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Question· writtenPQ 462asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 September 2022
462. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030 in line with a report (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44389/22]
Question· writtenPQ 456asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 September 2022
456. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Health if he will set out the current position in relation to supports available to public health service employees who cannot return to work due to the ongoing effect of Covid-19; when a scheme to ensure continued support for such employees suffering from long-Covid will be put into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44359/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2103asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2103. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1520 of 3 November 2020, the status of plans within his Department to remove the old tank and silos from a location (details supplied); the position regarding the site; the reason that the tanks have not been removed given the serious public health risks associated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42260/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2054asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2054. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the progress to date of negotiations on a special scheme of paid leave for public health service employees with long-Covid; the expected timeline for the commencement of this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44216/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2048asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2048. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health when the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment will be made to healthcare staff, other than those employed directly by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44181/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2047asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2047. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the progress to date in the provision of additional capacity at a healthcare facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44180/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2045asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2045. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health when free contraception will be commenced under the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44165/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2039asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2039. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the provision of free contraceptives as a public health measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44123/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2031asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2031. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses that worked on the Covid-19 pandemic response but have since retired that have received the pandemic special recognition payment as of September 2022, by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44113/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2030asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2030. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses that are yet to receive the pandemic bonus payment as of September 2022, by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44112/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2029asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2029. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses that have received the pandemic bonus payment as of September 2022, by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44111/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2021asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2021. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts in public health nursing, by community healthcare organisation, CHO, and local health office, LHO, in tabular form; the number of student public health nurses expected to be appointed to each area in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44080/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2015asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2015. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health his plans for roll-out of an electronic health record system across all public health services; the progress of same to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44074/22]
Question· writtenPQ 2014asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
2014. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on project six of the Sláintecare Action Plan 2022, implementing the eHealth programme; the status of quarterly deliverables; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44073/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1985asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1985. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health when outstanding pandemic bonus payments will be made to those in the healthcare sector, including those providing home care; the reason that this has taken so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43943/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1980asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1980. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to communicate public health advice and information on vaccines concerning monkeypox to the groups in society most at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43911/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1976asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1976. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health his engagement with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment concerning reform of the recruitment process of non-EU/EEA nationals and the fast tracking of the processing of critical skills employment permits relating to healthcare professionals for the nursing home sector. [43907/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1971asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1971. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the original budget for the construction and operation of a facility (details supplied) that was due to open in December 2021; the final cost of the construction and operation of the facility; when it will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43888/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1946asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1946. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the status of the disposal of land by the Department of Education to his Department to provide a primary health care centre in Collinstown, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43830/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1943asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1943. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to add spinal muscular atrophy to the newborn heel prick test. [43805/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1921asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1921. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if funding has been made available for those families affected by defective blocks and who need mental healthcare; if so, if he will provide the details of the amount of funding that has been provided; to whom this funding has been given; the services that are being provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43648/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1909asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1909. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a site has now been identified for the building of a new elective hospital for Cork; the location of the site; the estimated timeline for the design, applying for planning and building of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43606/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1907asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1907. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if web doctors will be excluded from prescribing contraception in the delivery of the proposed new scheme to make contraception freely available to women aged between 17 and 25 years. [43602/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1884asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1884. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the status of the Finglas primary healthcare centre; the timeframe for completion of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43474/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1883asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1883. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the current vacancies in the Ballymun healthcare centre; if plans are in place to recruit additional staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43473/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1862asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1862. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Health if payment of the pandemic bonus payment is available to a home help healthcare support assistant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43295/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1827asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1827. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the pandemic bonus payment of €1000 for a healthcare worker (details supplied); if he will provide an update on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43203/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1789asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1789. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the pandemic bonus payment of €1,000 for a healthcare worker (details supplied); if he will provide an update on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43050/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1782asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1782. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the eligibility criteria for the pandemic bonus payment for healthcare workers; if staff from an organisation (details supplied) who worked on the front line throughout the pandemic are eligible for this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43017/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1751asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1751. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health when the pandemic bonus will be paid to all of the healthcare staff who are still waiting to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42926/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1737asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1737. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when the €1,000 healthcare recognition payment will be made to non-HSE staff, that is, section 39 workers; and the process to access this payment for staff who are not directly employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42885/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1723asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1723. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when the Covid payment of €1,000 paid to healthcare staff as an acknowledgement of their front-line work during the Covid pandemic will be paid to healthcare staff in private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42811/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1653asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1653. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given a healthcare appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42542/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1631asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1631. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health his plans to include catering assistants in the pandemic bonus payment working in healthcare settings during Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42483/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1623asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1623. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on diabetes-related waiting lists by community healthcare organisation, CHO, in tabular form; the number waiting for outpatient, inpatient, and day case appointments; the number on equipment or supplies waiting lists by list; the number of persons aged under 18 and over 65 years on each list; the number waiting by timeband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42449/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1609asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1609. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years who await first-time intervention in all areas of early intervention in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, by individual area and each composite local health office, LHO, within each CHO; the number on the public list; the number on the children's disability network team list in each CHO, in tabular form; and the length of time children have waited for intervention, by age. [42393/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1600asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1600. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the reason that the criteria in HR circular 22/2022, which relates to the new temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees who are unfit for work post Covid-19 infection, excludes employees who do not work in a Covid-19 exposed environment as defined in the Risk Assessment for Covid-19 Vaccination Guidelines for Healthcare Workers but who contracted Covid-19 in their workplace during 2020 and 2021; and if his Department will reconsider this exclusion given the number of healthcare workers impacted by long Covid. [42344/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1559asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1559. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if Irish front-line healthcare workers who contracted Covid-19 in their workplace, particularly those suffering from long-Covid, will be considered to have contracted a prescribed occupational disease in view of the opinion of the European Union Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work that Covid-19 caused by work in disease prevention, health and social care contexts should be included in the European schedule of occupational diseases annexed to Commission Recommendation 2003/670/EC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42195/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1548asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1548. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the number of inpatients or inpatient day cases attending hospitals managed by Saolta University Health Care Group with unpaid fees and charges for inpatient and day services whose debt was referred to a debt collection agency in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form. [42144/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1547asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1547. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE in contracting debt collection agencies to pursue unpaid fees and charges from inpatient and day services from those attending hospitals managed by Saolta University Health Care Group in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42143/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1546asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1546. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the amount recovered through the use of debt collectors and or debt collection agencies in respect of the collection of fees and charges for inpatient and day services on patients attending hospitals managed by Saolta University Health Care Group in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42142/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1532asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1532. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the interim measures that are in place for parents seeking a public health check for their children given that there is no public health nurse in Lucan. [42127/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1531asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1531. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 817 of 10 May 2022, if he will provide an update on public health nurse recruitment in the Lucan area. [42126/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1493asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1493. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will approve additional mobile units for BreastCheck in County Kerry given the peripherality of the county and the difficulties for many travelling long distances for their appointment. [41991/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1478asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1478. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if a system exists for the HSE to purchase a modified home from a person with a serious illness and allow them to remain in their home for their lifetime and use the home later for another person with similar needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41957/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1477asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1477. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will assist, financially and otherwise, persons who wish to take their sibling out of residential care and bring them to live with them in their home and are refused a local authority grant for building on a bedroom and wet room downstairs (details supplied) on the basis that the sibling is not yet living with them full-time, though they cannot do so due to a stair hazard given that this move to homecare would greatly reduce the a financial burden for State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41956/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1475asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1475. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community healthcare facilities to date for each month in 2021 and to date in 2022, by hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41941/22]
Question· writtenPQ 1126asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
1126. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if Covid-19 is included as a qualifying illness for the occupational injuries benefit scheme, considering cases where healthcare staff have contracted Covid-19 in their workplace which has resulted in long-term health issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43036/22]
Question· writtenPQ 996asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
996. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education the status of the disposal of land by her Department to the Department of Health to provide a primary health care centre in Collinstown, Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43831/22]
Question· writtenPQ 38asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2022
38. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to reform the process to recruit non-EU-EEA nationals to work as healthcare professionals for the nursing home sector in this country. [43902/22]