Written answers
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
- Medical Aids and Appliances
196. To ask the Minister for Health if funding or grants are available to help persons who need a permanent oxygen machine with their electricity costs to run oxygen machines required as part of... - Hospital Services
197. To ask the Minister for Health when the day hospital will re-open at St. Joseph's Hospital, Stranorlar, County Doegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11636/23] - Care Services
198. To ask the Minister for Health when daycentre services will re-open at Ramelton community nursing home in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11637/23] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
199. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic recognition payment will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11641/23] - Alcohol Sales
200. To ask the Minister for Health if health warning labels on alcohol products will be bilingual, reflecting warnings in both English and Irish; and if not, if including the Irish language on... - Hospital Services
201. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the immediate plans to restore full services to Wexford General Hospital; the length of time this will take; and if he will make a statement... - Disability Services
202. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received and reviewed a press statement by an organisation (details supplied) concerning the recently published National Report, Staff Census, and... - Departmental Data
207. To ask the Minister for Health whether any neurological, dermatological, respiratory or oncological illnesses are reported in higher proportion around Coillte planted areas than others;... - Hospital Staff
208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric neurosurgeons working in CHI Temple Street in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [11698/23] - Emergency Departments
209. To ask the Minister for Health if he is confident that the emergency department of Beaumont Hospital could successfully deal with a high volume trauma event at Dublin Airport. [11699/23] - Departmental Data
210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons aged between 0-18 years that suffer with migraine in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [11700/23] - Health Services Staff
211. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time stop-smoking advisors employed by the HSE in CHO9 in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and the locations within this CHO... - Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
212. To ask the Minister for Health the major capital works projects that were carried out at Beaumont Hospital during 2022 and to date in 2023; the nature of these works projects; and the... - Health Strategies
213. To ask the Minister for Health the plans his Department has to implement the national cancer care strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11714/23] - Obesity Levels
217. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to bring forward a Public Health (Obesity) Bill to deal with the obesity crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11718/23] - Assisted Human Reproduction
218. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 22 February 2023, if he will confirm whether persons paying for IVF treatment between now and September 2023 will... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
219. To ask the Minister for Health when the staff in an nursing home (details supplied) in Kilkenny will be paid the pandemic payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11733/23] - Medicinal Products
220. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of ampligen for treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME; and the engagement he has had with the European Medicines Agency, EMA, on the... - Hospital Appointments Status
222. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment at Crumlin Children’s Hospital for an urgent scope; and if he will make a statement on the... - Health Services Waiting Lists
224. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is being taken off the public list and has been advised to go cross Border as the waiting list with the HSE is over ten... - Dental Services
225. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) cannot stay on the dental public list after accessing treatment under the cross-border healthcare directive; and if he... - Hospital Services
226. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the rate of theatre utilisation in University Hospital Limerick at Dooradoyle for 2022; and if he will provide the rate of theatre... - Hospital Procedures
227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries cancelled at Ennis Hospital in December 2022, January 2023 and February 2023; and if he will provide a breakdown of the surgical... - Hospital Waiting Lists
228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on hip and or knee surgery and cataract surgery in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary, respectively. [11805/23] - Health Strategies
229. To ask the Minister for Health on foot of the National Clinical Programme on Self Harm report, when he proposes to launch the National Traveller and Roma Mental Health Action Plan as agreed... - Departmental Data
230. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce an ethnic identifier in coroner courts’ reporting and in Irish health services as a core data item; and if he will make a... - Health Strategies
231. To ask the Minister for Health in recognition of Travellers as a priority group as being at an increased risk of suicidal behaviour when he will instruct the Connecting for Life Advisory... - Health Services
233. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the population that each CHO area covers, reflecting the new census 2022 figures, in tabular form. [11834/23] - Medicinal Products
234. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the costs of the prescription medications melatonin and propranolol are not covered by the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Reports
235. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not produced a Sláintecare progress report since December 2021; if he intends to publish a progress report this year; and if he will... - Health Strategies
236. To ask the Minister for Health if the regional health area implementation plan has been completed, given that it was due in quarter four of 2022; the timeline he is working towards for... - Nursing Homes
239. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish any further progress reports on the implementation of the Covid-19 nursing homes expert panel recommendations, given that a number of... - Care Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new home care tender process; the timeline he is working towards for issuing the invitation to tender; and if he will make... - Nursing Homes
242. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he intends to take to support small rural nursing homes to prevent any further closures following his meeting with an organisation (details... - Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
243. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the new build at St. Vincent's Hospital, Athy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11889/23] - Health Services Waiting Lists
244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on occupational therapy in County Kildare; the number waiting for more than six months; the number waiting for more than one... - Disease Management
246. To ask the Minister for Health if anything can be done to help people with diabetes who cannot afford dressings when they have skin breakdown due to their diabetes, given that dressings are... - Defibrillators Provision
247. To ask the Minister for Health where all automated external defibrillators, AEDS, are located; if they can be added to the national database; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Dental Services
248. To ask the Minister for Health if orthotic therapists could help with the backlog for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11914/23] - Nursing Homes
249. To ask the Minister for Health if the commissioner of the report of the investigation of complaints made by protected disclosure into a community nursing home (details supplied) was... - Ambulance Service
250. To ask the Minister for Health if the new protocol introduced in the University of Limerick Hospital Group in January 2023, whereby ambulances could bring patients to the medical assessment... - Hospital Staff
251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated whole-time equivalents of consultant endocrinologists, dietitians, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff... - EU Funding
253. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has made a submission indicating Ireland's interest in participating in the EU4Health Joint Action for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease... - Hospital Waiting Lists
254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who are awaiting a first appointment to the adult outpatient's diabetes clinic in University Hospital Waterford; the... - Hospital Services
255. To ask the Minister for Health if he could please confirm in tabular form the number of Adult Patients attending University Hospital Waterford for Type 1 Diabetes care in 2018, 2019, 2020,... - Hospital Admissions
259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients presenting through the University Hospital Waterford emergency department or due to diabetic ketoacidosis; how many of these presenting... - Medical Aids and Appliances
260. To ask the Minister for Health if it would it be possible to fund and provide "Izzy" stickers to all maternity wards in the State (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Schemes
261. To ask the Minister for Health when a new scheme will be introduced to replace the motorised transport grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11987/23]
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