January
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were treated for gambling addiction in each of the years 2015 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 1663-19 (Nos. treated for gambling addiction) final jd.pdf (size 221 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were treated for gambling addiction in each of the years 2015 to 2018, by age range, gender and the geographic location in which they were treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 4157-19 (Nos treated for gambling addiction) jd.pdf (size 180.8 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 5 December 2018, if extra resources will be committed to allow adequate spaces for those wishing to detox from Z-drugs in a community setting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. PREVIOUS PQ 50827/18.
PQ 5305-19 (Z Drugs detox.) final ek.pdf (size 166 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for gambling addiction in each of the years 2007 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 5525-19 (Gambling addiction) final 18 2 19.pdf (size 267.2 KB)
February
To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) receives funding for rehabilitation services from the HSE Details supplied: Cuan Mhuire
PQ 5843-19 (Rehab services funding) final.pdf (size 164.1 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have been in receipt of Suboxone in each of the past five years; the number receiving Suboxone; if an evaluation of the treatment has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 7108-19 (Suboxone) final ek.pdf (size 155 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure and allocations attributable to the drugs programmes made by the HSE for each of the past five years; the projects and programmes supported by the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 7116-19 (Drugs expenditure) final jd.pdf (size 170.8 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the services and funding provided by the HSE for persons that suffer from addiction to gambling; and the amount of funding allocated to such services in each of the years 2015 to 2017
PQ 7817-19 (Gambling addiction services & funding) draft.pdf (size 157.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug and alcohol task forces that have had a HSE review; the amount the reviews have cost to date including the canal communities drug and alcohol task force; and the person or body that decides if a particular task force is to be reviewed.
PQ 10383-19 (drug and alcohol task forces) final jd.pdf (size 167.5 KB)
March
To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated through his Department and or the HSE for the provision of services to persons suffering from gambling addiction in each of the years 2015 to 2018; the number of persons availing of such services in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 11292-19 (Gambling addiction services funding) final.pdf (size 161.3 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the policy developed for the provision of services for persons with gambling addiction; the level of funding allocated to the HSE and other service agencies for the provision of gambling addiction services for each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 12877-19 (Policy for gambling addiction) final jd.pdf (size 164.2 KB)
April
To ask the Minister for Health if there is a model of care for substance misuse services including alcohol at primary care level.
PQ 17387-19 (Substance misuse services) final ek.pdf (size 167.5 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making fentanyl test strips available as a harm reduction measure to heroin users engaging with needle exchange services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 17849-19 (Harm reduction measure) final ek.pdf (size 172.5 KB)
May
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the health crisis in view of new figures from the Health Research Board indicating the year on year rise in cocaine use, with 1,500 cases treated for cocaine use in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 19808 19 (cocaine use) final ek.pdf (size 313.1 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction beds in the health service; and his plans to increase the number.
PQ 20969-19 (No. of addiction beds) .pdf (size 172 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 18 December 2018, the latest figures for County Louth and the national figures for 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 20995-19 (pnx programme) final jd.pdf (size 165.7 KB)
June
To ask the Minister for Health the location of each of the adult and adolescent medical detoxification units and community based residential detoxification beds, respectively
To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical detoxification beds and the locations of each for adults and adolescents; the cost per annum of a medical detoxification bed for adults and adolescents, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of community based residential detoxification beds; the locations of same for adults and adolescents, respectively; the cost per annum of a community based residential detoxification bed for adults and adolescents, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 24898-19, 24899-19, 24896-19 (No. location & cost of detox.) final.pdf (size 259.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug detox beds provided directly by the HSE; the number provided by the voluntary sector; the number of persons waiting for same at the end of May 2019; the number waiting by categories (details supplied); the number admitted to such beds in 2018 and to date in 2019; and the average length of stay in 2018 and to date in 2019
PQ 25701-19 (Detox. beds & waiting times) final.pdf (size 399.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug rehabilitation beds provided directly by the HSE; the number provided by the voluntary sector; the number of persons waiting for same at the end of May 2019; the number waiting by categories (details supplied); the number admitted to such beds in 2018 and to date in 2019; and the average length of stay in 2018 and to date in 2019
PQ 25702-19 (Rehabilitation beds & waiting times) final.pdf (size 204.8 KB)
July
To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional detoxification, stabilisation and rehabilitation beds provided to date in 2019
PQ 28990-19 (Residential services) final.pdf (size 117 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which needle exchange programmes have been expanded during 2019
PQ 28991-19 (Needle exchange expansion 2019) final.pdf (size 129.6 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of an overdose prevention strategy
PQ 28993-19 (Overdose Prevention Strategy) final.pdf (size 123.8 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the assessment being made of the need for the development of specialist services to meet the needs of older persons with long-term substance use issues
PQ 28988-19 (Specialist Services for older persons) final ekdocx.pdf (size 159.1 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he is developing interventions to address gender and cultural specific risk factors for not taking up treatment for drug addiction
PQ 28987-19 (Gender and Culture re treatment) final.pdf (size 175.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he is increasing the range of wrap-around community and drug and alcohol taskforces residential services equipped to meet the needs of women using drugs and or alcohol in a harmful manner, including those with children and those that are pregnant.
PQ 28986-19 (Community & Residential Women) final.pdf (size 118.7 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which links between maternity services and addiction services have been strengthened to date in 2019
To ask the Minister for Health if the need for additional residential placements for pregnant and postnatal women that need inpatient treatment for addiction to drugs and or alcohol nationally has been quantified; and if so, the action being taken as a result
PQ 28983-19 & 28984-19 (Maternity Services & Residential Pre Post Natal) final.pdf (size 118.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug treatment episodes provided to date in 2019 by services (details supplied); and the equivalent figures for 2018, in tabular form
PQ 28977-19 (No of drug treatment episodes) final jd 18 7 19.pdf (size 362.8 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the availability of opioid substitution treatments has been improved to date in 2019; and if access to the treatments has been increased through an expansion of general practitioner prescribing, nurse led prescribing and the provision of OSTs in community based settings and homeless services
PQ 28978-19 (Improvements in ost) final ek.pdf (size 160.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which relapse prevention and aftercare drug treatment services have been improved to date in 2019
PQ 28980-19 (Relapse Prevention and Aftercare) final.pdf (size 200.8 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which quality and safety of care in the delivery of opioid substitution treatment has been enhanced to date in 2019; and the way in which the HSE national clinical guidelines on OST are being implemented and reviewed in line with National Clinical Effectiveness Committee processes
PQ 28979-19 (Clinical Guidelines in OST) final.pdf (size 179.8 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for a person waiting to access a methadone clinic in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 29294-19 (methadone clinic waiting times) final jd.pdf (size 265.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to date in 2019 to build capacity within drug and alcohol services to develop a patient safety approach in line with the HIQA National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare
PQ 28994-19 (National Standards SBHC).pdf (size 149.1 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended pharmacy needle exchanges during the first six months of 2019
PQ 30597-19 (pharmacy needle exchange attendances) final jd docx.pdf (size 283.5 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons outside prisons in receipt of opioid substitution treatment during the first six months of 2019
PQ 30595-19 (OST figures) finalJD.pdf (size 157.8 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated through his Department and or the HSE for the provision of services to persons suffering from gambling addiction in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of persons availing of such services in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for gambling addiction to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for gambling addiction to date in 2019, by age range and gender; the geographical location in which they were treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 32662-19 32663-19 32670-19 (funding treatment for gambling addiction) final jd.pdf (size 263.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for steroid use or abuse in each of the years 20011 to 2018 and to date 2019, by gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for steroid use or abuse in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date 2019, by age range and gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQs 32666-19 32667-19 (nos treated for steroid use or abuse) final.pdf (size 299 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on methadone treatment; the number on treatment for periods of five, ten and more than ten years, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 34235-19 (nos of people and length of time on methadone) final.pdf (size 112.3 KB)
August
To ask the Minister for Health if costs are determined by costs per treatment episode; the number of episodes in each of the years since 2012 by medical detoxification unit, community based residential detoxification beds and adolescent community based residential detoxification beds in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 34694-19 (Res Detox) final.pdf (size 188.7 KB)
September
To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made to make intranasal naloxone spray available to health care professionals and drug workers which reverses the effects of opioid overdose within minutes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ36578-19 (nalonxone) EKfinal.pdf (size 151.6 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to public awareness campaigns on the dangers of casual drug use in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 37739-19 (Public awareness campaigns) final.pdf (size 170 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of new treatment episodes from residential and rehabilitation services which have been commissioned in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 37743-19 (no. of new treatment episodes) final jd.pdf (size 182 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the planned phased increase in the availability of buprenorphine and naloxone treatment as an alternative treatment for the identified cohorts of patients for whom methadone treatment is not suitable as set out in the National Drugs Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 37744-19 (buprenorphine & naloxone treatment) final ek.pdf (size 169.3 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the status of improved addiction service provision for under 18 year olds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 37745-19 (addiction services provision for under 18s) final.pdf (size 160.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of new detoxification places in community and residential settings provided in 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 37746-19 (no of new detox places) jd.pdf (size 186.2 KB)
October
To ask the Minister for Health the number of treatment options available for persons with drug addiction problems; and the number of persons availing of each in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form
PQ 40754-19 (Treatment options for drug addiction) jd.pdf (size 274.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential places available for the treatment of persons with drug addiction problems by local health office area in tabular form
PQ 40755-19 (Drug addiction residential beds final jd.pdf (size 171.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the payments made to pharmacists and general practitioners for methadone treatment in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form
PQ 40756-19 (methadone treatment payments) final jd.pdf (size 336.5 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons by county that received drug treatment; the types of treatments received that is detox, residential rehab, methadone, counselling and so on in each of the years 2010 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 41022-19 (no. of persons receiving drug treatment & type of treatment) jd.pdf (size 317.5 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019 by the Health Service Executive to support implementation of the National Drugs Strategy in tabular form
PQ 42041-19 (Funding for National Drugs Strategy) final jd.pdf (size 171.6 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time for which a person remains on a methadone programme; the average cost per annum in maintaining a person on a programme; the number of locations from which methadone programmes are operated; the number of persons provided for on average at these locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 42042-19 (Methadone Programme Cost Average Time and various) final.pdf (size 200.3 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the year in which the persons currently on methadone treatment entered the treatment programme in the past twenty years in tabular form
PQ 42043-19 (length of time on methadone programme) final jd .pdf (size 116.5 KB)
November
To ask the Minister for Health if all persons on methadone treatment have received screening and treatment for Hepatitis C; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 45393-19 (Hep C Screening) ek.pdf (size 159.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure incurred on needle exchange services in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 45394-19 (Needle exchange services expenditure) final jd.pdf (size 335.9 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that engaged with needle exchange services in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 45395-19 (Needle exchange services - treatment nos.) jd.pdf (size 154.3 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health if underspending in national or regional drug strategy funding can be applied for by local front line community based addiction services such as a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 45878-19 (funding to frontline Community Addiction services) FINAL.pdf (size 110.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health if further details of the 793 residential places available for the treatment of persons with drug addiction problems will be provided; the number of beds directly provided by the HSE; the number that are sourced from private provision; the location of the 19 inpatient unit detoxification beds; the breakdown of the 127 community based residential detoxification beds and the 625 residential rehabilitation beds by LHO; the location of the four adolescent residential detoxification beds and the 18 adolescent residential beds; and the number of beds available under such headings in each of the years 2015 to 2018, in tabular form
PQ 46077-19 (residential treatment beds) FINAL.pdf (size 229.6 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical detoxification units provided directly by the HSE in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of community based residential detoxification beds provided by the voluntary sector in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential rehabilitation beds provided in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of adolescent residential detoxification beds in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug stabilisation beds in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for entry into community based residential detoxification and residential rehabilitation beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 47694-19 - PQ 47699-19 (residential detox and rehab) final.pdf (size 169.2 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding for the provision of health services will be provided to charity (details supplied)
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to agree a service level agreement for the provision of health services with a charity (details supplied)
PQ 48390-19 PQ 48391-19 (SLA for charity)FINAL.pdf (size 171.1 KB)
December
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for gambling addiction to date in 2019
To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to help treat persons with gambling addiction in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 51932- 19 51964-19 (Expenditure and Nos treated for gambling addiction) final jd (2).pdf (size 182.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to the HSE to carry out a national campaign to raise awareness of the risks associated with drug use in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
PQ 50463.19 (National awareness campaign) final ek.pdf (size 171.3 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug treatment episodes provided to date in 2019 across services (details supplied); and the equivalent figures for 2017 and 2018, in tabular form.
PQ 52328-19 (No of drug treatment episodes) final jd 20 12 19.pdf (size 354.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction liaison midwives that have been funded nationwide; and the number currently in post; and the plans in place to fill the outstanding posts including University Maternity Hospital, Limerick
PQ 49927-19 (no addiction liaison midwives) final jd.pdf (size 295.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the groups in receipt of core funding from the HSE to deliver supports to family members of persons suffering addiction.
PQ 51159-19 (Funding to family support services) Final.pdf (size 196.1 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons outside prisons in receipt of opioid substitution treatment to date in 2019
PQ 52348-19 (OST figures) final.pdf (size 152.4 KB)
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended pharmacy needle exchanges to date in 2019
PQ 52350-19 (pharmacy needle exchange attendances) final JD.pdf (size 283.8 KB)
