Written answers

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

  • School Facilities
    164. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the public health supports available to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45751/21]
  • Departmental Contracts
    165. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1072 of 28 April 2021, the costs paid to those same companies from March to September 2021. [45279/21]
  • Ambulance Service
    166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances in Cork city and county in each of the years 2016 to 2021, by ambulance depot in tabular form. [45283/21]
  • Departmental Functions
    168. To ask the Minister for Health the legislative powers underpinning the office of disabilities appeals in his Department; the way decisions can be appealed from this office through the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant haematologist at St. James's Hospital, Dublin; the average waiting times to see a consultant; and...
  • Hospital Staff
    170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant neonatologist and consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist working in the maternity unit at St. Luke's General Hospital,...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    171. To ask the Minister for Health the capital investments that have been sought by the Ireland East Hospital Group for Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; the status of each application; the status of...
  • Hospital Staff
    172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time head and neck oncology nurse specialists at the Mater Hospital in each of the years of 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular...
  • Emergency Departments
    174. To ask the Minister for Health when works are due to commence on the new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Staff
    175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time staff by job title working in the orthopaedic department of Tullamore Regional Hospital; the number of staff vacancies by job title...
  • Health Services Staff
    176. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting four additional full-time dental hygienists for both CHO 6 and 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Staff
    177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff positions unfilled at Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45298/21]
  • Health Services
    179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community-based neurorehabilitation teams in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45300/21]
  • Hospital Procedures
    180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric video fluoroscopy procedures that took place at CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form;...
  • Hospital Staff
    181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time nutrition specialists working in Letterkenny University Hospital in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Cybersecurity Policy
    182. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on same; and if he will...
  • Health Services
    183. To ask the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45323/21]
  • Vaccination Programme
    185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a situation in which a person (details supplied) is experiencing a huge delay in receiving their vaccine certificate; and if he will make a...
  • Data Protection
    186. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1603 of 21 April 2021, if there has been an outcome to the inquiry by the Data Protection Commission which is referred to...
  • Departmental Functions
    187. To ask the Minister for Health the position in respect of the independence of the Office of the Disability Appeals Officer; if this is part of his Department; if there are senior persons in...
  • Hospital Facilities
    188. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of removing hospital car parking charges; the status of the HSE review requested in March 2018 on this matter with a view to establishing...
  • Health Services
    189. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE pilot scheme for a free home STI and HIV testing service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45335/21]
  • Traveller Community
    190. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delivery of the National Traveller Health Action Plan; the status of the HSE steering group on this plan; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Services
    192. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the roadmap to pre-pandemic access in all maternity units and maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45338/21]
  • Community Care
    194. To ask the Minister for Health when the specialist community diabetes teams under the enhanced community care programme will be appointed; if it will be available to all persons with...
  • Hospital Staff
    195. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services
    196. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a diabetes psychology resource to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the Integrated Model of Care for the Prevention and...
  • Hospital Staff
    197. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; and if he...
  • Departmental Schemes
    198. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend eligibility to the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips to all women who develop gestational diabetes...
  • Departmental Data
    199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services
    201. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme to all persons with type 2 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45347/21]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    202. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need;...
  • Health Services Staff
    204. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse in all 18-dose adjusting for normal eating certified diabetes...
  • Flexible Work Practices
    206. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate number or percentage...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    208. To ask the Minister for Health if provision can be made for manual hard copy passenger locator forms to facilitate the electronically challenged and those without smart phones; and if he...
  • Disability Services
    209. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment for occupational therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45442/21]
  • Dental Services
    212. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ongoing problems with the availability of dental treatment to patients with a medical card; if his attention has been drawn to the number of...
  • Health Services
    216. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide supports for amputees and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45478/21]
  • Hospital Staff
    217. To ask the Minister for Health when the four currently unfilled epilepsy nurse specialist posts approved in 2018 will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45512/21]
  • Medicinal Products
    218. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate and the establishment of a stakeholder group to review safety...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    219. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a hospital appointment in Navan Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45516/21]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on outpatient waiting lists in tabular form at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; if he will provide a breakdown or medical...
  • Dental Services
    222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting lists in counties Louth and Meath for dental appointments by local area in tabular form. [45519/21]
  • Nursing Homes
    224. To ask the Minister for Health when he will commence the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021; the projected full year costs of the changes to the cap on farms and businesses;...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for gynaecology appointments; the waiting times for urgent and routine referrals in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021,...
  • Hospital Services
    226. To ask the Minister for Health if results of blood tests taken at accident and emergency can be accessed by the gynaecology department in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting and the waiting times for urgent and routine MRI referrals in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    228. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for hip surgery at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Health Services
    235. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment abroad scheme covers Irish citizens travelling to receive cancer treatments not available in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Services
    239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out in 2020; the number of these patients who had diabetes; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services
    241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients by county treated for foot ulcerations which do not require a full or partial limb amputation in 2020; the number of those patients who...
  • Hospital Services
    243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out in 2020 by county on persons under 65 years of age; the number of these patients...
  • Health Services Staff
    248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent senior podiatrists and whole-time equivalent basic grade podiatrists employed by the Health Service Executive in 2018, 2019...
  • Hospital Procedures
    249. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient podiatry appointments delivered by hospital group in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the number of outpatient podiatry appointments delivered by...
  • Hospital Services
    250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of podiatry appointments delivered by CHO area in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the number of podiatry appointments delivered by CHO area to persons with...
  • Ambulance Service
    251. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an ambulance did not collect a person (details supplied) as scheduled; if the case will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services
    252. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the plans in place for a facility (details supplied) given the date for the transfer of responsibility for the provision of...
  • Dental Services
    253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists struck off the dental register by the Dental Council in each of the years 2018 to 2020 in CHO9. [45609/21]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    254. 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. [45620/21]
  • Mental Health Services
    255. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the lack of mental health beds; his further plans to ensure that persons in need of secure psychiatric beds are not left in the criminal...
  • Civil Registration Service
    257. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give urgent attention to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Dublin civil registration office; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Funding
    258. To ask the Minister for Health when additional financial resources will be allocated to the regional drugs task forces, such as the north east regional task force in view of the increasing...
  • Disability Services
    259. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the staffing levels including the number of persons in each role for each of the children’s disability network teams operating in County...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    261. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of a young person (details supplied) will be addressed with regard to waiting for an MRI under general anaesthetic. [45704/21]
  • Health Strategies
    262. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation plan of the new National Maternity Strategy; when the implementation plan will be published and made available; and if he will...
  • Health Promotion
    263. To ask the Minister for Health when Ireland will fully implement the WHO Code of Marketing for breastfeeding; the efforts which have been made to date to address ethical concerns regarding...
  • National Maternity Hospital
    264. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the HSE board of members rejected the proposed governance structure of the new national maternity hospital for fear it will give...
  • Health Services Staff
    266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 24 lactation consultant posts that have been filled: the locations in which they have been made; if these positions have been filled; and if...

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