Written answers

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

  • HSE Staff Remuneration
    293. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can claim incremental credit for a period of time worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24910/19]
  • Disability Services Funding
    294. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be put in place to support the work of RehabCare in providing services in view of the fact this service may be withdrawn due to the...
  • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
    295. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for paediatric occupational therapists in the Saolta area; the number of paediatric occupational therapists employed in the Saolta area; the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    296. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [24854/19]
  • Hospital Transfers
    297. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred from Waterford University Hospital to Tallaght Hospital for pelvic surgery following an accident. [24855/19]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    298. 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. [24857/19]
  • Hospital Charges
    300. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce exemptions and cap registration fees in relation to the number of times a child visits the emergency department regarding a life long...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    301. 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. [24869/19]
  • Home Care Packages Administration
    302. To ask the Minister for Health when an approved increase in home support will be in place for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [24874/19]
  • Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility
    303. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) who requires surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24876/19]
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    304. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make Spinraza treatment available to SMA sufferers (details supplied); the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24879/19]
  • Respite Care Services Availability
    305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds nationally by CHO; if they are for adults or children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24883/19]
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    306. To ask the Minister for Health the provision of respite services nationally; if they are run directly by the HSE or by section 39 companies, charity services and or NGOs; and if he will make...
  • Respite Care Services Funding
    307. To ask the Minister for Health the impact on respite services due to budgetary constraints in view of the overspend on the national children’s hospital; if funding for existing beds...
  • Departmental Contracts
    308. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the details of an extended deal with a company (details supplied); if whether there were changes to indemnity arrangements on same; and if...
  • Home Care Packages Administration
    309. To ask the Minister for Health when an increase in home support will be in place for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24890/19]
  • Substance Misuse
    310. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in total and for each year of the implementation of Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery 2017-2025 strategy addressing the harm caused by substance...
  • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
    311. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for each of the drugs and alcohol task forces in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Data
    313. To ask the Minister for Health #the location of each of the adult and adolescent medical detoxification units and community based residential detoxification beds, respectively. [24896/19]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    317. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting less than 12, 12 to 24, 24 to 36 and more than 36 months for MRI scans at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a...
  • HSE Staff Recruitment
    318. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE recruitment freeze which was due to be lifted in June 2019; when the recruitment freeze will be lifted; when recruitment will recommence...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    320. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a procedure in St. James’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24915/19]
  • Childcare Services
    321. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove the in loco parentis clause from HSE policy in view of the fact that it is causing hardship for many families and is perceived as...
  • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
    322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children approved and waiting for treatment on the orthodontic waiting list in counties Kerry and Cork; the number from County Kerry; the details...
  • Legislative Programme
    323. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017; the work his officials are undertaking with regard to a regulatory framework to support such a Bill; when adult...
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    324. To ask the Minister for Health if he and his officials received the second Scally report before the contract was extended to include all of the extra cervical tests done in 2018; and if he...
  • Home Help Service
    326. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the lack of home help hours nationally; if the allocation has been spent; if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is having on...
  • Home Support Service
    328. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved but still on a waiting list for home support services in counties Galway and Roscommon to date; the number of applications...
  • Addiction Treatment Services
    329. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an addiction counselling service (details supplied) in County Donegal has ceased to provide service; his views...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    330. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) will have to wait for an appointment to see a neurologist in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a...
  • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
    331. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has taken responsibility for a doctor on the supervised section of the Irish Medical Council register to work as an ENT...
  • Hospital Staff
    334. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been informed verbally and in writing that a consultant ENT surgeon left the region before finishing their on-call duties...
  • Hospital Investigations
    335. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) failed to investigate or have investigated the disclosure that over 15 patients had a delayed head and neck cancer...
  • Hospital Complaints Procedures
    336. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) determined that serious reportable incidents are not investigated but having opted instead to request a chart review by...
  • Hospital Deaths
    337. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will take accountability and responsibility for their acts and omissions or failures to prevent a death from incompetence with...
  • Hospital Procedures
    339. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) or their subordinates gave direction to members of administration staff at the University Hospital Limerick Group to cancel an...
  • Hospital Services
    340. To ask the Minister for Health the action or omissions or commission a person (details supplied) has taken following cancer diagnosis of a patient which remain unactioned for 18 months after...
  • Hospital Complaints Procedures
    341. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) failed to investigate a serious complaint regarding an unactioned cancer diagnosis; the reason the complaint and incident...
  • Hospital Staff
    342. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) facilitated and aided a junior doctor who has been reported for tampering with notes on several occasions, missing cancer cases,...
  • Hospital Services
    343. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether a conflict of interest exists in which medical professionals who have a commercial interest in companies that provide NIPT are also the...
  • Hospital Investigations
    344. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that will carry out the independent review of the tragic case in which a healthy unborn baby was aborted under section 11 of the Health...
  • Abortion Services Provision
    345. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that in future no abortion can be carried out under section 11 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 without...
  • Air Ambulance Service Operations
    347. To ask the Minister for Health when he will issue a decision regarding the date the community rapid response air ambulance can start operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Patient Transfers
    348. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to be transferred from Sligo University Hospital to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if he will...
  • Maternity Services Provision
    349. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ownership and management including board arrangements of Holles Street hospital maternity services when it is located on the St....
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
    353. To ask the Minister for Health the division of spending within the 2018 €50 million NTPF allocation; the financial split that occurred between the public and private hospital systems;...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    354. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an ENT appointment at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/19]
  • HSE Staff Recruitment
    355. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the HSE recruitment freeze; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25015/19]
  • Grant Payments
    356. To ask the Minister for Health the injury grant awarded to a person (details supplied); when the payment will be made; the timeline over which the payment will continue to be made; and if he...
  • Pension Provisions
    358. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be entitled to recompense for a reduction in pension entitlements as a result of having their hours reduced; and if he will...
  • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
    359. To ask the Minister for Health the agreements that exist between Ireland and the United Kingdom for the mutual recognition of decisions made by the Irish Medical Council and the General...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
    360. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not covered under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25041/19]
  • Health Services Funding
    361. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) will continue to receive funding. [25060/19]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    362. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a drug for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25067/19]
  • Primary Care Centres Staff
    363. To ask the Minister for Health when additional staff will be allocated to the primary care centre in Roscommon town to enable medical assessments for the primary medical certificate to be...
  • Orthodontic Services Provision
    364. To ask the Minister for Health if the report on a review of the statement of concern that children had been damaged by the HSE orthodontic services in Dublin-mid-Leinster more than a decade...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    365. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint new laboratory scientists for Letterkenny University Hospital; when appointments will be made; the arrangements in the hospital for blood...
  • HSE Funding
    366. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2019 HSE capital plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/19]
  • Medical Card Applications
    367. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    368. 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. [25084/19]
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    369. To ask the Minister for Health if day services will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25089/19]
  • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
    370. To ask the Minister for Health if there are age restrictions or otherwise for persons wishing to avail of treatment in view of the fact that Spinraza treatment has been approved; if so, the...
  • Hospital Staff Recruitment
    371. To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment in order to fill a number of vacancies in a department in a hospital (details supplied) will be approved in order to allow the service to...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in a department in a hospital (details supplied); the full title of the positions that are vacant; the funding required to fill all...
  • Home Help Service Provision
    374. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help hours will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25108/19]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    375. 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. [25141/19]
  • Home Help Service
    376. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that the HSE has instructed officials to block new home help applications until at least November 2019 as part of a series of cost cutting...
  • Home Care Packages Data
    377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in hospital in County Louth experiencing a delayed discharge which is dependent on a home care package, home help hours and home support...
  • Home Care Packages Provision
    383. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to build, plan and increase provision for home care packages and home help hours in County Louth and CHO area 8 in line with the increased demand for...
  • Elder Abuse
    384. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on proposed legislation which would allow powers to be given to State agencies to investigate cases by which an elderly parent or parents are...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    385. To ask the Minister for Health when the 7.5% property rate within the fair deal scheme capped at three years for the vast majority of persons will be extended to farming families; if the...
  • Hospital Staff Data
    386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time permanent nurse posts that Beaumont Hospital offered graduate nurses in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme
    387. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for inclusion on the long-term illness scheme will be granted on appeal to a person (details supplied). [25163/19]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    388. To ask the Minister for Health if a wheelchair will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25164/19]
  • Medical Card Applications
    389. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application was closed even though the requested information was submitted on time for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal;...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    390. To ask the Minister for Health if all communication, correspondence and documents, or all of the above, between him, his office, his advisers, his Department and a person (details supplied)...
  • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
    391. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in reimbursement payment by the HSE to a person (details supplied) who availed of the cross-Border directive for a procedure six...
  • Medical Treatment Complaints
    392. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the misdiagnosis and termination of an unborn child at Holles Street following prenatal genetic testing that appeared to originally confirm the...
  • Abortion Services Provision
    393. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that sufficient infrastructural and staff supports are in place to support the implementation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of...
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    394. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private companies and organisations providing mental health services under contract with the HSE; the amount paid to same in 2017, 2018 and to...
  • Paediatric Services
    395. To ask the Minister for Health if investigations have been carried out into appointing a paediatric neurology team to an area (details supplied); the service in place for neurology patients...
  • Bed Availability
    396. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-term bed made will be made available to a person (details supplied). [25238/19]
  • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
    397. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate a speech and language therapist for Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25239/19]
  • Hospital Car Parks
    398. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation of the €10 cap on hospital car park charges will be introduced to the car parks in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda,...
  • Medical Conditions
    399. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 833 of 26 March 2019, if he will report on the consideration of the report of the working group on the model of care for...
  • Hospital Facilities
    400. To ask the Minister for Health when the building to house the MRI scanner for the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar will commence (details supplied). [25256/19]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    401. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [25258/19]
  • General Practitioner Services Provision
    402. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the shortage of general practitioner services at Ballymore health centre, County Westmeath (details supplied). [25269/19]
  • Respite Care Services Provision
    403. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions which can be made for obtaining respite care for a person (details supplied). [25271/19]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    404. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment from the breast clinic in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he...
  • Mental Health Services Funding
    405. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25280/19]
  • Hospital Facilities
    406. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress on the modular units at South Tipperary General Hospital; when the units will be open for patients; the stage the recruitment process is...
  • Hospitals Capital Programme
    407. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress on the capital project at St. Patrick's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; the completion date; the funds allocated and ring-fenced for...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    408. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided following approval of a transport place for a person (details supplied) in order that they can be transported from their...
  • Home Help Service
    409. To ask the Minister for Health when home help providers who have not received mileage costs will receive same (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25284/19]
  • Medical Conditions
    410. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used here to diagnose ME as described under G.93.3 WHO, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10); if the HSE will be...
  • Health Services Staff
    411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the lack of specialist consultants for ME patients; his views on whether ME is a multi-system disease involving many areas with many...
  • Medical Conditions
    412. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to update its diagnostic and treatment procedures for persons with ME to reflect best international practice; if he will address...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    413. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an urgently required MRI scan conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25294/19]
  • Mental Health Services Provision
    414. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment and treatment from the child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will make a...
  • Care of the Elderly
    415. To ask the Minister for Health if a health and safety report will be released on a unit which was being used to provide services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    416. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [25299/19]
  • Protected Disclosures
    417. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether a threat by a person (details supplied) to call the authorities on a whistleblower at University Hospital Limerick to be a form of...
  • Site Acquisitions
    418. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider purchasing a property (details supplied) to be used as a resource for community members, including persons with disabilities; and if he...
  • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
    420. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the efficiency of resources in the Cross Border Directive office in view of the volume of claims it receives from patients accessing...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    421. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to put in place a consent form to be signed by sperm donors granting permission for them to be added to a central register; when this...
  • Home Help Service Data
    422. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will communicate with persons on waiting lists to advise them that new and additional hours are suspended; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Home Help Service
    424. To ask the Minister for Health if the attention of the HSE was drawn to the intention to move to a fair deal type scheme for homecare; if so, the date on which its attention was drawn to...
  • European Court of Justice Rulings
    425. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has budgeted for the implementation of a ruling by the European Court of Justice (details supplied); if so, the budget allowed for implementation of...
  • Home Help Service
    427. To ask the Minister for Health the additional procedures put in place to safeguard persons in the community that await a service; if the timeframe for reviewing the needs of persons has been...
  • Health Services Staff
    428. To ask the Minister for Health the specific implications for healthcare support assistants in terms of envisioned change to their current working structure or terms and conditions of...
  • Home Help Service
    430. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the decision has been taken to reduce care hours in view of the fact the revised contract in WRC agreements guaranteed additional hours and states...
  • HSE Staff Data
    433. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on HSE staff attending meetings, paperwork, time and travel negotiating and partially implementing the WRC agreement of 2017; the areas this...
  • Open Disclosures Policy
    434. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) allegedly issued a perceived threat against a senior clinician that had requested...
  • Home Help Service
    436. To ask the Minister for Health the purpose the fair deal for homecare income will be used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25352/19]
  • HSE Expenditure
    438. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours paid to the national committee for the healthcare support assistant staff in addition to HSE staff that were involved in reaching an...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    439. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the WRC agreement of 2017 has not been fully implemented to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25355/19]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the ENT outpatient waiting list at Roscommon County Hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form;...
  • Primary Medical Certificates Data
    441. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for primary medical certificates in counties Roscommon and Galway to date; the number of applications awaiting assessment in both...
  • Cancer Services Provision
    442. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25361/19]
  • Health Services Provision
    443. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has paid an interim travel payment as agreed until a procedure is in place in respect of calculating actual travel time to healthcare support...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    444. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to use the WRC agreement of 2017 which sets out a clear vision for the role of healthcare support assistants; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Home Care Packages
    445. To ask the Minister for Health if the full cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment process has been completed in respect of switching to a fair deal model for home care; and if he will...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
    447. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add motor neurone disease to the list of illnesses covered by the long-term illness scheme; when the long-term illness scheme was last updated;...
  • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
    448. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to access occupational therapy adult services in County Roscommon to date; the number on waiting lists for priority one, two and...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    449. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited with an orthopaedic surgeon in the Regional Midland Hospital, Tullamore, for a person (details supplied). [25374/19]
  • Court Judgments
    450. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has to ensure a ruling (details supplied) is implemented in full in compliance with legislation for all relevant staff groups; and if he will...
  • HSE Properties
    451. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount...
  • Home Care Packages Provision
    453. To ask the Minister for Health when an approved home support package will be in place for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25422/19]
  • Court Judgments
    454. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the attention of the HSE was drawn to a ruling (details supplied) and its legislative obligation to implement same; and if he will make a...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
    456. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for wheelchairs nationally; the number on a waiting list for the provision of wheelchairs in the HSE west; the number...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
    457. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce financial support or assistance for non-medical card holders who require a wig on a reasonably frequent basis as a result of alopecia;...
  • Home Care Packages Data
    458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Laois and Offaly approved for home help and home care hours; and the number of persons on the waiting list despite having...
  • HSE Funding
    460. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of financial support provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the non-financial supports provided to the...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    468. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of need will be carried out on a child (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ongoing delays in the case are...
  • Health Products Regulatory Authority
    469. To ask the Minister for Health the person or company that is the marketing authorisation holder for sodium valproate marketed here as Epilim; if the Health Products Regulatory Authority is...
  • Commencement of Legislation
    473. To ask the Minister for Health the sections of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which have not yet commenced; and the timeline to which he is working for the commencement of each [25480/19]
  • Hospital Services
    474. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the dual diagnosis clinical care programme in the absence of a clinical lead; the amount of the budget that has been spent and remains,...
  • Cancer Screening Programmes
    475. To ask the Minister for Health if women who are eligible for the review of cervical cancer slides by a body (details supplied) are not being included in the review due to the fact their...
  • Departmental Budgets
    476. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether his Department and the HSE will spend more than the budgeted voted expenditure in 2019; his further views on whether his Department will...
  • Home Care Packages Data
    477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours provided in each local health office area for each month to date in 2019, in tabular form; and the way it compares against the...
  • Health Services Staff Remuneration
    478. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2019 of the agreement for healthcare support assistants to be paid for the time it takes them to travel to persons' homes; the estimated full year...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
    479. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all inpatient and outpatient wait times in the south east in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by speciality in tabular form;...
  • Traveller Community
    480. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 437 of 29 January 2019, when the national Traveller health action plan will be published in view of the fact a commitment...
  • Home Care Packages Data
    481. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the €19.4 million indicated in the Health Service Executive, HSE, national service plan for full year cost in 2019 of 2018 home support...
  • Medicinal Products Availability
    484. To ask the Minister for Health if the contraception working group within his Department will meet with organisations (details supplied) in the course of its work. [25510/19]
  • Health Services Staff Data
    485. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 21 May 2019, the number of staff working in the health service in each of the years 2008 to 2018, by CHO in...
  • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
    488. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be reimbursed for treatment through the cross-border scheme. [25531/19]
  • Drugs Dealing
    489. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reintroduce the dial-to-stop drug dealing initiative in view of an increase in drug dealing, intimidation and violence; and if he will make a...
  • Drugs Crime
    490. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the proposed national awareness campaign on drug-related violence and intimidation to be carried out in 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Consultant Contracts
    491. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will facilitate all hospital consultants who were on the 1997 consultants contract that commenced before 2008 to switch to the 2008 contract arising...
  • Hospital Consultant Remuneration
    492. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and HSE salary scale rates for hospital consultants for each of the three types of contracts will be provided; the number of points on each...
  • Disability Support Services Provision
    493. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken and plans to take following his recent meeting with family members of a group (details supplied); when persons can expect to access the...
  • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
    494. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which delays are impacting the construction of the national children’s hospital; the potential extra cost to the project of the delays;...
  • Health Services Expenditure
    495. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been carried out to assess the cost differential between a patient staying in an acute bed versus receiving home help hours; the average...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    496. To ask the Minister for Health if an admission date for surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [25563/19]
  • National Children's Hospital
    497. To ask the Minister for Health if the design brief for the national children’s hospital will be published. [25606/19]
  • Health Reports
    498. To ask the Minister for Health when a report (details supplied) on the separation of public and private healthcare in public hospitals was received; and if the report will be published....
  • Health Services Provision
    499. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been no national roll-out of an eye care scheme for children aged more than eight years, in which children are discharged to community...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    501. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a date for a tonsillectomy from Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
  • Medical Card Eligibility
    502. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be considered for a discretionary medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25614/19]
  • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
    503. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials have met with their counterparts recently to discuss shared health services in the North-South area; if there is room for expansion of...

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