Written answers

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

  • Medicinal Products
    207. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of reducing the monthly drugs payment scheme threshold from €100 to €72 for single-headed households; and if he will...
  • Vaccination Programme
    208. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that there may be, in a very small number of cases between receiving a Covid-19 vaccine and shingles in some...
  • Mental Health Services
    209. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital in Portrane will be fully operational; the overall cost of the facility; and if he will make a...
  • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
    210. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with an association (details supplied) as promised; if not, if he will provide a date for the meeting; if he will provide an update following the...
  • General Practitioner Services
    211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the free general practitioner card to six- and seven-year-olds; if so, when this will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Home Care Packages
    212. To ask the Minister for Health if alternative arrangements will be initiated in respect of continued support for a person (details supplied) in County Cork when the services of their current...
  • Departmental Data
    214. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff and-or special...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    216. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding in the upcoming budget to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over...
  • Medical Research and Training
    219. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which hospital-based training places across the medical profession are co-ordinated between the Department, the HSE and training bodies; his...
  • Health Service Executive
    220. To ask the Minister for Health when a service by the HSE will go to tender; when contractors will be appointed as a result of this tender (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    221. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for urgent and non-urgent referrals to the symptomatic breast cancer clinic at University Hospital Galway; the number of patients that are on...
  • Health Services Staff
    222. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plan to have a full-time consultant ophthalmologist located in Letterkenny, County Donegal to address high waiting lists for eye care in the county;...
  • Primary Care Services
    223. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of his Department and the HSE in prioritising the development of primary care eye teams in CHO6, CHO7 and CHO9 in 2022 with a view to extending...
  • Vaccination Programme
    225. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fund the HPV vaccine catch-up programme for those who have missed out on the HPV vaccine in first year of school for any given reason;...
  • Mental Health Services
    226. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the community mental health team servicing north Dublin cannot take referrals for adult ADHD assessments due...
  • Dental Services
    227. To ask the Minister for Health the help that can be given to a person (details supplied) who has urgent need of dental care and has been refused same on their medical card; and if he will...
  • Pharmacy Services
    228. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 9 February 2022, if he will address the question asked of updating the current regulations on the sale of...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    229. To ask the Minister for Health when the new care unit replacing St. Anne’s, Clifden and Clifden nursing home will go to construction; the progress made with this project to date; and...
  • Medical Inquiries
    230. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each of the recommendations in the Roscommon and Mayo audiology misdiagnosis report; the date of the complete implementation of each outstanding...
  • Health Service Executive
    232. To ask the Minister for Health the consultancies engaged by the HSE in the past three years with a value in excess of €2 million in addition to the purpose of the consultancy work and...
  • Hospital Services
    233. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding current staffing levels for paediatric epilepsy services at University Hospital Limerick (details supplied); the arrangements that are...
  • National Maternity Hospital
    234. To ask the Minister for Health if the audit on spending to date on the new national maternity hospital enabling works at Elm Park has been completed; if so, if he will provide a copy of the...
  • Health Services Staff
    238. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which an efficient, effective and expeditious procedure exists to facilitate medical staff, consultants, doctors, nurses or other medical...
  • Ministerial Staff
    240. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual salary of the existing civilian...

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