• Vaccination Programme
  1500. To ask the Minister for Health his views on childcare workers receiving the Covid-19 vaccine as a cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18202/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1501. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to ensure that data privacy of citizens is being protected in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic response, following recent reports...
• Legislative Reviews
  1503. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19513/21]
• Covid-19 Tests
  1504. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to implement mass Covid-19 antigen testing across the early years sector, focusing on areas with the highest infection rates. [20201/21]
• National Cervical Screening Programme
  1505. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received engagements from the Taoiseach in relation to CervicalCheck raised with the Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann by this Deputy on 8...
• Primary Medical Certificates
  1506. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications at hand to date; the number of applications waiting to be assessed; the number of applications that...
• Health Services
  1507. To ask the Minister for Health when computerised medical examinations for membership of medical governing bodies will resume given that frontline workers are vaccinated against the effects...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1508. To ask the Minister for Health if it is Government policy or if he supports the policy of refusing medical students and nursing students work placement in cases in which they have opted not...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1509. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting treatment for scoliosis in each county. [18103/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1511. To ask the Minister for Health the position of persons with Addison’s disease on the vaccine roll-out; his views on the frustration and lack of clarity experienced by those with...
• Health Services
  1513. To ask the Minister for Health when a diagnostic assessment will be carried out on a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18115/21]
• Cannabis for Medicinal Use
  1514. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide for the reimbursement of medicinal cannabis oil products PCBD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18116/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1515. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which high risk persons such as those with a BMI over 40 who are under general practitioner care and do not have a hospital team will be contacted...
• Hospital Equipment
  1516. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the X-ray unit at Killybegs Community Hospital is currently not operating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18129/21]
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  1518. To ask the Minister for Health the grant schemes available to those with medically certified mobility issues to assist in the purchase of mobility scooters; and if he will make a statement...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1519. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET officials draw a salary for their work as part of NPHET. [18140/21]
• Mental Health Services
  1523. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute mental health beds available from 2010 to 2020, by county in tabular form. [18144/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1525. To ask the Minister for Health if all citizens in the over 85s category have been vaccinated against Covid-19; and if so, the date the vaccinations for the over 85s category were completed....
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1526. To ask the Minister for Health the public health advice and opinion underpinning the continued ban on religious services, the restrictions on funeral services to only ten persons and...
• Data Collection
  1527. To ask the Minister for Health if the practice of amassing dossiers on children with autism involved in legal proceedings has been repeated or replicated across the health service. [18148/21]
• Protected Disclosures
  1531. To ask the Minister for Health if the prosecution of a person (details supplied) for information disclosed under a protected disclosure is being considered and prepared by his Department....
• National Cervical Screening Programme
  1532. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department compiles or keeps details on women or families who take or have taken legal cases against CervicalCheck and the HSE in relation to the...
• Hospital Staff
  1534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the reduction in the number of doctors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18158/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1535. To ask the Minister for Health when persons with multiple sclerosis will receive their Covid-19 vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18166/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1536. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 25 March 2021, the number of fines issued following the 590 checks on persons quarantining at home that were...
• Maternity Services
  1538. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prioritise the reintroduction of maternity support services in the reopening of the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18173/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1539. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that the recent events involving a hospital (details supplied) and the Covid-19 vaccine do not reoccur; and if he will make a...
• Medical Internships
  1540. To ask the Minister for Health the way he and the Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE plan to facilitate the commencement and completion of clinical placements by unpaid first, second and...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1541. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are included in the quarantine system for a family returning from the UAE who have a child with special needs; the way in which this child...
• Covid-19 Tests
  1542. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to events at a residential care facility (details supplied) as reported in the media; the steps he has taken to address same;...
• Health Services Staff
  1543. To ask the Minister for Health the main initiatives undertaken by his Department since 27 June 2020 to engage with healthcare assistants on the way their roles can be developed; and if he...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1544. To ask the Minister for Health his views on delays in childcare staff being contacted by public health regarding close contact notifications and the risk of the delays resulting in an...
• Vaccination Programme
  1545. To ask the Minister for Health if childcare workers will receive the Covid-19 vaccine as a group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18200/21]
• Health Screening Programmes
  1546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended a symptomatic breast disease clinic for a diagnostic test in each month from January 2020 to January 2021; and the...
• Vaccination Programme
  1549. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is over 70 years of age and has an underlying health condition will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a...
• Data Collection
  1553. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that no dossiers are held on families impacted by epilim - sodium valproate historically or otherwise. [18246/21]
• State Claims Agency
  1554. To ask the Minister for Health if the State Claims Agency attended any of the sodium valproate project group meetings; and, if so, the reason the agency would be in attendance of the...
• Vaccination Programme
  1555. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the actions of the CEO of a hospital (details supplied) in the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine was a misuse of State property; and...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1556. To ask the Minister for Health if patients with lupus were in category 4 and have subsequently been removed from the category (details supplied). [18252/21]
• Health Services Provision
  1557. To ask the Minister for Health when the gay men’s health service will reopen; the measures he is taking to ensure that staff and funding will be made available for the programmes and...
• Disability Services Provision
  1558. To ask the Minister for Health if measures have been put in place to ensure new referrals for assessment of need are seen in a timely fashion during the transition from current services to...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1559. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some children have not been contacted by psychologists directly (details supplied) under the children’s complex pain service at...
• HSE Complaints Procedures
  1561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints made to HSE local health offices regarding charges for phlebotomy services; the number of complaints upheld; the number of complaints...
• Covid-19 Tests
  1562. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has records of the number of homecare workers who have tested positive for Covid-19 during the past three months; and if he will make a statement...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1563. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place or that are about to be put in place for pregnant women in the context of the current and changing Covid-19 restrictions in order that...
• Vaccination Programme
  1564. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any Minister or Minister of State or adviser to a Minister or Minister of State who requested or suggested to the HSE or...
• Hospital Procedures
  1565. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can respond to a query (details supplied) regarding resourcing of maxillofacial surgery procedure presently suspended at University Hospital...
• HSE Waiting Lists
  1566. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting lists for appointments for therapies (details supplied) in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18281/21]
• Hospital Appointments Status
  1567. 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. [18285/21]
• HSE Funding
  1568. To ask the Minister for Health the current funding available for the technical aids scheme by CHO in tabular form; the funding drawn down between 2016 to 2020; the eligibility criteria to...
• Vaccination Programme
  1569. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the position of persons suffering with rheumatoid arthritis on the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out programme. [18287/21]
• Primary Care Centres
  1570. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned primary healthcare centre being developed at Station Road, Ennis. [18291/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1575. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy for exiting lockdown restrictions; the level of patients in hospital and in intensive care units that is required to allow further easing of...
• Vaccination Programme
  1576. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who had an appointment for vaccination at the Aviva Stadium, Citywest Convention Centre, Helix Theatre, and Technological University...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1581. To ask the Minister for Health if people entering Ireland who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 with a European Medical Agency approved vaccine will be exempted from mandatory hotel...
• Vaccination Programme
  1583. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made further to talks between a union (details supplied) and the HSE regarding the general practitioner provision of Covid-19 vaccines to persons...
• Maternity Services
  1587. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure priority is applied for the return of full maternity services in all hospitals (details supplied) in the coming period as...
• Hospital Staff
  1588. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No.1579 of 24 March, if he will consider extending standardised travel and accommodation allowances, the pandemic...
• HSE Data
  1589. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons from zero to 18 years of age who have a blind or vision impairment diagnosis in Ireland by community healthcare...
• Vaccination Programme
  1591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise all pharmacy staff for vaccination in which pharmacies will become central to vaccine roll-out not just pharmacists; and if he will make...
• Health Screening Programmes
  1592. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve access to sexual health testing for members of the LGBTQ+ community in areas of the country outside Dublin; and if he will make a...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1593. To ask the Minister for Health the person he has appointed as the designated appeals officer under the Health (Amendment) Act 2021 for Covid-19 detention facilities; the criteria in terms...
• Vaccination Programme
  1595. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vaccinators that have been recruited for the Covid-19 vaccination programme; the number of those recruited that are still awaiting deployment;...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1596. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address waiting lists for cataract operations; if the Sligo scheme is being considered as a strategy to tackle waiting times for...
• Vaccination Programme
  1597. To ask the Minister for Health if patients in category 4 will be identified by their attending hospital; if not, if they will need to identify themselves to their hospital; and if he will...
• Disability Support Services
  1600. To ask the Minister for Health if a school (details supplied) is to lose all onsite therapists, including speech and language therapists and occupational therapists as part of the...
• Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
  1602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the document in which it has been established that a blood test should not have been charged by the local general practitioner...
• Data Collection
  1603. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he proposes to take in relation to the dossiers maintained by his Department in respect of families and children as highlighted on a programme...
• Primary Care Centres
  1604. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding approval for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18404/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1605. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is participating in an EU Commission initiative on the monitoring of Covid-19 and its variants in wastewater and availing of funding from...
• Health Services Provision
  1606. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of orthognathic surgery provision in the south-east; and if a person (details supplied) will be given a date for a...
• Vaccination Programme
  1607. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the NIAC guidelines (details supplied) which advise the allocation of MRA vaccines to the immunocompromised; and if it will be ensured that...
• Health Services
  1608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied) in being recategorised in order that they can access transitional care funding while a fair deal application is...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  1609. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a gallbladder removal operation given the nature of their medical condition; and if he will make a...
• Hospital Staff
  1610. To ask the Minister for Health if there are staffing shortages at Cork University Hospital; if so, if he can account for these shortages; and if he can account for significant delays in...
• Nursing Homes Support Scheme
  1613. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding a fair deal scheme application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18450/21]
• Dental Services
  1614. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the dramatic decrease of dentists with dental treatment service scheme contracts in County Wexford between 2020 and to date...
• Vaccination Programme
  1617. To ask the Minister for Health if a residential care worker is deemed not fit to go back to work but cleared to return to work by their cardiologist will be permitted to return to work once...
• Primary Medical Certificates
  1618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications received in counties Galway and Roscommon, respectively, for each month in 2019, 2020 and 2021; the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason restrictions allow persons to meet outside but not in a private garden. [18462/21]
• Special Educational Needs
  1620. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to families that are forced to seek private assistance for children with diagnosis of dyslexia or dyspraxia due to the extensive...
• Alcohol Pricing
  1621. To ask the Minister for Health if the issue of minimum alcohol pricing in Ireland and in Northern Ireland will be discussed at future North South Ministerial Council meetings; and if he...
• Health Services Provision
  1622. To ask the Minister for Health the reason transfer of services between counties was delayed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18481/21]
• HSE Properties
  1623. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for HSE owned land at Coille Dios estate, Athboy, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18482/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate reports that a medical practice (details supplied) will only receive a vaccination delivery every two weeks which is causing...
• HSE Data
  1625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bariatric surgeries that have taken place each year since 2010 by region in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18491/21]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1626. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for all those waiting for bariatric surgery for three years or more, less than three years and less than 12 months by region in tabular form;...
• Disability Services Funding
  1627. To ask the Minister for Health if there are financial supports for the service providers directly or for the adults with disabilities that attend day services or that live in residential...
• Physiotherapy Services
  1628. To ask the Minister for Health if physiotherapy services will be reinstated in Our Lady's Hospital, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18496/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1629. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 956 of 10 March 2021, if the number of residents that have received their first and second vaccination against Covid-19,...
• Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
  1631. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the annual budget allocation inclusive of mainstream and interim funding allocated by his Department and drugs programmes to local drug and...
• Health and Social Care Professionals
  1633. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long to get their registered number to work here with the HSE during a pandemic; if the application will...
• Dental Services
  1634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18507/21]
• HSE Waiting Lists
  1635. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for ophthalmology services in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a...
• HSE Data
  1636. To ask the Minister for Health the number of syringes that have been procured to date; the timescales by which they have been delivered to date; the planned delivery of syringes over the...
• Health Services Provision
  1637. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it can be found possible to provide appropriate treatment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
• Vaccination Programme
  1640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been hired as Covid-19 vaccinators up until 31 March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18530/21]
• HSE Reports
  1644. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2015 report by two UK specialists into the HSE orthodontic service will be published; the reason the HSE has delayed the publication of the report;...
• HSE Reviews
  1645. To ask the Minister for Health when the full results from a recent audit of 7,500 patient files in public orthodontic services will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  1646. To ask the Minister for Health when staff in the Irish Prison Service can expect to be vaccinated. [18536/21]
• Data Collection
  1647. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure to be followed in relation to the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18549/21]
• Home Help Service
  1648. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 692 of 7 July 2020, if the home support waiting list review in County Wexford that was due to commence in Quarter 3 and...
• Health Services Staff
  1650. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of a psychologist for Wexford South CAMHS; the various recruitment steps which have been completed to date; the...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  1651. To ask the Minister for Health when a motorised wheelchair will be made available to a person (details supplied); if a risk assessment has been carried out as part of the process to provide...
• Vaccination Programme
  1652. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person (details supplied) who is in the vulnerable category and aged in the 18 to 64 years of age cohort can secure their Covid-19 vaccination...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  1653. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the allocation to a group (details supplied) in order that it can meet the demand for essential orthotics and footwear; and if he will...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1655. To ask the Minister for Health when clarity will be provided to couples planning weddings in May 2021 as to their guest numbers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  1656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will offer the HPV vaccine to all second-level students in 2022 who have not availed of it previously to ensure maximum take-up of the vaccine and that...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1659. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions will be made to ensure that Irish students in receipt of SUSI grant supports who are studying abroad and will be returning home for the summer...
• Vaccination Programme
  1660. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used to define the groups of persons in group 9 who are living or working in crowded settings; and the proposed arrangements to verify the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1661. To ask the Minister for Health the status of birthing partners and their access to prenatal appointments as well as the birth of the child; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Hospital Staff
  1664. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been in contact with a group (details supplied); and if he has given consideration to the request by the group that the HSE and hospital HR...
• HSE Data
  1665. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts paid by the HSE or other public bodies to a hospital (details supplied) in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021 for any services...
• Healthcare Policy
  1666. To ask the Minister for Health if preparations for a successor to the National Sexual Health Strategy are underway; if a successor strategy will be published; if the strategy will have a...
• Hepatitis C Incidence
  1667. To ask the Minister for Health the latest estimate of the number of patients living with hepatitis C in the State for each of the past five years; the progress made towards making hepatitis...
• Healthcare Policy
  1669. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a successor to the Healthy Ireland Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 to 2021; when an evaluation of the action plan will be published; and if he...
• Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
  1670. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in respect of implementing the recommendations of the National Policy and Strategy for the Provision of Neuro-Rehabilitation...
• Vaccination Programme
  1672. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a schedule for the approval and implementation of a vaccination program for vulnerable children with underlying conditions under 16 years of age;...
• Health Services Provision
  1673. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many trans persons are being forced abroad for surgery due to the lack of public healthcare surgery options...
• Healthcare Policy
  1674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a new model of care for trans persons by investing in surgery options here and providing training for general practitioners in order that...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  1675. To ask the Minister for Health if there are grants or supports available to subsidise the cost of purchasing a mobility scooter for those who need it; if there are no supports of this...
• Maternity Services
  1676. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 739 of 27 January 2021, the status of the suspension of water birth services; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  1677. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding changes to National Vaccination Programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18622/21]
• Health Services Staff
  1680. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to recruit a speech therapist for St. Joseph’s Hospital, Ennis, County Clare; when this post is expected to be filled; the...
• Cancer Services
  1681. To ask the Minister for Health when CAR T-cell therapy will be available in Ireland in view of the €8.18 million spend on same abroad by the HSE between 2019 and 2020; if he is...
• Healthcare Reimbursement Agreements
  1682. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of CAR T-cell therapy by the HSE; the reason for the delay regarding a decision on the reimbursement of same; if he is...
• Medical Qualifications
  1683. To ask the Minister for Health when pres level 3 medical exams will recommence; and the reason qualified medical doctors that have moved to Ireland but have not completed the pres exams due...
• HSE Data
  1684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have signed up to the Be on Call for Ireland database in each county; and the number that signed up that have been recruited to...
• Vaccination Programme
  1685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 16 to 69 years of age at very high risk of severe Covid-19 identified as part of group four of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out to...
• Health Screening Programmes
  1686. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons invited to take part in BowelScreen in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of persons screened through BowelScreen in each of...
• Vaccination Programme
  1688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting to receive a Covid-19 vaccine; the reason they have not been prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccine...
• Medical Cards
  1689. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce non-routine dental benefit for medical card holders that are also on a disability payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
• HSE Data
  1690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths in nursing homes in December, January and February of each year from 2017 to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
• Drugs Payment Scheme
  1691. To ask the Minister for Health if a query (details supplied) in relation to named medications being provided through the drugs payment scheme will receive a response; and if he will make a...
• Mental Health Policy
  1692. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made since 27 June 2020 to develop a Traveller and Roma mental health action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18685/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1697. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine has reverted back to 18+ year olds for the vulnerable at risk category (details supplied). [18696/21]
• Departmental Records
  1699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there are no dossiers held by his Department and or any other State bodies on a family (details supplied) in County Meath, whose...
• Health Services Provision
  1700. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if a care plan will be expedited; if they can remain in a facility; and if he will make a...
• Vaccination Programme
  1701. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who cannot social distance should be treated the same as a person without a disability in relation to the Covid-19 vaccine...
• Health Screening Programmes
  1702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons invited to take part in BreastCheck in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of persons screened through BreastCheck in each of...
• Primary Medical Certificates
  1703. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some physical examinations for a scheme (details supplied) cannot take place. [18720/21]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1705. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18723/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1706. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the various annual vaccination programmes; the level of uptake in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Health Services Provision
  1709. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being put in place for the healthcare of transgender young persons in Ireland given the exit of the UK based clinic (details supplied) from...
• Health Services Staff
  1715. To ask the Minister for Health the additional specialised staff that have been recruited in the area of transgender healthcare including endocrinologists, social workers, speech and...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1717. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median and maximum waiting time for surgeries across each discipline, speciality and hospital; the change for each in each of the years 2018 to...
• Vaccination Programme
  1718. To ask the Minister for Health the HbA1c threshold for a diabetic to be included in the vulnerable at risk priority for the Covid-19 vaccine. [18765/21]
• Hospital Car Parks
  1720. To ask the Minister for Health the value to each hospital in the State of the car parking charges system in each of the years 2018 and 2019, in tabular form; and if the system is under the...
• Health Services Provision
  1721. To ask the Minister for Health when adult day centres will be permitted to safely reopen given the vital role they play in supporting older persons to access social and health services in...
• Vaccination Programme
  1722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccinations administered to staff working in Tusla residential care and special care units; the number of Covid-19 vaccinations...
• Health Insurance
  1723. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address an issue with private health insurance policies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18785/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request his officials to investigate if a racecourse (details supplied) would be suitable for use as local Covid-19 mass vaccination centre for the...
• Health Services Provision
  1725. To ask the Minister for Health if a needs assessment and mapping exercise to identify the status of existing sexual health services and current gaps has been carried out as recommended in...
• HSE Staff
  1726. To ask the Minister for Health if there are vacancies in the community (details applied) within the HSE. [18805/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1728. To ask the Minister for Health if his recent decision to prioritise vaccinations based on age took full account of the cascade effect in schools in which Covid-related teacher absences and...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1729. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA has or plans on re-examining the emerging evidence regarding the efficacy of ivermectin as a prophylactic and treatment for Covid-19; and if he will...
• Healthcare Policy
  1730. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move from a psychiatric model of transgender healthcare to a model more in line with international best practice as outlined by the World Health...
• Health Services Staff
  1731. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position on waiting lists in the CHO 7 area for assessment of need; the breakdown if available by county; the number of staff employed in the...
• Primary Care Centres
  1733. To ask the Minister for Health the up to date position with the primary care centre in Newbridge, County Kildare; the services located there; the services operating at the moment; and if he...
• Health Services Staff
  1735. To ask the Minister for Health the nature and cost of the contract of the head of Covid-19 test and trace system of the HSE; if such a position is a secondment from a private company on a...
• Maternity Services
  1736. To ask the Minister for Health if a local implementation board has been established in 2011 for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda under the HSE obstetrics and gynaecology programme;...
• Vaccination Programme
  1738. To ask the Minister for Health if he or NIAC have considered evidence relating to risk from exposure in the alteration of the priority list. [18848/21]
• Psychological Assessments
  1741. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be assessed by a clinical psychologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18851/21]
• Tribunals of Inquiry
  1742. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred to date by the CervicalCheck Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18859/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1743. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue more detailed guidance on the definition of essential travel; if he considers family reunification as essential travel; and if he will make a...
• Home Help Service
  1744. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has awarded contracts for home help work to a service (details supplied); the costs of such contracts from 2010 to date; and the number of hours...
• Seirbhísí Sláinte
  1747. To ask the Minister for Health cén líon daoine sa stát a chuir lámh ina mbás féin, briste síos de réir contae agus de réir aoise, gach bliain...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting on surgery for breast cancer by three month intervals of time on the waiting list in tabular form; and if he will...
• Hospital Data
  1751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer operations of the breast, prostate, colon, rectal, lung, ovarian and oesophageal that took place in each year since 2016, in tabular...
• Mortality Rates
  1753. To ask the Minister for Health if death rates in the elderly have coincided with vaccination; if his Department is reviewing corollary data between vaccination and deaths occurring; the way...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1754. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the security firms carrying out the security related work in respect of the Covid-19 mandatory hotel quarantine regulation; if security staff...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1755. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18900/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1756. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately reconsider easing restrictions on outdoor gatherings, outdoor activities and outdoor hospitality services in view of the recent data...
• Suicide Incidence
  1757. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up a real time suicide data programme on a national basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18905/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1758. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to increase the uptake of the HPV vaccine; the steps he will take to make the vaccine available to persons that did not take it up in...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1759. To ask the Minister for Health the provision he plans to make for persons in mandatory hotel quarantine that have a need to provide care for children or others; and if he will make a...
• Covid-19 Tests
  1762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce regulations to ensure that all persons working in the mandatory Covid-19 detention facilities will be regularly tested for the virus; and...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1763. To ask the Minister for Health the consultations he has had with communities from migrant backgrounds here when drawing up lists of countries subject to mandatory quarantine in detention...
• Vaccination Programme
  1766. To ask the Minister for Health if all persons employed as vaccinators will be fully vaccinated in advance of being deployed to administer vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Ambulance Service
  1767. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a discrepancy between grades of staff within the National Ambulance Service and the grades of paramedic and advanced paramedic (details...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1768. To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought advice from the Chief Medical Officer or NPHET regarding the position of fully vaccinated persons and mandatory hotel quarantine; if so, if...
• Departmental Records
  1769. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up a full independent investigation into revelations of secret dossiers on autistic children in his Department; if all affected persons will be...
• Disability Services Provision
  1770. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 630 of 16 June 2020 and 766 of 8 December 2020, the position regarding appointments for a child (details supplied) in...
• Hospital Data
  1771. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures carried out at a new purpose built maternity theatre (details supplied) in each of the years 2004 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if...
• Health Services Provision
  1772. To ask the Minister for Health when the gay men's health service will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18936/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1773. To ask the Minister for Health the additional costs incurred by the HSE in being forced to reschedule vaccination appointments as a result of the error that saw messages informing patients...
• Hospital Services
  1774. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed new development of 96 bed units at University Hospital Limerick will result in a net overall increase of 96 beds for the hospital; the number...
• Hospital Staff
  1775. To ask the Minister for Health when the new paediatric rheumatologist will commence in Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18945/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1776. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve the IT system for the vaccination roll-out; if he will improve logistical communication and prevent scam messages for...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1778. To ask the Minister for Health if persons that own holiday homes and mobile homes within their county will be permitted to stay in same once the five kilometre travel limit is extended to...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  1779. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18954/21]
• Mortality Rates
  1781. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the level of excess mortality within nursing homes between January and February 2020; if an independent inquiry will be carried out to...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1783. To ask the Minister for Health if essential workers such as a petroleum engineer based in Bashara, Iraq, will have to quarantine every time on arrival here. [18965/21]
• Health Services Reports
  1784. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE or his Department has concluded its review into the mortuary services at University Hospital Waterford; the current status of the review; and if he...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases for the months of February and March 2021, respectively; the number of these cases in which contact tracing was carried...
• Tribunals of Inquiry
  1787. To ask the Minister for Health the latest date in which he communicated with a group (details supplied) in relation to the setting up and operation of the CervicalCheck tribunal; the nature...
• Vaccination Programme
  1789. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an age breakdown of Covid-19 vaccines administered to the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18976/21]
• Health Services Provision
  1790. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to provide free IVF treatment through the public health system, as promised and for which €3 million has been announced; and...
• Maternity Services
  1791. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure maternity and maternity support services such as ante-natal classes are returned to normal as soon as possible following the end of the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1792. To ask the Minister for Health if a person with a positive Covid-19 test as of 26 March 2021 which will remain positive for three months can enter the country from Canada without the need...
• Health Services Provision
  1793. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied). [18989/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1794. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to the difficulties faced by couples who are currently separated and living in different countries due to Covid-19; the plans...
• Health Promotion
  1795. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to the need to promote increased movement and physical exercise as Covid-19 restrictions ease; the plans that exist to reverse...
• Vaccination Programme
  1797. To ask the Minister for Health when front-line healthcare staff under sequence group 2 at a centre (details supplied) will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1799. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation can be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18999/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1800. To ask the Minister for Health if the onus will be on pharmacies to book persons in for vaccinations through their own booking systems and websites and so on; and if there will be a central...
• Health Screening Programmes
  1801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received a diagnostic test at a symptomatic breast disease clinic in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the percentage of...
• Cancer Services
  1802. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who were on active cancer treatment in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the percentage of these patients that were admitted...
• Vaccination Programme
  1803. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered any evidence in relation to those with a family history of severe clotting disorders and the risk of clotting disorders associated with...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1805. To ask the Minister for Health the number of flights arriving here between March 2020 and to date that had a passenger on board who tested positive for Covid-19; the number of close...
• Dental Services
  1806. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE collect and monitor any data relating to adult waiting lists for dental treatment provided under the dental treatment service scheme; the way in...
• Disability Services Provision
  1807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in CHO 5; the number waiting less than three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months respectively...
• Dental Services
  1809. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for children awaiting orthodontal treatment in County Wexford; the breakdown of the length of waiting time in tabular form; and if he...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1811. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be updated guidance issued for residential care settings on two Covid-19 vaccinated persons being allowed meet indoors; and if he will make a...
• Health Services Staff
  1813. To ask the Minister for Health if the psychiatrist position in Kilrush day hospital has been filled in relation to the Kilrush health centre; if a review is taking place of the services...
• Mental Health Services
  1814. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts that are currently in the mental health services in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19042/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1816. To ask the Minister for Health when pharmacy staff will be offered the vaccine as these persons are also frontline workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19049/21]
• Health Services Expenditure
  1817. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding spent on creating an ehealth personal profile card for every citizen in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form. [19051/21]
• HSE Expenditure
  1818. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent on IT in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form. [19052/21]
• Healthcare Policy
  1819. To ask the Minister for Health if he needs to produce legislation in order to provide an ehealth system that will provide health information on every resident in Ireland; and if so, when he...
• Vaccination Programme
  1820. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vaccine doses that will be delivered here by companies (details supplied) by month and vaccine provider in tabular form. [19054/21]
• Health Services Provision
  1822. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied). [19061/21]
• Tobacco Control Measures
  1823. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of tobacco plain packaging on levels of smoking and the health benefits resulting from that policy; and the estimated number of lives that are...
• Hospital Services
  1825. To ask the Minister for Health if the bed capacity of a hospital (details supplied) is being reduced in order to increase storage for wheelchairs; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1826. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be seen for a hip replacement. [19079/21]
• Eating Disorders
  1827. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made under the national eating disorder treatment plan launched in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19080/21]
• Assisted Human Reproduction
  1831. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation and the progress being made to amend the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 and the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill...
• Dental Services
  1832. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the issue of orthodontic services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19087/21]
• Disability Services Provision
  1833. To ask the Minister for Health when full-time residential care will be made available to a person (details supplied). [19091/21]
• Hospital Data
  1837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have presented to the accident and emergency department in Tallaght Hospital with suicidal ideation; the number of the patients...
• Health Services Staff
  1838. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinicians in each CHO that have been redeployed from early intervention and school age disability teams into assessment of needs posts; and if...
• HSE Data
  1839. To ask the Minister for Health the number and name of all home care providers for older persons used by the HSE; the cost of same in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the number of home help hours...
• Disabilities Data
  1840. To ask the Minister for Health the number and name of all private providers of disability residential care for the HSE; and the number of disability residents currently in privately run...
• Disability Services Funding
  1841. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full cost of funding to all private providers of disability residential care contracted by the HSE in 2018, 2019 and 2020 excluding nursing...
• Vaccination Programme
  1842. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any priority based on age in the vulnerable at risk category of persons aged 16 to 64 years in the roll-out of the vaccine; and if he will make a...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1844. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19116/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1845. To ask the Minister for Health the Covid-19 vaccine drug product manufacturing and supply strategy to combat variants of the Covid-19 virus; the way in which vaccine booster supplies will...
• Ophthalmology Services
  1847. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to an ophthalmologist (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19123/21]
• Medical Internships
  1849. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1356 of 24 March 2021 (details supplied), if he will guarantee that student radiographers will be treated the same as...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  1850. 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. [19134/21]
• Medicinal Products
  1851. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in September 2020 the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics refused reimbursement for the life-changing gene...
• Maternity Services
  1854. To ask the Minister for Health the status for birthing partners in maternity wards with the easing of restriction. [19144/21]
• Dental Services
  1856. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to dental care for children attending primary school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  1857. To ask the Minister for Health if persons aged 16 with underlying conditions such as cystic fibrosis that are hesitant to return to the classroom due to the infection risk but do not...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1858. To ask the Minister for Health if tourist visits with the purpose of family reunification will be considered as essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19169/21]
• Hospital Data
  1859. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a diagnostic scan less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular...
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
  1860. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO...
• Audiology Services
  1861. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO...
• Health Services
  1862. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by...
• Podiatry Services
  1864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area...
• Speech and Language Therapy
  1865. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for speech and language therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months...
• Occupational Therapy
  1866. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for occupational therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1867. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case active waiting list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by...
• Maternity Services
  1868. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had with the heads of maternity hospitals on lifting restrictions for birthing partners. [19180/21]
• General Practitioner Services
  1869. To ask the Minister for Health if there are training schemes available to general practitioners regarding the care of transgender patients especially following gender confirmation surgery;...
• Eating Disorders
  1870. To ask the Minister for Health if plans for public treatment facilities for eating disorders have been stalled; the reason for the delay; and if he has plans to get them back on track....
• Vaccination Programme
  1871. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of each mass vaccination centre to the Exchequer to date in tabular form; and if each vaccination centre is operating. [19186/21]
• Speech and Language Therapy
  1872. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait times for children on the waiting list for initial speech and language therapy assessments by CHO; the number of children on the waiting list...
• Eating Disorders
  1874. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the delay in delivery of the National Eating Disorder Treatment Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19199/21]
• Counselling Services
  1879. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults on the waiting list for counselling services in County Wexford; the breakdown of waiting times for this list; and if he will make a...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1881. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will give consideration to permitting gyms to open for rehabilitation patients for those under the care of a general practitioner or a...
• Primary Medical Certificates
  1882. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications waiting to be assessed in 2021; the number of applications that were on the waiting list from 2016...
• Vaccination Programme
  1883. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has underlying health conditions will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19242/21]
• Home Help Service
  1885. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on home help hours for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19246/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1886. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19249/21]
• Health Services Staff
  1887. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinicians in CHO 4 that have been redeployed from early intervention and school age disability teams into assessment of needs posts; and if he...
• Paediatric Services
  1889. To ask the Minister for Health if developmental checks for babies have fully resumed; if a plan has been put in place to ensure any backlog is cleared; and if he will make a statement on...
• Births Data
  1891. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born by month in 2020 and to date in 2021. [19254/21]
• Mental Health Services
  1892. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women treated clinically for postnatal depression in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [19255/21]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  1894. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress of the ambulatory elective hospital in Cork; and the expected timeline of completion. [19257/21]
• General Practitioner Services
  1896. To ask the Minister for Health if SouthDoc has outlined criteria by which it will judge the deterioration of the Covid-19 situation and withdraw the planned reopening of SouthDoc in...
• Disability Services Data
  1901. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for an assessment of needs in Cork North Lee services in March 2020 and in April 2021. [19264/21]
• Addiction Treatment Services
  1904. To ask the Minister for Health the mitigation strategy that was put in place for the closure of residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation beds due to Covid-19; the increase in waiting...
• Gambling Sector
  1906. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has engaged with the Department of Justice on the gambling control Bill. [19269/21]
• Hospital Data
  1907. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled outpatient and inpatient orthopaedic surgeries in the CUH in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by month in tabular form. [19270/21]
• Citizens' Assembly
  1908. To ask the Minister for Health the work his Department has engaged in to prepare for the proposed citizens' assembly on drugs; if a working group has been established; if the terms of...
• National Drugs Strategy
  1909. To ask the Minister for Health if, after consideration of the data by the relevant departmental group, he will publish the mid-term review of the national drugs strategy; and if so, the...
• Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
  1910. To ask the Minister for Health the funding to be provided to drug and alcohol task forces in 2021, by task force. [19273/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1911. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter relating to a Covid-19 vaccine certificate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19274/21]
• Drugs Payment Scheme
  1913. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add cariban, xonvea and navalem to the approved drugs list under the drugs payment scheme; and the treatments available under the drugs payment...
• Maternity Services
  1915. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise the return of all maternity services including the return of cancelled antenatal classes and access to support during all stages of...
• Vaccination Programme
  1916. To ask the Minister for Health if CHO7 vaccinated the staff in schools (details supplied). [19293/21]
• Hospital Staff
  1920. To ask the Minister for Health if the Ireland East Hospital Group has rejected a locally approved business case for a clinical psychologist, an integral part of the multidisciplinary team...
• Primary Care Centres
  1922. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary care centre at Boot Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [19299/21]
• Health Services Provision
  1925. To ask the Minister for Health when normal services of an organisation (details supplied) such as day centres will resume. [19305/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1926. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19309/21]
• Addiction Treatment Services
  1927. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for persons to access gambling addiction counselling by quarter in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of...
• Dental Services
  1931. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives being taken to improve dental and orthodontic services in the south-east especially in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
  1932. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation plan for the National Neurorehabilitation Strategy, including clear timelines for same; and if he will make a statement on...
• Vaccination Programme
  1933. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a case of patients unable to get the Covid-19 vaccination (details supplied) in County Clare [19334/21]
• Speech and Language Therapy
  1934. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the way in which alternative therapies used to treat speech and language difficulties such as music and equine therapies are certified; and if...
• Hospital Services
  1935. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 749 of 17 November 2020, if the feasibility study on St. Stephen’s Hospital, Glanmire has recommenced; if not,...
• Departmental Strategies
  1936. To ask the Minister for Health the number of actions of the 87 to 96 in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy 2017 to 2021 that have been completed; and if he will make a...
• Health Services Staff
  1937. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish eye clinic liaison officer positions in ophthalmology clinics outside of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19348/21]
• Hospital Staff
  1938. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to establish an eye clinic liaison officer position at Waterford University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19349/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1939. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to whether an Irish citizen returning here in difficult circumstances, humanitarian grounds for example if a family member is dying...
• Vaccination Programme
  1940. To ask the Minister for Health the options a person has with a history or a family history of thrombosis in choice of Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19351/21]
• Departmental Funding
  1941. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a proposal for funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19359/21]
• Departmental Advertising
  1942. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended by the HSE on advertising related to Covid-19 awareness campaigns from March 2020 to date in 2021; the print, online and broadcasting...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1943. To ask the Minister for Health if merchant navy, seafarers and professionally trained maritime crew travelling abroad for work-related purposes fall within the grouping of essential...
• Dental Services
  1946. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental staff currently employed by the HSE in County Longford in tabular form. [19373/21]
• HSE Data
  1949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists employed by the HSE on a full-time basis in County Longford. [19376/21]
• Hospital Services
  1950. To ask the Minister for Health the intended timeframe for the opening of the remaining 11 beds in Monaghan General Hospital, per the winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  1951. To ask the Minister for Health the primary legislation, statutory instrument or other legal mechanism or requirement underpins the need for those applying to deliver vaccines against...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1952. To ask the Minister for Health if the P1 variant of Covid-19 has been detected in any meat plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19386/21]
• Medical Internships
  1953. To ask the Minister for Health if all student nurses and midwives that are on placement are receiving the €100 allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19392/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of the P1 variant of Covid-19; the attributed source for these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19393/21]
• Eating Disorders
  1955. To ask the Minister for Health if he will improve the treatments available for person's with an eating disorder; if he is committed to implementing in full the eating disorder treatment...
• General Practitioner Services
  1956. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the availability of general practitioner services in the area of Midleton, County Cork is sufficient to cater for current local...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1957. To ask the Minister for Health if residents in mandatory hotel quarantine with specific dietary requirements allergies, kosher and so on will receive meals in line with their requirements;...
• Suicide Incidence
  1962. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that are being given to improve data collection regarding suspected cases of suicide which will help develop proactive suicide prevention...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1963. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the need for mandatory quarantining passengers who transit from countries on the mandatory hotel quarantine list; and if he will make a...
• Suicide Prevention
  1964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paid providers of safe talk suicide awareness courses in counties Longford and Westmeath. [19437/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1968. To ask the Minister for Health when frontline staff at a facility (details supplied) in County Mayo will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19456/21]
• Medical Cards
  1969. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is being requested to provide documentation previously forwarded to the client registration unit in order to process a...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1970. To ask the Minister for Health if IVF patients that have to travel abroad for treatment are exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine given that IVF treatment is extremely time sensitive; and...
• Hospital Services
  1971. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the proposed closure of the medical assessment unit in Mallow General Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Care of the Elderly
  1972. To ask the Minister for Health if the programme highlighted in the recent document prepared by a person (details supplied) and published in December 2020 will be expanded once the Covid-19...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1977. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity on medical or humanitarian grounds for exemption from quarantine (details supplied); the decision making process behind making...
• Ambulance Service
  1978. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time it takes for an ambulance to arrive at a scene after a call was received; and the number on a response area basis. [19484/21]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1980. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on hospital outpatient waiting lists; the number of persons waiting on a six month incremental basis; and the number on a...
• Drugs Payment Scheme
  1981. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement process for zolgensma; the progress made on this issue to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19490/21]
• Mental Health Services
  1982. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to a mental health organisation (details supplied) in order for it to continue operating; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Maternity Services
  1983. To ask the Minister for Health if patients have a right to be informed of the risks of vaginal birth after caesarean; if a fully independent hospital wide review of vaginal birth after...
• Vaccination Programme
  1987. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to offer another vaccine to those under 30 years of age in view of the links between a vaccine (details supplied) and blood clots, particularly in...
• Assisted Human Reproduction
  1988. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to re-draft the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19514/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  1991. To ask the Minister for Health if clarification will be provided on the new criteria for vaccine roll-out; the dates on which those in the 65 to 69 years of age cohort are likely to be...
• Medicinal Products
  1992. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) to make first-line treatments available under the medical card and drug payment scheme; his...
• Alcohol Pricing
  1993. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the continuation of below cost selling of alcohol as a loss leader by supermarkets...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1995. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the points raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on...
• Vaccination Programme
  1997. To ask the Minister for Health the expected cost of the contract for pharmacists to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19537/21]
• Disability Services Data
  2001. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinicians in CHO 9 who have been redeployed from early intervention and school age disability teams into assessment of needs posts; and...
• Mental Health Services
  2007. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for Jigsaw; the average waiting time in CHO 9 in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form;...
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
  2008. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for CAMHS; the average waiting time in CHO9 in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
• Speech and Language Therapy
  2009. To ask the Minister for Health if he has paused the roll-out of the Progressing Disability Service programme in its current format and will ensure that no special school including a school...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  2011. To ask the Minister for Health when FreeStyle Libre will be available for patients with type 1 diabetes aged over 21 years of age through the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a...
• Maternity Services
  2012. To ask the Minister for Health the maternity hospitals that are allowing partners to attend scans in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19563/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2014. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doses of the flu vaccine that were administered in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19565/21]
• Abortion Services
  2015. To ask the Minister for Health his views on protests of a distressing nature outside the Maternity Hospital, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19581/21]
• Dental Services
  2017. To ask the Minister for Health his views on changing to the Dentists Act 1985 to allow change to the scope of practice for dental hygienists to work independently from dentists; his views...
• Maternity Services
  2018. To ask the Minister for Health when the status of expectant mothers' partners will be changed to allow them attend maternity screenings, classes and births; and if he will make a statement...
• Vaccination Programme
  2019. To ask the Minister for Health the number of housebound persons over 70 years of age who have not yet received the Covid-19 vaccination; the reason for the slow roll-out of vaccinations to...
• Primary Care Centres
  2022. To ask the Minister for Health the details of a hub (details supplied) for CHO 2; the location of the hub; the number and type of specialist multi-disciplinary teams of clinicians to be...
• Departmental Budgets
  2026. To ask the Minister for Health the annual budget for his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2019; and the proportion of that budget that was allocated to the HSE or other...
• Vaccination Programme
  2028. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are being made for the allocation of unused Covid-19 vaccinations. [19623/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2031. To ask the Minister for Health the matters included in the National Pandemic Management Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19632/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2038. To ask the Minister for Health if postnatal mothers will be considered for priority vaccination given their vulnerability and necessity to protect themselves and their newborn babies; and...
• Maternity Services
  2039. To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards in place to support women with postpartum depression; if additional supports will be provided considering escalation of stress and anxiety that...
• HSE Legal Cases
  2040. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims lodged with the CervicalCheck Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19660/21]
• Dental Services
  2041. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an orthodontic appointment for a child (details supplied); if an appointment will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2042. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a care pathway for those suffering from long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19667/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2043. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients with MS that are being told by their consultants that they have a low immune system are not on the list of patients being called for the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2044. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) and their companion who are travelling abroad for vital medical reasons do not have to undergo mandatory hotel quarantining;...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  2049. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the approval of the FreeStyle Libre device for diabetic patients who are medical card holders [19686/21]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2052. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting surgery, by speciality, and length of time spent on a waiting list, by monthly periods, in each of the years 2018 to 2020,...
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  2053. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of capital project funding applied for each year since 2015 inclusive, by hospital groups; the details and general summary of the project; the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2055. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will issue guidance, in conjunction with the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, on the reopening date for mobile home parks....
• Health Services Staff
  2056. To ask the Minister for Health the locations at which there are paediatric anaesthetists employed, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19696/21]
• Health Services
  2057. To ask the Minister for Health the locations at which an MRI machine is available, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19697/21]
• Health Services Staff
  2058. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dietitian posts approved, filled and vacant for mental health services in the south east; the length of each vacancy; and if he will make a...
• Mental Health Services
  2059. To ask the Minister for Health if mental health service patients will have access to a dietitian at the primary care unit in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19699/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2062. To ask the Minister for Health when the legal mechanism allowing for mandatory hotel quarantine is due to expire; the issues that will be considered when it expires; and if he will make a...
• Health Services Staff
  2064. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent approved posts for consultant anaesthetists at each location; the number filled and vacant; the basis on which they are filled; and...
• Vaccination Programme
  2065. To ask the Minister for Health the number vaccinated in a mass vaccine centre (details supplied); the number of cancellations; the number of no-shows within each group in tabular form; and...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2067. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative options available to parents who are attempting to secure an autism assessment for their child but who cannot afford to wait the time via the...
• Disability Services Provision
  2071. To ask the Minister for Health when the report on Prader-Willi syndrome will be published; the extent to which matters arising are in hand with a view to meeting the concerns of families...
• Hospital Services
  2075. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the current closure of St. Michael's unit, a ten-bed facility in Beaumont Hospital; and if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is...
• Vaccination Programme
  2077. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who fall into the very high risk and high risk category as per the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Mental Health Services
  2079. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the staffing shortages in the Ballyfermot mental health services (details supplied). [19761/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2080. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue a directive requesting the HSE to ensure that patients from a general optician practice (details supplied) receive their overdue vaccines as...
• Foster Care
  2081. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 195 of 17 September 2020, the status of the Farrelly Commission in relation to the Grace case; when the report of the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2082. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which variants of concern are detected as an issue in the context of differing levels of sequencing across the EU; if all EU states have equal...
• Home Help Service
  2084. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment for home help will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19781/21]
• Medicinal Products
  2085. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve Ireland’s performance on access to new medicines relative to other western European countries; and if he will make a statement on...
• National Cancer Strategy
  2086. To ask the Minister for Health his position in relation to the national cancer strategy and placing Ireland in the top quartile in Europe for cancer survival; and if he will make a...
• Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
  2087. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations made in a report by a company (details supplied) in respect of the HSE's systems, structures, processes and governance for reimbursing...
• Medicinal Products
  2089. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to publish a national biosimilars policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19796/21]
• Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
  2090. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines and indications added to the reimbursement list in 2020 and to date in 2021; when they were added during the period; and if he will make a...
• Maternity Services
  2091. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken in order to improve treatment options for women experiencing miscarriages; if additional funding will be available for research in this...
• Vaccination Programme
  2094. To ask the Minister for Health the specific schemes or supports that will be put in place for those who suffer complications or side effects, such as vaccine induced prothrombotic immune...
• Appointments to State Boards
  2095. To ask the Minister for Health if all vacancies (details supplied) are advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19817/21]
• Ophthalmology Services
  2096. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a proposal (details supplied) to resource seven additional eye clinic liaison officer posts around the country; his plans...
• Vaccination Programme
  2097. To ask the Minister for Health the Covid-19 vaccination centres currently in use; the date from which each of these centres is in use; the number of persons who have been vaccinated in each...
• Prisoner Transfers
  2100. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners that have been transferred to the Central Mental Hospital in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19835/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2103. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to permit indoor social settings (details supplied) to reopen and or resume activities for the cohorts of persons fully vaccinated in view of the...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2104. To ask the Minister for Health when access to required health services including urgently required investigative procedures can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied);...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2105. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who have to travel abroad for medical treatment under the treatment abroad scheme every six to eight weeks to a country with which Ireland has...
• Appointments to State Boards
  2106. To ask the Minister for Health if any person can apply for a position (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19872/21]
• Drugs Payment Scheme
  2107. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19881/21]
• HSE Expenditure
  2108. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to provide additional funding through the HSE to an organisation (details supplied) in 2021 in view of the demand for its services and the extra...
• Assisted Human Reproduction
  2110. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1097 of 31 March 2021, the status of the roll-out of phase one of the model of care for infertility at secondary level;...
• Maternity Services
  2113. To ask the Minister for Health the in-hospital and community supports available to women who miscarry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19890/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2114. To ask the Minister for Health the examination he has undertaken on the possibility of exemptions from the mandatory hotel quarantine system for Irish students studying abroad as a result...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2115. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19896/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2117. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the appeals process operates in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine; the appeals officer in this regard; if a further appeal is possible...
• Dental Services
  2118. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding access to dentistry in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19900/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2119. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which the policy of mandatory hotel quarantine will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19903/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2120. To ask the Minister for Health when the 1,700 NDI approved driving instructors will receive a Covid-19 vaccination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19905/21]
• Mental Health Policy
  2122. To ask the Minister for Health when the revised terms of reference of the national implementation and monitoring committee, NIMC, as signed off at the meeting of the NIMC steering committee...
• Maternity Services
  2123. To ask the Minister for Health if he will institute a review in relation to the practice of not permitting a birthing partner to be present with persons giving birth due to Covid-19...
• Drug Treatment Programmes
  2124. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on methadone maintenance therapy in each county; the length of time patients spend on such therapy on average by county; and the...
• Mental Health Services
  2125. To ask the Minister for Health when the appropriate mental health service will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Ambulance Service
  2127. To ask the Minister for Health if private ambulance services have been contracted by CHOs to support the National Ambulance Service roll-out of group 3 (details supplied); and if he will...
• Vaccination Programme
  2128. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the key performance indicators or associated metrics that will be used to monitor the vaccination centres over the coming weeks and months that...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2129. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding public services which remain restricted while at level 5 in view of the new roadmap for reopening the country which refers to the...
• Vaccination Programme
  2131. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccine that has been provided to student nurses; if it is still the position of his Department and the HSE to force student nurses to take a Covid-19...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a link to or advise of the location in which to access the regulations in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine. [19928/21]
• Ophthalmology Services
  2133. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be provided to resource additional eye clinic liaison officer posts in ophthalmology clinics that provide service outside Dublin;...
• Electronic Health Records
  2134. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in relation to plans to implement an acute electronic health record system in the new national children’s hospital; and if he will make a...
• Health Services Reform
  2136. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement financial corporate systems to improve accountability and ensure funds can follow patient activity; and if he will make a statement on...
• Electronic Health Records
  2138. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of plans to implement a digital maternity system to support the National Maternity Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19948/21]
• Ophthalmology Services
  2140. To ask the Minister for Health the number of eye clinic liaison officer posts in ophthalmology clinics by county; if he will fund seven posts resourced through the HSE to provide the...
• Nursing Home Inspections
  2141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of neglect in nursing homes reported by the HSE and HIQA in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19956/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints in relation to visiting restrictions in nursing homes received by HIQA and the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Dental Services
  2143. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for orthodontic treatment. [19959/21]
• Disability Services Provision
  2144. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in signing an agreement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19964/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2145. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Covid-19 vaccine group 1 who are housebound that are still waiting to receive their vaccination from the National Ambulance Service...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2147. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received or sought legal advice from the Attorney General or otherwise on the legality of denying vaccinated residents of long-term residential care...
• Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
  2148. To ask the Minister for Health when the application for approval of the drug patisiran will be considered again under the Health Act 2013 for the treatment of hereditary...
• Vaccination Programme
  2151. To ask the Minister for Health if the home vaccination scheme is operational for those who are seriously incapacitated and cannot leave their home; and if not, when this scheme will...
• Cannabis for Medicinal Use
  2152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that medical cannabis accessed regularly and legitimately by patients and their family on their behalf from sources outside the State is...
• Health Services
  2153. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who has had a procedure (details supplied) and now requires medication for life can be reimbursed medical costs; and if he will make a statement...
• Vaccination Programme
  2154. To ask the Minister for Health the operational status of each of the mass vaccination centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19990/21]
• Drugs Payment Scheme
  2164. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HPV vaccine is not covered under the drug payment scheme; if this will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20001/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2165. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has indemnified all Covid-19 vaccines; and if the HSE and his Department have received claims from persons as result of side effects from the...
• Hospital Data
  2166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in acute mental health wards that are occupied by persons with neurological disorders waiting to access long-term care. [20005/21]
• Hospital Transfers
  2167. To ask the Minister for Health the discharge options available to persons who have dementia in a hospital setting if they need to avail of long-term care for the first time. [20006/21]
• Hospital Data
  2168. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of operating a bed in an acute mental health ward. [20007/21]
• Hospital Transfers
  2171. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for patients transferring from mental health care to long-term care facilities such as a person (details supplied). [20010/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2172. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE have a centralised reporting system for flagging the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines; and if so, the details of the way the...
• Eating Disorders
  2173. To ask the Minister for Health the services in place to treat young persons in County Wexford with an eating disorder; the plans in place to expand any eating disorder services for County...
• Disability Services Data
  2174. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for disability psychology services for children in County Wexford; the length of waiting time for same in tabular form; and if he...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2175. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to level 5 restrictions will receive a response. [20034/21]
• Health Services
  2176. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) is a section 29 organisation. [20035/21]
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2177. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting in excess of three years for an appointment with a pain relief specialist at...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were subject to mandatory hotel quarantine in Dublin who have paid for their quarantine costs to date; and if he will make a...
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  2179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will carry out an urgent review of the Cross-Border Directive that is being administered by the HSE following recurrent problems with the compatibility...
• Health Services Staff
  2180. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding pay restoration for staff. [20046/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been vaccinated at a location (details supplied) from the date the centre opened to date; and if he will make a statement on...
• Palliative Care Services
  2182. To ask the Minister for Health the private nursing homes in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary that have agreed to provide palliative care beds to the HSE if required following the closure...
• Substance Misuse
  2183. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation in which communities in County Clare are finding one hit kit packages with needles; if he will instruct his...
• Vaccination Programme
  2184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise SNAs in the vaccine roll-out programme alongside all healthcare workers. [20053/21]
• Abortion Services
  2185. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the payments issued to date to each of the 352 general practitioners providing termination of pregnancy services within the HSE; and if he will...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2186. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend Statutory Instrument No. 168 of 2021 in order that those who have had Covid-19 can meet with others who have had Covid-19 from one other...
• Vaccination Programme
  2189. To ask the Minister for Health if the national immunisation advisory committee advisory group on cardiovascular patients has considered the HSE national heart programme submission which...
• Health Services
  2191. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on a waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20087/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2192. To ask the Minister for Health the expedited vaccine pathway that can be provided for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20090/21]
• Hospital Staff
  2193. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant paediatric transplant and hepatobiliary surgeons with a special interest in kidney transplantation at CHI Temple Street,...
• Health Services Staff
  2195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff by job title working in Corduff and Blanchardstown primary care centres, Dublin 15. [20102/21]
• Nursing Home Accommodation
  2196. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is involved in the closing and sale of a nursing home (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and the future plans for the site. [20103/21]
• Speech and Language Therapy
  2198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a primary care speech and language therapy appointment by CHO, LHO, age and time waiting. [20110/21]
• Occupational Therapy
  2199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a primary care occupational therapy appointment by CHO, LHO, age and time waiting. [20111/21]
• Mental Health Services
  2200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for community psychology services by CHO, LHO, age, category and time waiting. [20112/21]
• Home Care Packages
  2201. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for homecare package applications by CHO and LHO. [20113/21]
• Mental Health Policy
  2202. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake an urgent review of the allocation of mental health services to young persons; the areas in which gaps in provision of services exist by...
• Vaccination Programme
  2203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered to and administered by general practitioners to date by county, local authority area and each clinic or general...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2205. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding visitors at a hospital (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20123/21]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age currently on a waiting list for inpatient day case at the end of March 2021 or the latest date available by...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2213. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for the national gender clinic. [20140/21]
• Ambulance Service
  2215. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation that developed recently in Borris, County Kilkenny (details supplied). [20143/21]
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2216. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive orthodontic treatment in the dental hospital. [20153/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that arrived here in each week from 22 March 2021 to date that had been in a designated state in the previous 14 days; the number from...
• Vaccination Programme
  2219. To ask the Minister for Health if a vaccine (details supplied) is being administered to cohort 3 given the revised policy that it is safe and effective for those over 70 years of age; and...
• Health Services Staff
  2220. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to its request for an additional seven eye clinic liaison officer posts; if these posts will...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2221. 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. [20163/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2222. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary IT database exists to roll-out the EU digital green cert system in Ireland in a timely manner to allow freedom of movement for vaccinated...
• Covid-19 Tests
  2224. To ask the Minister for Health when walk-in Covid-19 testing will be available in Cork city. [20175/21]
• Medical Cards
  2226. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20183/21]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2227. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting lists for treatment of paediatric rheumatology in terms of numbers on the lists and the delay in getting a service; the number of...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints that have been received by his Department in relation to the violation of the rights or poor treatment of persons staying in...
• Vaccination Programme
  2232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 80 years of age who are confined to the home who have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and have yet to receive their...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2236. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the ending of partner restrictions in maternity settings; and the criteria for the removal or easing of the restrictions. [20231/21]
• Departmental Bodies
  2237. To ask the Minister for Health the attempts made to reflect the wide diversity of opinion in society on the definition of best practice and an evidence-based approach to pregnancy...
• Speech and Language Therapy
  2239. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve waiting times for speech and language assessments in north Dublin CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Diabetes Strategy
  2240. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost to the State of treatments and monitoring for persons with type 1 diabetes; the current cost of finger prick meters, lancets and glucose...
• Ambulance Service
  2243. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which staff within the National Ambulance Service are supported when diagnosed with PTSD; the policies and procedures in place to support them; the...
• Hospital Groups
  2247. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the art catalogues for each of the seven hospitals within the RCSI hospital group (details supplied); the name of each artwork, the artist and...
• Vaccination Programme
  2248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccination appointments have been cancelled per week since 1 March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20263/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2251. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to designate Covid-19 specific hospitals in order that other hospitals would be available to deal with all non-Covid-19 health issues; and...
• Vaccination Programme
  2252. To ask the Minister for Health the approximate vaccination and non-vaccination rates within each of the priority groups which have received or are currently receiving a Covid-19 vaccine...
• Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
  2254. To ask the Minister for Health the health and social care occupation groups which must now dual register in Ireland and Northern Ireland in which they practice on both sides of the Border;...
• Hospital Staff
  2255. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time midwives employed in the Coombe Women's Hospital in each of the past three years to date in 2021; if this number will be further...
• Departmental Reports
  2256. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his views on same; the progress on the implementation of an e-prescribing system; and if he...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2258. To ask the Minister for Health if the policy to permit two fully vaccinated persons to meet indoors also applies to nursing home residents receiving outside visitors; and if he will make a...
• Speech and Language Therapy
  2259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for speech and language therapy by CHO, age category and length of time they have been waiting, in tabular form. [20307/21]
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2260. 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. [20308/21]
• Drugs Payment Scheme
  2261. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add drugs for treatment for hyperemesis gravidarum to the drugs payment scheme; the approved drugs list for the condition under the drugs...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2262. To ask the Minister for Health the options he is considering for students returning from abroad for the summer or Irish citizens who are otherwise repatriating in relation to mandatory...
• Medicinal Products
  2263. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the medication Epidiolex; when it will be approved for reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20340/21]
• Cannabis for Medicinal Use
  2264. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the medication PCBD-110; if it will be approved for addition to the medical cannabis access programme or otherwise approved for prescription and...
• Departmental Inquiries
  2269. To ask the Minister for Health the terms of reference of the sodium valproate inquiry; when this inquiry will be established; the status of the planned inquiry; and if he will make a...
• HSE Staff
  2270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline any additional staff recruitment per discipline and by team that was undertaken in CHO 4 in each of the years 2018 to 2020 to address the...
• HSE Data
  2271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social prescribers by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20365/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2272. To ask the Minister for Health if doctors in south County Kerry will receive vaccines for persons aged from 70 to 85 years of age (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2273. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new Killarney community hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20369/21]
• HSE Reports
  2275. To ask the Minister for Health when an implementation group will be enacted to progress the recommendations of the HSE Report of the National Psychology Project Team: Establishment of a...
• HSE Funding
  2276. To ask the Minister for Health when ongoing funding and sponsorship of psychology training programmes will be expanded to include counselling and educational psychology; and if he will make...
• HSE Staff
  2277. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new whole-time posts in the HSE by discipline since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic; the number of these posts that have been filled; the...
• Vaccination Programme
  2278. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to encourage undocumented immigrants to avail of the Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20377/21]
• Hospital Staff
  2281. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant gynaecologist posts in CHO9 by hospital. [20419/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2283. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of persons who were due to receive a vaccine (details supplied) in a location on 15 April 2021 who...
• Departmental Funding
  2286. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funding for a training programme run by an organisation (details supplied) will cease in June 2021; and if...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  2288. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for FreeStyle Libre submitted by individual hospitals for persons with diabetes over 21 years of age in each of the years 2017 to...
• Diabetes Strategy
  2289. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the chronic care model; if it will be extended to all persons with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20450/21]
• Hospital Staff
  2290. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to allow doctors practising in Ireland who are from non-EU countries to progress through their careers at the same rate as their Irish...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2292. To ask the Minister for Health if a young person returning home from New York after completing a graduate internship could have the costs of their mandatory hotel quarantine covered by the...
• Dental Services
  2293. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 5 November 2020 and the response of the HSE (details supplied), the number of applications that were successful...
• Hospital Services
  2294. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive inpatient physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20461/21]
• Cannabis for Medicinal Use
  2295. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering or has consulted with the Minister for Justice on amendments to the legislation underpinning current access to medical cannabis products...
• Adoption Authority of Ireland
  2296. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 651 of 10 March 2021, if correspondence will be made available to this Deputy which was forwarded to his Department in...
• Dental Services
  2297. To ask the Minister for Health the status of orthodontic treatment for a child (details supplied); when they will receive an appointment for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2298. 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. [20499/21]
• Disability Services Provision
  2299. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a residential facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20502/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 70 years and over in counties Louth and Meath who have been registered by general practitioners to be vaccinated in their own homes...
• Mental Health Services
  2301. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve waiting times for psychological treatment and support in north Dublin CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Home Help Service
  2302. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to ease the shortage of home help care providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20522/21]
• General Practitioner Services
  2304. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical card holders are having to pay for a €10 charge for required phlebotomy tests; and if he will...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2305. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider plans during the exit of level 5 to prioritise streamlining supports for persons at all stages of pregnancy and birth given that the...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2306. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the waiting times for urology in CUH; the number of persons on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20528/21]
• Health Services
  2307. To ask the Minister for Health the resources he is providing to assist persons with Prader-Willi syndrome and their carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20541/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2310. To ask the Minister for Health if additional stock of hotel quarantine rooms have been made available; the amount of stock available for mandatory hotel quarantining; and if he will make a...
• Mental Health Services
  2311. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to support one to one counselling and psychotherapy services to assist those delivering the services in the private sector to...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2313. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider changes to the mandatory Covid-19 detention system to facilitate returning students from Erasmus programmes, other student exchanges and...
• Hospital Services
  2315. To ask the Minister for Health when a public MRI facility will be provided on a permanent basis at Wexford General Hospital as was announced in the 2019 Health Capital Plan; if he will...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2317. To ask the Minister for Health when the announced capital works for a 75-bed unit at Wexford General Hospital will commence; the allocated funding for this unit for 2021 and 2022; and if he...
• Mental Health Services
  2318. To ask the Minister for Health if it is planned to provide acute psychiatric beds at Wexford General Hospital; the arrangements for acute psychiatric treatment currently available for the...
• Hospital Car Parks
  2320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clamping fines paid in each hospital in each month in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of appeals allowed in each case in tabular form....
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2321. To ask the Minister for Health if a person returning to Ireland from one of the designated mandatory hotel quarantine countries who was receiving essential medical treatment abroad and will...
• Departmental Investigations
  2322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal firms corresponded with by his Department arising from a recent television programme (details supplied); the number of files identified in...
• Legislative Measures
  2324. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to seek an extension in relation to those provisions of Part 3 of the Health Act 2020 that are due to expire in June 2021; the factors that will...
• Tribunals of Inquiry
  2325. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the CervicalCheck Tribunal; if there has been further engagement with a group (details supplied); the actions taken to address the concerns of...
• Vaccination Programme
  2326. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for his recent decision relating to vaccine prioritisation by age as distinct from societal cohort; the reason essential workers in populated...
• Primary Care Services
  2327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 1 April 2021 or the latest date available; and the number...
• Counselling Services
  2332. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a counselling appointment in primary care as of 1 April 2021 or the latest date available; and the number...
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
  2333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment in primary care as of 1 April 2021 or the latest...
• Health Services
  2335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours currently being provided in each LHO area as of 1 April 2021 or the latest date available; the way in which this compares to...
• Nursing Homes Support Scheme
  2336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 1 April 2021 or latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of...
• Hospital Data
  2337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients that have been removed from outpatient lists in 2021 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an...
• Medical Cards
  2338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 April 2021; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a...
• Hospital Data
  2339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of March 2021; and the number to date in 2021, in tabular form. [20604/21]
• Emergency Departments
  2341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 or over that experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours during March 2021; the number to date in 2021;...
• Hospital Data
  2343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital at the...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 April 2021 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 9, 9 to...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2386. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a psychological assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20658/21]
• Eating Disorders
  2389. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure the opening of the 16 proposed specialist treatment hubs for eating disorders; if funding for the national eating disorder...
• Health Services Staff
  2390. To ask the Minister for Health if the Finglas and Cabra drug task force projects receiving funding to employ staff via HSE grant aid agreements, City of Dublin Youth Services Board and the...
• Vaccination Programme
  2391. To ask the Minister for Health when all housebound persons over 70 years of age will receive their first Covid-19 vaccination from the National Ambulance Service; the reason the...
• Nursing Homes Support Scheme
  2392. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the reform of the fair deal scheme relative to farming families; his plans to carry out a general review of the scheme and the way it has...
• Hospital Facilities
  2393. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the progression of the 50-bed new St. Joseph's Hospital in Ardee, County Louth; if he will provide other relevant details in...
• Primary Care Centres
  2394. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed east Meath primary care centre; if a site has been secured; if so, the full list of services that will be provided on-site; the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2396. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the capacity of the Covid-19 contact tracing system; the number of positive cases the system can cater for including close contacts of...
• Health Services Funding
  2397. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of funding provided to regional sexual healthcare centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20695/21]
• HSE Properties
  2399. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for the 6.42 acre site that was purchased in 2003 at a cost of €2,441,500 adjacent to Louth County Hospital, Dundalk. [20697/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2401. To ask the Minister for Health the practical procedures which must be followed by a person flying into Ireland but who is exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine as a result of a mandatory...
• Vaccination Programme
  2402. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who is in the 65 to 69 years of age cohort and is uncomfortable receiving a vaccine (details supplied) can opt out of this cohort and wait until...
• Health Services Provision
  2403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting lists for PrEP treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20705/21]
• Health Insurance
  2404. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the lifetime community rating for health insurance can be examined on a case by case basis given that in some cases the amount the...
• Hospital Staff
  2405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time radiographers working in University Hospital Limerick in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
• Gender Balance
  2407. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts his Department is making to achieve gender balance on all State boards and agencies under the remit of his Department; if he will set out the...
• Vaccination Programme
  2409. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners in rural practices will be provided with vaccines to vaccinate persons aged 60 to 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on...
• HSE Legal Cases
  2410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and or families of women currently involved in court cases, litigation and negotiation with the HSE regarding the alleged misreading of...
• Health Screening Programmes
  2413. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1445 of 24 March 2021, if he will request the HSE to respond to a question (details supplied). [20752/21]
• Cancer Services
  2414. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 730 of 17 February 2021, the way he received confirmation on a matter (details supplied) in relation to CervicalCheck ;...
• Vaccination Programme
  2415. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HPV vaccinations administered in the State in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [20754/21]
• Special Educational Needs
  2417. To ask the Minister for Health if services at a school (details supplied) will be retained. [20762/21]
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2418. 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. [20767/21]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2419. To ask the Minister for Health if exceptions can be made in the case of a person (details supplied). [20768/21]
• Health Services Provision
  2420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse visits that have been missed in 2020 and to date in 2021 with new mothers by CHO area broken into specific areas under CHO...
• Disability Services Provision
  2421. To ask the Minister for Health if he will proactively co-ordinate stakeholders’ engagement in relation to the future of a service (details supplied) in view of the serious concerns...
• Dental Services
  2422. To ask the Minister for Health if St. Joseph's Community Hospital, Stranorlar, County Donegal will continue to be used to provide dental treatment to patients; and if he will make a...
• Health Services
  2423. To ask the Minister for Health if residential care will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20791/21]
• Long-Term Illness Scheme
  2424. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add i-ports for children to the long-term illness scheme or otherwise reimburse costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20792/21]
• Vaccination Programme
  2425. To ask the Minister for Health the plans and timelines for the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in County Donegal for housebound persons by the National Ambulance Service; and if he will make a...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify a matter regarding mandatory hotel quarantine in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Blind Welfare Allowance
  2429. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to regional variation that exists in the payment of blind welfare payment with many HSE offices refusing to make the payment...

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