Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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292. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a diabetes team in the gestational diabetes clinic in Mayo General Hospital that allows for the provision of insulin onsite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51730/21]

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.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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293. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of paediatric critical care beds in 2022; the current capacity; the number of beds which will be added in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51745/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland has two dedicated Paediatric Critical Care Units (PCCU) in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin and Temple Street. A PCCU is a specialised facility within a children’s hospital that cares for the most critically unwell infants and children. Funding for two additional PCCU beds was provided as part of the Covid response in 2020.

The number of open and staffed PCCU beds on any given day is reported daily by the HSE and as of 20 October, 29 beds were open, staffed and occupied.

The new children's hospital which is being developed on the campus of St James’s Hospital will significantly increase critical care capacity. 60 new critical care beds are planned for within the hospital, to include both paediatric ICU and neonatal ICU beds.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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294. To ask the Minister for Health the occupancy rates of paediatric critical care beds averaged across each quarter for 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51746/21]

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.