PQ Responses - September 29th 2021

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PQ 46874-21 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to providing additional cardiologists for the second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; the number of additional cardiologists are being thought; and funding allocated for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46881-21 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project in Co Cork (The Primary Health Care Centre in Cobh Co.Cork, and the breakdown of what services will be provided).

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PQ 46892-21 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement a reablement programme in each community health area as a matter of urgency similar to the successful pilot reablement programme run in north Dublin city in 2013 which proved to reduce the number of persons requiring home help and save money for the health service; if his attention has been drawn to the extent of the proven benefits of such a programme in terms of health and cost savings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46894-21 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Galway and nationally waiting for an assessment or reassessment for home help hours and for additional home help hours; the number approved but on a waiting list; the length of time each has been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46895-21 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if a shortage of staff is hampering the provision of services under the HSE home support service; if so, the extent of same; the areas that are worst affected; the steps being taken to address the issue; the number of persons employed in the provision of the service; the number of persons required to fully operate the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46897-21 - Gino Kenny

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the Exchequer of providing free car parking at all public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46900-21 - Jennifer Carroll Mac Neill

To ask the Minister for Health when mental health both in the private sector and those facilitated by the Health Service Executive will recommence fully in-person; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46914-21 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all facilities available to the public at Our Lady’s Hospital, Cashel; the terms for attendance at each service; the numbers attending each service per year for the past five years; the number of staff working in each section; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46940-21 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the funding available to persons with lived experience who work alongside HSE personnel in co-facilitating recovery workshops has been reduced since responsibility was given to Mental Health Ireland; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that only two persons engaged in this work in south County Tipperary were funded; his views on whether the level of funding for persons with lived experience who are involved in co-facilitating recovery workshops is adequate; if he has discussed the matter with Mental Health Ireland; if so, the matters discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46954-21 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated by the HSE to ShannonDoc in each of the years 2018 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46956-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if additional midwives and nurses have been instated due to the increased level of care that they are expected to provide in maternity settings due the restricted access of birth partners.

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PQ 46959-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if additional staff were put in place in neonatal intensive care units to deal the additional care needs of newborns in view of the fact that there has been limited parental access to due to the restrictions imposed on maternity units across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46961-21 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to provide funding in Budget 2022 for the provision of flash glucose monitoring systems to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46962-21 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE medicines management programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the flash glucose monitoring systems to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46963-21 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for flash glucose monitoring systems submitted by individual hospitals for persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number approved; the number that were refused in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; his plans to remove the age restriction on flash glucose monitoring systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46967-21 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections carried to date by the HSE and since 12 November 2020 to assess compliance amongst alcohol retailers with section 22 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; the detailed rate of compliance as a percentage of the total inspections performed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46971-21 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the National Ambulance Service to determine the significant delays in ambulance response time in counties Laois and Offaly; if he will establish the standard response time from call-out to arrival on the scene in those counties in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 46996-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the key performance indicator analysis of the emergency aeromedical service in terms of the number of callouts received from the National Ambulance Service, average arrival time and so on; and the breakdown of the number of incidents that have been attended to by the service in each of the years 2016 to 2020.

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PQ 47026-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if there are dieticians and nutritionists involved in the food provided to inpatients in hospitals across the State; if emergent health and nutrition guidelines are taken into consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 47027-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a system in place to redistribute the food waste produced by hospitals; if any of the hospitals food produce or products are donated in order to avoid waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 47029-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of school age teams that have been established since July 2020, by county in tabular form.

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PQ 47030-21 - Joe O'Brien

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the work underway to introduce blended working into the HSE in particular in CHO9 Dublin north central in a way that provides flexibility for workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 47033-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the way the selection criteria will be devised in relation to the recent commitment to transition 18 out of over 1,300 young persons living in institutional care into community settings; the detriments of the selection process, that is, cost of care package, availability of accessible housing, length of stay in residential care setting and so on; the projected timeline for the transitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 47035-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to increase the number of child and adolescent mental health service units made available nationwide given they are only in counties Dublin, Cork and Galway and only two of them take out-of-hours admissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 47036-21 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health if the public sector speech and language therapists that were redeployed during the Covid-19 period will be reinstated in their initial capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 47138-21 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which medicines for the treatment of rare diseases continue to be approved with particular reference to those deemed to make a considerable beneficial impact; the number of such medicines currently under examination; the number approved in the past year; the expectation for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 47152-21 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health when day centres (Cliffoney and Carrigans, Day Centres, Co. Sligo) in County Sligo will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - September 29th 2021