PQ Responses - December 2nd 2021

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PQ 57253-21 - Joan Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to resolve the lack of services for assessments of need nationwide, particularly in CHO7 in which persons are waiting for more than 17 months on waiting lists.

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PQ 57689-21 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the access to disability services for children in CHO 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58556-21 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone; and the way it applies to those with eating disorders.

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PQ 58582-21 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health the planned programme for the commencement of construction for the provision of new buildings at Galway University Hospital over the next five years; the services that will be provided from these new buildings when complete; if these proposed buildings will be located on the Newcastle Road site or the Merlin Park site; the additional beds that will be involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59072-21 - Dara Calleary

To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards currently being provided on an emergency basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59109-21 - James O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand neuro-rehabilitation services in Cork; his further plans to provide additional in-patient beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59193-21 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of perinatal mental health services;; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59199-21 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will support and fund a more expansive ShannonDoc service in County Clare.

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PQ 59200-21 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of new primary care centres in County Clare.

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PQ 59222-21 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the day care facilities for the elderly are re-opened once refurbishment works are completed at Abbelyleix Hospital.

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PQ 59223-21 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health his short- term and long-term plans for day care facilities for the elderly for County Laois.

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PQ 59228-21 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the respite supports that are available to families of children with autism at present across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59230-21 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a community neurorehabilitation team in CHO6; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59231-21 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a successor to the Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59232-21 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health if additional neurology nurses are being recruited for Tallaght University Hospital and for St James’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59237-21 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the review of the Neuro-Rehabilitation Services in Ireland from Theory to Action Implementation Framework 2019-2021 and the development of the framework for 2022-2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59247-21 - James Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for a primary care psychology appointment in each local health office area in CHO7; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59250-21 - Willie O Dea

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for a primary care psychology appointment in each local health office area in CHO3; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59251-21 - Barry Cowen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for a primary care psychology appointment in each local health office area in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59252-21 - Barry Cowen

To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of a community neurorehabilitation team in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59258-21 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty some elderly medical card holders are having receiving chiropodist care due to the additional cost on top of their medical card that they have to pay (Constituents have informed me that the top up payment varies from €10 up to €30 depending on the practice); and if the scheme will be reviewed.

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PQ 59345-21 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the details of progress made in addressing the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders Goals 2021.

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PQ 59348-21 - Michael Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the reopening of day centres for older people following closure in 2020.

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PQ 59350-21 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for a primary care psychology appointment in each local health office area in CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59353-21 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health the measures in the HSE Winter Plan 2021-2022 that will enhance homecare provision for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59358-21 - Aindrias Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made on delivery of a seven-day service for (Macroom COPE); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59429-21 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health when the Bearn and Richmond report presented to the HSE in February 2015 into allegations that children were damaged in the public orthodontic service will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59430-21 - Nessa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health when the winning bid for the tender for the Rotunda critical care wing proposal will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59461-21 - Michael Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the backlog of assessments of needs for children; the number of applications received and completed by county in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59472-21 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the achievements to date in relation to the decongregation of large residential institutions for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59530-21 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to set up a system in which services (details supplied) and the entire school system could work together in a team like effort; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59533-21 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 435 and 436 of 13 June 2021, the status of the Strategic Assessment Report and Preliminary Business Case Report required in respect of the proposed emergency department and women and children’s block in University Hospital Galway; his plans to publish these reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59535-21 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reconfiguration of the Galway Roscommon ASD service to the new Children’s Disability Network Services for Children and Young People; the engagement his Department has had with service users and their families with regard to the reconfiguration; the number of children who are currently on the waiting list for assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59537-21 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the two orthopaedic theatres with ancillary accommodation for the provision of elective procedures in Merlin Park University Hospital; if he expects construction to be complete by the end of 2021 as previously planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59605-21 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the opening of Swords primary care centre; if he is giving consideration to directly employing general practitioners in this facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59606-21 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if special arrangements will be made for those with underlying conditions to receive their booster vaccine from their general practitioners instead of at a vaccination centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59610-21 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health if all respite beds are being used to their maximum capacity in the CHO4 area; if not, the location of beds in units in which there is spare capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59617-21 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the number of planned surgeries that have been cancelled in Galway University Hospital 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 59618-21 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of homecare hours applied for by CHO 2; the total number granted over each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59619-21 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the primary care plans for CHO 2; 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 59620-21 - Mairéad Farrell

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 Galway University Hospital while waiting on a homecare package or community bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59621-21 - Mairéad Farrell

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

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PQ 59627-21 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has been instructed not to use an alternative postcode for their temporary Covid-19 testing or vaccination centres by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

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PQ 59631-21 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of additional therapy posts that are needed to fully resource children’s disability network teams to an adequate level that will ensure timely access to both an assessment of need report and the subsequent access to the interventions identified in the assessment of needs report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59634-21 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (Can people aged over 50’s with underlying medical conditions be vaccinated by GP’s. Because of our underlying conditions, we would not be able to stand in a queue for hours at a vaccination centre but we do need our booster vaccine.) in relation to vaccinations for persons over 50 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59653-21 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of volunteers working at HSE vaccination and testing centres; if the €7 subsidised meal allowance was withdrawn from these volunteers by the HSE; and the amount the HSE saved from the withdrawal of the allowance.

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PQ 59660-21 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have left the medical card dental scheme in Ballymun and Finglas since 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59684-21 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved travel claims paid under the HSE travel abroad scheme that included reimbursement for a travelling companion for the past five years.

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PQ 59688-21 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health if additional staff in the HSE will be made available to process birth registration systems to deal with the current backlog of registrations; if not, the additional resources being provided and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59689-21 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working in each of the 25 civil registration service offices in 2006, 2011, 2016 and to date in 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 59692-21 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will ensure those over 50 years of age with underlying medical conditions can be vaccinated by their general practitioners as per the first two rounds of vaccination.

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PQ 59752-21 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he foresees an adequacy of supply of hospital beds, access to accident and emergency throughout the winter months notwithstanding the persistent threat of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59754-21 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that the promised phase of the Naas hospital development plan will be activated in accordance with the original projections; when it is expected the facility will be completed and opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59755-21 - Bernard J. Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of existing primary care facilities throughout County Kildare, those already operational, those promised or pending; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59756-21 - Bernard J Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the current or proposed regime governing new or orphan drugs; the number of such drugs under review or examination at the moment; the number to be approved in the course of the next year; the extent to which reimbursement will be in line with demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59758-21 - Bernard J. Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children currently awaiting orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 59759-21 - Bernard J. Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which surgery is readily available for the removal of cataracts in this jurisdiction; the number of such surgical interventions undertaken here in the past twelve months; his plans to extend this service in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - December 2nd 2021