Written answers

Tuesday, 23 October 2018

  • National Maternity Hospital
    76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment given by Dáil Éireann to ensure the national maternity hospital remains within public ownership and has legally...
  • Community Care
    77. To ask the Minister for Health if he will discuss the HSE CHO networks and operating model proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43444/18]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    78. To ask the Minister for Health if Respreeza will continue to be provided to patients with Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43564/18]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    79. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for intake assessment for the early intervention team for children in north County Dublin. [43615/18]
  • National Dementia Strategy
    80. To ask the Minister for Health if further investment will be made available to provide funding for community supports for persons with dementia to ensure they can remain active in their...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    81. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the long outpatient waiting times in the children’s hospital group in which 10,329 persons are waiting more than 18...
  • Hospital Beds Data
    82. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed 50 bed unit at Portiuncula Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43604/18]
  • HSE Staff Recruitment
    83. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for recruiting the additional therapists announced in budget 2019. [43560/18]
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    84. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress to recruit additional staff to expand the existing cath lab activity at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
    85. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 738 persons over 75 years of age had to wait more than 24 hours in the emergency department in St. Vincent's Hospital during January to August 2018....
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    86. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be put in place to boost respite facilities for persons with disabilities and their families in County Louth. [43607/18]
  • Health Services Reform
    87. To ask the Minister for Health if in the context of reorganisation of the health services, consideration will be given to the establishment of regional bodies consisting of public...
  • Health Reports
    88. To ask the Minister for Health if €3 billion will be provided for the Sláintecare implementation fund beginning with a €600 million commitment; and if he will make a...
  • Hospitals Funding
    89. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary funding will be allocated to upgrade the central sterile services department facilities at Roscommon University Hospital in order to meet the...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    90. To ask the Minister for Health when all necessary consultant and staff posts will be filled in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. [43504/18]
  • Psychological Services
    91. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand counselling in primary care service to children and adolescents under 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43544/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    92. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting lists for gynaecological procedures at Cork University Maternity Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43542/18]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    93. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to build a standalone mental health facility in Naas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43599/18]
  • Hospital Facilities
    94. To ask the Minister for Health when the short stay ward will open in Letterkenny University Hospital; the preparations the HSE has underway to ensure it is opened promptly; and if he will...
  • General Practitioner Services
    95. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to repair the general practitioner system nationally. [43505/18]
  • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
    96. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the significant increase in overcrowding in Naas hospital emergency department over the past two years. [43596/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    97. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the long outpatient waiting times in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore in which 3,691 persons are waiting more than 18...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes
    98. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been an assessment of the loss of drug treatment, counselling and other services in the Blanchardstown community since the closure of an...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    99. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which waiting lists for various procedures are likely to be improved in the course of 2019 having regard to the demographics and the improvements...
  • Health Services Provision
    100. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been progress in respect of services for venesection patients with haemochromatosis; if the issue of the €80 fee that these persons must...
  • HSE Agency Staff
    101. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the work in investigating and identifying a resolution to the funding of pay restoration in section 39 organisations in which the staff...
  • Rare Diseases Strategy
    102. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address issues in relation to myalgic encephalomyelitis which is a rare disease. [43459/18]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    103. To ask the Minister for Health the respite care services available for parents and guardians of children with intellectual disabilities in CHO area 6; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    104. To ask the Minister for Health when provision will be made for additional consultant rheumatologists to bring the complement of same in Crumlin Children’s Hospital in line with...
  • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
    105. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the long waiting times for paediatric occupational therapy appointments in County Cork. [43582/18]
  • Protected Disclosures
    106. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a protected disclosure by staff at Harold's Cross Hospice; his role in such cases; and if the governance and management of...
  • HSE National Service Plan
    107. To ask the Minister for Health if the 2019 HSE service plan will enhance supports for carers in 2019. [43563/18]
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    108. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the laboratories that conducted the tests on the 221 women identified to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
    109. To ask the Minister for Health the reason more than a thousand persons over 75 years of age had to wait more than 24 hours in the emergency department in University Hospital Limerick during...
  • Organ Donation
    111. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the scheme to provide compensation for living donors that are not working outside the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43441/18]
  • Ambulance Service
    112. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of ambulance services in Arklow and west County Wicklow will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43595/18]
  • Hospital Facilities
    113. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 29 May 2018, if the modular theatre at Merlin Park Hospital has opened; if not, when it will open; the status of...
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    114. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the audit that was suspended as a temporary measure into the findings of cervical smear tests; the date on which it was suspended; the date on...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    115. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for ensuring access to respite for parents of children and adults with intellectual disabilities attached to a service (details supplied); and if he...
  • Hospital Services
    116. To ask the Minister for Health if Cappagh Hospital is operating at full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43606/18]
  • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
    117. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 937 persons over 75 years of age had to wait more than 24 hours in the emergency department in hospitals in County Cork during January to August...
  • Primary Care Services Provision
    118. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the long waiting times for primary care ophthalmology appointments in north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    119. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to address the long outpatient waiting times in Galway University Hospital in which 5,772 persons are waiting more than 18 months...
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    120. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time targets in place for children needing orthodontic treatment in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43603/18]
  • Abortion Legislation
    121. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that parental consent and parental notification will be sought for children under 18 years of age that wish to obtain a termination of...
  • Brexit Issues
    122. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to prepare for Brexit and its impact on programmes such as the EU Cross Border Healthcare Directive, the EU treatment scheme,...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    123. To ask the Minister for Health the increase in home support hours planned for County Meath in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43611/18]
  • Vaccination Programme
    125. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Immunisation Advisory Committee will examine the possibility of extending the HPV vaccine to men and women up to 45 years of age. [43581/18]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    126. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the long outpatient waiting times in Cork city hospitals in which 8,601 persons are waiting more than 18 months for an...
  • Hospitals Data
    127. To ask the Minister for Health the number and cost of all external reviews and-or investigations of patient care at Galway University Hospital in each of the past ten years; and if he will...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    128. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting lists in hospitals in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43543/18]
  • General Practitioner Services
    129. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the general practitioner sector is facing a recruitment and retention crisis; his further views on whether the refusal to reverse FEMPI...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for urology tests in each region; the average waiting time in each region; the steps he will take to ensure the HSE has the...
  • Hospital Beds Data
    131. To ask the Minister for Health when 37 additional beds will be provided in Kerry University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43565/18]
  • Budget 2019
    132. To ask the Minister for Health the items of new expenditure in budget 2019 which would not be there without the existence of Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    133. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken on foot of the Scally report into the CervicalCheck scandal to address the important matters raised; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Health Services Reports
    134. To ask the Minister for Health when the report commissioned in 2015 on the provision of health services on the islands will be published; when it was completed; if a copy of the report will...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed expansion plans at Naas General Hospital under the health priorities of the National Development Plan 2018-2027; if timelines or...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    136. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 440 of 2 October 2018, the details of the significant increase in resources needed to meet the needs of the children...
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    137. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a recruitment and retention crisis in relation to hospital consultants; his further views on whether the wide disparity in new...
  • Hospitals Policy
    138. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the consultation on Portlaoise Hospital; the persons or bodies that will be engaged with in relation to same; and if he will make a statement...
  • Medical Card Administration
    139. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with the HSE regarding the level of bureaucracy involved, particularly for older persons, in dealing with the medical card section of...
  • Hospital Facilities
    140. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being introduced to ensure that the planned modular unit at South Tipperary General Hospital will be fully staffed before it becomes operational;...
  • Paediatric Services
    141. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to tackle the waiting times for assessment and treatment for children with scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43557/18]
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
    142. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation at Linn Dara CAMHS in Cherry Orchard in relation to the operation of the service, reported staff shortages and reductions in bed capacity will...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    143. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the tripling in the number of outpatients waiting a year plus since September 2016 for an appointment in Navan Hospital; and...
  • Hospital Services
    144. To ask the Minister for Health if an external facilitator has been appointed for the consultation on the future of Portlaoise hospital. [43502/18]
  • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
    145. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed timeframe for the establishment of the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43453/18]
  • Psychological Services Waiting Lists
    146. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of referrals of children and young persons to psychological services that are not accepted and the number of those not offered a place on waiting...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    147. To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment has commenced to staff the short stay ward at Letterkenny University Hospital; the number of staff and relevant grades which have been...
  • Disease Management
    148. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make blood tests for Lyme disease available here. [43617/18]
  • Eating Disorders
    149. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the rising incidence of body dysmorphia and eating disorders among men and young men in particular; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
    150. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the long outpatient waiting times in University Hospital Limerick in which 5,360 persons are waiting more than 18 months for...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    151. To ask the Minister for Health when Respreeza will be sanctioned fully for persons that took part in the clinical trial; when it will be more widely available to alpha 1 antitripsan...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    152. To ask the Minister for Health the provision he will make for home support services for the elderly in 2019 in view of the significant difficulty many persons experienced in securing home...
  • Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports
    153. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health's report on orphan drugs from February 2018; the changes he is considering on foot of same; and...
  • National Dementia Strategy
    154. To ask the Minister for Health if the 2019 HSE service plan will provide for new and expanded services for persons with dementia. [43562/18]
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility
    155. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the NTPF should be extended to cover children with special needs that are waiting for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    156. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of plans for the development of a new mental health unit at Naas General Hospital included as part of the health priorities of the National...
  • HSE Agency Staff Data
    157. To ask the Minister for Health the cost and number of agency staff employed at the acute mental health unit, department of psychiatry, University Hospital Galway, by month to date in 2018;...
  • Disability Services Funding
    158. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the significant funding and resources difficulties being faced by a group (details supplied). [43530/18]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    159. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for capital works at MRH Mullingar to accommodate the CT scanner; and the capital works planned at this location. [43458/18]

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.