Written answers

Thursday, 1 June 2023

  • Medical Cards
    324. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners receive a payment for each appointment attended by a medical card holder; if so, the level of payment received for each appointment...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    325. To ask the Minister for Health when the new primary care area assessment team (PCAAT) in Wexford will be in a position to inform children when they will receive their diagnostic assessment;...
  • Health Services
    326. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a status update regarding the proposals for a national screening programme for generic haemochromatosis in primary and hospital care...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    327. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive a full-length pillow and an alarmed floor mat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26778/23]
  • Hospital Staff
    328. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that he will review the decision to appoint HSE enhanced community care consultants to model 4 hospitals only in view of the fact that the...
  • Medical Qualifications
    329. To ask the Minister for Health when athletic therapy will be assessed for inclusion as a recognised profession under CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26789/23]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    330. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will have spinal surgery at Temple Street Children's Hospital; the reason for multiple cancellations; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services
    331. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have availed of the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme since it commenced in 2021, including a breakdown of the type of...
  • Nursing Homes
    334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will place a cap on the figure that uplifts each year's loan to the 'current' rate in relation to the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement...
  • Data Protection
    335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review current GDPR policies to ensure data sharing is possible and more streamlined between State agencies where serious safeguarding issues are...
  • Medical Cards
    336. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of all secondary entitlements associated with medical cards; the total cost of each entitlement; the average secondary cost of a...
  • Mental Health Services
    338. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the National Youth Mental Health Task Force, in particular the youth mental health pathfinder...
  • Health Services Staff
    339. To ask the Minister for Health if redeployed employees to the HSE that are not HSE staff or Section 38/39 staff are entitled to the pandemic payment; if so, when it will be paid; and if not,...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    340. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26855/23]
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    341. To ask the Minister for Health the sites being considered for the new surgical hub in north Dublin; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26856/23]
  • Departmental Budgets
    343. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated, by project, for addiction services and treatment in budget 2023; and the amount spent to date, in tabular form. [26889/23]
  • Hospital Staff
    344. To ask the Minister for Health if a radiologist is in place in a hospital (details supplied). [26899/23]
  • Departmental Bodies
    345. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of public bodies under the aegis of his Department; and Oireachtas contact details for each. [26914/23]
  • Eating Disorders
    346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people nationwide being treated for eating disorders in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26923/23]
  • Cancer Services
    348. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the continuation of cancer screening services nationally, including cervical screening; the action he will take to ensure the...
  • Medical Cards
    349. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card held by a person (details supplied) will be extended immediately, given the medical circumstances of the applicant and their continuous need...
  • Hospital Services
    350. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the minutes of the management committees or equivalent decision-making bodies concerned with the commissioning and implementation of reviews...
  • Hospital Staff
    351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish a tabulated anonymous breakdown of the tenure of persons whose direct line manager is the CEO or general manager in Connolly Hospital,...
  • Nursing Homes
    352. To ask the Minister for Health how the rates of payment to nursing homes under the nursing home subvention scheme are determined; the reason for the regional disparity between the different...
  • Hospital Facilities
    353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric intensive care unit beds and paediatric high-dependency unit beds that will be available when the new children's hospital opens. [26945/23]
  • Emergency Departments
    354. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented at the accident and emergency departments at both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
  • Departmental Meetings
    355. To ask the Minister for Health the bilateral meetings he has had with his EU counterparts to date in 2023, in tabular form. [26946/23]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    356. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an occupational therapy appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26955/23]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    357. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical injection port product (details supplied) is not available on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Mental Health Services
    358. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is expected to improve the mental health facilities available in CHO 7 in respect of each category of patient; and if he will make a...
  • Healthcare Policy
    359. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which school health examinations continue, including dental and ophthalmic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26984/23]
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    360. To ask the Minister for Health the ongoing progress on the Naas General Hospital project, with particular reference to the promised extension of services and buildings thereat; the degree to...
  • Primary Care Centres
    361. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which consideration has been given to a primary care centre in Maynooth, County Kildare, which is a university town with a rapidly expanding...
  • General Practitioner Services
    364. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans are in hand to ensure an adequate GP service throughout County Kildare, given the number of GPs retiring and the existing and future...
  • Medical Cards
    365. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is intended to ensure the availability of full medical cards for those with life changing or terminal conditions, given the degree to...
  • Healthcare Policy
    366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health professionals likely to be covered by the regulations of health professionals Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26991/23]
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    367. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in regard to the construction of the new maternity hospital; the degree to which the necessary preparations are being advanced; and if he...
  • National Children's Hospital
    368. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in the construction of the new children's hospital; when completion is expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26993/23]
  • Health Services Staff
    369. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which adequate staffing has or is being achieved at all levels throughout the health services, with a view to ensuring maximum operational...
  • Healthcare Policy
    370. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Health (Adult Safeguarding) Bill 2017; the rational for this Bill not being developed by his Department, given that adult safeguarding is...
  • Health Services
    371. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to assist where persons are concerned with another person’s serious self-neglect which may be a danger to themselves or others...
  • Emergency Services
    372. To ask the Minister for Health the contact arrangements that are in place, outside of the hours 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday, for emergency safeguarding services (details supplied); and...
  • Medicinal Products
    373. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a review (details supplied) which examined the governance arrangements around the HSEs drug pricing and reimbursement process; if the...
  • Health Services
    374. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made by his Department to counter the rising costs of baby formula recognising the necessity of the product for many woman and babies where...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    375. To ask the Minister for Health if the newly launched HSE capital plan for building and equipment will cover the construction of community adult day services centres; and if he will make a...
  • Healthcare Policy
    376. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received submissions raising concerns that future plans of the WHO in coordinating responses to pandemics might overreach the need for local national...
  • Health Services
    377. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using Tandem insulin pumps who are aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or greater, in each county, for the year 2022, in...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new insulin pump starts done in Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in people aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or greater, for the...

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