Written answers

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

  • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
    290. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that exist for the cultivation of cannabis plants for use in medicinal products here; if no provisions are in place, his plans for such...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    291. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) waiting more than two years will be assessed for cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3901/19]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    293. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter regarding staffing at a factory (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3714/19]
  • Hospitals Data
    294. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries cancelled nationally by hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    295. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ENT surgeries cancelled for children nationally by hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
  • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
    299. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list; and the number waiting fewer than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months,...
  • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
    300. 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 fewer than four, four...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received an appointment in Monaghan Hospital. [3731/19]
  • Home Help Service Provision
    305. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency funding will be allocated to assist with the provision of home help hours (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3738/19]
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    306. To ask the Minister for Health the reason women, particularly in Counties Cavan and Monaghan, are waiting in excess of four months for the cervical screening results; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    307. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [3741/19]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    308. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3757/19]
  • National Children's Hospital
    309. To ask the Minister for Health the private companies and consultancies that have been paid for the tendering and procurement process of the national children's hospital; and the amount paid...
  • Vaccination Programme
    310. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HIQA in its HTA report on extending the HPV vaccine to boys published in December 2018 used a Norwegian definition of a serious adverse reaction...
  • Audiology Services Provision
    312. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration given to moving audiology services to a qualified provider system that would assist with the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Audiology Services Data
    313. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting list for audiology tests nationally and in County Kildare; the waiting times in the different areas; the progress being made on same;...
  • Hospital Services
    314. To ask the Minister for Health when DEXA scanning will resume at Naas General Hospital; if a register of patients who have had their appointments postponed has been recorded; and if these...
  • Transport Support Scheme
    315. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress in regard to introducing the new transport support scheme to replace the removal of the mobility allowance and motorised transport...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    316. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [3793/19]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    317. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation for a person (details supplied) will be carried out. [3794/19]
  • Assisted Human Reproduction Services Expenditure
    318. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for IVF treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3809/19]
  • Nursing Staff Recruitment
    319. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the bring them home campaign initiated in 2015 in order to offer a more attractive and a wider suite of measures for recruiting...
  • Departmental Meetings
    320. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the open policy forum that took place on 15 November 2018 with the Departments of Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, his Department...
  • Medical Products
    321. To ask the Minister for Health if further information will be provided on Ireland’s membership of the BeNeLuxA initiative; the number of meetings he and his officials attended as part...
  • Abortion Services Provision
    322. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the management at the Coombe hospital followed the guidelines in the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 for a...
  • Hospital Charges
    323. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 157 of 13 December 2017, 121 of 24 January 2018, 242 of 5 July 2018 and 576 of 18 September 2018, the position...
  • Mental Health Services
    324. To ask the Minister for Health his views on phone applications such as an application (details supplied); his further views on encouraging and supporting persons who wish to use these...
  • HSE Expenditure
    325. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent on correspondence issued through its legal team to organisations (details supplied) on union recognition. [3825/19]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    326. 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. [3829/19]
  • Patient Data
    327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults, respectively, who have no fixed abode or address and who are designated homeless, who attended Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital...
  • HSE Reports
    328. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation plan for the recommendations set out in the report of the chief medical officer in regard to the use of vaginal mesh will be published;...
  • Industrial Disputes
    330. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries and procedures being postponed or cancelled in anticipation of the proposed strike by nurses at the end of January 2019. [3849/19]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    333. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); when the person can expect an appointment in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; and...
  • Commencement of Legislation
    334. To ask the Minister for Health when Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be commenced. [3871/19]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    335. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by an organisation (details supplied) for capital funding to redevelop a training facility for adults with intellectual...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    336. To ask the Minister for Health the protocol for receiving patients transferred from general practitioner surgeries by ambulance to the psychiatric unit in Letterkenny University Hospital for...
  • Suicide Bereavement Support
    338. To ask the Minister for Health the community-based suicide support services in place in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3883/19]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    339. To ask the Minister for Health if the overrun in the projected cost of building the national children’s hospital will not delay the timeframe for delivery of the modular 60-bed unit...
  • Health Services Expenditure
    340. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation for the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics in each of the years 2016 to 2019, in tabular form; the number of staff in the centre; and...
  • General Practitioner Data
    341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners participating in the general practitioner visit card scheme for those under six years of age in the Dublin 5, 13 and 17...
  • Health Services Expenditure
    342. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the €667 million capital expenditure in health in 2019, by project, in tabular form. [3928/19]
  • Health Services Data
    343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with no fixed address discharged from all public hospitals at the end of December 2018 or on the latest date available; and the number...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    345. To ask the Minister for Health the construction inflation which he and the HSE are taking into account in terms of the acute hospital capital programme announced in 2018 in the context of...
  • Disability Services Provision
    346. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive services from the multidisciplinary team at a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3954/19]
  • Medicinal Products Supply
    347. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Brexit medicines working group and the Brexit medicines plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3990/19]
  • Home Help Service Provision
    349. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be approved home help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3994/19]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    350. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding houses under HSE ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3996/19]
  • Vaccination Programme
    351. To ask the Minister for Health if the vaccine for meningitis will be provided to young children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3997/19]
  • Mental Health Services Staff
    352. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding recruitment and appointments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4002/19]
  • Abortion Services Provision
    353. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case in which a woman has been denied access to an abortion in the Coombe maternity hospital, Dublin; if he has...
  • Hospitals Data
    354. To ask the Minister for Health the activity levels at Mallow General Hospital for elective and non-elective surgeries and for acute medical interventions in each of the years 2015 to 2017,...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    355. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical and surgical consultant posts assigned to Mallow General Hospital; and the range of disciplines to which these posts are assigned. [4015/19]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    356. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4018/19]
  • Home Help Service Provision
    358. To ask the Minister for Health if the full support required via home help can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4027/19]
  • Hospitals Data
    359. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patient discharges from hospitals in which patients were discharged to no fixed abode or address in each of the years 2011 to 2018, in tabular...
  • General Practitioner Services
    360. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address general practitioners charging medical card holders €25 for blood tests; the steps he will take to address general...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    361. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment at WUH urology department will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [4056/19]
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    362. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for orthodontic care which was requested in October 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    364. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will undergo an assessment for autism spectrum disorder; the intervention services available for the child; and...
  • General Medical Services Scheme Data
    365. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS general practitioners in Dublin 15; the number of GMS general practitioners per CHO group nationally; the breakdown by population in this...
  • Industrial Disputes
    366. To ask the Minister for Health if he and the HSE will engage with a union (details supplied) to resolve the ongoing issues which have led to paramedics going on strike. [4072/19]
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    367. To ask the Minister for Health the other departmental capital budgets that will see funding cuts in order to compensate for the overrun for the new children’s hospital in 2019; the...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant cardiologist whole-time equivalent posts in place in UHW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4082/19]
  • Hospital Consultant Contracts
    371. To ask the Minister for Health if enhanced cardiac care was provided at UHW on Saturday and Sunday whether the current consultant cardiologists employed at UHW under their current contracts...
  • Hospital Services
    373. To ask the Minister for Health if the mobile unit located at UHW which provides diagnostic cardiac care is capable of delivering PPCI intervention care in its current format; and if he will...
  • HSE Reviews
    376. To ask the Minister for Health the expected completion date of the national review for cardiac services being undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4089/19]
  • Ambulance Service Response Times
    377. To ask the Minister for Health the average and longest ambulance response times for each of the past five years in each of the eight health ambulance regions. [4098/19]
  • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
    378. To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost escalation for the national children’s hospital since October 2018; the manner in which the cost overrun will be spread over the...
  • Respite Care Services
    379. To ask the Minister for Health when the in loco parentis principle will be addressed in respect of the provision of respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4105/19]
  • Respite Care Services Data
    380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day and overnight respite care sessions provided in 2017 compared to 2018, by CHO and LHO in tabular form. [4106/19]
  • Treatment Abroad Scheme
    381. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund treatment for a person (details supplied) in London in view of the fact that the treatment is not available here; if the matter will be...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    382. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include more organisations such as an organisation (details supplied) under the section 39 agency pay restoration; and if he will make a statement...
  • Health Services
    383. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4139/19]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    384. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person can expect a hospital appointment. [4144/19]
  • HSE Staff Remuneration
    385. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who entered a new contract with the HSE and commenced work on 9 November 2018 will receive payment for working duties; his...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    387. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [4156/19]
  • Addiction Treatment Services
    388. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for gambling addiction in each of the years 2015 to 2018, by age range, gender and the geographical location in which they were...
  • Hospitals Building Programme
    389. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of the rehabilitation unit at Roscommon University Hospital; when planning will be submitted for the project; the overall capital...
  • Hospitals Capital Programme
    392. To ask the Minister for Health if the capital commitment for the comprehensive upgrade of hospitals (details supplied) is secure and will not be subject to a review in view of the capital...
  • Health Insurance Cover
    393. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to prohibit health insurers from excluding model 2 public hospitals for elective procedures; his views on whether it is acceptable...
  • HSE Properties
    394. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made regarding the use of a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4186/19]
  • Health Services Provision
    395. To ask the Minister for Health if the location of a service (details supplied) has been confirmed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4193/19]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    396. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with a consultant from CAMHS; the average waiting time for same; and if he will make a statement...
  • Mental Health Services Data
    398. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents in Cork city and county on a waiting list for CAMHS services; the length of time they have been waiting in bands of...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    399. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) must wait for cataract surgery; the average wait time for such surgery in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointments Administration
    400. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unannounced missed hospital appointments at Sligo University Hospital and St. Patrick's hospital, Carrick-on-Shannon, respectively, in 2017 and...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting lists for eye appointments, including outpatients and inpatients, and procedures to be carried out in County Laois; the...
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    402. To ask the Minister for Health the status of, and if he will address, the ongoing respite crisis for families in County Cavan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    403. To ask the Minister for Health the reason suitably qualified counsellors and psychotherapists cannot be facilitated with special type consultation, special service or out of hours payment...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
    404. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of the changes to the fair deal scheme agreed some months ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4217/19]
  • Disability Services Funding
    405. To ask the Minister for Health when 2019 budget allocations will be made known to the charitable disability organisations in order that a person (details supplied) with a disability can take...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
    406. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in receipt of the fair deal nursing home support grant was billed after the person...
  • Medical Card Drugs Availability
    407. To ask the Minister for Health the reason certain medications have been taken off the medical card scheme list of medications for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [4220/19]
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
    408. To ask the Minister for Health if access under the long-term illness scheme will be expanded to include all persons with ulcerative colitis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    409. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) with a diagnosis of cancer will be refunded the cost of the chemotherapy drugs which the person incurred during an application...
  • Hospitals Capital Programme
    410. To ask the Minister for Health if the finance required to progress the proposed second catheterisation laboratory project at University Hospital Waterford to design, planning and...
  • Hospital Facilities
    411. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment has been made as to whether the modular catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford could be upgraded to both diagnostic and...
  • Health Services Provision
    412. To ask the Minister for Health if recommended timelines for the provision of additional facilities or staff contained in the national review of cardiology services scheduled to be completed...
  • Legislative Process
    413. To ask the Minister for Health the legislation, including heads of Bills, from his Department which has been sent to EU institutions before publication for the period of the 32nd Dáil;...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests made by general practitioners on behalf of patients seeking to have lidocaine plasters made available through the community drugs scheme...
  • Disability Services Provision
    416. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); the requirements in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4273/19]
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Administration
    417. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used by Louth and Meath child and adolescent mental health services to accept a child into the service. [4276/19]
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
    421. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents on the Louth and Meath child and adolescent mental health services waiting list that are classified as either emergency,...
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
    422. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in the Louth and Meath child and adolescent mental health services by staff category (details supplied) in tabular form; the approved...
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision
    423. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of the out-of-hours service provided by the Louth and Meath child and adolescent mental health services for children and families in crisis. [4282/19]
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
    424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments seen on a daily basis by each of the professional categories (details supplied) in the Louth and Meath child and adolescent mental...
  • Vaccination Programme Data
    427. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in each CHO area that have received the meningitis B vaccine privately through their general practitoner or pharmacist born before 1...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    429. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to reduce the waiting list and waiting time for home support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4301/19]
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    430. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be no delay in providing a new health facility at a location (details supplied) in view of the cost overruns on the construction of the national...
  • National Children's Hospital
    431. To ask the Minister for Health if projects in an area (details supplied) will be delayed or deferred due to overruns on the capital budget of the national children's hospital; and if he will...
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    433. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of 335 positive BRCA results that were processed at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; his plans to review the 3,500 negative...
  • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
    434. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the vacant post of consultant psychiatrist at a medical centre (details supplied) to be filled; when full mental health services will be...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    435. To ask the Minister for Health the avenues available to support a person (details supplied) in receiving funding to pay a nursing home bill which accumulated over four weeks while awaiting...
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of repeat cervical smear tests conducted since May 2018 that are now invalid owing to delays in assessing them; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Traveller Community
    437. To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages the publication of the national Traveller health action plan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4340/19]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    438. To ask the Minister for Health if the commitment to have acute mental health beds returned to County Tipperary will be impacted by the overrun in the national children's hospital project;...
  • Pharmacy Regulations
    439. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the concerns raised by many clinical pharmacists regarding the draft statutory instrument he has published to implement the falsified medicine...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    440. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement measures to ensure the provision of adequate mental health services and supports for homeless persons; his further plans to ensure that...
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    441. To ask the Minister for Health the reason pioglitazone remains an approved drug under the GMS for the treatment of diabetes in view of the fact that the US Food and Drug Administration has...
  • Hospitals Capital Programme
    442. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the project to renovate St. Patrick's Hospital, Cashel; the timeline for the project; if the capital project will be affected by the overrun on...
  • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
    443. To ask the Minister for Health the monthly timeline of each notification of cost increase that was provided to him by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board regarding the...
  • Primary Care Centres Provision
    444. To ask the Minister for Health if the planned primary healthcare centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow and its services or facilities are at risk of delay or cancellation due to the...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    445. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4418/19]
  • Hospital Beds Data
    446. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 23 January 2019, the location of the additional 240 beds in the past 12 months by hospital in tabular form. [4420/19]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    447. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is on a waiting list for a residential placement; if so, the position of the person on the waiting list; and if...

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