Written answers

Tuesday, 10 July 2018

  • Services for People with Disabilities
    370. To ask the Minister for Health if transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) to attend a facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30116/18]
  • Legislative Reviews
    371. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Anatomy Act 1832; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30615/18]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    372. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the implementation of the national framework for recovery in mental health 2018-2020 to date; the indicators being used to monitor the progress...
  • Motorised Transport Grant
    373. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reinstating the mobility allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30822/18]
  • Departmental Staff Recruitment
    375. To ask the Minister for Health the basis upon which public sector recruitment may be restricted to existing staff, including the basis for the common recruitment competition pools operated...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    376. To ask the Minister for Health when and the way in which an organisation (details supplied) decided not to provide therapies in a school in view of the fact it received funding to do so; and...
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    379. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for orthodontic treatment. [30021/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    380. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; the reason for the delay in issuing a date for the procedure; if the person can undergo...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    381. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times in respect of prostatectomy procedures across all the relevant hospitals in the Saolta University Healthcare group; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    382. To ask the Minister for Health the consultant urologist vacancies across all hospitals in the Saolta University Healthcare group; the length of time for which these posts have been vacant;...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    383. To ask the Minister for Health if persons under 18 years of age will be able to access personalised budgets in the demonstration project in view of the recommendations by the Task Force on...
  • Hospital Services
    384. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the decision to provide a new modular cardio cath lab service for Waterford University Hospital has been made before the national cath lab report...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    385. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in order to facilitate the purchase of medically essential cooling equipment for their home. [30036/18]
  • Hospital Staff
    386. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be relocated to the palliative care unit of a hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30037/18]
  • Hospital Investigations
    387. To ask the Minister for Health the anonymised details of all disciplinary actions which have taken place or are planned in response to or relevant to patient safety incidents in maternity...
  • Patient Safety
    388. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patient safety incidents which have taken place; the number which have resulted disciplinary actions in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to the...
  • General Practitioner Services
    389. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding general practitioners charging medical card holders for blood tests; and if persons are not required to pay for the service, the way in...
  • Emergency Departments Staff
    390. To ask the Minister for Health the recommended staff to patient ratio for emergency departments; the ratio for same at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Emergency Departments Services
    391. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions being made to address the overcrowding in the emergency department at University Hospital Kerry. [30051/18]
  • Hospital Procedures
    392. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries carried out on intersex infants in 2017 in Crumlin Hospital to align the infant's genitals with chromosomal sex. [30053/18]
  • Medical Card Applications
    393. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a medical card application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30057/18]
  • Health Services Provision
    394. To ask the Minister for Health if all health services provided in a practice (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be maintained. [30059/18]
  • Maternity Services
    395. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recommendations that have been made in internal and external reviews of maternity services in each maternity hospital for the past ten years;...
  • General Practitioner Services Provision
    397. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioner cards will be extended to all carers in receipt of the respite care support grant. [30066/18]
  • Health Services Provision
    398. To ask the Minister for Health if panic buttons and personal alarms will be made available to persons under 65 years of age who are vulnerable and require 24/7 care. [30067/18]
  • Medicinal Products Expenditure
    399. To ask the Minister for Health the level of drugs expenditure in the health budget in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and the percentage of the health budget spent on...
  • Emergency Departments Staff
    402. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions being made to address the staff shortages in the emergency department at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    403. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the transitional care funding works, which funding is in place to bridge the gap in the interim for fair deal applicants who are occupying a...
  • Health Screening Programmes
    404. To ask the Minister for Health his policy in regard to sickle cell disease; his plans to fund a national screening programme to detect children affected by the disease; his plans to found...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    405. To ask the Minister for Health if the proceeds of the sale of a site (details supplied) will be invested in mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30109/18]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    406. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the capacity and or number of beds for forensic patients beyond the 3.5 per 100,000 envisioned for the new forensic mental health...
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision
    407. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which CAMHS patients will be treated within the new forensic mental health hospital to replace the Central Mental Hospital; if these patients will...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    408. To ask the Minister for Health if transport services will be provided for a person (details supplied) to attend a facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30114/18]
  • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
    410. To ask the Minister for Health if an issue of cross-Corder healthcare for a person (details supplied) will be addressed and clarified; if they have a right to equality of treatment which...
  • Disability Services Provision
    411. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of 12 dedicated respite houses announced on 12 December 2017 (details supplied). [30127/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    412. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the 12 children on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery who have had their cases and surgeries suspended; if his attention...
  • Disability Support Services
    413. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied); the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30141/18]
  • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
    414. To ask the Minister for Health if expert advice or data, including existing and or projected costings to the Constitutional Convention in the context of its consideration of Article 41.2...
  • Disability Services Provision
    415. To ask the Minister for Health the CHOs that have established a residents’ council, family forum, service user panel or equivalent for disability services. [30153/18]
  • Disability Services Data
    416. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential places for persons with a disability being provided by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30154/18]
  • Home Help Service Provision
    429. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours delivered to persons with a disability to date in 2018 by CHO area in tabular form [30167/18]
  • Disability Services Provision
    431. To ask the Minister for Health when the task force on personalised budgets will report. [30169/18]
  • Disability Diagnoses
    432. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005 at the end of June 2018 or latest date available by local health...
  • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
    433. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list by local health area; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and...
  • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
    436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the occupational therapy first time assessment waiting list in each local health office area; the number waiting less than four, four...
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    438. To ask the Minister for Health the number of initial tobacco sales to minors test purchase inspections carried out at the end of June 2018 or the latest date available. [30176/18]
  • Sunbeds Regulation
    439. To ask the Minister for Health the number of test purchases carried out under the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014 at the end of June 2018 or the latest date available. [30177/18]
  • Food Safety Authority of Ireland Inspections
    442. To ask the Minister for Health the number of official food control planned and unplanned surveillance inspections of food businesses at the end of June 2018 or the latest date available....
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    443. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections of e-cigarette and refill container manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers under the European Union (Manufacture,...
  • Health Promotion
    444. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have completed a structured patient education programme for diabetes at the end of June 2018 or the latest date available. [30182/18]
  • Health Services Data
    445. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of babies breast-fed exclusively and not exclusively at first PHN, postherpetic neuralgia, visit at the end of June 2018 or the latest date...
  • Home Care Packages Data
    449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of an intensive home care package; and the percentage of same with a key worker assigned. [30187/18]
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    451. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing ten community physiotherapists or hospital physiotherapists at entry level, and five and ten years of experience, respectively....
  • Health Insurance Data
    452. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated saving if the full economic cost for the use of beds in public and voluntary hospitals for the purposes of private medical practice were paid for...
  • General Practitioner Data
    454. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding general practitioner training intake to 200. [30192/18]
  • Health Services Staff Data
    456. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost and breakdown of providing practice nurses to work with 25 general practitioners, including cost of their training and pay for work for that...
  • Hospital Beds Data
    462. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the estimated cost of reopening the minimum of 1,000 hospital beds that are in the health service but closed, as deduced from a comparison of bed...
  • Medicinal Products Supply
    467. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the savings in 2018 through the four-year deal agreed with the pharmaceutical sector. [30205/18]
  • Prescriptions Charges
    468. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the estimated cost of reducing the medical card prescription charge by 50 cent. [30206/18]
  • Dental Services Provision
    471. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the expenditure on the six-monthly scale and polish entitlement under the dental treatment services scheme in 2009. [30209/18]
  • Dental Services Staff
    473. To ask the Minister for Health to set down in tabular form the estimated cost of increasing the number of dentists by ten and 40, respectively. [30211/18]
  • Ambulance Service Funding
    476. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the estimated cost of employing and equipping one ambulance with its complement of personnel and support staff. [30214/18]
  • Ambulance Service Staff
    477. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the estimated cost of training and recruiting 110 advanced paramedics. [30215/18]
  • Ambulance Service Funding
    478. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the estimated cost of an additional three ambulances, including personnel for each of the four HSE regions. [30216/18]
  • Ambulance Service Data
    479. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of purchasing three fully equipped ambulances for each of the four HSE regions, that is, 12 ambulances in total. [30217/18]
  • Ambulance Service Staff
    480. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the required whole-time equivalent personnel for 12 ambulances. [30218/18]
  • Home Help Service Expenditure
    481. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the number of home help hours by 10%. [30219/18]
  • Occupational Therapy Staff
    483. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing ten occupational therapists at entry level, five years and ten years of experience, respectively, in tabular form for each...
  • Physiotherapy Provision
    485. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing ten physiotherapists at entry level, five and ten years of experience, respectively. [30223/18]
  • Psychological Services
    487. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing 150 psychologists. [30225/18]
  • Speech and Language Therapy Staff
    488. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing ten speech and language therapists at entry level, five years experience and ten years experience, respectively. [30226/18]
  • Disability Support Services
    490. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an additional 500,000 hours of the personal assistant scheme. [30228/18]
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    493. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing respite care services by 20%. [30231/18]
  • Suicide Prevention
    494. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing 11 suicide crisis assessment nurses. [30232/18]
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision
    496. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an additional 14 community child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, teams in line with A Vision for Change. [30234/18]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    497. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of filling the remaining posts of the mental health intellectual disability posts for children that have not yet been filled. [30235/18]
  • Mental Health Services Staff
    498. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of filling 30 mental health intellectual disability posts for children. [30236/18]
  • Mental Health Services Data
    499. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of doubling the budget for counselling in primary care. [30237/18]
  • Hospital Accommodation Provision
    500. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of opening the remaining child and adolescent psychiatric beds that are not open. [30238/18]
  • Mental Health Services Staff
    501. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing addiction counsellors by 10%. [30239/18]
  • Health Services Reports
    502. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the Health Service Executive's value improvement programme, which is targeting improvement opportunities up to €346 million; the...
  • Hospital Accommodation Provision
    503. To ask the Minister for Health if an additional six beds have been provided in the National Rehabilitation Hospital. [30241/18]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
    504. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of the nursing home support scheme as of 1 July 2018. [30242/18]
  • Hospital Beds Data
    505. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [30243/18]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    512. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the project to provide a modular build at South Tipperary General Hospital. [30250/18]
  • Health Services Data
    513. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of the medical assessment services at Roscommon University Hospital. [30251/18]
  • Nursing Education
    516. To ask the Minister for Health the number of postgraduate education programmes for nurses and midwives being provided. [30254/18]
  • Nursing Staff
    517. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives with authority to prescribe medicines. [30255/18]
  • Nursing Education
    519. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of six national foundation education programmes for nurses in critical care, surgical pre-assessment, acute medicine unscheduled...
  • Health Services Staff Training
    520. To ask the Minister for Health if a national education programme to prepare 130 nurses for advanced practitioner roles has been commissioned; and if not, when same will occur. [30258/18]
  • Nursing Education
    521. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of the public health nurse sponsorship programme to 150 nurses. [30259/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    526. 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. [30266/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    527. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons from County Meath waiting for a cataract operation; the average wait time; the longest wait time; and the actions being taken to reduce...
  • Respite Care Services Data
    528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for child and adult respite, respectively in County Meath; the average waiting time for respite; the longest wait for...
  • HSE Data
    529. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contracts agreed between the HSE and a company (details supplied) since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30271/18]
  • HSE Expenditure
    530. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by the HSE to a company (details supplied) since 2011 for services, infrastructure or projects by year in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Schemes
    531. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of a new home care scheme; and when it will be put on a statutory basis. [30274/18]
  • Ambulance Service Data
    532. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of ambulances in the greater Dublin area; the average response times for ambulances following receipt of a 999 call; the...
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
    533. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health supports available for children awaiting scoliosis surgery here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30283/18]
  • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
    535. To ask the Minister for Health the next national steps to be taken with respect to the WHO protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products in view of the fact that the conditions for...
  • Dietician Service Provision
    536. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no dietician in the Dublin 3, 5, 9, 13 and 17 areas; if funding will be made available for same; and...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    537. To ask the Minister for Health if the approval of the drugs Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab will be expedited in order to prolong the life of certain cancer patients and in particular in the...
  • Health Services Funding
    538. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for funding by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30315/18]
  • Commencement of Legislation
    539. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to commence Part 9 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; the resources that have been set aside to allow the commencement of this...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    540. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [30318/18]
  • Dental Services
    542. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 21 June 2018, if staff will be acquired to cover dental services in Virginia health centre; if his attention has...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    543. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30325/18]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    544. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be assessed for a wheelchair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30326/18]
  • Mental Health Services
    545. To ask the Minister for Health if the benefits of acupuncture in the management of mental health will be investigated with an organisation (details supplied); the way in which the...
  • Medical Products
    546. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 310 of 8 May 2018, if a detailed breakdown of patient entitlement to post-mastectomy products, including product types...
  • Hospital Procedures
    547. To ask the Minister for Health when the chief medical officer’s report into the investigation of claims regarding transvaginal mesh complications will be complete; and if he will make...
  • Treatment Abroad Scheme
    548. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received by the HSE for transvaginal mesh removal in the UK through the treatment abroad scheme; the number approved and denied,...
  • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
    550. To ask the Minister for Health if an occupational therapy appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30338/18]
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    551. To ask the Minister for Health his plans on including a device (details supplied) under the long-term illness scheme for persons over the age of 21 years; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
    552. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appeals under the fair deal scheme made in each of the years from 2013 to 2017; the amount awarded on appeal for each year; and if he will make a...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
    554. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the policy of awarding appeals under the fair deal scheme from the date of appeal decision to that of backdating it to the date of the...
  • Legislative Measures
    555. To ask the Minister for Health if the legal parentage rights of same-sex couples who conceive a child through surrogacy will be addressed in upcoming legislation amending the Children and...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    556. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to each community healthcare organisation area via the NTPF in 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Patient Deaths
    557. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention or that of his predecessors has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30355/18]
  • Hospital Services
    558. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of deploying a modular cardiac laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30360/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    579. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30386/18]
  • HIQA Reports
    581. To ask the Minister for Health if reports produced by HIQA in relation to dental services in County Roscommon will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30389/18]
  • Dental Services Provision
    582. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to close or move the dental services provided in Castlerea County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30390/18]
  • Primary Care Centres Administration
    583. To ask the Minister for Health the services he is seeking to relocate to the Boyle primary care centre from other medical centres in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    585. To ask the Minister for Health if he or the HSE have plans to develop a new health centre or community health facility in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Medical Card Drugs Availability
    586. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove the requirement for medical card holders to obtain a prescription from their general practitioner to access nicotine replacement therapy...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    587. To ask the Minister for Health when needs assessment recommendations will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30399/18]
  • Hospital Complaints Procedures
    588. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a complaint by a person (details supplied) in respect of their child; the outcome of the review of the case that was...
  • Medical Products Supply
    589. To ask the Minister for Health the reason children in counties Cork, Galway and Dublin can receive orthotics within months; the further reason that in County Limerick the waiting time is...
  • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
    590. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided in 2017 and to date in 2018 for the cross-border directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30434/18]
  • Nursing Staff Data
    591. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses employed by the HSE in hospitals in County Cork in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30436/18]
  • Nursing Staff Recruitment
    592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new nurses hired by the HSE in hospitals in County Cork in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30437/18]
  • Nursing Staff Data
    593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses who retired from the HSE in hospitals in County Cork in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Home Help Service Data
    594. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided to persons in County Cork in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30439/18]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    595. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting one year for a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30444/18]
  • Home Care Packages
    596. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 14 June 2018, the process for the release of funding for the allocation of home support services for the remainder...
  • Ministerial Travel
    597. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of travel expenses for him and those that travel with him since his appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30513/18]
  • Proposed Legislation
    598. To ask the Minister for Health whether there will be a review of the recent Court of Appeal judgment regarding a person who was prevented from leaving the hospital that was caring for them...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    599. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30543/18]
  • Project Ireland 2040
    600. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times he has met his officials regarding Project Ireland 2040 since its launch; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30554/18]
  • Freedom of Information Requests
    601. To ask the Minister for Health the number of FOI requests his Department has received since January 2018; the number of refusals; the number that have been appealed and that are ongoing; and...
  • Vacancies on State Boards
    602. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies on State boards under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30588/18]
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
    603. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a nursing home placement for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30598/18]
  • Hospitals Capital Programme
    604. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has abandoned plans to complete a new 50-bed elderly care unit by 2021 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Ennis in favour of a facility at an unknown...
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    609. To ask the Minister for Health the consultant urologist vacancies across all hospitals in the Saolta University Healthcare group; the length of time for which these posts have been vacant;...
  • EU Directives
    610. To ask the Minister for Health when the EU safety standards for protection against dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation regulations 2018 will be signed; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    612. 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. [30624/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    613. To ask the Minister for Health if a post-surgery assessment will be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30625/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    614. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for knee surgery at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    615. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of the drug Ocrevus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30665/18]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    616. 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. [30667/18]
  • Work Permits Eligibility
    618. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of discussions held with the nursing home sector regarding difficulties in recruiting staff and possible changes to employment permits; and if he...
  • Elder Abuse
    619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no statutory protection for old and vulnerable persons with regard to adult neglect (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    620. To ask the Minister for Health the status of CBT assistance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30700/18]
  • Health Services Provision
    621. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30702/18]
  • Mental Health Services Expenditure
    622. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of providing a single non-specialised mental health nursing position for out-of-hours care on an annual basis [30703/18]
  • Primary Care Services Provision
    623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for primary care physiotherapy in County Louth; and the length of time these children have been waiting [30711/18]
  • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
    627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for primary care occupational therapy in County Louth; and the length of time these children have been waiting [30715/18]
  • Occupational Therapy Staff
    630. To ask the Minister for Health the qualifications of the HSE staff who are delivering occupational therapy courses for parents [30719/18]
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    631. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing a minimum of one crisis house in each catchment area [30724/18]
  • Mental Health Services
    632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health catchment areas in place nationally by CHO. [30725/18]
  • National Maternity Hospital
    639. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to a reconstituted national maternity hospital that will be a subsidiary of a group (details supplied) of which the ultimate owner...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    640. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an application by a person (details supplied) for an assessment of need which was received by the HSE on 15 June 2017. [30742/18]
  • Health Services
    643. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30748/18]
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    644. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing a full medical card including general practitioner, medical and surgical service, drugs, medicines and medical and surgical...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    645. 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. [30756/18]
  • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
    646. To ask the Minister for Health if suitable inpatient accommodation and a step-down facility will be provided for older persons in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in view of the fact that the...
  • Child Protection
    647. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body monitoring assessment and therapy services for children, young persons and their families in circumstances in which sexual abuse is a...
  • HSE Properties
    648. To ask the Minister for Health if a building will be signed over to a school (details supplied). [30774/18]
  • Data Protection
    649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30780/18]
  • Nursing Home Services
    650. To ask the Minister for Health the service level agreement in place with the HSE, HIQA and public nursing homes in relation to entitlements to services, treatment and therapies for persons...
  • Hospital Services
    653. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive necessary medical treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30789/18]
  • Orthodontic Services Provision
    654. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter regarding the case of persons (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30791/18]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    655. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for investment in disability services at a site (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30792/18]
  • Psychological Services
    656. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent paediatric psychiatrists approved for funding from the HSE for Waterford city and county for 2018. [30799/18]
  • Occupational Therapy Data
    658. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent child occupational therapists approved for funding from the HSE for Waterford city and county. [30801/18]
  • Speech and Language Therapy Data
    659. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent child speech and language therapists approved for funding from the HSE for Waterford city and county. [30802/18]
  • Psychological Services
    660. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent child psychologists approved for funding from the HSE for Waterford city and county for 2018. [30804/18]
  • Occupational Therapy Data
    661. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent child occupational therapists approved for funding from the HSE for Waterford city and county. [30805/18]
  • Home Care Packages
    663. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which care companies contracted by the HSE to fill care packages are regulated; the standards they must adhere to; the mechanisms available for...
  • Health Care Professionals
    664. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether a FETAC level 5 qualification is sufficient for carers employed by care companies contracted by the HSE to care for persons with severe...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    665. 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. [30816/18]
  • Palliative Care Facilities
    666. To ask the Minister for Health if a timeframe has been set out for the delivery of a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30817/18]
  • Health Care Policy
    669. To ask the Minister for Health when the national dental health plan will be published; the reason it has taken so long to update the 1994 dental health programme; and if he will make a...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    670. To ask the Minister for Health when the medical supplement Kuvan will be approved for persons with phenylketonuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30850/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    671. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant cardiologist at Beaumont Hospital; the average waiting time to see the consultant; the steps...
  • Hospital Equipment
    672. To ask the Minister for Health the average age of lithotripsy machines in use in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30874/18]
  • Hospital Services
    673. To ask the Minister for Health if planning permission was necessary for the recent upgrade of cardiac catheterisation laboratory works at St. Vincent's University Hospital; the nature of the...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
    674. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the nursing home support scheme in relation to the financial assessment of farms and businesses; when he expects these proposed...
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    675. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter (details supplied) will be reviewed; his plans to implement change in this sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30890/18]
  • Primary Care Centres
    676. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of the psychiatric day hospital in the primary care unit in Balbriggan; the area it serves; and the number of persons waiting to access its...
  • Hospital Services
    677. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of the Ashlin Centre in Beaumont Hospital; the area it serves; and the number of persons waiting to access its services. [30895/18]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry with a view to ensure new medicines become available to persons with...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
    679. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the review of the fair deal pricing mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30903/18]
  • Health Services Staff Recruitment
    681. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the position of the role of healthcare assistants from the ineligible categories of employment for employment permits list and their...
  • Health Services
    682. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the decision not to implement a full courier service for collection of blood samples from general practitioner surgeries (details supplied)...
  • Meals-on-Wheels Services
    683. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available for a meals-on-wheels service (details supplied) in order to acquire new equipment to provide this service; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    684. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30921/18]
  • HSE Funding
    685. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the review of HSE funding to an organisation (details supplied) that was announced in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30942/18]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    692. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug ixazomib for a person (details supplied) will be covered by the HSE; if permissions that may be needed to cover the cost and use of the drug will...
  • Hospital Charges
    693. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons with haemochromatosis require several venesections per year and are paying €80 per venesection;...
  • Emergency Departments Services
    694. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the importance of the provision of emergency care being available at Monaghan Hospital particularly in the case of a person...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    696. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive an early date for an assessment and scopes at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, based on the referrals made by their...
  • Nursing Staff Recruitment
    697. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been changes to the recruitment process for public health nurses in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31037/18]

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