Written answers

Thursday, 13 July 2023

  • Health Service Executive
    652. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to address and urgently the HSE spend of €458 million of external consultants in 2022; whether he will publish his...
  • Home Care Packages
    653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on a waiting list for home care packages in the CHO 7 area; and how many of those have been waiting more than six months. [35443/23]
  • Eating Disorders
    654. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who presented to the HSE seeking treatment for eating disorders who received inpatient treatment in non-dedicated eating disorder services...
  • Mental Health Services
    655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in July 2020, 2021 and 2022, in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Cork, by area;...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    656. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for CAMHS services in County Cork, by area; the average waiting time; and his plans to address this. [34794/23]
  • Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects
    658. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a restriction on drugs rehabilitation CE schemes advertising vacant T-coded CE participant places on platforms such as publicjobs.ie; and if he...
  • Departmental Funding
    659. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to an application by Meath County Council in February 2023, for capital funding for the new addiction centre project in Navan, County Meath...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    660. To ask the Minister for Health the status of pandemic recognition payments for agency frontline staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34838/23]
  • Local Drugs Task Forces
    662. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to local drugs and alcohol forums in each of the years 2008 to 2022 and in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Appointments
    665. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personnel in his Department at Principal Officer level or above who, on retiring from that position, were subsequently appointed to a State or...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    666. To ask the Minister for Health when a consultant will be allocated and a date for surgery be given for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal who urgently requires scoliosis surgery;...
  • Departmental Policies
    667. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the policy position of his Department with respect to the allegedly carcinogenic impact of red meat consumption; if he agrees that the messaging and...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider leasing or purchasing a vacant commercial unit in Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, for the provision of community-level healthcare in...
  • General Practitioner Services
    669. To ask the Minister for Health if grants are available to help a GP set up a new practice facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34945/23]
  • Healthcare Policy
    671. To ask the Minister for Health the action, if any, his Department is taking to raise awareness amongst those in an agricultural setting with respect to the dangers posed by tick bites...
  • Health Services Staff
    673. To ask the Minister for Health how many HSE staff are currently suspended from work awaiting a fitness to practice review; the average time it takes for such reviews to be carried out; the...
  • Pharmacy Services
    674. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has investigated the reason that fewer young pharmacists appear to be going into community practice; if any studies are ongoing in relation...
  • Primary Care Centres
    675. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to provide a primary care facility for Ballyhale, County Kilkenny; if the land which is available for the project will be...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    676. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34961/23]
  • Primary Care Centres
    677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the actions he is taking to ensure that the community space allocated through the planning process at Lakeside primary care facility will...
  • Hospital Staff
    681. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was not paid their annual leave/TOIL after they retired after 23 years of service in Letterkenny...
  • Abortion Services
    682. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 615 of 4 July 2023, the reason for the disparity in his reply where he stated there had been approximately 8,844 second...
  • General Practitioner Services
    684. To ask the Minister for Health if the current GP contracts are deterring young GPs from practicing in rural parts of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34998/23]
  • Hospital Facilities
    687. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the progress made in extending the usage MAUs and LIUs at model 2 hospitals in the mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Emergency Departments
    688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the emergency department development in Mayo University Hospital; if there have been follow-up meetings held by the HSE on cost...
  • Health Services Staff
    689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of vacancies of medical professionals in Mayo University Hospital; the length of time each position has been vacant, in tabular form;...
  • Hospital Admissions
    690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients presenting at the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital but leaving prior to being seen each month to date in 2023; and if he...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on lists as both inpatients and outpatients for Mayo University Hospital; the average wait time; the number waiting more than...
  • Hospital Facilities
    693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new acute beds that have been provided in Mayo in the past two years. [35022/23]
  • Emergency Departments
    694. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the average emergency department waiting times in Mayo University Hospital. [35023/23]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for cataracts surgery, by county; the average wait time; the number waiting over one, two, three and four years, respectively by...
  • Health Services Staff
    696. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the process to bring parity of pay and conditions of workers in section 38 and section 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Data
    697. To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35029/23]
  • General Practitioner Services
    698. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs contracted by the HSE under the GMS scheme for the years 2018 to date, broken down by year and by county; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Data
    703. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the total health budget allocated to section 38 and section 39 organisations for the years 2018 to 2023, broken down by total Section 38 cost and...
  • Health Service Executive
    706. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the number of HSE-employed staff or contracted staff providing a service for the HSE who earn less than the living wage; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    707. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the total spend on external legal fees for representing the HSE and/or his Department in third-party industrial relations...
  • Departmental Data
    708. To ask the Minister for Health the impact on waiting lists and waiting times for children with scoliosis and spina bifida for the period where arrangements and a scheme were in place to...
  • General Practitioner Services
    709. To ask the Minister for Health to outline if the Houses of the Oireachtas legislated to deliver free GP care for all children up to 12 years of age; if this is still a commitment from...
  • Hospital Procedures
    710. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in tabular form, the number of children with scoliosis who had surgery carried out from 2018 to date, broken down by month, by hospital and by wait...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    712. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with scoliosis waiting for surgery from 1 June 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, in tabular form, broken down by overall number on...
  • Hospital Procedures
    713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments or procedures for children cancelled by a hospital for the years 2018 to 2022, broken down by year, by hospital and by...
  • Healthcare Policy
    717. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what actions he and the HSE have taken and will take following the publication of a report from the Office of the Ombudsman for Children titled...
  • Departmental Meetings
    718. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his Department or the HSE met with or corresponded with the Children's Ombudsman following the publication of a report from the Office of the Ombudsman...
  • Emergency Departments
    719. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients for the period of January to May for each year 2018 to date in...
  • Departmental Data
    727. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, for each month for each year 2022-2023 to date, inclusive by hospital group...
  • Cancer Services
    728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer-related appointments and procedures which were cancelled for each month for each year 2022-2023 to date, inclusive, by hospital, for...
  • Departmental Data
    729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed transfers of care for each month for each year 2018-2023 to date, inclusive, at each location, in tabular form; the number of delayed...
  • Hospital Admissions
    730. To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each month for each year 2018-2023 to date, inclusive, in tabular...
  • Health Service Executive
    731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities for the period January to June or May, whichever is the latest available, each year...
  • Health Services Staff
    733. To ask the Minister for Health whether the risk assessment of the principal health and social care professionals seeking regulation, including athletic therapists, by the Health Research...
  • Ambulance Service
    734. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO and clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less...
  • Primary Care Services
    737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, at the end of May and June 2018-2023, inclusive, in...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people aged over 65 and over 75 years on NTPF-reported waiting lists by specialty by location for each month for each year 2019-2023 to date,...
  • Home Care Packages
    739. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists at the end of May and June 2018-2023, inclusive, in tabular form; and the breakdown by length of wait....
  • Mental Health Services
    740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists, by CHO and length of wait at the end of May and June 2018 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form. [35085/23]
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of quarter 2 of 2023; the number for each quarter of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Tribunals of Inquiry
    743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims before the CervicalCheck Tribunal; the number of claims resolved by the tribunal; the timeframe for completion of the tribunal's work; the...
  • Dental Services
    744. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists on the dental treatment services scheme at the end of May and June for each year 2019 to 2023, by LHO, in tabular form; the number of...
  • Health Service Executive
    746. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the value of all claims made against the HSE or hospitals funded by the HSE which incurred a cost, broken down by the cost of the claim and legal...
  • Health Services Staff
    747. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the number of staff working in the HSE and his Department whose income exceeded €100,000 a year in 2022, broken down by the following income...
  • Departmental Data
    748. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the total agency and consultancy spend by his Department and the HSE for the years 2018 to 2022, broken down by year; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    749. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the total agency and consultancy spend by his Department and the HSE for the months of January to June for years 2018 to 2023, broken down, by month...
  • Departmental Legal Services
    750. To ask the Minister for Health to outline all legal costs incurred by his Department and the HSE for the years 2018 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35095/23]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    751. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in tabular form, all Department of Health and HSE expenditure on non-HSE organisations, including outsourcing of care, assessments, recruitment,...
  • Health Services Staff
    752. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in tabular form, the number of people employed on a contract for service by his Department and the HSE for the years 2018 to date, broken down by...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    753. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the cost of providing hospitality by his Department and the HSE for the years 2018 to date, further broken down by year; and if he will make a...
  • Health Service Executive
    756. To ask the Minister for Health the all-in revenue and new build capital cost for each type of health service bed, based on recent projects, that is acute inpatient, community transitional...
  • Ambulance Service
    757. To ask the Minister for Health the full revenue and capital cost of implementing the National Ambulance Service’s workforce and strategic plan out to 2031 [35151/23]
  • Health Services Staff
    758. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of a 10% increase in clinical training places for medical interns, initial specialist training, higher specialist training, GP training, clinical...
  • Departmental Schemes
    759. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold in increments of €10 to €0, additive, in tabular form. [35153/23]
  • Prescriptions Charges
    760. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing prescription charges, by age cohort and total. [35154/23]
  • Hospital Charges
    761. To ask the Minister for Health the total revenue generated by car parking charges and the estimated total cost of abolishing car parking fees, including any potential buyouts or other...
  • Health Services Staff
    762. To ask the Minister for Health the fully burdened cost of employing additional (details supplied) inclusive of employers’ PRSI, in tabular form. [35157/23]
  • Departmental Schemes
    763. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of a standardised eye care scheme for under 8s with consistent subsidies across all CHOs, costed by standardising the top end benefits across all CHOs...
  • Climate Action Plan
    764. To ask the Minister for Health the full revenue and capital cost of implementing the HSE’s climate action plan by measure and year. [35159/23]
  • Health Services
    765. To ask the Minister for Health the cost the waive assessment fees for addiction residential, rehabilitation and detox services. [35160/23]
  • Departmental Legal Cases
    768. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid in legal costs to each of the top ten legal firms representing plaintiffs in medical negligence cases in 2022 and to date in 2023 ; the number...
  • Cancer Services
    770. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out in damages by the SCA in CervicalCheck programme personal injury actions in 2021 and 2022 and to date in 2023. [35165/23]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    771. To ask the Minister for Health if staff at a home (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35168/23]
  • Dental Services
    772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the average waiting times for appointments in each...
  • Mental Health Services
    774. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the average waiting time in each county; the number waiting more than...
  • Home Care Packages
    775. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that are waiting homecare support in counties Cavan and County Monaghan; the total number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    776. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting colonoscopy in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number of these that have been waiting up to 30 days; 30 – 60 days; 60...
  • Hospital Staff
    778. To ask the Minister for Health to break down the number of vacancies at Cavan General Hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of the vacancy, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    779. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting an occupational therapy appointment here; the number who have been waiting less than three months; the number that have been...
  • Health Services
    782. To ask the Minister for Health what progress he has made in regard to a package of health supports for survivors of mesh surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35235/23]
  • Medicinal Products
    783. To ask the Minister for Health what action is being taking to ensure that pharmacies and hospitals have access to sufficient supplies of insulin; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Charges
    784. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that consideration would be given to removing emergency department charges in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35246/23]
  • Cancer Services
    785. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with the NCCP Alliance of Community Cancer Support Centres, CCSCs, to discuss the ongoing shortage in funding to the sector, which is having a...
  • Health Services
    786. To ask the Minister for Health why (details supplied) cannot get an answer on whether the funding she requested months ago has been announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Home Care Packages
    787. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress in developing a national home care scheme; whether it envisages a uniform standard for access to care in all parts...
  • Health Services Staff
    788. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to develop the terms and conditions under which home care workers are employed, in order that more people could be attracted to this work....
  • Care of the Elderly
    789. To ask the Minister for Health the number of active age groups and the number of day centres for persons being cared for at home that his Department supports through the HSE or other funding...
  • Care Services
    790. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the process by which HIQA decides and identifies those residential care centres that are deemed to be of serious concern to them regarding the care...
  • Health Service Executive
    791. To ask the Minister for Health how many people applied for a position and how many were called for interview in respect of a position in the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Mental Health Services
    792. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists, by CHO and length of wait, for May 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35305/23]
  • Mental Health Policy
    811. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 1 June 2023, what recommendations have come out of the roundtable discussions on youth mental health; the plans to...
  • Mental Health Services
    812. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young people referred to CAMHS, by CHO area, in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the number of referrals accepted and refused; the reason...
  • Departmental Funding
    813. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to implementing Sharing the Vision in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023; the estimated funding cost to fully implement the measures in...
  • Mental Health Services
    814. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the new funding allocated to Sharing the Vision in the National Service Plan 2023; where this funding will be directed; and if he will make...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    819. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive an initial assessment by a hospital for scoliosis in view of the severe impact this condition is...
  • Medicinal Products
    823. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address medicine shortages, with over 300 medicines in short supply, according to Health Products Regulatory Authority data; and if...
  • Primary Care Centres
    824. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding a primary care centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35405/23]
  • General Practitioner Services
    825. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the proposed reduction in hours of SouthDoc services based in Fermoy, County Cork; the rationale for this reduction; and details of the...
  • Primary Care Centres
    834. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding a primary care centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35425/23]
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    835. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are overdue for cervical screening; and the number of those who have waited for longer than six months. [35439/23]
  • Dental Services
    838. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists operating within the dental treatment services scheme, per CHO area, in each year for the past four years, in tabular form. [35442/23]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    839. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a lower limb prosthesis in the public hospital system. [35444/23]
  • Health Services
    840. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding patients attending a health centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35455/23]
  • Hospital Facilities
    841. To ask the Minister for Health the rate of theatre utilisation for both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services Staff
    842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies, by job title, currently in the eating disorder teams in CHO5; when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Hospital Staff
    843. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make...
  • Hospital Inspections
    844. To ask the Minister for Health the last dates each external in-person fire safety audit was carried out on behalf of the HSE in each hospital part of Ireland East Hospital Group; the...
  • Hospital Staff
    845. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant neurologists based in University Hospital Waterford in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make...
  • Departmental Schemes
    846. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the internships, apprenticeships and graduate schemes run by his Department and public bodies under the aegis of his Department. [35488/23]
  • Home Help Service
    847. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints in the south and north Lee areas in County Cork...
  • Hospital Staff
    850. To ask the Minister for Health for an update, on whether a locum paediatric endocrinologist in CUH is now in place; for an update on the recruitment of a full-time paediatric endocrinologist...
  • Mental Health Services
    851. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for CAHMS in south Lee and north Lee, broken down by 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months. [35509/23]
  • Health Services
    852. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns on the part of those who suffer thyroid problems, including but not limited to hyperthyroidism, that the condition is misdiagnosed...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    853. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for rheumatology in CUH and the Mercy Hospital broken down by 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months. [35511/23]
  • Ambulance Service
    856. To ask the Minister for Health if he will endeavour to bring the industrial dispute involving ambulance staff to a close by encouraging the HSE to recognise an organisation (details...
  • Hospital Staff
    857. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for consultants responsible for cancer services in the CUH, including radiation oncology; and what plans exist to replace those...
  • Hospital Admissions
    858. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for direct referral for oncology patients to the oncology ward to be implemented in Cork University Hospital. [35517/23]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    860. To ask the Minister for Health the wating list for cataracts surgery in Cork broken down by whether they are waiting by 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months. [35519/23]
  • Hospital Procedures
    861. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries and procedures cancelled by specialty at Cork University Hospital and Mercy University Hospital for each month in of the past...

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