PQ Responses - December 16th 2021

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PQ 62431-21 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 624 of 5 October 2021, if the vacant occupational therapy roles have now been filled; the number of children currently awaiting occupational therapy appointments in counties Roscommon and Galway; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62436-21 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health the reason more pharmacies are not administering the booster vaccination in view of the excellent work that pharmacists have carried out throughout the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62444-21 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national steering group for the implementation of the Neurorehabilitation Strategy 2019-2021 has met only twice since an implementation framework was published in 2019 and not at all to date in 2021; the investments that will be made to support implementation in 2022 given that only two of the promised network of nine community neurorehabiltation teams have been partly funded to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62457-21 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the creation of dedicated teams to deal exclusively with scoliosis procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62459-21 - James Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a hospital transfer service in place for elderly persons that are unable to drive to hospital appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62461-21 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health if there are vacant positions for speech and language therapists in counties Sligo or Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62464-21 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is not a transfer system in place for speech and language therapy staff in the HSE; if this will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62476-21- Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the recent transfer of the Ennis vaccination centre to Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62498-21- Francis Noel Duffy

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will recognise ME/CFS as a long-term illness; if his Department and the HSE will review the guidelines on the diagnosis and management of ME/CFS in view of the recent report published by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence with updated guidelines on ME/CFS; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62501-21 - Seán Fleming

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the waiting times for behavioural therapy and speech and language therapy for children by county ( For Laois, Offaly, Longford, Westmeath, Meath & Louth. The number of people waiting between 6 and 12 months for this service, between 1&2 years for this service, between 2&3years and over 3years); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62540-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of homecare hours; and the number of hours assigned in County Cork by LHO

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PQ 62541-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting homecare hours; and the number of hours they are waiting for in County Cork by LHO.

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PQ 62542-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members by role currently employed and working on children’s disability network teams in County Cork by team in tabular form.

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PQ 62543-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has engaged with SouthDoc since the reopening of its Blackpool facility; and if there is an intention to resume normal operating hours in this facility.

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PQ 62544-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with medical cards in County Cork by LHO.

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PQ 62549-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the stabilisation units promised in Budget 2021.

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PQ 62555-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting residential treatment and detoxification treatment by county in tabular form.

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PQ 62557-21 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health if an outreach programme is planned for delivery of vaccine boosters to vulnerable hard to reach cohorts, for example, homeless persons and those in active addiction.

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PQ 62565-21 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the dates of meetings of a project team (d/s; know as both the ‘Monitoring and Oversight Group for the Look Back Review (2018) Report’ and/or the “Look Back Review – Donegal” Ard Greine Court, Stranorlar. (which led to the report entitled “Independent Review of the Management of Brandon” being produced), that was established following reports of serious incidents of concern in a centre in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62580-21 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health when walk-in vaccine slots and access to pharmacy booster vaccination will be made available for those who initially received just one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine (Janssen); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62590-21 - Joe Carey

To ask the Minister for Health the services that will be provided at a location (Could you please outline in detail what services will be provided from the new Primary Healthcare Centre at Station Road, Ennis County Clare. The project was initially planned to be a four storey building, could you please provide detail of what exact services will be accessible to the public on each floor of the development. Planning permission is currently being sought for a fifth floor element for this project, could you please explain what services will be provided from the fifth floor.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62609-21 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health the cost of developing the Covid-19 application that was made available to citizens; when it was first made publicly available; the use made of the application since its inception as a tool in contact tracing; if it is not being used for contact tracing now, when its use for same ceased; if so, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62614-21 - Seán Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are currently overdue their annual BreastHealth mammogram post-treatment for breast cancer; and the number of those have been waiting longer than six months.

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PQ 62615-21 - Seán Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are overdue for cervical screening; and the number of those that have been waiting for longer than six months.

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PQ 62627-21 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health his plans in relation to resourcing West Kerry Community Hospital with additional staff to secure the retention of existing short and long-stay beds and to open the eight long-stay and eight short stay-beds that are needed to avoid older persons from the Dingle Peninsula being moved long distances from their homes to avail of residential care; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62628-21 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for CAMHS services in County Cork by area; the average waiting time; and his plans to address this.

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PQ 62629-21 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons on the CAMHS waiting list in Cork city for less than 3, 3-6, 6-9, 9-12, 12-18, 18-24 and for over 24 months, in tabular form.

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PQ 62630-21 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in each children’s disability network team across the State; and the waiting list by service in each.

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PQ 62631-21 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for an assessment of needs in Cork city and county, by area.

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PQ 62679-21 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a policy of requiring patients presenting at some hospitals or at HSE Covid-19 testing facilities to wear a surgical mask rather than higher grade masks such as FFP2 and N95 which they arrived with and the requirement to replace the latter with a surgical mask should a patient present with one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62726-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the supports in terms of respite that are available to families of children with autism by type of service and CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62727-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the strategies in place to support persons with intellectual disabilities to access mental health supports if needed.

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PQ 62728-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the mental health supports that are available specifically for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62756-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the planned visits by the HSE to the maternity hospitals in relation to compliance and management of maternity restrictions as was committed to in quarter 3 of 2021 to ensure uniformity across all maternity units.

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PQ 62757-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if birth partner presence has resumed to pre-pandemic levels across all 19 maternity units.

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PQ 62758-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed long stay unit in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ennis County Clare will become operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62759-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health when the local injuries unit will open in Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62760-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the oncology step-down area in Ennis General Hospital; the number of additional whole-time equivalent posts that will be needed to resource the unit; the estimated capital investment for the budget in 2022; the estimated current investment for 2022; the projected timeline for the service being on stream; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62772-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if occupational and speech and language therapy has resumed fully to pre-pandemic levels; if a proportion of these staff members are still redeployed in Covid-19 related posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62773-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new operating theatre to be developed in Ennis General Hospital; the capital funding that will be made available through the Budget 2022 overall health allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62819-21 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the issues raised in relation to the care afforded to vulnerable prisoners, notably those with a mental illness, in the Council of Europe anti-torture Committee’s 7th periodic visit report on Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62821-21 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult persons currently on waiting lists to see a psychiatrist in each of the HSE regions in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62833-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a diabetes team in the gestational diabetes clinic in Mayo General Hospital that allow for the provision of insulin onsite; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62834-21 - Rose Conway Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the provision of the primary care centre scheduled for Bangor Erris, County Mayo; the timeline for the delivery of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62835-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision and waiting lists of homecare packages and home help hours in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62837-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE home help staff recruited in the past 12 months by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62840-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical staff vacancies by staff grade currently for each hospital in the Saolta Hospital Group; the length of time of each vacancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62841-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional beds that will be made operational in hospitals in County Mayo under the winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62843-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the number of planned surgeries that have been cancelled in each hospital in the Saolta Hospital Group over each of the past six months as a result of bed capacity issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62845-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the primary care plans for each CHO; the progress to date on each project; the timeframe for delivery of each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62846-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for approval of a homecare application; the level of delayed discharges from each hospital in the Saolta Group while waiting on a homecare package or community bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62847-21 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the number of community hospital beds in County Mayo available to patients on discharge from acute hospitals; if he plans to increase community bed capacity in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62849-21 - Brenda Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be introduced to improve the provision of services (THE NEED TO IMPROVE RESPITE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN CAVAN AND MONAGHAN) in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62864-21 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of dentists participating in the dental treatment services scheme in Ballymun and Finglas; the steps he is taking to address the withdrawal of dentists from the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62865-21 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists participating in the dental treatment services scheme by CHO in tabular form.

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PQ 62872-21 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure cancelled booster appointments are recorded in the HSE system to avoid duplication; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62928-21 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the measures being adopted to address overcrowding and lengthy waiting times at the emergency department in University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62929-21 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the number of ambulances available at any given time in County Kerry in the Christmas period in the context of the increased population of the county due to visitor numbers; if the provision of ambulances for County Kerry will be reflective of the inflated population for this period as distinct from CSO Census population figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 62930-21 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position in relation to the review of the south Kerry CAMHS prescription issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - December 16th 2021