PQ Responses - December 6th 2022

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PQ 60147-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to ensure that the persons who used the Dunkineely general practice will be affected as little as possible given its closure; and if he will ensure that there is sufficient cover in the region.

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PQ 60148-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have brought patients with Meath addresses to the accident and emergency department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, in each of the past five years; the number of ambulances that have brought patients with a Meath address to the accident and emergency department of Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in each of the past five years; the number of patients that have attended the accident and emergency department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in each of the past five years and the number of these that where brought by ambulance; the number of patients that have attended the accident and emergency department Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in each of the past five years; and the number of these that were brought by ambulance.

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PQ 60152-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be provided in CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60153-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in establishing dedicated community neuro-rehabilitation teams for each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60161-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO7 given that only 15% of persons have access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams; if will he ensure that his Department delivers a team for each CHO area as promised (A team was promised for every CHO area but only two of the nine have been delivered. For people living with acquired conditions such as stroke and brain injury these teams allow them to leave hospitals more quickly to continue their recovery at home, reducing the need for longer term care while receiving necessary care close to where they live. For people living with progressive conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease access to these teams can help prevent unnecessary disability and hospital readmissions.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60162-22 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are in place for the establishment of a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60163-22 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO8 area; if so, if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60171-22 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO2 and in each CHO area in which a neuro-rehabilitation team has yet to be established; the date by which each neuro-rehabilitation team will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60172-22 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the current position in respect of the appointment of a replacement GP for the GP who has tendered their resignation in Blarney, County Cork; the action that his Department and the HSE are taking to recruit additional GPs for areas of growing population; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60203-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available in counties Monaghan and Cavan for children with disabilities; the proposals to increase these numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60204-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of his proposals that will provide respite care facilities for children with disabilities in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60205-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the criteria outlined in the statement of purpose for children to be approved for respite care in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60206-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the criteria outlined in the statement of purpose for children to be approved for respite care in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60207-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the criteria outlined in the statement of purpose for children to be approved for respite care in counties Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60210-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the criteria outlined in the statement of purpose for children to be approved for respite care in counties Louth and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60211-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite care places for children with disabilities in each county or for the lowest available geographic unit; the number on waiting lists for same in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60216-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the location of the existing community neuro-rehabilitation teams; the staffing complement of each team; the timeline for establishing a community neuro-rehabilitation team in each CHO, by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60232-22 - Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that support workers at University Hospital Limerick who are designated as cleaners and laundry workers were not included in a staff evaluation process and were refused a salary raise that was subsequently granted to other HSE support staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60243-22 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has bee drawn to the lack of access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams in CHO 8 which impacts those living with neurological conditions within the Louth and east Meath constituency (details supplied); his plans, if any, for a community neuro-rehabilitation team to be set up in CHO 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60246-22 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the age of 18 years with an intellectual, physical or sensory disability, currently referred and waiting to be seen by HSE who are yet to receive an initial contact; and the length of time that they have been waiting for the initial contact according to CHO in tabular form.

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PQ 60268-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for a public menopause clinic, by wait time and clinic in tabular form.

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PQ 60301-22 - Brid Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline any plans to establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO7; if his attention has been draw to the fact that only 15% of persons have access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams and that despite the promise of a team for each CHO area, only two have been delivered; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that these teams reduce the average length of stay in hospital which could result in saving over 42,000 bed days each year; when CHO7 will have a team in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60302-22 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in prison, who have been referred for treatment to the Central Mental Hospital, Portrane; the longest length of time that a person has been on the list waiting for a transfer; the reason for the delay in these transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60305-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health when persons living in south Tipperary will have access to community neuro-rehabilitation (Community neuro-rehabilitation is a vital support for people living with neurological conditions, helping to support recovery and prevent disability. However, only 15% of people have access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams. People living in Tipperary South don’t have access to a community neuro-rehabilitation team, but those in Tipperary North do. I request that you support people living with neurological conditions, their families and carers.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60311-22 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional hospital beds, excluding critical care beds provided for each public/voluntary hospital since 27 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60312-22 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional critical care beds for each public/voluntary hospital since 27 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60313-22 - Jim O Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional consultants, registrars and SHO’s in WTE terms appointed for each public/voluntary hospital since 27 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60317-22 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional nursing and midwifery staff in WTE terms appointed for each local health office area since 27 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60318-22 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional health and social care professional staff in WTE terms appointed for each local health office area since 27 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60324-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of community healthcare networks in each CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60325-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the population covered by each community healthcare network in CHO3 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60326-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of community healthcare networks where a GP lead is in place in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60327-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of filled positions and vacancies in each primary care team in CHO3 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60328-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions in the west Clare primary care team; the length of time that these have been vacant; the length of time they have been advertised for, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60329-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortage of HSE home care provision in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60343-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for an assessment of need by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60344-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on assessment of needs in County Clare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60346-22 - Violet Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons and length of time waiting on assessments of need in County Clare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60347-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health the current position in respect of the provision of CAMHS dietician specialist services in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60352-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the length of time that a gender identity development service (Tavistock’s GIDS) has been paid to run clinics for Irish children at Crumlin children’s hospital; the amount that was paid for this service through the EU treatment abroad scheme; if the Department or the HSE made the EU aware of its use of the TAS scheme to pay for the service to run clinics in Crumlin children’s hospital; if the EU was satisfied with this use of the TAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60353-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that nurses in hospitals have been told that they are not getting premium pay for nurses for Christmas.

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PQ 60354-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and babies who have been discharged into the care of homeless services from maternity hospitals in the past three months; and the number who have been discharged in need of emergency accommodation but with no accommodation to go to.

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PQ 60358-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to improve the working conditions faced by occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60369-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately work with the HSE in CHO4 to put in place a plan to ensure that none of the acute mental health unit beds in Bantry General Hospital are closed.

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PQ 60370-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 322 of 10 November 2022 (details supplied), the service developments that took place between 8 June and 15 June 2017 such that a permanent contract senior psychologist post in the North Cork / North Lee Older Adult Mental Health Services was, after being accepted on those advertised terms, changed within that seven day period to a permanent contract senior psychologist post in the general Adult Mental Health North Lee Services, and was not advertised to eligible candidates on those changed terms; the basis in employment law that such a rapid restructuring of a HSE post can be sanctioned after it had been advertised and filled on different terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60372-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to assist an organisation (Co-Action Skibbereen) searching for suitable housing for assisted living for disabled adults.

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PQ 60390-22 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to make more timely dyspraxia assessment services.

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PQ 60400-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget allocation to Tipperary University Hospital in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 60401-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant otolaryngologists attached to University Hospital Limerick in 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 60402-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE CNM3 senior orthopaedic nurses at University Hospital Limerick in 2020, 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased.

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PQ 60403-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals in which fluorescence microscopy and threomboelastography are available for diagnostics and treatment.

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PQ 60409-22 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health if respite services have been discontinued temporarily at Ennistymon Community Hospital, County Clare; if so, the plans that are in place to have the services fully restored given that the respite and short stay beds provide a lifeline for families and their loved ones; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60418-22 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that housekeeping/domestics/cleaner's nationally did not get awarded the job evaluation by the HSE; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60424-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health peer support workers to be recruited by CHO area including trainee staff; the current number of peer support workers employed by the HSE by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60435-22 - Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health if section 38 healthcare employees who worked exclusively for a day service (Rehab Care Nenagh Day Service) with residential day service users and onsite in Covid-19 exposed healthcare environments, will receive the €1,000 pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60449-22 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of incidences of coercive abortion which have been reported to sexual assault treatment units since 1 January 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60450-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health if a permanent registrar will be appointed to the renal unit at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60463-22 - Willie O'Dea

To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to provide funding to a foundation (Cliona's Foundation) a charity that provides financial assistance directly to parents of children with life-limiting or chronic complex care needs across Ireland, to help with the non-medical expenses related to caring for their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60466-22 - Willie O'Dea

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many persons who provide essential work as hygiene cleaners, domestic staff, laundry workers, housekeeping staff, accross our public hospitals and care homes believe that they should be in a higher band regarding the national pay scale agreement; if he will review the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60468-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO-2; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60472-22 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are awaiting an assessment for dyspraxia by county in tabular form.

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PQ 60478-22 - Josepha Madigan

To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s position on the establishment of a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO6; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60548-22 - Joe O' Brien

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned establishment of a community neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60591-22 - Rose Conway Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the protected disclosures reported to the HSE regarding concerns raised about the individualised services provide by an organisation (Western Care Organisation) in Mayo; his plan of action to investigate same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60638-22 - Jennifer Whitmore

To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the need for cariban to be initially prescribed by a consultant obstetrician for hyperemesis gravidarum sufferers in order for them to be able to avail of the drug reimbursement scheme as committed to in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60639-22 - Jennifer Whitmore

To ask the Minister for Health if consultant obstetricians were consulted before the decision to make them the initial prescribers for cariban was made; if any concerns raised as to the impact that this decision would have on waiting lists to see consultant obstetricians; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60641-22 - Aodhan O'Riordan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and babies who have been discharged into the care of homeless services from maternity hospitals in the past three months; the number that have been discharged from hospital in need of emergency accommodation but with no accommodation to go to; and the number of requests that have been received from social workers in maternity hospitals asking for emergency accommodation support for mothers and babies.

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PQ 60642-22 - Aodhán O'Riordan

To ask the Minister for Health if there are figures from the maternity hospitals on the number of additional nights that was it necessary for women and newborn children to stay in maternity hospitals due to the mother and child having no accommodation to go to.

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PQ 60643-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been allocated to Mayo University Hospital under the winter plan; the way that this compares to other hospitals in the West/North West Hospital Group ( Saolta University Health Care Group); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60644-22 - Alan Dillion

To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been allocated to a hospital (Mayo University Hospital) for the CT scanner replacement project; the status of the CT installation process outlining; and when the new CT scanner will be operational.

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PQ 60646-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the formal capital investment proposal submitted for the provision of single room en-suite bed capacity at a hospital ( Mayo University Hospital) and a timeline for completion of this project.

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PQ 60647-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute inpatient beds on wards A, B and C at a hospital (Mayo University Hospital); the number of beds in these wards currently not in use and closed; the reason that these beds are not in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60648-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health if the planned expansion of the footprint of the emergency department at a hospital (Mayo University Hospital) through the addition of seven treatment bays in the new modular build outlined in HIQAs report has been completed; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60649-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE are satisfied that corrective actions to non-compliant findings and HIQA key recommendations have been implemented following HIQA’s inspection on 29 September 2020 with the subsequent report published on 17 December 2020 for a hospital ( Mayo University Hospital); and if he will provide an update on the HSE's ongoing work to improve and maintain infection prevention and control measures in community and acute healthcare setting at this hospital.

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PQ 60653-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1661 of 8 September 2022, the progress that has been made with prospective developers on the provision of the primary care centre scheduled for an area (Bangor Erris, County Mayo); the timeline for delivery of this centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60670-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons invited by the National Screening Service to partake in BreastCheck, CervicalCheck and BowelScreen in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and the percentage of invitees accepted their invitation in tabular form.

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PQ 60672-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of pre-cancers and cancers that were detected by the National Screening Service in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 through CervicalCheck in tabular form.

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PQ 60675-22 - Nessa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI and CT scan machines by hospital; and the number that are operational, non-operational and broken respectively in tabular form.

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PQ 60676-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the current number of radiologists and radiology technicians working in Ireland, per head of population.

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PQ 60707-22 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to build a new community hospital at Lifford, County Donegal; and the services to be provided there.

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PQ 60713-22 - Brendan Howlin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of community neuro-rehabilitation teams in place in each CHO area; if it is his intention to establish such a team in each CHO area; if he will set out the timeframe for the establishment of such teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60727-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the staffing of Disability Network Teams in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60730-22 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll-out community neuro-rehabilitation teams to each community health area; the timeframe he estimates that such teams will be in place in each CHO; the timeframe he estimates that such a team will be available in CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60733-22 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the categories of public sector workers and civil servants under his Department whose contracts fall under the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60743-22 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll out of a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CH07; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60744-22 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll out of a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CH04; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60768-22 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health when a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be established for CHO2 given a team was promised to every CHO area but only two of nine have being delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60782-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health when frontline staff at a healthcare company (Fingal Homecare) will receive their Covid bonus payment

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PQ 60783-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of self-assessments issued to employers in relation to the Covid-19 recognition payment to eligible workers in non-HSE and non-Section 38 organisations; the number returned to the HSE, by category of eligible staff ( 1. Private Sector Nursing Homes and Hospices (e.g. Private, Voluntary, Section 39 etc.); 2. Eligible staff working on-site in Section 39 long-term residential care facilities for people with disabilities; 3. Agency roles working in the HSE; 4. Health Care Support Assistants (also known as home help / home care / home support) contracted to the HSE; 5. Members of the Defence Forces redeployed to work in frontline Covid-19 exposed environments in the HSE; 6. Paramedics employed by Dublin Fire Brigade to deliver services on behalf of the HSE.) in tabular form; the number of funding transfers which have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60800-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to investigate procurement procedures within the HSE to determine if there are any instances of the HSE being overcharged by private and voluntary service providers.

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PQ 60801-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who contracted Covid-19 in a hospital setting on a monthly basis since the start of the pandemic.

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PQ 60841-22 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health when a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be in place in CH09; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60846-22 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultants who have left posts at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda to date in 2022; the number and nature/discipline of the posts that are currently unfilled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60903-22 - Padraig O Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional in-patient beds provided in each hospital in the South/South West Hospital Group since 27 June 2020; the number of additional day beds provided since 27 June 2020; and the number of additional critical care beds provided since 27 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60906-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns raised by ambulance drivers in respect of their own health and safety due to challenging rostering of shifts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60909-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team to be set up in CHO 4.

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PQ 60921-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the role that the geriatricians on the Covid-19 response teams played in engagement with nursing homes which had outbreaks and in the meetings with specific homes, who made decisions on medication and transfer to hospital for residents.

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PQ 60936-22 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the waiting time for colposcopy appointments in Limerick is so long; the plans to improve the service availability; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60942-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the dental treatment scheme; the number of dentists active in the scheme by county; the number of dentists who having previously left the scheme have returned by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60979-22 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy 2019-2021; the progress of the implementation of the strategy in CHO9; the action that he will take to ensure the effective roll-out of the strategy in the remaining seven CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60980-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 561 of 15 November 2022, the duration of placement already spent of each resident of a facility ( Millfield House, Cork) at the time the facility was vacated in April 2020; the number of residents who moved from the facility in April 2020 who remain in residential care; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 60985-22 - Richard Bruton

To ask the Minister for Health if an evaluation has been carried out of the procurement of supplies during the Covid pandemic to establish the successes and the disappointments of the emergency arrangements used to establish the lessons that can be learnt for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 61038-22 - Violet-Anne Wynne

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fully resource existing community neuro-rehabilitation teams and if he will set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in every CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - December 6th 2022