PQ Responses - June 30th 2020

PQ 12731- 20 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health when regular home help hours curtailed during Covid-19 restrictions will be restored - Sean Sherlock.

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PQ 12768-20 & 12809-20 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the land at the entrance to an estate (details supplied); if it is under the control of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Duncan Smith

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PQ 12811-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if nursing home staff being tested for Covid19 will have their results relayed to them directly and not to their managers, in view of the fact that this was the case previously when there was mass testing of nursing home staff - Louise O'Reilly. -

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PQ 12813-20 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if he has requested the HSE to examine the finances of an organisation (details supplied); if so, the reason for the examination; when the examination will be concluded; if the results will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Mark Ward

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PQ 12817-20 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays in the commencement of the mental health service for deaf adults; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that a consultant was appointed to the service in October 2019 but no patients have been seen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -John Lahart

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PQ 12837-20 - James Browne

To ask the Minister for Health when employees of a service (South Wexford CAMHS.) will receive computer devices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -James Browne

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PQ 12842-20 - Jennifer Murrnane O Connor

To ask the Minister for Health when the €350,000 allocated to the ambulance base in County Carlow will be provided; when he expects works to begin; when County Carlow will have an ambulance base that is fit for purpose; and his views on whether it is unacceptable for a town the size of Carlow to not have its own ambulance base - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor.

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PQ 12862-20 Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health when the intensive physiotherapy department will reopen at Our Lady’s Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Jackie Cahill

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PQ 12894-20 - Kathleen Funchion

To ask the Minister for Health when dental services for children with special needs will resume in St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny (Details; An non-verbal autistic boy in my consultancy is in urgent need of dental work for two broken teeth. His mother has been informed by St Luke’s that they are not carrying out any such procedures at the moment due to Covid-19. Can the Minister please inform when such procedures will resume. ). -Kathleen Funchion

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PQ 12797-20 - Aindrias Monynihan

To ask the Minister for Health if HR circular 027/2019 has been fully implemented; if not, when it will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Aindrias Moynihan

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PQ 12860 -20 - Paul Mc Auliffe

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the rat infestation in north-western areas of Dublin; and the role of the HSE in this regard - Paul McAuliffe.

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PQ 12263-20 & 12932-20 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health if a review is being carried out in relation to the midwife-led unit in Cavan General Hospital; if so, the terms of reference for the review; the time frame for its completion; and the details of the persons undertaking the review - Niamh Smyth.

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PQ 12895-20 -Kathleen Funchion

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the home share respite project in the south-east; if the project is on schedule in view of indications by the head of HSE disability services for the south-east. -Kathleen Funchion

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PQ 12949-20 -Jack Chambers

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure sufferers of Parkinson’s disease have access to the necessary services to treat their condition; if he will address concerns outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Jack Chambers

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PQ 12954-20 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the vacancy for registrar position in St. Mary’s Health Centre, Thurles; and his plans for the position to be filled. -Martin Browne

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PQ 12990-20 -Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if new initiatives have been provided with respect to respite care in the context of Covid-19 in view of the loss of school time which provided a type of respite for full-time carers of children with disabilities; if he has considered initiatives with the Minister for Education and Skills; if so, the initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Catherine Murphy

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PQ 12999-20 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health when cancer services, including BreastCheck, will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Claire Kerrane

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PQ 13019-20 - Frankie Feighan

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will again provide community cancer screening services despite Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Frankie Feighan

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PQ12939, 12938 and 12937 - 20 - Chris Andrews

To ask the Minister for Health the approved contractors used by the HSE for pest control. -Chris Andrews

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PQ 12238-20 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to the access community mental health team for the homeless in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the expected allocation for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 13020-20 - Frank Feighan

To ask the Minister for Health the stage the HSE plans to allow fathers to be allowed back into HSE pregnancy scans with their pregnant partners; when fathers will be permitted to access the maternity ward during a pregnancy for longer than a one hour duration; if face masks will help the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Frankie Feighan

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PQ 13021- 20 - Frank Feighan

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to assist expecting parents with classes online in the absence of physical antenatal class appointments being offered due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Frankie Feighan

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PQ 13036-20 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if the the HSE will continue to operate services from a health centre (Athy Health Centre Woodstock Street Athy ) in County Kildare; if so, the list of services that may continue there; and if new services will be provided at the centre - Duncan Smith.

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PQ 13035 - 20 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the range of services that will be provided at the new primary care centre in Athy, County Kildare; the HSE agencies that will operate a service from the building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Duncan Smith

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PQ 13055-20 - 13059 - 20 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners tested for the Covid-19 virus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Niall Collins

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PQ 13060-20, 13061-20, 13062-20, 13063-20, 13064-20 -Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the length of time each individual apartment in the HSE lease in a location (Cois Locha, Dungloe, County Donegal ) has been lying vacant by month in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Thomas Pringle

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PQ 13126- 20 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if provisions are being made for frontline health workers that have been forced to use up their annual leave for childcare purposes and are facing a situation in which they no longer have time to take off despite fronting the national effort to overcome Covid-19 - Cathal Crowe.

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PQ 13134-20 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in June 2018, 2019 and 2020 in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Kildare by area; and the positions recruited since January 2020 in County Kildare in these sectors. -Catherine Murphy

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PQ 13136-20 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of increasing the number of child and adolescent mental health teams to 88 - Catherine Murphy.

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PQ 13137-20 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary funding will be provided for the recruitment of a consultant anaesthesiologist with a special interest in paediatric complex pain management in Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin and Temple Street; and when this post will be filled - Catherine Murphy.

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PQ 13162- 20 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health the funding supports available for community-based mental health charities which provide counselling services and are operated by local volunteers - Martin Browne.

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PQ 13174 -20 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the length of time he plans to operate a temporary field hospital in the university area gymnasium at University of Limerick; if the field hospital will now be wound down earlier than initially expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Cathal Crowe

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PQ 13184-20 - Jack Chambers

To ask the Minister for Health when a disability service (Daughters of Charity service in Blakestown, Dublin 15. Concerns among service users the service reopening will be delayed as the centre will be used as part of covid19 healthcare ) can reopen; if the reopening of the service will be delayed; if interim measures can be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Jack Chambers

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PQ 13189-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health when a facility (Propser Fingal – Strand St, Townparks, Skerries, Co. Dublin ) will resume services; and when services and support facilities for children and or adults with intellectual disabilities will resume services - Louise O'Reilly.

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PQ 13191-20 - Louise O Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the Minister for Education and Skills and work with third-level universities to expand the number of medical training places for students applying through the Central Applications Office system to help increase the number of doctors nationally - Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 13212-20 - Kathleen Funchion

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will outsource dental appointments for children in order that waiting times to have urgent dental work undertaken can be significantly reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Kathleen Funchion

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PQ 13328-20 - PQ 13500-20 - Christopher O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if provision will be made for expectant and new fathers to be able to visit their partners in hospital after they have given birth; if uniform rules will be implemented for such visits across hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Christopher O'Sullivan

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PQ 13372-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the testing of service users under the testing mechanism for all service users as part of respite care packages for service users returning for respite care to take place 72 hours before they avail of respite will be carried out in their own homes; and if the results will be confirmed to the families to share with the facility in order that these vulnerable persons do not have to travel to a hospital or testing centre to have their Covid-19 test carried out - Louise O'Reilly.

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PQ 13389-20 - Christopher O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health when partners and spouses will be able to resume visiting maternity hospitals before and after the delivery of their children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Cian O'Callaghan

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PQ 13403-20 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health if he will release the findings of the Review of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system undertaken by his Department in 2019; and if he will consider extending the availability of the FreeStyle Libre to all persons with Type 1 diabetes - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire. -Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

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PQ 13226-20 - Rose Conway Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary works will be carried out in Belmullet District Hospital, County Mayo to enable patients to be admitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Rose Conway-Walsh

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PQ 13370-20 - Padraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health when screening services such as CervicalCheck, BreastCheck and BowelScreen will resume; if there is a timeline in place for same; if so, if the detail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Pádraig O'Sullivan

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PQ 13457-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the contracts which the HSE has with medical device companies; the devices covered under the contract; when the contract commenced; the duration of the contract; the value of the contract if possible; if the company or supplier is still in business; and if not. when they ceased operating in tabular form. -Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 13458-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which the HSE has contracts with medical device companies that went out of business, but due to the nature of the contract hospitals cannot acquire new medical devices and have to persevere with devices which are obsolete, damaged or pay disproportionate amounts of money for their repair which often ends up being well in excess of the cost of a new device or machine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 13459-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of scoliosis surgeries relating to children carried out in 2020; and the way in which this compares with 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. -Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 13406-20 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health if dental patients on medical cards can access the National Treatment Purchase Fund to have pressing procedures undertaken; the waiting list time in the HSE schools programme for children under 16 years of age awaiting approved braces or HSE dental procedures; and if a breakdown of the procedure is unavailable, the timeline for these procedures to take place in view of the Covid-19 restrictions by county on waiting list numbers - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor.

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PQ 12865-20 - John McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health if cervical testing has been restored to normal levels of activity; if there is a backlog of appointments; if it is normal for patients to be waiting for six months or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -John McGuinness

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PQ 13460-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for scoliosis surgery; and the length of time they have been waiting for surgery by 3, 6, 12, 15, 18, 24, 32 and more than 48 months in tabular form. -Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 13475-20 - James Browne

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PQ 13480-20 - Martin Heydon

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the restart of smear tests and other cancer screening programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Martin Heydon

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PQ 13492-20 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the date that the Breast Check, Bowel Screen and CervicalCheck screening programme appointments respectively, will be reintroduced in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Thomas Pringle

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PQ 13503-20 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health when women will have access to full prenatal, maternity and postnatal services; and when family visits to maternity hospitals will resume. -Holly Cairns

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PQ 13505-20 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional ICU nurses employed in each hospital group between March and June 2020, in tabular form. -Holly Cairns

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PQ 13590, 13591-20 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Longford that have had cancer screening appointments cancelled due to Covid-19; and the additional resources which will be made available to ensure these vital and potentially lifesaving programmes can adequately deal with the additional numbers on their waiting lists - Sorca Clarke.

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PQ 13601-20 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health when a facility (Merlin Park Alzheimer’s Day Centre, ) closed since March 2020 will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Catherine Connolly

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PQ 13608-20 - Voilet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated for the clinical programme on eating disorders in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Violet-Anne Wynne

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PQ 13640-20 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the average weekly bed occupancy rate in each of the 19 private hospitals covered by the deal with the State, for each of the weeks from 1 May 2020; and the number of patients treated weekly in each case. -Róisín Shortall

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PQ 13641-20 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the public health guidance provided to hospitals in relation to health and safety and infection control in both emergency departments and in outpatient clinics; the arrangements in place to ensure adherence to this guidance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Róisín Shortall

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PQ 13461-20 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the plan being put in place to ensure that children with scoliosis will have access to surgery and care over the course of 2020 to ensure children have access to timely scoliosis care; if a plan has been put in place for children with scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 13558-20 - Jennifer Whitmore

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation on the National Maternity Strategy; his views on whether implementation is being carried out within the original timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Jennifer Whitmore

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PQ 13679-20 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to review the suite of services available to persons with Parkinson’s disease, in particular those with other conditions such as diabetes to ensure the latest occupational treatments and advice are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Cormac Devlin

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