PQ Responses - May 18th 2022

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PQ 24969-22 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health when voretigene neparvovec luxturna will be added to the reimbursement list in line with the Health Act 2013 and the national framework agreed with the pharmaceutical industry under which a company must submit an application to the HSE to have a new medicine approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24987-22 - Micheal Ring

To ask the Minister for Health the sequence of events in relation to a building (Former Health Centre property at Carrowmore, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. When was it determined that this asset was surplus to requirements by the HSE? When was this property initially offered to Mayo County Council under the DPER Protocol? This matter was all agreed two years ago, what exactly has caused the delay? When will the matter be finalised?); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24999-22 - Jim O Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to make cariban available on the drugs repayment scheme or on the medical card in order that women debilitated by hyperemesis can avail of the medication for the duration of their pregnancy if necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25006-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented to emergency departments with self-harm and or intentional poisoning by CHO area in 2019, 2020 , 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25027-22 - Imelda Munster

To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the number of paediatric occupational therapy staff in the HSE Boyne primary care centre, Patrick St. Drogheda, County Louth; the current waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25044-22 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of private dentists who held a contract with the HSE for the provision of dental services to medical card holders at the end of each of the years 2017 to 2021.

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PQ 25060-22 - Verona Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of dentists currently operating under the dental treatment services scheme; the number of dentists who operated under the scheme in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25084-22 - Pádraig O Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health the key performance indicators that he is applying to the pricing and reimbursement system for the supply of medicines outside of those criteria defined in the Health Act 2013; if the timelines for patient access from the application is measured by the HSE and National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics as a priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25103-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter (If she is aware that some older people in Donegal are still unable to access adult day centres as they would have done before the pandemic and that this is having a significant affect on some older people and their families in Donegal. Can the Minister advise when all adult day centres in Donegal will fully re-open?).

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PQ 25117-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to assign targeted health measures for Travellers, Roma, migrants and other disadvantaged women given documented differentials in health.

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PQ 25125-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to increase the number of specialist endometriosis services to four nationally for each region; including supports for specialist surgeons and a dedicated pathway to surgery.

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PQ 25130-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to develop a dedicated centre of excellence for complex gynaecological cases with a multi-disciplinary team on-site with referral pathways from regional clinics.

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PQ 25133-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure equality-of-access to abortion services for women by ensuring national coverage.

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PQ 25140-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to expand free STI testing and screening services, including self-sampling where appropriate.

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PQ 25141-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to commit to fully funding the National Maternity Strategy and its successor.

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PQ 25143-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that every woman has full choice-of-care and delivery options when pregnant, to include midwife-led care.

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PQ 25144-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to develop further education for healthcare workers, including general practitioner and practice nurses in the area of breastfeeding.

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PQ 25145-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that every woman has immediate access to a lactation consultant before being discharged from hospital or within 48 hours following a home-birth.

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PQ 25146-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to upgrade the building and facilities of maternity hospitals and units as needed and to ensure single room occupancy for every woman having a baby.

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PQ 25147-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that all women have universal access to anomaly scans.

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PQ 25149-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that all women can access medication for hyperemesis gravidarium as needed.

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PQ 25152-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure access for every woman to perinatal mental-health supports in every maternity hospital and unit.

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PQ 25153-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to create a dedicated mental health support pathway for pregnancy, pregnancy loss and post-natal, including free-of-cost counselling services as appropriate.

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PQ 25154-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to fully resource maternity bereavement teams for each maternity hospital and unit.

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PQ 25155-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to establish a national expert working group to look at pre-term births to reduce neonatal mortality rates.

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PQ 25166-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to introduce a dedicated cancer pathway, especially for access to surgery.

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PQ 25168-22 - Jennifer Murane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to reduce the two-year waiting list for cancer genetic screening.

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PQ 25170-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to provide catch-up for all age groups who missed the HPV vaccine due to the pandemic.

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PQ 25172-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to end the use of debt collectors by the HSE for in-patient charges for cancer patients.

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PQ 25173-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that ringfenced funding for eating disorder treatment remains in place.

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PQ 25174-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure universal access to mental health supports such as psychotherapy for women dealing with an eating disorder.

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PQ 25175-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that specialist eating disorder services teams including CAMHS are in place to meet needs across the country.

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PQ 25176-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to educate healthcare workers including general practitioners on the best way to provide weight-inclusive care to all and provide supports for more eating disorder resources including shorter mental health waiting times, more specialist services to refer to and time for initial general practitioner consultation.

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PQ 25177-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to deliver Ireland’s first in-patient mental health mother and baby unit without delay.

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PQ 25178-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ringfence sufficient funding for women’s mental health in annual health budgets to meet need and provide for universal access, particularly through primary care.

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PQ 25179-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure access to gender-sensitive appropriate mental services for women without delay and prioritise early intervention.

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PQ 25180-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that all healthcare workers in mental health services receive gender-specific training.

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PQ 25182-22 - Jennifer Murnane O’Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to resource sexual assault treatment units according to need and ensure access across the country.

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PQ 25184-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure all healthcare workers are trained to confidently support women to make disclosures including domestic abuse and coercive control.

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PQ 25186-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to fund universal access to the FGM Treatment Service including wraparound supports including mental health services, sexual and reproductive care and counselling.

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PQ 25187-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure the availability of timely access for domestic violence supports for women through their general practitioner.

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PQ 25199-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to resource dedicated peer health keyworkers in communities to ensure equality of information and access for vulnerable and marginalised women.

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PQ 25220-22 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health if he anticipates any difficulty or delay in payment of the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment wherein a qualifying individual is now working for a new employer within a qualifying sector; to outline whether two or more employers are expected to split the cost of the pandemic bonus payment in such circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25221-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults accessing speech and language therapy services in counties Roscommon, Galway and Mayo, respectively; the number of adults awaiting assessment for services in each county; the number of adults who have had an assessment and are on waiting lists to access services in each county; the average wait time for assessment and post-assessment access in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25255-22 - Brendan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be allocated for a project (Provision of funding to enable the use of Hydrotherapy Pool at Enable Ireland, Cavan); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25257-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if a healthcare setting ( the Keltoi rehabilitation centre in St. Marys, Phoenix Park) will continue to be used as a Covid-isolation facility; when this setting will be able to resume addiction and dual-diagnosis rehabilitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25263-22 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health the future entitlements of a disabled person currently entitled to State disability services when they inherit half the family home upon their parents' death, which would continue to be their primary residence; the position in a case in which the family home was to be sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25310-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vasectomies and tubal ligations that were performed in St. Vincent University public hospital relative to its catchment area; the way that this compares to other similar sized hospitals, for example St. James’s Hospital and Beaumont Hospital in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25323-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 842 of 5 April 2022, the percentage of appointments to permanent senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in CHO4 between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place via unadvertised transfers, irrespective of whether the transferring psychologists already had permanent contracts in other HSE services ( given that the posts in question would ordinarily have been advertised to eligible candidates on the relevant national recruitment panel, which includes candidates with permanent contracts and others without, and these public appointments are to be made subject to that nationally agreed recruitment panel process); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25324-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March 2022 and 840 of 5 April 2022, his views on the contention by a number of psychologists in the Cork mental health service that they were not informed at their personal development plan meetings or otherwise, of opportunities to transfer into posts outside of the nationally-agreed recruitment process over a period of years (and on the fact that these public appointments took place in a manner that was not covered by HR policy and circumvented relevant national recruitment panels, and therefore imposed disadvantage on candidates ranked on those recruitment panels who would have expressed an interest in the posts in-question); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25325-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022 and 1091 of 22 March 2022, the precise specialisms in adult mental health psychology and the exact criteria referred to in the response which warrant a bypassing of the national recruitment panel system for HSE psychologists; if these specialisms and criteria have been agreed to by the HSE's national human resources department and trade unions as constituting exceptions to the national recruitment panel system for HSE psychologists; and if so, the location in which these details are recorded and collectively signed-off in policy form.

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PQ 25326-22 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1091 of 22 March 2022, the way that a public appointment to a HSE psychology post can be both in line with the legislation governing recruitment and not covered by HR policy; the exact reference from the legislation in question which allows for appointments to HSE psychology posts that have not been advertised to eligible candidates on the relevant national recruitment panel in the first instance; the exact reference in employment law or HR policy that grants the right for alternative recruitment routes to be decided by each CHO area on the basis of service need for some posts; if this practice has been agreed with unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - May 18th 2022