expected completion date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15845/18]
  • Health Services Data
    867. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for assessment for occupational therapy and speech and language therapy in County Kildare; the measures that will be taken to end same; and...
  • Hospitals Data
    868. To ask the Minister for Health the thrombolysis rates in each hospital providing the service here in each of the years 2011 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • General Practitioner Contracts
    869. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the difference being quoted by his Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the HSE and organisations (details supplied) as...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    870. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of an electric powered wheelchair will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15853/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    871. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the high waiting list for ENT assessments in County Cork; if the replacement consultant has been appointed following the...
  • Prescriptions Charges
    872. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 13 March 2014, when persons will be fully reimbursed for prescription charges as a result of the then Minister's...
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    873. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment for some time can expect to secure treatment; and if he will make a...
  • Psychological Services
    874. To ask the Minister for Health if increased funding and necessary resources will be available to deal with the significant waiting lists for psychology treatment for young persons in view of...
  • Medicinal Products Licensing
    875. To ask the Minister for Health when the demand for PD-L1 biological markers in the licensing of Pembrolizumab by the HSE will be removed for patients suffering from lung cancer; and if he...
  • Community Pharmacy Services
    877. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of continuous glucose monitoring for all type 1 diabetics and not just persons under 18 years of age will be considered; and if he will make a...
  • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
    878. To ask the Minister for Health if cannabis based medicines will be made available to terminal lung cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15907/18]
  • Abortion Services Provision
    879. To ask the Minister for Health if a costed plan has been made by his Department for the potential number of abortions that will take place here if the eighth amendment is repealed; and if he...
  • Medicinal Products Prices
    881. To ask the Minister for Health if information is kept on the varying cost of emergency contraception; his views on establishing a maximum price; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Emergency Departments Services
    882. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline on the deployment of the modular unit project at South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel, County Tipperary. [15921/18]
  • Health Services Funding
    885. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be granted to a day care centre (details supplied) for two full-time staff members to meet its obligations under health and safety legislation;...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    886. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Entresto has been withdrawn from the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15933/18]
  • Disabilities Data
    887. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children diagnosed with dyspraxia in each county in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [15934/18]
  • Disability Diagnoses
    888. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body responsible within the public health service for the diagnosis of children with dyspraxia; and the desired length of time that the process...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    889. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be issued to a person (details supplied); and the steps whichh will be taken to ensure the appointment is maintained. [15982/18]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    890. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he must take to make the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor available to all persons with diabetes based on clinical need at the discretion of their...
  • Disability Services Provision
    891. To ask the Minister for Health when an early intervention team service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for the delay in providing the service; his...
  • Vaccination Programme Data
    892. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination rates for vaccines (details supplied) in each of the years 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    893. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of funding in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be expedited. [15992/18]
  • Respite Care Services Availability
    894. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in north County Cork who avail of respite care have been advised that their respite care is being...
  • Respite Care Grant Eligibility
    895. To ask the Minister for Health if an allowance can be made available to a person (details supplied) for respite care. [15994/18]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    896. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 417 of 3 October 2017, if all persons with type 1 diabetes irrespective of age will be able to avail of the FreeStyle Libre glucose...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    897. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts that have been made by the HSE to fill the medical officer position at St. Patrick's Community Hospital, Fermoy, County Cork. [16001/18]
  • Health Services Provision
    898. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a specific HSE service (details supplied) is being withdrawn from north County Cork; and his plans to ensure...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    899. 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. [16005/18]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    900. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who is currently attending an autism unit until May 2018 will be provided with a replacement service prior to this date; and if...
  • Mobility Allowance
    901. To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement scheme for the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant will be announced; the remaining steps that need to be taken in order to...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    902. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16015/18]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    904. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring systems for diabetics;...
  • Physiotherapy Provision
    905. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of physiotherapy service on a school age disability team based in Dublin 8; and if the case of a person (details...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    906. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in CUMH for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16030/18]
  • EU Directives
    907. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a proposal (details supplied); his plans to implement same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16032/18]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    908. To ask the Minister for Health his views on queries raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the provision of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system; and if he will make...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    909. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which a condition is included on the long-term illness list; the previous occasion on which an additional condition was included on the list;...
  • Hospital Services
    911. To ask the Minister for Health the action taken by the HSE to address issues outlined (details supplied) by the general manager of University Hospital Waterford in correspondence dated 19...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    912. To ask the Minister for Health if medical cards will be issued to all persons with haemochromatosis based on their needs and requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    913. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre blood glucose monitor will be made available based on clinical need for all persons with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a...
  • Hospitals Expenditure
    914. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 961 of 16 January 2018 and 419 of 6 February 2018, the position regarding the consideration by HSE estates at the HSE...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
    915. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor; and if he will make a statement...
  • EU Directives
    916. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s discussions with an association (details supplied) regarding the approval of amendments with respect to the...
  • Commencement of Legislation
    917. To ask the Minister for Health the technical and legal issues which require clarification to allow Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Families Relationship Act 2015 to be commenced; the...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    918. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 12 December 2017, the status of his plans for the HSE to fund PrEP in view of the fact that these drugs became...
  • Health Services
    919. To ask the Minister for Health if opticians that provide eye tests for children between the ages of eight and 16 that are the holders of medical cards are entitled to claim a reimbursement...
  • Rape Crisis Network Funding
    920. To ask the Minister for Health if funds will be available to facilitate the creation of a rape crisis outreach centre in Navan, County Meath (details supplied)....
  • Respite Care Services
    921. To ask the Minister for Health if a building (details supplied) for respite services will be included in the commissioning of respite houses in 2018 in view of the fact that a section 39...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    922. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor is not being made available to persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a...
  • Dental Services Waiting Lists
    923. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment for dental surgery at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. [16136/18]
  • Hospitals Funding
    924. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a funding request for a hospital (details supplied); when he expects the request to be answered; the reason it has yet to be answered in view of...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    925. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be placed in adult services. [16154/18]
  • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
    926. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the women's refuge in Rathgar has been closed; his plans to re-open same; his further plans to open other women's refuges in the Dublin...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    927. To ask the Minister for Health if home help will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16161/18]
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    928. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to extend the general practitioner visit card scheme to persons in receipt of carer's allowance as announced in December 2017; and if he will...
  • Primary Care Centres
    930. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has invited tenders for the sale of the old Keadue health centre, County Roscommon; the position regarding this issue; and if he will make a...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    931. To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours which have been allocated but have not been filled will be filled in the case of a person (details supplied). [16196/18]
  • National Children's Hospital
    932. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body with which responsibility for the children’s hospital parking arrangements currently resides; the reason there is a recent survey of...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    933. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is awaiting an operation in Tallaght Hospital; the length of time the person is waiting for an appointment date for the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    934. To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) will receive an ENT clinic appointment in Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16200/18]
  • Mental Health Services Data
    936. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals of persons in County Wexford to the department of psychiatry in Newcastle Hospital in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of...
  • Hospitals Data
    937. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations which have been cancelled in the past year in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, and Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, due to beds...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    938. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a business case prepared for the proposed redevelopment of a facility (details supplied) for adults with disabilities in County Donegal; when the...
  • Health Services Provision
    939. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further expand specialised hospital supports and increase specialist staff for persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; and if not, if resources will...
  • Hospital Procedures
    940. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting for surgery while receiving chemotherapy; and when this operation will be expedited. [16247/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    943. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16261/18]
  • Disability Services Provision
    944. To ask the Minister for Health when a full residential place will be provided for a person (details supplied). [16235/18]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    945. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make FreeStyle Libre glucose monitors available to all persons with diabetes based on clinical need at the discretion of their diabetes consultant...
  • Vaccination Programme
    946. To ask the Minister for Health the training programmes provided by his Department to general practitioners in detecting adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine; the directive under which...
  • Vaccination Programme Data
    947. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine reported by general practitioners to the HPRA in each of the years 2011 to 2017; and if he will make a...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    948. To ask the Minister for Health if the income limits for persons over 70 years of age will be increased in order for them to receive a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Medical Card Data
    949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 70 years of age who are in receipt of a full medical card; the number of persons over 70 years of age in receipt of a general...
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    950. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in providing primary care centres in Clondalkin and Lucan villages by means of a public private partnership; and if he will make a...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    952. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the allocation of €55 million in 2018 to fund the National Treatment Purchase Fund to address waiting lists; the amount of this...
  • National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019
    953. To ask the Minister for Health if changes are being proposed to the national cardiovascular health policy; if reconfiguration of services is being carried out or proposed; if all hospitals...
  • Service Level Agreements
    954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of service level agreements that exist between the HSE and religious orders to deliver services; the nature of services delivered by order and...
  • Mental Health Policy
    955. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a redress scheme for persons who were forcibly committed by the State prior to the enactment of the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services
    957. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of issues in regard to a service (details supplied) in County Cork. [16373/18]
  • Maternity Services Provision
    958. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of 20-week anomaly scans for all expectant mothers at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [16374/18]
  • General Practitioner Data
    959. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners required based on the population of a town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16377/18]
  • HSE Properties
    960. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the refurbishment to the HSE-owned property on Drogheda Street, Monasterevin, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Parliamentary Questions
    962. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 5 December 2017, the reason it took his Department from 27 November 2017 until 5 March 2018 to provide a reply to...
  • Medical Register Administration
    963. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to address the issue of doctors working in hospitals as consultants who are not on the Medical Council’s specialist register as...
  • HSE Data
    964. To ask the Minister for Health when work on the redevelopment of sites (details supplied) will commence; the number of beds in operation at the facilities; the number of beds to be made...
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    965. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the development of a proposed new primary care centre to serve the Laytown and Bettystown areas of County Meath; the amount spent...
  • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
    966. To ask the Minister for Health when work on the development of the new public nursing home facility at St. Brigid's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth, will commence; the number of long-term...
  • Birth Certificates Administration
    967. To ask the Minister for Health if after implementation through the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017, a partner in a same-sex relationship and parent to a child who was born before the...
  • Departmental Staff Redeployment
    968. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase staff numbers in the cross-border directive office in view of the volume of applications it is receiving; if applications can be...
  • Ambulance Service Data
    969. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances and crews covering Sligo town throughout the day on a 24-hour basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16401/18]
  • Ambulance Service Provision
    974. To ask the Minister for Health when additional ambulances and crews will be made available to County Sligo and Sligo town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16406/18]
  • Ambulance Service Data
    975. To ask the Minister for Health the geographical areas of County Sligo and Sligo town ambulances and crews cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16407/18]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    976. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be offered comprehensive services from CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16420/18]
  • Departmental Staff Data
    977. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers will be offered...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    978. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre device which will assist in their health...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    980. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be called for a medical procedure. [16468/18]
  • Disease Management
    981. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement a similar practice to that in Germany for the detection and treatment of Lyme disease; his further plans to improve follow up care...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    982. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Ocrelizumeb will be approved for MS sufferers here (details supplied). [16504/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    983. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that more than 900 children are on the waiting list for three years in Crumlin children’s hospital to be...
  • Paediatric Services
    984. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend or abolish the terms of loco parentis in paediatric home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16517/18]
  • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
    987. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision on their application to the Cross Border Directive for reimbursement of expenses for...
  • Paediatric Services
    988. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Primary Care Steering Group (details supplied); the status of the abolition of the loco parentis clause in paediatrics homecare packages; and...
  • Disease Management
    989. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 174 of 14 December 2016 and 227 of 24 May 2017, the status of the work of the Lyme borreliosis subcommittee; his plans...
  • Protected Disclosures
    990. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the refusal by the management at Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross to accept a protected disclosure from members of its...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    991. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for additional hours of home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16599/18]
  • Home Care Packages Provision
    992. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package awarded to a person (details supplied) will be put in place. [16601/18]
  • Disabilities Assessments
    993. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an assessment of needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16603/18]
  • Mental Health Services Data
    995. To ask the Minister for Health the number of minors under 18 years of age in adult psychiatric units by CHO in January, February and March 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Beds Data
    996. To ask the Minister for Health the bed capacity numbers allocated for minors under 18 years of age by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16614/18]
  • Mental Health Services Data
    997. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for minors under 18 years of age to be admitted to age-appropriate mental health facilities by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Overcrowding
    998. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons between 80 and 90 years of age who have been on trolleys by CHO for periods of up to 6, 12, 24 and in excess of 24 hours in...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    1000. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been approved for a powerchair for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if so, when funding will issue; and if he will make a...
  • Disease Awareness
    1003. To ask the Minister for Health when the Lyme disease subcommittee of the scientific advisory committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, will publish its report on the...
  • Hospital Transfers
    1004. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays in the intra-hospital transfer of a person (details supplied) requiring urgent treatment in the hospital they...
  • Health Services Staff Data
    1005. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community ophthalmic physicians, orthoptists, nurses and administration staff assigned to primary care eye services in each local health office...
  • Waste Disposal
    1006. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is statutorily obliged to assess and monitor the risk to human health should An Bord Pleanála approve a company's (details supplied)...
  • Health Services Staff Data
    1007. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric rheumatologists and associated staff teams by hospital and location; his plans to increase the number in this regard; if his...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    1008. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are on the waiting list for two years of more in all children's hospitals waiting for a diagnosis and treatment for juvenile...
  • Home Help Service Data
    1009. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed as home help by the HSE in counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly at the end of each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018;...
  • Disease Management
    1010. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons with Lyme disease. [16651/18]
  • Legislative Reviews
    1011. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the Mental Health Act 2001 in regard to the recommendations by the expert group review of the Mental Health Act 2001 in 2015; and if he will...
  • Hospital Services
    1012. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 20 March 2018, the reason for the high number of cancellations in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in the...
  • Nursing Staff Recruitment
    1015. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of measures in place to recruit and retain highly skilled nurses here and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Suicide Prevention
    1016. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated for the provision of applied suicide intervention skills training, ASIST, courses; the number of such courses held to date since January...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    1018. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to resolve the underfunding of child and adolescent mental health services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Delays
    1019. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16721/18]
  • Home Care Packages
    1020. To ask the Minister for Health if the abolition of the in loco parentis clause with regard to paediatric home care packages will be reviewed. [16724/18]
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    1021. To ask the Minister for Health if he with the HSE will secure an additional paediatric rheumatologist for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, in view of the fact that there are over...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    1022. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding parent representation on the HSE primary care steering group for children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Orthodontic Services Provision
    1024. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have orthodontic treatment carried out. [16736/18]
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    1025. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents in Cork city and County Cork on a waiting list for orthodontic assessment and orthodontic treatment, respectively; the...
  • Health Services Provision
    1026. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the necessary steps can be undertaken with a view to early diagnosis in the case of a person (details supplied); if arrangements will be...
  • Health Services
    1027. To ask the Minister for Health the status of works planned for a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16754/18]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
    1028. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16756/18]
  • Emergency Departments Data
    1030. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department new attendances at Cavan General Hospital in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018 in tabular form; and if he...
  • General Practitioner Services Provision
    1031. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of the proposed out-of-hours general practitioner service for north County Wicklow; if a service provider has been selected; the...
  • Disease Incidence
    1032. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to research conducted by the HSE to ascertain the prevalence of sickle cell disease in the State; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Provision
    1033. To ask the Minister for Health the system the HSE has in place to enable it to deal with persons living with sickle cell disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16775/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    1034. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on outpatient waiting lists in each of the years 1999 to 2010, in tabular form. [16776/18]
  • Hospital Charges
    1036. To ask the Minister for Health if the imposition of the €80 charge on sufferers of haemochromatosis will be reconsidered in view of the impact it is having on persons requiring...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1039. 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. [16819/18]

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