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Question· writtenPQ 1025asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
1025. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if a decision has been made as to the preferred location of the new proposed elective hospital for Cork; when an announcement will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37916/22]
Question· writtenPQ 991asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
991. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the person within the HSE who decides if a product is experimental in respect of the treatment abroad scheme; the criteria that this decision maker uses to decide such and the definitions applied to experimental treatments; if the relevant decision makers have the expertise to review drugs for complex conditions; if the existing reimbursement list is referred to in making reimbursement decisions or whether European Medicines Agency approval is deemed to be the overriding proof of clinical safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37831/22]
Question· writtenPQ 990asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
990. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve the health data infrastructure of the State; the way that these plans can support innovative payment models in respect of the reimbursement of orphan medicinal products and advanced therapy medicinal products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37830/22]
Question· writtenPQ 974asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
974. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if his Department has completed the review of a report (details supplied) in respect of the drug reimbursement process; when this report and the key recommendations are expected to be published; the reason for the continued delay in publishing this report given that Covid-19 is no longer as large a public health risk as it once was; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37810/22]
Question· writtenPQ 935asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
935. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Health if the National Cancer Control Programme will endorse an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37634/22]
Question· writtenPQ 930asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
930. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of times that Letterkenny University Hospital advertised for a second endocrinologist; if the hospital advertised for a permanent endocrinologist; if not, if the hospital advertised for just a two-year temporary contract; the length of time for the advertisement process; the number who applied; the number who were interviewed; and the number who were successful but chose to work outside the Saolta University Health Care Group area. [37586/22]
Question· writtenPQ 928asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
928. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the Exchequer of setting up a pathway of diagnostic and after-care supports within the public health system for adults who wish to pursue an autism diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37554/22]
Question· writtenPQ 908asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
908. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on community healthcare waiting lists, by care group, for June 2022, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait and age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37442/22]
Question· writtenPQ 907asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
907. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 60-74 and 75+ years on community healthcare waiting lists, by care group, for June 2022, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37441/22]
Question· writtenPQ 905asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
905. 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 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37439/22]
Question· writtenPQ 882asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
882. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the way that the HSE ensures that contracted providers such as organisations, TTM Healthcare, and others are appropriately qualified and that any assessments or interventions are provided in line with the appropriate standards; the person in the HSE who is responsible for checking qualification and standards; the number of checks regarding qualification and standards were carried out since services were first contracted broken down by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37415/22]
Question· writtenPQ 881asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
881. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a full breakdown of the number of people who availed of a service due to the €22,828,060 provided to resilience healthcare via the disability and primary care sectors broken down by the number of people who received a service through CDNT’s, primary care, CAMHS or any other area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37414/22]
Question· writtenPQ 864asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
864. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses, healthcare assistants, consultants, non-consultant hospital doctors and radiographers who left the HSE to work in the private sector or abroad from 2016 to date, and further broken down by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37396/22]
Question· writtenPQ 836asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
836. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken by his Department and the HSE to reverse the general lack of awareness among healthcare professionals particularly general practitioners and high-risk patients being 40-50% of the population regarding Covid-19 anti-viral treatment in Ireland; the reason that the treatments are not being promoted more effectively given the increase in Covid hospitalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37300/22]
Question· writtenPQ 829asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
829. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health when he will publish information for those other certain healthcare employees who are covered by the Government decision in relation to the pandemic bonus payment; the process available to their employers to implement this measure for eligible staff; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37267/22]
Question· writtenPQ 817asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
817. Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Health if he will request his officials to consider the recently published report commissioned by the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in completing the process of drafting the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 following the release by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health of the report on the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37182/22]
Question· writtenPQ 810asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
810. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to improve training for and the retention of public health doctors in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37160/22]
Question· writtenPQ 808asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
808. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his views on the 2021 abortion statistics for England and Wales which show that 206 women, girls and pregnant people gave Irish addresses when accessing abortion care; his views on the requirement for persons who travel abroad for essential healthcare if they fall outside the criteria set out in the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37138/22]
Question· writtenPQ 768asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
768. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will endorse a project (details supplied) as a capital project under the Shared Island Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36974/22]
Question· writtenPQ 767asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
767. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the capital funding that has been allocated to children’s health projects in Ireland under the Shared Island Fund to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36973/22]
Question· writtenPQ 765asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
765. Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health the status of the new 96-ward block at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38127/22]
Question· writtenPQ 760asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
760. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 188 and 189 of 6 July 2022, the number of Ireland Immigrant Investor Programme applicants who invested in social housing and healthcare respectively since the programme was established, without publishing the details of the persons or companies involved in tabular form. [38066/22]
Question· writtenPQ 759asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
759. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 188 and 189 of 6 July 2022, the number of Ireland Immigrant Investor Program applications that have been approved for social housing and healthcare respectively from the 800-figure cited in her previous reply. [38065/22]
Question· writtenPQ 408asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
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]
Question· writtenPQ 398asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
398. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Natural England has now fully implemented its new urban gull policy that it announced in February 2020 (details supplied); the reason that he and his Department despite having identical primary legislation in the Wildlife Act 2000 as amended, continue to refuse to provide any protection to communities in the State that are severely impacted by high-density urban gull colonies; and the reason that a lower standard of public health and safety protection is being applied by his Department.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37226/22]
Question· writtenPQ 397asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
397. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his reasons for continuing to refuse to derogate from the general scheme of legal protection of wild birds in the interests of public health and safety; and the reason that he extended the 2021-2022 derogations for three months and in so doing inflicting another high-density urban gull breeding season on identified impacted communities. [37224/22]
Question· writtenPQ 182asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
182. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to a healthcare setting (details supplied) in County Cavan in order that it can provide a sensory room; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37478/22]
Question· writtenPQ 166asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
166. Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of public health nurse services in Dublin 18; the steps that he is taking to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37484/22]
Question· writtenPQ 165asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
165. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health when he expects that the pandemic bonus payment will be paid to all eligible healthcare workers; if he has set a deadline for payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37488/22]
Question· writtenPQ 164asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
164. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the elective hospital in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37463/22]
Question· writtenPQ 157asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
157. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the status of the capacity review of authorised officers across community healthcare organisations; when the review will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37492/22]
Question· writtenPQ 150asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
150. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he has a comprehensive plan to address the severe capacity deficiencies in healthcare in the mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37353/22]
Question· writtenPQ 144asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
144. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if he will report on capital developments at St. Joseph’s Care Campus in Longford. [37459/22]
Question· writtenPQ 141asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
141. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health when the Cross-Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants will complete its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37193/22]
Question· writtenPQ 130asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
130. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the progress and the plans that are in place in regard to a reduction in the age threshold for breast cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37514/22]
Question· writtenPQ 128asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
128. Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Health the number of children identifying as transgender currently receiving healthcare support, including mental health support in Ireland; the medical services from which they are receiving that support; the reason that the gender dysphoria multidisciplinary team in Crumlin Hospital must be led by a consultant psychiatrist having regard to the failure to recruit a consultant psychiatrist to date given that other equivalent services in other jurisdictions are led by a consultant psychologist or consultant endocrinologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37079/22]
Question· writtenPQ 121asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
121. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with the Donegal branch committee of an organisation (details supplied) when he visits the county along with the CEO of a healthcare group and the manager of Letterkenny University Hospital to listen to their serious concerns about diabetes care services at the Hospital and the urgent need for additional resources to be provided. [37216/22]
Question· writtenPQ 119asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
119. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Health if he will order an inquiry into the circumstances of all Covid-19 deaths at a healthcare setting (details supplied); and the number of persons who died at the setting in 2020. [37651/22]
Question· writtenPQ 106asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
106. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will attend a meeting with an organisation (details supplied), the Manager of Letterkenny University Hospital and the CEO of the Saolta University Health Care Group to hear their concerns regarding the lack of diabetes care services at the hospital and the pressing need for additional services to be provided. [37590/22]
Question· writtenPQ 100asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
100. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 26 May 2022, if the Strategic Assessment Report by the HSE regarding the new emergency department in University Hospital Galway has been submitted to his Department to date, as per the expected timeline of early Q3 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37624/22]
Question· oralPQ 96asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
96. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to the recruitment of additional therapy assistants in the delivery of healthcare services; if therapy assistants will have a role in the provision of healthcare services for persons with a disability, particularly in areas in which there are unacceptable delays at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37494/22]
Question· writtenPQ 93asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
93. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health when more beds will open at West Kerry Community Hospital, Dingle; the up-to-date position in relation to the recruitment of additional nursing staff and healthcare assistants; if he will provide the staffing figures at present at the hospital; the way that this compares to the figures at the beginning of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37508/22]
Question· oralPQ 86asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
86. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health if an international recruitment campaign for healthcare professionals, including therapists, is under way in the context of employment with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37477/22]
Question· oralPQ 84asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
84. Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health the provisions that his Department is making to provide emergency dental cover for adult medical card holders who are unable to access a dental service due to the current oral healthcare crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38125/22]
Question· oralPQ 81asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2022
81. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of the pandemic bonus payment and special leave with pay for frontline healthcare workers with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37351/22]
Question· writtenPQ 332asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2022
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]
Question· writtenPQ 327asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2022
327. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the reason there was no engagement with union representatives in relation to the payment scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36942/22]
Question· writtenPQ 321asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2022
321. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the funding drawn down by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the amount of funding in each year spent on procuring services from private healthcare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36887/22]
Question· writtenPQ 310asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2022
310. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will consider a comprehensive reform of trans healthcare in Ireland and a move towards an informed consent model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36838/22]
Question· writtenPQ 296asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2022
296. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health if he will establish an occupational injury scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid; if he his attention has been drawn to the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027 which recognises the importance of recognising Covid-19 as an occupational disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36945/22]