PQ Responses - December 3rd 2020

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PQ 40799-20 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health when restrictions on birthing partners and fathers supporting women through labour in maternity settings are due to be lifted. -Sorca Clarke

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PQ 40831-20 & 40832-20 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to SouthDoc by facility under the GMS scheme from 2016 to date in tabular form. -Thomas Gould

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PQ 40846-20 - Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the alleged redeployment of speech and language therapists by the HSE for Covid-19 testing. -Michael Creed

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PQ 40849-20 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen the rolling recruitment campaign for staff nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Denis Naughten

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PQ 40855-20 - Willie O'Dea front page preview

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are many Down's syndrome children on a three year waiting list to be treated for arthritis; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that there was a commitment made that children with Down's syndrome would be seen after referral within 12 weeks; his plans to address this very serious delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Willie O'Dea

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PQ 40878-20 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the contact tracing and follow-up situation for a person who is normally resident in the north of Ireland, but flies into Dublin airport and travels across the border to the north; if this person will be followed-up by contact tracing teams based either in the north or in the south; if he is satisfied the level of follow-up checks on those required to restrict their movements is sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Darren O'Rourke

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PQ 40916-20 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the organisations other than the HSE that have been operating within the HSE Keltoi residential facility in the Phoenix Park since March 2020; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Duncan Smith

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PQ 40917-20 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons housed within HSE Keltoi in the Phoenix Park since March 2020, by week; the category of resident, for example, healthcare worker, drug treatment patients and so on; the reason they were housed there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Duncan Smith

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PQ 40918-20 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the reopening of the HSE Keltoi facility in the Phoenix Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Duncan Smith

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PQ 40919-20 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if HSE Keltoi in the Phoenix Park will remain a trauma-informed dual diagnosis, alcohol and drugs residential centre when it reopens given that it is the only such tier 4 residential service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Duncan Smith

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PQ 40924-20 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the status of his work to improve the long waiting lists for public dental care. -Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

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PQ 40929-20 - Richard O'Donoghue

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding reduced hours for ShannonDoc services in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Richard O'Donoghue

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PQ 40942-20 - Reade Cronin

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the treatment and management of Long-Covid and its acknowledgement as a medical condition; if he will establish multidisciplinary post-Covid-19 clinics around the State to include occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nutritionists and counsellors; the guidance that will be issued to general practitioners and consultants in relation to Long-Covid patients to ensure consistency of treatment; the further medical guidance that will issue to employers to ensure good understanding and fair management of employees; the detail of the provision of Departmental clarity on the entitlements of patients to medical care and adequate financial support; if HSE websites will be updated regularly with information and findings regrading Long-Covid recovery; if such recovery guidelines will be created and provided to all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Réada Cronin

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PQ 40943-20 - Reade Cronin

To ask the Minister for Health the reason in the case of teachers 28 weeks and more pregnant, the advice of the HSE on social distancing by which a company (MedMark - The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, The Royal College of Midwives and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine ) is abiding in the matter of health leave, does not appear to take into account the findings of organisations that these women are at an increased risk of becoming severely ill should they contract Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Réada Cronin

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PQ 40947-20 - David Stanton

To ask the Minister for Health the health and safety leave advice being given to women in the teaching profession who are pregnant at a stage of 28 weeks or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -David Stanton

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PQ 40971-20 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to roll out the Sligo scheme in terms of cataract treatment to other areas of the country; the financial benefits which would apply if this scheme was rolled out; if waiting lists would be reduced; the timescale for such a roll out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Emer Higgins

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PQ 40976-20 - Seán Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the third national paediatric rheumatologist position currently open for applications to be filled; if children with Down's syndrome face a four-year waiting list to be assessed for arthritis; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that parents of children with Down's syndrome were promised a reduction in this referral time to three months under the previous Government; his plans to increase the number of paediatric rheumatologists further; the status of the planned information campaign for general practitioners and other healthcare professionals on Down's syndrome-related arthritis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Seán Crowe

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PQ 40983-20 & 40984-20 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1378 of 3 November 2020, the number of persons engaged in swabbing duties who are redeployed from other areas of the HSE compared to those who have been newly hired to the role in tabular form. -Pa Daly

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PQ 41055-20 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the way response times for HSE ambulance services are calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Holly Cairns

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PQ 41056-20 - Holy Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which the close contacts of an person who has tested positive for Covid-19 are informed of same; the timeframe it takes for close contacts to be informed on average after the diagnosis is made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Holly Cairns

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PQ 41057-20 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if partners or accompanying persons will be permitted to attend with patients attending maternity services in circumstances in which maternity services know that distressing or potentially distressing information is being presented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Holly Cairns

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PQ 41060-20 & 42099-20 - Holy Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the way testing for Covid-19 is being carried out in meat processing plants; the number of tests carried out; the number of plants in which tests have been conducted between 1 August and 30 November 2020; the procedures for when a person is found to have Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Holly Cairns

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PQ Responses - December 3rd 2020