Written answers

Thursday, 31 March 2022

  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    355. To ask the Minister for Health the long-term impact of Covid-19 on the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16431/22]
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    356. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in the construction of the 96-bed modular unit at Limerick University Hospital; if it will be completed on schedule; and if he...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    357. To ask the Minister for Health the public health supports that are available to schools for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13502/22]
  • Medicinal Products
    358. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recommendation by the HSE Medicines Management Programme for Cariban, which combines doxylamine and pyridoxine; if there is a timeline for a...
  • Disability Services
    359. To ask the Minister for Health when transport will be provided for adults with intellectual disabilities and additional needs in Ballina, County Mayo, and Killaloe, County Clare, to travel...
  • Departmental Consultations
    360. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider engaging with groups to draw up guidelines for the reporting of drug-related deaths. [10400/22]
  • Primary Care Centres
    361. To ask the Minister for Health if resources are in place to provide a primary healthcare centre in Collinstown, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9076/22]
  • Eating Disorders
    362. To ask the Minister for Health the expected cost overruns caused by the delay in providing an eating disorder service in Mount Carmel, Dublin 6; if the tender process has begun; the date...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who had a standard operation procedure assessment rather than a comprehensive assessment of needs since the procedure was introduced, in...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    367. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 662 to 664, inclusive, of 15 February 2022, the financial use of retained assets, vacant under review and vacant in...
  • Health Services
    368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene on an issue that has developed in the treatment abroad scheme (details supplied). [17118/22]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    369. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17119/22]
  • Vaccination Programme
    370. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the challenges facing parents and guardians of children living in Dublin 1 trying to access school vaccination programmes...
  • Nursing Homes
    372. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to address the substantial shortfall under the fair deal scheme between private and voluntary nursing homes and their counterparts in the HSE...
  • Health Services Staff
    373. To ask the Minister for Health when he will appoint an independent chairperson for the stalled medical consultant contract negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17132/22]
  • Disability Services
    374. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to HSE CHO7 towards residential care places for those with disabilities and complex care needs in the last three years to date;...
  • Medical Records
    375. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide information to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17142/22]
  • Health Services
    376. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has not been reissued with a diabetes green book despite having applied over six weeks ago. [17148/22]
  • Mental Health Policy
    377. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding changes to permanent residential mental healthcare in Ireland and the way the Vision for Change policy will impact it....
  • Vaccination Programme
    379. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to facilitate school immunisation programmes to operate within school settings in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Services
    381. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that respite care has not been provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17167/22]
  • Hospital Staff
    382. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses per patient in every ward at Letterkenny University Hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and...
  • Primary Care Services
    383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of positions in the community intervention teams for County Donegal that are currently not filled; the titles of those posts; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    384. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17171/22]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    385. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 community swabbers will receive the €1,000 bonus offered to healthcare workers; if not, the reason for this; and if he will make a statement...
  • Health Services Staff
    386. To ask the Minister for Health the conditions that have been imposed on section 39 organisations delivering community care before restoration of FEMPI pay cuts can be made; and if he will...
  • Disease Management
    387. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which adequate provision continues to ensure the availability of medicines to treat orphan or rare diseases; the extent to which the provision is...
  • Medicinal Products
    390. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he is satisfied regarding the availability and existence of sufficient stocks of drugs to treat existing and new medical conditions; and if...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    391. To ask the Minister for Health if a person will receive an urgent neurology appointment without further delay (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17184/22]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    392. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid recognition payment for healthcare workers will be expanded to include front-line workers in homeless services considering they are recognised as...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    394. To ask the Minister for Health when special long-Covid clinics in counties Kerry and Cork for patients who are suffering will be opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17200/22]
  • Hospital Staff
    395. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time midwives working in the maternity department of Cavan General Hospital in each of the past five years in tabular form. [17207/22]
  • Health Services
    396. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the service provided at a centre (details supplied); the number of persons that this service can cater for at any one time;...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    397. To ask the Minister for Health if patients with Covid-19 are being placed in wards with non-Covid-19 patients; if so, the person or body that authorised the decision; the basis of infection...
  • Mental Health Services
    398. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of access to St. John of Gods respite services in Dún Laoghaire due to emergency situations requiring a...
  • Medicinal Products
    399. To ask the Minister for Health when novavax will be available to patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17224/22]
  • Care Services
    400. To ask the Minister for Health when day care services for the elderly will resume at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar; and the interim measures that are being considered by the HSE to...
  • Disability Services
    401. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 3 December 2021, if 91 children's disability network teams have been established by the end of 2021; if all 91...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    402. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic bonus will be paid to healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17244/22]
  • Health Services
    403. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17246/22]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    404. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17253/22]
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    405. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a procedure in a hospital might be eligible to avail of the procedure under the National Treatment Purchase...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    406. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17255/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    407. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to training and pay inequalities between educational psychologists and clinical psychologists; if his Department has engaged or...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    408. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is expected to overhaul long waiting lists for various procedures in respect of scoliosis and spina bifida with particular reference to...
  • Healthcare Policy
    409. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he proposes to co-ordinate the introduction of Sláintecare with the need to meet the ongoing and various needs of the health services...
  • Health Services
    410. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure that delays in the provision of various health services are eliminated, having particular regard to the need for...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    411. To ask the Minister for Health the full extent of the waiting lists for each procedure among the major general hospitals; when it is expected to address these issues; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Services
    412. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which ready access to treatment for patients requiring cardiovascular, endoscopy and oncology is expected; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    413. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in regard to whether proposed extensions to various hospitals throughout the country, including Naas General Hospital, are being advanced;...
  • Departmental Data
    414. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the number of incidents of the various forms of cancer has been identified throughout the country, with particular reference to identifying...
  • National Children's Hospital
    415. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the new children’s hospital is progressing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17270/22]
  • Healthcare Policy
    417. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which the health services throughout the regions can expect a universal level of investment and attention with a view to ensuring that every...
  • Health Services Staff
    419. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to ensure the retention of nursing staff in all areas throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17275/22]
  • Hospital Staff
    420. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to ensure the retention of hospital staff in all areas throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17276/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    421. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which a two-tier salary level exists within the health services; the basis of such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17277/22]
  • Mental Health Services
    423. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which mental health services are being provided and augmented in line with specific needs in particular locations; and if he will make a...
  • Disability Services
    426. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which health services for children with special needs are being improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17282/22]
  • Eating Disorders
    427. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which health services for persons suffering from eating disorders are developing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17283/22]
  • Hospital Services
    429. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a delay of up to two months for children’s blood tests at Children’s Health Ireland hospitals; his plans to...
  • Health Services Staff
    430. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 751 of 1 March 2022, the consideration he has given to the need for an additional 100 neurology nurse specialists; the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    431. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the substantial increase in Covid 19 cases, mandatory mask wearing in certain settings is being considered; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Gender Equality
    432. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to identify and address gender pay disparity in his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit; and if he...
  • Transport Policy
    433. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to encourage active travel modes to and from work in his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit; and if...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    434. 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. [17393/22]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the current public patient waiting lists for rheumatology, ophthalmology and neurology in Cork University Hospital in tabular form; and the...
  • Medical Internships
    436. To ask the Minister for Health the remuneration, expenses or other payments made to student nurses, student midwives, student occupational therapists, student speech and language therapists,...
  • Disability Services
    437. To ask the Minister for Health the number and roles of current vacancies for each children's disability network team, in tabular form; the steps he is taking to recruit for these roles; and...
  • Eating Disorders
    438. To ask the Minister for Health the details of progress made in addressing the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders goals. [17402/22]
  • Mental Health Services
    440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women in adult psychiatric units postnatally in 2021, by each CHO area, in tabular form. [17404/22]
  • Health Strategies
    441. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 752 and 753 of 15 February 2022, if he will provide a further update on the publication of the stroke strategy; and if...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    443. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on which workers will be entitled to the Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment recently announced for healthcare workers; when workers...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    444. To ask the Minister for Health the six sites at which the HSE will establish specialist acute hospital clinics for long Covid; and the services that will be provided in them. [17308/22]
  • Hospital Staff
    445. To ask the Minister for Health if the senior occupational therapist position in St. James’s Hospital will be maintained into the future for long Covid patients; if occupational...

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