Written answers
				Thursday, 23 September 2021
  - Home Care Packages 
 313. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if this is in line with his Department’s workforce planning; and if he will make a...
- Healthcare Policy 
 314. 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. [45757/21]
- Hospital Appointments Status 
 316. 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. [45764/21]
- Departmental Reports 
 317. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to include the maintenance and upkeep of an AED register in the report that the HSE has commissioned on Out of...
- Covid-19 Tests 
 318. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in moving forward with regard to Covid-19 testing sites as testing and tracing efforts remain a key part of a response to the pandemic; if there are...
- Hospital Facilities 
 319. To ask the Minister for Health when capital funding will be allocated to Belmullet Hospital for a modular build that will ensure the safety of patients and a maximum of 12 step-down beds can...
- Eating Disorders 
 320. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of specialised respite services for those affected by Prader-Willi syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45776/21]
- Hospital Staff 
 321. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; his views on whether psychosocial support...
- Health Services 
 322. To ask the Minister for Health if a diabetes psychology resource will be provided to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the integrated model of care for the prevention and...
- Hospital Staff 
 323. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; his views on...
- General Practitioner Services 
 325. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that should be taken by a person who cannot secure general practitioner services locally and has made efforts to secure a general practitioner within...
- Vaccination Programme 
 326. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements are available for the vaccination of persons who cannot leave their homes for reasons of agoraphobia. [45809/21]
- Health Services Staff 
 327. To ask the Minister for Health the reason health and social care professionals in primary care will be able to progress from staff grade to senior grade while those same professionals with...
- Health Services 
 328. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 25 February 2021, the reason women who turned 61 years of age before 30 March 2020 will not be screened at 65...
- Nursing Homes 
 329. To ask the Minister for Health if a list of nursing homes in the State in which residents in them are provided with tailored support packages or comfort monies will be provided; the number...
- Mental Health Services 
 332. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to a centre (details supplied); the number of staff currently employed; the current services available; the number of vacant...
- Vaccination Programme 
 333. To ask the Minister for Health the way an Irish citizen vaccinated outside of Ireland but in the EU avails of an EU Digital COVID Certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- General Practitioner Services 
 334. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking in the short-term, notwithstanding the Government’s commitments to reforms in this area under the Sláintecare...
- Vaccination Programme 
 335. To ask the Minister for Health if male secondary school students who were in second year or over when the roll-out of HPV vaccines for their gender began in 2019, can access the vaccine...
- Medical Cards 
 336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medications which have been removed from being available for free under a medical card in the past three years; the person or body which decides...
- Home Care Packages 
 339. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a home care package for a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45849/21]
- Hospital Waiting Lists 
 340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently awaiting inpatient eye care procedures in the community healthcare organisation Dublin north city and county area; the...
- Disabilities Assessments 
 343. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an assessment of need appointment. [45857/21]
- Health Services 
 344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will facilitate the appointment of the new chairperson of the North Inner City Drug and Alcohol Taskforce as agreed by consensus at the taskforce minuted...
- Hospital Appointments Status 
 345. To ask the Minister for Health when a tonsillectomy can be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45908/21]
- Assisted Decision-Making 
 346. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 7 July 2021, if he will provide a list of all other interdependencies (details supplied) which must be addressed...
- Covid-19 Tests 
 347. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has engaged with universities and colleges on the use of Covid-19 antigen testing in third-level institutions; the plans that are in place...
- Vaccination Programme 
 348. To ask the Minister for Health if plans are in place to give a third Covid-19 vaccine dose to those who would be identified as being at high-risk from Covid-19 or who are immunocompromised;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists 
 349. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for cataract surgery in each hospital in which such surgery takes place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45933/21]
- Health Services 
 350. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll-out the Sligo model of eye care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45934/21]
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