161. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing an additional emergency ambulance; and estimated the full-year costs of additional personnel required for its staffing. [29365/17]
160. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing an additional emergency ambulances fleet; and the estimated full-year costs of additional personnel required for its staffing. [29364/17]
157. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 occupational therapists. [29361/17]
156. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 speech and language therapists. [29360/17]
154. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of completing the recruitment required for the full implementation of A Vision for Change. [29358/17]
152. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 2.2 million home help hours. [29356/17]
150. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of increasing the general practitioners' rural practice allowance to €25,000. [29354/17]
147. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an extra 500 hospital consultants; and the average estimated cost for support staff required per consultant. [29351/17]
146. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year running costs of opening all medical assessment units on a seven-day basis. [29350/17]
228. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status on the introduction of free general practitioner care to persons under 18 years of age; the increase in general practitioner numbers required to support the additional workload; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27913/17]
227. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason the commitment to have no public patient waiting more than 15 months for surgery or a specialist appointment by October 2017 has been abandoned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27911/17]
226. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the date on which the new national cancer strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27910/17]
225. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the review of medical assessment units, urgent care centres and minor injuries clinics; his plans to extend their daily hours of opening and to provide weekend opening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27909/17]
223. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason the commitment to have no public patient waiting more than 15 months for surgery or a specialist appointment by October 2017 has been abandoned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28148/17]
192. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the name, contact details and the location in which persons can be tested for Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29160/17]
180. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure public hospitals in receipt of private income shall disclose if part of such income came from elective admissions or part came from emergency admissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27912/17]
116. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if waiting time targets for cancer diagnoses are being met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29067/17]
113. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason that in May 2017 some 14,389 outpatient appointments had been outstanding in County Cork hospitals for more than a year, a fivefold increase by comparison to May 2014. [29069/17]
104. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason the task force for the implementation of the national maternity strategy has met just once in 18 months. [29066/17]
97. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason behind the notable regional differences in the provision of home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29068/17]
42. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a new general practitioner services contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29222/17]
1931. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budgetary arrangement which has been made for vulnerable one to three year olds in community early years services for 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27685/17]
1446. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the therapy requirements of persons (details supplied) will be assessed and organised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28490/17]
1393. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the deadline announced in February 2017 for the publication of an implementation plan for the national neuro-rehabiltation strategy by June 2017 will not now be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28260/17]
1372. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28174/17]
1349. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the request by a person (details supplied) for HSE funding to assist with third level studies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28076/17]
1270. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment process further to the commitment he gave in 2016 regarding the appointment of a medical oncologist with sarcoma-specific experience equal to or greater than the expert that treated persons at St Vincent's University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27681/17]
1269. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to meet with an organisation (details supplied); if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27680/17]
1260. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the annual cost for all public hospitals for day-case oncology drugs by public and private patients in each of the years 2012 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27606/17]
1259. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a public hospital oncology consultant receives the same professional fee payment as an oncology consultant in a private hospital from health insurance companies for treating day-case oncology private patients in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27605/17]
1258. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason the full cost of oncology drugs provided to day-case private patients in public hospitals cannot be charged to the health insurance companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27604/17]
1257. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason day-case private patients in public hospitals receive oncology drugs for a per diem statutory charge of €407 or €329 depending on the type of hospital in view of the fact that the day-case drug cost is an average €1,500 per person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27603/17]
1255. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the process of vaccination will be named as a key prevention tactic in the upcoming national cancer strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27600/17]
1254. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to communicate the importance and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine to parents and separately to 12 year olds in order to increase the uptake of the national immunisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27599/17]
1253. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the availability of the HPV vaccine to girls who have previously declined or missed the administration of the vaccine in school as part of the national immunisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27598/17]
1252. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his Department is examining the positive impact a universal vaccination programme for HPV has had on countries such as the United States of America, Australia and Canada; if a health technology assessment on universal vaccination has been completed by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27597/17]
1251. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the extension of the national immunisation programme for HPV to boys in view of the fact that 39,000 men worldwide die of HPV-related cancer each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27596/17]
1250. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to instil public confidence in the national immunisation programme for HPV; his further plans to use mass media campaigns to encourage better take-up of this vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27595/17]
1039. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 205 and 207 of 25 May 2017, which were referred to the HSE and in view of the fact that the HSE was unable to provide an answer, if he will refer the questions to the relevant body for answer. [26664/17]
998. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is in the public interest for a company (details supplied) to restrict access to the clinics services to its own subscribers in view of the recent approval by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for the company to take full ownership of the clinics and of the State's share in the company. [26831/17]
158. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether it would be in the consumer interest if a company (details supplied) only allowed its own policy holders to access clinics in view of the recent approval by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for the company to take full ownership of clinics. [26832/17]
173. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on HIQA’s recommendation that women should be screened for cervical cancer every five years instead of at three-yearly intervals as at present. [26445/17]