PQ Responses - February 24th 2022

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PQ 10561-22 - Imelda Munster

To ask the Minister for Health the number of community psychologists that are currently available for ongoing treatment and support of adult patients under the care of the Crosslanes psychiatric unit and Singleton House, Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10596-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the rationale to no longer pay persons with lived experience, otherwise known as service users, family members and carers who are involved in the provision of recovery education; if this will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10597-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient mental health beds that are provided for children per CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10624-22 - Richard O'Donoghue

To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected to provide additional appointments for children waiting for audiology appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10629-22 - Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE primary care eligibility and reimbursement service to release details regarding the range of payments received by individual dentists for each of the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10631-22 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the HSE applies dual qualification criteria to the recruitment of therapists that disregard the length of time that a therapist has studied and instead place an emphasis on additional qualifications in the fields of social work, psychology and medicine.

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PQ 10634-22 - Joe Carey

To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a query (Could you please provide a detailed report in relation to Child Mental Health Services available in County Clare including the amount of consultants and staff delivering same.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10639-22 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the action that has being taken and the proposals to address the significant delay in the recruitment of podiatry staff in acute and community services following the recent launched Model of Care for the Diabetic Foot by the HSE and the highlighted intention to increase the number of podiatrists via the planned HSE chronic disease management community hubs; and the current vacancies for same in each CHO area in tabular form.

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PQ 10652-22 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health the controls or checks that are in place to ensure that dentists in the dental treatment services scheme are accepting new medical card patients; the number of dentists that are accepting new medical card patients in each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10667-22 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the current level of HSE podiatry staff servicing acute and community services in County Wexford; if he will provide an update on plans to improve these services for persons with diabetes in County Wexford and nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10669-22 - Charles Flanagan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the refurbishment and new building development planned for Abbeyleix Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10670-22 - Charles Flanagan

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the re-opening of daycare services at St. Vincent’s Community Nursing Home and Abbeyleix Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10671-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting in emergency departments for more than 24 hours broken down by day, hospital and by under 75 and over 75 years of age, respectively in January 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 10674-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that are on waiting lists for a hearing test by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10675-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that are waiting for a hearing aid by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10676-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that are waiting for longer than a year for a hearing test; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10677-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that are waiting for longer than a year for a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10679-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with a disability waiting for an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10680-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare packages which have been approved but which cannot be provided in full due to staff shortages or for other reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10681-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities who are waiting for a placement in full time residential placements or settings by county, by CHO and by wait times.

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PQ 10682-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have been approved for home help hours but who cannot receive them either partially or in full due to staff shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10687-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that were made for an assessment of need for children by a legal representative of that person under the Disability Act 2005 in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10688-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who had an assessment of need carried out under the Disability Act 2005 to whom services identified in the assessment reports have not been provided and to break down by ages and categories of disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10690-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who made an application for an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 and in case in which the completion of the assessment was longer than three months and further broken down by periods longer than four, five and six months, by a year or greater than a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10706-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the full staff compliment and skills mix in each of the children’s disability network teams and the total number; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10709-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with a disability who have had an assessment of need carried out and in which a service statement has been issued but no services have been provided and broken down in bands by month and by the year the service statement issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10710-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with a disability who had an assessment of need carried out and where the findings were appealed to a HSE complaint officer in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the timeframe for the complaints to be heard in 0 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 months and greater than a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10711-22 - David Cullinane.

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with a disability who had an assessment of needs carried out and in which the findings were appealed to the office of the disability appeals officer in each of the years 2016 to 2021; the timeframe for the complaints to be heard by 0 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and greater than a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10714-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of children who had an assessment of needs carried out under the Disability Act 2005 but such assessments were outside the statuary time-frame provided for in the Act in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10719-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of all staffing subsidies provided to general practitioners as part of the GMS contract for the years 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10723-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if the target of 300 additional staff working in mental health as set out in Budget 2022 will be met in 2022; the number of additional staff recruited to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10728-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the revenue generated by public hospitals for the carrying out of private health care in the hospitals in each of the years 2016 to 2021, by hospital and hospital group; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10729-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the full extent of staffing subsidies given to general practitioners as part of the GMS contract; the nature of the subsidy; the terms and conditions which apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10734-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline all of the additional funding that has been made available to Children’s Health Ireland and Cappagh Hospital for services in Crumlin Hospital, Connolly, Temple Street, Cappagh and Tallaght Hospitals for paediatric orthopaedics in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by year, hospital, by amount and the areas or items on which the additional funding is for; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10735-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons on a public health related waiting list across acute, primary and community care including diagnostics, waits for assessments and all waiting lists for testing, therapies or health services provided for or on behalf of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10736-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons over 75 years of age on a public health related waiting list across acute, primary and community care including diagnostics, waits for assessments and all waiting lists for testing, therapies or health services provided by or on behalf of the HSE and broken down by wait times in bands of zero to three, three to six, six months to a year, greater than one, greater than two and greater than four years, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10739-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital for each quarter of 2019, 2020, and 2021, in tabular form; the number of days on which occupancy exceeded 100%; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10743-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the range and average per hour rate paid to agencies for nursing and healthcare assistant grades by service division.

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PQ 10787-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 2 December 2021, if he will provide this Deputy with copies of the staffing census of the children’s disability network teams and the details of the workforce plan for the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10788-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the National Management Information System for the 91 children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10789-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the current shortfall in therapist posts per children’s disability network team; the type of therapist posts that are short per children’s disability network team in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10790-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number and type of therapist posts that are currently advertised; the average length of time to fill therapy posts by therapy discipline; the number of therapy posts that have went unfilled by therapy discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10792-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1014 and 1015 of 31 March 2021, the latest figures for the number of children who have received an assessment of need per CHO; the number of children overdue for an assessment of need per CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10793-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with a disability allocated to each children’s disability network team; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10794-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 2 December 2021, if all the 85 posts approved in mid-2021 for services in special schools have been filled; if these posts are located within special schools or within children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10795-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children 0 to 17 years and 11 months old awaiting a therapy identified in their assessment of need service statement by therapy discipline, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10796-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints that were received under Part 2 of the Disability Act 2005 in relation to a child’s assessment of need for disability services not being carried out within the statutory timeframe each year from 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10797-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests for an assessment of need that were made in each of the years from 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10798-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the training provided to clinicians to undertake an assessment of need; the percentage of therapy staff employed in children’s disability network teams who have undergone this training and are qualified to undertake an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10799-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the cover that is in place for sick leave, maternity leave and paternity leave for therapy staff who carry out an assessment of need as part of a children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 10800-22 - Pauline Tully

To ask the Minister for Health the number of administrative support staff employed within each of the children’s disability network teams; his plans to increase the level of administrative support staff employed within children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.