John McGuinness

Fianna Fáil · Carlow-Kilkenny

Activity on Health — 1101 events (27 lobbying · 1049 questions · 47 votes) full profile →

• 2026-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of site visits undertaken by her Department officials to a DEIS school in County Kilkenny in each of the past ten years; if the reports compiled after each visit will be made available; if the issues highlighted in each report requiring urgent attention will be set out in the response to this PQ; the amount of funding provided in each of the past ten years to carry out maintenance, repairs and other urgent works to the fabric of the building; if an immediate inspection of the school will be undertaken to prioritise the urgent work required to deal with the dangerous health and safety issues faced on a daily basis by the school community (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24456/26]
• 2026-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.1040 of 27 January 2026, if she investigate a matter (details supplied) and respond in full. [23209/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the labour court (details supplied) will be implemented; if all employed/retired staff that are eligible will be paid Immediately. [18997/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed account of the efforts made to identify an appropriate service provider regarding the care needs of a child (details supplied). [19876/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of business cases for development and capital spend submitted by Saint Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny; the stage each one is at in the process of consideration and approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16698/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of qualified care assistants that have been Garda vetted and are available to take up duties delivering home care hours in the community, which are on the HSE panel in the CHO5 area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16699/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to provide the staffing levels and medical qualifications for each model 3 hospital; whether each hospital is expected to provide the same range of medical services; the steps being taken to fund model 3 hospitals that are not delivering the optimum services; the level of funding provided for each level 3 hospital in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16700/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if versatis pain patches will be made available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17156/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the proposal to construct a four theatre complex with attached minor theatres on the grounds of Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny, will be progressed given the growing numbers of surgeries being undertaken at the hospital and the urgent need to replace the 1950s buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17157/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the drug sky clarys (omaveloxolone) used for the treatment of Friedreichs ataxia will be made available under licence in Ireland; if she will outline the process to licence the drug; the timeline involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16033/26]
• 2026-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if and when he became aware that the HSE 2017 position paper; Wind Turbines and Public Health had been withdrawn; if he is aware that developers continue to rely on this now-withdrawn document in planning applications; the steps he will take to address the resulting regulatory gap to maintain public confidence in the planning process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15430/26]
• 2026-02-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason support services provided to foster carers by an organisation (details supplied) located in Fethard has been terminated by Tusla without any consultation with the stakeholders; if she will insist that the services be continued while all concerned are consulted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13021/26]
• 2026-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a serious matter in relation to a ten-year-old boy (details supplied) will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10276/26]
• 2026-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the funding allocated to the to the drugs task force in Kilkenny in each of the past five years; to provide an outline of the activity in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8605/26]
• 2026-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide details of the circumstances surrounding the removal, without notice, of the personal effects belonging to a resident (details supplied); if proper procedures were followed; if the person's family were informed of this significant change prior to any action being taken. [5935/26]
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Irish Council for Psychotherapy Health

  • ICP concerns & recommendations re: the proposed CORU Standards of Proficiency & Criteria for Education & Training Programmes for Psychotherapists.
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  The Asthma Society of Ireland Health

  • AV Room Briefing for World Lung Day
• 2026-01-20
  LOBBY
  Mental Health Reform Health

  • Waterford Showcase Event for members
• 2026-01-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health , further to previous Parliamentary Questions on the matter, when a person will be scheduled for a hip replacement procedure (details supplied); and if the matter can be expedited. [4268/26]
• 2026-01-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a report that includes all maps and drawings on the findings and outcomes of the extensive public consultation process undertaken by the estates management section of the HSE (details supplied); the committee or entity that made the decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4274/26]
• 2026-01-16
  LOBBY
  Down Syndrome Ireland Health

  • Meeting with TDs about support for SLT programme
• 2026-01-08
  LOBBY
  The Union of Students in Ireland Health

  • Supporting Labour Party Motion for Drug Decriminalisation
• 2026-01-07
  LOBBY
  Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Health

  • INMO Issued letters on 24th November 2025 to 26 TDs and Ministers regarding Caredoc Out of Hours GP Services and their failure to pay WRC agreement 2023, a total of 8 percent pay increases to nurses. Also informing TDs and Ministers of INMO's intention to serve notice of industrial action within Caredoc Services.
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71486/25]
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 634 of 23 September 2025, if an urgent response from the HSE will be provided (details supplied). [72019/25]
• 2025-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the transport costs incurred by residents of private nursing homes who are in receipt of financial support under the fair deal scheme and who must attend hospital and other medical appointments, will be reimbursed; If there is a process in place whereby such residents that require transport can book it through a central office of the HSE. [70919/25]
• 2025-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will review the prescribed allocation of glucose sensors (details supplied). [66660/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the full-time care package for a person (details supplied) promised by the HSE will be put in place immediately; if the disposable sheets and pads required will be provided by the HSE; and if a positive response will be expedited. [65232/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied) in need of follow-up treatment; her views on whether this is acceptable; the steps the HSE should take to assist this person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65795/25]
• 2025-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the plans to review the need for lifetime community rating on private health insurance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60905/25]
• 2025-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for surgery will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [60964/25]
• 2025-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the efforts being made by the HSE to recruit staff for the home support services being delivered in Carlow and Kilkenny; the estimated number of extra staff required to fulfil all of the demands on the service; the number of frontline staff directly employed by the HSE in the service; the number of agency staff employed for each of the past three years; if a certain ratio between HSE and agency staff is required to be maintained; if the home support services will be maintained as a stand alone service into the future; if the hours budgeted for by Government are fully allocated or sufficient to cover requirements to year end; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61540/25]
• 2025-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application for continuous glucose monitoring technology submitted to the primary care reimbursement service by the patients diabetes nurse specialist (details supplied) St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, will be reviewed and approved as a matter of urgency. [61678/25]
• 2025-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health for an update in regard to a person awaiting an operation (detail supplied). [61696/25]
• 2025-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unaccompanied minors who have entered the country in each of the past five years from Ukraine and elsewhere; the arrangements to accommodate them and to provide specific services that may be required; the cost to the State for accommodation and health care in each of the past five years; if the required number of social workers are assigned to the care of these minors; the number of social workers dedicated to the response; and if the funding for the response comes from one Department or a number of Departments.. [60804/25]
• 2025-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if permanent transport will be provided for a person attending treatment (details supplied). [60799/25]
• 2025-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.482 of 24 September 2024, the progress made in arranging an operation for a patient (details supplied) that was scheduled in 2022, 2023 and 2024 in Beaumont Hospital and if she will expedite the matter. [60802/25]
• 2025-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress to date in arranging a date for a procedure for a person (details supplied) in University Hospital Waterford. [60803/25]
• 2025-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that an appropriate location will be provided for the newly appointed GP and associated medical services at Mullinavat, County Kilkenny, if the local health centre has been assessed to determine its future use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60806/25]
• 2025-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will consider allowing dental hygienists to set up a practice in their own right and independent of a dental practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60912/25]
• 2025-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will confirm the supports available such as a public health nurse or OT at primary care or community level in Kilkenny dedicated to people with mild intellectual disabilities; and the services available and if there is a waiting list. [60340/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reasons for the delay in completing the transfer arrangements of a prisoner (details supplied); for an indicative timeframe for the transfer of the prisoner; and if he will expedite the transfer considering the applicants deteriorating health. [59215/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of children that have been offered an outsourced pathway to surgery for scoliosis through CHI; the breakdown of the number relative to the hospitals used for this purpose; the number still waiting for surgery through this process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57862/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to review the case of a child (details supplied); the number of cases that were reviewed; the number of cases recommended for surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57870/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for surgery relative to scoliosis/spinal correction in Carlow and Kilkenny; the number being considered by CHI for surgery through outsourcing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57871/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the home care hours package promised by the DOP, St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, in respect of a person (details supplied) will be provided immediately as the family supporting their care cannot cope; and if she will expedite a positive response. [59479/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for surgery can be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56710/25]
• 2025-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of mammograms provided at University Hospital Waterford in each of the past 12-months; the average waiting time for mammograms to be read and for the patients to be informed of the outcome; the number of follow-ups required; the average waiting time for individuals to be informed; the waiting time for treatments thereafter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54547/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will get an assessment for a hip replacement, as he is in a lot of aggravating pain and has no suitable medication to deal with it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51179/25]
• 2025-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 31 January 2025, if she will review the question asked and the response issued by the National Ambulance Service dated 19 January 2024; if a request submitted by a patient’s GP for an ambulance service to transport a seriously ill patient to appointments in a Dublin hospital will be approved as a matter of urgency(details supplied); if she will outline the process by which such urgent requests are dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50997/25]
• 2025-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she has been advised of the HSE/ University Hospital Waterford proposal to discontinue coronial post mortem's at University Hospital Waterford with effect from the 01 January 2026, which if implemented will result in there being no coronial post mortem service in the south east; if the unilateral decision taken by the HSE/University Hospital Waterford will be reversed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51013/25]
• 2025-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will confirm the amount of funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied); if speech and language therapy for down syndrome children is funded directly by her Department; if she will allocate funding to DSI on a national or regional basis to allow the organisation to source and pay for the cost of services required for individual down syndrome children; if the funding will be increased for 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49978/25]
• 2025-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a progress report and timeline on the delivery of a new primary care centre at a location (details supplied) which was listed as a priority project in the capital programme two years ago; if the preferred option as expressed by the GPs concerned for the primary care centre to be delivered on a new site at the location is the option being developed by the HSE; if other options are being examined; if she will outline these and provide the rationale for each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50033/25]
• 2025-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [50036/25]
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Neurological Alliance of Ireland Health

  • Call for Investment in Budget 2026 to begin to implement the commitments to the development of neurorehabilitation services within the current Programme for Government
• 2025-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for surgery in the department of vascular surgery WUH has been arranged for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [49324/25]
• 2025-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing a carer's business plan promised by the HSE, Limerick, relative to a person (details supplied) while they resided in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49416/25]
• 2025-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to outline the follow-up care provided for person (details supplied); and if an urgent appointment will be expedited. [49448/25]
• 2025-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will cover the cost of providing a splint for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49449/25]
• 2025-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the businesses or persons that provide private assessments for children referred by the HSE, relative to determining a diagnosis for autism, ADHD, Asperger's, and, other such conditions; the cost of this service and the amounts paid by the HSE in each of the past five years; if the professional qualifications and standards of those providing the assessments have been checked and verified; if all assessments are carried out in person with the parents present or via online meetings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49453/25]
• 2025-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2527 of 8 September 2025, if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the reason they did not receive the promised appointment as set out in the response to the previous PQ by the HSE; and if she will expedite the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48320/25]
• 2025-09-16
  LOBBY
  Nursing Homes Ireland Health

  • TD's and Senators attended our Oireachtas day on the 12th June and met with NHI members.
• 2025-09-09
  LOBBY
  Alcohol Action Ireland Health

  • Alcohol health information labelling
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for surgery in the department of vascular surgery WUH has been arranged for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [45433/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application for an emergency medical card submitted by the medical team caring for a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered urgently; and if not, if a temporary card will be issued immediately while their family gathers the paperwork for a full application. [45436/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the home care hours promised by the home support office, HSE Kilkenny, relative to the care of a person (details supplied) are delivered in full including weekend cover; and if the matter will be expedited. [45437/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 482 of 24 September 2024 if a medical procedure will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will request an explanation from the hospital as to why numerous dates for the operation over a three-year period were cancelled when his case was deemed extremely urgent by his medical team. [45904/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will request the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh to provide details of the background to the decision taken by the hospital in 2009 to operate on a person (details supplied) If the appliance or metalwork used in the operation was the appropriate one and if it was quality approved, certified and licensed; if the consultant had written or verbal approval from senior professionals in that department; if the hospital will also explain the rationale behind the decision to shorten the good leg by shaving the bone in that leg; if this case will be included with others in any review or investigation into this type of procedure undertaken by this hospital; the reason it was advised by WUH that this patient be confined to a wheelchair prior to the various operations when some years later a consultant at WUH described that advice as being incorrect and absolutely unnecessary; if the appropriate follow up was undertaken by both hospitals; if the email issued to the patients mother, dated 22/08/2025 will be withdrawn given the current controversy’s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46021/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will state whether or not she or her officials were fully aware of the connections between companies (details supplied) and the Department of Health during the 1950’s; if similar files on thalidomide are being withheld; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46390/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if agreement has been reached with an association (details supplied) on a health plan for its members; if thalidomide victims who are not members of that association will be approved for medical cards; if she will provide an update on this scheme; if she will outline the status of the general compensation scheme and explain the reasons for such an inordinate delay in finalising matters; if all the Government leaders are still committed to the outcome outlined to the association at high level meetings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46395/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to previous Parliamentary Questions, the status of the urgent after-care required by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46564/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the inordinate delay in providing an appointment for an urgent facial procedure for a person (details supplied) at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46565/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of checks each year by BreastCheck (details supplied); if BreastCheck prioritises the persons missed in year one for screening in year two; the way in which BreastCheck rations the resources; the way in which and when the glitch in the register came to light; if BreastCheck has a formal protocol for contacting women who need further investigation of a mammogram; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46658/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will respond to queries in correspondence regarding scoliosis correction and the correction of hip dysplasia (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46680/25]
• 2025-09-02
  LOBBY
  DHR Consultancy Limited Health

  • Launch of Samaritans Ireland Impact Report and caller research
• 2025-08-18
  LOBBY
  Samaritans Ireland Health

  • Launch of Samaritans Ireland Impact Report and caller research – which included the following asks:
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide for standardised breast density reporting for women who have mammograms in Ireland; her response to the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) on the issue; if the National Screening Advisory Committee has made any recommendations to her arising from the submissions it received; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41850/25]
• 2025-07-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will outline the treatment pathways available to women with endometriosis; the location of specialised treatment clinics or hospitals with the appropriate professionals to support and care for women diagnosed with endometriosis; her plans to develop the services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40443/25]
• 2025-07-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40446/25]
• 2025-07-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the process by which HSE employees suffering long-Covid can engage with senior officials to determine their future pay and conditions or sick pay entitlements prior to the termination of the current Covid scheme; if the HSE will proactively engage with all affected employees to ensure a uniformed national response to ease the anxiety and uncertainty being experienced by employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40447/25]
• 2025-07-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide the funding to roll out the provision of allergy kits including EPI pens and anapens at locations throughout the country accessible to the public to include schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40450/25]
• 2025-07-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the appropriate level of home care hours will be provided for persons (details supplied). if she will expedite a review of the case and substantially increase the home care hours to ensure a sustainable plan of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40451/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the high tech medication repatha will continue to be provided by way of prescription through St. Lukes Hospital, Kilkenny, to patients that are already on the drug prescribed while under the care of the retired consultant (details supplied); if it is the responsibility of St. Lukes, Kilkenny, to resolve the problem and issue a prescription to a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38905/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if hip surgery will be arranged at WUH as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [38930/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the medical ulcer service at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin is still available to patients that have been treated there in the past; if she is aware of a funding issue relative to this service that has caused senior posts and other positions to remain vacant; the number of outpatients that availed of the service and if they have been referred elsewhere; and if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [39568/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a procedure to deal with a dislocated hip will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford will be expedited as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied) [39590/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be admitted to Beaumont Hospital to undergo back surgery, and if she will expedite the matter. [39618/25]
• 2025-07-08
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if an application for emergency works relative to health and safety in the name of a school (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [37598/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to previous Parliamentary Questions on this issue, the status of the HSE pension entitlements of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30117/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will ban the use of hexahydrocannabinol vapes in Ireland; if she will outline her plan to regulate or ban vapes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26759/25]
• 2025-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to arrange for a meeting room to be made available in a facility (details supplied), for use by local organised groups whose members are recovering from major life changing health issues, such as acquired brain injury or stroke; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26162/25]
• 2025-05-20
  LOBBY
  Alcohol Action Ireland Health

  • Health information labelling of alcohol products
• 2025-05-20
  LOBBY
  College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Health

  • Mental Health Bill 2024 and concerns re inability to provide treatment to all who will be involuntarily hospitalised due to current iteration.To provide descriptions using video recordings of people who had benefited from treatment under the current Mental Health Act explaining their illnesses and the necessary treatment provided in a timely manner.
• 2025-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a special chair can be provided for a person (details supplied). [25096/25]
• 2025-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a replacement set of special footwear prescribed for a person (details supplied) can be provided immediately. [25127/25]
• 2025-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health her plans to provide adequate funding for the current services and supports available to those with an acquired brain injury, including the funding of an organisation (details supplied); the amount of funding allocated in each of the past five years to the organisation; her plans to add to the services currently available; if each CHO area will be funded to support directly the groups of individuals already established to assist each other in recovery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25905/25]
• 2025-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of a public consultation process relative to establishing a master plan for the development of community facilities on the land owned by the HSE at Lacken, Dublin Road, Kilkenny; the number of submissions made; if a draft report is available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25926/25]
• 2025-05-18
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA EU Affairs

  • Mercosur
• 2025-05-15
  LOBBY
  Rare Diseases Ireland Health

  • Re-launch All Party Group on Rare Diseases. Update on the need for a new National Strategy for Rare Diseases, including background data on rare diseases in Ireland and the challenges that people living with rare diseases face.
• 2025-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will outline the number of agencies or quangos established by her Department in each of the past ten years and the cost to the State of funding each one. [24936/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 900 of 9 April and 347 of 8 October 2024, If he will give an indicative timeframe for the transfer of a prisoner and expedite the matter, considering the applicants deteriorating health. [23447/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied) as a matter of urgency, as the child has no services and his health is deteriorating; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23436/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 25 April 2024 if she will now expedite the urgent aftercare required by a person who had cataracts removed under the national treatment purchase fund (details supplied). [23372/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation triaged as urgent will be arranged immediately under the national treatment purchase fund (details supplied). [23376/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment to attend CAMHS, Kilkenny, will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [23432/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals on the waiting list for primary care occupational therapy services in Carlow and Kilkenny; the steps being taken to reduce the unacceptable waiting time of 28 months; if she will provide funding to allow parents access a private service in Ireland or the EU; if she will examine a specific case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23433/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an HSE employee who was granted a career break in 2023 and sought to return to work in September 2024 will be approved to return immediately; if she will outline the process in such cases and the timeframe involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23437/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [23445/25]
• 2025-05-12
  LOBBY
  Irish Rural Link Co-Operative Society Limited Health

  • National meals on Wheels Information Day to highlight the work of the Network and of Meals on Wheels providers
• 2025-04-30
  LOBBY
  SOS KILKENNY CLG Health

  • to secure increased HSE funding in order to continue to provide safe and sustainable services to persons who attend SOS Kilkenny CLG
• 2025-04-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will respond to the extensive correspondence from a person (details supplied); if an unreserved apology and refund of fees will be issued by the HSE to the person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21398/25]
• 2025-04-29
  LOBBY
  Aiseiri Cahir DAC Health

  • Funding
• 2025-04-29
  LOBBY
  Irish Dental Association Health

  • Invitation to IDA Annual Conference - Kilkenny, May 15th-17th
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the new sensor (details supplied) will be authorised for use with an insulin pump which is being requested by those struggling with T1 diabetes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18588/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a child (details supplied) in relation to a financial rebate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18672/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if medical care can be provided to a person (details supplied). [18861/25]
• 2025-04-08
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education if a grant for emergency works applied for on 19 December 2023 (details supplied) will be approved immediately; and if a more recent application for life safety systems will be approved, as this relates to health and safety. [16645/25]
• 2025-04-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if podiatrist services are available in Carlow and Kilkenny; if not, when the services were last available; and her intentions to restore a full level of service. [16632/25]
• 2025-04-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if patients with long-term illness requiring regular blood tests to be taken by their GP will have their costs covered under the medical card scheme; and if patients holding a medical card that are currently paying their GP for the service will be reimbursed by the HSE. [16633/25]
• 2025-04-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will outline the process by which retired nurses were informed of the overpayment of their pensions; if those affected can arrange to repay the amount over time or appeal the outcome; if all retired nurses were given comprehensive information in hard copy to explain how and when the overpayments occurred, and why the overpayments were not identified from annual employee returns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16654/25]
• 2025-04-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she intends to extend the Covid payment scheme beyond June 2025; the number in receipt of the payment; and her views on a once-off payment in each case where the person intends to retire. [16733/25]
• 2025-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the use of a drug will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [15868/25]
• 2025-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the sale of the old health centre, Tinnahinch, County Carlow, to Carlow County Council; and if the sale will be expedited, as the plan is to provide social housing on the site. [14799/25]
• 2025-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a warfarin monitoring instrument will be provided as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14839/25]
• 2025-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer’s allowance in the name of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved; if the correspondence from his Department to this Deputy will be reviewed given the person has not received any notification from his Department in recent times; and if an oral hearing will be arranged immediately given the original application was submitted in late 2023 and since then their health has deteriorated. [13320/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if it is her intention to remove the anomaly whereby a first-time application for the fair deal scheme that is refused prevents the applicant from reapplying regardless of the fact their circumstances may have changed; if the application submitted relative to the care of a person (details supplied) will be re-examined and approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11177/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [11445/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will review the status of homecare for a person (details supplied); and if their weekend homecare hours will be reinstated given the circumstances. [11530/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the plans to construct a state-of-the-art ambulance base at Kelvin Grove, Carlow. [11799/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will introduce regulations to control the flat-rate charges for special services being applied each week by nursing homes to those residents already approved for financial support from the HSE whether they avail of the services or not; if the charges being levied should be considered in the assessment by the HSE of the cost of nursing home care for each client; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12796/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will request a review of the financial support approved by the HSE for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12818/25]
• 2025-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved immediately for a person (details supplied). [10306/25]
• 2025-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for surgery. [10317/25]
• 2025-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to outline the dental services provided under the medical card scheme; if all dentists throughout the country have signed up to the scheme; to outline, where a medical card holder cannot get the services required, the options available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2228/25]
• 2025-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the funding approval for the development of the health centre in Ballyhale, County Kilkenny; and the timeline for the delivery of the project. [2638/25]
• 2025-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a dental assessment will be arranged immediately for a child (details supplied); and if the treatment required can be procured in the private sector. [2738/25]
• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  Macra na Feirme Agriculture

  • Kilkenny Macra Pre Budget meeting
• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  Insurance Ireland Banking and Financial Institutions

  • On behalf of members, to issue the insurance sector's priorities for the General Election and new government.
• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  Irish Cancer Society Health

  • General Election campaign
• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  Reduced Risk Products Association Company Limited Health

  • The Reduced Risk Products Association conducted analysis of Census 2022 and the results of the Healthy Ireland Survey 2024 to examine the likely implications of proposed restrictions on flavoured vapes for adult vapers including smokers who rely on vapes to quit or reduce their smoking returning to smoking, with consequent impacts on deaths from smoking. This analysis was prepared on a Dail constituency basis and sent to all members of Dáil Eireann.
• 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
• 2025-01-02
  LOBBY
  MSD Health

  • Health Policy Development for New Programme for Government
• 2024-12-02
  LOBBY
  SOS KILKENNY CLG Health

  • pre election canvass cards were sent to the families of the people SOS supports, the people it supports and staff asking representatives to progress inclusion for persons with disabilities
• 2024-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application for registration made to the Irish Medical Council (details supplied) will be expedited and approved; the timeframe for such applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/24]
• 2024-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for registration made to CORU in the name of a person (details supplied); the timeframe for such applications; if there is a backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44024/24]
• 2024-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for assessment for a hip operation will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied), as their GP considers the case to be urgent. [44172/24]
• 2024-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an ambulance will be provided to take a seriously ill patient for treatment in a Dublin hospital (details supplied). [44356/24]
• 2024-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for an assessment relative to the urgent need for a hip replacement will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [44387/24]
• 2024-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to confirm the income amount generated by the car park at St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny in each of the last five years; the number of vehicles clamped in the car park for the same period; if a more user friendly plan for parking on the hospital campus incorporating emergency drop-off points, 15 minute free parking, parking for the elderly and disabled spaces close to the main hospital is being developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43697/24]
• 2024-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of contracts in place in Carlow and Kilkenny for the provision of taxi and transport services for use by hospitals to accommodate patients attending medical and dialysis appointments; the cost of such services in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43698/24]
• 2024-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for a scope will be arranged at St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [43700/24]
• 2024-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, as his case is said to be urgent. [43708/24]
• 2024-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be issued with an emergency medical card immediately based on his critical medical circumstances and urgent need to access services. [43709/24]
• 2024-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card in the name of a person (details supplied); and if approval will be expedited. [42470/24]
• 2024-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if respite and physiotherapy will be provided for a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [42502/24]
• 2024-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at the urology department, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, given the GP referred the patient two years ago and the case is deemed urgent. [40807/24]
• 2024-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice further to a previous Parliamentary Question, the status of the transfer of a person (details supplied) to the Irish Prison Service to complete their sentence; if their file is presently with her for a decision; the timeline for the sign-off of same; and if the request will be expedited considering the applicant's deteriorating health. [39646/24]
• 2024-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for an operation will be scheduled immediately for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39555/24]
• 2024-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a cataract operation will be arranged immediately for a person (details supplied) where they have been on the list for a considerable length of time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39558/24]
• 2024-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if speech therapy and all other services required to support the care of a motor neuron disease patient (details supplied) will be fast-tracked; and if an ambulance or other transport will be provided for them and a carer for the purpose of attending specialist appointments in Dublin hospitals. [39559/24]
• 2024-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will ensure, by regulation or other means, that there will be unhindered access 24/7 for all health and emergency services and primary care services and for all local residents, to their homes, particularly those with high and complex medical needs, during every phase of the construction of large-scale renewable energy developments. [38279/24]
• 2024-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the memo issued by the CEO of the HSE in October 2023 (details supplied), and the later communication from the national director of community operations regarding scoliosis and spina bifida patients, is being adhered to in all CHO areas; if he will provide a report from each CHO area outlining the actions taken by each CHO relative to this memo, and give the number of cases in each area where the instructions are not being applied; his intentions to ensure to that the memo is fully complied with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38278/24]
• 2024-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if patients with haemochromatosis that have an ongoing requirement for maintenance treatment to keep their blood iron at the recommended safe level, and who cannot attend the blood donations clinic because they are not suited to the service, will be provided with a care plan; if they will be provided direct access to services when required; if the consultant / hospital carrying out the phlebotomy will continue to care for such patients rather than refer them back to a GP or a blood donor clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37313/24]
• 2024-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation that was scheduled in 2022-2023 will be expedited for a person (details supplied) given the circumstances. [37551/24]
• 2024-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action his Department is taking to ensure the continuous supply of the drug, pancrease, to patients that do not get relief from substitute drugs such as creon; if pancrease will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37554/24]
• 2024-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the expert review body on nursing and midwifery have been assessed; the number of recommendations implemented; his views on the remainder; if the CNM2 salary scale will be extended by the addition of a further scale point and the introduction of a long service increment; and the timeframe for the implementation of the recommendations relative to the salary scales and service increments. [37571/24]
• 2024-09-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if urgent eye surgery required for a person (details supplied) will be arranged immediately at Waterford University Hospital as the surgery was to be carried out in January 2024. [34071/24]
• 2024-09-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on increasing the income limits on medical card applications by the same amount as the increase given in State pensions through the budget each year. [34185/24]
• 2024-09-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an assessment for a mobility scooter will be arranged immediately for a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite the matter. [34713/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an urgent examination will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [31964/24]
• 2024-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment with a gastroenterologist at St. James's Hospital, Dublin for a person (details supplied) and make a comprehensive statement on the case. [25117/24]
• 2024-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the current projected final cost of the National Children’s Hospital; if he is satisfied that the projected final cost is accurate; if any extension of time has been granted to the contractor and, if so, for how long; the quantum of claims and variations issued by the contractor to date; the amount of money certified to date and the quantum of claims and variations certified to date; if the contractor has an entitlement to seek increased costs in light of the inflation experienced in 2022, 2023 and 2024; if any liquidated or other damages have been sought from the contractor, and the quantum of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25131/24]
• 2024-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if full payment will continue to be made to a person (details supplied) out of work since 2020 with COVID related health issues [25160/24]
• 2024-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the drafting of new guidelines for renewable energy projects includes the requirement that an SEA be carried out in advance to address environmental and health issues; if in this regard he will outline any practical basis for setting a target of producing 80% of Ireland's energy from renewable sources; if measures to protect the rural environment, landscape and the health of rural dwellers will be part of the consideration in this process; the forward planning measures that are in place or that will be put in place to deal with the Issue of turbine carcasses and other materials that cannot be recycled when they become obsolete; if he will consider putting the guidelines before Dáil Éireann for debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24516/24]
• 2024-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the services and supports that have been put in place for a child (details supplied); if he has responded to correspondence from the child’s mother; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24504/24]
• 2024-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange an immediate autism assessment for a child (details supplied); if the range of services they urgently require will be put in place; and if he will expedite the matter. [24517/24]
• 2024-05-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a definite date for a knee operation will be scheduled in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite the matter. [23980/24]
• 2024-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment will be arranged at the orthopaedic department WUH or Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny, for a person (details supplied). [23381/24]
• 2024-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if immediate appointments will be given to a person (details supplied). [22438/24]
• 2024-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if section 39 funding will be put in place immediately for a project (details supplied) as the project is under considerable financial pressure.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22180/24]
• 2024-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at the neurosurgical clinic at Cork University Hospital as this was requested by their GP on 9 January 2023; if he will expedite a positive response as the patient's condition has seriously deteriorated; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21271/24]
• 2024-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for an operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21272/24]
• 2024-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the issues regarding funding of an organisation (details supplied) by the probation services and the HSE have now been resolved; the status of the appeal; and if a decision will be expedited as the funding is urgently required. [21277/24]
• 2024-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the actions taken by his Department following recent meetings with a person (details supplied) relative to the ongoing health issues they are experiencing with their horses; if the tests and examination of the horses affected have been analysed; if current test results have been compared with the results of tests taken some years ago by UCD and his Department; if there is a course of treatment or interventions that his Department will now undertake; if his Department is concerned that the health issues identified some years ago still persist; if this is an isolated case or similar to other cases investigated; if his Department will continue to work with the person until such time as the issues are fully resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20435/24]
• 2024-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the hours promised for the care of a person (details supplied) will be provided without delay; if the family will be given clarification on the waiting list process and allocation of home care services and if he will expedite a positive response and immediate engagement with the family. [20496/24]
• 2024-04-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical card will be issued based on medical circumstances to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18938/24]
• 2024-04-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a child (details supplied) with a child and adolescent psychiatrist, as they have been refused and their medical team is insisting on an appointment to deal with the child’s anxiety, poor sleep pattern and other mental health issues; if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19096/24]
• 2024-04-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if he will expedite a date for a cataract operation for a person (details supplied). [18622/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number that applied for the position of ambulance base supervisors with the National Ambulance Service; the number of applicants that had a formal interview; the number of successful candidates; the number of vacant paramedic positions throughout the organisation; the plan to fill each vacancy; the budget for the service for each of the past five years; the response time for ambulances from time of call to time of arrival at the patient's location; the status of the plan to modernise and transform the service; the number of advanced paramedics currently employed in the organisation; the base to which they are attached; and the number of qualified paramedics that are currently undertaking training courses to qualify as an advanced paramedic (details supplied). [17312/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the meals-on-wheels service operated by the HSE in Kilmoganny, County Kilkenny; if each recipient of the service has been consulted on the changes being considered; if alternative arrangements are being made to accommodate those that need the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17945/24]
• 2024-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a new theatre at Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny, which was included in the HSE capital programme announced in 2023 and was granted a capital allocation in the same year; if the project review number 5, which is approved to go to tender, has been considered by the national director for capital and estates; the indicative timeframe for completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17178/24]
• 2024-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be admitted as a matter of urgency to Dún Laoghaire rehabilitation clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17179/24]
• 2024-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the urgent eye surgery required in the case of a person (details supplied) will be arranged immediately at WUH, as the surgery was to be carried out in January 2024. [17180/24]
• 2024-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the urgent surgery required in the case of a child (details supplied) will be arranged immediately at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17181/24]
• 2024-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if all cancer drug therapies available to Irish patients are universally and equitably available on the public system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16969/24]
• 2024-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the pension entitlements due to a person (details supplied) will be paid on the basis of their position in St. Canice’s Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will expedite the matter. [16107/24]
• 2024-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if, further to a previous Parliamentary Question on this matter and the erroneous response issued by the HSE, in which it was said that the person concerned did not avail of the services (which is incorrect), he will now provide a set of non-obtrusive hearing aids as a matter of urgency for a child (details supplied); and if an appointment will be arranged immediately through the parent of the child to deal with the issues involved. [15812/24]
• 2024-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm a date for an appointment for orthodontic treatment required by a person (details supplied); if he will ensure that the treatment required is provided immediately through the public service or private practice; and if he will explain the delay in dealing with this urgent matter. [15816/24]
• 2024-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date will be arranged for the resumption of eye treatment at WUH for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [15878/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice if she will confirm the status of the transfer of a person (details supplied); and if the request will be expedited considering the applicants deteriorating health [14773/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reasons the HSE is no longer funding the provision of dexcom g7 sensors for use by diabetics on insulin injections; if this short-sighted decision will be reversed; if the device will be supplied to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13573/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the status of a complaint made to the management of St. Lukes Hospital, Kilkenny by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13579/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application under the fair deal scheme (details supplied). [13629/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a full assessment will be arranged through CAMHS or the disability services to ascertain the range of services required by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13655/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be admitted as a matter of urgency to Dun Laoghaire Rehabilitation clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13656/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the plan to provide a new ambulance base at Kelvin Grove, Carlow, if plans have been submitted to Carlow County Council; if the project includes a training centre; and the indicative timeframe for delivery of the project. [14774/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the status of a complaint made to the management of St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14775/24]
• 2024-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the proposed role of local authorities in inspections by vets of small abattoirs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13432/24]
• 2024-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate date will be confirmed for scoliosis surgery for a person (details supplied); the number of people on the waiting list for this type of surgery and the timeframe involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13365/24]
• 2024-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the minimum value for the supply of goods or services to the HSE that requires the HSE to seek tenders via a public procurement process; if he is satisfied that the HSE is compliant with all Government regulations and policy relative to procurement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13450/24]
• 2024-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of child psychiatrists employed by the HSE in the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in the CHO 5 area; the number of children waiting for an appointment with a child psychiatrist in each county within the CHO 5 area; the number of referrals that have been refused an appointment for this service; and the number referred awaiting a decision in the CHO 5 area in each county. [11899/24]
• 2024-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that all public information made available by his Department and the HSE is in a format that is easily read, with particular regard to assisting people with intellectual disabilities. [11901/24]
• 2024-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the home care hours committed to by the HSE in the case of a person (details supplied) will be delivered now in full; if a commode will be provided as promised by the HSE 80 days ago; if the cost of a hospital bed will be refunded to the patient as the bed had to be purchased, such was the delay in delivery by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10554/24]
• 2024-02-28
  VOTE
  Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023

  A bill to amend the Mental Health Act 2001.

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion _ · 72–60
• 2024-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to a previous parliamentary question, if he will provide a comprehensive update on the need for an immediate appointment with CAMHS for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9213/24]
• 2024-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a retirement lump sum and pension entitlement has issued to a person (details supplied). [8429/24]
• 2024-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date will be given to a person (details supplied) for an eye operation given that the person has been waiting an inordinate length of time to be called to either WUH or Whitfield, and if the matter can be expedited. [8230/24]
• 2024-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if free HPV vaccine is available for first-year students only; if funding for this measure ended in December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8236/24]
• 2024-02-21
  VOTE
  Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 70–60
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if nursing home charges will be refunded to a person (details supplied). [7176/24]
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if all of the outstanding queries submitted to the Department and KOSI relating to the categories of persons entitled to the Covid 19 recognition payment have been resolved; if all nurses in community intervention teams in CareDoc have been paid; if nurses and front-line staff employed by companies such as resilience care were included in the scheme; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7233/24]
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the action being taken by his Department and the HSE relative to a complaint made by the family of the late person (details supplied) while in the care of the health service in Carlow and Kilkenny, and as outlined to him and others in correspondence dated 22 December 2021; if a comprehensive response to each of the issues raised will be provided to the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7234/24]
• 2024-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if complaints regarding the care of a person (details supplied) will be fully investigated and concluded at an early date; and if a meeting of all those involved will be arranged forthwith. [6787/24]
• 2024-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for a cataract operation will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite the matter. [3486/24]
• 2024-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the home support services provided in the case of a person (details supplied) will be increased as a matter of urgency. [3550/24]
• 2024-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to previous Parliamentary Questions on the same urgent matter if home support service hours being provided for a person (details supplied) will be increased immediately and be extended to cover weekends; and if a positive response will be expedited, given that the issue has been ongoing for some time. [3551/24]
• 2024-01-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the procurement and oversight process which was used by his Department/HSE when renting or leasing hotels for use during Covid; if he is satisfied that the systems were robust and transparent and delivered value for money respecting the fact that it was an emergency situation; if his Department or the HSE have received any complaints about contractors and the operation of the contracts; and if a look-back is being undertaken by his Department/HSE. [2966/24]
• 2024-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide age-appropriate products (details supplied). [1617/24]
• 2023-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if further hours of care around lunchtime each day will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55313/23]
• 2023-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the reasons why the frontline staff of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service were not included in the Covid pandemic payment. [53441/23]
• 2023-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the drugs taskforce for the south east is operating with a full complement of staff; the level of funding allocated to the project for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51883/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the level of financial support approved by the HSE under the fair deal scheme for the care of a person (details supplied) will be applied from the date that inpatient care commenced on 17 September 2019 until their death; and if he will expedite the matter. [51716/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline his intentions regarding the urgent need for funding for the supported care homes in counties Carlow and Kilkenny to ensure that each one is sustainable into the future; and if a new line of funding will be made available in 2024 to assist these homes with the exceptional running costs being experienced and the cost of compliance with HIQA standards. [51717/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of the issues concerning members of the Goulding voluntary medical scheme; and if so, if his Department can assist in any way. [51723/23]
• 2023-11-08
  VOTE
  Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 49–67
• 2023-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an MRI scan will be expedited at WUH for a person (details supplied). [48104/23]
• 2023-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if special hearings aids will be provided as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [48106/23]
• 2023-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in paying contractors that have completed works in hospitals throughout the country; if he will confirm the amounts due to contractors by each major hospital for completed work above a value of €50,000; and if he will expedite payment to all contractors affected. [43217/23]
• 2023-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for an operation for a person (details supplied) will be confirmed as the case is deemed to be urgent. [43221/23]
• 2023-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action being taken to provide recognition for those professionals operating as athletic therapists in Ireland, who have been campaigning for the recognition for the past 15 years; to outline the process for such matters; and the reason for the inordinate delay in completing consideration of this particular group. [42924/23]
• 2023-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will explain the reasons why the dental hospital theatre list at CUH was suspended on 7 April 2023; if the reasons that caused the suspension have now been rectified to the extent that another suspension will not occur; if those on the waiting lists, both children and adults, will be fast tracked for treatment and if so what plan is in place; if students training for oral surgery and dental nurses will be provided with supports for exams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42222/23]
• 2023-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Defence

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the health services provided to members of the Defence Forces includes covering the cost of getting a second medical opinion if requested by the patient or the doctor, should the need arise; if Defence Forces personnel will be given the option of a free eye test under the PRSI scheme should they have the contributions rather than the military optician; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41039/23]
• 2023-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education if the emergency works required at a school (details supplied) as outlined and costed in the engineer's report, will be approved immediately, as it is a health and safety issue. [41058/23]
• 2023-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the status of an application for funding submitted by (details supplied); If a positive decision will be expedited as there is an immediate and urgent requirement to provide extra space and services based on the growing numbers attending the centre and the range of services required by patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40975/23]
• 2023-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the value of the contracts awarded to companies for the provision of homecare services in each of the past five years and the names of the successful companies; if robust due diligence was carried out on each company; if the successful companies can flip the contract once awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41024/23]
• 2023-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the total provision to date made in the HSE budget in respect of its liability for unpaid Report 42 pay awards and arrears which were approved by the Government of the day with effect from 14 September 2007, sixteen years ago; the specific Department that is preventing the payment being made, his Department or the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform; what actions he has taken or intends to take to expedite payment and deal with this obvious injustice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41663/23]
• 2023-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding is provided for the expansion of the Ballyhale Health Centre, County Kilkenny, as a matter of urgency, given the demand on the practice for services and the increase in population in the catchment area of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39715/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if the issues relating to the PPSN issued to a person (details supplied) have now been resolved; if she is aware that the Revenue Commissioners have confirmed that any income showing under this PPSN does not relate to it and is an error; if the disability allowance due to the person will be paid as he is attending the ASD section of the mental health services; and if a full conclusion will be expedited. [38100/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline his response to the serious concerns being expressed by those organisations providing cancer support services in Carlow and Kilkenny regarding the delivery and sustainability of the vital services they offer because of the lack of State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38070/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1179 of 8 September 2022, if an appointment will be arranged immediately at Waterford University Hospital for a person (details supplied), as their first appointment was cancelled and they were informed that a new date would be issued as a priority. [38651/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the dental hospital theatre list at CUH was suspended on 7 April 2023; if the reasons that caused the suspension have now been resolved to the extent that another suspension will not occur; if children and adults on the waiting lists will be fast-tracked for treatment; if so, what plan is in place; if students training for oral surgery and dental nurses will be provided with supports to qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38746/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund urgent ongoing treatment for the loss of eyesight for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38748/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application to provide a primary care facility for Ballyhale, County Kilkenny; if the land which is available for the project will be purchased by the HSE; if not, if the GPs concerned will be funded to complete the purchase; and If he will outline the plans in this regard. [34960/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the actions he is taking to ensure that the community space allocated through the planning process at Lakeside primary care facility will include representative groups from the immediate locality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34966/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the social insurance record of a person (details supplied) shows 52 class D contributions for each year from 1988 to 2018, when in fact they only worked 26 weeks per year during that period. [28510/23]
• 2023-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if redeployed employees to the HSE that are not HSE staff or Section 38/39 staff are entitled to the pandemic payment; if so, when it will be paid; and if not, the reason. [26854/23]
• 2023-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical card held by a person (details supplied) will be extended immediately, given the medical circumstances of the applicant and their continuous need to have a medical card. [26927/23]
• 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 block 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 John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card in the name of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [24168/23]
• 2023-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a comprehensive assessment will be undertaken as a matter of urgency by the public health nurse of the homecare needs and supports required by a person (details supplied). [23003/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if GP visit cards will be made available to couples whose earnings do not exceed €46,000.00. [21147/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved for a person (details supplied). [21161/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of an interim work place for the national ambulance base in Carlow; and the progress, if any, since his meeting with those concerned at the base. [21173/23]
• 2023-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if patients on waiting lists will be encouraged to opt for the treatment abroad scheme where appropriate; and if the scheme can be streamlined in order to make it more efficient and user friendly. [20714/23]
• 2023-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the use of the cross-border directive will be proactively encouraged by the HSE to try to reduce waiting lists where appropriate for patients. [20716/23]
• 2023-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health what action he is considering to address the issue of core funding for the supported care homes in Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will expedite a financial response given that some of these homes are in crisis. [18504/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the Covid recognition payment has been issued to an organisation (details supplied) for payment to its staff. [16357/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the services provided at St. Brigid's Hospital Carrick-on-Suir; the plans to provide other services at this location; his views on the demands articulated by the local community relative to the improvements in the services required through the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16359/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress if any in resolving the pay issues arising from the section 42 report and the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16376/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action the HSE has taken to recruit a physiotherapist for the rehab unit at St. Columba's Hospital, Thomastown, County Kilkenny, since January 2023 when notice was given; the interim arrangements being put in place to provide the service to patients; and if there is a date on which the full services will resume. [16854/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a home care plan will be agreed with a family for a family member (details supplied) before they are discharged from Castlecomer hospital, Kilkenny; if their home will be inspected to ensure that all the necessary physical supports and/or refurbishment are in place given they live alone; and if he will expedite a positive response. [17130/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 15 February 2023, which has not been answered by the HSE; if Cork University Hospital has engaged a substantial number of management consultants to work with the management team there; if so, the number of management consultants engaged by the hospital; the estimated cost of these consultants; and if he will expedite a response. [17721/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm when increased pension payments and arrears will be paid to retired nurses and other HSE staff; and if the payments will be expedited. [17764/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, as a matter of urgency. [17939/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a procedure will be arranged immediately for a person (details supplied); the waiting time for this procedure; and the number of patients waiting. [12372/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) given their GP has deemed their case to be urgent; the waiting time for such procedures; and the number of patients waiting. [12382/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the process to have the social work qualifications of a person recognised and registered with CORU in cases in which the person worked in Tanzania in the Department of Social Welfare and has a masters degree; if it is unusual for an applicant who applied in August 2022, not to be registered to date.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12400/23]
• 2023-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a medical card has not been approved for a person (details supplied); and if his case will be reviewed urgently with a view to granting a medical card as soon as possible. [10853/23]
• 2023-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a request for a second opinion in the case of a person (details supplied) will be expedited as the patient requires major foot surgery and their case is deemed urgent by their medical team. [10961/23]
• 2023-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of biopsy tests relative to cancer that were submitted to the laboratory at UHW for analysis from hospitals located in counties Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford in the period from September 2022 to January 2023; if all of the patients concerned were informed of their biopsy histology results within the optimum timeframe; if he will confirm the protocols and waiting times applied to such tests; if he is satisfied that the laboratory at UHW is fully compliant in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10360/23]
• 2023-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a colonoscopy will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [9233/23]
• 2023-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline his response to the submission made by an organisation (details supplied) regarding special leave with pay for employees of the HSE suffering with long-Covid including those who were infected post 7 February 2022; and if he will expedite a positive conclusion. [8104/23]
• 2023-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a procedure will be arranged at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, for a person (details supplied). [8136/23]
• 2023-02-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a speech and language service will be provided to a child (details supplied) considering that children’s disability network team identified this as a high priority due to the complexities of the child’s disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8034/23]
• 2023-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if Cork University Hospital has engaged a substantial number of management consultants to work with the management team there; if so, the number of management consultants engaged by the hospital; and the estimated cost of these consultants. [7641/23]
• 2023-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the Farrelly Commission has submitted its final report; and if so, when the report will be published. [6495/23]
• 2023-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing colposcopy and cervical check results to patients attending UHW; and if all those affected by the unacceptable delay will be contacted and updated on their tests. [6559/23]
• 2023-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if extra hours of home care will be provided at weekends for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as a matter of urgency. [7289/23]
• 2023-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if incontinent pads will be provided by the HSE to a person (details supplied) given that the ongoing cost is a burden on the family and there is financial hardship; and if their home care requirements will be reviewed urgently. [4049/23]
• 2023-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the payments due to community care homes will be made; and the reason for the delay, given that a commitment was issued to have the payments made before Christmas 2022. [4057/23]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of cases and the total amount paid out in compensation for screening errors, perceived and actual, relative to the CervicalCheck screening programme in each of the years 2017 to 2022 and to date in 2023; the number of women who were successfully treated having been identified through the screening programme; if he will provide figures for the reduction of cervical cancer since the programme began; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64003/22]
• 2022-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the services currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62408/22]
• 2022-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a community neurorehabilitation team in CHO 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61366/22]
• 2022-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of therapists who will be recruited for disability services in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61367/22]
• 2022-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action that is being taken by his Department and the HSE relative to a complaint made by the family of a person (details supplied); if a comprehensive response to each of the issues raised will be provided to the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60197/22]
• 2022-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline his response to the urgent appeal for funding and other supports outlined in correspondence to his Department from the Supported Care Homes Advisory Group CHO5; if the concerns outlined on behalf of the homes will be addressed as a matter of urgency relative to issues (details supplied); if he will support the initiative of this group to develop its services in response to the needs of the older person in their respective communities and to develop a response to older peoples future housing needs in conjunction with all relevant stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58567/22]
• 2022-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the approved funding for residential care being provided by SOS Kilkenny for a person (details supplied) will be released immediately. [57908/22]
• 2022-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will explain the delay in processing the payments to Section 39 organisations to bring their pay levels in line with those employed by Section 38 agencies; and if the matter will be expedited.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56853/22]
• 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 block the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion failed · 60–75
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the National Ambulance Service for capital projects; if the base in Carlow is to be upgraded; and if a new site for the Carlow base is to be progressed as part of the capital programme. [54669/22]
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the rate per kilometre paid by the HSE to patients who use their own car to attend dialysis sessions/appointments; if the rate will be increased given the increase in the costs of travel; if the payment to those making such a claim is issued in a timely manner; the number of patients availing of the scheme; the number of claims outstanding for a month or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55055/22]
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the date of the High Court decision in the case of a person (details supplied); if the full extent of the court decision has been honoured by the State from the decision date to date; the current status of the services available to the person and in particular speech and language therapy, OT, music therapy and sensory integration; if his attention has been drawn to any protocol or guidelines set down by the HSE that may prevent the current service provider, procured by the HSE, in carrying out the contract for services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55070/22]
• 2022-10-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will extend the expiry date on a medical card issued to a person (details supplied) until such time as the card renewal process is completed; and if a positive response will be expedited. [54002/22]
• 2022-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the drug plaquenil will be approved for use in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52558/22]
• 2022-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if speech and language therapy will be provided immediately in the case of a child (details supplied) given that their assessments were carried out in August 2020 and again on 21 May 2021, and that they are now experiencing difficulty in obtaining a school placement due to their issues and the lack of support thus preventing their proper development and education; and if he will expedite the matter. [50982/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when agency staff and section 39 employees will be paid the €1,000 Covid bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48529/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason that the south east regional drug and alcohol task force has not had a full-time co-ordinator for almost three years; if all parties are acting with appropriate haste to resolve the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47128/22]
• 2022-09-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will consider the provision of a fully funded primary healthcare facility for Freshford and Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, given the extensive rural area being serviced by both locations and the growing demand from patients in Kilkenny city who are finding it difficult to access general practitioner services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44566/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Tusla child sexual abuse findings that were classified as confirmed that were overturned by the appeal panel and classified as unfounded since the formation of the appeals panel in 2015; the number of alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse who have sued Tusla due to outcomes and findings; the amount that Tusla has paid out in settlements and legal fees; if Tusla outcomes and findings, which were made prior to the publication of the 2014 policies and procedures, have no standing at present given that these assessments were conducted in the absence of a health board and HSE policy; if this is the case given that it would impact each case prior to the commencement of the 2014 policies and procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42080/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE child sexual abuse findings that were classified as confirmed that were overturned by the appeal panel to classified as unfounded since the formation of the appeals panel in 2015; the number of alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse that have sued the HSE in relation to outcomes and findings; if HSE outcomes and findings that were made prior to the publication of the 2014 policies and procedures have no standing at present given that these assessments were conducted in the absence of a health board and HSE policy; if this is the case given that it would impact each case prior to the commencement of the 2014 policies and procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42080/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he plans to examine the ongoing health issues caused by Covid and the response that is required to these issues by his Department and the HSE; if he has considered establishing long Covid clinics to assist in the analysis of the after-effects of Covid; if long Covid will be acknowledged as a disability or, in the case of the HSE, as an occupational injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42084/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date in finding an out-of-court resolution to the issues raised by thalidomide survivors; his views on the recent discussions that he had with the group and the outcome; the reason for the reported cost of €24 million to his Department of providing documents for the ongoing court case; if he will provide an accurate costing of running the case to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42086/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason that the south east regional drug and alcohol taskforce has not had a full-time coordinator for over two years; the action that is being taken to ensure that the full-time position is restored; if the person that was in the full-time position is still being paid by the HSE; if so, if he will resolve the issues that are preventing that person from returning to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42118/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the action plan for the implementation of the 2021 disability capacity review to 2032; if funding for the action plan has been requested as part of budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42157/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the services available at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny for patients with skin disease; if a consultant and support team are available on site in the hospital; if so, the date of the commencement of the service; the number of patients attending the service; if there is a waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42281/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action he has or is taking to bridge the wage gap between section 38-39 organisations; if any new pay agreement will be index linked; if the reasonable requests being made by section 39s have been costed; if so, if he will outline these costs; if he has presented a business plan to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; if so, if the Department has responded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42283/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged immediately at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied). [42625/22]
• 2022-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for an occupational therapy assessment in each LHO area in CHO5; the number waiting for treatment in each LHO in CHO5; the number in each category who have been waiting over a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37512/22]
• 2022-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the way that it is proposed to address the current challenges that people are experiencing securing consultations with psychiatrists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37511/22]
• 2022-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the current projected total cost of the National Children’s Hospital; the amount by which it has increased since 2018; if the contract has been amended to allow for inflation; if the contractor has an entitlement to seek an increase in the contract amount in view of the inflation experienced in 2022; if the current contractual position is compliant with procurement law; if a price variation clause that is, the right to claim for inflation was agreed recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36883/22]
• 2022-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of health workers who qualify for the pandemic bonus payment; the number of workers who have already been paid; if all section 38 disability employees have been paid; if section 39 organisations will be paid; if he will provide a complete overview on the status of the pandemic bonus payment relative to the cohort of workers who have been paid, those who are awaiting payment, those who have been excluded and those who are pending a decision. [36567/22]
• 2022-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of addiction counsellors employed or contracted by the HSE in each of the past five years in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; his plans to develop this service for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35828/22]
• 2022-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reopen the investigation into the general health of horses owned by a person (details supplied) given that the original problem was never resolved and persists; if an independent authority will be appointed to review his Department’s files on the case; if so, if the authority will be given a remit by his Department to investigate all available options to eradicate the disease; if the use of equine or similar treatments has been considered as a possible solution; if his Department will engage immediately with the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35706/22]
• 2022-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the services and supports that are available in counties Carlow and Kilkenny to parents that have a child with Down's syndrome; if he has plans to expand the services available and improve existing services; if funding is in place for the next three years to achieve the improvements and expansion necessary; the funding that was provided over the past three years; and the headings under which the funding was spent relative to Down's syndrome services. [34094/22]
• 2022-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1748 of 26 April 2022 and the response issued by the HSE on 4 May 2022, relative to the care that is urgently required by a person (details supplied) if his attention has been drawn to the fact that their consultant psychiatrist has been advocating for a decade for the need for a specialist residential service for the person and has advised in a letter dated 5 April 2022 of the absolute urgency of the case; if his Department or the HSE will provide specific funding to resolve this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31937/22]
• 2022-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate BreastCheck appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at University Hospital Waterford. [31190/22]
• 2022-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the actions that he is taking to ensure that persons with an intellectual disability and who are medical card holders have access to dental services; the reasons that some dental practices in County Kilkenny are refusing medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29196/22]
• 2022-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appropriate wheelchair head-rest will be provided and fitted for a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited as they cannot travel to work until the matter is resolved; the reason that adequate notice was not given to them; the reason that the service was terminated so abruptly; the status of a business case made by an organisation to his Department to provide residential care for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30631/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); if the protected disclosure made by a health professional relative to this case has been fully investigated; if An Garda Síochána was informed by the HSE of the allegations made by the whistleblower; if the health professionals at St. Patrick's Hospital, Waterford and the whistleblower were ever interviewed; the status of the protected disclosure; the timeline of meetings and correspondence between the whistleblower, the HSE and the legal representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27354/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the total number of staff, their qualifications and the number of staff in each category who are required to provide services at the department of psychiatry, St. Luke's Hospital Campus, Kilkenny; if there are vacancies in any category; if so, the length of time that each vacancy has existed; the efforts that have been made by the HSE to fill each vacancy; if he will set out the level of funding provided in each of the past five years to improve the services and the physical infrastructure of the department of psychiatry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27365/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the total number of staff, their qualifications and the number of staff in each category who are required to provide services at Kilkenny and Carlow child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS; if there are vacancies in any category; if so, the length of time that each vacancy has existed; the efforts that have been made by the HSE to fill each vacancy; if he will set out the level of funding provided in each of the past five years to improve the services and the physical infrastructure of CAMHS (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27366/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a diagnostic assessment will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [27387/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans for the future development of the Kilcreene Hospital Campus, Kilkenny; if services provided by the hospital will be expanded; if new services will be introduced; if there is a capital plan in place for the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27411/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress being made in completing an action plan for the development of the former St. Canice's Hospital site, Dublin Road, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27413/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the contract for the construction project at St. Columba's Hospital, Thomastown, County Kilkenny; if he will outline the plan and services to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27415/22]
• 2022-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of employees seconded from his Department and the HSE to positions in State agencies and the public or private sectors; if his Department and the HSE continue to pay the salary of those seconded; if not, if the other party to the arrangement is paying the salary or is repaying the salary to the primary employer; if pension rights accrue to the employee during the secondment; if any employee has relinquished their position; the way that each secondment was arranged; and the number of secondments approved by him and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. [20087/22]
• 2022-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has not been given an in-person appointment with CAMHS, Kilkenny, as requested by the person's general practitioner who outlined how urgent and serious the case is; if he will insist on an early appointment being arranged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20601/22]
• 2022-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will approve the funding set out in the business case provided by SOS Kilkenny to the HSE to support the wrap-around services required by a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [20807/22]
• 2022-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the business cases approved by the HSE in the past five years have been paid in full to SOS Kilkenny; if not, if he will confirm the balance of funding due to SOS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20809/22]
• 2022-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of residential places immediately available in CHO 5 for 2022; the number of priority one cases waiting for services for the same area; the planned services for the future in CHO 5 relative to those already in care and those who are awaiting services and deemed urgent; if any projected costs have been prepared to meet the current and future needs of service providers such as SOS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20811/22]
• 2022-04-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the ambulance service failed to respond to an urgent request for an ambulance relative to a person (details supplied); and the actions he will take to restructure the service which is not fit for purpose. [18953/22]
• 2022-04-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of meetings that he and or his officials have had with an organisation (details supplied) since 2020; the number of dentists offering services under the medical card scheme in each of the past five years; the last occasion that dentists received an increase in fees for their service; if he plans to reform and modernise the scheme to allow dentists to refer patients for specialist treatments; if he plans to lift the restrictions on the way that treatments are provided and the materials that a dentist must use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18967/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged at Beaumont Hospital for a person (details supplied). [17796/22]
• 2022-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the transport services and or the financial assistance available to persons on social welfare or a low income with a requirement to travel to hospitals for treatment on a regular basis; if he will address the transport issues and costs associated with such travel arrangements in circumstances in which there is a lack of public transport or simply no public transport; if overnight private accommodation costs are funded for low income patients in circumstances in which hospital appointments span a number of days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15618/22]
• 2022-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for treatment will be arranged at Waterford University Hospital for a person (details supplied). [15627/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of business cases that have been submitted to his Department by an organisation (details supplied); the date that each application was received; the date that a final decision was notified to the organisation; the number of business cases yet to be decided; and the timeframe for a final decision in each case. [14652/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of contracts won by an organisation (details supplied) in each of the HSE CHO areas; the commencement, end date and value of each contract; and If the Government procurement framework was used for each contract. [14653/22]
• 2022-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appropriate place will be provided in full-time residential care for a person (details supplied); if the necessary assessments will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13674/22]
• 2022-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the building occupied by the National Ambulance Service in County Carlow was condemned in 2016; if the recent fire safety report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12226/22]
• 2022-03-02
  VOTE
  Healthcare Waiting Lists

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 76–57
• 2022-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason that there has been a cut in services of 75% relative to the care of a person (details supplied); if the full range of services will be restored immediately given that the person is a complex case and requires maximum therapeutic input to achieve the best outcome; and if the matter will be expedited. [10271/22]
• 2022-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the work to be carried out at the National Ambulance Service base, Carlow arising from a recent inspection which focused on fire prevention and safety; if the works have been costed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9899/22]
• 2022-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a case worker will be appointed in the case of a person (details supplied); and the reason the health services have not addressed this issue to date. [5626/22]
• 2022-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if all workers involved in hospital emergency settings will be paid the special Covid payment of €1,000 based on their direct input in assisting and processing patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5627/22]
• 2022-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the steps to be taken relative to the interim report submitted to his Department on a case (details supplied); if the investigation into the 47 persons who were referred to the Houses of the Oireachtas will commence; and if not, his plans in relation to the matter. [5628/22]
• 2022-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the dates in order that led to the report on the orthodontic services in Dublin and mid-Leinster being commissioned; the actions taken arising from the report; the lessons learned from the report; the improvements that were initiated; the number of patients affected; the number given an appointment for treatment; the number yet to be contacted; the number that failed to respond; if the lookback review promised in 2021 has commenced; if so, the timeframe for completion; the person or body conducting this review.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5629/22]
• 2022-02-02
  VOTE
  Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 54–76
• 2022-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the full cost of the investigation and report by a company (details supplied) into the cyber-attack on the HSE; if the procurement guidelines were followed in this instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3272/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the outcome of the recent inspection carried out by the Health and Safety Authority of the National Ambulance Service base in County Carlow; the remedial works required arising from the inspection and the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1025/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if, arising from recent complaints aired through the media and in Dáil Éireann, he plans to carry out a review and audit of the National Ambulance Service relative to the protocols observed in the dispatching of ambulances, the general efficiency or otherwise of the service, the operational costs, human resources management, the promotions process and the general training of staff throughout the organisation; the level of funding allocated in each of the past five years to operate the service; if the service is operating with the full complement of staff and management required; the positions that are currently vacant in the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1026/22]
• 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 against the motion the motion motion passed · 107–36
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 103–37
• 2021-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing a scheme to ease the cost burden on persons and families that for health reasons are forced to buy more expensive specific types of essential foodstuffs such as gluten free products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61436/21]
• 2021-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will include the cost to patients of having bloods taken for analysis on the medical card scheme or on the general practitioner contract; if the practice of charging patients and the charge itself is uniform throughout the country; if his Department has agreed the charge with general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61444/21]
• 2021-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the transitional funding arrangement put in place by the HSE for the care of a person (details supplied); if approval for the fair deal scheme will be completed based on the information provided; if an application for a medical card will also be approved as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61457/21]
• 2021-12-08
  VOTE
  Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 87–48
• 2021-12-08
  VOTE
  Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021

  A bill to provide for the continuation in operation for a further period, which may be extended in certain circumstances, of certain provisions of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020, the Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020, the Health (Amendment) Act 2020 and the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021, in the public interest and having regard to the continuing manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 (and variants of the virus that causes that disease) in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effects of the spread of that disease; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 87–44
• 2021-11-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm an immediate date for an assessment of a patient (details supplied) at University Hospital Waterford. [58558/21]
• 2021-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for an assessment for autism will be expedited for a child (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; if a timeline will be provided for the provision of the supports required; if full contact details will be provided for the HSE officials in this area; if he will request that the health professionals in the HSE make immediate contact with the family to set out a course of action for the long-term care of the child; the services available to those with autism in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and his views on the waiting lists in relation to same. [54947/21]
• 2021-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the roll out of the HPV vaccine will be extended to all current male secondary school students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51541/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the additional supports Budget 2022 is providing for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50707/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his Department has submitted a report to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the most recent cost estimate and timescale for the completion of the new national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45657/21]
• 2021-10-06
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021 · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 78–55
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 59–73
• 2021-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the full range of supports and services required by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if a social worker will be appointed to their case to assess their requirements for care at home and at school. [44287/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his Department has received a report on the most recent cost estimate and timescale for the completion of the new national children’s hospital. [34744/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a pay award to senior managers in the HSE suggested by the review body report No. 42 will now be approved by his Department; the background to the issue; the reason the issue has not been resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34296/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 986 of 28 April 2021, as yet unanswered, the reason funding was refused under the treatment abroad scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) given that a previous application was approved on 20 September 2019; if the procedures are available in Irish hospitals; if so, the hospitals that carry out same; if there is a waiting list; if so, the timeframe involved; if he will examine the case of the person as a matter of urgency with a view to ensuring that the two procedures recommended by their consultants are expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34980/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the public consultation process relative to the proposed national standards for children’s services; if it is the intention to have a separate standard for foster care similar to the 2003 document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34982/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for an assessment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [34984/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if it is stipulated by his Department or the HSE that persons contracted by the HSE for the provision of counselling services through an outside agency (details supplied) will be required to set up a limited company for the purpose; the reason for same given that it causes unnecessary bureaucracy and costs and acts as a disincentive to some counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34989/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of versions of a vaccine (details supplied) available; and if all versions are authorised for use in the EU. [34990/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the full range of supports and services required by a person (details supplied) will be put in place; if a social worker will be appointed to their case to assess his requirements for care at home and at school; and if the matter will be expedited. [37073/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the care needs and professional services required by a person (details supplied) will be provided by the HSE or sourced in the private sector and funded by the HSE; if an assessment for ASD will be arranged immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38410/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of children and young adults on waiting lists in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; the length of time they are waiting for services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38415/21]
• 2021-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 986 of 28 April 2021, the reason funding was refused under the treatment abroad scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) given a previous application was approved on 20 September 2019; if the procedures are available in hospitals here; if so, the hospital that carries out same; if there is a waiting list; if so, the timeframe involved; if he will examine the case of the person as a matter of urgency with a view to ensuring that the two procedures recommended by their consultants are expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32853/21]
• 2021-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the recent recruitment process for the vacant position of Secretary General of the Department of Health was advertised; the number of advertisements placed in publications and through social media; the number of applicants for the position; the number of international applicants; the number of persons on the interview board; the qualifications and gender of each; the number that reached the final interview; if the successful candidate was chosen from a final list of suitably qualified individuals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31333/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the provision of cancer care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37730/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of homecare support hours being provided in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in 2021; the way this compares to 2020; the number of persons currently waiting for homecare in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37731/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of versions of a vaccine (details supplied) available; and if all versions are authorised for use in the EU. [27773/21]
• 2021-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for an assessment will be expedited in the name of a person (details supplied) given the urgency of the case. [26857/21]
• 2021-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital porters employed at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin 8; if there is a panel in place to fill casual vacancies that might arise; if there was a recent recruitment process; and if so, if that process is now completed. [27236/21]
• 2021-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if it is stipulated by his Department or the HSE that individuals contracted by the HSE for the provision of counselling services through an outside agency (details supplied) are required to set up a limited company for this purpose; the reason this is occurring given that it causes unnecessary bureaucracy and costs and acts as a discouragement to some counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27257/21]
• 2021-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he plans to take legal action arising from a programme (details supplied) in relation to alleged activities in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27429/21]
• 2021-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has received a report from the Department of Health on the most recent cost estimate and timescale for the completion of the new National Children’s Hospital. [32342/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Transport

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport when Irish Rail will carry out the remedial works urgently required at Lacken Drive, the Railway Bridge and O’Loughlin Road, Kilkenny; if the matter will be expedited given the extensive health and safety issues that have arisen over the past 18 months along the adjoining pedestrian walkway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31467/21]
• 2021-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the arrangements his Department has made to provide vaccinations for students participating in the Erasmus programme and that must provide proof of full vaccination to the participating college abroad before 15 June 2021; if he will outline the plan immediately to ease the concerns of parents and students that are now having to commit to cost of travel and accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23775/21]
• 2021-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on making the drug epidiolex available to patients on medical cards when prescribed by a consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23187/21]
• 2021-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the indicative timeframe for the delivery of a new community nursing unit at St. Columba's Hospital, Thomastown, County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22474/21]
• 2021-04-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the outcome of the job evaluation for homecare support assistants which was promised in September 2020 will be published; if the recommendations of the evaluation will be implemented in the short-term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21290/21]
• 2021-04-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason funding was refused under the treatment abroad scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) given a previous application was approved on 20 September 2019; if the procedures are available in hospitals here; if so, the hospital that carry out same; if there is a waiting list; if so, the timeframe involved; if he will examine the case of the person as a matter of urgency with a view to ensuring that the two procedures recommended by their consultants are expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21684/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to support one to one counselling and psychotherapy services to assist those delivering the services in the private sector to expand their operations to include referrals from the public health sector given the significant demand arising from Covid-19 being experienced by those professionals involved; if he will encourage the HSE to assist in ensuring that any person presenting with a mental health issue is seen immediately by the appropriate professional in either a public or private setting; the number of outpatients on the waiting list presenting with mental health issues that have yet to have their first appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20550/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the rules on mandatory quarantine will be set aside for Irish citizens entering the country from one of the listed countries who have proof of being vaccinated, have a negative test and can isolate at home. [20667/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress on the reform of the fair deal scheme relative to farming families; his plans to carry out a general review of the scheme and the way it has operated since it was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20679/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the efforts his Department is making to achieve gender balance on all State boards and agencies under the remit of his Department; if he will set out the changes achieved to date on each; if 50% of the membership of all boards, policy groups or agencies that provide advice to Government on matters of policy will be reserved for appropriately qualified individuals from the private sector in order to achieve a balance between the public and private sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20728/21]
• 2021-04-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the business case submitted by a person (details supplied) regarding the funding required to provide long-term residential care will be approved; and if the matter will be expedited. [17843/21]
• 2021-04-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to previous Parliamentary Questions and representations to the HSE if weekend home care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if a review of their care plan will be expedited with a view to providing complete seven-day care. [17856/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the type of health services being delivered at St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; his plans for the future development of the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17310/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if homecare will be provided at weekends for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17326/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a new automated special chair will be provided for a person (details supplied). [16183/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [15280/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the financial and other supports given to pharmacies that have provided a service throughout the pandemic; if the staff providing the service will be prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15453/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an MRI scan will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [13072/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 298 and 900 of 24 February 2021 and the reply issued by the HSE on 2 March 2021, the refurbishment work undertaken at the Carlow ambulance service base by the HSE; the breakdown of the costs; and if information (details supplied) in relation to the project will be provided. [13460/21]
• 2021-02-25
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 · 3 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 reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 58–86
  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 125–5
  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 131–11
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the findings of a health and safety audit carried out by the National Ambulance Service at its Carlow base; the work carried out at the base relative to the report; if an independent review will be undertaken of the base and the ongoing complaints being made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9924/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the supports that are available from the HSE for a person who was vaccinated with the HPV vaccine on 28 September 2020, had serious health issues after receiving the vaccine and was admitted to hospital on 6 October 2020 and diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome; if a long-term plan is in place to support those affected in this way; the reason the possible adverse side effects were not outlined on the information leaflet for parents; the action taken by the Health Products Regulatory Authority relative to this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10127/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when nurses attached to an organisation (details supplied) will be vaccinated; and the reason for the delay. [10416/21]
• 2021-02-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the increases due to the pension of a person (details supplied) did not issue in September 2019 and in September 2020; and if all outstanding increases due to will be applied to the person's pension and paid immediately. [9233/21]
• 2021-02-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if there is a procurement process in place to provide bottled water for use by staff and patients in the ambulance service; if it is HSE policy to provide bottled water in ambulances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9234/21]
• 2021-02-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when funding will be provided for the construction of a purpose-built ambulance base in Carlow to replace the temporary prefabricated structure that has been used for over 17 years and which falls well short of health and safety standards; if a site has been identified for the construction of the project; if the project is a priority on the capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9237/21]
• 2021-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a long-term care plan will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [8757/21]
• 2021-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an assessment will be arranged for an electric wheelchair with a specialised frame for a person (details supplied); if the process will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6494/21]
• 2021-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to previous Parliamentary Questions and the response of the HSE to a query (details supplied), the progress made in providing the full range of services and supports urgently required in the case of a person as outlined in the multi-disciplinary assessment of 15 May 2019 carried out by the kids clinic; if the North Lee ASD team has met with the person since their assessment in 2019; if so, the actions taken arising from the meetings; the actions taken by him to provide the funding and staff to this service to deal with the waiting lists; the number now on the waiting lists; his plans to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6100/21]
• 2021-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home help and supports will be put in place to include weekends for a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite the matter. [6103/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of construction site inspections conducted by Departmental health and safety officials relative to the use of tower cranes and their safety; if the working condition of the cranes are examined; the process of certification for such machinery; if driver qualifications are inspected; the number of complaints received from crane drivers in relation to these issues; if the role of banksman requires certification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3842/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if Carlow CAMHS are now accepting new referrals following operational problems; and the way in which the problems were addressed. [3668/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the purchase of an epilepsy monitor for a person (details supplied); and the reason for the decision reached by the HSE, which classified the need as priority 2. [3680/21]
• 2021-01-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date on which the Farrelly commission will report; his plans to publicise the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2057/21]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to allow operations scheduled prior to December 2020 in hospitals in Northern Ireland for 2021 under the cross-border initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1181/21]
• 2020-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the approval of a medical card for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [44280/20]
• 2020-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the approval of a medical card will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [44284/20]
• 2020-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate long-term placement will be provided for a person (details supplied); the action to be taken by him to accommodate the person and other residents affected; the reason for the sudden decision to close the facility and the complete lack of engagement with the residents and families concerned; the date his Department and the HSE were informed of the closure; and if a process will be put in place to inform all concerned including the staff. [44344/20]
• 2020-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will request WUH to continue the pathway of care organised by the hospital for a person (details supplied); if the urgent procedure recommended by the specialist at Whitfield under this care plan will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42566/20]
• 2020-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action he is taking to reduce the waiting time for appointments to see a paediatric rheumatologist; the number on the waiting list for such appointments in each of the past five years; the number of children with Down's syndrome on the waiting list for the same period; the efforts made by the HSE to recruit paediatric rheumatologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41154/20]
• 2020-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will undertake a review of the treatment of cataract patients throughout the HSE to determine the reason the system has failed patients; the number of patients on the waiting list; if the cost of the HSE scheme model of treatment for cataract patients has been considered by his Department or the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41169/20]
• 2020-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if half an hour's home help per day will be provided for a person (details supplied). [41248/20]
• 2020-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged at Beaumont Hospital for a person (details supplied). [40958/20]
• 2020-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange a waiver of the annual registration fee of €100 for nurses and midwives as a gesture of thanks for their efforts during Covid-19. [39959/20]
• 2020-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of applications for financial assistance under section 39 funding for an organisation (details supplied); if the HSE will engage directly with the care home to assist with the shortfall in its finances of €50,000 due to the inability of the organisation to fundraise due to Covid-19; and if he will expedite the assistance from the HSE that is urgently required. [40024/20]
• 2020-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the requested level of funding will be approved to secure the future of a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39444/20]
• 2020-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the reason a person (details supplied) was charged by a private ambulance company to be taken to hospital to attend appointments; the reason the public ambulance service failed to collect the person; if the charge will be paid by the HSE, given that the documentation states that the HSE and not the person availed of or booked the ambulance service; and if the matter will be expedited. [39131/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of being set up; the number in which the terms of reference are not complete or not agreed; the cost of all to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38043/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the issue of parental alienation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38393/20]
• 2020-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at Cappagh hospital for a person (details supplied). [36251/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will order an immediate and extensive review of the engagement between Tusla and persons (details supplied) which resulted in the grandparents providing a home for the children without financial support from Tusla or the State; if he will include in this review the minutes and reports from the meeting held some years ago refusing to acknowledge the grandparents as foster carers thus depriving them and the children of appropriate financial support in the interest of their health and well-being; if he is satisfied that this was not a catastrophic failure of the State to care for a vulnerable family the negative impacts of which are being felt to this day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33209/20]
• 2020-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date on which the cardiac rehab services will resume at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny; and if same will be expedited. [30761/20]
• 2020-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will review the decision of the HSE to not grant maximum financial assistance to a person (details supplied); if the financial assistance will be backdated to the date on which they became resident of the nursing home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30774/20]
• 2020-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if teachers will be eligible for the free 'flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30149/20]
• 2020-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1205 of 8 September 2020, which incorrectly refers to an appointment on 1 May 2020; the appointment referred to was scheduled for 6 July in Tallaght hospital (details supplied). [29269/20]
• 2020-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is eligible for orthodontic treatment on the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29285/20]
• 2020-10-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application submitted in hard copy to CORU in March 2020 and followed by an application via email in July 2020 for recognition of international qualifications in the name of a person (details supplied) will be expedited; the time frame for such applications; and the reason the applicant has been waiting since March 2020. [29033/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1171 of 8 September 2020, the status of the investigation; the date of publication of the report; if he will report on his meeting with the Farrelly Commission on 21 September 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28081/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 607 of 3 June 2020, the steps he will take or has taken to provide the services and supports for a person (details supplied); the action he will take and the funding he will provide to address the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28495/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the cost of the ongoing roll-out of the SAP payroll system throughout the HSE; the number of HSE employees directly involved in the project; the number of consultants involved and the cost of these; the travel and accommodation costs associated with the national integrated staff records and pay programme; if there was a procurement process and, if so, if he will provide the details and outcome of the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28498/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a custom-made orthotic device will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28501/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an earlier appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28503/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment at the ENT department will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28504/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education the number of primary schools nationwide that have teaching principals; if a senior official from her Department will meet the boards of management of schools (details supplied) regarding the working principals position and the health and safety issues facing staff and students on a daily basis in both schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27227/20]
• 2020-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a procedure will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25589/20]
• 2020-09-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in view of the circumstances. [23040/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21513/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1306 of 16 October 2018, if issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21515/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 547 of 5 July 2020, if issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21516/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21517/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; the reason an appointment for diagnostic investigations was cancelled; and if the matter will be expedited. [21586/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the return of community hospital services at a hospital (details supplied); the funding allocated to the hospital for the purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21639/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a hearing test will be arranged for a person (details supplied) with a view to providing hearing aids; and if an appointment will be expedited. [21672/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for an operation will be arranged at a private clinic for a person (details supplied). [21673/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the drug pembro will be provided for a person (details supplied); the process to achieve approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21993/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for a cataract operation will be provided for a person (details supplied). [22257/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the supports available for trachi-vented children; if rehabilitation care is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22464/20]
• 2020-07-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the timeline for the implementation of measures in retail stores regarding the separation of alcohol sales will be extended due to delays in the construction sector and supply line due to Covid-19; if new guidelines will be issued extending out the dates of completion of the necessary works which are costing retailers significant amounts; if direct financial assistance will be given to retailers before the November 2020 deadline in order to comply with legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20548/20]
• 2020-07-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date the order will be signed giving effect to the reduction in prescription charges; and the reason for the delay in establishing a commencement date. [20552/20]
• 2020-07-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason additional funding of €51,000 requested by a disability service for the care of a person (details supplied) has not been approved; and if the decision will be reviewed and the funding made available. [20554/20]
• 2020-07-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to a previous parliamentary question, if a medical certificate issued to a person (details supplied); the number of times the person's care has been reviewed; the outcome of same; the dates the person was notified of changes to the certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20556/20]
• 2020-07-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 709 and 726 of 7 July 2020 and the replies of the HSE, if he will request the chairperson of the disabled drivers medical board of appeal to provide the information requested; the reason an official (details supplied) was not informed that the decision of 2016 to issue a primary medical certificate in the case may have been overturned; the status of the 2016 primary medical certificate which issued on the basis of the person being permanently disabled; and the reason for the poor communications on the issue and the lack of information provided in the reply to the parliamentary question. [18875/20]
• 2020-07-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the outcome of a fair deal means test application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed to determine if further financial assistance can be provided [16797/20]
• 2020-07-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [16458/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the response to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 30 June 2020; if the very low level of funding required will be provided in view of the fact that the initiative will alleviate overcrowding and health and safety issues while the school awaits the construction of a new school and physical education hall; and if a positive response will be expedited. [15027/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the production of television programmes (details supplied); the subhead in the accounts from which the sums were allocated; if there was a tendering process; if so, the details and costs involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15304/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the advice received in 2016 regarding the missing samples from persons (details supplied) which led to the decision not to hold an enquiry; and the person or body that gave the advice. [14247/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 26 June 2019, if a person (details supplied) was in receipt of a yearly increment; if the HSE refused to accept their resignation in November 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13842/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a long-term placement will be provided urgently through a service to a person (details supplied); if home supports will be provided immediately in view of the fact they cannot be cared for at home and they are a danger to themselves and others; and if the required intervention will be expedited. [13908/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date on which a primary medical certificate was issued to a person (details supplied); the date on which they were notified of the decision; the number of times the case was reviewed; the outcome of each; the dates they were notified of changes to the decision regarding the certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13935/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if residents of nursing homes were given the option of availing of the 'flu vaccine in 2019; his plans on same for 2020; if his Department or another health agency under his remit issued advice in this regard to nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13995/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his Department will approve visiting guidance for nursing homes; the name of the organisation that is drawing up the guidelines; the title of the person managing the process; the reason there was no response to HIQA when this issue was queried after two weeks or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13996/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date on which a primary medical certificate was issued to a person (details supplied); the date on which they were notified of the decision; the number of times their case was reviewed; the outcome of each review; the dates on which they were notified of a change of decision regarding the certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13999/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if cervical testing has been restored to normal levels of activity; if there is a backlog of appointments; if it is normal for patients to be waiting for six months or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12865/20]
• 2020-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 608 of 3 June 2020, if the matter will be directed to another office (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of persons are seeking information on their entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13221/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be expedited for the accommodation and care of a person (details supplied). [8830/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to a previous parliamentary question relating to a person (details supplied) and response from the HSE of 25 November 2019, his views on the response; the steps he has taken to provide services and supports for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8831/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied); and if the full details of the person's pension and benefits will be released. [8832/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 882 of 8 May 2019, if he will provide an up-to-date report on the services required by a person (details supplied); the progress made on the staffing issues outlined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9064/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the funding required to restore the level of services that were in place prior to the cuts being applied over the past ten years at a service (details supplied) for the care of persons with an intellectual disability will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9065/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in discharging a person (details supplied) to the person's home; if the requirements for the person to be cared for at home have to be agreed between the parent and the HSE; if the director of public health nursing in County Kilkenny has met with a person; if so, the outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9066/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 12 December 2019, if he will further investigate the query (details supplied). [4516/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 12 December 2019, the status of the issues to be addressed; if the funding has been approved for the additional supports and services urgently required by the person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4722/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if appropriate supports and services will be provided for a person (details supplied) at the Prader-Willi syndrome specific house located in Enniscorthy, County Wexford; if the history of care of the person and the court case of 22 February 2018 will be examined in detail; if a permanent care plan will be agreed with their parents; if the appropriate level of funding will be agreed; and if he will expedite the matter. [4873/20]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if appropriate stress tests and heart monitoring will be arranged for a person (details supplied) [52684/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not being referred by their consultant for a scan or treatment for their serious medical condition; if the medical teams at Crumlin Hospital and St. Luke's, Kilkenny will be requested to meet to determine the course of action requested to resolve their health issues; and if a response will be expedited [52689/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the appropriate stress tests and heart monitoring will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [52280/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in arranging an assessment with the autism team for a child (details supplied); and if the assessment will be expedited as requested by the child's general practitioner and public health nurse in view of the fact the child is waiting for a place with a service but must first complete the assessment. [52315/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if errors made by the HSE relative to payments made to a person (details supplied) will be corrected; the reason the erroneous payment records were reactivated on 6 June 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52316/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the additional supports and activities recommended by the professionals taking care of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52317/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date will be set for an operation at St. James's Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [52318/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 1 October 2019, if a date for an operation will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51318/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 6 November 2019, the reason there are no primary care paediatric services in County Kilkenny; if children referred to the service can be seen in another county or a location in which the service exists; if, in the event of the service continuing to be unavailable through the HSE, funding will be provided for the children to be seen privately; if the referral of a person (details supplied) made by the public health nurse on 26 October 2018 will be dealt with as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51794/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken to allocate funding directly to an organisation (details supplied) following commitments provided by the Minster of State with special responsibility for disability issues to the family forum meeting in County Kilkenny; if cases such as the case of a person have been funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51796/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to continue to fund the low-cost counselling service at a facility (details supplied): if a grant of €9,280 for 2019 will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49865/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) did not have their adenoids removed as arranged at the same time as their tonsils under the treatment purchase fund scheme; if they will now be offered an early date for the operation; and if the urgent operation will be expedited. [49867/19]
• 2019-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the treatment abroad scheme; the reason emails to the HSE PAD section of 1 and 6 November 2019 regarding the matter have not received a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49371/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve paediatric health and disability services in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48871/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the measures being taken to meet the demand for general practitioner services in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, with many persons unable to access them on a regular basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48872/19]
• 2019-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the extent of the palliative care services in the south east for children and teenagers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46248/19]
• 2019-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be prioritised for ongoing treatment at St. James's Hospital, Dublin. [46260/19]
• 2019-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to a response from the HSE of 4 July 2019, if the appropriate in-house aids and electric wheelchair have been approved for a person (details supplied); and if an assessment of the person's living conditions will be arranged and the matter expedited. [46261/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further of Parliamentary Question No. 412 of 17 September 2019, if the funding will be provided immediately for the purpose of accommodation and care for a person (details supplied); if a positive response will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45746/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions No. 414 of 17 September 2019, the action he is taking to provide occupational therapy services for a person (details supplied); and if the case will be expedited in view of the urgency of same. [45748/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 413 of 17 September 2019, if home help hours or a care plan will be put in place urgently for a person (details supplied); the action being taken to recruit staff to address the need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45749/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 405 of 17 September 2019, if home help hours or a care plan will be put in place for a person (details supplied); if hours will be allocated under the home support scheme as a matter of urgency to assist the person; and if a positive response will be expedited. [45750/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 410 of 17 September 2019, the reason there is no primary care paediatric service in County Kilkenny; if children referred to the service can be seen in another county or a location in which the service exists; if, in the event of the service continuing to be unavailable through the HSE, he will provide funding for the children to be seen privately; if the referral of a person (details supplied) will be dealt with as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45751/19]
• 2019-11-06
  VOTE
  Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 27–75
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 11 June 2019, when a cataract operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [44249/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 6 September 2019, if an application under the treatment abroad scheme by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if a positive result will be issued. [45429/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when cannabis medication in tablet form, epidiolex, will be made available here in view of the decision taken by the EU to sanction its use here on 23 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45430/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the long delay in providing a bone flap and further medical and or surgical treatments and interventions in the case of a person (details supplied); if it is planned to transfer them from St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, to Beaumont Hospital or for rehabilitation to Dún Laoghaire Hospital; if a long-term care plan will be expedited for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43576/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action he is taking to respond to the staffing and financial crisis being experienced by a project (details supplied); the actions taken to date arising from the transition plan submitted in 2018 from the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43578/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to a previous parliamentary question, the long-term care plan for a person (details supplied); the action the HSE has taken to date to resolve the issues and difficulties faced by them on a daily basis; if the HSE will carry out an audit of their needs in view of the fact that the ten minutes allocated in the morning making up a total of one hour is not sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43579/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the significant fall in the number of overnights with or without day respite accessed by persons with a disability in counties Carlow and Kilkenny since 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41202/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in commencing the employment of successful applicants in various posts in the HSE; if applicants for positions nationwide have been contacted by the HSE to explain the reason the appointment process has ceased; if it is policy to impose an embargo on all such positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40838/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) with the occupational therapy primary care paediatric service in County Kilkenny; the reason for the delay; the steps he is taking to resolve the issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40840/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a series of matters in relation to the employment of agency staff (details supplied) will be examined; if there is a dispute regarding the rates and charges between an organisation and a company; if the HSE is aware of the issues involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40243/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be expedited by the HSE to cover the cost of urgent corrective treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40244/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if treatment for breast cancer is prioritised for patients with the BRCA gene and an immediate and extended family history of breast and ovarian cancers; the number of such patients being treated at St. James's Hospital, Dublin; and the waiting list for same. [40245/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for an operation will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39581/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be expedited to prevent the closure of a service (details supplied); if the reason for the shortfall in funding over the past five years which has led to the financial crisis causing the threatened closure will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39582/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of business cases submitted to the HSE from a service (details supplied) that are still being processed without an indication being given to the service of the timeline for each decision; if the funding required by the service will be calculated and provided as a matter of urgency; if two emergency respite beds for clients of the service will be urgently provided in Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39583/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation for a hip replacement for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; if Waterford University Hospital will prioritise the case in view of its urgency and the fact that their quality of life is extremely poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39661/19]
• 2019-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a dialysis unit (details supplied) last underwent a quality assurance check by the HSE; the term of the contract for the service with the HSE; the cost of the service per year; the number of patients presenting for dialysis over the lifetime of the contract to date; if there have been complaints from the service users or staff at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39037/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of cases of CRE confirmed at Waterford University Hospital; the protocol in place if patients are being transferred from the hospital to another health facility; if patients that have been transferred are tracked and monitored for CRE; the steps taken to ensure patient safety and infection control at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38303/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for a knee operation will be arranged at Cappagh hospital for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [38304/19]
• 2019-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the options and interventions being put in place for the long-term care by CAMHS of a person (details supplied); if family support will be provided in this case; and if he will expedite the matter. [38129/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if one-to-one support will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if the application for funding submitted in April 2019 will be expedited and approved. [37340/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home help hours or a care plan will be put in place for a person (details supplied); if hours can be allocated under the home support scheme as a matter of urgency; and if the matter will be expedited. [37332/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if appropriate home supports and a care plan will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [37335/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the process of discharge from a hospital in Kilkenny relative to the case of a person (details supplied); if a discharge plan was agreed with their family; if home support hours or a care plan are in place during the long periods of time each day that they are alone at home; if the HSE considers this to be a safe discharge from a hospital setting to a house; if immediate intervention will be approved by the HSE to deal with this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37337/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if one-to-one support will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if the application for funding submitted in April 2019 will be expedited and approved. [37341/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 409 of 9 July 2019, the full suite of rehabilitation services available to stroke victims in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; if speech therapy is one of the services available; if there is a waiting list for each service; if so, the number of stroke victims on each list; if there are gaps in the services; if so, the way in which each is being addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37342/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason there are no primary care paediatric services in County Kilkenny; if children referred to this service can be seen in another county or a location in which the service exists; if in the event of the service continuing to be unavailable through the HSE, he will provide funding for the children to be seen privately; if the referral of a person (details supplied) will be dealt with as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37346/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the home support hours of five per week will be restored in the case of persons (details supplied); if the case of both children will be reviewed and the hours increased; his views in relation to the policy of cutbacks in this area; the way in which he plans to restore funding to a level that meets the demands of the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37348/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the purpose of accommodation and care for a person (details supplied); if a response will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37349/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home help hours or a care plan will be put in place for a person (details supplied); the action being taken to recruit staff to address this need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37350/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action being taken to provide occupational therapy services for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited in view of the urgency of the case. [37351/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the pension information relative to each employee of a centre (details supplied) has not been made available to them; if the national pensions management section of the HSE will ensure that all pension details are given to each employee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37354/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is being left short four years in their pension benefit calculation; and if a review of their entitlements will be expedited. [37392/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action he is taking to resolve the issues being experienced by the employees of a centre (details supplied) relative to decongregation and their redeployment; if he will approve a redundancy package in cases in which alternative employment cannot be found within the HSE; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that for a considerable length of time and through no fault of their own some employees turn up for work but do not have work to do; his views on the fact that management in the HSE are prepared to accept such poor value for taxpayers money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37438/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if St. James's Hospital, Dublin will review the case of a person (details supplied) to determine if an earlier appointment than 14 October 2019 can be arranged; and if they will be considered for cancellations that might arise. [34731/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 15 May 2019, if a referral under the treatment abroad scheme will be expedited and approved for a person (details supplied). [34732/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a drink can no longer be obtained on a medical card; the arrangements being put in place for patients such as a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32910/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal by persons (details supplied) for an application for inclusion in the young farmers scheme will be reopened; if consideration will be given to the poor health of a person and the input to the farm of a person since 2011; if further analysis will be undertaken as to the way in which the farm accounts and banking arrangements are operated; and if a further investigation into the matter will be expedited. [33052/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount spent in each CHO area of the HSE on private providers of home help services; if private providers are used only after HSE workers in the same area are given their full hours of employment including weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31458/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no stroke rehabilitation services in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; if this service was in place; if so, the skill sets of the staff involved; his plans in relation to the provision of such a service; if there is a waiting list; the nearest location to counties Carlow and Kilkenny for such a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29453/19]
• 2019-07-04
  VOTE
  Mental Health Services Reports · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–81
  • ✓ voted for Amendment again put: motion passed · 78–41
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the way in which it is planned to address the funding challenges which are impeding the move from congregated settings in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27818/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some cancer patients (details supplied) triaged as urgent are being informed that they must wait two years for appointments; if these patients can be fast-tracked for appointments in view of the fact that their condition is urgent; if they can be treated through the NTPF; the steps he is taking to resolve the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27454/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 14 May 2019, the progress being made to arrange an early assessment and operation at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); if an immediate assessment will be arranged; the options available to patients triaged as urgent other than waiting for 12 months; if the NTPF can be used in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27512/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a knee operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if a response will be expedited. [27316/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application by a person (details supplied) for the fair deal scheme will be expedited and approved for the maximum financial support. [27383/19]
• 2019-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason pay increments were not provided to a person (details supplied) by the HSE when other employees doing the same hours on the same contract were approved and described as full-time employees; if he will request an independent person to examine the paperwork relative to the person and others and rectify the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25976/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a cataract operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [23804/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the nature of the contract put in place by St. Patrick's Centre, Kilkenny, with an agency (details supplied); if the centre is being fined by the agency each time it uses agency staff other than through the agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23805/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the staff of St. Patrick's Centre, Kells Road, Kilkenny, cannot obtain full details of their pension contributions and entitlements from the SPC or HSE; and if he will direct that the information be made available. [23813/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 874 of 26 March 2019 and the response from the HSE, the outcome of the meeting with the mother of a person (details supplied); if an agreed plan is now in place; if the person will be assessed for long-term care provided by an organisation at its facilities; and if respite through an organisation will be considered. [23814/19]
• 2019-05-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early assessment for a hip operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the reason the person has been waiting three years to date for the assessment; the number on the list waiting at University Hospital Waterford; and the waiting time for the operation. [22412/19]
• 2019-05-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 19 January 2011 and the response of the HSE, the actions taken by his Department and the HSE to resolve the issues raised; if he is satisfied that the investigation undertaken that the employment rights of a person (details supplied) were honoured and protected by the HSE; if his Department reviewed the findings; if he will take further action to resolve all matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22759/19]
• 2019-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE property management division for Kilkenny city will examine its portfolio of properties to determine if it can assist an organisation (details supplied) in establishing a base for its activity. [21455/19]
• 2019-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount paid for nursing care services provided to the HSE from companies (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the amount paid by a centre over the same period to each of the companies; the procurement process used in each case; the date each company was reviewed in terms of cost; the hourly rate paid to agency staff in this sector; the figure compared to the hourly rate paid to the companies involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21475/19]
• 2019-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the staff located at a centre (details supplied) have agreed to a redeployment within the HSE; if each staff member has been given details of their original contract; if his Department will sanction a redundancy package for an employee who cannot be redeployed or who does not want the option of being redeployed; if the centre has consulted with the HSE on the issue of redundancy; if his Department is involved in these discussions or consultations; if the person or persons in the centre and the HSE will arrange to meet this Deputy and the employees to clarify all of these matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21485/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the funding being provided in 2019 for decongregation in disability services in Kilkenny city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20909/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans for the future of Kilcreene hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20908/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation to remove cataracts will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); the timeline for the treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21040/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the approval process to have a child referred from St. Luke's hospital, Kilkenny, for specialist care at a hospital (details supplied); if the case will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21041/19]
• 2019-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an MRI scan will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [20412/19]
• 2019-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date the HSE drugs group will meet to discuss the revised offer submitted by a company (details supplied); the date the HSE leadership team will meet to discuss a final decision on the matter; the reason Ireland signed up to the BeNeLuxA initiative in June 2018 along with the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria; the benefits to Ireland of being in this group of countries; the reason Ireland did not approve the drug Spinraza when all of the other countries in the group did; his views on whether the BeNeLuxA initiative is now permanently damaged in view of the reluctance of Ireland to approve Spinraza; the reason he deems it inappropriate to meet a person (details supplied); if he will reconsider this invitation and meet the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20414/19]
• 2019-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will meet a person (details supplied); the progress made on the case of the person following his meeting with the person in County Kilkenny; if the approval of pembro for the person will be expedited without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20419/19]
• 2019-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress being made to arrange an early assessment and operation at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); if an immediate assessment will be arranged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20771/19]
• 2019-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has to pay for medication prescribed by their general practitioner; if immediate assistance will be granted in view of the extenuating circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20248/19]
• 2019-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a replacement knee operation will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in providing the operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20249/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the timeframe for such treatment and the likelihood of the patient being scheduled for an early appointment; if there is a waiting list for this treatment; and if so, the action that can be taken to obtain the treatment elsewhere in view of the fact that the patient has a medical card but no means [18463/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 907 of 26 March 2019, the progress being made by his Department and the HSE in their investigation into the alleged use of cannabis and-or marijuana at the DOP facility, St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; if the HSE has provided the report requested by his Department into the alleged incident or incidents; if the report will be published and made available to the complainant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18533/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the four-year waiting list for ear, nose and throat, ENT, services at University Hospital Waterford; the number of persons on the waiting list; the action being taken to reduce the waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18947/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will engage as a matter of urgency with persons (details supplied). [18948/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to construct a facility to house the MRI scanner at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; if a response will be expedited in view of the fact that the equipment has been purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18949/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, or St. James's Hospital, Dublin, as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); if the correspondence from the person's general practitioner requesting urgent intervention for the patient will be considered; the reason for the delay in providing the care and treatment required in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18950/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for funding to provide a shared residential placement for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be made; the cost to date of the care of the person at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, in which the person has been a patient for over four months; the date the person was ready to be discharged; the cost of the care from that date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18951/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for scoliosis surgery will be provided to a person (details supplied). [19062/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if speech and language therapy and occupational therapy services will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and the timeframe for the delivery of the services to the person. [19401/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting lists for cataract operations at University Hospital Waterford; his plans to ensure that this type of operation is provided for patients without undue delay; when a date for an operation will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that their case has been deemed urgent by their general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19404/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a cataract operation will be provided for a person (details supplied) at University Hospital Waterford; and if they qualify for the cross-border scheme in view of the fact that they were referred in 2017. [19406/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for a cataract operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and the reason they were not called as promised at the time of their assessment. [19476/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for a cataract operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at University Hospital Waterford as requested by the person's general practitioner; if the person qualifies for the cross-border scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20008/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be provided an early date for a cataract operation at University Hospital Waterford; and if they qualify for the cross-border healthcare initiative. [20009/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an MRI scan will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the locations such scans are undertaken; if the person will be referred to the next available appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20010/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [20073/19]
• 2019-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress on the approval process for the drug nusinersen, that is, Spinraza; if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; the type of care and medication that his Department and or the HSE will fund in this case; if he will meet the parents of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17963/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the fair deal scheme will be approved in the case of persons (details supplied); if consideration of their case will be expedited in view of the fact that the family cannot provide the level of care needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17218/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date on which an application was made for funding for an MRI scanner for St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny. [17227/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Business

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will consider changes to the work permit system to allow healthcare assistants and other categories of healthcare professionals to be recruited abroad and to be treated more favourably by the work permit rules in view of the shortage of qualified personnel here as highlighted by the nursing home operators; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17085/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for the provision of a MRI scanner for St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; if the funding will be provided in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17087/19]
• 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
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a palliative care bed will be made available at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Carlow, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16860/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he has examined the health sector national staff survey 2016 and National Ambulance Service report January 2017 carried out by a company (details supplied); if so, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 31% of respondents claimed discrimination in relation to their trade union activity; and the action taken to rectify this situation. [14913/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 48% of respondents claimed to have experienced bullying or harassment in the service within the previous two years of the Health Sector National Staff Survey 2016 and National Ambulance Services Report January 2017 being carried out; and the action he has taken to date to rectify the situation. [14914/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 68% of respondents claimed to have witnessed bullying or harassment in the service within the previous two years of the Health Sector National Staff Survey 2016 and National Ambulance Services Report January 2017 being carried out; and the action he has taken to date to rectify the situation. [14915/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on whether there may be a culture of bullying or harassment within the National Ambulance Service. [14916/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that only 4% of staff have confidence in senior management within the National Ambulance Service. [14918/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action he plans to take in relation to the fact that only 5% of staff agree that communication between senior management and staff is effective in the National Ambulance Service. [14919/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the actions taken by the National Ambulance Service in relation to the finding in the national staff survey that only 3% of staff agree that senior managers act on staff feedback. [14920/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the contents of the 2018 survey carried out by a company (details supplied) in relation to the National Ambulance Service has yet to be released to all staff; and if his attention has been further drawn to its content. [14921/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the long-term appropriate care of a person (details supplied); if the person will be discharged into the care of an organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14925/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate long-term care plan will be put in place through CAMHS Kilkenny for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14926/19]
• 2019-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the exceptional circumstances in the case of a person (details supplied) will be considered; if the ongoing mental health issues will be considered based on the medical report submitted; if the issue will be positively disposed of; and if he will expedite the matter. [14635/19]
• 2019-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1794 of 24 July 2018, the number of staff attached to a centre (details supplied) who have accepted redeployment; the number who have asked for redundancy; the number of staff on full-time pay without specific duties while they wait for a decision on redeployment or redundancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14448/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home help hours will be approved for a person (details supplied). [13516/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a long-term care plan on an inpatient basis will be put in place for a person (details supplied). [13518/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be scheduled as a matter of urgency at St. James's Hospital, Dublin, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13695/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the campaign for the approval of pembro for persons in cases in which the consultant has confirmed that the drug would make a marked difference to their treatment and health; if the request from campaigners (details supplied) will be supported; if he will request the Minister for Finance to exempt pembro from 23% VAT in such cases; if a submission will be made to the Minister for Finance requesting that the matter be investigated and granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13764/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if all documentation including bank statements requested by persons (details supplied) will be made available; if it will be ensured that the documents cover all the years that the deceased was in care; the reason neither party has responded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13765/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if respite care will be provided for a person (details supplied); if a long-term placement will be provided for them at a facility; if the HSE will fund such a placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13818/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the options available in the public health system for the treatment of cystic fibrosis spastic diplegia; if patients with the condition can avail of the treatment required elsewhere in the EU; if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated by his Department and the HSE to determine if funding will be provided for their care here or abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13819/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to establish an independent investigation into the complaints made by a person (details supplied); if a reply will issue in detail to correspondence including a report provided to him by a person; if there was a Garda investigation into the use of cannabis and-or marijuana at the facility; if so, his views on the outcome of the investigation; the steps he will take to ensure that those who visit the facility are not treated in the same manner as experienced by the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14032/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to progress the proposed changes to the work practices of pharmaceutical assistants; if he has engaged with organisations (details supplied) on their proposals and concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14033/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the services which will be provided for a person (details supplied); if psychiatric, dietary and occupational therapy services will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11635/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the ownership of the land now being used for the national children's hospital prior to the land in question being acquired for the site. [11667/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an MRI scan will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [12142/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the work undertaken by the HSE in collaboration with a group (details supplied) to examine reform of the healthcare system; if pilot programmes were set up as part of the work; if so, the details and outcome of each project; his plans to continue engagement with the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11399/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of medical device companies located here and supported by IDA Ireland that are doing business with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11424/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a cost comparison analysis was carried out on all the proposed sites for the national children's hospital; the reason for the selection of the St. James's site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11425/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the person or body who signed off on the cost estimates at each stage of the national children's hospital; and the budgeted projected cost of the project at each month since 2016. [11426/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the person or body who authorised the changes to the design brief of the national children's hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2018. [11427/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if each change to the design brief to the national children's hospital was costed in advance of it being instructed. [11428/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the consultants appointed to the national children's hospital will be held financially accountable for errors in the budget. [11429/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the board of the national children's hospital were satisfied the chosen tender was an economically viable tender when it was accepted. [11430/19]
• 2019-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when an undertaking was made to underwrite the entire cost of the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11431/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 19 January 2011 if a person (details supplied) is on a pension; the reason there is a difference of €10,000 in the period 17 September 1996 to 31 March 1998 in the amount they were actually paid and the amount the Health Service Executive says they were paid; if the irregularities of that time will be investigated and resolved; if payments due to this person from that time will be paid; if copies of the pension documents signed by the person will be made available to them; if their pension entitlements will be outlined to them; if payment to them will continue under pension group 038; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10303/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be provided with a pair of new shoes as per the request of the person's general practitioner. [10735/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 30 January 2019 and the response of the HSE, the action taken to inform the person (details supplied) of the reason for the non-payment of the incremental credits they were entitled to; the dates of communication with the person to inform them of non-payment; if they were provided the opportunity to appeal the decision; if the decision not to pay the increments will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9066/19]
• 2019-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation required by a person (details supplied) will be arranged at the Mater Hospital; the reason for the delay in dealing with the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8772/19]
• 2019-02-20
  VOTE
  Confidence in Minister for Health

  • ~ abstained on the motion motion failed · 53–58
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the recognition of fibromylagia as a debilitating disease; the research the HSE or his Department have undertaken to better understand fibromylagia, its symptoms and possible treatments; if there is a record of the number of persons affected by the disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8431/19]
• 2019-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford urology department for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [7452/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited; the number on the waiting list; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6382/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in arranging an operation at Cappagh hospital for a person (details supplied); the way in which he is addressing the waiting list for young children who require urgent hip operations; if there is a restriction on the use of the operating theatre at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6384/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an MRI scan will be expedited for a person (details supplied); the number of MRI scans carried out each week at WUH; the number of persons on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6392/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to expand the services for those affected by Alzheimer's and who attend a centre (details supplied); the funding received by the centre from the HSE in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6396/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 814 of 15 January 2019 and the reply issued by the HSE on 22 January 2019, the further meetings that have taken place between the staff concerned, the union and the HSE to help resolve all outstanding issues and fully deal with the Labour Court recommendations; if a redundancy package has been offered to employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7036/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) was entitled to pay increments from 1983 and pension entitlements arising from the increments in view of the fact the person was a full-time employee; and if the record of payments and entitlements will be made available. [4452/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 7 November 2018, the progress made in providing the level of care urgently required by a person (details supplied); if the HSE has had discussions with an organisation in County Kilkenny; if so, the outcome of the discussions and the decisions taken; his plans to provide respite services in counties Carlow and Kilkenny for such persons; if a personal healthcare plan will be put in place for the person covering all aspects of the care required; if the case will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4455/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, urology department will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [4056/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund treatment for a person (details supplied) in London in view of the fact that the treatment is not available here; if the matter will be expedited in further view of the fact that alternative forms of treatment and other existing treatments here have failed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4114/19]
• 2019-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an assessment and the operation needed for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; if urgent cases such as the case of same can be dealt with under the cross-border initiative; if so, if the HSE will make contact with the person to make the arrangements; the number of persons such as the one in question that were informed on 23 February 2018 that it would be 51 months plus before they would be seen; the steps being taken by him and the HSE to resolve this level of service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2182/19]
• 2019-01-17
  VOTE
  Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2018

  A bill to amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 to establish specific criteria applicable for orphan medicinal products for the purposes of the Health Service Executive making a relevant decision regarding adding an item to the Reimbursement List

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 83–51
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital for hip operations (details supplied); if the operating theatres are being used to their capacity; if emergency operations can be undertaken elsewhere to reduce the waiting lists; the number of professionals qualified to carry out these operations at the hospital; the number waiting on each list; and his plans to reduce the list in 2019. [1036/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 27 November 2018, when a reply will issue. [1054/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1372/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if benefit schemes and supports for persons with Wolfram syndrome will be put in place to cover such needs as medical devices, dietary demands, transport to services and personal medical requirements; the supports and services automatically available to date; if he will request the HSE to engage directly with persons (details supplied) to determine their needs and ensure that both are in receipt of the full range of entitlements and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1380/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress in relation to the approval process for the drug Nusinersen, also known as Spinraza; if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; the type of care and medication that his Department and-or the HSE will fund in this case; if he will meet the parents of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1464/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action being taken by the HSE to accommodate and redeploy staff from Saint Patrick's Centre, Kells Road, County Kilkenny; the number of staff involved; the number redeployed to date or accommodated by other agreements; if staff have opted for redundancy; if so, the number; if the Labour Court recommendations have been considered by all stakeholders; if so, the actions to be taken or the actions taken to date; his plans to support the workers who have given loyal service over a number of years and feel abandoned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1785/19]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a school transport option has not been put in place for a person (details supplied). [52943/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if intensity-modulated radiation treatment as recommended by a consultant will be arranged and expedited in the case of a person (details supplied). [53299/18]
• 2018-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount held or managed by the patients' private property account central unit; the way in which this fund is invested and safeguarded; the amounts held on behalf of each organisation within its remit by county; if the fund comes under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General; the number of individual cases in which the Circuit Court's direction was sought in circumstances in which the HSE used in excess of €5,000 of client funds in a single calendar year; the number of families refused access to the funds of a family member in circumstances in which the funds were being used to benefit the owner of the fund; the number of persons who have had welfare benefits or cut-off due to the funds held on their behalf; the way in which the fund is used for end of life care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52292/18]
• 2018-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be arranged at WUH for a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited; and the reason the person has had to wait for nine years. [52294/18]
• 2018-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a long-term home care package will be put in place for a person (details supplied). [51873/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, will be provided with 24-7 emergency medicine consultant cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50793/18]
• 2018-12-05
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 12 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 against 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 add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 90–16
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 30–63
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 29–65
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 27–75
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–67
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 30–75
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 21–64
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 10–75
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 21–69
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of care packages and care hours provided under all home care tenders by county in September and October 2018; the comparative information for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50150/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a MRI scanner for St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will expedite the funding required. [50151/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on the concerns being raised on the use of MAGEC rods for patients who have undergone operations for scoliosis; if there is a formal tracking register for patients who have had MAGEC rod implants; his plans to respond to the concerns being expressed about these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50738/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress of the Farrelly commission of investigation; if staff giving evidence to the commission who are employed by section 38 and 39 organisations will have their jobs protected; if the costs associated with their absences from work are covered by the HSE; if a reply will issue to queries raised in this regard through correspondence he received on 19 November 2018; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the refusal of the HSE to address this issue will result in key witnesses not being able to attend and give evidence at future hearings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50875/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in appointing a nurse to administer medication on a daily basis to a person (details supplied) at home; if the delay in making the arrangement is a cause of the person being kept as a patient at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; and if a resolution of this issue will be expedited [50877/18]
• 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
  • ~ abstained on an amendment to the bill motion failed · 8–84
• 2018-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [49954/18]
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for a cataract operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and the reason they have not been called to date as promised at the time of their assessment [48914/18]
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a place will be made available for a person (details supplied) in a community home in Kilkenny city; his views on whether persons fitting this profile should be given priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48916/18]
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding paid to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for services in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason a sustainable long-term care plan was not put in place; the reason the family has had no support services for the past 11 years; if a long-term plan for funding will be put in place by the HSE in agreement with the person's mother; and if the matter will be expedited. [48917/18]
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [48918/18]
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount outstanding in payments due from private health insurers to public hospitals; the details of the amount due to each hospital (details supplied); if there is a system in place in each hospital to ensure that the full amount is claimed from health insurance companies and that the hospital is not under-billing; the number of bed nights that are partially paid for or rejected by insurers in public hospitals in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49013/18]
• 2018-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding issued to an organisation for services in respect of a person (details supplied); the period involved; the attendance record of the person; the amount of funding paid to an organisation in County Kilkenny in respect of another person; the period involved; the attendance record of the person; the reason a sustainable long-term care plan was not put in place; the reason the family has had no support services for the past 11 years; and if a long-term plan with funding will be put in place by the HSE in agreement with the children's parent. [46208/18]
• 2018-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) with the paediatric services at Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny; and if correspondence from the person's parents, school and general practitioner will be considered. [46209/18]
• 2018-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the blind person's allowance will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason this payment was ceased in this case; the financial and other supports available to persons diagnosed with Wolfram syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46056/18]
• 2018-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a place will be made available in Kilkenny city in one of the community homes for a long-term client of an organisation (details supplied); if he or she will be accommodated at a facility; the reason the family has not received respite services for over 12 months; the Minister's plans to provide respite services in counties Kilkenny and Carlow for the future and in the short-term; his further plans to provide one-to-one services for clients such as persons who have medical, psychological and mobility problems and have been in care for most of their lives; his views on whether persons fitting this profile should be given priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46110/18]
• 2018-11-07
  VOTE
  Children's Health Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 33–69
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to fund an increase of staff required at a centre (details supplied); if a counselling service and dementia adviser service will be provided at the centre; if more adequate accommodation will be approved with an improved transport service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44643/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the Chief Medical Officer's report on the issues raised on the use of vaginal mesh is now completed; and the timeframe for completion of the report and a decision on his Department's response. [44646/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the level of funding needed by a care home (details supplied) to enable it to meet the costs of improving the home to meet new standards associated with the care and security of residents and the standard and level of pay that should be paid to those employed there; if the funding received under the section 39 grant will be increased to meet the rising costs and demand of operating such a facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44647/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the community health services will engage directly with a person (details supplied); if the department of psychiatry will assess them as requested by their general practitioner; if the HSE will explain the reason a person did not arrange a home assessment as requested; and if the matter will be expedited in view of the circumstances. [44868/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a bed will be provided at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, for a person (details supplied). [44891/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has had the medication prescribed for them by a general practitioner and consultant restricted in quantity by the HSE and-or medical card managers; if the medical direction being followed by the person outweighs the view and direction of others not medically qualified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45517/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to bring forward a Lyme disease strategy to help those suffering from the condition. [43600/18]
• 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
• 2018-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a medical card has not issued to a person (details supplied). [41591/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the drug niraparib will be made available to a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that they are platinum resistant and due to this were refused access to the drug by the compassionate access programme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the drug is available in the UK and Europe for both sets of patients; and if the matter will be expedited. [40620/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on the use of autism assistance dogs; if his Department or the HSE will engage with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the possibility of funding a project to the extent of the cost of eliminating the waiting list of 200 children and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40517/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the community services being provided to a person (details supplied) by the HSE to assist with medical issues as outlined by the person's general practitioner; and if the matter will be fully investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40261/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment at University Hospital Waterford urology department for a person (details supplied) will be provided. [40262/18]
• 2018-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if approval will be given for the use of the drug pembrolizumab in the case of a person (details supplied). [39235/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to arrange a hip replacement at UHW for a person (details supplied); his views on whether there is an onus on him to insist that the HSE rectify the situation without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38371/18]
• 2018-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation for a hip replacement at UHW will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [37937/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been fully treated at a hospital; if a complaint submitted to the hospital manager will receive a response as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35413/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a medical card issued to a person (details supplied) was withdrawn five weeks after being issued; and if the card will be renewed until the error or issues are resolved. [35414/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the long-term care of a person (details supplied); and if the application by organisations will be expedited in view of the fact that the case is urgent. [35666/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if adequate funding will be provided for care homes in County Kilkenny that to date have been under-funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32464/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that employees at a centre (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who reach retirement age and want to continue working are being offered a salary based on the first point of the salary scale; his view on whether this is appropriate; if this is the practice in all section 38 and section 39 organisations; his views on whether such a practice has the potential to have a bias towards pay levels in the sector relative to experience and qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32465/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if hip and knee operations deemed to be urgent will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33271/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the supports and assistance being provided to persons suffering from unique narcolepsy disorder; his views on a no-fault compensation redress scheme for the 65 or more families now commencing legal action; if he will engage with the group, the HSE and the State Claims Agency to resolve matters outside court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33274/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount outstanding in payments due from private health insurers to public hospitals; the amount due to each hospital on an aged debt spreadsheet; if there is a system in place in each hospital to ensure the full amount is claimed from health insurance companies and that the hospital is not underbilling; the number of bed nights that are partially paid for or rejected by insurers in public hospitals in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33315/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied). [33474/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [33475/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE sexual health and crisis pregnancy programme, SHCPP, is adequately funded to ensure that all agencies offering support in crisis pregnancy can continue their well-established services; the amount of funding allocated to such agencies by the SHCPP in each of the past five years and to date in 2018; if funding will not be cut or withdrawn from the agencies concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33476/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the drug nusinersen Spinraza, which has been prescribed for a person (details supplied), will be made available to them. [33574/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the maximum redundancy package will be offered to the staff at St. Patrick's care centre, Kells Road, Kilkenny; if his Department or the HSE is involved in the negotiations with the staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34891/18]
• 2018-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the consultant paediatrician, senior dietitian and diabetes nurse at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, issued a letter to the parents of those attending the services outlining restrictions to the services and stating that there is a severe lack of resources available; the reason this situation arose; the steps he plans to take to ensure that the services in question are fully resourced; if each parent will be contacted to inform them of his views on the matter in order to alleviate the fears created; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31980/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if general practitioner cards will be extended to all carers in receipt of the respite care support grant. [30066/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if panic buttons and personal alarms will be made available to persons under 65 years of age who are vulnerable and require 24/7 care. [30067/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if suitable inpatient accommodation and a step-down facility will be provided for older persons in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in view of the fact that the census figures show a significant increase in this cohort of the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30760/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the drug ixazomib for a person (details supplied) will be covered by the HSE; if permissions that may be needed to cover the cost and use of the drug will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30959/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive an early date for an assessment and scopes at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, based on the referrals made by their general practitioner, who described their case as urgent. [31017/18]
• 2018-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will issue an apology to the family of a person (details supplied) in view of the circumstances of the person's death; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28984/18]
• 2018-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress being made in the investigation of the abuse suffered by persons (details supplied) while in the care of the HSE; if the investigation is operating within the timeframe envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29071/18]
• 2018-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of a pilot autism strategy to examine the existing services and supports available to individuals with autism and their families in the south east, with a view to improving services and learning from the lived experiences of those involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29072/18]
• 2018-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to address the restoration of pay in section 39 agencies; his further plans to consider applying the new pay levels retrospectively; his views on the HSE report into the matter; if he has costed the restoration of pay, the realignment of incremental scales and the payment of arrears due for all of the section 39 agencies; his further views on the talks between the unions concerned and the HSE relative to these matters and the possibility of strike action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29076/18]
• 2018-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of a pilot autism strategy to examine the existing services and supports available to persons with autism and their families in the south east in order to improve services and learning from the lived experiences of those involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29279/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the initiatives being taken to improve psychiatric services in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28232/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been fully treated having been admitted to hospital four times in the past six weeks only to be discharged without having had all of the person's complex medical conditions addressed; if a query or complaint submitted on the matter to the hospital manager will be answered as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28554/18]
• 2018-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a long-term sustainable all round care plan will be put in place for a person (details supplied); if a plan was agreed following a meeting of 17 professionals associated with the care of the person; if a direct line of communication will be set up by the HSE with the family; the reason a meeting with local HSE officials did not take place as planned; the reason the HSE objected to a public representative being present with the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28105/18]
• 2018-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a 24-7 home care package will be put in place for a person (details supplied); the care plan in place for another person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27835/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 28 April 2016, if the review promised in the reply was completed; if the results of the review will be publicised; if more detail will be given in respect of a timeframe for the provision of an extension to the building and for the appointment of a practice nurse; if the correspondence and the responses to parliamentary questions on the matter will be reviewed; the reason no action has been taken to prioritise the requirements for this centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26293/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if transport facilities will be available for day respite centres such as a facility (details supplied). [26586/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the supports and services provided once a child reaches 18 years of age; and if a review of their social, medical and educational needs will be provided (details supplied). [26587/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a respite care service will be provided in County Kilkenny in addition to a facility (details supplied). [26588/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in discharging a person (details supplied); the length of time the person has been in St. Luke’s; if a care package is in place for them at Crosspatrick, County Kilkenny; the reason for the very poor communication between the hospital, the HSE and relatives of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26589/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for a cataract operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at Waterford Regional Hospital; and the reason they were not called years ago as promised at the time of their assessment. [26591/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a medical card issued to a person (details supplied) was withdrawn five weeks after being issued; and if the card will be renewed until the error or issues are resolved. [26592/18]
• 2018-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to be called for orthodontic treatment. [26674/18]
• 2018-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the review of the fair deal scheme as it is applied to farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26046/18]
• 2018-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date will be set for a knee operation at WRH for a person (details supplied). [25778/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase in overcrowding in the emergency department in St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny over the first four months of 2018 relative to the same period in 2017. [23539/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the actions which were taken by the HSE on foot of complaints received from the family of a person (details supplied) relevant to their care while a patient of the HSE at St. Columba's Hospital, Thomastown, County Kilkenny; if the serious issues raised by the family have been investigated; if the HSE has fully engaged with the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23636/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to matters raised by persons (details supplied) in correspondence; if the open disclosure policy will be applied in the case; and if he will request the HSE to meet with the persons [23680/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the review of the fair deal scheme as it is currently applied to farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23097/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve the structure and services at a centre (details supplied); the timeframe for the action required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22129/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a MARS MRI scan will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22130/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the plans that have been approved by the HSE for structural improvement works at a centre (details supplied); if a nurse will be appointed to assist at the centre; and if the matter will be expedited [22131/18]
• 2018-05-10
  VOTE
  Health Service Reform

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 48–77
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if three MRI scans can be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [19614/18]
• 2018-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for a cervical operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the hospital deemed the case in need of immediate attention on 27 October 2017; if an immediate date cannot be arranged, if the HSE will arrange the operation abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19364/18]
• 2018-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for a procedure will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19457/18]
• 2018-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date on which treatment will recommence for a person (details supplied); if the long-term treatment arrangement has been agreed; if future treatment will be uninterrupted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19160/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to implement a similar practice to that in Germany for the detection and treatment of Lyme disease; his plans to improve follow-up care for persons following diagnosis; his views on whether current training for doctors is adequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17059/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the differences in the way in which persons with multiple sclerosis, MS, here access life changing medicines by comparison to other EU countries; the reason there is delay for new medicine to be reimbursed here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17285/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the regulation process relative to speech and language therapists trained abroad who now wish to have their qualifications registered here is efficient and fit for purpose; and the number of applications pending and dealt with, respectively in each of the past three years. [17290/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be made for a person (details supplied). [15086/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the contract for dialysis services in County Kilkenny is being put out for tender; the length of time the current operator was reviewed over the past four years in the context of the quality of the service and patient satisfaction; and his plans on the matter and in respect of the future of the service. [15087/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has received an application to provide a modular catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; his plans to provide funding for such a facility while a decision is being made on a permanent solution; the timeframe for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15584/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to resolve the issues raised by the family of a person (details supplied) regarding the care of the person and the high level of medication the person is taking; if a second opinion on the person's care will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15585/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action taken by the HSE to address issues outlined (details supplied) by the general manager of University Hospital Waterford in correspondence dated 19 September 2017, relevant to a dialysis unit in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16056/18]
• 2018-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the review of the pricing system for long-term residential care facilities; if he will introduce an independent appeals process within the fair deal scheme to provide third party recourse for nursing home providers that fail to agree a fee with the NTPF and in an effort to bring greater transparency to the fair deal pricing mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13871/18]
• 2018-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if care and rehabilitation will be provided for a person (details supplied) at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if the matter will be expedited. [14101/18]
• 2018-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the way in which the accounts of persons at a centre (details supplied) in County Kilkenny are managed; if weekend allowances are paid to the persons or family members when weekend home visits are arranged, from the persons' accounts; the person or body that has access to the accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14104/18]
• 2018-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the waiting times for such operations; and his plans to reduce the waiting times. [13049/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his Department and-or the HSE are accepting applications for national lottery grants administered by his Department and the HSE; and his plans in this regard. [11885/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre system will be made available to all persons with type 1 diabetes on the long-term illness card based on clinical need and not on age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11890/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if full 24-7 care will be recommenced in the case of a person (details supplied); and the reason they are without a care plan. [12880/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a bed will be provided at Beaumount Hospital for a person (details supplied). [12881/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the level of care being provided to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed to ensure that an appropriate level of activities is included in their care package on a daily basis; the residential and care service options being explored by the HSE; the progress being made; if the HSE plans to purchase this house in view of the fact that the landlord has indicated their intention to sell the property; the reason this person has only recently been diagnosed with autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9611/18]
• 2018-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress to date on the inquiry into the care of a person (details supplied). [9108/18]
• 2018-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the decision to withdraw the Versatis patch from the long-term illness scheme will be reversed. [6881/18]
• 2018-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the 96% increase in overcrowding in St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny in January 2018 relative to January 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6436/18]
• 2018-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied). [6557/18]
• 2018-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide an electric profile bed for a person (details supplied) in view of their age and health. [6560/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress to date in relation to Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin waiting list for a first appointment with a paediatric orthopaedic consultant; the measures that have been taken to ensure no child is at risk while waiting for their first consultation with an orthopaedic consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2425/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the amalgamation of wait lists for paediatric scoliosis across the Children's Hospital Group; when this will occur to ensure equity of access to all children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2426/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the orthopaedic theatre in Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin will open additional days or achieve full capacity; and the expected timeframe for same [2427/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the two additional orthopaedic consultants for Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin will be appointed [2428/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans for 2018 with regard to children that are waiting on scoliosis surgery and procedures [2429/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the French surgeries did not go ahead in view of the fact that under the scoliosis action plan 20 surgeries were to be completed in France, 20 surgeries in Portland hospital, UK, 20 surgeries to be completed in Germany and at least 20 surgeries to be completed in Stanmore, UK before year end 2017; the number of completed surgeries outsourced under the scoliosis action plan; the number of parents formally asked if they would consent to their child's surgery being outsourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2430/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the HSE surgery target wait time for children that are clinically listed for scoliosis surgery as of 1 January 2018 [2431/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable to enter 2018 with no agreed surgical criteria for scoliosis surgery and no agreed plan [2432/18]
• 2018-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the dropping of the four month scoliosis surgery wait targets for 2018 (details supplied) [2433/18]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if further home care hours will be provided for a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [1034/18]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding necessary for the full-time appropriate day-care services required in the case of a person (details supplied); if he will investigate the matter and provide a lifelong care plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1048/18]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason funding was not provided to an organisation (details supplied) for the appointment of an education officer and information officer; if a recent application from this organisation seeking support for two additional full-time positions will be reviewed; the level of funding received by the organisation in each of the past five years; if there is an up-to-date database showing the numbers who have dyspraxia, DCD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1065/18]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans for the funding of the drug Vimizim; and the detail of his reply to the families he met recently on the issue. [1325/18]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 4 April 2017, if the HIQA report submitted in November 2015 by a person (details supplied) will now be made available to the family; his plans to take action arising from the report; if the HSE and HIQA representatives will meet the family to discuss the report's findings; if the full medical records have been made available to the family; if he will review the reply given to Parliamentary Question No. 527 of 23 May 2017 in view of the reply given to the previous question referenced and provide a comprehensive reply; if a post mortem was conducted; if an inquest will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1327/18]
• 2017-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the refund due to a person (details supplied) under the cross-Border healthcare directive will be issued [52634/17]
• 2017-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited as a matter of urgency. [52934/17]
• 2017-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if direct funding or the HSE treatment abroad scheme will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52936/17]
• 2017-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the funding available to a person (details supplied) for a placement at a service; and when the placement will commence. [52985/17]
• 2017-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the documents the HSE claims were not submitted with an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52987/17]
• 2017-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an Alzheimer's disease unit at a location (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the matter has been discussed at local level; and his views and those of the HSE on such a proposal. [52989/17]
• 2017-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if all of the appropriate home support services will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52416/17]
• 2017-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for ill health retirement based on the person's medical reports. [52417/17]
• 2017-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason an organisation (details supplied) that represents 80% of service providers is not represented on the steering committee to oversee pricing in the sector; the reason no such steering committee was set up to review the cost of elderly care in the public sector; if a review of the capital costs in the public and private sector has been examined; if not, his plans for same; and his views on whether the private operators in seeking the appointment of a national forum for the sector asked for or expected a role in the public sector budgets or policy. [51539/17]
• 2017-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51854/17]
• 2017-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number of which the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks in view of the fact that the necessary resources to complete the request within the original timeframe were not available, in tabular form. [51871/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 317 of 17 October 2017, if the matter regarding an organisation (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50888/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 317 of 17 October 2017, if the matter regarding an organisation (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50889/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 10 October 2017, if the disclosure been processed in accordance with his Department’s policy and legislation; if the person who made the disclosure through the Deputy has been interviewed; if his Department and the HSE have protected this person in their place of employment in accordance with the legislation; the reason details cannot be divulged while at the same time protecting the confidential nature of the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50890/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 7 November 2017, if an early hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [49864/17]
• 2017-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for an operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [48988/17]
• 2017-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the long waiting times for orthodontic services in the south east. [48207/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) [45905/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the funding for the care of a person (details supplied) will be made available; the options of care being considered; and the timeframe for a final long-term decision in the matter. [45906/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if HIQA, the Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Board, the Pharmaceutical Society and the Quality Assurance and Verification Division have responded to the request from his Department to examine documents provided by a person (details supplied); if the organisations have responded to the Secretary General as requested; if the HSE and QAVD have made contact directly with the person as requested by the Secretary General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45908/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to a centre (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to cover the costs of extending the services being offered and the cost of dealing with referrals from Tusla and the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43588/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the FreeStyle Libre system will be made available under the long-term illness scheme for persons with diabetes; if availability will not be restricted only to persons with type 1 diabetes but will be made available to every person on multi-daily insulin injections based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43591/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the level of consultation with home helps in County Kilkenny, which is being or has been undertaken by the HSE relative to establishing a new roster system; if a pilot project is being put in place in certain parts of County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42461/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a protected disclosure submitted to his Department by a person (detailed supplied) has been processed. [42622/17]
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if additional costs caused by decision of Government, or local or Government agencies, will be directly funded by Government in such areas as the nursing home sector in which contracts and price are controlled by the HSE; if an economic impact analysis has been undertaken by his Department or the HSE relative to the negative impact these increased costs (details supplied) will have on the fair deal scheme in 2018; if the national forum for elderly care as requested by the sector will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40181/17]
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to a public statement issued by the HSE on 27 April 2017 regarding respite services in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, the progress made on each project and the level of funding provided; the general respite services provided in counties Carlow and Kilkenny to parents of children with disabilities, including overnight services; if an organisation (details supplied) continues to provide interim services in County Carlow; if a long-term solution has been agreed; if a full service provider has been put in place to replace a centre (details supplied); the status of the provision of a purpose-built respite service centre for County Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40182/17]
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans regarding a project (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the recent meeting in Kilkenny with the Minister of State for disability has brought a solution to the various issues including funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40183/17]
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) is in receipt of Government funding; the financial support received by the organisation in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; the funding granted to persons by the organisation; the assistance that is given to persons who have poor or no sight to assist them to read; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40206/17]
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person under 65 years of age with a medical card can be charged for the flu vaccination. [40349/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will approve treatment abroad for a person (details supplied); and if the original approach to the HSE will be approved. [39326/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will put in place a follow-up care plan for a person (details supplied); and if the HSE will be instructed to engage immediately with this person and their family. [39327/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to fund the drug Vimizin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39804/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to provide persons with multiple sclerosis access to Sativex and to allow the costs to be reimbursed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39805/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical card is for life and is not subject to review or modification in cases where the card is issued under EU regulation 883-04; if he will ensure that this right to a medical card is applied in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39806/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will consider exempting wards of court funds in the calculation of means for a medical card in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36902/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the services available to persons with autism spectrum disorder, ASD, located in counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois and Offaly; the number of occupational therapists, psychologists and speech and language therapists that are employed in those counties; the availability of each to those affected by ASD; if there is a waiting list for each of the services; if so, his plans to deal with same; his further plans to improve the services required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37020/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the complaints made by a person (details supplied) will be examined; if the HSE and St. Vincent's hospital will be instructed to engage with the person to answer the questions she has posed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37021/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the costs of the top ten drugs used by the psychiatric services operated by the HSE, the name of the drugs, the cost, the numbers dispensed in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37318/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he has carried out an assessment of the number of special needs persons who will require supports from 18 to 25 years of age in County Meath in the context of their full-time care, respite, group education, independent living accommodation services and so on; his plans to provide funding in this area for the future; the services available now; his plans to support and develop the services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37331/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if physiotherapy and other support services will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the reason there has been no follow-up in this case; if the person has been referred as an outpatient or otherwise to REHAB Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38930/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he is monitoring the issues being raised abroad over the use of Gardasil; if his attention has been drawn to the 400 victims in Colombia preparing to take a case against a company (details supplied); if he has examined compensation programmes put in place in other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35875/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on the use, regulation and taxing of vape products; his further views on the submission of an association (details supplied) of 3 February 2017 to HIQA and the Revenue Commissioners on 16 February 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35876/17]
• 2017-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if section 39 organisations will be funded by his Department or the HSE relative to pay restoration and increments due to some staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32461/17]
• 2017-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [32462/17]
• 2017-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will recognise the EU rights of a person (details supplied) under regulation (EC) 883/04 relative to their current application for a medical card; if a medical card will be issued based on the information provided and as stipulated under the EU regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32465/17]
• 2017-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will publish a report published by the HSE into the allegations that children had been damaged in the public orthodontic service; the cost of this report which was undertaken by persons (details supplied); the action that has been taken by his Department relevant to the care of those persons affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31665/17]
• 2017-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 23 May 2017 (details supplied), the dates to date on which the HSE or his Department corresponded with or met the person; the dates on which his Department or the HSE wrote to the legal adviser of the person; if he will request St Patrick's Hospital, County Waterford to issue all the information requested under freedom of information in view of the fact that it is clear that the records released are incomplete; and if the report carried out by a person will be made available to the person and the family concerned. [31667/17]
• 2017-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason Losec in a pre-mixed liquid form is not covered under the drug payment scheme; his plans to list the drug under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30860/17]
• 2017-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 170 and 171 of 26 January 2017, if he will confirm the person is not on recent leave but has been on illness benefit since October 2015; if he will confirm the person never worked for a community service (details supplied) as suggested in the parliamentary question reply; if he will instruct the HSE to engage fully with the person's legal adviser in view of the fact the information provided by the HSE is not accurate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31158/17]
• 2017-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who is a patient in the orthopaedic trauma unit of Tullamore hospital will be admitted to the Mater hospital spine and back injury unit in view of the fact that their case is urgent; if he will expedite the matter [30721/17]
• 2017-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the EU cross border directive relative to health care covers the cost of tests to determine if a person has Lyme disease; if this directive covers treatment for Lyme disease in another EU state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30723/17]
• 2017-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30724/17]
• 2017-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 831 and 832 of 2 May 2017, the basis on which he is making the claim that unfounded false claims have been made of an association between HPV vaccination and a number of conditions experienced by a group of young persons; if he will publish research, scientific or otherwise, that he has carried out which supports this statement; if no research has been undertaken by him, if he will now do so; the supports he will put in place for over 300 persons who are suffering ill heath and whose lives are devastated; if he will meet the persons concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30725/17]
• 2017-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange an early date for a spine operation for a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that their case is urgent; and if he will expedite the matter [30726/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange an early appointment for a person (details supplied). [29741/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to recruit a dentist for a health centre (details supplied); the way in which the fourth and sixth class dental check at schools will be undertaken while the position remains vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26623/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to fund works at a location (details supplied) in order to assist the home to comply with the latest HIQA report; if his Department's officials will assist with all of the persons involved who are deeply distressed by the HSE's actions and press release on the matter. [26624/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the rationale behind the decision to establish a cap of €130 on reimbursements to persons availing of the cross-border directive EU 2011/24 for outpatient diagnostic procedures; if the cap of €130 is a breach of the directive; if all diagnostic procedures carried out by the HSE or commissioned by the HSE from private providers are priced at €130 for accounting purposes only; if a ready reckoner will be established by the HSE similar to the one used by consultants to assist persons in establishing the HSE costs for procedures carried out under the EU directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27392/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the proposed temporary respite house for children with disabilities in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, which was due to open in Bagenalstown in 2017, will not go ahead; the status of this project; the alternative respite services that are available to parents for children with disabilities in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in the immediate to short term in view of recent announcements; his long-term plans for a respite house for children with disabilities in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25344/17]
• 2017-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will initiate an independent investigation into allegations of bullying and harassment in the workplace regarding a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that all actions taken to date were not independent and have not yielded resolution; and if he will expedite the matter. [24635/17]
• 2017-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 4 April 2017, if part of the response to this will be issued directly by HIQA (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24636/17]
• 2017-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will schedule an urgent appointment at St. Vincent's University Hospital for a person (details supplied). [21740/17]
• 2017-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the total number of claims made by persons or others against his Department and the HSE that were settled or not settled, respectively, before a court hearing, in each of the past six years; the cost to the State of the settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21744/17]
• 2017-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason an FOI request submitted on 14 February 2017 in the name of a person (details supplied) has not as yet been responded to. [21746/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review upwards the rent allowance being paid to persons (details supplied); the reason the rent allowance was reduced from €112 per week to €40 per week; and if their circumstances and poor health will be considered as part of the review. [20577/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [19237/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a hip operation was postponed three times for a person (details supplied); if an early date will be arranged for surgery; and if he will expedite same. [19354/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the unit administration cost of the HPV vaccine in each of the years 2010 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19355/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the unit cost of the HPV vaccine in each of the years 2010 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19356/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to approach the providers of the HPV vaccine to contact persons affected by the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19357/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to set up an independent inquiry to investigate the claims by over 300 girls that they all have a common list of complaints; if he will consider the options to provide meaningful intervention to restore these girls to their pre HPV vaccine health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19358/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a decision will be made regarding an independent review of scoliosis services in view of a commitment to a group (details supplied) on 29 March 2017 that this decision would be made and communicated to the group; the reason the draft document titled action plan on scoliosis does not mention persons under 14 years of age on waiting lists; the reason the action plan is based solely on the day case inpatient list and not on all three categories, preplanned and pre-admit; if all of the stakeholders were consulted on the plan; the number of times the co-design board has met since being appointed in October 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19660/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reasons persons who are deemed to be urgent cases attending the urology department of University Hospital Waterford are being told that they will not be seen for 65 months; the steps he is taking to resolve waiting times; the number of persons on this list that have been deemed urgent; the number in other categories; and if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) [19662/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [19663/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home help devices will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if the occupational therapist will inspect the house. [19666/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of a heart operation for a person (details supplied). [19667/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of a scan for a person (details supplied); if an operation is required; if so, when this will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19669/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); if correspondence sent to HIQA by a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19775/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the cost of the increase in the minimum wage from €9.15 per hour to €9.25 per hour and the cost of sleep-overs on assignments from €9.15 per hour to €13.49 per hour will be fully implemented by his Department; if the difference in the costs will be passed on to companies providing specialised services under contract to his Department to enable those companies meet their obligations; if his Department is in negotiations with such service providers at present; if service providers have applied for an increase in rates to meet the rising costs of providing such care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20068/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a comprehensive care plan will be provided by the HSE for a person (details supplied); and if their general practitioner's report confirming that they have regular seizures resulting in them having to be hospitalised on a regular basis will be taken into consideration [20569/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding approval for a specialised motorised wheelchair for a person (details supplied) will include all of the features they currently enjoy on their existing wheelchair and all of which have been approved and requested by their occupational therapist; and if he will request the HSE to contact the person and confirm that the occupational therapist's request will be granted [20573/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been forced to make three applications for a medical card due to information being lost or misplaced; if he will review the applications made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20580/17]
• 2017-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has not responded to the Dublin Dental Hospital regarding two applications for funding to cover treatment for a person (details supplied); if he will expedite this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17583/17]
• 2017-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the results of tests for Lyme disease carried out by a laboratory (details supplied) are not accepted by the Health Service Executive; if the same standard of test can be undertaken here; if so, the location in which; if tests undertaken here are restricted in any way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17584/17]
• 2017-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 170 and 171 of 26 January 2017, and correspondence (details supplied), the reason no contact has yet been made with the person; if he has satisfied himself with the efficiency of the HSE in dealing with this matter in view of the fact that the response from the HSE is impacting on the quality of life and the health and well-being of the person; if he will take immediate action to insist that this case be resolved by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16031/17]
• 2017-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the medical records from Waterford University Hospital and St. Patrick's Hospital relative to the case of a person (details supplied) will be made available to the person's family under the Freedom of Information Acts requested by the family solicitor in October 2016; if he will expedite this request; and if four written requests from the family to HIQA dating back to 2015 requesting an investigation into the care of the person made before the person's death will be acknowledged and actioned as covered in the Health Act 2007. [16032/17]
• 2017-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who applied for the position of sarcoma specialist at St. Vincent's University Hospital; the number of persons who made up the interview board and their qualifications; the overall cost of the interview process; the date on which the person selected will take up the position; if he will respond in detail to correspondence on this matter sent to him on 12 January 2017 by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16108/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the process in his Department for dealing with protected disclosures under the 2014 Act; if the examinations of such disclosures are carried out by an independent authority or persons other than those in the organisation to which the disclosure refers; the number of disclosures received by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15077/17]
• 2017-03-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for an operation will be arranged as a matter of urgency in the case of a person (details supplied). [14642/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the Susie Long project planned for St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; if the HSE plans to provide funding for the project; the section within the HSE that is tasked with the delivery of the project; if he has a timeframe in place within which the project will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13834/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if angiogram services will be provided at St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, in view of the number of persons from the area who must travel to Dublin for the service and the poor public transport system available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13837/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the current status on the provision for a second cath lab at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13838/17]
• 2017-03-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the financial assistance available to persons who have to travel to Germany to have Lyme disease treated; the financial support available for Lyme disease patients that require ongoing medical treatment and medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12662/17]
• 2017-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons with Lyme disease. [12083/17]
• 2017-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the targets in place for the recruitment of CAMHS personnel in CHO 5 during 2017. [12082/17]
• 2017-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to putting in place a personalised budget plan to cover the cost of care of a person (details supplied); the actions that were taken by the HSE arising from the Ombudsman report of 2012; if the plan being developed by the HSE will include adequate supports for the person's parents and an overall seamless delivery of every service required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10954/17]
• 2017-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home support and care will be provided to a person (details supplied). [10955/17]
• 2017-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a stroller will be provided for a person (details supplied). [10957/17]
• 2017-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will request a report from Portlaoise hospital relative to the case of a person (details supplied); and if an external independent review will be carried out of the issues concerning the person's treatment. [10958/17]
• 2017-02-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied). [9751/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical card review for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [8927/17]
• 2017-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a wheelchair will be provided for a person (details supplied). [6741/17]
• 2017-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for the qualification as a diagnostic radiographer in respect of a person (details supplied). [6742/17]
• 2017-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [6743/17]
• 2017-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange a review of an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied). [6745/17]
• 2017-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application for the renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [6746/17]
• 2017-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the matters raised by a person (details supplied) regarding their employment with the HSE and the care of a patient; if he will bring about a resolution to the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5504/17]
• 2017-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the HSE report relative to a care home in the south east and a case (details supplied) will be published; when the inquiry into the same matters will commence; the timeline involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5506/17]
• 2017-02-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve services for persons with Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4690/17]
• 2017-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the provision of a child adolescent psychiatrist in St. Luke's hospital for emergency admissions at night in view of the increase in demand for such services [3842/17]
• 2017-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a care plan and an appropriate level of funding will be put in place immediately to cope with the ongoing difficulties in the case of a person (details supplied); the supports and services in place or that will be put in place to assist the person's parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3988/17]
• 2017-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a cataract operation will be arranged as a matter of urgency at WRH for a person (details supplied). [3990/17]
• 2017-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a commitment given by the HSE to a person (details supplied) that they would be given an appointment at WRH by the end of 2016 has not been honoured. [3991/17]
• 2017-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he has satisfied himself that the HSE followed all procedures in processing a complaint regarding the care of a person (details supplied); the reason the issues relative to the employee of the HSE are still not resolved; if he will insist on the HSE in resolving these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3723/17]
• 2017-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if all of the information requested by a person (details supplied) under the Freedom of Information Act as an employee of the HSE will be made available to them as soon as possible; if the full internal review of the decision relative to their request will be undertaken by a HSE official senior to the person who made the original decision and not by a person of the same grade; his views on whether the Act clearly states that a review cannot be conducted by an official of the same grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3724/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the application for a medical card for a person (details supplied). [2655/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his views on the issues raised at a meeting on 2 August 2016 between officials from his Department and advocates for support and services for Lyme disease patients; his plans to assist persons seeking diagnosis relative to Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2830/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the timeframe within which CORU is expected to validate and register persons who qualified as radiographers outside of Ireland and are seeking the validation due to the fact they have been offered employment with the HSE; if those persons who have applied and are waiting for the validation will be fast-tracked; if there is a backlog in this process; and if so, the action he will take to speed up the process. [2832/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application for funding for an organisation (details supplied) will be approved as a matter of urgency. [3184/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a transport solution has been put in place and agreed with the parents of a person (details supplied). [3185/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appeal for review and reduction of costs under the nursing homes support scheme will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied). [3186/17]
• 2017-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when an operation which was deemed necessary and urgent in 2014 will be arranged for a person (details supplied); if the chief operations officer of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group will be requested to provide comprehensive information on the history of this case, when the person was first diagnosed and all actions after that to date including when the person was last contacted and examined; if the person has been given a written report following a recent review of their notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3187/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will set up a clinical review of scoliosis services here; if he will consider appointing one of the following persons (details supplied) to conduct the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1133/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the cost of production of the HSE magazine, Health Matters; the cost to date from the first publication; the circulation details and cost involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1136/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for an operation will be arranged at St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, for a person (details supplied). [1703/17]
• 2016-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to develop fully the facility of Castlecomer Community Hospital, County Kilkenny; if homes for elderly persons will be provided as part of the development of this building, in view of the shortage of housing accommodation generally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40469/16]
• 2016-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will conduct a needs analysis into the provision of long-term care of elderly persons in County Kilkenny; if he will fund the reopening of the old auxiliary hospital in Kilkenny city as a centre of care for elderly persons with housing accommodation for elderly persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40470/16]
• 2016-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for an assessment at the orthopaedic department of Waterford regional hospital will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39843/16]
• 2016-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason there has not been a consultant psychologist or psychologist in west Kilkenny for over two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39992/16]
• 2016-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if wages, holiday pay and all other entitlements due to a person (details supplied) will be paid to the person immediately; if a reference will be provided for the person; if the pension entitlements can be transferred to the person's private pension provider; if so, if the HSE will make arrangements with the person; and if he will expedite the matter in view of the fact they resigned in September 2016. [38431/16]
• 2016-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the targets that will be in the 2017 HSE service plan for child and adolescent mental health service teams staff levels in CHO 5 next year to bring them closer to the target set in A Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38062/16]
• 2016-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) with a medical card can be charged for getting bloods taken. [38277/16]
• 2016-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if transport arrangements will be put in place in respect of a person (details supplied); if he will expedite alternative travel arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37761/16]
• 2016-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason an urgent operation on a person (details supplied) with chronic scoliosis was cancelled at the last minute; the reason the hospital showed no consideration for the person and their parent who had made extensive arrangements to be with their child; if the fact that the person has autism had anything to do with the decision; if he will ensure the hospital sets an early date for the operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37767/16]
• 2016-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an electric scooter will be provided to a person (details supplied); if the person's circumstances will be investigated by the HSE with a view to approving such a support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36698/16]
• 2016-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date for an operation at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36700/16]
• 2016-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a new theatre at Crumlin hospital will be fully open to deal with operations urgently required by persons with scoliosis; and the reason scoliosis patients have had their appointments cancelled and have been informed that it will be a further 12 months before the appointment is rescheduled. [36701/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the new technology, the recently launched FreeStyle Libre system, to monitor persons with diabetes will be made available on the long-term illness card; if his Department or the HSE is currently examining the technology; if it is likely to be approved in the short term on the long-term illness card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36245/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment process relative to the appointment of a specialist oncologist for sarcoma patients; if the post was advertised publicly; the reason the wording of the advertisement did not include that experience in treating and researching this rare cancer was essential; and his views on the matter. [36247/16]
• 2016-11-17
  VOTE
  Mental Health Services Funding

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

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be provided an appointment at Waterford Regional Hospital and if the matter will be expedited. [34477/16]
• 2016-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the way a person (details supplied) was treated at Waterford Regional Hospital in June 2016; if the tests which were to be carried out will be arranged as the person was discharged before the tests were arranged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34478/16]
• 2016-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a new wheelchair will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in providing the wheelchair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34479/16]
• 2016-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action he will take in support of persons with Lyme disease; his views on a television documentary screened recently and if he will address all of the issues raised; his views on a submission made by a support group (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that over 40 new persons joined the support group immediately following the television documentary, indicating the large number of persons affected by Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34192/16]
• 2016-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for a hip operation will be arranged at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34193/16]
• 2016-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the children services at a centre (details supplied) are to be discontinued from March 2017 or if another agency will take over the delivery of services, including residential services; if staff levels at this centre will be maintained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34195/16]
• 2016-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be arranged immediately in respect of a person (details supplied). [34377/16]
• 2016-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his Department's position relative to the suggested ban on electronic nicotine delivery systems which will be discussed at the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, FCTC, COP7 in Delhi, India, in November 2016; the names of the persons attending this meeting on behalf of the state; the brief that has been given to the Irish delegation; if the position of his Department has been communicated to the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31539/16]
• 2016-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the arrangements that were put in place by the SEHB and the HSE to manage the affairs, financial and otherwise, of a person (details supplied); if a social worker was appointed in 1991; and if that arrangement continued. [31615/16]
• 2016-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in arranging an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason an appointment arranged by Waterford Regional Hospital in a letter was not acted upon; the reason the numerous letters written by the person's general practitioner were not acknowledged; and if he will expedite the matter. [31221/16]
• 2016-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the targets in place for child and adolescent mental health service teams staff levels in CHO 5 in 2017 to bring them closer to the target set in A Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30660/16]
• 2016-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is eligible for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30552/16]
• 2016-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at the rheumatology department of Waterford Regional Hospital; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30807/16]
• 2016-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he or a senior official from the HSE will engage with a radio station (details supplied) to explain to the public the services which are available for families and persons dealing with mental health issues and to answer queries from the public on the same issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30808/16]
• 2016-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a hip replacement operation will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied) at Waterford Regional Hospital. [30809/16]
• 2016-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding to Dublin Dental University Hospital to enable it to provide the urgent care needed for a person (details supplied). [29270/16]
• 2016-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the arrangements which were put in place by the SEHB and now the HSE to manage the affairs, financial and otherwise, of a person (details supplied); if a social worker was appointed in 1991; and if that arrangement can be continued. [29529/16]
• 2016-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reasons certain staff have been suspended with pay from St. Patricks, Kells Road, Kilkenny; if he is aware of the concerns of parents and staff relative to those in care in St. Michaels House, St. Patricks, Kells Road, Kilkenny, arising from the lack of clarity around the reasons staff have been suspended and the misinformation that exists around the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29532/16]
• 2016-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will maintain the position of consultant at Kilcreene fracture clinic, Kilkenny rather than appointing a locum; if he will outline the long term plans for the services at Kilcreene, Kilkenny; his plans to reduce the level of services available; his plans for this hospital which is highly regarded for the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29114/16]
• 2016-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cuts in funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29116/16]
• 2016-10-06
  VOTE
  Mental Health Services · 2 divisions

  • ~ abstained on the motion the motion motion passed · 59–37
  • ~ abstained on an amendment to the bill motion passed · 61–37
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to set out details relating to a youth centre (details supplied) for each of the past five years, the number of counsellors involved in this service and the number of young persons on the books availing of the service; if the service will be expanded and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28118/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to outline the reason for the delay in arranging a cataract operation for a person (details supplied). [28119/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for a cataract operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [28120/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to set out the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [28121/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the €28 million committed to the disability sector for change of needs and emergency services has been allocated; the amount of funding allocated to each area in the country; if the figures for the budget include this amount for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28239/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 23 September 2009, the treatment made available to a person (details supplied) over a period of time. [28370/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the process relative to approximately 16 applications submitted to the HSE for change of needs and emergency services funding from an organisation (details supplied); the date on which these applications were made and a decision was issued on each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28371/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the €3.8 million funding requirement for a centre (details supplied); his Department's strategy for funding such facilities; his plans to give some clarification on future funding for this facility to give comfort to the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28372/16]
• 2016-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place to cover periods in schools where a special needs assistant, SNA, may not be available due to illness; his views on whether the absence of the SNA is not a health and safety issue and one that affects the special needs pupil adversely and therefore one that needs to be addressed urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27900/16]
• 2016-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the strategy and funding in place to ensure that scoliosis patients have their required operations within the international norm of three to six months; the number of scoliosis patients waiting for two years and over for operations; his strategy relative to this group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27902/16]
• 2016-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of drug and alcohol addiction counsellors employed by the HSE in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; if all of those positions are filled; if there is a waiting list for the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27903/16]
• 2016-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress in arranging a date for laparoscopic surgery in the case of a person (details supplied). [27684/16]
• 2016-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27685/16]
• 2016-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [27689/16]
• 2016-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if physiotherapy and respite will be provided for a person (details supplied). [27690/16]
• 2016-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27691/16]
• 2016-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the cost of providing two contact lenses each year will be covered by the HSE in the case of a person (details supplied). [27692/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres in County Galway; the number of centres being tendered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26478/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will confirm the level of funding being provided to an organisation (details supplied) relative to the care of a person; if the level of funding will cover the cost of a full-time placement. [26976/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department will take to assist in resolving the health of animals on the farm of a person (details supplied) as all efforts by his Department and the person to date have failed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26480/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for two full-time placements in respect of persons (details supplied); if further funding will be provided for transport for them; and if a decision will be expedited [25214/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for specially fitted shoes in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25852/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will request Beaumont Hospital to complete all of the necessary paperwork to allow a person (details supplied) access to the drug Fampridine on their medical card or the long-term illness scheme as they have been approved to use the drug; if the delay in providing the completed paperwork is due to lack of staff at the hospital or a staff issue relative to the processing of such paperwork; and if he will expedite the matter. [25973/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for a second operation will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); if it is a lack of funding from the National Treatment Purchase Fund that is causing this operation to be postponed; and if he will expedite the matter [25974/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action taken by the HSE arising from a report into the death of a person (details supplied); if the ligature points mentioned in the report were removed and if so, when; the contact that the HSE or his Department have had with the person's family since their death; if issues of cost, legal and otherwise, have been discussed with the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25980/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he received complaints from families who have family members in care at a hospital (details supplied); if an investigation has been carried out to date regarding the level of care at this hospital; and if his Department will take action in the matter. [25982/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action that will be taken arising from a presentation made to the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older people by a group representing a care home (details supplied); if funding will be provided to achieve the goals and deal with the issues as outlined by the delegation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25989/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange and expedite an early date for operations in respect of a person (details supplied). [26155/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if dialysis will be provided in Kilkenny city rather than Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite a positive response based on the general practitioner's recommendations. [26156/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing follow-up care and treatment in respect of a person (details supplied); if the treatment will be provided as a matter of urgency; if a report on the issues will be provided to the person's general practitioner; if correspondence from an insurance company (details supplied) will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26157/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will send an inspector or official from the schools building unit to a school (details supplied) to view at first hand the work required to make the play area and footpaths around the school building safe; the reason only €26,000 was allocated to a project costing €96,000 and described by independent engineers as beyond urgent; if he considers the response to date as satisfactory given the health and safety issues involved for staff and pupils; and if he will provide the funding requested to complete all of the work urgently required and to protect the foundation of the school. [22903/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of new emergency department consultants in St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; the number of new appointments he intends to make in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21930/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 708 of 17 May 2016, if he will arrange treatment as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22205/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the services and supports that have been put in place for persons who suffer side effects after having their tonsils removed; the number of such cases reported relative to County Cork hospitals and Waterford Regional Hospital; the number of such operations carried out in each of the hospitals; the criteria used by the HSE to select patients and refer them to each hospital; the cost of such operations in each of the hospitals; the way in which complaints of side effects from such operations are dealt with and prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22361/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment with a psychologist will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if a care and education plan will be put in place relative to this report with all other services required by the person. [22363/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange to provide the medical records of a person (details supplied) for the periods the person attended Waterford Regional Hospital from 1990 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22517/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was left on a trolley at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny for 31 hours; the action Waterford Regional Hospital took on the person's arrival; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22518/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment at Waterford Regional Hospital for a person (details supplied); and the reason for the delay in responding to such an urgent case. [22898/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for SOS Kilkenny relative to the needs of a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite same. [22899/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who was referred to St. James's Hospital is being billed for a treatment; if the costs involved will be covered by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22905/16]
• 2016-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide funding for a long-term care plan for a person (details supplied); the number of persons on the waiting list for disability services in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; his plans to eliminate the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21841/16]
• 2016-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action his Department and the Health Service Executive will take following a meeting with a person (details supplied); if the HSE has drawn up a specific plan of action on the issues raised at this meeting on 5 February, 2016; if contact was made with the person since this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21843/16]
• 2016-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange an early date for an operation for a person (details supplied) which has been deemed urgent by their general practitioner and consultant; the reason this operation was not carried out in December 2014 as promised, when the urgency of the case was highlighted on an ongoing basis by their general practitioner; if he will insist on an early date, as the stress and anxiety of the wait is causing further distress and worry to the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21844/16]
• 2016-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21847/16]
• 2016-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the date the new theatre was completed at Crumlin children's hospital; if the theatre is now fully equipped, staffed and ready to open; if a date has been set to open the theatre; if adequate staff parking has been provided on site at the hospital; the reason there are no canteen facilities after 2 p.m. each day; if he will investigate the reasons for the existing theatre closures and the affect on the waiting lists that these closures cause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21849/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve psychiatric services at acute and at community level in counties Carlow and Kilkenny. [20987/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a statutory commission of investigation into a foster home in the south east. [20988/16]
• 2016-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to provide funding for the care of a person (details supplied); if he will accept the opinion of the person's professional care team and make an immediate decision to support the person as there is no other option in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20127/16]
• 2016-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite and approve funding for the long-term care of a person (details supplied). [20241/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he or the Health Service Executive covers claims from clients of orthodontists where the procedure has gone wrong; if there is a national body to monitor the insurance cover for dentists and orthodontists; and if there is a regulatory body tasked with ensuring that such professionals comply with best practice. [19307/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the work of palliative care teams will be extended to include end of life patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease; the funding made available by his Department and the Health Service Executive for such services in the past three years; and if he will support such a request. [19494/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the full report of an investigation into the damage caused to children while under the care of the public orthodontic services; if he will publish the results of the examination of 6,000 clients' charts relative to the investigation; if he is satisfied that those children affected have been recalled to rectify any issues that might have been identified; the action his Department has taken since concerns were first raised in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19496/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early date for a procedure at Cork University Hospital will be arranged for a person (details supplied) given the fact that the person attended the hospital for injections and an assessment almost three months ago and is three years waiting for the procedure. [19497/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a walker frame for outdoor use will be approved for a person (details supplied). [19499/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for lottery funding by the Health Service Executive in respect of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19813/16]
• 2016-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to extend the current contract of a person (details supplied); if he will ensure that a permanent position is offered to this person based on his or her expertise in treating sarcoma cancer; if he is aware of the concern of patients at the loss of this person and their desire to have this consultant made permanent and the position approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18928/16]
• 2016-06-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the supports in place for a person (details supplied); if the same level of supports are available at weekends and holidays; and if he will provide a full range of support at weekends in the family home. [17630/16]
• 2016-06-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors on duty in St. Luke's Hospital, County Kilkenny, on 5 June 2016; the number of patients in the hospital on the same day; the number of persons treated in the accident and emergency department on the same day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17631/16]
• 2016-06-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health when the full range of services will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); the action taken by the Health Service Executive when the person was referred for early intervention in 2015 and the assessment of need was completed on 22 October 2015; the occupational therapy and speech and language therapy that has been made available to the person since being assessed on 30 October 2015; and if he will expedite an immediate response from the Health Service Executive and insist on a full care plan being put in place. [17632/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the panel of applicants for the position of groundsman with the Health Service Executive in Castlebar, County Mayo, established in 2015 is exhausted. [15713/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a medical device to a person (details supplied) without delay. [15897/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will prioritise and arrange an early date for surgery for a person (details supplied); and the reason the surgery was not conducted at another hospital. [15899/16]
• 2016-06-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the drug Fampyra is not being prescribed for a person (details supplied); if the matter will be sorted as soon as possible as having to pay for the drug each week is causing family hardship and distress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14623/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the full range of psychiatric supports are being made available to a person (details supplied). [11206/16]
• 2016-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will conduct an audit to ensure that the buildings it uses to house community primary care teams are fit for purpose; if it will review the grade system across therapists and if therapists will be treated equally in the context of consideration for lead positions or the lead position of primary care teams; if it will include training for the various grades of therapist; if all the community primary care teams have their full compliment of professional and trained staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11161/16]
• 2016-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health why a person was waiting five hours to have an operation and was discharged without having it; why the operation was on other dates; the date the operation will now be arranged for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11162/16]
• 2016-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to provide the appropriate level of mental health care to a person (details supplied); and his views on the details of the case. [10926/16]
• 2016-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will pay the money due to a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite the matter. [10927/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Skills why he declined funding for the resurfacing of a yard at a school (details supplied) given the serious health and safety issues outlined in the application and the reports submitted; to immediately provide an emergency grant to deal with this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9412/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to urgently arrange an operation for a person (details supplied). [9624/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to immediately restore the funding which was cut to a project (details supplied) as it is now understaffed and cannot take any more referrals, and yet is a vital part of the Kilkenny mental health day services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9469/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to review the care plan for a person (details supplied). [9621/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for lottery funding by the Health Service Executive in the name of the Samaritans in counties Kilkenny and Carlow, and when he will make a decision on this. [9640/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to review and strike out the charges for inpatient rehabilitation care services applied by St. Columba's Hospital in Thomastown in County Kilkenny, to a person (details supplied). [9646/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to special prescription glasses to correct an issue with sight. [9746/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to provide a bed at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 for a person (details supplied) who is currently in St. Luke's Hospital, in County Kilkenny. [9752/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to arrange urgent treatment for a person (details supplied) who is on a waiting list since 2012 and was placed on a waiting list for treatment on 2 April 2014; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9753/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to arrange an early appointment for an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9846/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to expedite and arrange an early date for an appointment for a person (details supplied). [9847/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will issue a primary medical certificate to a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [9850/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to engage with the Responsible Retailing of Alcohol in Ireland group (RRAI) in respect of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10493/16]
• 2016-04-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to set an early date for an appointment for a person (details supplied) at Waterford University Hospital. [8719/16]
• 2016-04-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to issue a medical card as a matter of urgency to persons (details supplied). [8727/16]
• 2016-04-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will grant permission for an extension to the medical centre at Ballyragget, County Kilkenny to accommodate a practice nurse and if he will expedite the matter. [8737/16]
• 2016-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange immediately speech and language therapy for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [8085/16]
• 2016-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if funding is in place to roll out further primary medical care centres in County Kilkenny; the list of locations being considered throughout the country; and if he has a priority list in respect of the centres. [8141/16]
• 2016-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses employed by the Health Service Executive to serve Kilkenny city; if public health nurses are available to cover weekend duty; the level of service being provided by public health nurses in the eastern environs of Kilkenny city given the demographics of this part of the city; the criteria to access the services of a community nurse; the locations of such a service in Kilkenny city; if a public health centre will be provided in the eastern environs of Kilkenny city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8142/16]
• 2016-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [8143/16]
• 2016-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if speech and language therapy will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will expedite the matter [7826/16]
• 2016-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be fully examined as all the information has been returned by the person. [7968/16]
• 2016-04-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if payments due to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be made in full to the person directly; if there is an outstanding sum due; and if he will expedite the matter [7318/16]
• 2016-04-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the hours of home care granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be operated in line with the old system rather than under a pilot scheme; and if he will expedite the matter [7321/16]
• 2016-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the staffing requirement for all grades and professionals relative to the new building at Saint Luke's General Hospital, County Kilkenny; if the full complement of staff is now recruited to enable all services to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6993/16]
• 2016-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the full range of services urgently required by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be provided, the reason for the delay, especially with regard to psychology services; if there is a waiting list; if so, his plans to deal with same; if he will provide the full professional assistance required by the person during school hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6996/16]
• 2016-04-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a surgical procedure will be arranged as soon as possible for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [6001/16]
• 2016-04-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an application under the fair deal scheme will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [6002/16]
• 2016-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a medical device will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as a matter of urgency. [4898/16]
• 2016-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a primary medical certificate will be approved without delay for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5196/16]
• 2016-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a bed will be provided in University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5328/16]
• 2015-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of a medical appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Killkenny; and the action he will take to address this matter. [46149/15]
• 2015-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if clients of St. Patrick's on the Kells Road in County Kilkenny whose financial affairs are being managed by the company will be allowed to change this arrangement by having the financial accounts managed by the client and family members concerned only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44924/15]
• 2015-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the process available through his Department or the Health Service Executive for individuals who are dissatisfied with the outcome of a hearing conducted by the Irish Medical Organisation; if there is an independent review of appeals process available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44925/15]
• 2015-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he or the Health Service Executive will continue all of the services at St. Patrick's on the Kells Road in County Kilkennyl; if the executive and St. Patrick's have met those concerned to explain what is happening relative to St. Patrick's; if a grant system will be put in place for parents who require respite hours to allow the parents to access the services privately; if Suicide or Survive, SOS, or the executive will provide a long-term plan for respite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44926/15]
• 2015-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the changes being made to home help hours in the Callan area of County Kilkenny; if this pilot project has been agreed with all those concerned including those who work for the Health Services Executive and the union; if the change in the work practice will result in more hours being available to those in need; and if an assessment will be undertaken with the staff to determine if the pilot project is acceptable. [44927/15]
• 2015-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment for assessment will be arranged at Saint James's Hospital in Dublin for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, given that this case is deemed urgent, and the reason for the delay. [44928/15]
• 2015-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff who reached a financial settlement and then retired or terminated their employment and the number who paid arrears relative to their retrospective contracts or to contracts of indefinite duration from 2010 to date; if sick pay is paid to permanent part-time cleaning staff and the status of negotiations between managment and SIPTU and IMPACT relative to this issue; if management has appointed permanent health and safety officers with the necessary qualifications and if management provides adequate training in health and safety to all staff in the Cork Institute of Technology, including its Bishopstown campus and the Rubicon Centre, the Crawford Art Gallery and the National Maritime College of Ireland. [44238/15]
• 2015-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the Camphill communities and L’Arche organisations will receive the support they need from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42997/15]
• 2015-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the next Health Service Executive service plan will provide adequate supports for much needed disability services in the Carlow and Kilkenny area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42996/15]
• 2015-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of economists generally employed by his Department; and within that, the number of health economists employed. [42656/15]
• 2015-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 29 September 2015, regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and the reply issued by the Health Service Executive dated 19 October 2015, if he is aware that the person was given the contract for employment as chef grade 1 in the knowledge of the executive that the person was short by two months to qualify under the regulations; how can the executive now break the contract with the person given that it was agreed before a witness and with the executive having full knowledge of the circumstances of the case; if the executive will now confirm the person in the position as chef grade 1 and avoid an unnecessary human resources dispute involving an employee who has an excellent work record with the executive for over 35 years; if he will also note that replies from the executive do not issue in 15 days. [42845/15]
• 2015-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [42178/15]
• 2015-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for surgery will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [42179/15]
• 2015-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early assessment appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, as the case is urgent; and if he will expedite the matter. [41497/15]
• 2015-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation for a hip replacement will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [41499/15]
• 2015-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the progress he is making in ensuring that the level of funding required to continue the services approved by the L'Arche community in County Kilkenny is put in place; the number of meetings held by his Department and the Health Service Executive to resolve this issue; if he is aware that the L'Arche community is faced with possible and imminent closure due to the lack of funding; if he will request the executive to provide a positive and early response to the L'Arche community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41501/15]
• 2015-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a bed will be provided at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, as a matter of urgency, for a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who has been referred there by a consultant at Waterford Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40537/15]
• 2015-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate reports that the accident and emergency department at St. Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny is understaffed and under-resourced; if the new unit is fully open and operational; if staff are needed for the new unit, or if staff have to be recruited; if he will provide a breakdown of the different categories of staff that are required for this unit; the numbers required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40621/15]
• 2015-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for orthopaedic surgery in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin 12; the number of years that these young children are waiting; when an operation required by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be arranged; and the action he will take to deal with this issue. [40622/15]
• 2015-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the action taken by his Department or the Health Service Executive in dealing with the breach of the no-smoking policy in the wards of St. Luke's Hospital in County Kilkenny; if the policy is now restored; if the patient and family who made the complaint have been satisfied by the explanation; and if an apology has been issued to all patients affected. [40685/15]
• 2015-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite a date for an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39886/15]
• 2015-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the tender process undertaken by the Health Service Executive for the procurement of rooftop helipads for Cork University Hospital and for Galway University Hospital; the value of each contract; the name and business address of the successful company in each case; the status of each project; if there was consultation with interested parties before the tender process commenced; if so, the names of the companies, their areas of expertise and the cost of the advice; if he is satisfied with the executive's actions regarding this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39384/15]
• 2015-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the funding granted over the past five years to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for the provision of respite care; why this respite care service has been withdrawn; and if a parents' group can access the funds and provide the care necessary. [39563/15]
• 2015-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to respond to a proposal from a local Kilkenny-based sports group regarding the use of lands owned by the executive at Lacken on the Dublin Road in County Kilkenny; if the executive will support such a sports project at this location, given the benefits of such an amenity to the health and wellbeing of the people of the county; if, having considered the submission, the executive will support the initiative as a pilot project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39568/15]
• 2015-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a hip operation and an appointment for an eye assessment will be provided at Waterford Regional Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as a matter of urgency. [39570/15]
• 2015-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the funding allocated by his Department to organisations not audited directly by the Comptroller and Auditor General; if he will list those organisations and the funding allocated to each over the past five years; the process that is in place to ensure that value for money is achieved and that the funding allocated is audited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38672/15]
• 2015-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home help, or some form of assistance, will be put in place for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow to help the person cope with issues associated with Alzheimer's disease. [37457/15]
• 2015-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as the person's general practitioner deems the case to be urgent. [37459/15]
• 2015-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the current position with regard to moneys which were included in the vote for health and the Health Service Executive prior to 2015 but ceased to be so included after 1 January 2015; the value of such moneys in 2014; their estimated value in 2015; how they are now accounted for within the HSE; the person who is the Accounting Officer; the reason for their removal from the health vote, in view of the legislation which returned responsibility for the executive's finances to his Department; if the use of these moneys is subject to the overview of the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36725/15]
• 2015-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the sources of the additional €131 million non-Vote income to be collected by the Health Service Executive in 2015; the sources of at least €130 million saving to be achieved by the Health Service Executive, each in tabular form; and the amount of each that has been realised so far in 2015 [36804/15]
• 2015-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the amount of income, previously accounted for as appropriations-in-aid under the health vote prior to 2015, provided in each year from 2011 to 2014 in tabular form; and the amounts that came from hospital maintenance receipts, superannuation, the pension levy, car parking fees, canteens, shops and the primary care reimbursement service. [36806/15]
• 2015-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review the decision taken on an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the person's means, which come from a spouse's income, will be examined on the basis of the person's debts, the hardship being experienced by the family, the person having had a stroke, being in very poor health, and not being able to work again; and if her Department will advise the family as to the supports they may be entitled to. [35973/15]
• 2015-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the allocations made to organisations (details supplied) over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36382/15]
• 2015-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a multidisciplinary team will be put in place to assist the recovery of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the services will engage in a more meaningful way with the person's family in outlining their actions and plans to assist the person to full recovery; if the professionals required are available at St. Luke's Hospital in County Kilkenny or if the person needs to be referred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36407/15]
• 2015-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will set a date for an operation at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9, for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; why the person was not admitted on previous admission dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36408/15]
• 2015-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Health Service Executive, in response to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 28 May 2015, refused to provide the information requested, and instead committed to write directly to the person, as explained in its response of 15 June 2015, but to date no such letter has issued to the person; and if he will expedite a positive reply [36409/15]
• 2015-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a preschool special needs assistant will be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [35812/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a payment made to the Health Service Executive by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be refunded, as the medical fees are covered by the person's medical card; if the explanation provided by the person's general practitioner that, while under the influence of medication, the person completed a form incorrectly will be accepted; if he will expedite a positive response as the person has to borrow from a credit union and is experiencing hardship. [34064/15]
• 2015-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of a proposal to provide a respite house for Tír na nÓg Carlow; the number of meetings attended by the Health Service Executive with regard to funding for this project; the obstacles, if any, in progressing this project and the solutions as envisaged by his Department or the Executive; if he will confirm the funding required by the project; if he will provide funding in 2015 or in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33794/15]
• 2015-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the financial supports available to diabetics with a medical card, and on a limited social protection income, to cover the cost of dietary needs and medication; and his plans to introduce such supports [33798/15]
• 2015-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if correspondence dated 24 June 2015 sent to his Department concerning an organisation (details supplied) in County Waterford has been processed; if a reply will issue as soon as possible; his views on the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33801/15]
• 2015-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be fitted with special shoes. [33802/15]
• 2015-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [33803/15]
• 2015-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will reaffirm the appointment of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, as outlined in a letter of appointment issued to that person by the Health Service Executive on 12 June 2014 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32805/15]
• 2015-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the legal notice issued to the community hospitals in Carlow in August 2015 by the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA; the response issued by the Health Service Executive, HSE; if he will explain why HIQA withdrew this notice; if all matters have now been resolved between the hospitals, HIQA and the HSE; if all correspondence and communications between the various parties will be released to this Deputy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32622/15]
• 2015-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health his plans to resolve the administration issues relative to the border areas of counties Laois and Carlow in respect of the services being delivered to those with disabilities from the Carlow-Graiguecullen area; if he will address the needs of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow who is seeking a place and therefore funding within the L'Arche Services; and if he will expedite a positive response [31865/15]