Joan Collins

Independents 4 Change · Dublin South-Central

Activity on Health — 529 events (7 lobbying · 485 questions · 65 votes) full profile →

• 2025-01-22
  LOBBY
  Merchants QuayIreland Ltd Community

  • Proposals re drug treatment, homelessness, mental health and related matters
• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  The Alzheimer Society of Ireland Health

  • General Election 2024
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  Alcohol Action Ireland Health

  • Alcohol policy development in relation to a new strategy for alcohol and the establishment of an Alcohol Office
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Health

  • INMO Pre-Budget Submission for 2025 Budget
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association Health

  • Issues concerning the timely reimbursement of medicines in Ireland.
• 2025-01-17
  LOBBY
  Mental Health Reform Budgetary matters

  • MHR's event in Leinster House on 18th September; 'Meet&Greet'
• 2025-01-17
  LOBBY
  Youth Advocate Programmes Ireland CLG Health

  • Mental Health Reform hosted meet and greet in Leinster House
• 2024-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason every hospital or health clinic does not have portable hoists to assist patients who need them (details supplied); and the policy the HSE has in place ensuring hoists are available in health environments. [39985/24]
• 2024-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the current public health nurse staffing levels in the health clinics in Armagh Road, Old County Road, Curlew Road and Island Bridge; and what the staffing levels should be. [40053/24]
• 2024-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if funding is available to recruit public health nurses specifically for the health clinics in Armagh Road, Old County Road, Curlew Road and Island Bridge; when funding will be made available; and when the posts will be filled. [40055/24]
• 2024-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if all drugs and alcohol task forces have been informed and funded to pay their workers (details supplied). [40102/24]
• 2024-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the organisation or company that will be responsible for recruiting and paying the wages of workers in the following services, cleaning, catering, running the canteen(s), porters and maintenance in the new Children’s Hospital. [40170/24]
• 2024-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 2 May 2024, the progress made on the issue of pay restoration and the WRC agreement for workers (details supplied); when these workers will be paid now that the Department is aware of this issue and is exploring the way the matter can be resolved in a timely manner. [37896/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason the reimbursement of €1,928 for cataract surgery under the cross-Border directive has been reduced by the HSE to €863 (details supplied); and if he will request that the decision be reversed. [30970/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health to provide the full complement of therapists, public health nurses, and so on, that make up the health staff in Curlew Road health centre; the number of health staff from all grades that have been transferred to Armagh Road and/or Old County Road health centres; the number of health workers that have been recruited since April 2023; and the number that have been allocated to Curlew Road, Armagh Road and Old County Road, in tabular form. [31672/24]
• 2024-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [30115/24]
• 2024-07-10
  VOTE
  Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024

  A bill to prohibit the sale by retail of tobacco products to persons under the age of 21 years; and for those and other related purposes, to amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 and the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 93–45
• 2024-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the situation regarding beds at St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29149/24]
• 2024-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason patients from an area (details supplied) are being directed to Santry; and the number of patients who have been redirected from a named health clinic to the Santry south side. [29160/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 7 of 2 May 2024, when the issue of pay restoration and the WRC agreement will be paid to persons (details supplied). [27983/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric ENT surgeons and paediatric ENT registrars at CHI Crumlin in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27992/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the total number of patients that suffer from sleep apnoea within CHO7, in tabular form. [27993/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons and orthopaedic registrars at St. James's Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27994/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries carried out at the Mater Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27997/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the rollout of oral immunotherapy for children; the locations of each facility in which this treatment is dispensed; and the funding and timeline for same. [27998/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialist in developmental care at the Coombe Maternity Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27999/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation bays in each hospital part of Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, in tabular form. [28000/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant plastic surgeons at Tallaght University Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [28003/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the implementation of the WRC agreement of October 2023 for the projects in the canal communities' alcohol and drugs task force (details supplied). [28369/24]
• 2024-06-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his Department has found a way to expedite the hiring of new public health nurses; and the status of childhood developmental checks across the Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 area (details supplied). [26908/24]
• 2024-06-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he plans to address the two-tiered system in cancer treatments (details supplied). [26909/24]
• 2024-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the progress made on delivering a primary care centre (details supplied); and the date for the report's findings to be announced. [22861/24]
• 2024-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin ETB channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels; and what detailed measures the Government is putting in place that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of funding. [19270/24]
• 2024-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the emergency measures the Government will put in place to ensure developmental checks resume in Dublin 8, 10 and 12, given the severe lack of child developmental checks in the area. [19450/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the funding provided by HSE to meals on wheels service providers in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17816/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time healthcare assistants employed by the HSE working in each health centre and primary care centre within CHO7 in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17818/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of requests made to the HSE for a meals on wheels service for individuals via the public health nurse in 2023; and the percentage of those requests that were approved, in tabular form. [17819/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant gastroenterologists and WTE gastroenterologist registrars based in St. James's Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17820/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking indicators; the level to which this training has been provided; and if this training is provided on a regular basis. [17821/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers and nurses employed by CAMHS mental health intellectual disability within CHO7 in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17822/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the capacity of each HSE-funded day care centre within CHO 7 as of 10 April 2024, in tabular form. [17823/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the capacity of each HSE-funded respite centre within CHO7 as of 10 April 2024, in tabular form. [17824/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that have been admitted to CHI Crumlin and have been in the hospital for 28 or more continuous days in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [17825/24]
• 2024-02-21
  VOTE
  Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 70–60
• 2024-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologists attached to each hospital part of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [5833/24]
• 2024-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant maxillofacial surgeon at St. James's Hospital; and the average waiting times to see the consultant. [5635/24]
• 2024-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of dementia day centres located within CHO7; the capacity of each of these centres; and if each of the centres are opened five days a week. [5636/24]
• 2024-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff by job title working in the accident and emergency department of the Mater Hospital. [5637/24]
• 2024-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of student midwives offered a full-time contract with the HSE in the Coombe Maternity Hospital in 2022 and 2023; of the number of contracts offered; the number that were accepted, in tabular form. [5638/24]
• 2024-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric urologist registrars working in CHI Crumlin in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [5639/24]
• 2024-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason for the withdrawal of funding for vital diabetic services by the HSE; and the reason such services have been withdrawn (details supplied). [3834/24]
• 2024-01-24
  VOTE
  Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021 [Seanad]

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 74–54
• 2023-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many speech and language therapists are currently working in each health district of Dublin city and county; how many positions are currently vacant; and how current numbers compare to each of the past ten years. [53980/23]
• 2023-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many children are currently waiting for a speech and language assessment in each health district of Dublin city and county; and how long are they waiting. [53981/23]
• 2023-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how long after an assessment does a child in each health district of Dublin city and county have to wait until they start the recommended speech and language therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53982/23]
• 2023-11-22
  VOTE
  Health Service Recruitment Freeze · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 74–58
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 74–59
• 2023-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an occupational therapist visit her home. [50698/23]
• 2023-11-15
  VOTE
  Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages · 3 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 117–10
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 49–81
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 47–81
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health what the HSE intends to use a site for (details supplied). [49435/23]
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiographers by grade working in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in the years 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49811/23]
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of maxillofacial surgeries carried out at St. James's Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49812/23]
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general paediatrician with a special interest in paediatric neurodevelopment and neurodisability at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49814/23]
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of lung transplant procedures carried out in the years 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49815/23]
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE stop smoking advisors employed by the HSE working in CHO7 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and the locations where these Stop Smoking Advisors are based. [49817/23]
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE secretaries working in the neurology department in Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49818/23]
• 2023-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE speech and language therapist posts within CHO7; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [49819/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason laboratory services are unable to cope with important routine blood testing; and if phlebotomy services are temporarily closing in other hospitals (details supplied). [46823/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason there is a change to the GMS payment for family practices (details supplied); if a new arrangement has been negotiated with the HSE and Revenue; and if the HSE has considered the ramifications. [46824/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no scheme in place to reimburse the cost of the shingles vaccine (details supplied); and if he will administer a blanket vaccine, as with the over-60s flu and Covid vaccine, or bring in a form of reimbursement. [46826/23]
• 2023-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason patients waiting for gynaecology outpatients are being advised that “due to the increased demand for gynaecology services at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, waiting time routine appointments may exceed 52 weeks”; and what plans the HSE and the hospital have to resolve these waiting lists (details supplied). [46704/23]
• 2023-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he is concerned that children’s health may be compromised due to the lack of staff in Limekiln Lane Health Centre, the Old County Road health centre and Curlew Road health centre, Dublin 12 (details supplied); the staff level rates and vacancy rates in these three centres; how many staff have been recruited since May 2023; and how many staff have left, in tabular form. [46716/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologists at St. James's Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43589/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way the €2.1 million allocated in 2023 for the full resumption of dementia specific day care services will be spent, in tabular form. [43590/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of craniosynostosis surgeries performed at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43591/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way the €2.7 million allocated for the implementation of the national strategy for accelerating genomic medicine in Ireland will be spent in 2023, in tabular form. [43592/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the counselling services offered within the adolescent addiction services; and the number of staff within these services. [43606/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of respite centres in CHO7 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43605/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2024 to provide an additional 120 GP training places. [43610/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to establish a centre of excellence for adult deficit hyperactivity disorder; and the costs of these plans. [43611/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of vascular stenting procedures carried out in each public hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43612/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the establishment of a National Psychology Placement Office; and the funding for this establishment, including staff costs. [43615/23]
• 2023-09-27
  VOTE
  Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 113–10
• 2023-09-27
  VOTE
  Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023

  A bill to prohibit persons from engaging in certain conduct in safe access zones, that is to say, in certain areas in and adjacent to certain healthcare premises; to make provision for enforcement in respect of engaging in conduct prohibited in such safe access zones, and to provide for offences in relation to such prohibited conduct; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 111–10
• 2023-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health how he is making the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 a priority, to have it in operation by Christmas 2023 (details supplied). [40652/23]
• 2023-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for their operation. [40651/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will deliver on the promise in the Programme for Government to support Clinical Genetic Services at CHI, Crumlin, by appointing six genomic resource associate roles to reduce the currently unacceptable two-year waiting list, as called for by a campaign (details supplied). [35627/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the options that are available to a person aged 15 years who has been waiting since January 2019 for orthodontic treatment; if they qualify for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund or the Cross-Border Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35778/23]
• 2023-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there is a lack of theatre beds and resources and long waiting lists for scoliosis procedures in Tallaght Hospital (details supplied). [34309/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to restore walk-in dentistry services within primary care settings in CHO7. [32426/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the ambulance response times relative to key performer indicators for Echo and Delta callouts for May 2023, by ambulance region, in tabular form. [32427/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant maxillofacial surgeons based at St. James's Hospital in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32428/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of vascular surgeries procedures carried out at Beaumont Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32429/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in Cherry Orchard Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased. [32430/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies, by job title, in the ophthalmology department at the Mater Hospital; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [32431/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will respond to research (details supplied), published on 6 June 2023, which reveals that services for over-8s are based on a geographic lottery to access children’s eye care with very little access in some areas, particularly in the north west and parts of the greater Dublin region; if the HSE will fast-track the roll-out on a standardised optometrist-led eye care programme for over-8s and a timeframe to introduce same; to provide a breakdown nationally of where this care is now; and the plans for the future. [32661/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will follow up on a request by a person (details supplied) for immediate access to CAMHS. [27456/23]
• 2023-05-31
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023 · 2 divisions

  A bill to amend the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 to provide for abortion on request prior to foetal viability; to abolish the 3 day waiting period for abortion on request; to allow for abortion on grounds of fatal foetal abnormality that are likely to lead to the death of the foetus either before or within a year of birth; to allow for abortion where there is a risk to the life, or of serious harm to the health, of the pregnant woman; and to decriminalise the provision of abortion.

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 67–64
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 61–74
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form the full complement of therapists, public health nurses and so on that made up the complement of health staff in Curlew Road Health centre before 1 April 2023; how many health staff from all grades were transferred over to Armagh Road; how many health workers have been recruited since the beginning of the year; and how many of those have been allocated to Curlew Road and Armagh Road. [24828/23]
• 2023-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the further qualifications a person (details supplied) needs to enable them to work in the health service, nursing homes and so on; and the cost for same. [23893/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the €1,000 workers pandemic recognition payment will be paid to agency workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16524/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16589/23]
• 2023-03-23
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if she has been in contact with the Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Disability in relation to the ongoing lack of available therapists or therapy services at a school (details supplied); and if so, the outcome of those discussions. [14241/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if families with children and those who are in bad health will remain in a hotel (details supplied). [12515/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way the €750,000 allocated in Budget 2023 for trainee counselling psychologist courses will be used (details supplied). [12285/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended the accident and emergency department at St. James's Hospital from the 1 January to the 31 December 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [12292/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of staffing all emergency departments with liaison psychiatrists for three years, in tabular form. [12295/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost when he establishes an international expert working group to examine pre-term births to reduce neonatal mortality rates. [12307/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of running each of the sexual assault treatment units in 2022, in tabular form. [12308/23]
• 2023-02-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) should have her pension of £179.30 paid to the public nursing home. [10145/23]
• 2023-02-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he plans to amend the Disability Act 2005; and if not, if he plans to introduce new legislation in order that all children receive services in a timely manner. [5041/23]
• 2023-02-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a full complement of therapists will be provided to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [4540/23]
• 2023-01-25
  VOTE
  Capacity in the Health Services · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 68–59
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 68–58
• 2023-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if her Department’s policy is to include principals to carry out assessment of needs in special schools or mainstream schools; and when this policy changed from healthcare workers and CDNT’s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2828/23]
• 2023-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a full complement of therapists will be provided to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [3369/23]
• 2023-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the community neuro-rehabilitation teams that have been set up in every CHO, particularly for CHO 7 (details supplied). [2867/23]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a full complement of therapists will be provided for a school (details supplied). [63525/22]
• 2022-12-14
  VOTE
  Current Issues Affecting the Health Services · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 72–53
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 72–53
• 2022-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason that the position of a social link provider in the Inchicore, Richmond Barracks primary health clinic has ceased (details supplied). [61977/22]
• 2022-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [62259/22]
• 2022-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a full complement of therapists will be provided to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [58408/22]
• 2022-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether any capital funding or supports have been contributed to the construction or maintenance of the primary care centre on the Navan Road; and if he can confirm any ongoing supports currently available to the centre. [58914/22]
• 2022-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of the results of the HSE investigation into the recreational use of nitrous oxide canisters by young people; the programmes that are currently available to tackle the issue; and the measures that are being considered to ban the sale or use of these canisters. [58916/22]
• 2022-11-09
  VOTE
  Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2021

  A bill to amend the Mental Health Act 2001 and for that purpose to provide for the right of minors over the age of 16 to consent to mental health treatment and to provide for related matters.

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion failed · 60–75
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [54334/22]
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be placed on an “active list” with the CDNT. [54453/22]
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a matter (details supplied) will be resolved. [54454/22]
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason that the next-of-kin of a person (details supplied) was informed of the revocation of their admission to a hospital for reasons which have yet to fully transpire. [54501/22]
• 2022-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to a bus service. [53439/22]
• 2022-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if funding is available for services (details supplied). [53440/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks by Government Departments to the setting up of the independent radiation therapist review (details supplied) in addition to his commitment to implement any recommendations which could emanate from the review dealing with the crisis in recruitment and retention of radiation therapists and or service improvements like advanced practice and safe and adequate staffing levels. [51843/22]
• 2022-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [50972/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a health and safety inspection was carried out on a premises (details supplied); and if he will request the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to visit the premises and to advise this Deputy of same. [47224/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [39634/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason that autistic persons and their families are excluded from the upcoming audit of the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS (details supplied). [40641/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the relevant HSE personnel to read the testimony of a person (details supplied) in relation to their experience of giving birth to their daughter 17 years ago; if he will request the HSE to furnish all documents and files relevant to the case; and if he will indicate the services being offered to them. [41008/22]
• 2022-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1742 of 14 June 2022, if an organisation (details supplied) closed its offices and transferred its equipment to St James’s Hospital in January 2022; if transcranial magnetic stimulation is accessible to private patients who have mental health, epilepsy and addiction issues; and if there are other public hospitals that are offering this treatment privately. [36462/22]
• 2022-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has for the site on Davitt Road (details supplied); if is intended for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35760/22]
• 2022-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there has been a decision made to refer dental services provided in health clinics to private dentists who take medical card patients (details supplied). [34145/22]
• 2022-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is providing transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of cocaine addiction and or for mental health care; and if so, the locations in which the treatment is provided. [30153/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the issues raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) concerning the health clinic on Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12, will be investigated; if an urgent meeting will take place with the HSE, the residents' committee and Deputies from the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27372/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if section 39 workers who worked in the homeless front-line healthcare workers are to be included in the Covid recognition scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24103/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 19 October 2021, when a date will be set for the operation which is urgently required by this person. [24464/22]
• 2022-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 12 July 2018, the status of his plans to roll out electricity subsidies nationally to all COPD patients that are available in certain CHO areas for patients that are using oxygen machines at home for more than 16 hours a day. [19468/22]
• 2022-04-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason that a tender application (details supplied) has been declined for a private facility. [19074/22]
• 2022-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 3 December 2021, if 91 children's disability network teams have been established by the end of 2021; if all 91 children's disability network teams have been established, operational and fully staffed; the staffing levels in the children's disability network team in Armagh Road, Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17242/22]
• 2022-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the six sites at which the HSE will establish specialist acute hospital clinics for long Covid; and the services that will be provided in them. [17308/22]
• 2022-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the senior occupational therapist position in St. James’s Hospital will be maintained into the future for long Covid patients; if occupational therapists will be an essential service under the model of care for long Covid clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17309/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the level of staffing of the Armagh Road children’s disability network team; and the breakdown of staffing (details supplied). [14777/22]
• 2022-03-02
  VOTE
  Healthcare Waiting Lists · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 76–57
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 75–57
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when an updated Covid certificate will issue to a person (details supplied) in view of numerous requests to the HSE. [11189/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a high level taskforce will be set up through the combined auspices of the National Dementia Office and the HSE Integrated Care Programme to scope out the service requirements for those with Huntington’s disease; if so, if he will ensure that a report is available within six months of the taskforce having been set up with a business case and a budget; and time span for implementation [11611/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the cross-Departmental strategic workforce advisory group in relation to capacity issues in home care provision. [61937/21]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the cause of the delay in issuing updated EU Digital COVID Certificates (details supplied). [7677/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be issued their EU digital Covid certificate. [7630/22]
• 2022-02-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if workers (details supplied) will be included in the Covid recognition payment. [6867/22]
• 2022-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive their EU Digital COVID Certificate from the HSE. [6609/22]
• 2022-02-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if workers in the adult disability services (details supplied) will be included in the once-off, tax free €1,000 bonus payment. [5258/22]
• 2022-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if general practice nurses will be included in the recognition payment of €1,000 (details supplied). [4103/22]
• 2022-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when he plans to reschedule a meeting with an association (details supplied). [2978/22]
• 2022-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is on the patient list of a doctor; and if the person will be notified of when they will be seen. [3043/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a vaccine (details supplied); if the G7 countries are supporting the manufacturing of this vaccine which has the potential to produce vaccines for sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia and Latin America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2033/22]
• 2021-12-15
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021 · 2 divisions

  A bill to provide for pain relief for the foetus in certain cases of termination of pregnancy; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 107–36
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 103–37
• 2021-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issues of lack of water and adequate sanitation at a site (details supplied); the steps his Department will take to ensure that the budget allocated to Traveller accommodation in the area will be utilised to resolve this health and safety matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61000/21]
• 2021-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issues regarding the lack of water and adequate sanitation at a site (details supplied) in County Mayo at which families have been waiting 21 years for the issue to be addressed; the steps his Department will take to ensure that the budget allocated to Traveller accommodation in the area will be utilised to resolve this health and safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57469/21]
• 2021-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to resolve the lack of services for assessments of need nationwide, particularly in CHO7 in which persons are waiting for more than 17 months on waiting lists. [57253/21]
• 2021-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will action a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the legally mandated abortion review. [59220/21]
• 2021-11-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the reports that health and safety officers have made since 23 October 2021 in regard to Covid-19 compliance in the hospitality, public houses, café and restaurant sectors; and if he will provide an update on the levels of compliance. [58296/21]
• 2021-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a series of matters in relation to the non-checking of Covid-19 certificates in a premises (details supplied) will be investigated. [57730/21]
• 2021-11-24
  VOTE
  Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021

  A bill to amend the Education Act 1998 and to provide for related matters.

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 82–46
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 19 October 2021, if he will ensure that the legislation includes banning advertising of this nature (details supplied). [52476/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 19 October 2021, if the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed. [52534/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in rolling out the local intervention teams in Dublin as in the case of a person (details supplied). [53187/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the review of waiting lists will be concluded. [50811/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when he will introduce the legislation for safe access zones to ensure persons can access reproductive health services in safety with dignity and with the right to privacy. [50774/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the budget measure of free contraception for women aged 17 to 25 years of age; if it includes long-acting reversible contraceptives, diaphragms, copper coil, the vagina ring, condoms and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50958/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the stage of negotiations on the consultant contract; the number of vacant public consultant positions in the health service; and if a breakdown of vacant public consultant positions will be provided. [50959/21]
• 2021-10-06
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021 · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 78–55
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 59–73
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if Ireland’s infection rate levels are being shared with the ECDC (details supplied). [38800/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there have been outbreaks of Covid-19 in hotels since they reopened; if so, the number of hotels that have been affected; and the number of workers that have been infected in each hotel out of the total of number of workers working in each hotel. [39315/21]
• 2021-07-14
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 74–68
• 2021-07-14
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021

  A bill to— A. make, on a temporary basis, exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and variants of that disease and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease; to amend the Health Act 1947 for that purpose; to provide for the lawful operation of certain indoor premises subject to certain conditions notwithstanding restrictions in place in relation to such premises under that Act; to provide, for those purposes, for a robust and enforceable system of verification of the health status of certain persons, including vaccination or recovery status; to confer a power on the Minister for Health to prescribe matters related to the foregoing; to provide for enforcement; and to provide for related matters; B. amend certain provisions relating to pre-travel requirements in respect of certain persons arriving in the State; to amend the period to be spent by a person in quarantine at a designated facility in certain circumstances; to make provision in relation to the power of the Minister for Health to make regulations in relation to tests that may be taken for the purpose of detecting Covid-19 in the context of the requirement to quarantine at a designated facility and to confer a power on that Minister to prescribe the purpose for which such a test may be taken; to provide that quarantine at a designated facility shall not be required for certain persons arriving in the State in certain circumstances and to confer a power on the Minister for Health to make regulations in relation to those circumstances; for those purposes, and for related purposes, to amend the Health Act 1947; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✗ voted to block the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 72–66
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when kaftrio for cystic fibrosis patients 12 years and older will be approved in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37588/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when services in general and specifically for a person (details supplied) will commence. [37584/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been mandatory hotel quarantined since its introduction; the number who have developed the virus when in quarantine; and the number who left the quarantine without a PCR clearance or before the full complement of quarantined days. [37591/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of permanent residential places in homes, healthcare facilities and any other settings; the number of these places for persons with mental health conditions; and the number that are vacant at this time. [37590/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when he will introduce legislation for a recommended standard Covid-19 ventilation system for all indoor activities. [37589/21]
• 2021-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he plans to cease the temporary assistance payment scheme (details supplied). [30447/21]
• 2021-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for the doctorate in counselling psychologists in training. [29293/21]
• 2021-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when kaftrio for CF patients who are 12 years of age and older will be approved for use here (details supplied). [29361/21]
• 2021-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a vaccine will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [29363/21]
• 2021-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if a standard ventilation system is recommended for schools; if schools have been supported by a grant to install pandemic ventilation; and if there are checks by the Health and Safety Authority to ensure these systems are up to standard. [35351/21]
• 2021-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Further and Higher Education

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the arrangements that have been made with other European countries, the United States of America and so on in relation to the pandemic; if unvaccinated can students travel; if they are covered for Covid-19 healthcare in the country they are doing their Erasmus programme in; and if they will get vaccinated in the country they are studying in as they may have missed been offered their vaccination here if they are 18 to 29 years of age. [34527/21]
• 2021-06-02
  VOTE
  Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 73–68
• 2021-06-02
  VOTE
  Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 77–51
• 2021-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the drug kaftrio for cystic fibrosis patients will be approved for funding for use in Ireland. [23256/21]
• 2021-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the dire need of PPE including oxygen from Europe with immediate effect to the health service in India; and if emergency oxygen will be sent to India as soon as possible. [22469/21]
• 2021-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if Ireland will send emergency oxygen and PPE to the health service in India as a matter of urgency in response to the crisis there. [22470/21]
• 2021-04-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if clarity will be provided on the pay restoration in section 39 workplaces (details supplied); and if those workers excluded from this process will be included in the new process during the second round of discussions which begin in May 2021. [21015/21]
• 2021-04-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure issues (details supplied) regarding section 39 pay restoration are addressed. [21024/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if patients with lupus were in category 4 and have subsequently been removed from the category (details supplied). [18252/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each of the vaccination categories for cohorts 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9; and the number of persons that are in the 70 to 74 years and 75 to 79 years cohorts. [17276/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds in hospitals nationally for persons suffering an acute episode of mental illness (details supplied); his plans to increase the numbers of beds and doctors; and the timeframe for same. [17290/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the wait times for speech and language therapy, SLT, occupational therapy and psychological services in CHO7 for the Dublin 12 area. [16127/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if therapists are still redeployed for swabbing for Covid-19; and the number from CHO7. [16153/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health where the 300 new therapists will be located. [16154/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the locations in which Covid-19 infections are initiating; the breakdown of same; the number of positive infections from 1 March to 22 March 2021; and the locations and groups in which infections are initiating, for example in workplaces, students, indoor gatherings, outdoor gatherings, retail, schools and so on. [16190/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of meat plants that have had full Covid-19 testing from 4 January 2021 to 19 February 2021. [10961/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the positivity rate of Covid-19 in meat factory workers and fruit-picking workers. [10964/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied). [11026/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each group in the revised cohorts, for example, those aged over 65 years with underlying illnesses and so on (details supplied). [11879/21]
• 2021-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the pay arrangements put in place for student nurses in 2020 will be implemented (details supplied). [10670/21]
• 2021-02-25
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 · 2 divisions

  Bill entitled an Act, to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and variants of that disease and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease; to amend the Health Act 1947 to make further and better provision for the enforcement of regulations under section 31A of that Act; to provide for the mandatory quarantine of persons coming into the State from certain areas from where there is known to be sustained human transmission of Covid-19 or any variant of concern, or from which there is a high risk of importation of infection or contamination with Covid-19 or any variant of concern by travel from that area; to provide for the designation of such areas by the Minister; to provide for the mandatory quarantine of persons coming into the State who fail to comply with certain requirements relating to testing for the disease; to provide for the designation of facilities for such quarantine; to provide for the conveying of persons to those facilities; to provide for the making of service agreements to facilitate such quarantine; to provide for alternatives to such quarantine for persons coming into the State where such persons indicate an intention to apply for international protection or where such persons are children who are not accompanied by an adult; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 58–86
  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 131–11
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE is contacting the pharmaceutical industry to acquire booster vaccines for autumn 2021 to respond to Covid-19 variants. [9438/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the level of the Covid-19 vaccination programme at which kidney patients are to be offered the vaccine (details supplied). [9440/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if meetings have been initiated with the UK Government to access surplus vaccines it has pre-ordered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9654/21]
• 2021-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 896 of 3 February, if he has been vaccinated against Covid-19; and if members of the Cabinet have been vaccinated (details supplied). [8178/21]
• 2021-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 897 of 3 February, if a person (details supplied) and other persons in his Department have been vaccinated. [8179/21]
• 2021-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 895 of 3 February, if the CEO of the HSE has been vaccinated against Covid-19; if other members of HSE management have been vaccinated, in particular those who form part of the HSE's senior leadership team and those who are members of the HSE board; and if staff members at the HSE headquarters at Dr. Stevens' Hospital building have been vaccinated (details supplied). [8194/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to correspondence from the Minister of State with responsibility for public health, well-being and the national drugs strategy (details supplied), when community prison link workers will receive pay restoration due to workers of section 38 and 39 agencies, which included workers in the drugs and alcohol task forces and JIs. [7495/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if guidelines are in place in order that the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines will be offered to front-line healthcare workers who are pregnant (details supplied). [7670/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the CEO of the HSE has been vaccinated against the Covid-19; if other members of HSE management have been vaccinated in particular those who form part of the HSE senior leadership team and those who are members of the HSE board; if staff members at the HSE headquarters at Dr. Steevens' Hospital building have been vaccinated; and if so, the number (details supplied). [5962/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he has been vaccinated against Covid-19; and if members of the Cabinet have been vaccinated (details supplied). [5963/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been vaccinated against Covid-19; and if any members of the management of his Department have been vaccinated. [5964/21]
• 2021-01-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of positive Covid-19 cases among residents in all nursing homes registered from 14 December 2020 to 17 January 2021; the number that have died; and the number admitted to hospital care and ICU hospital care. [4653/21]
• 2021-01-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and ICU beds that make up the 30% of beds acquired from the private hospital sector. [4807/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the fact that even at this late stage, the Chief Medical Officer has repeatedly had to make pleas to employers to facilitate home working; his further views on whether there should be fines in place for employers found to be undermining the public health efforts (details supplied). [3594/21]
• 2021-01-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if family carers are categorised as front-line health workers (details supplied). [3027/21]
• 2021-01-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if parents can have their children privately assessed if they are on lengthy waiting lists for the public assessment; if so, the way in which they are reimbursed (details supplied); and if other services such as speech therapy and so on that can be availed of privately if children are on public lists but cannot avail of these services due to lengthy waiting lists. [2567/21]
• 2021-01-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the National Children’s Hospital site will be closed with immediate effect until 31 January 2020 and then be reviewed given the virulent Covid-19 infection rate and the need to halt the rate of infection (details supplied). [2573/21]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to abolishing the nursing registration fee for 2021 (details supplied). [1972/21]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if pay restoration applies to posts established by the drug and alcohol task forces and funded through the HSE with interim funding for the purpose of its costing exercise for pay restoration; if the HSE included all the posts and projects as section 39 funded (details supplied); if the HSE and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are committed to providing the additional funding needed to pay for pay restoration; if not, if the HSE is expecting the projects to find the funding from elsewhere; and if pay restoration is part of the deal as described in the media recently. [44993/20]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an addiction clinic; and the reason the HSE would need to move the clinic during renovations. [1240/21]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to providing the Covid-19 vaccination to teachers, SNAs and creche workers who are being asked to stay on the front line along with nursing home residents and workers on the front line of the health services. [1348/21]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the situation regarding the closure of construction sites to stop the spread of Covid-19 will be clarified; the reason social housing and public infrastructure sites are being kept open (details supplied); and his views on whether all building sites should be closed to limit the transmission of the virus. [1380/21]
• 2020-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE and his Department have made their business case to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform seeking consultant status and renumeration; and the operational model the HSE and his Department are proposing in view of the Crowe Horwath report 2018 following on from a previous report. [42510/20]
• 2020-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of public health specialists that have applied for positions in the past month; and the number of vacancies the HSE is hoping to fill. [42442/20]
• 2020-12-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a child with Down's syndrome (details supplied) was refused optical benefit. [40746/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the amount of the €10 million announced for the drugs strategy that will go to drug and alcohol task forces for local projects; and if the amount is ringfenced. [38233/20]
• 2020-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if foxhunting with hounds and all related activities have been stopped during level 5 restrictions; and if a ban will be introduced due to the cruelty to foxes and the public health concerns associated with large groups of hunters gathering and traversing the countryside. [34036/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the position of the Director of the Health Protection and Surveillance Centre will be filled with a full-time consultant contract with the relative pay and conditions (details supplied) [33309/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if NPHET or his Department has drawn up a formal written memo or advice on zero Covid-19 in view of the Taoiseach stating he is unwilling to embrace zero Covid-19 on advice from NPHET. [33308/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of public health doctors here; the number that have qualified as consultants and are not employed as consultants; and the number of public health medicine consultants that came home to fill positions (details supplied) [33332/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason he has not drawn up the proper consultant contracts for such doctors (details supplied) [33333/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the public health measures being put in place to ensure the isolation of Covid-19 infection within the Travelling community, the rate of which has increased in the past four weeks. [33334/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there is a group of environmental scientists feeding into NPHET; if not, the reason; and the amount allocated to improve ventilation in buildings (details supplied). [33341/20]
• 2020-10-23
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 85–53
• 2020-10-23
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) Bill 2020

  A bill to make further and better provision in relation to the enforcement of regulations under section 31A of the Health Act 1947; for that purpose, to make provision in relation to the prosecution of certain offences consisting of contraventions of those regulations, to provide for the payment of fixed sums by persons alleged to have committed certain such offences in lieu of their being prosecuted for those offences; to provide for the giving of directions by members of the Garda Síochána in certain circumstances; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 93–43
• 2020-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of primary school children who have tested positive for Covid-19 since school resumption up to 25 September 2020; and the number of secondary school students who have been tested positive in the same period. [27981/20]
• 2020-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of primary school teachers who have tested positive for Covid-19 since school resumption up to 25 September 2020; and the number of secondary school teachers who have tested positive in the same period. [27983/20]
• 2020-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of primary school children who have tested positive for Covid-19 since school resumption up to 25 September 2020; and the number of secondary school students who have tested positive in the same period. [27985/20]
• 2020-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of primary school teachers who have tested positive for Covid-19 since school resumption up to 25 September 2020; and the number of secondary school teachers who have tested positive in the same period. [27987/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the alert that took place in a school (details supplied) on 16 September 202 in relation to the Covid-19 tracker app will be clarified; and the reason for the alert. [26639/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when up to 500 unfilled consultant posts will be filled; and when the pay inequity in which persons employed after 2012 get paid less will end. [26616/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation that took place in a school (details supplied) on 16 September 2020; and if he will provide a clear explanation in relation to same in view of the fact that the Covid-19 tracker system must have the confidence of the population. [26632/20]
• 2020-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the drug dupilumab or dupixent which treats moderate to severe atopic dermatitis in adult patients; when and the way in which this drug will become widely available; and if he will provide other relevant information on the drug. [24889/20]
• 2020-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if weekly Covid-19 testing will be extended to categories (details supplied) that are essential to the running of the country; if he will report on the plan for track and trace; and the persons that will be targeted in view of the fact prompt test and trace results will be crucial. [23683/20]
• 2020-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason the reimbursement for a cross-border directive operation has not been paid to a person (details supplied) a year after the payment was made by the patient. [23674/20]
• 2020-09-10
  VOTE
  Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020

  • ~ abstained on the motion motion failed · 15–125
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if an independent inquiry will be established to investigate and furnish a report on all issues connected to the handling by the adult safeguarding and protection unit of CHO7 of the complaints of abuse of a person (details supplied). [21315/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the proposed reductions in prescription charges for those with medical cards that were due to take place in July 2020 will be applied. [21812/20]
• 2020-07-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 756 of 21 July 2020, his views on the substance of the question submitted regarding his awareness of the distribution of free face masks in Luxembourg; and his plans to introduce a similar scheme to provide access to free face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic [20111/20]
• 2020-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the steps he plans to take to address the issue of passengers arriving in to Dublin Airport (details supplied); his plans to cease passenger flights arriving from red and black zone countries; and his further plans to make the 14-days quarantine mandatory in specific properties with tests every three days for passengers from all other countries as per public health recommendations [17715/20]
• 2020-07-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the free face masks scheme in Luxembourg; and if he will consider introducing a similar scheme to help to protect the general public from the spread of Covid-19. [17342/20]
• 2020-07-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will consider making the use of face masks mandatory in indoor public spaces (details supplied). [16324/20]
• 2020-07-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will include north County Dublin, Limerick city and so on in the daily Covid-19 dashboard in which new cases are arising; and if he will also include the gender of the daily new cases. [16335/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a matter raised in correspondence by a group (details supplied) in respect of adult day services will be examined. [14681/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses' positions that have been vacant in the Children's Health Ireland hospital group as of 26 June 2020, in tabular form. [14757/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO 7 who were waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020; and the numbers waiting from zero to three, three to six, six to nine and more than nine months, respectively. [14758/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the Spinraza treatment has been stopped for persons (details supplied); and when the treatment will commence [14951/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and the reason they have not been transferred to a particular nursing home in view of the circumstances. [12812/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if doctors (details supplied) have been told that there is no work for them after their three-month short-term contract is up; and the number of doctors that have returned to the medical register since 10 March 2020. [13151/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives returned to their medical register from 10 March 2020. [13158/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the details of the reopening plan for the health service in view of the fact hairdressers and so on are reopening but cancer screening and other services have not been given a date for reopening. [13181/20]
• 2020-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the public elective surgeries that have taken place in private hospitals from 2 June to 13 June 2020, by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12304/20]
• 2020-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will make it mandatory to wear facemasks on public transport and indoors (details supplied). [12306/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Business

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has access to an up-to-date register of workplace health and safety representatives in those businesses which have recently reopened; and the method by which her officials are communicating with workplace health and safety representatives. [11008/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve scrutiny and inspection and to ensure protocols are being followed at public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11011/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of home care workers who were on sick leave with Covid-19; the number of deaths among these workers; and the number of clients of these workers who became sick or died from Covid-19 due to exposure to the virus. [11054/20]
• 2020-06-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will publicise the revised A Vision for Change document with immediate effect. [10021/20]
• 2020-06-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will continue the two-metre physical distancing as advised by NPHET; and if at any stage the advice changes to one-metre, if the wearing of cloth face masks will become mandatory. [10024/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 609 of 20 May 2020, if the work location of a person diagnosed with Covid-19, that is, a small retail, large retail, warehouse, construction, transport, hairdressing and so on will be included in the NPHET daily reports or a weekly report; and his views on whether this would assist in highlighting industry together with issues regarding public health guidelines in the Covid-19 crisis. [8860/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the position of a child (details supplied) on the SAT list; and his plans to ensure they receive the help they need from the HSE and for their education [7320/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will intervene with the relevant services in relation to the case of a person (details supplied). [7625/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to implement the proposals of a society (details supplied) in relation to the expansion of recruitment and retention of critical care nurses. [7703/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Business

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the public health workplace measures are guidelines and not mandatory (details supplied). [6279/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Business

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of inspectors the HSA has to inspect workplaces to ensure they are compliant with Covid-19 public health measures; the number of additional inspectors which it will need to recruit in order to respond to inspections; if consideration has been given to bringing trade unions under the HSA regulation (details supplied); if not, the reason therefor; and if the proposal been discussed with the trade union movement. [6280/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of construction workers who tested positive for the virus or who have died from Covid-19 to date [6282/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he is in the process of setting up a taskforce of scientists and industrial and health experts to deal specifically with planning for the 24-hour turnaround for tracking, tracing and isolation of contacts (details supplied). [6206/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation to quarantine passengers for 14 days coming into airports and docks; the type of cross-Border arrangements which will be in place for persons that have travelled to Northern Ireland into airports and docks there; and the way in which it will be implemented. [6212/20]
• 2019-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no primary healthcare team for the Traveller community in Dublin 10 and specifically for the Labre Park halting site; if the possibility of providing a team will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49321/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting five weeks for an operation. [48616/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who needs supported living is still in St. James's Hospital, Dublin, five weeks after being admitted. [48615/19]
• 2019-11-06
  VOTE
  Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 27–75
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his future plans for the St. Columbas site, Armagh Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12 (details supplied). [42955/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 19 February 2019, when the HSE will apply for an extension of duration of permission on the planning that was granted. [43492/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the drafting and introduction of legislation on safe access zones. [41176/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to respond to the long delays for public patients applying for the cross-Border directive and the long delays for public patients on the remuneration of payments for their operations from the HSE; the number of persons that were working in the application section and remuneration section in May 2019; the number working in the section now; the number of patients waiting for clearance for their operations in May 2019; the number waiting now; the length of time it took to remunerate the costs to patients in May 2019; and the length of time it is taking now. [41161/19]
• 2019-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason his Department is withholding €25 million of the €55 million allocated to mental health services for 2019. [41167/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the waiting time of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and the overall waiting times for the service. [39484/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [37537/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there are major issues with referrals to ear, nose and throat, ENT, care for children (details supplied). [34739/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if it is HSE policy to house patients who have mental health problems in communities (details supplied). [34805/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 3 July 2019, if he will provide the evidence of compliance for the site requested (details supplied); and if he cannot provide evidence, if he will investigate the issue and address same. [34956/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on whether there is acute inequality within dementia-specific community services nationally; and his views on whether a proposal (details supplied) would transform the lives of persons living with Alzheimer's disease. [32361/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on whether there is an acute need for more intensive home care packages to enable persons to stay at home; and his views on whether a proposal (details supplied) is a much needed investment to allow persons to stay at home. [32367/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on whether a €1 million investment to resource dementia-inclusive community co-ordinators throughout Ireland is needed. [32369/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if funding is available in the health budget to cover home help hours in the Dublin 12 area; and if a review by a psychiatry consultant will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [32706/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the cost of the new payroll system in the HSE; the number of workers now paid through the system; the reason the system cannot process bank holiday and Sunday payments, overtime premium pay and subsistence; and if this issue affects all grades on the system. [29100/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the new payroll system that came into effect on 2 June 2019 for ambulance workers does not recognise Sunday, bank holidays, overtime, premium and subsistence payments (details supplied); his views on whether it is unacceptable that workers are not being paid in full wages per week; and if the HSE will immediately organise an alternative method of payment to be put in place to ensure workers are paid in full and on time if the new payroll system cannot make these payments [28623/19]
• 2019-07-04
  VOTE
  Mental Health Services Reports · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–81
  • ✓ voted for Amendment again put: motion passed · 78–41
• 2019-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the main contractor (details supplied) fully complied with the community nursing unit contract in relation to the €18 million community nursing unit on Tymon North Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if he will provide the supporting evidence to ensure that the main contractor and its sub-contractors are fully compliant with all employment law as required by the contract at each interim payment made during the contract [28451/19]
• 2019-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [25872/19]
• 2019-04-11
  VOTE
  Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019

  A bill to give further effect to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications as amended by Council Directive 2006/100/EC of 20 November 2006, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1430/2007 of 5 December 2007, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 755/2008 of 31 July 2008, Regulation (EC) No. 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 279/2009 of 6 April 2009, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 213/2011 of 3 March 2011, Act concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 623/2012 of 11 July 2012, Council Directive 2013/25/EU of 13 May 2013, Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 and Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2016/790 of 13 January 2016 and, for that purpose, to amend the Dentists Act 1985, the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, the Pharmacy Act 2007, the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 and the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011; to make provision for certain other amendments to those Acts; to make provision for certain amendments to the Health Act 1953, the Health Identifiers Act 2014 and the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 102–2
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a primary care centre (details supplied) will be approved. [13070/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to accept the invitation from the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, in relation to the ongoing dispute between the HSE and unions (details supplied); and if he will ensure that he has read and examined the health sector national staff surveys of 2016 and 2018. [12599/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of children in the Dublin 8 and 10 areas diagnosed with a need for an ASD unit placement for primary schools through the assessment of needs diagnoses. [11954/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of children in the Dublin 6, 6W and 12 areas diagnosed with a need for an ASD unit placement for primary schools through the assessment of needs diagnoses. [11957/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when products of a company (details supplied) will be dispensed through general practitioners or pharmacies here in order to avoid persons having to travel abroad every three months and in some instances monthly to collect the medication. [11985/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 23 October 2018, the action being taken to resolve a situation (details supplied). [11976/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the educational psychologist vacancy has been filled in the school-age team in the Dublin south-west area; if the dedicated team manager position has been filled; if the psychologist position has been fully filled; if the speech and language position has been filled permanently; if the occupational therapist position has been filled; if the social worker positions have been filled; and the number of the 100 new therapy posts allocated to CHO7. [11986/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can apply for private financial assistance through the HSE; and the way in which the person can apply for financial support if available. [12017/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the income thresholds will be raised for medical card means tests (details supplied). [12085/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the significant deterioration in bullying figures as contained in the NAS surveys carried out in 2016 and 2018; his further views on the levels of discrimination highlighted in both surveys; and his views on the fact only 9% of staff feel involved in decisions that affect them in their work. [12100/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the level to which staffing levels in the National Ambulance Service need to fall to before it is considered a national emergency; and the point at which the Army could be called to assist the service [12101/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of complaints received during 2018 from staff in the north-east National Ambulance Service regarding failure to be given a break during their shift. [12102/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance stations nationally in which there have been reports of rat, mice or other rodent infestation in 2018; the actions taken on such matters; and if there have been incidents in which staff have had to vacate due to such infestations. [12103/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason staff were moved from the ambulance station in UHG to Merlin Park and then subsequently moved back out. [12104/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a health and safety report was carried out on the ambulance based in UHG; if a report was also carried out by HIQA; if the reports have been made available to the local health and safety representative in the ambulance base; and if a copy will be made available. [12105/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the progress made between the HSE and his Department regarding meetings about the ongoing ambulance service dispute; and when he plans to inform, update or invite a union (details supplied) into the process. [12106/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on the provision of private ambulances from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. [12122/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the collective agreement between the recognised unions and the HSE regarding paramedic ICO locations; and if there have been adverse incidents regarding this agreement. [12123/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views in whether ICO staff should progress to paramedic training and compete for training with members of the public. [12124/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the current roster is the minimum staffing level for ICO nationally. [12125/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that paramedics in the National Ambulance Service are being refused payment for attending court when summoned by the court to give evidence on behalf of the State; his views on whether the HSE may be in breach of its financial regulations on the matter; and if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that paramedics are being sent to alternative State agencies to retrieve payment contrary to the HSE financial regulations policy. [12126/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a cost to those using emergency accommodation provided by the HSE for nursing staff of a hospital (details supplied) over the past five years. [12149/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that more than 50% of staff responded to the NAS survey in 2016 and 28% responded to the 2018 survey; his views on whether this significant drop in engagement could be due to deteriorating morale within the service; his further views on whether the survey results relating to the service are significantly worse than those in other sections of the HSE; and his views on whether such survey results give the impression of a service in turmoil. [12240/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the minimum staffing level for intermediate care operative grades in County Limerick; and the provisions that have been put in place to cover absences for the grade in the area. [12241/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason overtime for intermediate care operative grades in the national ambulance service in County Limerick has been discontinued; and the amount paid to private ambulances from 1 January to 31 December 2018 in County Limerick. [12242/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of interns in the national ambulance service that have used the emergency accommodation provided by the HSE for nursing staff of St. Marys Hospital in a location (details supplied) in the past five years. [12243/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if emergency accommodation is provided by the HSE for nursing staff of St. Marys Hospital at a location (details supplied) occupied by the national ambulance service DNL; and if so, the number of managers of the service who have used the accommodation facility in the past five years. [12244/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked 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 a task force (details supplied); and the person or body that decides if a particular task force is to be reviewed. [10383/19]
• 2019-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address matters in relation to early intervention team services for a person (details supplied). [8790/19]
• 2019-02-20
  VOTE
  Confidence in Minister for Health

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion failed · 53–58
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 31 January 2019, the status of same. [8120/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the cost of the original agreed tender with a company (details supplied) for the children’s hospital in St. James's; and the amount it has increased to. [6402/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [6448/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will engage with the HSE to facilitate conservation-led improvements to a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8 and carry out a study of its historical importance, that is, the persons buried there and so on. [6531/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of the 1,800 members of the National Ambulance Service availing of the facility to have union deductions taken by payroll; the figures for the deductions of a union (details supplied) to date; and when the National Ambulance Service payroll ceased deducting trade union fees by the union. [6669/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of members of the National Ambulance Service who have their deductions taken for unions (details supplied), respectively, as of 25 January 2018. [6670/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of the 1,800 National Ambulance Service staff involved with direct patient contact and administrative roles, respectively. [6671/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce exclusion zones around facilities which are providing abortion services. [5129/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the level of general practitioner based abortion services coverage nationally by county. [5126/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he has received a report from the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital to clarify the decision of the medical team not to terminate a pregnancy on the grounds that the pregnancy was not a fatal foetal abnormality. [5124/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason why the HSE is not recognising a union (details supplied). [5441/19]
• 2019-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there will be no delay to a primary care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 12 in view of the new national children's hospital budget overrun. [4850/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent on correspondence issued through its legal team to organisations (details supplied) on union recognition. [3825/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of children discharged from hospital accident and emergency departments to no fixed abode (details supplied) in 2018, by hospital in tabular form [3932/19]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if compensation will be provided for the last-minute cancellation of an event. [53066/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if staff and resources will be provided to resolve a situation (details supplied) regarding the Dublin south-west school age team. [50999/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE is responding to a situation (details supplied); and his plans to deal with same. [50644/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way in which Article 44 of the Constitution will not impact on the new national maternity hospital in St. Vincent’s University Hospital in delivering abortion healthcare services (details supplied). [50591/18]
• 2018-12-05
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 9 divisions

  A bill to provide for and regulate termination of pregnancy; to make provision for reviews at the instigation of a pregnant woman, or a person on her behalf, of certain medical opinions given in respect of pregnancy; to make available without charge certain services to women for the purpose of termination of pregnancy in accordance with this Act and, for that purpose, to amend the Health Act 1970 and certain other enactments; to provide for offences in respect of the intentional ending of the life of a foetus otherwise than in accordance with this Act; to amend the Bail Act 1997; to repeal the Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 and provisions of certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 90–15
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 9–101
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 10–89
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 90–16
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 30–63
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 29–65
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 27–75
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–67
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 30–75
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in GP GMS contracts nationally; and his views on whether only 306 new general practitioners with GMS contracts from 2008 to 2018 is low. [50586/18]
• 2018-12-04
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 5 divisions

  A bill to provide for and regulate termination of pregnancy; to make provision for reviews at the instigation of a pregnant woman, or a person on her behalf, of certain medical opinions given in respect of pregnancy; to make available without charge certain services to women for the purpose of termination of pregnancy in accordance with this Act and, for that purpose, to amend the Health Act 1970 and certain other enactments; to provide for offences in respect of the intentional ending of the life of a foetus otherwise than in accordance with this Act; to amend the Bail Act 1997; to repeal the Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 and provisions of certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 8–88
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 6–89
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 10–84
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 8–89
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 8–84
• 2018-11-29
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 3 divisions

  A bill to provide for and regulate termination of pregnancy; to make provision for reviews at the instigation of a pregnant woman, or a person on her behalf, of certain medical opinions given in respect of pregnancy; to make available without charge certain services to women for the purpose of termination of pregnancy in accordance with this Act and, for that purpose, to amend the Health Act 1970 and certain other enactments; to provide for offences in respect of the intentional ending of the life of a foetus otherwise than in accordance with this Act; to amend the Bail Act 1997; to repeal the Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 and provisions of certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 25–59
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 22–61
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 21–71
• 2018-11-28
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 2 divisions

  A bill to provide for and regulate termination of pregnancy; to make provision for reviews at the instigation of a pregnant woman, or a person on her behalf, of certain medical opinions given in respect of pregnancy; to make available without charge certain services to women for the purpose of termination of pregnancy in accordance with this Act and, for that purpose, to amend the Health Act 1970 and certain other enactments; to provide for offences in respect of the intentional ending of the life of a foetus otherwise than in accordance with this Act; to amend the Bail Act 1997; to repeal the Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 and provisions of certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 34–64
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 9–90
• 2018-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the building of a unit (details supplied) will be commenced; when the building of the unit will be completed; and if these commitments will be fully included in the HSE service and capital plan for 2019. [48329/18]
• 2018-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when he plans to commence the Children and Families Relationships (Amendment) Act 2018 (details supplied). [47343/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if €3 billion will be provided for the Sláintecare implementation fund beginning with a €600 million commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31055/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 440 of 2 October 2018, the details of the significant increase in resources needed to meet the needs of the children waiting on the Dublin south west school age team waiting list; his plans to resolve same; the number of children on the list; and the number waiting over six months. [43299/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of Sláintecare. [43347/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when he plans to sign contracts with the new national maternity hospital; the guarantees he has secured to ensure that reproductive services including abortion will be provided in this hospital; and if he will report to Dáil Éireann before contracts are signed [43519/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans in relation to general practitioner recruitment and retention over the next five years (details supplied). [43308/18]
• 2018-10-23
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Referral to Select Committee

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 102–11
• 2018-10-23
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018

  A bill to provide for and regulate termination of pregnancy; to make provision for reviews at the instigation of a pregnant woman, or a person on her behalf, of certain medical opinions given in respect of pregnancy; to make available without charge certain services to women for the purpose of termination of pregnancy in accordance with this Act and, for that purpose, to amend the Health Act 1970 and certain other enactments; to provide for offences in respect of the intentional ending of the life of a foetus otherwise than in accordance with this Act; to amend the Bail Act 1997; to repeal the Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 and provisions of certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 102–12
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the further €600,000 will be allocated to a group (details supplied) for its care centre in Dublin. [41152/18]
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way in which persons who will be 22 years of age in the next six months will be treated in terms of the FreeStyle Libre reimbursement scheme if they no longer qualify for the reimbursement scheme but wish to continue using same. [39506/18]
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 29 May 2018, if the monitoring of finger test strip utilisation indicated a cost or a saving; and the HSE's next steps in the utilisation of finger test strip monitoring. [39507/18]
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a need to follow up on the issues raised by all political parties and groups in Dáil Éireann on 28 June 2018 as part of the statements on the national drugs strategy in view of budget 2019. [39760/18]
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to address the call by an organisation (details supplied) to invest up to €12 million in community supports for persons with dementia. [39848/18]
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if autism assistance dog programmes are funded. [39929/18]
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39979/18]
• 2018-09-26
  VOTE
  Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 · 2 divisions

  A bill to provide for the minimum price per gram of alcohol, to confer the power on the Minister for Health to, by order, increase that price, to provide for the labelling of alcohol products including the inclusion of health warnings and the alcohol content and energy content of alcohol products on alcohol product containers, to provide for restrictions in relation to the advertising and sponsorship of alcohol products, to provide procedures in relation to the exposure for sale and advertising of alcohol products in specified licensed premises, to confer power on the Minister for Health to make regulations for the purpose of prohibiting or restricting the sale of alcohol products in certain circumstances, to provide for enforcement measures, to provide for the repeal of certain provisions of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003 and the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2008, and to provide for related matters

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 27–55
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 25–56
• 2018-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the private security company that cleared a premises (details supplied) in Dublin on 11 September 2018 has health and safety clearance; if its employees have been vetted by An Garda Síochána; the name, address and identification of the employees who cleared the premises; if the vehicle used by the security company was compliant for tax and insurance; if the driver or drivers have a full licence; and if An Garda Síochána ensured that the vehicle was road safety compliant. [38026/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of the health (transport support) Bill. [35438/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the health (transport support) Bill will be initiated. [35516/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting one year for a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30444/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE's weekly review of children waiting longer than four months for scoliosis surgery takes place; the format the review takes; the way in which the resulting decisions are documented and recorded; and the persons who carry out the weekly review. [26484/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the wait times for young adults of 16 to 21 years of age in need of scoliosis care to see a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Mater Hospital when referred by a general practitioner. [26499/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the actions being taken to address the outpatient waiting lists for children who are waiting up to 36 months for an appointment. [26500/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason there has been no activity regarding outsourcing to other hospitals since 2017 in view of the fact that over 84 children are waiting over four month targets; and the reason there is no letter or information sent to parents to inform them regarding outsourcing (details supplied). [26504/18]
• 2018-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the location in which persons can access the 2018 waiting list action plan for scoliosis; and when it will be publicised [26005/18]
• 2018-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) has been refused; and if it will be examined and the necessary equipment provided in order that they can return home. [24103/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 1 May 2018, the reason for the inpatient day case action plan failure to provide the NTPF scheme to patients who are transferred from waiting lists in one hospital to another hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23234/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the date on which the monitoring of the cost efficiencies in test strip usage begin; and if he will request the HTAG to bring forward the review of FreeStyle Libre to a maximum of six months from the date the monitoring began. [23228/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the bed capacity of University Hospital Sligo in 2008; the bed capacity of the hospital at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23235/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the resource capacity being allocated to implement the alcohol action plan strategy in drugs task forces, for example, in the Canal Communities local drug and alcohol task force, CCLDATF. [23236/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the measures being put in place to provide 92 children that attend a school (details supplied) speech and language therapy and occupational therapy; and if the children will have access to the July provision. [22221/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of home care hours available from Old County Road public health centre, Dublin 12 on 1 January 2018 and 1 April 2018 (details supplied). [23227/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 416 of 22 May 2018, the reason the case of the woman concerned (details supplied) was not referred to in the reply; and if a woman can request that her smear test is sent to an Irish laboratory and that there is no cost associated with such a request for the test to be sent to an Irish laboratory. [23726/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the central patient data project has been finalised; if it is at full operational capacity in St. James's Hospital; the name of the information technology company that installed it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22528/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter relating to a person (details supplied). [22534/18]
• 2018-05-10
  VOTE
  Health Service Reform

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 48–77
• 2018-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if contracts were renewed annually with a company (details supplied) from 2008; if he will provide the quality assurance certificate, that is, the screening process and laboratory performance expectation with each contract; and if he will provide the same information on the clinical pathology laboratory and other laboratories here or overseas for the years they had a contract to analyse Irish smear tests. [20258/18]
• 2018-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health to set out the number of times cervical screening programmes were reviewed since 2008; and his views on whether it is best practice to continually review performance to demonstrate an ability to reflect on current practice and improve patient care. [20302/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a public health centre has no funding to provide extra home care hours for a person (details supplied); and the reason it has no funding for home care hours for other families. [19778/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in each of the years since 2008 to analyse smear tests; the number of smear tests it analysed in each year; and if he will provide the same information in respect of clinical pathology laboratories and other laboratories here or overseas for the years in which they had a contract to analyse smear tests. [20165/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way in which a person is referred to the National Treatment Purchase Fund or NTPF scheme; if it is the doctor or consultant who refers the person; the length of time a person must be on the waiting list before being referred; and the type of health issues that are referred to the NTPF. [18593/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an operation; and if the person can be referred to the NTPF scheme. [18596/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a primary care unit proposed and agreed in Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12 will be cleared by the HSE for funding to commence its build. [18768/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the long delays for operations and outpatient appointments in the urology department in St James's Hospital (details supplied) will be examined. [15214/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with respite or long-term care. [15783/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of physiotherapy service on a school age disability team based in Dublin 8; and if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [16020/18]
• 2018-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was informed on 7 February 2018 that the HSE will not provide additional items for their medical equipment. [13988/18]
• 2018-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13365/18]
• 2018-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Galway University Hospital for 6, 12, 18, 24 and 48 months, respectively. [10428/18]
• 2018-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 634 of 14 March 2017, if Our Lady's Children's Hospital has recruited nurses to further increase capacity for scoliosis surgery to more than one day per week; if the two theatres are up and running at full capacity; if not, the capacity they are running at; and the number of surgeries taking place in both theatres weekly. [10496/18]
• 2018-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant orthopaedic surgeons employed in the public health service nationally; the locations in which they work; and if there is a separate level of consultant orthopaedic surgeons for complex scoliosis surgery. [10543/18]
• 2018-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the most recent active orthopaedic waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Our Lady's Children’s Hospital, Crumlin for six, 12, 18 and 24 months, respectively, by procedure (details supplied). [10544/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to re-examine the issues arising from the withdrawal of Versatis pain relief plasters. [9910/18]
• 2018-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason an organisation (details supplied) is excluded from the regulation process by CORU. [7822/18]
• 2018-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the medicine loperamide hydrochloride has been removed from the medical card; and the basis on which it has been removed (details supplied). [6673/18]
• 2018-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when Crohn's disease will be included in the long-term illness scheme. [6674/18]
• 2018-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if an amendment will be accepted (details supplied). [6195/18]
• 2018-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to a request from an organisation (details supplied). [6251/18]
• 2018-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied). [4189/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will publish the findings of an audit of staffing levels in cystic fibrosis hospital centres that was undertaken in 2016; and the reason this information has not been published. [2566/18]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and the issues raised progressed. [54315/17]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the process for the tendering of a shop at Our Lady's Children's Hospital (details supplied); and when it went out for tender. [54316/17]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if an operation for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled as a matter of urgency. [54321/17]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [54485/17]
• 2017-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the lack of consistent respite for persons at a location (details supplied) and the lack of houses available in the community. [52845/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the process of tendering for the shop in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; and when it went out for tender and so on (details supplied). [49950/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason the shop in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, is no longer under the management of the hospital; if the internal audit section or the board made the decision; and if so, if he will provide this Deputy with the minutes of the internal audit section in which that decision was made and the minutes of the hospital board meetings since January 2017. [49951/17]
• 2017-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting for a procedure. [49803/17]
• 2017-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when an operation will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49820/17]
• 2017-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and the reason for the delay. [49821/17]
• 2017-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a person's (details supplied) long-term illness card. [47488/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there is an increase in funding for drugs and alcohol task forces in budget 2018; and if so, the amount it will be increased by. [45781/17]
• 2017-10-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be transferred to a more suitable HSE area in view of the fact that the area they are in does not provide the required level of service for their needs. [45467/17]
• 2017-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter concerning the case of a person (details supplied). [44463/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the medicines that have been removed by the Medicines Management Programme, MMP, from the community drugs scheme; the amount the medicine cost the State before it was removed; the amount saved after its removal; and the number of persons receiving it before the medicine was removed from the list, in tabular form. [43931/17]
• 2017-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied). [43121/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason Versatis 5% medicated plaster has been taken off the medical card since 1 September 2017 (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons will be forced into the day ward system as a result of same; and the pressure and estimated costs on hospitals. [42578/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received medical equipment that has been requested by a consultant in St. James' Hospital. [42211/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if home help hours will be provided for a person (details supplied); if funding will be provided in order that extra staff and support for home help services in Crumlin will be provided for persons leaving hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42264/17]
• 2017-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been informed that the person's general practitioner card has been withdrawn for a period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41242/17]
• 2017-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the way in which he is planning to implement the future of health care report. [40916/17]
• 2017-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the service provision at Chamber House, Tallaght; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40915/17]
• 2017-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40935/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) who was treated by a doctor in the accident and emergency department in St James's Hospital; and if he will ensure an investigation is carried out in a timely fashion and that the person is receiving the proper care and medication for them. [34905/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the detail and composition of the multidisciplinary team in a location (details supplied); the disciplines provided for the school; and the number of professional persons allocated to each discipline. [36530/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate a situation which occurred in St. James's Hospital (details supplied). [36679/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if there are staff shortages in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital. [28288/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a hospital complaint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28389/17]
• 2017-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the inpatient waiting list for the urology department in St. James's Hospital for six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months and 48 months, respectively. [23481/17]
• 2017-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the staffing levels that should be in place in the urology department in St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and the current staffing levels in place. [23232/17]
• 2017-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the serious lack of services for children with complex and non-complex intellectual and physical disability needs in a special needs school (details supplied); the number of parents who have contacted him regarding problems accessing services in the school; the length of time since his attention was drawn to the problems accessing speech and therapy, access to swimming, access to the July provision, no health nurse provision and access to multidisciplinary teams; and the action he has taken to date to resolve this problem. [14829/17]
• 2017-04-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of beds in the public hospital system; and the number of beds reserved for the private patients of consultants. [18440/17]
• 2017-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15717/17]
• 2017-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the outpatient waiting list for appointments to attend the service of the urology department in St. James's Hospital for six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months and 48 months. [15724/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of parents who have contacted him regarding problems accessing services in a school (details supplied); the length of time since his attention has been drawn to problems accessing speech and therapy, access to swimming, access to the July provision, no health nurse provision and access to multi-disciplinary teams; and the action he has taken to resolve this problem. [14951/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health whether it is under his remit to reinstate items (details supplied) on the medical card; if not, the person or body that can do so; and if it requires legislation to include extra items onto the medical card. [15393/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the next appointment for surgery will take place in respect of a person (details supplied); and the way the person can receive priority surgery. [13627/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a €75 public charge was introduced for an appointment for necessary chemotherapy treatment; and if this is a policy of any hospital that provides this necessary public health service. [13812/17]
• 2017-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his Department estimated that the health budget would need to be increased by 25% in 2017 to compensate fully for the austerity cuts made from 2009 to 2014 and to take account of demographic change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12341/17]
• 2017-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the lack of services for children with complex and non-complex intellectual and physical disability needs in St. John of God special needs school in Islandbridge, Dublin 8 (details supplied). [12062/17]
• 2017-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Galway University Hospital for six, 12, 18, 24 and 48 months; and the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting for surgery. [12034/17]
• 2017-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 6 May 2015, if he will provide an update on the appointment of an orthopaedic surgeon, anaesthetist and support staff to maximise utilisation of available theatre sessions in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; when the second theatre will be in operation for surgery; the staff levels required to run the two theatres; and if staff levels are in place to run the two theatres. [12158/17]
• 2017-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been on the waiting lists for scoliosis surgery in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, for six, 12, 18 and 24 months. [12167/17]
• 2017-02-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalen laundries who live overseas (details supplied). [9772/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalen Laundries that live overseas, as referred to by the previous Minister on 24 September 2014. [9382/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE high level officials group has made a recommendation on the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group of persons with cystic fibrosis eligible for these vital drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8974/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE's approval of the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group is contingent on additional funding being provided by the Government to the HSE. [8975/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the Cabinet will be making the final decision relating to the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two-to-five age group and the R117h group; if so, when; and if not, the body that is making the final decision. [8976/17]
• 2017-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the total number of contracted service providers from the NGO, charity, religious bodies and voluntary sectors to the HSE; and the total sum provided for that service provision in 2016. [8294/17]
• 2017-02-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons aged between 65 and 69 years of age who had a routine mammogram as per BreastCheck since January 2016. [6555/17]
• 2017-02-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) concerning unsafe staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4260/17]
• 2017-02-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on data from a recent OECD report showing that Ireland has 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 of the population compared to an OECD average of 4.8, while Ireland has 2.7 doctors per 1,000 of the population compared with an average of 3.3; and his plans to remedy this situation [4258/17]
• 2017-02-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a full-time co-ordinator will be allocated to the South Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force (details supplied). [4797/17]
• 2017-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE endorses hare coursing, which has been banned in many jurisdictions (details supplied); and his views on whether public moneys should be withdrawn for this project. [4259/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of talks between a company (details supplied) and the HSE regarding the drug Orkambi [2816/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans for the community pillar to have a direct input into the national drugs strategy; and his plans for it to have an integral role in the process of developing the future national drugs strategy. [41606/16]
• 2016-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will reply to an appeal for a meeting with him and CF Ireland or if the meeting has been set up (details supplied). [39640/16]
• 2016-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of the negotiations between the HSE, Health Service Executive, and NCPE, National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, and a pharmaceutical company (details supplied) regarding Orkambi for cystic fibrosis, in view of the fact it is 24 weeks since the original decision was made not to recommend Orkambi based on cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37780/16]
• 2016-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason and the basis on which the medicines management programme is ceasing the reimbursement for products (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37781/16]
• 2016-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there has been a change to statutory instrument No. 654 of 2004, Maternity Protection (Protection of Mothers Who Are Breastfeeding) Regulations 2004, specifically the timeframe from six months to two years; and if school principals and boards are obliged to facilitate mothers who wish to pump breast milk during their working day. [37164/16]
• 2016-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a significant financial contribution is directed towards the costs of a new build (details supplied) from the HSE's capital estate fund; when a final, beneficial decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36516/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are reports that a person (details supplied) is on hunger strike in the Globe House direct provision centre, Sligo; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that there is growing concern in regard to the deterioration in the person's health; the action her Department is taking in regard to the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35971/16]
• 2016-11-17
  VOTE
  Mental Health Services Funding

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 47–88
• 2016-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to remove a tablet (details supplied), which is prescribed for macular degeneration of the eyes, from the hardship scheme. [34991/16]
• 2016-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to remove any item now accessible under the hardship scheme from the hardship scheme. [34992/16]
• 2016-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to invest in home-based care to support and enable persons with dementia to remain living at home in budget 2017; and his views on whether an initial investment of at least €50 million plus in the budget is necessary which then must be built on year on year. [30294/16]
• 2016-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if three items (details supplied) were implemented, it would have a significantly positive income effect for cancer patients whose income is immediately impacted upon through their illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29328/16]
• 2016-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the prescription charges for cancer patients and the inpatient charge of €75 should be abolished (details supplied). [29077/16]
• 2016-10-06
  VOTE
  Mental Health Services · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 59–37
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 61–37
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on whether personal assistance hours for persons with disabilities need to be increased by at least an additional 500,000 hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28619/16]
• 2016-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to invest in home-based care to support and enable persons with dementia to remain living at home in budget 2017; and his views on whether an initial investment in the budget is necessary of at least over €50 million which then must be built yearly. [27843/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the children's outpatient trauma service in Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24573/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the canal communities local drug and alcohol task force co-ordinator position, which is vacant at the moment due to a retirement, will be replaced; and when the position will be advertised so that the position is filled as soon as possible. [22343/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Jobs

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the outcome of any reports her Department sought from agencies under its remit that related to health and safety and working conditions in the waste industry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20838/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health why the required services have not been provided in the case of a person (details supplied). [18097/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 301 and 330 of 24 May 2016, the number of school leavers from special education to whom the Health Service Executive offered a funded service in 2016 but who said they did not wish a specialist centre-based service but would prefer a community-based service which connected them to mainstream supports, as per the national disability strategy, and the new directions and comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities. [15325/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 301 and 330 of 24 May 2016, the number of school leavers from special education who will be without a service in September 2016. [15326/16]
• 2016-06-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the validation and recognition of non-Irish qualifications. [14610/16]
• 2016-06-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans for clearing the scoliosis waiting lists in Crumlin children's hospital in Dublin and in Galway University Hospital, including the filling of vacancies. [13669/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a tenant (details supplied) of Sligo County Council on the recommendation of the occupational therapy service in the Health Service Executive applied for the provision of a walk-in shower in January 2014 and that the council made a submission for funding for the works to his Department in February 2015 and a further submission in February 2016; if it normally takes over 12 months to process and approve funding for such works; when he will make a decision on this submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11739/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the cost of reintroducing the medical card for persons over 70 years of age to pre-2013 levels. [11590/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is unable to receive the required treatment due to no funding being available from the Health Service Executive. [11239/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of surgery for a person (details supplied) and if he will ensure that the person receives surgery with immediate effect. [9209/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Sligo County Council purchased a house in 2015 to house persons (details supplied); that the council sought his approval for funding in October 2015 to construct an extension to the house, in compliance with the recommendation of the Health Service Executive’s occupational therapy service; that the persons will not be allowed to move into the house until such time as the extension is constructed; if it normally takes six months to process and approve funding for such extensions; if he will make a decision on the council’s submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9214/16]
• 2016-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of patients which are on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in University Hospital Galway for six, 12, 18 and 24 months, respectively. [5049/16]
• 2016-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and how long the person will be waiting for surgery. [5051/16]
• 2016-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12 for six months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months. [5088/16]
• 2016-02-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on survivors of severe acquired brain injury depending on a maintenance programme in nursing home care rather than in proper rehabilitation therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3944/16]
• 2016-02-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of funding and services for survivors of severe acquired brain injury, including those currently provided, and the number of patients affected; and if he will improve these services in line with best practice with international agreements such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [3943/16]
• 2016-02-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of a payment for a medical test by a person, details supplied, who has a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4209/16]
• 2016-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of the reintroduction of school screenings for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2903/16]
• 2016-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health why there is no BreastCheck clinic in the Dublin 12 area, given that a person in Crumlin who has to get a regular annual BreastCheck has been informed she has to attend at Tallaght hospital or St. Vincent's hospital, Dublin 4. [2972/16]
• 2015-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 22 October 2015 in which he stated that he had put in place maximum permissible waiting times for inpatient, day-case and outpatient treatment of 18 months by 30 June and 15 months by year end, why there are 13 patients waiting for spinal surgery, two of whom have come to this Deputy's attention, who are waiting since July 2014 in Galway University Hospital; his views on whether scoliosis patients with 70% to 80% spinal curvature should be subject to these waiting times; if there should be a maximum permissible waiting time of three to six months for these patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42902/15]
• 2015-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on whether patients waiting for spinal, hip and knee surgery should be placed on shorter maximum-permissible waiting lists for inpatient and day case treatment, and outpatient appointments of three months in any hospital [42901/15]
• 2015-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on establishing a Traveller agency to drive urgent improvements in Traveller accommodation and to implement existing Traveller health, education and employment policies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37697/15]
• 2015-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of an extra cost of €2 patients attending the Inchicore health clinic have to pay for their blood samples to be sent to St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42495/15]
• 2015-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if it is or ever has been the practice of any Irish maternity hospital, especially the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in Dublin 2, to record surgeries, including emergency surgeries, visually as a matter of course (details supplied). [41959/15]
• 2015-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a grant for a hearing aid is available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40829/15]
• 2015-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the waiting list for surgery for scoliosis patients in Galway University Hospital. [40656/15]
• 2015-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health given that on 13 May 2015 this Deputy received a reply further to Parliamentary Question No. 377 of 6 May 2015, and was informed by University Hospital Galway that from 21 January 2015 to 13 May 2015 one scoliosis patient out of nine had undergone surgery, and given that this Deputy was informed that significant progress is being made in relation to ensuring the required resources are in place in the context of bed availability, access to diagnostics, purchase of special spinal equipment and access to theatre, the reason a person (details supplied) who is on the list since July 2014 is still waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36653/15]
• 2015-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the waiting list for surgery for scoliosis patients in University Hospital Galway. [36585/15]
• 2015-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding persons living with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35543/15]