Written answers

Thursday, 1 July 2021

  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    359. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the University Maternity Hospital Limerick went against a risk assessment carried out by its internal...
  • Vaccination Programme
    361. To ask the Minister for Health if pregnant healthcare workers and high-risk pregnant healthcare workers are being prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations according to the current priority...
  • Disease Management
    362. To ask the Minister for Health if he will designate fibromyalgia as a rare disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28419/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unborn children known to have been adversely impacted through the prescription of sodium valproate; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services
    364. To ask the Minister for Health when respite homes will be able to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28421/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    366. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate and the filling of the four currently unfilled...
  • Health Promotion
    367. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of action item 3.13 of the National Breastfeeding Action Plan which pertains to the WHO Code of Marketing of Breast-milk...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    368. To ask the Minister for Health if information will be provided on egg freezing for women who have had a cancer diagnosis specifically those who will need to have a hysterectomy due to...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    370. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation will be clarified regarding inward travel to Ireland from Canada by Irish citizens who have received one dose of a vaccine (details supplied);...
  • Health Services Staff
    371. To ask the Minister for Health when will the four currently unfilled epilepsy nurse specialist posts approved in 2018 will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28504/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    372. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate which he announced in November 2020; the timeline to establish a...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners who have been vaccinated to date against Covid-19; the number vaccinated who are over 60 years of age; the number vaccinated who are...
  • Health Services Staff
    374. To ask the Minister for Health the current turnaround time for applications for physiotherapist registration to an agency (details supplied); the average turnaround time in each of the years...
  • Disability Services
    375. To ask the Minister for Health when a report (details supplied) commissioned into Prader-Willi syndrome is due to be published and the recommendations implemented; and if he will make a...
  • Health Strategies
    376. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of action item 3.13 of the National Breastfeeding Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28509/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    378. To ask the Minister for Health if the classification of services into categories of essential and non-essential work is still being implemented as the restrictions are eased from level 5;...
  • Departmental Data
    381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons resident in the State that are known or estimated to live with congenital disabilities as of April 2021. [28532/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the provision of swimming lessons; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Legal Services
    384. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s total spend on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28535/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    386. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered adding a suitable product for those with epilepsy to the Medical Cannabis Access Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    387. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in relation to persons travelling to Ireland who have been fully vaccinated with any of the WHO and EMA approved vaccines following the...
  • Health Services Staff
    389. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to ensure that hospital staff are supported in doing their work during the extraordinary situation in which they find themselves...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    390. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the increased waiting lists that will result from the suspension of many procedures due to the recent cyber-attack. [28663/21]
  • Cybersecurity Policy
    391. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he plans to take to prevent to the greatest extent possible the reoccurrence of a similar cyber-attack. [28664/21]
  • National Maternity Hospital
    392. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the transfer of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to St. Vincent’s Hospital; the timelines for developing the new...
  • Hospital Facilities
    393. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to move four maternity hospitals from their current locations to be co-located with an acute adult hospital: Holles Street, the Coombe, the...
  • Health Services
    394. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 781 of 10 March 2021, the status of the work undertaken by CHO6 to reopen the GMHS; the progress made to date regarding...
  • Medicinal Products
    396. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the prospective reimbursement of a drug (details supplied); the status of same following the meetings which were scheduled to take place...
  • Vaccination Programme
    397. To ask the Minister for Health if the period between the doses of a vaccine (details supplied) can be reduced for those in the over 60 years of age category. [28670/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    398. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters in relation to the Covid-19 hub (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Covid-19 Tests
    399. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28672/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    401. To ask the Minister for Health the status update on the development of a registry to record women who have been prescribed sodium valproate during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement...
  • Health Strategies
    403. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his work on the implementation of action Item 3.13 of the National Breastfeeding Action Plan which pertains to the WHO Code of Marketing of...
  • Medicinal Products
    404. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is actively considering the purchase of the drug partisan for use by sufferers of familial amyloidosis; if there is a projected timeframe for the...
  • Abortion Services
    405. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his plan for a review of the Termination of Pregnancy Act 2018; the form this review will take; if it will include hearings or submissions from...
  • Medicinal Products
    406. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to progress the recommendations of the special Dáil Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution report, specifically its...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    407. To ask the Minister for Health the number of guests who will be permitted at wedding ceremonies and receptions over the coming months. [28822/21]
  • Health Services Staff
    409. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter in relation to the provision of pharmacists (details supplied) in Kenmare Community Hospital will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    410. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the temporary assistance payment scheme available to nursing homes will continue beyond 30 June 2021, having regard to the ongoing risk...
  • Primary Medical Certificates
    411. To ask the Minister for Health if a primary medical certificate will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28826/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    412. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in care homes are not allowed indoor or home visits; the HSE guidelines in relation to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Vaccination Programme
    414. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination options that are available for those who are housebound and unable to travel to their general practitioner or local vaccination centre and do...
  • Health Strategies
    415. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE National Steering Group responsible for implementation of the neurorehabilitation framework will next meet; if meetings will take place on a...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    416. To ask the Minister for Health if those members of staff who had been transferred from mental health services to supplement Covid-19 services will be returned to mental health services; and...
  • Health Services Staff
    417. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment made in the programme for Government to fill positions for consultants, psychiatric nurses and in peer support in mental health...
  • Hospital Services
    418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons presenting at accident and emergency units for Beaumont Hospital, the Mater Hospital and James Connolly Memorial Hospital,...
  • Health Strategies
    419. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the omission of heart valve disease from the list of conditions addressed in the National Heart Programme, which includes diabetes, asthma, COPD...
  • Health Services
    420. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list procedures provided to patients who are covered under the general medical scheme for the treatment of heart valve disease; the proportion of...
  • Hospital Admissions
    421. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private patients treated in public hospitals for heart valve disease; the details of the proportion of patients treated using transcatheter...
  • Healthcare Policy
    422. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has taken a position on the HIQA recommendation contained in its Health Technology Assessment of transcatheter aortic valve...
  • Hospital Procedures
    423. To ask the Minister for Health the regional breakdown of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement procedures performed throughout the State on a regional...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    424. To ask the Minister for Health the status of antigen testing usage in a return to international travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28901/21]
  • Health Services
    425. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28912/21]
  • Hospital Services
    426. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation in a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28913/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    427. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) will be included on the drug payment scheme for pregnant women. [28930/21]
  • Health Services
    428. To ask the Minister for Health if public health nurses will be provided with bilirubin meters for conducting checks on newborn babies in order that they do not have to be sent to a general...
  • Vaccination Programme
    429. To ask the Minister for Health when residents of direct provision centres will receive their Covid-19 vaccine given that their need is particular acute due to rules prohibiting re-entry to...
  • Primary Care Centres
    430. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned primary care centre based in Drimnagh, Dublin 12 which was committed to, planning permission granted but never completed under his...
  • Vaccination Programme
    431. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is waiting five weeks for the Covid-19 vaccine and has contacted the HSE helpline several times will receive confirmation...
  • Health Services Staff
    434. To ask the Minister for Health when persons in the health care sector (details supplied) will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29048/21]
  • Vaccination Programme
    435. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that residents living on the Kilkenny side of counties Wexford and Kilkenny border in Ferrybank are being asked to...
  • Health Services Staff
    436. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that night nursing staff at a community nursing home (details supplied) in County Mayo are not adequate; the steps...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    437. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29051/21]
  • Vaccination Programme
    438. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to provide vaccination to the thousands of undocumented persons who are residing in Ireland; the process that will be put in place in relation...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    439. To ask the Minister for Health if the temporary assistance payment scheme for nursing homes will be continued beyond June 2021; if any engagement has taken place with nursing home...
  • Covid-19 Tests
    440. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions are in place for an adolescent with very profound sensory issues who has to travel for essential reasons but who is not able to withstand the PCR...
  • Medicinal Products
    441. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that is in place for persons wishing to avail of dupixent (details supplied); his plans to relax the criteria to allow more persons to avail of...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    442. To ask the Minister for Health if the two reports of the Expert Group on the Role of Ventilation in Reducing Transmission of Covid-19 sent to NPHET can be made publicly available; and if he...
  • Nursing Homes
    444. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of building and fitting out a 20-bedroom public nursing home on a greenfield site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29097/21]
  • Mental Health Services
    445. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were treated for a gambling addiction in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29098/21]
  • Dental Services
    446. To ask the Minister for Health the current extent of public orthodontic services in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29099/21]
  • Health Services
    447. To ask the Minister for Health when day care services will be allowed to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29102/21]
  • Abortion Services
    448. To ask the Minister for Health if the scheduled three-year review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 will be conducted independently of his...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    450. To ask the Minister for Health if the temporary assistance payment will be continued into the future (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29107/21]
  • Vaccination Programme
    451. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to vaccination; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    452. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the temporary assistance payment scheme for nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29109/21]
  • Health Services
    453. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a child (details supplied) will be expedited in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29110/21]
  • Dental Services
    454. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who are currently providing services under the medical card scheme; the number of dentists who have withdrawn from providing services...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    455. To ask the Minister for Health if advice and clarification will be provided on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29112/21]
  • Health Service Executive
    456. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable practice across the health service for patients receiving end of life care at a hospital to be moved into a nursing home;...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    457. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to easing restrictions on nursing home visits to permit fully vaccinated residents to leave their care homes for walks with...
  • Health Strategies
    458. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Ireland’s progress on implementing via legislation the WHO Code of Marketing on Breast-milk Substitutes; and if he will make a statement...
  • Vaccination Programme
    460. To ask the Minister for Health if higher numbers of vaccines will be allocated to local general practitioners in rural areas to facilitate the vaccination of persons who cannot travel to...
  • Official Engagements
    463. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to meet with his counterpart in Northern Ireland further to his invitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29169/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    464. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the temporary assistance payment scheme to support the nursing home sector and that no cliff-edge will present with regard to Covid-19...
  • Vaccination Programme
    465. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements put in place for persons in their 60s who have refused a vaccine (details supplied) to avail of an alternative vaccine; and when are they due...
  • Health Services
    466. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 17 December 2020, if HSE Community Healthcare West has signed a lease for an alcohol treatment centre in Galway...
  • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
    467. To ask the Minister for Health if a measure will be introduced to provide equal treatment to patients (details supplied); and if medical cannabis products will be funded at source the same...
  • Health Services Staff
    468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assistant psychologists currently working in a voluntary capacity within HSE services in relation to the recent advertisement for unpaid...
  • Health Services
    469. To ask the Minister for Health the new supports that will be forthcoming from his Department in 2021 and 2022 for the 40,000 persons living with epilepsy in Ireland; and if he will make a...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    471. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the temporary assistance scheme to support private and voluntary nursing homes with additional costs due to coronavirus Covid-19; and if...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    472. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider amending the current legislation to allow outdoor drive-in movies and cinemas to operate at present; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Procedures
    473. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) in need of urgent surgery. [29212/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    474. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which research has been undertaken or can be undertaken expeditiously with a view to availing of high standard air purification equipment which...
  • Covid-19 Tests
    475. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of the antigen test will be utilised more readily in order to facilitate international travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29222/21]
  • Mental Health Services
    476. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the Minister expects to update the mental health services in line with modern requirements having particular regard to ongoing commentary...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    477. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which projects such as the new children’s hospital, the new national maternity hospital, Naas General Hospital and others such projects...
  • Vaccination Programme
    478. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the roll-out of vaccines continues at pace in line with expectations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29225/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    479. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which rare and orphan drugs are being cleared for use and reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29226/21]
  • Mental Health Services
    480. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that the standard, quality and accessibility to mental health services is likely to be improved; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Healthcare Policy
    481. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which the administration of health services is moving towards the provisions set out in Sláintecare; the expenditure to date arising...
  • Health Services Staff
    482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts remaining to be filled in the Kildare psychology services; the efforts currently in hand to address this issue; and if he will make a...
  • Mental Health Services
    483. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that modern child and adolescent assessments can be made available to children with such requirements in County Kildare; and if he will...
  • Health Services
    484. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which actions are in hand to minimise the recent cyber-attack on the most sensitive of services provided by the HSE including oncology,...
  • Hospital Services
    485. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has examined and approved the plans for the reopening of general hospital services, post-Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Dental Services
    486. To ask the Minister for Health when the appropriate action will be taken to ensure the provision of full-scale orthodontic treatment for children; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services
    487. To ask the Minister for Health when a paediatric service (details supplied) will resume in University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29262/21]
  • Mortality Rates
    488. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Research Board have not conducted an analysis of drug and alcohol deaths since 2017; and when it plans to publish such a study again....
  • General Practitioner Services
    490. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of SouthDoc Blackpool. [29265/21]
  • Hospital Admissions
    492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of alcohol-related admittances to hospitals in 2020 and to date in 2021, by month in tabular form. [29267/21]
  • Health Services
    494. To ask the Minister for Health when an organisation (details supplied) will resume providing services to older persons; the timeline for reopening; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Mental Health Services
    495. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit more clinical psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29270/21]
  • Disability Services
    496. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the disability capacity review report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29271/21]
  • General Practitioner Services
    497. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the free general practitioner care for under 8's will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29272/21]
  • Dental Services
    498. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the primary school dental programme is set to resume for vital check-ups and follow-up dental care; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services
    499. To ask the Minister for Health the provision for a paediatric emergency department and urgent care facility or outpatient appointments service for children in Naas hospital that is planned;...
  • National Children's Hospital
    500. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the emergency department unit in Tallaght University Hospital will be wound down and moved to the new children’s hospital as part of...
  • Vaccination Programme
    501. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be offered a date for vaccination; the way in which the person can register given that they have been unable to source a...

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