PQ Responses - April 1st 2021

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PQ 17676-21 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if a comparison will be provided of Covid-19 incidence rates between the general settled population and the Traveller community (considering that this ethnic group is reported to be suffering the effects of Covid with higher infection rates than other groups and that this is having an adverse effect on this minority group); and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Jackie Cahill

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PQ 17680-21 - Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that the visiting restrictions in place in maternity services in response to the Covid-19 document from the national women and infants health programme in September 2020 will be updated regularly to reflect the changing circumstances of the pandemic and the response including vaccination roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Michael Lowry

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PQ 17682-21 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if HSE occupational health policy will be amended to allow the occupational health team to accept recommendations from medical consultant doctors regarding the ability of staff within the service to be fit or unfit to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 17695-21 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of retail outlets registered to sell tobacco on the national register of tobacco retailers in 2020 to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Louise O'Reilly

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PQ 17718-21 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for motorised wheelchairs in community healthcare organisation area 5 for the latest available date by area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Johnny Mythen

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PQ 17724-21- Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line workers eligible for Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Michael Creed

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PQ 17736-21 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in parking charges at all State hospitals; and the breakdown by location and annual amount in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021. -Catherine Murphy

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PQ 17737-21 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances in which hospital management or operators of their car parks have used debt collection companies to collect outstanding fees in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021. -Catherine Murphy

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PQ 17742-21 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase capacity at the Central Mental Hospital in the short term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Patricia Ryan

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PQ 17743-21 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take following the refusal by the Central Mental Hospital to comply with a court order by refusing entry to a patient on 19 March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Patricia Ryan

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PQ 17750-21 - Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health when Monasterevin day care centre will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Patricia Ryan

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PQ 17756-21 -Patricia Ryan

To ask the Minister for Health if cases of a double mutant variant of the novel coronavirus similar to that found recently in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been detected in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Patricia Ryan

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PQ 17770-21 - Michael Fitzmaurice

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE is advising students who are currently in their final semester of college and on placement within a HSE setting that they will not be allowed to remain on placement unless they are vaccinated despite this vaccination not being mandatory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Michael Fitzmaurice

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PQ 17802-21 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure vaccinations carried out by private hospitals are in keeping with HSE protocols. -Patrick Costello

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PQ 17826-21 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health when the available spaces on the panel for the provision of hand sanitiser to her Department and the HSE will go out to tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Jackie Cahill

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PQ 17834-21 - Peter Burke

To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made to the paediatric diabetic clinic in Mullingar Hospital to allow services to continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Peter Burke

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PQ 17861-21 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the reason students who do not avail of Covid-19 vaccination will not be facilitated with clinical placements within HSE hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Denis Naughten

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PQ 17926-21 - Denis Naughton

To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure that pregnant women can be joined by their partner for maternity appointments and childbirth; the current policy in each maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Denis Naughten

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PQ 17932-21 - Brendan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in reducing waiting lists for assessment of need; if additional resources have been provided towards the provision of appropriate follow-up services in circumstances in which they are needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Brendan Smith

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PQ 17942-21 - Brendan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health when a building project will proceed to the next stage in view of the urgent need to provide additional accommodation at a healthcare facility (PROVISION OF UPGRADED AND ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION AT CAVAN GENERAL HOSPITAL); and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Brendan Smith

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PQ 18022-21- Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dieticians and specially trained staff for eating disorders allocated to the CAMHS aftercare services in County Clare; the aftercare services available in Ennis for patients with eating disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Violet-Anne Wynne

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PQ 18023-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Clare who received payments from the dental treatment services scheme in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and in the first quarter of 2021, in tabular form; the number of dentists in County Clare who made claims for payment in relation to new dental patients; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that most dental clinics are now not taking on new medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Violet-Anne Wynne

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PQ 18025-21 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of tests for Covid-19 undertaken daily in each of the walk-in testing centres since they opened; the positivity rate in each centre; if the positive cases from the walk-in clinics are being contact traced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Róisín Shortall

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PQ 18028-21 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of positive cases for Covid-19 that are contact traced; the number of days on average that contact tracing goes back to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Róisín Shortall

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PQ 18069-21 - Marc Ó Cathasaigh

To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the nationwide roll-out of the shared care cataract treatment model which is already in operation in the Sligo region known as the Sligo scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Marc Ó Cathasaigh

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PQ 18073-21 - Jennifer Whitmore

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the issuing of vaccines to a school (St. Gerards, Bray, Co. Wicklow); the actions being taken to make sure this does not happen again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -Jennifer Whitmore

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PQ Responses - April 1st 2021