Written answers

Thursday, 15 June 2023

  • Departmental Reviews
    262. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review into the North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force; when this review will be published; and if he will make a...
  • Primary Care Centres
    263. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek an update on the refurb, refit and extension of the Castlebellingham health centre to a new primary care centre; the total expected cost of the...
  • Home Care Packages
    264. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expected timelines on the establishment of a new statutory home support scheme; how he plans to scope and plan for such a...
  • General Practitioner Services
    265. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update of the North East Doctor-on-Call service to address the major pressures on the current service which is leaving many persons...
  • Mental Health Commission
    266. To ask the Minister for Health further to the publication of the Mental Health Commission's annual report 2022, if he will consider front-loading investment in mental health services, rather...
  • Health Service Executive
    267. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that the HSE uses to consider whether it will provide funding to charities in the healthcare sector; how the HSE reviews its funding of charities;...
  • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
    268. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the HSE's decision to provide funding or withdraw funding from a charity influences the work of the charity; and if he will make a...
  • Health Promotion
    269. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is sending a delegation to the WHO-convened Global Congress on Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk...
  • Disability Services
    271. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding could be made available to an organisation (details supplied) so that people over 65 years can receive services; and if he will make a...
  • Nursing Homes
    272. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek the details on the total number of registered nursing homes in Ireland in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the details of the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    273. To ask the Minister for Health when former staff who worked in care homes during the pandemic will get the pandemic bonus payment (details supplied); the reason this matter has not yet been...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    274. To ask the Minister for Health if a study of a parcel of land to the rear of St. Patrick’s Hospital, Cashel, to determine suitability for a community nursing unit has been completed;...
  • Nursing Homes
    275. To ask the Minister for Health if the study of a site on Palmers Hill in Cashel, County Tipperary to determine suitability for a community nursing unit has been completed; if not, if it is...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sites that are being considered for the development of a community nursing unit in Cashel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28950/23]
  • Health Services
    277. To ask the Minister for Health if any progress has been made with respect to recruitment of occupational therapists in County Louth which has reached critical levels; if neighbouring areas...
  • Hospital Facilities
    278. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update with respect to the projected opening date for the new 50-bed St. Joseph’s Hospital development in Ardee, County Louth; and...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    279. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for scheduled surgery. [28958/23]
  • Health Services
    280. To ask the Minister for Health if an individual with a medical card who had a procedure performed on private healthcare can have a part reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Mental Health Services
    281. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of inpatient beds for CAMHS; the number of inpatient beds that are operational; the plans to reopen beds; the plans to expand inpatient bed...
  • Pharmacy Services
    282. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to review the fees that pharmacies receive from the State for all State drug schemes before the end of June 2023; if he will engage with...
  • Home Care Packages
    283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved for home care supports who are currently waiting on delivery of support hours in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    289. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the €2.2 million allocated for the development of long-Covid services in 2022 that was spent exclusively on long-Covid services; the...
  • Qualifications Recognition
    292. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on excessive delays in the processing of the qualifications of an international recognition applicant (details supplied) by...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    293. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who worked as a front-line worker in the health sector through the Covid pandemic, will receive their Covid Bonus payment; and...
  • Medicinal Products
    294. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of the pain medication (details supplied); if he is aware that this means that the smaller boxes are being...
  • General Practitioner Services
    295. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of free GP care for children aged six and seven years, as announced as part of Budget 2023; the timeline for the roll-out; and if he...
  • Health Services
    296. To ask the Minister for Health his response to a media report (details supplied); when this deficit in the Service Plan was identified by this Department; the action he proposes to take to...
  • Medical Cards
    297. To ask the Minister for Health the progress, if any, in respect of an application for a medical card in case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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