PQ Responses - November 22nd 2022

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PQ 57263-22 - Robert Troy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current position of the south Westmeath Hospice facility.

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PQ 57286-22 - Emer Higgins front page preview

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that has been allocated to the establishment of the national psychology placement office as recommended in the HSE psychology report of January 2021; when he expects the office to be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57288-22 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health the current policy for the management of urgent cases within children’s disability network teams; if a CNDT can carry out a diagnostic assessment without instruction from the assessment of needs’ division; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57371-22 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment and appointment of a spinal surgery for Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin.

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PQ 57377-22 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health the number on the waiting lists to access CAMHS by CHO area in each of the years 2015 to 2021; and the waiting times involved to access these appointments.

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PQ 57378-22 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health the number on the waiting lists to access CAMHS in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form; and the waiting times involved to access these appointments.

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PQ 57379-22 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health the speech and language therapy, social work, physiotherapy and occupational therapy positions allocated and filled in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 57380-22 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health the speech and language therapy, social work, physiotherapy and occupational therapy positions allocated and filled on a national basis by hospital group and CHO area, in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 57385-22 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number and grade of staff hired to work in the 91 CDNTs since the beginning of 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57386-22 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the current staff vacancies by discipline in child and adult disability services in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57402-22 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the lack of consistency in psychology, occupational therapy, speech and language and physiotherapy appointments for children with physical and or intellectual disabilities in north Tipperary, either in the Belmont centre in Nenagh, County Tipperary or through school visits; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57403-22 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health the number of clients that each psychologist has on their list in relation to the two new psychologists positions recently filled in north Tipperary for disability services; his views on whether further psychologists are required in the area to provide the necessary services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57425-22 - Joe Flaherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of staff in CHO8 who are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000.

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PQ 57426-22 - Joe Flaherty

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that staff in the registry office in Longford are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000 given that their peers in other offices have received the payment.

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PQ 57427-22 - Joe Flaherty

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the departments and services within the CHO8 that are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000.

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PQ 57428-22 - Joe Flaherty

To ask the Minister for Health if the section 39 staff at St Christopher’s, Longford, will receive their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000 prior to Christmas (Staff were assured during the year that Section 39 facilities would receive the payment).

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PQ 57429-22 - Joe Flaherty

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that staff employed in the vaccination centre at Newtownforbes, County Longford, are still awaiting their bonus pandemic payment of €1,000.

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PQ 57437-22 - Robert Troy

To ask the Minister for Health the future plans for Midlands Youth Drug and Alcohol Service, given that the contract with an organisation (details supplied) for the provision of services ceases in December 2022 and parents have not been informed of future plans.

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PQ 57438-22 - Robert Troy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants in receipt of the fair deal scheme who opted to rent out their homes since the change in how this would affect their own contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57465-22 - Michael McNamara

To ask the Minister for Health when persons ( Staff in Galway Cancer Care West have not received their bonus of one thousand euro for working during Covid 19 Coronavirus) will receive their Covid-19 recognition payment for frontline workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57542-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of early intervention places available in an area (Fermoy Mitchelstown Area in Co Cork) in County Cork.

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PQ 57556-22 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at early intervention in each CHO and LHO; and the cost of filling all vacancies, in tabular form.

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PQ 57568-22 - Mairead Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if agency workers in the HSE will still be able to receive the pandemic bonus payment if their employer does not apply for the funding for it; the way that workers can apply to receive the payment under those circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57582-22 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff vacancies by job title in orthodontic services in County Meath; when these vacancies will be filled in tabular form.

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PQ 57583-22 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time tracheotomy nurses working in the Mater Hospital in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased.

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PQ 57586-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff recruited to children’s disability network teams in the past 12 months, in tabular form by CHO and CDNT; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57589-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the development of the National Cervical Screening Laboratory; the timeframe for delivery of the project; the cost of the project to date; the unmet staffing requirements for the laboratory; the estimated final cost of the project; the estimated annual running cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57590-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer screenings conducted by the HSE by type, by location for each month to date in 2022, in tabular form; the number of screenings which have been outsourced by type, indicating for domestic and abroad; the number of samples which have been analysed by HSE services; the number of samples outsourced for analysis by provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57591-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to cancer screening services to date in 2022.

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PQ 57592-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for cancer screening services; the average length of wait from referral to screening by region; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57598-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients, statewide and for each location for October 2019; the average for patients aged under 75 and 75 plus, Statewide and for each location; the number of patients who attended and were admitted below the average and the number waiting longer than the average; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57599-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who left an emergency department post-registration but pre-admission in October 2022, by hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57600-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who left an emergency department post-registration but pre-admission in October 2019, by hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57601-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of patients who waited 0-6, 6-9, 0-9, 6-24 and 9-24 and 24+ hours for admission via an emergency department for each emergency department in October 2022, in tabular form; the number for all patients and for patients aged over 60 years and for those over 75 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57602-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of patients who waited 0-6, 6-9, 0-9, 6-24, and 9-24 and 24+ hours for admission via an emergency department for each emergency department in October 2019, in tabular form; the numbers for all patients and for patients aged over 60 years and for those over 75 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57603-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of presentations, registrations, and admissions at each emergency department and the Statewide total for October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57605-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1066 of 8 November 2022, the number of patients who waited greater than 24 hours for admission via an emergency department for each month in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to the end of October 2022, by location in tabular form;; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57606-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children on public dental and orthodontic waiting lists in October 2022 by county, region and CHO, in tabular form; the numbers by wait timebands; the average length of wait; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57607-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children on public dental and orthodontic waiting lists in October 2019 by county, region and CHO, in tabular form; the numbers by wait timebands; the average length of wait; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57608-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on community healthcare waiting lists for each care service for October 2022, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait and by age; and if he will make a statement on the matter

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PQ 57609-22 - David Cullinane.

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on community healthcare waiting lists for each care service for October 2019, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait and by age; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57634-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce a mechanism for frontline workers to register for their pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57678-22 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health when the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital will return to full capacity; the plans that are in place to deal with the extremely long waiting lists for pain management, with patients waiting up to three years for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57680-22 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a health centre unit (Health Centre/Unit in Ballina, Co. Mayo on the grounds of the hospital [not the primary care centre], Mercy Road, Ballina, Co. Mayo. Can this decision be changed to allow local GPs and GPs in north and west Mayo refer patients who sustained a non-critical injury to obtain x-ray imaging in their locality during business hours?) does not provide x-ray services to the local population for injuries to the body; the person or body that made this decision; the rationale for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57681-22 - Michael Ring

To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable for GPs to have to refer patients to a facility (GPs have to refer residents of North Mayo to an injury clinic in County Roscommon, approximately two hours away for an x-ray.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57687-22 - Cian O Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will reform the recruitment processes for the National Ambulance Service to give greater recognition to prior learning and or prior experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57688-22 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of appointments to the National Ambulance Service that are held by graduates of the BSc in paramedic studies from the University of Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57699-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the capital investment proposals at St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny in order to enlarge the footprint to support new and increased services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57700-22 - Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent consultant paediatric dermatologist attached to CHI, Temple Street in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57782-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams, by CHO/CDNT in tabular form; the average length of wait; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57783-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on disability service waiting lists for each service type, excluding children’s disability network teams for October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57784-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on CAMHS waiting lists, by CHO, and by age; and the length of wait in tabular form.

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PQ 57785-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to a company (EHF29 Insourcing/EHF29 Ltd) regarding gastrointestinal scopes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57786-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the volume of outsourcing provided to a company (EHF29 Insourcing/EHF29 Ltd; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -

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PQ 57787-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the sum of payments made to a company (details supplied) in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57790-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type by hospital group and hospital in October 2022 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57794-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance response times relative to key performance indicators for ECHO and DELTA callouts for October 2022, nationally and by ambulance region, in tabular form.

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PQ 57795-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance response times relative to key performance indicators for ECHO and DELTA callouts for October 2019, nationally and by ambulance region, in tabular form.

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PQ 57796-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community healthcare facilities in October 2022; the number year to end October 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57797-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community healthcare facilities for each month of 2019 and the total number; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57798-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who submitted claims under the DTSS for each month to date in 2022, by CHO and LHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57803-22 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health if agency workers who worked in HSE vaccination centres will receive the Covid recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57829-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges, by location and by month to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 57830-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of lost bed days by location and by month to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 57831-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time from admission to discharge by location and by month to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 57833-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who could not be discharged on time due to a lack of suitable arrangements by reported reason type and by location by month to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 57834-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges by location and by month in 2019 in tabular form.

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PQ 57835-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of lost bed days, by location and by month in 2019, in tabular form.

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PQ 57836-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time from admission to discharge, by location and by month in 2019 in tabular form.

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PQ 57837-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who could not be discharged on time due to a lack of homecare by location and by month in 2019, in tabular form.

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PQ 57955-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a facility (HYDROTHERAPY POOL AT ENABLE IRELAND IN CAVAN – NOT OPEN – NEEDS FUNDING; Enable Ireland) is not open; if his Department will grant funding for same; if his Department has received an application from an organisation regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57971-22 - Emer Higgins

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that first-year students from a school (Holy Family Community School Rathcoole) are being asked to travel to a HSE facility in Cherry Orchard to avail of the HPV vaccine which is normally administered in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 57990-22 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting services in network 4 of the community disability network teams, broken down by the age of children and the number of years that they are waiting for services; the total cumulative annual hours of service provision to this cohort of children in the children’s disability network team 4 Spiddal for the years 2020 to 2021, including the allocated and utilised budget in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58003-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the totality of the amount drawn down of the temporary inflation payment scheme by the nursing home sector to date.

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PQ 58022-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the last time that an in-person external fire safety audit was carried out on behalf of the HSE in each hospital part of RCSI group; when the next in-person external fire safety audit on behalf of the HSE will take place in each hospital part of the group in tabular form; and if these reports are published.

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PQ 58024-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant paediatric gastroenterologists attached to CHI Crumlin to date in 2022; and the times of the week that the consultants are based in the hospital.

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PQ 58034-22 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ending of the contract for provision of youth addiction services in the Midlands region.

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PQ 58037-22 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health if he will give a firm commitment that there will be no disruption to youth addiction services in the Midlands in the next 12 months.

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PQ 58039-22 - Jackie Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the significant ambulance waiting times experienced by constituents in the Tipperary region; the average length of time between an ambulance request being made, the dispatch, and its arrival to a scene; the root cause that his Department identifies of this long ongoing issue; the action being taken to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58051-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if contracted services, including contract cleaners, catering staff and security personnel, working in public hospitals will receive the Covid-19 recognition payment; and if so, when it will be paid to them.

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PQ 58052-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a planned new primary care centre in a location (Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon); the stage that this development is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58053-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at a centre (E-Mental Health Hub, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon); and the length of time that each vacancy has existed.

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PQ 58054-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in a centre (Psychiatry Unit, Roscommon University Hospital); the number of these beds currently occupied; the current waiting list for a bed in the unit; the current staffing levels; the current staffing vacancies, if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58056-22 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment was given to put in place a healthcare professional at a location (EROC Centre, Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon) in 2017; the reason that this did not happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. -

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PQ 58063-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have died by suicide under the age of 60 years by age and county in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 58064-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have died by suicide aged 60-69, 70-79 and 80+ years by county in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 58072-22 - Róisín Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the schedule of delivery for the 321 acute beds due to be delivered in 2022 and 2023, as per the Winter Plan 2022/23.

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PQ 58073-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the schedule of delivery for the 20 critical care beds due to be delivered in 2022 and 2023, as per the Winter Plan 2022/23.

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PQ 58080-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of public-only dentists employed by the HSE in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by LHO and CHO, in tabular form.

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PQ 58081-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a school dental screening service waiting list by age, wait time, LHO and CHO in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 58086-22 - Paul Kehoe

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of staff in each children's disability network team in Dublin north and county, including social workers, psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and so on, by full-time equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58115-22 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open a walk-in warfarin clinic in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58146-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to the waiting times in pain management clinic in Sligo University Hospital; if there are plans to address the capacity crisis and recruit additional staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58149-22 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the alternative interim arrangements that his Department will implement, given that the Midlands Youth Drug and Alcohol Service is to cease at the end of 2022 (as the contract the company (EXTERN) has with the HSE to provide the service is not being renewed and no campaign has begun to provide a replacement for this vital service upon which many young people and their families rely in the Midlands Region.).

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PQ 58159-22 - Thomas Pringle

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the general practitioner who runs the practice in Dunkineely Health Centre, Dunkineely, County Donegal, has informed patients that the practice will close with immediate effect (The patients have been advised that they should attend the practice in Glenties Co Donegal which is 25 Kilometres away and has no public bus service. The doctors in other surrounding practices in Killybegs, Mountcharles and Donegal Town have said that they cannot take on any more patients.); the steps that he will take to ensure that there is a replacement doctor as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 58171-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to approve the drug (Evusheld); the criteria used to disapprove the drug; and his views on the lack of access to the drug in Ireland, despite its widespread use across Europe for persons with compromised immune systems.

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PQ 58175-22 - Duncan Smith

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of Covid-19-related deaths in each month to date in 2022, between medically immunosuppressed persons and persons whose immune systems are not interfered with by medication, and between persons who are fully vaccinated and unvaccinated.

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PQ Responses - November 22nd 2022