PQ Responses - April 25th 2023

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PQ 18914-23 - Brendan Howlin

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1999 of 8 September 2022, if he will state clearly when those frontline staff who have to date not received a pandemic payment will receive the payment; the number of eligible staff still awaiting for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18915-23 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health if all agencies that had workers providing services during Covid-19 have now received the pandemic bonus payment into their accounts.

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PQ 18938-23 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancies in Mullingar Regional Hospital per department and speciality; and the length of time each post has been vacant, in tabular form.

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PQ 18947-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting two additional WTE senior dietitians in eating disorders for CHI Connolly.

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PQ 18948-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE midwives working in each of the maternity hospitals within Dublin in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if this number will be further increased; and if so, when.

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PQ 18949-23 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health how the additional €1.75 million will be spent on the meals-on-wheels service during 2023.

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PQ 18991-23 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the drug seroquel being given to nursing home residents in cases in which the resident suffers from dementia; if there are known contraindications for such administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 18995-23 - Catherine Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the plans that the National Ambulance Service and hospitals have in the context for catastrophic incidents at lithium ion battery energy storage system failures.

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PQ 19014-23 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will give a commitment that a service (South Doc Fermoy Co Cork) in County Cork will be continued; if he will confirm that there will be no disruption to night-time services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19017-23 - Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health the current situation regarding replacement of GP services at a location in County Cork (Replacement of a GP in Charleville arising from the retirement of Dr Tom Molloy.).

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PQ 19027-23 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on radiotherapy services across the country; the number of linear accelerators currently closed; what facilities these are located in; the impact of these closures on cancer treatment services; the number of radiotherapist vacancies nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19035-23 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health how many people received a medical card in each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022; and the cost of this scheme to the State in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19037-23 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of endoscopy capacity the BowelScreen programme has access to on a yearly basis; if this capacity varies per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19038-23 - Éamon Ó Cuív

To ask the Minister for Health how much income was generated from the car parks of public hospitals in the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19051-23 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a cost on replacing 10% of acute hospital beds in multi-bed wards with single isolation room units; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19052-23 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the replacement of multi-bed wards with single isolation rooms over the coming years, in tabular form; the number of single isolation units; the number of beds in multi-unit wards; the cost of and budget for the replacement programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19053-23 - Sean Fleming

To ask the Minister for Health the update on the status of employing a person as a consultant ( Community Lactation Consultant post for the Laois/Offaly region.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19063-23 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently availing of the services in each long-Covid clinic; the total funding available for long-Covid clinics; the breakdown of the funding allocated to each clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19078-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of people on waiting lists for eye treatments, including the length of time spent waiting broken down on a quarterly basis, in tabular form.

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PQ 19113-23 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health the average time between the making of a call to emergency services and deployment of members of the Ambulance Service, in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 19115-23 - Jim O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to review and improve the national policy document entitled 'Safeguarding Vulnerable Persons at Risks of Abuses, National Policy and Procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19120-23 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health his Department's plans for providing the public with access to information about alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19121-23 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people visiting askaboutalcohol.ie in search of information regarding alcohol in each year since 2018 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19122-23 - Bernard Durkan

To ask the Minister for Health if information regarding alcohol is now deemed less important given the discontinuation of the 'Ask About Alcohol' website; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19132-23 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health if the new national children's hospital will be offering gender-affirming care; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19170-23 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medication ( Trental) has been removed from the list of medication available for free under the medical card scheme; if this can be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19180-23 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will outline the funding streams and training options available to assist in caring for children with disabilities who require tube feeding but are under three-years-of-age.

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PQ 19213-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health when the new St. Conlon’s home in Nenagh will be completed and open to residents.

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PQ 19226-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of in-patients in each acute hospital at present that has been admitted for more than one year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19227-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of in-patients in each acute hospital over the past ten years that have been admitted for more than one year, in tabular form

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PQ 19297-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if she will provide a breakdown of the children's disability network teams' interdisciplinary supports and therapies provided within County Mayo's CDNTs 1-3; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19298-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if she will outline the reason children (67 Children within South Mayo CDNT 2) are waiting up to 12 months for access to interdisciplinary supports and therapies; the steps being taken to reduce this wait time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19299-23 - Alan Dillon

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of funding including all annual operational, clinical and one-off funding provided to an organisation (Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, the Mayo Hospice located in Kockaphunta, Castlebar. (Postcode F23 YY40) Multidisciplinary Palliative Care.) in partnership with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19343-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant neurosurgeons attached to University Hospital Limerick in the years of 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form.

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PQ 19344-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded paediatric ICU and HDU beds in each children's ward of major hospitals outside of Dublin as of 18 April 2023; and if he will provide the same figures as of 31 March 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 19351-23 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the capital works projects that were carried out at Nenagh Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and the estimated costs of each project.

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PQ 19407-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who were funded for the Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitoring CGM sensors by the HSE; and the number who were over 21 years of age in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 19408-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who were funded for the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring CGM sensors by the HSE; and the number who were over 21 years of age in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 19409-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using Medtronic insulin pumps who are aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or greater, in each county, in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 19410-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using YpsoPumps insulin pumps who are aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or greater in each county, in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 19411-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using Roche AccuChek insulin pumps who are aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or greater in each county, in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form.

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PQ 19412-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using Medtronic insulin pumps who are aged between 0-17 years, and those aged 18 years or greater, in each county, in 2022.

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PQ 19413-23 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of new insulin pump starts done in each hospitals’ group in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form.

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PQ 19432-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health how many concerns were raised in regard to standards of care in St. Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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PQ 19433-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health how many concerns were received in relation to CUH in 2020, 2021, 2022; and what they relate to.

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PQ 19434-23 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the process of TAPS funding received by nursing homes; the oversight and criteria that was in place in order to draw it down; and an up-to-date total list of allocations to each facility .

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PQ 19459-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 9 February 2022, how the HSE's Capital Plan for Cork residential mental health services can be in accordance with either the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities or the HSE's own Model of Care for People with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness and Complex Needs when it involves replacement of facilities for 'continuing care' residents on the grounds of St. Stephen’s Hospital, Glanmire and St. Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork, as opposed to the further development of community-integrated services for this cohort of service-users; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19460-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the projected time-frame for the re-opening of Millfield House, Cork to residents with severe and enduring mental health difficulties; the estimated costs associated with renovations planned for Millfield House; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19461-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on renovations planned for the Carraig Mór intensive care mental health facility in Cork in particular, a projected time-frame for the completion of works and projected costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19463-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if the Mental Health Commission has concerns about the provision of three community mental health residence placements in east Cork and the apparent lack of progress on appointing a development team to appraise options for a new ten-bed service in Midleton, eleven months after this team was announced as being formed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19467-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties under the care of the Cobh/Glenville and Midleton/Youghal adult mental health teams who have been transferred to continuing care or high support hostels outside those HSE catchments since June 2021; the number of people in this cohort of service-users within those HSE catchments who have been transferred in the same time-frame to nursing-homes, either within those HSE catchments or outside them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19482-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the advice currently provided by his Department to maternity units on best practice inpatient partner supports nationwide; the oversight of those recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19483-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline on the reopening of the Midwest homebirth scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19485-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the commencement and funding of the Model of Care for Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19486-23 - Neasa Hourigan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline data gathering undertaken from 2020-2023 inclusive on levels of mental health difficulties amongst older cohorts by either the HSE or his Department; the data gathering that is planned for 2023-2024; and if he will make data on this issue publicly available.

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PQ 19550-23 - Michael Creed

To ask the Minister for Health when a group of frontline healthcare workers (frontline healthcare workers in the Ballincollig community nursing home which is run by mowlan run by the HSE) will receive their Covid €1,000 payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19565-23 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health the steps he and his Department have taken to address CAMHS waiting lists across the country given that figures from that the CAMHS waiting list almost doubled nationally between 2019 and 2022 from 2,327 in 2019 - the last year before the pandemic -compared to 4,293 in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19566-23 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought an explanation/report from his Department and/or the HSE over the scenario where the CAMHS waiting list almost doubled nationally between 2019 and 2022 from 2,327 in 2019 - the last year before the pandemic - compared to 4,293 in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19567-23 - Fergus O'Dowd

To ask the Minister for Health the explanation his Department and/or the HSE have provided for the doubling of the CAMHS waiting nationally between 2019 and 2022 from 2,327 in 2019 - the last year before the pandemic - compared to 4,293 in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 19568-23 - Sean Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons rejected for referral by child and adolescent mental health services by CHO and LHO; and the reasons for rejection, in tabular form, by gender and age.

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PQ 19571-23 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the amounts paid by the HSE to the Galro Centre, Kilbixy Paddocks, County Westmeath for the provision of weekend day-respite services for children with additional needs; the criteria and conditions of this funding; whether the centre remains entitled to exclude children from the service; whether a review will be conducted in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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