Written answers

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

  • Nursing Homes
    564. To ask the Minister for Health the precise proposals in relation to those properties that are operating under the fair deal scheme, specifically with reference to residents who have been...
  • Healthcare Policy
    565. To ask the Minister for Health if the European health insurance card is still available to Irish citizens in Northern Ireland post-Brexit; if so, the way that a person can apply for a card;...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    566. To ask the Minister for Health if people employed by Rehab Care are entitled to the Covid bonus payment; if he will provide details on the persons entitled to the payment and those that are...
  • Health Services
    568. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to developmental checks by public health nurses not being offered to families in Lucan, Co. Dublin; the action that he proposes...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    569. To ask the Minister for Health the number of former civil servants who are currently serving on State boards under his remit; the number of former county managers and chief executive...
  • Disability Services
    570. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the process and length of time that it will take for a young child (details supplied) to obtain a much-needed speech and language referral; the...
  • Home Help Service
    572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a home support matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35283/22]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    573. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the current age restriction for Freestyle Libre with immediate effect following a recent survey by an organisation (details supplied) which...
  • Departmental Funding
    575. To ask the Minister for Health the number of PhD positions funded by his Department or agencies under the aegis of his Department such as the HSE or the Health Research Board; the average...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    576. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of his Department relating to special pay arrangements for front-line public healthcare workers unfit for work for...
  • Hospital Staff
    578. To ask the Minister for Health the number of interventional cardiologists working in acute hospitals, broken down by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35298/22]
  • Hospital Procedures
    579. To ask the Minister for Health the number of diagnostic cardiac procedures carried out in 2021 and to date, broken down by month and by hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Facilities
    582. To ask the Minister for Health the annual revenue cost for each catheterisation laboratory in each of the years 2016 to date, broken down by year and by laboratory; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Procedures
    583. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private outpatient and inpatient hospital appointments and all private procedures carried out in public hospitals from 2016 to date, broken down...
  • Patient Transfers
    584. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients transferred from the southeast region for percutaneous coronary intervention procedures to a hospital in Cork or Dublin in each of the...
  • Education and Training Provision
    586. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a 10% increase in placements if the number of undergraduate new entrants in nursing and midwifery increased by 10%; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Facilities
    592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals with catheterisation laboratories; their opening hours; the hospitals in which they are located; the services they provide; and if they...
  • Hospital Services
    593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that provide percutaneous coronary intervention, broken down by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35314/22]
  • Hospital Staff
    596. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cardiologists working in acute hospitals, broken down by hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35317/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    606. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that a healthcare professional has worked more than 24 hours continuously in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date, broken down by...
  • Hospital Services
    607. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the examination of cardiac services carried out by a person (details supplied); when the report will be published; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Facilities
    608. To ask the Minister for Health the services provided by the mobile catheterisation laboratory at Sligo; the length of time the laboratory was in Sligo; the number of procedures carried out,...
  • Medicinal Products
    611. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by the HSE on the reimbursement of medicines, and by each medicine, in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make...
  • Health Service Executive
    616. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the role of the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit and the National Centre for Pharmaeconomics; the number of whole-time equivalent staff...
  • Mental Health Services
    619. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of all waiting lists for access to mental health services for children and adults; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services
    620. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full breakdown of all waiting lists for all health care services, including primary care, community care, acute care, mental health,...
  • Health Service Executive
    622. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of contracts the HSE has with a company (details supplied), broken down by contract type, the nature of the contract, the service the contract...
  • Health Services Staff
    623. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on agency staff in each of the years 2018, 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022 and by the name of the agency, by each year spend, in...
  • Disability Services
    624. To ask the Minister for Health the targeted domestic recruitment campaigns that are in place to hire staff for children's disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    627. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering introducing an apprentice programme for therapy grades; the way that such a programme would work; the estimated cost of such a programme;...
  • Health Services Staff
    629. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing graduates as therapy assistants while they await CORU registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35350/22]
  • Covid-19 Tests
    632. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the HSE of general practitioners providing Covid-19 testing to patients for 2021 and up to May 2022, by month and by the number of general...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    633. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all Covid-19 assessments carried out by general practitioners by telephone in each of the years 2020, 2021 and up to May 2022, by...
  • Vaccination Programme
    634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines administered by general practitioners in the year 2021 and up to May 2022, by month and by the number of general practitioners...
  • Home Help Service
    635. To ask the Minister for Health to set out a timeframe for the implementation and delivery of the statutory home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35356/22]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    641. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of healthcare staff eligible for the pandemic bonus payment; the number of staff paid to date; the expected timeframe for completion of...
  • Emergency Departments
    649. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to expand capacity at hospitals in Ennis and Nenagh to take pressure away from the emergency department at University Hospital...
  • Home Help Service
    652. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care and home help hours funded in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35374/22]
  • Hospital Facilities
    660. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient hospital beds funded and open in public hospitals from the year 2000 to date, broken down by year; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    661. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to date for all children referred to an organisation (details supplied) for an assessment, broken down by month and the number of children...
  • General Practitioner Services
    668. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount allocated by the HSE to provide direct general practitioner-referred access to diagnostics for 2021 and to the end of May 2022, broken down by...
  • Patient Files
    669. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the use of unique patient identifiers in the healthcare system; his plans to increase and expand the use of same; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Staff
    671. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been progress made on the pay increase due to kitchen staff working in the HSE given that many staff have been waiting several years for the pay...
  • Dental Services
    672. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to children in need of urgent dental work facing wait times of several years (details supplied); and the measures that are in...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    673. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the pandemic bonus payment. [35426/22]
  • Departmental Funding
    675. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an organisation (detail supplied); if he will make provision for funding for the organisation; and if he will make a...
  • Medicinal Products
    676. To ask the Minister for Health if the cystic fibrosis treatment drug Kaftrio will be made available under the drug reimbursement scheme to child patients who need it; and if he will make a...
  • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
    677. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35509/22]
  • Hospital Investigations
    678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the investigation of the incineration of babies' organs at Cork University Maternity Hospital. [35510/22]
  • Patient Files
    681. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) is not being provided in a timely manner with their medical notes relating to a procedure that they underwent on 6...
  • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
    682. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release a number of documents (details supplied) to this Deputy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35521/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    683. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of staff in CDNT4 and CDNT5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35533/22]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hip surgery procedure for a person (details supplied) in Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore. [35539/22]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide numbers of the current public patient waiting lists for ophthalmology in Cork University Hospital, including a breakdown of the numbers of...
  • Disability Services
    691. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to recruit recent occupational therapist graduates for roles in children’s disability network teams. [35551/22]
  • Departmental Legal Cases
    693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers who have initiated litigation proceedings against him and the HSE based on a claim that they suffer from long Covid after...
  • Nursing Homes
    694. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of the nursing home support scheme financial assessment will be conducted; the timeframe that has to elapse before the review can take place; if...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    695. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35563/22]
  • Health Strategies
    696. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, to introduce a new national cardiovascular strategy in Ireland given the rising number of persons who are suffering from a form of...
  • Health Services
    697. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35568/22]
  • Hospital Admissions
    698. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of acute inpatient beds occupied in public hospitals in each of the months to date in 2022, by hospital group and by hospital; and if he will...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    699. To ask the Minister for Health the position in respect of the cessation of the pandemic bonus payment to front-line HSE workers on 1 July 2022; if he has plans to extend this scheme. [35580/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE fully funded vacant whole-time equivalent posts across primary, community, acute services and all other HSE-funded services, broken down by...
  • Hospital Services
    704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and bed type in each hospital; the number of staff employed in each level 4 hospital by staff grade; the total HSE revenue funding allocated...
  • Emergency Departments
    707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department presentations to each level 3 and 4 hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022 , broken down by month and by hospital, in tabular...
  • Hospital Admissions
    708. To ask the Minister for Health the number of presentations to local and minor injury units in each level 1 and level 2 hospital for 2021 and to date in 2022, broken down by month and by...
  • Hospital Facilities
    709. To ask the Minister for Health the functions of an acute medical unit, the nature of the work carried out in such a unit; the hospitals which have an acute medical unit; and if he will make...
  • Hospital Staff
    715. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff in each acute medical unit, acute medical assessment unit, medical assessment unit, medical short-stay unit and acute...
  • Hospital Facilities
    716. To ask the Minister for Health the use of speciality wards in hospitals; if they are being used to increase patient flow and take pressure away from emergency departments; and if he will...
  • Emergency Departments
    717. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce overcrowding at emergency departments and to reduce wait times; the further actions that are being considered by the HSE to reduce ED wait...
  • Hospital Services
    719. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time in local and minor injury units in 2021 and to the end of May 2022, broken down by unit and by patients under 65 years and over 65 years;...
  • Hospital Facilities
    724. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in each acute medical unit, acute medical assessment unit, medical assessment unit, medical short-stay unit and acute surgical assessment...
  • Hospital Services
    725. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of delivering additional capacity to provide an additional 10,000 X-ray scans in the public system; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Emergency Departments
    729. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of patients waiting in emergency departments longer than six hours for January, February, March, April, May and June 2022, broken...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    730. To ask the Minister for Health if a hip surgery procedure for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [35633/22]
  • Hospital Services
    731. To ask the Minister for Health if Sligo is being assessed as a full primary percutaneous coronary intervention centre under the National Review of Cardiac Services; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services
    732. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion and publication of the National Review of Cardiac Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35639/22]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    733. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a request in relation to a diabetes monitoring system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35640/22]
  • Disability Services
    734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dietitian and psychologist vacancies across children’s disability network teams following the CDNT census and the additional posts to...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    737. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35651/22]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    738. To ask the Minister for Health if CoaguChek meters and self-test strips will be provided free of charge to persons who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin (details...
  • Disability Services
    739. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of hiring four additional administrative staff per children’s disability network team, in tabular form. [35661/22]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    741. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35668/22]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients awaiting initial assessment for a sleep disorder screening appointment in either a respiratory clinic or specific sleep disorder...
  • Hospital Services
    745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients who have been commenced on continuous positive airway pressure therapy in each of the years 2017 to 2021; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    746. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund have given specific recognition to safety implications in the staffing of sleep services and in particular...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients who currently have their continuous positive airway pressure device rental covered under the medical card scheme; the current...
  • Health Services
    749. To ask the Minister for Health the governance structure of the two separate schemes being used by the HSE to fund the same respiratory sleep therapy services including continuous positive...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    750. To ask the Minister for Health if he will specifically confirm that the maximum cost to the public purse of the same device funded by each scheme is largely comparable; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services
    751. To ask the Minister for Health if a value-for-money and policy review has been performed of the continuous positive airway pressure therapy funding schemes with particular focus on the...
  • Home Help Service
    752. To ask the Minister for Health the developments to date in the provision of a statutory home scheme as promised in the programme for Government; the number of staff in his Department...
  • Disability Services
    754. To ask the Minister for Health when the parents of a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for occupational speech and language therapy for their child; and if he...
  • Traveller Community
    755. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Government’s plans to introduce a new national Traveller mental health strategy. [35713/22]
  • Nursing Homes
    757. To ask the Minister for Health if he has required HIQA to undertake an investigation on the grounds that there is a serious risk to the health or welfare of a person in a nursing home, as a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    760. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on scoliosis waiting lists, by list and location in January 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    762. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has for the site on Davitt Road (details supplied); if is intended for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35760/22]
  • Mental Health Services
    763. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staff by role in each of the Kildare CAMHS teams respectively, that would be considered full staffing in tabular form. [35770/22]
  • Dental Services
    765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent consultants in restorative dentistry and consultants in special care dentistry employed by the HSE in 2020, 2021 and to...
  • Hospital Staff
    766. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for the recruitment of an additional whole-time equivalent consultant dermatologist with a special interest in skin fragility for...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    768. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to include prison nurses in the front-line healthcare bonus scheme given that they are currently excluded from the scheme and prison nurses have...
  • Disability Services
    769. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the action plan for the disability capacity review has not yet been published; when he expects the plan to be published; and if he will make a...
  • Health Service Executive
    771. To ask the Minister for Health if the discretionary fund of the HSE for 2022 has been exhausted; if so, if he will provide a breakdown of the way that this has happened, only six months into...
  • Health Services
    772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make arrangements for the urgent residential care needed for a person (details supplied). [35790/22]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    773. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the six planned long-Covid clinics at hospitals nationwide (details supplied) that are open at present; the expected opening dates for the...
  • Hospital Staff
    774. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 28 April 2022, when the post of Parkinson's disease nurse specialist in University Hospital Galway will be filled;...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    775. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of pandemic bonus payments that have not been paid from the fund to date; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons who are eligible...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    776. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the former health centre building in Camolin, County Wexford which has sat idle in the centre of the town since its closure approximately four...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    777. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider classifying Covid-19 as an occupational injury for healthcare workers in line with the decision of the European Union Advisory Committee on...
  • Disability Services
    778. To ask the Minister for Health when the detailed 2022-2025 Action Plan for the Disability Capacity Review will be published. [35814/22]
  • Primary Care Services
    779. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Wexford who are awaiting primary care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35815/22]
  • Medicinal Products
    780. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken to provide affordable medication for hyperemesis during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35816/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    781. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction counsellors employed or contracted by the HSE in each of the past five years in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; his plans to develop this...
  • Mental Health Services
    782. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an assessment with CAHMS in each county in tabular form. [35829/22]
  • General Practitioner Services
    784. To ask the Minister for Health the action that his Department can take to ensure that patients without medical cards can access general practitioner services if they can show that they have...
  • Departmental Bodies
    785. To ask the Minister for Health the bodies under his aegis in which persons will receive a pay rise from 1 July 2022; the role of each where appropriate, or the anonymised salaries bands...
  • Vaccination Programme
    786. To ask the Minister for Health if the health technology assessment regarding the potential inclusion of a chickenpox varicella zoster vaccine has been completed by HIQA; if his Department...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with senior HSE staff at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital on the matter of fast-tracking hip replacement surgery for a person (details supplied) on...
  • General Practitioner Services
    789. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the chronic shortage of general practitioner services in north County Dublin; if consideration has been given to the...
  • Disability Services
    790. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention to been drawn to the situation in which the CHO7 disability team is not accepting referrals for persons who have suffered a stroke; the reason...
  • Departmental Projects
    791. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a work package being co-lead by officials in his Department under the European Union Joint Action Best ReMaP (details supplied); the documents or...
  • Departmental Funding
    793. To ask the Minister for Health if a review for funding will take place for a resource centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35934/22]
  • Health Services
    794. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 716 of 17 May and 1785 of 14 June 2022, the exact dates on which a building survey was carried out by the HSE estates...
  • Departmental Investigations
    796. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 16 June 2022, the way that the review team for the Kerry CAMHS look back review was selected; if he will provide...
  • Primary Medical Certificates
    797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of refusal rates for primary medical certificates by county; his views on the discrepancy in the approval rates; and if he will...
  • Health Service Executive
    798. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 7 April 2022, the number of doctors who completed internship in Ireland in each year from 2015 to date in 2022;...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    799. To ask the Minister for Health if nurses working in private nursing homes are covered by the pandemic bonus payment in recognition of their crucial role in terms of dealing with the...
  • Disability Services
    800. To ask the Minister for Health when the action plan for the disability capacity review will be published; if he will confirm that it will be included in the budgetary plan for 2023 to ensure...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    803. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in County Donegal was referred to Sligo University Hospital; if the referral was routine or urgent; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Staff
    805. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been further drawn to staff shortages in the public health nursing service in Dublin West; if his attention has been drawn to persons...
  • Disability Services
    806. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline for the publication of the promised action plan covering 2022-2025 in relation to the disability action plan framework 2022-2025; the...
  • Budget Statement
    807. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that all information materials associated with his Budget 2023 announcement particularly in relation to existing and new residential...
  • Health Services
    809. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to developmental checks by public health nurses not being offered to families in Lucan, Co. Dublin; the action that he proposes...
  • Primary Care Centres
    810. To ask the Minister for Health to report on progress for a primary care centre in Citywest; the services that may be provided there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36023/22]
  • Health Services
    811. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the health, disability, counselling, addiction and mental health services accessible to persons, including young persons living in Newcastle,...
  • Hospital Services
    812. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of the eight outpatient department respiratory medicine initiatives approved for funding so far in 2022 by the National Treatment Purchase Fund;...
  • Departmental Funding
    814. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to including reconstruction after a mastectomy in HSE funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36046/22]
  • Hospital Services
    815. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding the medical assessment unit at Monaghan Hospital to 12/7; the whole-time equivalent requirement; and if he will make a...
  • Disease Management
    816. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available for those living with Parkinson’s disease in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36049/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson’s disease nurse specialists or an advanced nurse practitioners in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Primary Care Centres
    818. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary care unit in Tullow, County Carlow; and when this project will be delivered. [36060/22]
  • Health Services Staff
    819. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will provide an update on this matter. [36062/22]
  • Disability Services
    820. To ask the Minister for Health when the action plan for the disability capacity review will be published; if this action plan will be considered in the context of preparations for Budget...
  • Mental Health Services
    821. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment with CAMHS will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [36085/22]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    824. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on advertisements including online and in the media in relation to Covid-19 in each month since the start of the pandemic by his Department...
  • Health Services
    825. To ask the Minister for Health if a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36101/22]
  • Disease Management
    826. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which efforts are being made to meet the challenges of rare diseases, early diagnosis and the requirement for rare/orphan disease drugs; and if...
  • Medicinal Products
    829. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which access to various medicines remains equally available to those in this jurisdiction as compared with the rest of the Single Market in...
  • Disease Management
    830. To ask the Minister for Health the degree of progress to date on the upgrading/updating of the National Rare Diseases Plan; if specific responsibility has been attributed to any leading...
  • Health Services
    832. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which patients requiring treatment for post-mesh conditions continue to receive support and recognition in the scale required at the earliest...
  • Healthcare Policy
    833. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which cardiovascular research continues to be made available to the service providers with particular reference to ensuring that adequate...
  • Disease Management
    834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients throughout the country allegedly suffering from a rare disease but whose condition remains undiagnosed; if such patients are deemed to...
  • Vaccination Programme
    835. To ask the Minister for Health when children under five years will be offered the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36118/22]
  • Departmental Funding
    836. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of taxpayer funding which has been paid to support research or research positions which would benefit the infant formula industry in Ireland; the...
  • Public Sector Pensions
    837. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the pension of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36122/22]
  • Disability Services
    838. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline as a matter of urgency, when the action plan for the disability capacity review will be published; the cause of the delay in its publishing;...
  • Healthcare Policy
    839. To ask the Minister for Health if the minutes of the obesity policy implementation and oversight group are published; if so, their location; if they are not available publicly, if they will...
  • Public Sector Pensions
    842. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be offered to a person (details supplied) to buy back time from the voluntary hospitals superannuation scheme; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Staff
    843. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the occupational therapy waiting list for children and separately for adults in County Louth; the number on the waiting list for...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    844. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the reimbursement of internationalised normalised ratio test strips and machines for warfarin patients; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Staff
    845. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time tissue viability nurses in each CHO as of 31 December 2020 and 29 June 2022, in tabular form. [36160/22]
  • Health Services
    846. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a dedicated addiction service for persons aged under 18 in County Clare; if so, the location from which it operates; and if not, his plans to...
  • Dental Services
    849. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an urgent orthodontic appointment for a person (details supplied). [36167/22]
  • Hospital Services
    850. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1402 of 19 January 2022, the consideration that he is giving to putting in place a legal basis for the issuing of...
  • Disability Services
    851. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that is available through his Department for the provision and training costs for rapid prompt boards for children on the ASD spectrum at home and...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    853. To ask the Minister for Health if social care workers who worked in Covid-19 isolation centres and homelessness services during the pandemic will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if...
  • Hospital Staff
    859. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a 24/7 paediatric oncology consultant to be available in Crumlin for care questions that may arise for outpatients receiving services in or...
  • Hospital Facilities
    860. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide on-site accommodation for those parents and children who must travel more than 50 km to Crumlin for care; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Staff
    862. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide social workers, play therapists and psychologists within University Hospital Kerry in order to help paediatric cancer patients deal with the...
  • Health Services Staff
    863. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on exit interviews conducted in CHO7 for persons’ leaving the health service including the reason; the position the person...
  • Departmental Data
    864. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to compile updated data on the prevalence of autism in Ireland [36218/22]
  • Departmental Funding
    865. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided respectively to an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin and Cork in each of the past five years in tabular form. [36224/22]
  • Health Services
    868. To ask the Minister for Health the new and or expanded community health services being provided in each county since 27 June 2020, in tabular form; the new health capital projects in each...
  • Hospital Services
    869. To ask the Minister for Health the new services and investments that have been provided in each public and voluntary hospital since 27 June 2020; the new capital projects in each county that...
  • Mental Health Services
    870. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the main improvements in the provision of mental health services since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36237/22]
  • Primary Care Services
    871. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the main improvements in the provision of primary care services since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36238/22]
  • Disability Services
    872. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the main improvements in the provision of health services for people with a disability since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement...
  • Care of the Elderly
    873. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the main improvements in the provision of health services for older people since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Services
    874. To ask the Minister for Health the way that his Department is supporting children with speech and language communication needs in the classroom; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    876. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36267/22]
  • Service Level Agreements
    877. To ask the Minister for Health when arrangements will be put in place to process a service level agreement with an organisation (details supplied); if he will review correspondence from the...
  • Abortion Services
    878. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure the provision of abortion services remain free, safe and protected. [36272/22]
  • Health Services
    879. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the issue of an organisation (details supplied) being unable to locate an appropriate premises to accommodate its...

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