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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2022
91. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when he will establish regional health areas; the form these will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7843/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2022
86. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health the status of the new Finglas primary health care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7928/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2022
75. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health if the HSE Capital Plan for 2022 includes developments in Ballina District Hospital and Belmullet Community Hospital. [7826/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2022
71. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health his interaction with an association (details supplied) to date; and the steps that he plans to take to address the particular healthcare needs of those affected by the failure to withdraw thalidomide from the Irish market in a timely manner. [7728/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2022
68. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the affordability measures in healthcare pledged in Budget 2022. [7911/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 February 2022
435. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health if a report (details supplied) is accurate stating that the University of Limerick Hospital group is in discussions with a controversial US for-profit hospital operator for a new jointly run facility; his views on whether the policy of co-located and co-owned public and private hospitals has returned; the implications of same for the Sláintecare policy which envisaged only new State-owned elective hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7364/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 February 2022
391. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he has made an assessment of the impact of the Patient Organisation Submission Process in the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics in achieving its aims of improving patient involvement in the health technology appraisal process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7127/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 February 2022
390. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken to ensure that patients and carers are involved in the health technology appraisal process of new treatments for rare diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7126/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 February 2022
72. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he plans to publish the regional enterprise plans; the funding that will be linked to the plans; the efforts that are being made to increase in-person IDA site visits to western counties following the easing of public health measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7000/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 February 2022
173. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query in relation to the proposed bonus payment for healthcare workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7100/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 February 2022
138. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that families of persons with dementia have been informed that day services provided at a facility (details supplied) are due to be cut from three days to two days per week; the reason this is the case, rather than increase the number of persons permitted to attend three days per week to the pre-pandemic level of 24, the HSE is insisting on retaining the reduced number which was introduced in July 2021 in keeping with public health guidelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6851/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
807. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if his Department has begun collating data on those suffering from long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6762/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
806. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if the HSE staff redeployed to Covid-19 community assessment hubs for the first five months of the pandemic will be eligible for the €1,000 bonus proposed for frontline healthcare staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6761/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
805. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health if the €1,000 pandemic bonus will be paid to healthcare assistants who are employed by private providers but who work in the homes of HSE clients as part of a home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6741/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
800. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health when the St. Joseph’s, Ardee, County Louth redevelopment project will be completed; the number of beds that will be available in the redeveloped facility; the overall cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6668/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
798. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied); the range of services that will be available when the facility opens; when the facility will become operational; the total capital cost of the project; the precise catchment area that will be served by the services at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6666/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
797. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health when the St. Mary’s Hospital, Boyne View House, Dublin Road, Drogheda redevelopment project will be completed; the number of beds that will be available in the redeveloped facility; the overall cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6665/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
785. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health the details of the 92 Covid-19 deaths announced by his Department and National Public Health Emergency Team as having occurred in the week up to 2 February 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6647/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
784. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision to exclude practice nurses (details supplied) from the once-off bonus payment for frontline healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6638/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
783. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if he will reconsider his decision for to exclude section 39 disability service providers (details supplied) from the once-off bonus payment for front-line healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6635/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
775. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if section 38 healthcare workers in disability services will be included in the Covid recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6619/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
774. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if NPHET assessed the risk to public health posed by vaccine inequity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6617/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
770. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if staff in the intellectual disability sector employed directly by the HSE have been excluded from the €1,000 once-off tax free bonus payment to front-line healthcare workers and also section 38 disability workers; if so, if he will reconsider this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6599/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
765. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if his Department can conduct a report into the treatment of women living with severe endometriosis in the workplace given the difficulties they may have in holding down a full-time job; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6573/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
761. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if the refurbished unit 2 of Abbeyleix Hospital which is designated for 18 acute beds will be staffed by multi-task assistants and healthcare assistants who have been based in the Abbeyleix facility. [6568/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
759. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of existing healthcare options available for transgender children and adolescents (details supplied); if a review of services is proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6565/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
755. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health the studies and data that have been relied upon by NPHET to form the basis for the statement that Covid-19 still poses a risk to public health, that the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 can be expected to continue, that Omicron is unlikely to be the last variant of concern Ireland will have to face and that the global public health risk remains very high; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6555/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
750. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the European Union funding which the HSE has or could avail of; if there is a dedicated individual or office which ensures the HSE is availing optimally of European Union funding for healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6545/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
749. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the European Union funding which his Department has or could avail of; if there is a dedicated individual or office which ensures his Department is availing optimally of European Union funding for healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6544/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
729. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to updating HSE guidelines, advising general practitioners and other medical practitioners that any programme based on fixed incremental increases in physical activity or exercise will not be recommended to those suffering from long Covid, taking into account their symptoms, organ damage, abilities and risk factors, in view of long Covid sharing many similarities with other post-viral syndromes including ME/CFS, to reflect current research and recently updated recommendations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6474/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
728. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to updating HSE guidelines advising general practitioners and other medical practitioners that any programme based on fixed incremental increases in physical activity or exercise, for example, graded exercise therapy, will no longer be recommended to ME/CFS sufferers to reflect current research and recently updated recommendations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6473/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
727. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if NPHET and his Department are prepared to be transparent with the public and publish all data, studies, assessments, reports and other documentation or global public health advice relied upon to continue to impose restrictions on the Irish populace in this manner. [6472/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
724. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the studies and data that have been relied upon by NPHET to form the basis for the statement that Covid-19 still poses a risk to public health and that the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 can be expected to continue (details supplied). [6469/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
719. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, has carried out an up to date evidence-based risk assessment and risk-benefit analysis on the imposition of mask mandates in retail and other settings, particularly bearing in mind the recent lifting of restrictions. [6464/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
717. Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists employed on a permanent contract; the number employed on a temporary basis in each of the community healthcare organisation areas; the number of these speech and language therapists who were newly appointed to permanent contracts in each of these areas and each year from 2018 to 2021, inclusive; the number of children and adults on waiting lists for speech and language therapy in each of these areas, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6414/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
698. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation or CHO area and subdivided into primary care centres waiting for a podiatry appointment through primary care services at present for zero to 12, 12 to 24, 24 to 36 and over 36 months; the number of podiatrists employed in each CHO, by each individual primary care centre; the vacancies in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6253/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
693. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of funded paediatric intensive care unit beds in the public health system at the end of each of the years from 2018 to 2021; and the projected number for the end of 2022 and 2023. [6218/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
636. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if he will request that public health examine the guidelines and arrangements for persons aged 12 to 15 years of age who have received two vaccinations but are deemed close contacts to bring them in line with advice for persons aged 16 plus who have a booster vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6017/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
619. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1525 of 19 January 2022, if an informed consent model of care will be considered in the future of transgender health care by the HSE; and if not, the specific reason. [5906/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
618. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1525 of 19 January 2022, if an informed consent model of care has been considered; and if it was considered and not chosen, the reason it has not been implemented with the specific a rationale for the decision made. [5905/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
617. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1525 of 19 January 2022, if an informed consent model of care has been considered by the clinical governance committee; and if not, the reason. [5904/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
616. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will consider reinserting a page for myalgic encephalomyelitis also known as chronic fatigue syndrome onto the HSE website to reflect the updated full guidelines from a body (details supplied) for the 13,000 persons in Ireland that experience this ailment. [5882/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
615. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will consider issuing guidance to doctors that graded exercise therapy should not be advised for myalgic encephalomyelitis also known as chronic fatigue syndrome patients as per the recent recommendations of a body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5881/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
606. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will consider issuing guidance advising medical practitioners that graded exercise therapy is no longer recommended for myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome patients given the recent findings by a body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5840/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
118. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to assess medical, nursing and other healthcare profession places in higher education institutions to ensure sufficient graduates in these fields; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5549/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2022
75. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the resumption of in-person tuition and related activities; the measures that will be put in place to support students who are immunocompromised following the lifting of most public health restrictions in January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5977/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 February 2022
463. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health the reason community health workers, those working in disability areas and section 38/39 workers are being excluded from the proposed bonus payment to frontline healthcare workers as in the case of a person (details supplied); the criteria underpinning this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5730/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 February 2022
449. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Health if home help workers will receive the €1,000 bonus for frontline healthcare staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5646/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 February 2022
447. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health when visiting restrictions will be lifted in hospitals and in other healthcare settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5636/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 February 2022
445. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the status of the progression of the Finglas primary health care centre project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5630/22]