Written answers

Thursday, 24 October 2024

  • Children in Care
    315. To ask the Minister for Health for the up-to-date position from HIQA on a letter issued to them from his Department on the future role for foster carer's under the draft national standards...
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    316. To ask the Minister for Health if there is funding available for people with multiple sclerosis who require motorised scooters in view of their mobility issues; what other financial supports...
  • Medical Cards
    317. To ask the Minister for Health if dental and optical benefits on foot of medical cards in the case of a person can be progressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Dental Services
    318. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who had dentures made that were not fit for purpose, and who, having been advised by the HSE locally...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    320. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue where a person has been waiting for a hip replacement surgery for an extended period of time (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • General Practitioner Services
    321. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to ensure that people can access GP care in rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43613/24]
  • Medicinal Products
    322. To ask the Minister for Health if a person in County Cork (details supplied) can continue to be reimbursed for the same medication under the GMS rather than changing to generic medication;...
  • General Practitioner Services
    323. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a major lack in GPs in the Naas area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43618/24]
  • Health Service Executive
    324. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total budget allocation to the HSE (current and capital) in each of the years 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Health Services Staff
    326. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of staff working in the health service in June each year from 2016 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Facilities
    335. To ask the Minister for Health the permanently funded acute hospital bed capacity in June each year from 2016 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43631/24]
  • General Practitioner Services
    338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs working in the State in each year from 2016 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43634/24]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    339. To ask the Minister for Health the cumulative spending on medicines in each year from 2016 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43635/24]
  • Departmental Funding
    340. To ask the Minister for Health the cumulative new development funding for new medicines in each year from 2016 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43636/24]
  • Home Help Service
    341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours delivered in the following years 2016 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43637/24]
  • Primary Care Centres
    342. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of primary care centres that opened in each year from 2014 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43639/24]
  • General Practitioner Services
    343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who began specialist GP training each year from 2012 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43640/24]
  • Health Services Staff
    344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advanced nurse practitioners employed each year (June) from 2016 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43641/24]
  • Health Strategies
    345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who accessed the free contraception scheme in each year since it launched, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    349. To ask the Minister for Health the average amount of time patients were waiting on the OPD waiting list in June and December each year between 2016 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    350. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43648/24]
  • Departmental Data
    351. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of all respite beds in County Wexford; the number of these beds that are currently operational and the number that are currently closed,...
  • Departmental Funding
    352. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE currently provides any funding to a local service (details supplied) or if the HSE has provided funding to it at any time in the past; if not,...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    353. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE staff are entitled to an additional five days of sick pay if they contract Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43671/24]
  • Health Services Staff
    355. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels, current vacancies, and how long these positions have been vacant in HSE home support positions, for each sector in County Donegal,...
  • Home Care Packages
    356. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of approved home care package applications in County Donegal which remain without home support, per sector and area, per month, to date in...
  • Health Services Staff
    357. To ask the Minister for Health if a recruitment embargo is in place within the HSE home support service in County Donegal in the older persons service and disability service; and if he will...
  • Hospital Facilities
    358. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the income amount generated by the car park at St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny in each of the last five years; the number of vehicles clamped...
  • Health Services
    359. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contracts in place in Carlow and Kilkenny for the provision of taxi and transport services for use by hospitals to accommodate patients attending...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    360. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a scope will be arranged at St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [43700/24]
  • Health Services
    361. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, as his case is said to be urgent. [43708/24]
  • Medical Cards
    362. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be issued with an emergency medical card immediately based on his critical medical circumstances and urgent need to access...
  • Departmental Bodies
    363. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the existence of an oversight agreement between his Department and the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics ((NCPE) as of 1 October 2024 as is...
  • Medicinal Products
    364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of newly-authorised medicines under the European centralised procedure in 2018 to 2024 in respect of which the Health Information and Quality...
  • Home Help Service
    365. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill; the measures taken to date to provide a licensing...
  • Vaccination Programme
    366. To ask the Minister for Health if he will accept HIQA advice and instruct the HSE to put in place a procurement tender for enhanced flu vaccines for older people; if a decision will be made...
  • General Practitioner Services
    367. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of expanding free GP care for children and young people up to 18 years. [43774/24]
  • Medicinal Products
    368. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reducing the monthly cost of drugs to €50. [43775/24]
  • Health Services
    369. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of extending access to free contraception to all women over the age of 35 years. [43776/24]
  • Medical Cards
    370. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing each of the medical card income limits by 10%. [43777/24]
  • Hospital Staff
    371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a healthcare facility is facilitated with the allocation of personnel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Facilities
    372. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in advancing new accommodation at a healthcare facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43819/24]
  • Hospital Services
    373. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the ophthalmology services in University Hospital Kerry have been shut down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43823/24]
  • Substance Misuse
    374. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate the extent to which drug abuse has been measured on a county-by-county basis in each of the past five years to date; the level of increased use or...

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