522. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing the HPV vaccine for free to adults who have not received it but want to access it through their general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38344/22]
521. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing free general practitioner care to all children under 18 years of age; the status of the current roll-out programme; the amount of additional funding that was provided to his Department to commence the extension to those aged 6 to 8 years in 2022; when this measure will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38343/22]
520. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the projected cost of providing a Covid-19 booster vaccine in winter 2022 to all those currently vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38342/22]
519. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the cost of the flu vaccine programme in 2021 and 2022 respectively; the number of doses that are expected to be provided in 2022; the number of doses ordered by the State; the estimated cost to provide the flu vaccine free to all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38341/22]
518. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of personal assistant hours that were funded in 2022; the number of persons who are currently supported; the number who have applied but not yet been granted support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38340/22]
517. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of homecare and home help hours that were funded in 2021 and 2022; respectively; and the amount that was not utilised due to staffing shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38339/22]
516. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the funding provided for the home support service in 2022, the number of homecare packages funded; the projected additional cost of providing a homecare package to each identified case in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38338/22]
515. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing medical card income limits by 5%, 10% or 20%; the projected additional number of cards that would be issued in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38337/22]
514. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing in 2023 medical cards to all those diagnosed with cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38336/22]
513. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2023 of reducing prescription charges to €1 per item with a cap of €10 for all or to 50 cent per item with a cap of €5 for all; the overall cost of abolishing the charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38335/22]
512. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the projected full-year costs of the free contraception scheme for women aged 17 to 25 years in 2023; if funding is already in place for 2023; the estimated amount that it would cost to extend the scheme up to women aged 45 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38334/22]
511. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €50; the estimated full-year cost of a reduction in same from €100 to €80; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38333/22]
510. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the amount spent on agency staff in 2021 and to date in 2022 across the health service broken down by staffing type and to whom the payments were made; the breakdown of the amount spent on nursing agency staff to date in 2022; his plans to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38332/22]
509. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the projected cost of providing additional funding to section 39 organisations to provide pay increases in line with the public service pay deal; the breakdown by each organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38331/22]
477. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the status of the payment of the pandemic special recognition payment to vaccinators, swabbers and other healthcare staff employed by the HSE through an agency (details supplied); when these workers will receive their payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38255/22]
476. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if the administration staff such as general practitioner receptionists and secretaries are eligible for the pandemic special recognition payment; if so, when they will receive the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38254/22]
475. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner registrars who were working in practice during the Covid pandemic but seconded to the community Covid hubs are yet to receive their pandemic special recognition payment; if so, when they will receive that payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38253/22]
474. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of children’s disability network teams that are being run from primary care centres; the local of those centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38252/22]
473. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an up-to-date staff list including grades and job titles; the number of roles that are filled; the number of roles that are vacant; the number of roles that are unfilled due to sick or maternity leave on each children’s disability network teams as of 30 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38251/22]
472. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of community disability network teams by region and CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38250/22]
1135. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request his Department to provide the details of the antimicrobial resistance policies, strategy, plans and any ongoing activities, including advice to the farming community, it is undertaking to monitor and mitigate risks to public, human and farmed animal health posed by the dispersal of antimicrobial resistance pathogens in the environment by wild animals and birds that are proven to disperse antimicrobial resistance in the environment and that may come into contact with farm workers and farmed animals and their feed and water supplies (details supplied). [37450/22]
841. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of children who spent more than 28 consecutive days in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals for each of years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37324/22]
840. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of children who spent more than 14 consecutive days in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals for each of years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37323/22]
839. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of children who spent more than four consecutive days in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals in each of years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37322/22]
616. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the position that applies to applicants for means tested payments to her Department, such as the State pension (non-contributory) and the disability allowance in cases in which one of the partners in the marital relationship reaches pension age and has no assets at all in their own name and the other partner has a landholding worth circa €300,000; if their application as the non-owning spouse is not affected by the ownership of the asset by the other spouse in respect of their entitlement to a State pension (non-contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37319/22]
615. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the capital disregards that are taken into account by her Department in respect of applications by persons for the State pension (non-contributory) and disability allowance payments in cases in which the applicants are married persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37318/22]
567. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education the location and the timeline for the delivery of a new and permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37900/22]
410. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 27 July 2021, when a comprehensive response will issue. [37329/22]
409. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the role and actions that he envisages being taken by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, local authorities and or any other State or non-State organisation towards the clear legal requirement for Ireland to take measures to maintain and adapt the population of urban-colonising herring gulls (details supplied). [37328/22]
408. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has the legal and operational responsibility on behalf of Ireland as a Member State for taking the requisite measures to maintain the population of bird species (details supplied) particularly in the interests of public health and safety; the means by which his Department would and will adapt the population of urban herring gulls in accordance with the specified criteria; and if these legal responsibilities are borne by any other State body or non-State body in which case if will he identify any such other body. [37327/22]
200. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the strategy for the Covid-19 pandemic from now until the end of 2022; the strategies for further vaccine and booster roll-outs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37515/22]
194. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the engagement that he has had with an organisation (details supplied) and workers in the wider community sector prior to their industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37519/22]
163. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will consider the provision of free flu jabs for all going into the winter season as part of a combined strategy to ease pressure on hospitals and in view of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37516/22]
151. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health his views on the recent resignations from senior posts across the health service in the HSE and his Department; his views on whether this represents a systemic problem within the management levels of the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37518/22]
126. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary care centre for Swords, County Dublin as of July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37517/22]
Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the recording or publication without consent of certain images of persons who are dead, seriously injured or in shock as a result of an accident or other emergency, and to provide for connected matters.
332. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of healthcare staff employed by the HSE in receipt of the special leave with pay scheme on 29 June 2022 broken down by grade, gender and age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36963/22]
338. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the reason that the HSE did not attend a hearing of the Workplace Relations Commission on the issue of special leave with pay on 27 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36683/22]
337. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will extend the Covid special leave with pay scheme for healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36682/22]
78. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the National Coastal Change Management Strategy steering group will report on its initial findings and recommendations given that the group was due to report within six months of its foundation in September 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36592/22]
457. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the decision support service which was established under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 to provide an essential service for persons who face difficulties exercising their decision-making capacity will come into effect before Dáil Éireann rises for the summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36065/22]
247. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number on the social housing list in the Dublin region, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36068/22]
246. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social houses constructed by local authorities under part V and by housing associations in the past three years, by each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36067/22]
245. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of units purchased by, and sold to, investment funds over the past three years, by each local authority in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36066/22]
131. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Transport the estimated full-year cost of extending the youth travel card and associated 50% discount in public transport fares to all young persons aged 24 and 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35522/22]
102. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has plans to introduce legislation in relation to compensating homeowners who use solar panels and feed electricity back into the grid. [35508/22]
946. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department’s policies, plans and any ongoing actions, including advice, guidance and regulations to all organisations with in his remit, that it undertakes with regard to the risks to human health posed by the dispersal of antimicrobial resistant pathogens in the environment on land and water, including the risks of transmission of such pathogens from and between wildlife that is, animals and birds during their interfaces and contacts with farmed livestock and poultry especially free range stocks, with farmed fish and with the feed and water supplies of farmed livestock, poultry and fish. [34532/22]
928. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the recent completion by Irish Water in partnership with Dublin City Council of the major five-year long infrastructure project to cover the treated water reservoirs at Stillorgan in order to finally eliminate long-standing risks of contamination for example cryptosporidium and antimicrobial resistant pathogens proven to be dispersed into the water supply by large seagull colonies in their faecal waste, marks a welcome strengthening of the protection of public health, in particular for the 200,000 + consumers served by the reservoirs. [34537/22]
927. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will request his Department and pertinent organisations within its remit to provide the Deputy with an up-to-date summary of the science, including clinical evidence, regarding the importance of sleep and of the range of acknowledged negative health impacts of prolonged sleep deprivation on human health. [34536/22]