Written answers
Thursday, 8 December 2022
- Health Services Staff
299. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding section 38 workers; if funding has been made available to ensure that these workers receive the pay awards agreed under the Building... - Food Promotion
300. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to food advertisements targeting children by companies; and the way that he will combat same. [61370/22] - Mental Health Services
301. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the considerable savings that the State may make by frontloading investment in mental health services, rather than the current funding model; if... - Substance Misuse
302. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the health diversion approach to drugs. [60536/22] - Ambulance Service
303. To ask the Minister for Health if the pathfinder programme from the National Ambulance Service in Limerick will also cover County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61404/22] - Dental Services
304. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen for emergency care only at HSE dental clinics, broken down by county for each of the past four years; and if he will make a... - Home Help Service
305. To ask the Minister for Health when approved home support will become available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61412/22] - Hospital Appointments Status
306. To ask the Minister for Health if a procedure for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61413/22] - Disability Services
307. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to establish a neuro-rehabilitation community team in CHO 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61419/22] - Primary Care Centres
308. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the need for primary care centres in Portlaoise; and if he will outline his plans, if any, in this regard. [61421/22] - Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
309. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on plans for a major extension of, and recruitment for, the health centre in Mountrath, County Laois. [61422/22] - Disability Services
310. To ask the Minister for Health when a service for a child will be reinstated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61423/22] - Health Promotion
312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61428/22] - National Treatment Purchase Fund
313. To ask the Minister for Health if treatment for a person (details supplied) can be prioritised through the national treatment purchase scheme. [61434/22] - General Practitioner Services
314. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any financial supports or grants available from his Department for persons to set up a GP practice and health centre; and if he will make a... - Ambulance Service
315. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time for ambulances for 999 calls in CHO9 for each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a... - Hospital Facilities
316. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the 2018 HSE review of hospital car parking charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61475/22] - Health Service Executive
317. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of HSE contracts being awarded to a company linked to bribery (details supplied); the reason that the HSE continued... - Health Services Staff
318. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the recruitment of the outstanding epilepsy nurse specialists agreed in 2018 as part of the valproate response project; and if... - Health Services
319. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of the proposed sodium valproate stakeholder group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61492/22] - Medicinal Products
322. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount in euros that has been saved by his Department from moving from branded to generic medications in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to... - Nursing Education
328. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that he has not implemented all of the recommendations set out in an independent review by a person (details supplied) of matters relating to... - Health Services
329. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 16 November 2021, if a clinical review of the medical cannabis access programme has been completed to assess... - Nursing Education
330. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding student nurses; the reason that many of the recommendations of the McHugh report which were due to be implemented by September 2022 have... - Health Services Staff
331. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding section 38 workers; if funding has been made available to ensure these workers receive the pay awards agreed under the Building Momentum... - Vaccination Programme
332. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his Department, or representatives of the HSE have met or will meet with representatives of a group (details supplied) to discuss its concerns on... - Disability Services
333. To ask the Minister for Health when the remit of HIQA will be extended to disability day services. [61522/22] - Health Services Staff
335. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to fill a position for a senior occupational therapist in Buncrana, County Donegal; when the position is expected to be... - Legislative Programme
336. To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards that are in place for minors and for persons incapable of making legal decisions in the proposed the human tissue (transplantation, post-mortem,... - Ambulance Service
337. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [61568/22] - Departmental Funding
340. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that was provided to Limerick from his Department in 2022, broken down by project in tabular form. [61580/22] - Health Services Staff
341. To ask the Minister for Health when he will implement a public-only consultant contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61589/22] - Health Service Executive
342. To ask the Minister for Health when he will appoint a new CEO for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61590/22] - Health Services
343. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the report into Cork University Maternity Hospital’s organ retention and disposal practices; when he will publish the human tissues... - Covid-19 Pandemic
344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the European Commission recommendation that member states recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease if contracted by healthcare... - Medical Cards
345. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give a personal direction to ensure that patients with life-threatening illnesses are offered medical cards without incessant reviews on financial... - Health Services
346. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate a special winter plan to cater for the homeless or those who find themselves unable to meet the challenges of the winter months for... - Hospital Overcrowding
347. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate emergency beds can be provided wherever required but particularly in accident and emergency hospitals on call where ambulances are queuing up while... - Medicinal Products
348. To ask the Minister for Health if he remains satisfied that reimbursement in respect of new and orphan drugs and other emergency drugs is sufficiently speedy and capable of meeting the... - Health Services
349. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the health services can be co-ordinated in such a way as to ensure a modern response to patients' needs in all areas throughout the... - Mental Health Services
350. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to augment child and adult mental health services in CHO 7; if the precise measures deemed to be necessary are being taken... - Medical Cards
351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants for medical cards granted in the past 12months to date; the number who were refused or who are under investigation in the same period;... - Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
354. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which hospital building programmes and extensions are sufficiently in hand to meet the urgent demand such as at Naas hospital, County Kildare and... - Primary Care Centres
355. To ask the Minister for Health the programme for the provision of primary care centres throughout County Kildare having regard to those already in operation, those planned and approved or... - Hospital Overcrowding
357. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he intends to set up an emergency management team to deal with overcrowding and hospital emergency departments with particular reference to... - Hospital Facilities
358. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which outreach children’s hospital facilities are operational at present in Blanchardstown and elsewhere; and if he will make a statement... - Hospital Waiting Lists
359. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delay in dealing with the waiting lists of children seeking procedures for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61623/22] - Infectious Diseases
360. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the prevention of infectious diseases continues satisfactorily; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61624/22] - Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
361. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in the hospital building programme in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61625/22] - Health Services Staff
362. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he can take steps to counter the difficulties of obtaining and retaining professional staff throughout the health services; and if he will... - Dental Services
363. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children currently awaiting orthodontic treatment; when such services are likely to be provided; the timeline for same; and if he will make... - Health Services
365. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which surgery is readily available for the removal of cataracts in this jurisdiction; the number of such surgical interventions undertaken here... - Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
366. To ask the Minister for Health when the promised phase of the Naas hospital development plan will be activated in accordance with the original projections; when the facility will be... - Disability Services
367. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there has been no additional capacity added to disability residential services for children in south Tipperary for a period of five years; the...
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