PQ Responses - October 18th 2022

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PQ 51097-22 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the list of schemes that qualify under employment incentive schemes or education opportunity schemes that entitle medical card holders to retain their medical card for 3 years on taking up employment in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51105-22 - Michael Lowry

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting on radiation therapy since January 2022 until the end of September 2022, by county and radiotherapy centre in tabular form; if he is satisfied that there is enough radiation therapists working in the HSE to carry out radiation therapy treatment to those on waiting lists; the measures that are being taken to alleviate the obstacles in having radiation therapy provided to patients in the earliest timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51107-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if NDT thyroid tablets have been removed from the reimbursement list for the drugs payment scheme and medical card; is so, the reason for same; if they will be replaced on this list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51155-22 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the status of all local health centres in County Tipperary that closed during Covid-19; the centres that have re-opened; the centres that remain closed; when all centres will be re-opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51199-22 - John Lahart

To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of his Department’s IT data that is stored in the cloud; the proportion of the data held by all agencies and subsidiaries of his Department are held in the cloud; if this represents an improvement; if so, the development that has been made towards cloud storage since 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51235-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the current average processing time for the payment of completed applications under the EU Cross Border Directive; the date when current applications being processed were received; the present number of staff processing such claims; the number of claims to date in 2022; the corresponding figures for 2021;; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51236-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time optometrists employed by the HSE working in County Donegal in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the locations where these optometrists are located.

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PQ 51238-22 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health if access to out-of-hours and weekend cover for mental health services is available in the County Donegal catchment area of the HSE, including nursing, psychology and other allied health services; if so, if he will provide details of these services by WTE across each discipline.

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PQ 51279-22 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the Budget 2022 allocations relating to disability services that currently remain unspent in tabular form; if these allocations will be spent by the end of December 2022;; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51280-22 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the number of personal assistant hours delivered each month to date in 2022, in tabular form; the number of people receiving these hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51282-22 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the number of new day support services that were delivered each month to date in 2022 to disabled persons in tabular form; the number of people receiving these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51284-22 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people moved out of congregated settings each month to date in 2022, in tabular form; the cost of this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51285-22 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who moved out of congregated settings in 2023, in tabular form; the cost of this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51286-22 - Mary Lou McDonald

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people inappropriately living in nursing homes who were supported to move to appropriate living options, each month to date in 2022, in tabular form; the details of these options; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51298-22 - Aengus O Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health the number of endometrioses specialists who are employed in the Coombe Hospital endometriosis clinic; the number of clinical nurses who are employed in the clinic; the number of endometriologists who are employed in this clinic; and if his attention has been drawn to the number of women who travel each year to Romania to have endometriosis-related surgery.

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PQ 51299-22 - Aengus O Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health if the Coombe Hospital endometriosis clinic can receive electronic results of MRI scans from outside hospitals and clinics, including a particular clinic (the Affidea Clinic, Dundrum; it has been brought to my attention by women that their MRI scans could not be received by the Coombe Clinic?)

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PQ 51300-22 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the dates and attendees of any meetings which HSE officials had with any Oireachtas Members from the mid-west, counties Tipperary, Limerick or Clare from 1 January 2022 to 10 October 2022, in chronological order by date, Oireachtas Members attendees, HSE officials and topic of meeting.

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PQ 51321-22 - Noel Grealish

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to set targets for green procurement in 2022 and in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51387-22 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to support women who were impacted by mesh implants; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51404-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time nurses in St. Joseph's Hospital, Dublin 5 in each of the years of 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased.

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PQ 51405-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for radiology reporting across all hospitals in the Saolta University Hospital care group for September 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 51406-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant consultant posts by speciality currently at Mayo University Hospital; and when these vacancies will be filled in tabular form.

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PQ 51407-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of theatre time available in public hospitals by hospital group and hospital in tabular form.

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PQ 51408-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of children on waiting lists for grommet insertions in CHO6 by wait times (0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months and so on).

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PQ 51409-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for a new chronic disease clinic in Sligo-Leitrim.

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PQ 51411-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time clinical pharmacists working in University Hospital Kerry in each of the years of 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 51412-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant neonatologists attached to Limerick Maternity Hospital in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 51413-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members that are currently employed and working in children's disability network teams in County Laois by role and by team in tabular form; and the number of unfilled posts.

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PQ 51414-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant plastic surgeons working in Tallaght University Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 51415-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish sign language interpreters currently available to assist deaf or hard-of-hearing patients attending Wexford General Hospital.

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PQ 51416-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time psychologist posts in Donegal CAMHS teams in 2021 and to date in 2022.

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PQ 51417-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the current and capital funding required for a second cataract theatre at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital.

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PQ 51419-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours provided at each of the locations in north Dublin in which D-Doc services operate in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 51420-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of international recruitment fairs where staff from Letterkenny University Hospital were in attendance in the years of 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the number of jobs offered in each recruitment fair.

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PQ 51423-22 - Michael Fitzmaurice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiation therapists who have been recruited by the HSE in each of the years 2010 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 51445-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1575 of 14 June 2022, if he will provide an update on the delivery of beds and planned for delivery under the given headers, including any additional beds planned under the winter plan 2022/2023 or funded in Budget 2023, in tabular form; the timeframe for delivery of outstanding beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51482-22 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of long-Covid care for young persons and children.

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PQ 51483-22 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of members of multidisciplinary teams by speciality who are supporting young persons affected by long-Covid in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51484-22 - Patrick Costello

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 12 years diagnosed with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51491-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he and or the HSE plans to modernise and or update the mental health protocols for public health nurses in the course of engaging mothers of newly born children in the post birth care and follow-up care.

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PQ 51515-22 - Richard O Donoghue

To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to recruit more radiotherapy nurses in hospitals ( Several of our constituents have raised issues around the burnout and the extraordinary pressure that Radiotherapy Nurses are experiencing currently in our hospitals. Is there a plan in place to recruit more as many have said that the exodus from these departments is very worrying.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51521-22 - Martin Browne

To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to there being no adult speech and language therapy for adults with intellectual disabilities in south Tipperary resulting in no referrals to the service being accepted; and his Department’s plans to address this lack of service.

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PQ 51542-22 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health when the National Information Management System for the CDNT’s will be in operation; the timeline; the reason this is taking so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51543-22 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the current staff vacancy rate within CDNT 4 and 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51544-22 - Mattie Mc Grath

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department have carried out a review of the reason staff are leaving the HSE; if not, if he will establish a review team to carry out such a review and carry out exit interviews to gather the reason staff are leaving the HSE particularly disability services in such numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51545-22 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce an independent complaints body to investigate complaints of failures by the HSE particularly in relation to disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51554-22 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will fund coaguchek meters and self-test strips for patients who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin in order to decongest warfarin clinics at public hospitals and also make self-management easier for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51555-22 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the building project at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Mountmellick, County Laois; and the projected timescale for it to be up to total planned capacity.

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PQ 51579-22 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if CAMHS provide treatment for young people experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51584-22 - Peadar OTóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with life-limiting conditions in each of the past ten years in Mayo University Hospital.

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PQ 51586-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of days in the past two years that a bereavement midwife has been available in Mayo University Hospital.

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PQ 51587-22 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of days in the past two years that a bereavement room has been available in Mayo University Hospital.

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PQ 51759-22 - Sean Canney

To ask the Minister for Health the HSE roles that will be put forward for social care worker registration; and the level three qualifications that will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51760-22 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health when a paediatric neurologist will be assigned to University Hospital Limerick, appreciating that the last paediatric neurologist left UHL in December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51811-22 - Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS pharmacists throughout Ireland; the location that each pharmacist is based; if there is any data on the number of people each pharmacist serves; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51816-22 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in the CAMHS service in County Wexford by profession in tabular form; the length of time that each vacancy has existed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51818-22 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new 96-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51819-22 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new MRI scanner for Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51820-22 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding for radiographers to staff the new MRI scanner for Wexford General Hospital has been ringfenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51847-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 11 May 2022, if he will outline the steps that have been taken to date by the HSE to capture the scale of the incidence of long Covid; if he will outline the demand and activity levels at each post covid and long covid clinic; the corresponding waiting list at each clinic; the number of patients attending each clinic monthly; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51848-22 - Denis Naughten

To ask the Minister for Health the total drawdown of funding to date in 2022 for the long and post covid interim model of care; the estimated drawdown by year end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51853-22 - Niamh Smyth

To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP services that are available, by head of population, in counties Cavan and Monaghan between Monday and Friday, between 9am to 5pm; the way the catchment system for GP clinics is worked out (The constituent being registered in one area I can't register in another because it is 'full' - and this is despite the fact that we live 6km from three towns with GPs in them. We are stuck in a local system that is massively under-resourced medically speaking.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51862-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO7 waiting for a HSE approved shower chair; and the average waiting time for same.

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PQ 51863-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the locations nationwide in which hearing aids and related items can be repaired.

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PQ 51864-22 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant cardiologists at Naas General Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 51872-22 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out by general practitioners for each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51873-22 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out in hospitals under section 12 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51880-22 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if persons on public health waiting lists are impacted by refusing the option of taking care through the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if their position on the public health list is affected in any way.

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PQ 51890-22 - Niall Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the details of any agreement that the HSE has with private providers in Limerick to treat patients off waiting lists.

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PQ 51904-22 - Roisin Shortall

To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the ambulance service for counties Offaly, Westmeath, Laois, Longford and Kildare, the number of ambulances serving each county; the ratio of ambulance to population for each county; the number of times that each ambulance service for each has had to travel 50 km or more for each month to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51952-22 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Freestyle Libre2 application for reimbursement on the HSE’s long-term illness scheme through the community-funded aids and appliances; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51953-22 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the 2021 application to HSE to have the NovoPen 6 and the NovoPen echo plus smart insulin pens included for reimbursement on the long-term illness scheme; the reason that this particular application still has not concluded over 12 months after the application was submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51954-22 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to include the omnipod tubeless wireless insulin patch pump on the list of approved insulin pumps that have been added to the insulin pump and transmitter pricing agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51955-22 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons attending University Limerick Hospital Group’s paediatric diabetes service and using insulin pump therapy to manage their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51957-22 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are registered to attend the University of Limerick Hospitals Group adult diabetes clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51994-22 - Michael Healy Rae

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no dental emergency treatment for adults with disabilities (Minister there is an ongoing crisis in Kerry whereby adults with special needs have no access to emergency dental treatment. I recently had a case whereby a special needs person had violent pain and they were told they had to wait for a bed in UHK so that the tooth could be extracted. They eventually got a bed and an extraction took place in UHK but he had to go through so much trauma before this took place. Surely Minister this needs to be looked at now and this should not happen.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52002-22 - Joe Carey

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons attending the adult diabetes service in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52034-22 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends to downgrade the services in Bantry Hospital centre for mental healthcare and recovery from an 18-bed unit to 12 beds; if resources have been made available to rectify the situation; his views on whether this will have a detrimental impact on the community and the ability in future for the unit to provide acute care; the locations in which the displaced patients will be sent instead; his views on whether this will increase pressure on other frontline services in the area; if he will direct the HSE to implement the recommended changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52040-22 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the conditions which are required for hospitals to ease visiting restrictions which were brought into effect during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically relating to end-of-life circumstances and childbirth.

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PQ Responses - October 18th 2022