Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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714. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for the recruitment of an additional full-time consultant paediatric endocrinologist for CHI Temple Street. [43899/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Funding for all service developments, including additional posts, is considered in the first instance as part of the annual estimates process, in the context of overall prioritisation of available funding. This is currently ongoing for 2022.

I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, with an update on the paediatric endocrinology service at CHI at Temple Street.

Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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715. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting 20 additional full-time Parkinson's disease nurse specialist posts in 2022. [43900/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy, as soon as possible.

Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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716. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time transplant and pulmonary hypertension pharmacists at the Mater Hospital in each of the years of 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [43901/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.