PQ Responses - June 21st 2022

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PQ 31819-22 - Richard Bruton

To ask the Minister for Health the key performance indicators reported to him in respect of the child and adult mental health service; and his views on the throughput of patients, the level of the services delivered and the pattern of discharges.

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PQ 31827-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the BreastCheck mobile unit has moved from the Cork Road, Waterford to Dungarvan; if it is to be permanently relocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31853-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged under 18 years who have been referred to hospitals and HSE run centres for testing for sexually transmitted diseases and infections in each of the past ten years and if this figure can be broken down by age in tabular form.

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PQ 31854-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the protocols that in place in instances in which an underage person presents to a hospital or HSE run facility pregnant; if a referral is made to Tusla in such a circumstance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31858-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in University Hospital Galway broken down by category that is, nurses, midwives, administration, doctors, consultants, health care assistants and so on in tabular form.

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PQ 31859-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in University Hospital Limerick broken down by category that is, nurses, midwives, administration, doctors, consultants, health care assistants and so on in tabular form.

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PQ 31860-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in Letterkenny Hospital, broken down by category that is, nurses, midwives, administration, doctors, consultants, health care assistants and so on in tabular form.

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PQ 31861-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in Cavan General Hospital, broken down by category that is, nurses, midwives, administration, doctors, consultants, health care assistants and so on in tabular form.

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PQ 31862-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in Wexford General Hospital, broken down by category that is, nurses, midwives, administration, doctors, consultants, health care assistants and so on in tabular form.

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PQ 31863-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in Mayo University Hospital, broken down by category that is, nurses, midwives, administration, doctors, consultants, health care assistants and so on in tabular form.

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PQ 31864-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in Cork University Hospital, broken down by category (that is, nurses, midwives, administration, doctors, consultants, health care assistants and so on in tabular form.

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PQ 31865-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance waiting time per county in tabular form.

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PQ 31867-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of employees who have left the National Ambulance Service in each of the past ten years in tabular form.

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PQ 31869-22 - Peadar Toibin

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE or individual hospitals have engaged private companies for the purpose of debt collection from patients or former patients who have failed to pay their hospital bills; and if so, the number of companies that have been engaged; the cost of the contracts; and the name of the companies.

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PQ 31870-22 - Padraig MacLochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors on duty to cover the out-of-hours general practitioner service NowDoc in every part of Donegal, per week, for each of the years, 2016 to 2022 inclusive in tabular form; and if he is satisfied that this is adequate and safe coverage.

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PQ 31877-22 - Patrick O Donovan

To ask the Minister for Health if he or the HSE considered the reimbursement of test strips and machines for the self-testing for patients who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31898-22 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to extend services to support adults with ADHD in the Malahide and Swords areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 31944-22 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Intern Employment Eligibility Assessment; and the number of persons who took and passed the assessment in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 32043-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health when the upgrade and refurbishment of 123 Block at a building (St. Ita's Portrane) will commence; the duration and purpose of these works; if he will outline in detail the plan for this building as listed as a project in the HSE 2022 capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32058-22 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on HSE support for women going through the menopause, with particular regard to any link between the menopause and asthma; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32083-22 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health the number of wardship applications that were made by the HSE in March, April, May and to date in June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32098-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health his views on the closure of a health centre in Castlemartyr, County Cork.

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PQ 32105-22 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health the number of wardship applications that were made by the HSE in March, April, May and to date in June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32135-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for routine and urgent x-rays and routine and urgent scans, respectively at Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32145-22 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapist vacancies that exist in a centre (the Disability Team in Springfield Centre Mullingar.).

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PQ 32147-22 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for augmentative and alternative communication devices that have been approved for service users of a centre (the Disability Team in Springfield, Mullingar) that are currently being processed.

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PQ 32148-22 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of augmentative and alternative communication devices that have been approved for each of the years 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form by county; and the number of application for the same period that were refused.

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PQ 32158-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the refurbishment in Mount Carmel including any additional costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32159-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment plans the HSE have to fill vacant mental health nursing posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32221-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health if CAMHS and the mental health services of the HSE in County Tipperary have psychologists, counsellors and dieticians specifically trained to support adolescents and teenagers that are battling with eating disorders.

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PQ 32222-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with a disability in County Tipperary awaiting a HSE funded residential placement; and the waiting times for same.

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PQ 32231-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health if x-rays and scans performed across the Saolta Hospital Group can be accessed and read in each hospital within the group; if patient files can be accessed and edited at all locations within the Saolta Hospital Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32256-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for a facility (St Clare’s facility on Griffith Avenue) which currently appears not to be in use.

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PQ 32264-22 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health when it is planned for the lease for the new National Maternity Hospital to be signed by the HSE and SVHG; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32284-22 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a dedicated Parkinson’s nurse to support patients in the west Waterford south Tipperary area; the policy of his Department on this issue; the supports that the HSE provides to patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32390-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of attendees at emergency departments in May and June 2022 who were discharged or referred onwards to another service within 6 hours of registration, by emergency department by code in tabular form; the number within 9, 12 and 18 hours; the number waiting 24 hours or greater; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32391-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of attendees aged 75 years or older at emergency departments in May and June 2022 who were discharged or referred onwards to another service within 6 hours of registration, by emergency department by code in tabular form; the number within 9, 12 and 18 hours; the number waiting 24 hours or greater; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32392-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of attendees at emergency departments in May and June 2022 who were admitted within 6 hours of registration, by emergency department by code in tabular form; the number within 9, 12 and 18 hours; the number waiting 24 hours or greater; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32393-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of attendees aged 75 years or older at emergency departments in May and June 2022 who were admitted within 6 hours of registration, by emergency department by code in tabular form; the number within 9, 12 and 18 hours; the number waiting 24 hours or greater; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32394-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of all attendees at emergency departments in May and June 2022 who were waiting greater than 24 hours, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32395-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of attendees at emergency departments in May and June 2022 who left before completion of treatment, by emergency department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32396-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median, and maximum TrolleyGAR count at each emergency department for each week of May and June to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32439-22 - Brendan Griffin

To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for persons trying to access medical assistance at the emergency department at University Hospital Kerry for January, February, March, April, May and June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32454-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Queston No. 648 of 24 May 2022, the reasons that fire risks in a centre (Owenacurra Centre, Midleton; the Owenacurra Centre) are not being adequately addressed and therefore constitute the main basis cited by the Minister for Mental Health and Older Adults for proceeding with the closure of the service; the authority that determined that this fire risk was unresolvable; if he will provide details of the precise building survey that was carried out in arriving at this conclusion; and the way in which that unit 8, floor 2 in St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire is deemed less problematic in terms of fire risk given the greater difficulty evacuating elderly patients from an upper floor; the way that unit 8 floor 2 is deemed more fit for purpose than that at the centre given its dorm-style rooms, isolated location and lower mental health commission compliance ratings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32456-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 1328 of 26 April 2022 and 343 of 19 May 2022, if he will provide the original HSE business case and service rationale for purchasing a centre ( Glenwood House, Carrigaline); when this business case and service rationale was established; when this rationale changed to providing emergency accommodation; the way that this change of service rationale occured; the current service rationale for the centre; the catchment area or other service from which the centre will be taking referrals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32488-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the report on the Covid-19 response at St Mary’s Nursing Home in Phoenix Park; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32492-22 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of new staff and the expansion of the medical assessment unit at Ennis Hospital; the details of any expansion of services; if consideration will be given by his Department and the HSE for a further expansion of services provided at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32493-22 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the incidence of presentations at hospitals in the State with myocarditis, aneurysms and clotting disorders by month in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32494-22 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health the services that are presently being provided at the Ennis primary healthcare centre at Station Road, Ennis, County Clare; when the centre will be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32495-22 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of specialist roles at the proposed chronic disease management hub at Station Road, Ennis, County Clare; when the hub will become fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32502-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available in north and east Cork by institution and setting in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32503-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the status of a welfare home (St Francis Welfare Home, Fermoy, Co Cork) and if he plans to close it in the forthcoming weeks.; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32529-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing Traveller mental health funding by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32536-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if he iwll provode details of the make up of a crisis resolution team; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32537-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the current and capital cost of establishing and operating a 24/7 multi-agency mental health crisis de-escalating team in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32560-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the amount that Mayo University Hospital recouped through the use of debt collection agencies in 2020 and 2021.

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PQ 32575-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if there are any options available to a 71 year old person who has been on a waiting list for a cataract consultation for over a year with the Eye and Ear Hospital who has been informed that it could be another three to four years before they get to see a specialist given that they are unable to afford to go privately; and if there are any other choices for this person.

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PQ 32577-22 - Kathleen Funchion

To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies that received a full health screening and developmental checks in primary healthcare centres; the number of babies that reached the age of 9 to11 months without receiving a full health screening and developmental check in primary healthcare centres; the number of babies that reached the age of 9 to11 months that were not seen in this period for a full health screening and developmental checks in primary healthcare centres in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32584-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are employed in clinical staffing for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32586-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels of staff for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services helpline service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32587-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below the optimum staffing level of staff for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services helpline service are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32591-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of medical scientists in HSE laboratories across the country are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32594-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers that have received the Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32596-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of lactation consultants that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32597-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of lactation consultants employed by the HSE are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32599-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of midwives that are employed by the HSE nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32600-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of midwives employed by the HSE are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32601-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants specialising in endometriosis care that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32606-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of physiotherapists employed by the HSE are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32608-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of nurses employed by the HSE are at; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32611-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32619-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of end of life care co-ordinators that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32622-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of palliative care consultants employed by the HSE are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32623-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patient experience co-ordinators that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32624-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of patient experience co-ordinators employed by the HSE are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32626-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of medical HR officers employed by the HSE are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32631-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of gastroenterologists that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32637-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32640-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health how far below optimum levels of staffing of consultant general adult psychiatrists employed by the HSE are; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32660-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a rule (that if a patient has not previously had an MI (myocardial infarction) this drug is not covered on their medical card nor are they entitled to avail of a reimbursement through the High Tech Scheme, despite the fact that this treatment has a cost of 500 euro per month?) is in place for the drug PC5K9 inhibitor.

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PQ 32661-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the Irish guidelines distinguish between heart disease and significant coronary artery disease, as myocardial infarction and cardiac bypass.

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PQ 32662-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that low-density lipoprotein needs to be consistently above 4mmol/L; and the research that this is based on given that the European Society of Cardiology advise a target of 1.4mmol/L in cases of high-risk coronary artery disease.

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PQ 32671-22 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of person hours spent in the public health system per month to deliver colonoscopies in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32672-22 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancers detected and the detection rate of same and the number of adenomas detected and the detection rate of same, detected through BowelScreen in each of the years from 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32673-22 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended prostate rapid access clinics regardless of waiting time; the number and proportion that attended within the recommended 10 working days, for each quarter between 2015 to present, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32676-22 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of all lung cancer diagnoses made as a result of a person's attendance at a lung rapid access clinic in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32751-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health the details of the respite service for the elderly at Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar; the number of beds and average wait times for planned respite services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32752-22 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds and locations provided by Community Healthcare West across County Mayo; the way that the HSE manages this service through referrals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32792-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health the up to date position with a number of houses on the grounds of a HSE facility (McCauley court houses on the grounds of St Vincent’s hospital Athy) in County Kildare; the position with the upgrade of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 32794-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no common policy vis-a-vis visiting arrangements throughout various units in the west; if he will advise regarding a specific unit (With regard to Roscommon Co Hospital Psychiatric Unit, and when visiting restrictions might be reduced or lifted.);; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - June 21st 2022