Stephen Donnelly

Fianna Fáil · Wicklow

Activity on Health — 1908 events (73 lobbying · 1782 questions · 100 votes) full profile →

• 2026-01-16
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  Poe Kiely Hogan Lanigan Solicitors LLP Health

  • Part 9 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024, the establishment of the Regulatory Authority & the commencement of Part 7 and Part 8 (domestic & international surrogacy) arrangements, after the Regulatory Authority is established. Also, to the commencement of Part 12 (past domestic & international surrogacy arrangements) and the commencement of applications for retrospective/past parental order provisions.
• 2026-01-07
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  Acumen Public Affairs Health

  • Irish EU Council Presidency (Health work programme and priorities)
• 2025-09-02
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  Poe Kiely Hogan Lanigan Solicitors LLP Health

  • Part 9 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024, the establishment of the Regulatory Authority & the commencement of Part 7 and Part 8 (domestic & international surrogacy) arrangements, after the Regulatory Authority is established. Also, to the commencement of Part 12 (past domestic & international surrogacy arrangements) and the commencement of applications for retrospective/past parental order provisions.
• 2025-06-26
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  RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) Health

  • Raising public awareness of brain health and improving sport inclusion for people impacted by brain conditions.
• 2025-05-08
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  The Asthma Society of Ireland Health

  • AV Room Briefing
• 2025-04-29
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  Poe Kiely Hogan Lanigan Solicitors LLP Health

  • Part 9 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024, the establishment of the Regulatory Authority & the commencement of Part 7 and Part 8 (domestic & international surrogacy) arrangements, after the Regulatory Authority is established. Also, to the commencement of Part 12 (past domestic & international surrogacy arrangements) and the commencement of applications for retrospective/past parental order provisions.
• 2025-04-15
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  Endometriosis Association of Ireland Health

  • Letter written to Minister Stephen Donnelly regarding the further delay of the publication of the framework
• 2025-02-04
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  Arthritis Ireland Health

  • Arthritis Ireland invited ministers to attend a launch and demonstrate support for research report detailing the financial burden of living with arthritis.
• 2025-01-23
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  Alcohol Forum Ireland Health

  • Advocacy with the Minister for Health to extend the restrictions on alcohol advertising to include zero alcohol products
• 2025-01-21
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  Epilepsy Ireland 2 returns Health

  • Writing to Minister for Health and all TDs and Senators to raise awareness of SUDEP Action Day 2024 and providing details of a new Irish study on the prevalence of SUDEP in Ireland.
  • Contacted listed DPOs in their capacity as General Election Candidates to support EI's advocacy campaigns if elected to the next Dáil
• 2025-01-21
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  Irish Heart Foundation 2 returns Health

  • Secure support tobacco control measures
  • Budget 2025
• 2025-01-21
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  Pender & Associates Ltd 3 returns Health

  • Meeting to discuss parties position on the future of Oral healthcare
  • Issues facing the Oral Healthcare sector
  • Sharing views on issues of concern to home care sector
• 2025-01-21
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  Irish Council for Psychotherapy Health

  • A Pre-Budget Submission to Government was sent to Ministers for Finance, Health/Mental Health & Education on 31/07/2024. The submission focused on key ICP issues in health/mental health, education & finance (VAT). A General Election Manifesto Submission was sent to 6 political party leaders & copied to the health, education & finance spokespersons on 31/07/2024. The parties concerned were Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Green Party, Labour Party, Sinn Féin & Social Democrats https://tinyurl.com/mr42u8xn
• 2025-01-21
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  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
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  Irish Kidney Association 2 returns Health

  • Carol Moore, CEO contacted Stephen Donnelly regarding the introduction of CKD screening and the election results 17/12/2024
  • Carol Moore, CEO contacted Minister Stephen Donnelly 03/11/2024 to inform him that Beaumont Hospital had returned our Renal Support Centre.
• 2025-01-21
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  Cancer Care West CLG Health

  • I represented the working group for the network of Community Cancer Support Centres at a meeting with Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.
• 2025-01-21
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  Irish Cancer Society Health

  • General Election campaign
• 2025-01-21
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  Vulcan Consulting Limited Health

  • Rare Disease Policy in Ireland
• 2025-01-21
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  LGBT Support and Advocacy Network Ireland CLG Justice and Equality

  • LGBT Ireland Pre Budget Submission
• 2025-01-21
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  Irish Pharmacy Union 4 returns Health

  • Formal Structured Engagement Process on Pay Talks
  • Free HRT Scheme
  • Pay Talks and HRT Scheme
  • Free HRT Budget Announcement
• 2025-01-21
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  ARC Cancer Support Centres Health

  • I represented the working group for the network of Cancer Support Centres at a meeting with Minster for Health Stephen Donnolly
• 2025-01-21
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  National Infertility Support and Information Group Health

  • As part of European Fertility week 2024, NISIG wanted to highlight Ireland’s improvement in its ranking in Fertility Europe’s policy survey. We want to see Ireland increase its standing and strengthen supports regarding policy related to fertility treatment, including commencement of the health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024), widening criteria for publicly funded treatment, workplace support. This will need to be fully funded.
• 2025-01-21
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  Home and Community Care Ireland Health

  • Engagements during the General Election campaign & government formation talks.
• 2025-01-21
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  Gibney Communications Health

  • To engage with the Minister for Health and officials in the Department of Health on the construction of the National Children's Hospital.
• 2025-01-21
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  The Psychological Society of Ireland 2 returns Health

  • Press release reiterating Calls for Greater Investment in Mental Health as Budget 2025 Falls Short of Addressing Growing and Urgent Needs
  • The PSI's Pre-Budget Submission for Budget 2025
• 2025-01-21
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  221+ Patient Suport Group Health

  • Letter and subsequent emails with Department of Social Protection regarding 221+ members and means tested payments
• 2025-01-21
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  Ibec 2 returns EU AffairsFood

  • National Consultative Forum on Regulations
  • Department of Health engagement on regulation
• 2025-01-21
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  Uplift Health

  • The Minister of Health was asked that legislation be passed so that social media companies would have to turn off the recommender systems on the algorithms by default.
• 2025-01-21
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  Pfizer Health

  • Ireland's medicine reimbursement system and funding for access to new medicines and vaccines
• 2025-01-20
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  LGBT Support and Advocacy Network Ireland CLG Health

  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) (Amendment) Bill 2024
• 2025-01-20
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  The Sunbed Association Health

  • Public policy on the regulation of sunbeds in Ireland
• 2025-01-20
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  Irish Lung Fibrosis Association Health

  • Creating awareness to members of The House of the Oireachtas and Minister for Health of the need for the need for funding for those living with pulmonary fibrosis in Ireland, and the unmet needs of those patients and the challenges they face living with a life limiting condition, the cost of running oxygen at home and rising energy costs.
• 2025-01-20
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  Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services Health

  • On a visit to Wicklow Hospice, the Minister was asked to consider funding to support access to the service and pay costs to support recruitment of several positions.
• 2025-01-20
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  Vincent Jennings/Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association (CSNA) Health

  • CSNA made detailed submissions regarding aspects of a Public Health Bill as it affected our members, particularly those selling tobacco and nicotine-inhaling products.
• 2025-01-20
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  Breakthrough Cancer Research Health

  • National Strategy for CAR-T Cell Therapy
• 2025-01-20
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  Federation of Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Health

  • Letter to Minister Stephen Donnelly seeking clarity on the Community Ophthalmic Services Scheme (COSS) scheme and the status of a previous commitment to increase fees for eye examinations.
• 2025-01-20
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  Pieta House Health

  • Requesting statutory support for Pieta's self-harm and suicide intervention programmes and for full implementation of Sharing the Vision
• 2025-01-20
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  The Irish Hospice Foundation Health

  • Informal discussion with the Minister at the launch of the National Adult Palliative Care Policy.
• 2025-01-20
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  GSK Health

  • Older adults RSV pathfinder programme
• 2025-01-20
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  Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists Health

  • IASLT issued a statement on recruitment concerns associated with the HSE Pay and Numbers strategy.
• 2025-01-20
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  Veterinary Ireland Agriculture

  • Communications with Taoiseach, Tanaiste, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Minister for Health, Chief Veterinary Officer, and other DPOs, regarding Veterinary Ireland concerns on the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023, and associated Statutory Instrument.
• 2025-01-20
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  Instinctif Partners Public Affairs Ireland 4 returns Health

  • Correspondence to political representatives regarding the implications of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive for the biosimilar, generic and off-patent medicines industry.
  • Correspondence to political stakeholders regarding MFI's General Election Manifesto.
  • Correspondence to Stephen Donnelly TD, regarding the omittance of generic, biosimilar and value-added medicines in the Fianna Fáil General Election Manifesto.
  • Correspondence to the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, regarding the Bolar clause of the EU Pharmaceutical Legislation.
• 2025-01-20
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  College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Health

  • Letter to Ministers Donnelly and Butler again seeking an urgent meeting to discuss and highlight serious concerns with aspects of the Mental Health Bill 2024 and required amendments needed to ensure it serves its purpose for those with serious mental illness requiring treatment.
• 2025-01-20
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  Alcohol Action Ireland 2 returns Health

  • Zero alcohol product advertising
  • Alcohol policy development in relation to a new strategy for alcohol and the establishment of an Alcohol Office
• 2025-01-20
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  The Irish Clinical Oncology Group t/a Cancer Trials Ireland 2 returns Health

  • GDPR report launch
  • GDPR report launch
• 2025-01-20
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  Irish Pharmacy Union Health

  • Department of Health Budget
• 2025-01-20
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  Poe Kiely Hogan Lanigan Solicitors LLP Health

  • The General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017
• 2025-01-20
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  Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Health

  • Unfair exclusion of CPCs from the pay increase awarded to grades associated with the Clinical Nurse/Midwife Manager 2 pay scale.
• 2025-01-17
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  Gilead Sciences Ireland UC Health

  • Sent email to DPO's to consider, in election manifestos, a plan of action to reach 2030 HIV healthcare policy goals
• 2025-01-17
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  Mental Health Reform 2 returns HealthBudgetary matters

  • Mental Health Bill 2024
  • MHR's Pre-Budget Campaign 2025 - https://mentalhealthreform.ie/budget-2025
• 2025-01-17
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  Chronic Pain Ireland Health

  • General Election to pledge support to add chronic pain key asks to the programme for government
• 2025-01-16
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  LauraLynn Ireland's Children's Hospice Health

  • Seeking the inclusion of specific commitments on children's palliative care in Programme for Government 2025.
• 2025-01-16
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  GP Care For All Health

  • Request amendment to Legislation
• 2025-01-16
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  BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd. Health

  • Request to meet to discuss the research 'Trans Healthcare in Ireland from Belong To and UCD.
• 2025-01-16
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  Cuala Senior Care Limited Health

  • Sharing views on issues of concern to home care sector
• 2025-01-15
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  Zoetis Health

  • Asking to visit Zoetis site in Rathdrum
• 2025-01-15
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  Multiple Sclerosis Ireland Health

  • MS Ireland attended photocalls with Ministers Anne Rabbitte Stephen Donnelly to launch successful NAI Budget Campaign
• 2025-01-15
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  The Medical Protection Society Limited Justice and Equality

  • Letter regarding the report & recommendations from the Interdepartmental Working Group on the Rising Cost of Health-Related Claims
• 2025-01-14
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  HealthTech Ireland Association Health

  • Urgent need for action on the medical technology regulations to ensure devices availability and competitiveness of the sector
• 2025-01-13
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  Sanofi Health

  • RSV implementation programme/Influenza immunisation
• 2025-01-10
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  Neurological Alliance of Ireland Health

  • Implementation of the National Neurorehabilitation Strategy and Investment in Services for People with Neurological Conditions
• 2025-01-10
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  Parkinson's Ireland 2 returns Health

  • Various politicians were lobbied to support increased HSE section 39 funding for Parkinson's Ireland.
  • Various politicians were lobbied to support Parkinson's Ireland's election asks including increased HSE section 39 funding for Parkinson's Ireland, recruitment of additional Parkinson's nurses, investment in regional neurology services and research..
• 2025-01-09
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  Respect Vapers Health

  • Submission of the Respect Vapers Pre-Budget request to avoid increasng taxes on flavoured vapes.
• 2025-01-09
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  Sage Advocacy Health

  • Programme for Government
• 2025-01-09
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  Irish Medical Organisation Health

  • Budget 2025
• 2025-01-08
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  St. Francis Hospice Dublin Health

  • Seeking funding in 2025 to progress the new National Adult Palliative Care Policy / Seeking inclusion of palliative care in political party manifestos / seeking the prioritisation of palliative care in the Programme for Government
• 2024-12-17
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  Novartis Ireland Limited Health

  • Implementation of SMA testing into the heel prick test for newborns
• 2024-12-05
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  Clonmel Healthcare Health

  • Endorse Clonmel Healthcare's biosimilar to prescribers ahead of the outcome of the Best Value Biological (BVB) medicine process.
• 2024-11-25
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  Psychiatric Nurses Association Health

  • concerns for the future of mental health services in Ireland and the issues that will require the urgent and committed attention for any incoming government.
• 2024-11-21
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  UNICEF Ireland Health

  • Boost breastfeeding support, deliver timely interventions for children with developmental delays, Expand childhood mental health services to meet growing demands
• 2024-11-20
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  Viatris Ireland Health

  • Update from Viatris Ireland on data submitted to the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) arising from the HIQA public consultation undertaken regarding the Health Service Executive (HSE) Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme, and the subsequent report issued by HIQA.
• 2024-11-07
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  The Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute Health

  • Wrote to Minister for Health in capacity as Chair of the Health and Social Professions Alliance to seek clarification of the role of HSCPs in the new HSE Regional Health Structure
• 2024-10-23
  VOTE
  Public Health Service Staffing · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 70–59
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 70–59
• 2024-10-03
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  Polio Survivors Ireland Finance

  • Pre-Budget Submission to Department of Health
• 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
• 2024-02-21
  VOTE
  Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 70–60
• 2024-01-24
  VOTE
  Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021 [Seanad]

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 74–54
• 2023-11-22
  VOTE
  Health Service Recruitment Freeze · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 74–58
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 74–59
• 2023-11-15
  VOTE
  Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages · 3 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 117–10
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 49–81
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 47–81
• 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
• 2023-10-25
  VOTE
  Health Service Funding · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 75–59
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 73–58
• 2023-10-12
  VOTE
  Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023 · 2 divisions

  A bill to provide for the licensing of the sale by retail of tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register of licences issued under and in accordance with the Act; to provide for certain related offences; and for those and other purposes, to provide for the amendment of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002; and to provide for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments and the revocation of certain statutory instruments; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 5–5
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 5–4
• 2023-09-27
  VOTE
  Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee

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

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

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 111–10
• 2023-05-31
  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.

  • ~ abstained whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 67–64
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 61–74
• 2023-05-10
  VOTE
  Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 50–63
• 2023-01-25
  VOTE
  Capacity in the Health Services · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 68–59
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 68–58
• 2022-12-14
  VOTE
  Current Issues Affecting the Health Services · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 72–53
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 72–53
• 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
• 2022-03-02
  VOTE
  Healthcare Waiting Lists · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 76–57
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 75–57
• 2021-12-15
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021 · 2 divisions

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

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 107–36
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 103–37
• 2021-12-08
  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
• 2021-12-02
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 48–60
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 47–63
• 2021-11-24
  VOTE
  Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021

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

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 82–46
• 2021-11-03
  VOTE
  Extension of Health (Amendment) Act 2020

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 82–43
• 2021-11-03
  VOTE
  Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 82–44
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 59–66
• 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
• 2021-07-14
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages

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

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

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 72–66
• 2021-06-02
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) Act 2021

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 90–50
• 2021-06-02
  VOTE
  Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

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

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 77–51
• 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
• 2020-10-23
  VOTE
  Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages

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

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

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 93–43
• 2020-10-22
  VOTE
  Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act) 2020 - Part 3 · 2 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion passed · 92–53
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 59–86
• 2020-09-10
  VOTE
  Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion failed · 15–125
• 2020-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the relevant programmes and routes to medicinal cannabis for children that may be considered suitable. [12166/20]
• 2020-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Employment

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can avail of the pandemic unemployment payment, which he or she would get if his or her# place of work is still closed, in the situation in which his or her place of work has reopened, but have written medical advice to not return to work at this time due to the fact he or she is particularly high risk if he or she contracts Covid-19, for example, if he or she has an underlying health condition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12115/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of May 2020 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [10874/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of May 2020 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [10875/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; the number waiting up to 12 weeks at the end of May 2020 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [10876/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; the number waiting up to 12 weeks at the end of May 2020 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [10877/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of May 2020 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [10878/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position on the future of both the midwifery-led and the consultant-led services in view of the current uncertainty, with regard to maternity services at Cavan General Hospital; the number of persons accessing services at both units in each of the years 2014 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10886/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the measures taken to allow parents to visit their children when they have been admitted to hospital, including to psychiatric units, when the hospital has no visitation in place due to Covid-19. [10978/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of Covid-19 data by town; the number of cases, positive tests and fatalities in each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11041/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there will be a new national medicine pricing agreement in 2020 and in place before the expiry of the existing agreement later in summer 2020; the engagements and negotiations that have taken place to date to reach a new agreement; the parties he engaged with in this regard; the estimated timeline for the conclusion of a new agreement; the negotiating structure; the parties that will be a party to this agreement; the processes to reach agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8451/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the correspondence between the chairperson of the HSE, the CEO of the HSE, the Secretary General of his Department and him pertaining to Covid-19 testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7176/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the lack of liaison support for persons in emergency accommodation being provided to asylum seekers in a hotel (details supplied) in County Wicklow including lack of social worker and liaison for physical and mental healthcare; if the appropriate resources will deployed to the asylum seekers as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6623/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if agency staff recruited through a company (details supplied) for the Be On Call for Ireland campaign are in receipt of the same benefits as a member of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5746/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the use of a laboratory (details supplied) for Covid-19 testing; if the HSE has reduced its planned or agreed use of the laboratory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6192/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the use of laboratories here for Covid-19 testing; if the HSE has reduced its planned or agreed use of these laboratories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6193/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position and process for retrospective testing for persons that are of the view they may have had Covid-19 prior to when testing commenced here; if this is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6395/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if funding will be made available as a matter of urgency for an approved placement in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5021/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [5339/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12,12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [5340/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available. [5341/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available [5342/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available. [5343/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5344/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5345/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5346/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5347/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5348/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5349/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5350/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5351/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5352/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the South/South West hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5353/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5354/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5355/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5356/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5357/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5358/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5359/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Saolta hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5360/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5361/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5362/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5363/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5364/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5365/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5366/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the University of Limerick hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5367/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University of Limerick hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5368/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University of Limerick hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5369/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University of Limerick hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5370/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University of Limerick hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5371/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the University of Limerick hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5372/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University of Limerick hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5373/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5374/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5375/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5376/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5377/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5378/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Ireland East hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5379/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5380/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5381/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5382/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5383/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5384/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East hospital group by periods of less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [5385/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff nurses employed at the end of March 2019 and March 2020 or the latest date available. [5386/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a diagnostic scan at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5387/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5388/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5389/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5390/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a dietetic appointment in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to12 and more than 12 months, respectively by LHO in tabular form. [5391/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5392/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for speech and language therapy in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5393/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for initial speech and language therapy in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5394/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for further speech and language therapy in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form [5395/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for occupational therapy in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by LHO in tabular form. [5396/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case active waiting list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5397/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case GI endoscopy waiting list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5398/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case to-come-in waiting list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5399/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy to-come-in waiting list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5400/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case suspensions list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5401/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5402/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy planned procedures list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5403/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures suspensions list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5404/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the outpatient waiting list in primary care at the end of March 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by hospital group in tabular form. [5405/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if financial support can be provided to a person (details supplied) in a case in which due to alopecia, expensive wigs are required for more than one member of a household and in which that household does not have the financial resources to buy the wigs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5466/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures procured by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2017, 2018 and 2019, by type and speciality of each procedure in tabular form; the expenditure incurred in each year; the amount of the funding spent on procuring private treatment in each year; and the amount spent procuring treatment in the public and voluntary hospitals. [3398/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the income received by each hospital group from the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2017, 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [3399/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients removed from outpatient lists in 2019 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [3400/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments outstanding for more than two years at the end of February 2020; the number outstanding for more than three years; and the number outstanding for more than four years by each reporting hospital in tabular form. [3401/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2019 of the 10% increase across all GP-visit card weekly income thresholds; the full-year cost of same; and the number of additional GP-visit cards issued in 2019 as a result of this change. [3402/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the share of the health budget allocated to primary care in each of the years 2016 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020. [3403/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 29 February 2020; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on the date. [3404/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme at the end of February 2020 or latest date available; the average waiting time; the numbers of persons awaiting placement under the scheme by local health area in tabular form; and the length of time waiting. [3405/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in each public and voluntary acute hospital that were closed on 28 February 2020 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available. [3406/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of December 2019; and the total number in 2019. [3407/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost in each public and voluntary hospital owing to delayed discharges in 2019. [3408/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less by ambulance station to the end of February 2020; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less. [3409/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 or over who experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours during December 2019; the overall number in 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [3410/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area to the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; the way in which this compares to target in each LHO for the same time period; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting up to three, three to six, six to 12, and more than 12 months in tabular form. [3411/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in February 2020; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same. [3412/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting fewer than four, four to eight, and more than eight months for treatment in hospitals (details supplied); and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients. [3413/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52, and more than 52 weeks. [3414/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks. [3415/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks. [3416/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks. [3417/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks. [3418/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3420/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3421/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3422/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3423/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3424/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3425/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3426/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3427/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3428/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3429/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3430/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3431/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3432/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied). [3433/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3434/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3435/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3436/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3437/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3438/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3439/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3440/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3441/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3442/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3443/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3444/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3445/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3446/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3447/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3448/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3449/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3450/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3451/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3452/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3453/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3454/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3508/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3509/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3510/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3511/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3512/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3513/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3514/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff nurses employed at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; and the equivalent figure for the same date a year earlier. [3515/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a diagnostic scan at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3516/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3517/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3518/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3519/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a dietetic appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3520/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3521/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for speech and language therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3522/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for initial speech and language therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3523/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for further speech and language therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than 4 months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3524/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for occupational therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3525/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case active waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3526/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case GI endoscopy waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3527/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case to come in waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3528/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy to come in waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3529/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case suspensions list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3530/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3531/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy planned procedures list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3532/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures suspensions list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3533/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the outpatient waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3534/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delay in the reimbursement of daratumumab combination therapy (details supplied) for persons with multiple myeloma; the reason for the delay; if he will direct the HSE to follow through on its approval decision made in 2019; and when the therapy will be reimbursed and made available to persons here. [3571/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if clarity will be provided to clinicians and patients regarding when daratumumab Darzalex combination therapy (details supplied) will be made available as a treatment option for persons with relapsed and or refractory myeloma. [3572/20]
• 2019-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the annual education and development funding for the INMO; and the comparative funding for the HSCP national office [53469/19]
• 2019-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the comparative figure for health and social care professions in view of the fact that going forward, 2% of all nursing and midwifery posts are guaranteed to be at advanced practice level [53470/19]
• 2019-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 12 December 2019, the number of removals from the outpatient list which were as a result of a patient being deceased. [53623/19]
• 2019-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 12 December 2019, the funding the National Treatment Purchase Fund is providing for the opening of additional beds; if the beds are being exclusively financed by the fund; if other funding is being provided; and if so, the details of same. [53687/19]
• 2019-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners holding GMS contracts in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [53688/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the legal fees incurred by the HSE in each of the years 2010 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [52825/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of critical care ambulance service transfers to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [52826/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments outstanding for more than two, three and four years, respectively, at the end of November 2019, by each reporting hospital in tabular form. [53000/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the policy in relation to girls who missed out on the provision of vaccines for medical reasons (details supplied). [53034/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason it is no longer possible to access on the website of his Department press releases and speeches by Ministers in previous Governments over the past 20 years. [53227/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting fewer than 13 weeks following a referral for a routine colonoscopy or OGD at the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting more than 13 weeks. [52224/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of community intervention teams in each community healthcare organisation; and the number of whole-time equivalent staff on 30 November in each of the years 2017 to 2019 or the latest date available in each year. [52225/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals for treatment to each community intervention team to date in 2019, in tabular form. [52226/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that received specialist palliative care treatment in their normal place of residence in each month to date in 2019. [52227/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures cancelled and postponed in each public hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52228/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures cancelled and postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52229/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures the HSE has procured from private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; the amount spent by the HSE on procedures in private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52230/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures procured by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each year since its restoration in 2017 by the type and speciality of each procedure in tabular form. [52231/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients that have been removed from outpatient lists to date in 2019 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [52232/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments the HSE has procured from private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; the amount spent by the HSE on the appointments in private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52233/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Ireland East hospital group to date in 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [52234/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the RCSI hospital group to date in 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [52235/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Children’s Health Ireland hospital group to date in 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [52236/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Saolta hospital group to date in 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form [52237/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Dublin Midlands hospital group to date in 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [52238/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the South/South West hospital group to date in 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [52239/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the University Limerick hospital group to date in 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [52240/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Ireland East hospital group as of 6 December 2019, in tabular form. [52241/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the RCSI hospital group as of 6 December 2019, in tabular form. [52242/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Children’s Health Ireland hospital group as of 6 December 2019, in tabular form. [52243/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Saolta hospital group as of 6 December 2019, in tabular form. [52244/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Dublin Midlands hospital group as of 6 December 2019, in tabular form. [52245/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the South/South West hospital group as of 6 December 2019, in tabular form. [52246/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the University Limerick hospital group as of 6 December 2019, in tabular form. [52247/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the most recent projection on the number of medical cards to be provided in 2019; and the likely full year costs or savings in 2019 in the case of a variation from the projection. [52248/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage occupancy rate in public residential care units for the most recent calendar month available and for the previous eleven months in tabular form. [52249/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of community healthcare organisations that have established waiting lists for home care on a standardised basis. [52250/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events being notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [52251/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations commenced within 48 hours of the event occurring. [52252/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations completed within four months of notification of the event occurring. [52253/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of reportable events to date in 2019 that have been reported within 30 days of occurrence to the designated officer. [52254/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the examination undertaken of the use of incentives to support investment by general practitioners, dentists and other professionals in primary care centres, technology and service developments [52255/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action taken to support general practitioner practices in disadvantaged urban areas. [52256/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners employed by the HSE on a salaried basis in each year since 2016. [52257/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the proposed new structures within the HSE will be put on a statutory basis. [52258/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of hospices in each local health office area in tabular form. [52259/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments outstanding for more than two, three and four years, respectively, at the end of November 2019 for each reporting hospital in tabular form. [52260/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the medical assessment units, urgent care centres and minor injuries clinics that extended their Monday to Friday hours of opening since 2016, in tabular form. [52261/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the medical assessment units, urgent care centres, and minor injuries clinics that extended hours of opening to weekends since 2016 in tabular form. [52262/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the increases in ambulances, EMTs and paramedics that have taken place in each year since 2016. [52263/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the work of the performance management unit in the HSE; the number of whole-time equivalent staff employed; the number of reports and reviews it has undertaken; and the recommendations made by it to improve performance. [52264/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when he plans to negotiate a new consultant contract. [52265/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of plans to base health expenditure on multi-year budgeting supported by a five-year health service plan based on realistic and verifiable projections. [52266/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the HSE on 6 December 2019 or the latest date available. [52267/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is on target to achieve savings, cost reductions or improved income generation in a number of areas set out in the HSE 2019 service plan (details supplied); and the achievements in each to date in 2019 in tabular form. [52268/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the implementation of the 45 recommendations of the trauma steering group in tabular form. [52269/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the implementation of the recommendations of the Scally report in tabular form. [52270/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on agency staff each month in 2018 and to date in 2019; the proportion of the anticipated agency staff expenditure by the HSE for 2019 incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52271/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount collected in prescription charges for medical card prescriptions in each of the years 2015 to 2018; and the amount projected for 2019. [52272/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of elective inpatient discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to the end of November 2019. [52273/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances decommissioned by the National Ambulance Service; the number of new emergency ambulances acquired; the number of intermediate care ambulances decommissioned by the National Ambulance Service; the number of new intermediate care ambulances acquired; the number of rapid response vehicles decommissioned by the National Ambulance Service; the number of new rapid response vehicles acquired; the number of vehicles commissioned and purchased as rapid response vehicles by the National Ambulance Service acquired; the number in use; the number awaiting entry into service to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52274/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances in service by the year in which they entered service, pods and vehicles; the date on which they entered service; the HSE region in which they are based; the number of intermediate care ambulances in service by the year in which they entered service, pods and vehicles; the date on which they entered service the HSE region in which they are based in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52275/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the distances travelled by emergency, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles in service in such a capacity by HSE region subdivided by each 50,000 miles and or 80,000 kms, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52276/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health area in tabular form. [52277/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency medicine consultants in each public and voluntary hospital with an emergency department; the number of 24-hour emergency departments; and the number that have an emergency medicine consultant available daily on a 24-hour basis public and voluntary hospital with an emergency department in tabular form. [52278/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the type of procedures that were cancelled or postponed in regard to the recent cancellations of elective procedures at the children’s hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52381/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if chemotherapy sessions for children are being delayed; if so, the details of the delays; the causes of same; the number of children affected; the length of delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52382/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of acute beds for paediatric oncology; the number that will be available when the national children’s hospital is open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52383/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the date on which the cut to the minor injury unit fee will come into effect; if the fee cut is temporary or permanent; if temporary, the date on which the cut will expire; the estimated cost of the measure; and the estimated full-year cost of implementing such a measure by year. [52430/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the additional funding being provided to out-of-hours general practitioner services in winter 2020; and the local breakdown of the allocation in tabular form. [52431/19]
• 2019-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund has agreed to fund up to 200 additional beds over the winter; if so, the hospitals in which the beds are to be located, in tabular form; when the beds will be opened; if it is planned that the beds will remain available throughout 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52488/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for new cuts being imposed on pharmacists [51244/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to follow up on a report (details supplied) commissioned by the HSE on pharmacy fees; the findings of the report; and if it will be published immediately [51245/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the imposition of new cuts to pharmacists will lead to the closure of pharmacies. [51246/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the implementation of new services to be carried out by pharmacists. [51247/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on gynaecological waiting lists by month from 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, for the three Dublin maternity hospitals (details supplied);the numbers waiting less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12, 12 to 8 and more than 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51266/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons being referred to gynaecological services for the three Dublin maternity hospitals (details supplied) for each month in 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51267/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress being made on supplying a hospital bed to the home of a person (details supplied). [51289/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of women that applied to join a group (details supplied) recently; the number that should have been included initially, that is, they met the criteria for joining; the reason they were not invited to join initially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51651/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the HPV test will be launched for women nationwide; the reason the September 2018 and 2019 deadline for same was missed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51652/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if, further to the review of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists into cervical cancer cases, he will request a review of colposcopy practices as outlined in the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51653/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the way in which women and their families were treated as part of the review by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in cervical cancer cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51654/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason funding for the winter plan was not included in the 2019 HSE service plan and is being included in the Supplementary Estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51655/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 30 November 2019; the number of general practitioner visit cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [50880/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme at the end of November 2019 or latest date available; the average waiting time; the numbers of persons awaiting placement under the scheme in tabular form; and the length of time waiting. [50881/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in each public and voluntary acute hospital that were closed on 30 November 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level is available in tabular form. [50882/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of November 2019; and the number to date in each in 2019, in tabular form. [50883/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost in each public and voluntary hospital owing to delayed discharges between 1 January and 30 November 2019 or the latest date available in tabular form. [50884/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in each ambulance station in each month in 2019 to the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in tabular form. [50885/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours during November 2019; the number to date in 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [50886/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area to the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; the way in which it compares to the target in each LHO for the same time period; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months in tabular form. [50887/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in November 2019; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than of 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same in tabular form. [50888/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months, respectively, in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital to the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients in tabular form. [50889/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively in tabular form. [50890/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively in tabular form. [50891/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively in tabular form. [50892/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care at the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively in tabular form. [50893/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively in tabular form. [50894/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50895/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50896/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50897/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50898/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50899/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50900/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50901/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50902/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50903/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50904/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50905/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50906/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50907/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50908/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50909/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50910/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Saolta hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50911/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50912/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50913/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50914/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50915/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50916/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50917/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50918/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50919/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50920/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University of Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50921/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University of Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50922/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University of Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50923/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50924/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50925/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50926/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50927/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50928/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50929/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50930/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50931/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50932/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50933/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50934/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50935/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 November 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months. [50936/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff nurses employed as of 30 November 2019 or the latest date available; and the equivalent figure for the same date in 2018. [50937/19]
• 2019-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE pays compensation or finder's fees to employment agencies in cases in which personnel registered with such agencies and who are working on that basis in the public health system are subsequently offered full–time posts by the HSE; if so, the number of cases in which such finder's fees have been paid in 2018 and to date in 2019; and the amounts involved in each case. [50587/19]
• 2019-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of salaried general practitioners employed by the HSE to provide general medical services to patients with medical cards and GP visit cards; if such doctors are direct HSE employees as distinct from employees of general practitioners’ practices from GMS contract holders; if so, the salary grades and details; and if they qualify for public service pensions and pay the pension levy. [50588/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the recent closing of the stoma clinic at University Hospital Waterford; if it is only UHW affected by the closure; if it is a new change of policy; the stoma support facilities and-or resources in place throughout other regional hospitals in comparison such as Cork and Limerick; and if information on the reopening and-or the contingencies being put in place will be provided. [49935/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made on scheduling ankle surgery at University Hospital Limerick for a person (details supplied). [49958/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made on supplying home help hours to the family of a person (details supplied). [49959/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the limited number of persons with disabilities in receipt of personal assistance hours in CHO6 with just nine persons in receipt of same at the end of June 2019 compared to CHO5 in which 422 persons were receiving personal assistance hours on the same date; and the number of persons in County Wicklow in receipt of personal assistance hours. [50187/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of child patients who have been transferred by taxi from Temple Street Children's University Hospital to Children's Health Ireland at Connolly Hospital since 31 July 2019. [50210/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of blood samples that have been transferred by taxi from the Children's Health Ireland at Connolly Hospital to Temple Street Children's University Hospital since 31 July 2019 to date in 2019 in the presence of a hospital employee during transfer; the number of taxi journeys involved; and if the blood samples were at all times in the presence of a hospital employee during their transfer. [50211/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff positions unfilled in Children's Health Ireland at Connolly Hospital. [50212/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when Children's Health Ireland at Connolly Hospital will be open Monday to Sunday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. [50213/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if all blood samples taken by Children's Health Ireland at Connolly Hospital are transferred elsewhere for analysis. [50214/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that have experienced an emergency department wait time of less than six, six to 12, 12 to 24 and more than 24 hours for each hospital in the Children’s Hospital group to date in 2019, in tabular form. [50215/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only a fraction of the cost of medical procedures is being refunded to patients who have surgery carried out under the cross border directive such as in the case of a patient (details supplied) in County Galway; if this partial refund is a new policy direction; if not, the steps that can be taken by patients to recover their out of pocket spending; if there are other medical schemes that can help patients in this situation including but not limited to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, treatment abroad scheme and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50299/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the relocation of the three Dublin maternity hospitals to new sites; the planned dates for when the new hospitals will be open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49072/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when he is planning for safe staffing levels in hospitals to be reached for nurses, midwives and doctors including ceasing of the new entrant pay disparity for consultants; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48855/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the estimates to date for the annual operating costs of the national children’s hospital will be provided; the reason for changes in the estimates; the current estimate being used; if a revised estimate is being prepared; if so, when it will be ready; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48852/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the categories of cost escalations in regard to further potential cost escalations for the building and commissioning of the national children’s hospital; the provisional amounts being allocated for each category; the estimated amount or potential range of cost escalation for each category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48853/19]
• 2019-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the NTPF report on private healthcare in public hospitals will be made available. [48554/19]
• 2019-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the infection control measures in place in nursing and residential homes to prevent and tackle flu outbreaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47985/19]
• 2019-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE monitors the number of nursing home patients, public and private, that have been vaccinated against flu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47986/19]
• 2019-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if private hospitals have been asked to vaccinate staff against the flu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47987/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a diagnostic scan less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47133/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47134/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47135/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47136/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a dietetic appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47137/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47138/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for speech and language therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47139/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for initial speech and language therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47140/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for further speech and language therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47141/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for occupational therapy less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months by LHO area in tabular form. [47142/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case active waiting list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47143/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case GI endoscopy waiting list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47144/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient or day case list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47145/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47146/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient or day case suspensions list less than 6, 6 to12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form [47147/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form [47148/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy planned procedures list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47149/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures suspensions list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47150/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the outpatient waiting list less than six, six to 12 and more than 12 months by hospital group in tabular form. [47151/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the HSE national service plan for 2020 will be published. [47548/19]
• 2019-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons resident here that have availed of genetic testing in other EU states under the cross-border directive in each year since 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46957/19]
• 2019-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance in age groups (details supplied) [46755/19]
• 2019-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no regional services for those attending primary medical certificate assessment appointments meaning all applicants to the scheme must travel to Dublin to attend the assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46059/19]
• 2019-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a Supplementary Estimate of €335 million is still expected for the health service in 2019; and if there has been a revision of same [46221/19]
• 2019-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of the 600 extra acute beds to be phased in by the end of 2020 that have been provided and are in use as of 1 November 2019 further to the 2018 announcement; the hospitals in which they have been provided; if the balance of the 600 will be in place and used by patients by the end of 2020; and the hospitals in which the remainder of the 600 beds are to be provided, in tabular form. [46481/19]
• 2019-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of figures he provided at his budget 2020 press conference for the cost in 2020 of the changes to the income limits for the over 70s medical card announced in the budget; and the estimated full-year cost of the measure. [46001/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of the cross-border directive in each year since its inception; the cost of reimbursements for same in each year since its inception; and the number of claims awaiting reimbursement under the directive as of 31 October 2019 or the latest date available. [45644/19]
• 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 Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made in establishing a health and social care advisory unit to provide him with the expert advice and support amid planned changes in public health services, including Sláintecare. [44199/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances in operation nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44347/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to demonstrate that special dentist training is of a high priority during the implementation of the new national oral health policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44394/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding that will be released for training in special care dentistry under the new national oral health policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44395/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost per bed night for each hospital, including critical care and ward beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44619/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the price paid for each procedure from the NTPF; if different prices are paid for the same procedures, for example, to different hospitals; if so, the prices in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44620/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill Mix in General and Specialist Medical and Surgical Care Settings in Adult Hospitals in Ireland 2018; when it will be implemented in all hospitals; if there are costs to implementing the plan; the savings which can be realised as a result of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44621/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the national policy on adult safeguarding will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44631/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the national guidelines for hospital parking charges. [44648/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 22 October 2019, the breakdown of time related saving of €73 million available on a once-off basis within the Health vote in 2019. [44789/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 31 October 2019; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [45510/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme at the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of persons awaiting placement under the scheme in each local health area in tabular form; and the length of time waiting. [45511/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 31 October 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [45512/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of October 2019; and the number to date in each in 2019, in tabular form. [45513/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost in each public and voluntary hospital owing to delayed discharges between 1 January 2019 and 31 October 2019 or the latest date available in tabular form. [45514/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less for each ambulance station in each month in 2019 to the end of October 2019 or latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in tabular form. [45515/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours during October 2019; the total number to date in 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [45516/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area to the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; the way in which this compares to target in each LHO for the same time period; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45517/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in October 2019; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same, respectively in tabular form. [45518/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months, respectively, at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital for the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients. [45519/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, in tabular form. [45520/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, in tabular form. [45521/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, in tabular form. [45522/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care at the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, in tabular form. [45523/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of October 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, in tabular form. [45524/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 9, 9 to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively in tabular form. [45525/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45526/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45527/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45528/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45529/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45530/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45531/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45532/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45533/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45534/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45535/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45536/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45537/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45538/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45539/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45540/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45541/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45542/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45543/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta University Health Care Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45544/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta University Health Care Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45545/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta University Health Care Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45546/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45547/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the University Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45548/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45549/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45550/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45551/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45552/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45553/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University Limerick hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45554/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45555/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45556/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45557/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45558/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45559/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45560/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45561/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45562/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45563/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45564/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45565/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 October 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East hospital group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [45566/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff nurses employed as of 31 October 2019 or the latest date available; and the equivalent figure for the same date in 2018. [45567/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if financial support for a housing facility (details supplied) in County Wicklow as ring-fenced by Wicklow County Council constitutes housing funding support as opposed to Department of Health funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44686/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Business

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the funding provided to the health innovation hub in each year since 2012. [43913/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the commissioning of an evidence review of international public funding models for fertility treatment. [43911/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding his Department and the HSE are providing for fertility treatment. [43912/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans for the introduction of mandatory calorie posting. [43915/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital to St. Vincent’s University Hospital; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43918/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when HIQA will be given powers to regulate private health care. [43919/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours required in the future to meet the recommendations of the health service capacity review in view of the additional home support hours announced in budget 2020. [44031/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of making contraception free in 2021. [44032/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner training places being provided; and the estimated full-year cost of increasing the number to 274. [44033/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of his request to the HSE to review and extend the arrangement for giving medical cards to persons with a terminal illness under budget 2020. [44034/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €100. [44035/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold for single headed households to €72. [44036/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing prescription charges. [44037/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated revenue from prescription charges in 2020. [44038/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated revenue from prescription charges in 2021 allowing for the full-year effects of the changes to be made by budget 2020. [44039/19]
• 2019-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing a community neuro-rehabilitation team in each of the nine CHO areas. [44040/19]
• 2019-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost in 2020 of the increase in general practitioner card coverage thresholds announced in budget 2019. [43805/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the €335 million Supplementary Estimate for the budget of his Department announced in budget 2020. [42970/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant positions in each public and voluntary hospital; the number filled on a whole-time equivalent basis; the number vacant as of 15 October 2019 or the latest date available; and the number filled on locum or non-specialist basis in tabular form. [43059/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding being provided for adult residential services in 2020; the allocation being made for CHO6; and if this is an increase on 2019. [43235/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the monthly adjustments to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, waiting list figures published for 2019 which are due to the validation process; the reasons persons were taken off the different lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43292/19]
• 2019-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the €1 billion increase in health funding announced in budget 2020; the amount which stems from the supplementary in 2019; the amount which provides for the existing level of service; the amount provided for demographics; the amount which relates to increased pay for staff; and the amount which is for new and expanded services. [42720/19]
• 2019-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding drawn down by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the amount of funding in each year spent in procuring services from private healthcare providers; and the amount spent in the public system in tabular form. [42819/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that will benefit from the changes to the income thresholds for the over 70 years of age medical card; the cost in 2020 of this measure; and the four-year cost of same. [41897/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of the GMS prescription charges for over 70 years being reduced by 50 cent to €1; and the full-year cost of same. [41898/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of the GMS prescription charges being reduced by 50 cent to €1.50 per item for persons under 70 years of age; and the four-year cost of same. [41899/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of expanding free general practitioner care to children aged six to eight years; and the full-year cost of same. [41900/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of providing free dental care for children under six years of age including preventative oral health and promotion packages; and the full-year cost of same. [41902/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of reducing the monthly threshold for the drug payment scheme by €10 to €114; and the full-year cost of same. [41903/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the 1,000 therapists, nurses and other professionals in community health services whose recruitment was announced in budget 2020; the number to be recruited in 2010; and when the positions will be operational in 2020. [41904/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the additional funding to be provided for the nursing home support scheme in 2020; the full-year cost of same; and the number of additional places to be provided by this funding. [41905/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the €97 million for older people services in 2020; and the full-year cost of such initiatives. [41906/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a winter plan for hospitals will be brought forward; the reason for the continued overcrowding in emergency departments during 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41485/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a design team has been appointed for the relocation of the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital to the St. James’s site; if so, the progress made to date including the funding has been allocated in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41263/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the scheduled care access plan 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41267/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of unfilled nursing posts by hospital, including the hospitals currently precluded for any reasons from hiring nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41266/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when he anticipates a full reversal of new entrant pay disparity for consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41265/19]
• 2019-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the multi-year waiting times being experienced by children with special needs in County Wicklow that have been referred for treatment to a service (details supplied) and other service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41264/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can retroactively gain access to the CervicalCheck audit by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists despite previously turning down the option to be part of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40512/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 30 September 2019; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [40651/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated to carry out research involving the Central Statistics Office in order to establish the unmet need of wheelchair users for personal assistance services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41024/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost for pay restoration for workers employed by section 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41027/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the annual national sepsis report will be published as a matter of urgency; if not, the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41081/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40347/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40348/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40349/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40350/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40351/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40352/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40353/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40354/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40355/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40356/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40357/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40358/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40359/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40360/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40361/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40362/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40363/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40364/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40365/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40366/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40367/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on staff from 1 January 2019 to 30 September 2019 or the latest date available in each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [40369/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on staff from 1 January 2019 to 30 September 2019 or the latest date available in each community healthcare organisation in tabular form. [40370/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40405/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40406/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University of Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40407/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40408/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40409/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40410/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40411/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40412/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40413/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40414/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40415/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40416/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40417/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40418/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40419/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40420/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40421/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40422/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme at the end of September 2019 or latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of persons awaiting placement under the scheme by each LHO area in tabular form; and the length of time waiting. [40423/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 30 September 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [40424/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges for each public and voluntary hospital at the end of September 2019; and the total number to date in each, in tabular form. [40425/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less for each ambulance station in each month in the year to the end of September 2019 or latest date available, in tabular form. [40426/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients 75 years of age or over that experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours during September 2019; the total number to date in 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [40427/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided by LHO area to the end of September 2019; and the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours by LHO area by time periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [40428/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in September 2019; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, more than 120 and more than 180 minutes, respectively, for same, in tabular form. [40429/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting for time periods (details supplied); and the same information for other spinal patients for both Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital at the end of September 2019 or the latest date available, in tabular form. [40430/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons by LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of September 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting for time periods (details supplied). [40431/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons by LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of September 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting for time periods (details supplied). [40432/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons by LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting for time periods (details supplied). [40433/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons by LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting for time periods (details supplied). [40434/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons by LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of September 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting for time periods (details supplied). [40435/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40436/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40437/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 September 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [40438/19]
• 2019-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number and which of the 19 recommendations of the report of the Chief Medical Officer on vaginal mesh was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40471/19]
• 2019-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if capital funding is being included in 2020 plans for the expansion of an intensive care unit at Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40099/19]
• 2019-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the construction of the new national children’s hospital; the estimated cost of its construction; when the hospital will be open and operational; and the cost projections for specific items (details supplied) in tabular form. [40138/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of the cross-Border directive in each year since its inception; the cost of reimbursements for same in each year since its inception; the number of claims awaiting reimbursement as of 1 September 2019; the estimated cost in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39320/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to withdraw funding for the medication Simponi used in the treatment of ulcerative colitis under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39347/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when funding will be provided to staff a care home (details supplied) for young men with intellectual disabilities following the generous donation of a house for this purpose. [39397/19]
• 2019-10-01
  PQ
  Asked Transport

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of representations made by the Minister for Health for funding to provide a community swimming pool in west County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39307/19]
• 2019-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the independent verification process to determine the level of savings generated by productivity measures to offset the cost of the nurses’ pay deal in February 2019 which was proposed in the Labour Court agreement that led to a resolution of the strike has been put in place; if so, the terms of reference and details of those who will serve on it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39211/19]
• 2019-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if, in dealing with the recent nurses’ pay dispute, verified savings and productivity do not materialise by the end of 2019 the initiatives set out under the agreement will be paused in keeping with the recommendation of the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39212/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated net cost for 2019 of implementing the nurses’ pay deal agreed in February 2019 based on the savings and productivity measures to be put in place. [38418/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimate provided to his Department by the HSE on its financial position at the end of 2019. [38419/19]
• 2019-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the provisions of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 that have yet to be commenced; and when they will be commenced in tabular form. [37983/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 395, 396, 706 and 707 of 11 June 2019, when a reply will issue from the HSE. [37112/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason the HPV vaccine has not been offered to boys in second year of secondary school as part of the latest roll out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37121/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the expenditure incurred on drugs, medicines and pharmaceutical products across hospitals and community schemes in each of the years 2012 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [37679/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of vaccine rates in County Wicklow by town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34781/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the assistance which can be provided to a person (details supplied) in need of a medical card due to impending surgery for pancreatic cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34837/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the official HSE policy with regard to the filling of blister packs by pharmacists; if this process will incur a charge for patients; if the costs involved can be waived for medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34854/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a device (details supplied) will made available for free to type 1 diabetics; the qualifying criteria for same; if patients on the earlier 640g model will be entitled to upgrade to the new 670g model automatically for free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34893/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details suppled) who has been waiting for over four years for an appointment with an orthopaedic consultant at Naas General Hospital will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34967/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the productivity levels of cytoscreeners working on behalf of CervicalCheck before and after the judgment in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34991/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the staffing levels of cytoscreeners working on behalf of CervicalCheck before and after the judgment in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34992/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme at the end of August 2019 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; and the length of time waiting in each local health area, in tabular form. [35888/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in each public and voluntary acute hospital that were closed on 30 August 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [35889/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of July 2019, in tabular form. [35890/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in July 2019 in each public and voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [35891/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges at the end of August 2019 in each public and voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [35892/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in August 2019 for each public and voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [35893/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in 7 minutes and 59 seconds or less for each ambulance station in each month in 2019 to the end of August 2019 or the latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 7 minutes and 59 seconds or less, in tabular form. [35894/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over that experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours during August 2019; the number to date in 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [35895/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each Local Health Office, LHO, area to the end of August 2019; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting 0 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35896/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationally in August 2019; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes for same, respectively, in tabular form. [35897/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four; four to eight and more than eight months respectively for treatment; and if the same information will be provided for other spinal patients in tabular form. [35898/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of August 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12; 12 to 26; 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks respectively. [35899/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of August 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12; 12 to 26; 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks respectively. [35900/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of August 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12; 12 to 26; 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks respectively. [35901/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care at the end of August 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12; 12 to 26; 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks respectively. [35902/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of August 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12; 12 to 26; 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks respectively. [35903/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI Hospitals Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35904/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI Hospitals Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35905/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35906/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midland Hospital Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35907/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35908/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35909/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35910/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35911/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively in tabular form. [35912/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the South/Southwest Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35913/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/Southwest Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35914/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/Southwest Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35915/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/Southwest Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35916/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/Southwest Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35917/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the South/Southwest Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35918/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/Southwest Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35919/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35920/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35921/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35922/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35923/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35924/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35925/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35926/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the UL Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35927/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the UL Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35928/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the UL Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35929/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the UL Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35930/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the UL Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35931/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the UL Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35932/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the UL Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35933/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35934/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine and nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35935/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35936/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35937/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI Hospitals Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35938/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35939/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35940/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35941/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35942/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35943/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35944/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 August 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three; three to six; six to nine; nine to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [35945/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the capital projects in health infrastructure underway by county or local health office area in tabular form; the date of the commencement of each project; the timeframe for completion of same; the estimated cost of each at commencement of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31791/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action being taken to replace information and communications technology systems in CHO7 which are not fit for purpose from clinical, financial and human resource perspectives according to the CHO7 2019 operation plan. [32959/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to put in place the organisational capacity required in CHO7 to develop the required primary care networks and primary care teams; and the associated scaling of models and pathways of care required to deliver high quality services. [32960/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the lack of health and safety resources in CHO7 which in the context of its obligations under health and safety legislation amount to a serious structural risk in CHO7. [32961/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if 14 community healthcare networks have now been established across southern areas of County Dublin, County Kildare and west County Wicklow; and if not, the numbers now in place. [32962/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the reduction in the primary care budget in CHO7 in 2019. [32963/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the reduction in the social inclusion budget in CHO7 in 2019. [32964/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional occupational therapists in whole-time equivalent terms appointed in CHO7 to date in 2019; and the net increase in the number of occupational therapists in whole-time equivalent terms in CHO7 resulting from such recruitment. [32965/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on the assertion in the CHO7 2019 operation plan that in view of the rising demand for more complex services to support persons, there is insufficient funding for pay cost pressures and non-pay inflation and that sufficient funding has not been provided in CHO7 in 2019 to maintain 2018 levels of service. [32966/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the under provision of accounting and financial management capacity in CHO6 which remains a significant challenge according to the CHO6 2019 operational plan. [33171/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the original budget allocation for primary care in 2018 in each community healthcare organisation, CHO; the outturn for same in 2018; and the budget allocation for 2019, in tabular form. [33172/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the original budget allocation for social inclusion in 2018 in each community healthcare organisation, CHO; the outturn for same in 2018; and the budget allocation for 2019, in tabular form. [33173/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of new oral health patients that commenced treatment within three months of a scheduled oral health assessment in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, in tabular form. [33174/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if an evaluation has been made of the estimated costs required to meet requirements in view of the HSE regularly highlighting the financial challenge in meeting the regulatory requirements in the disability sector, long-stay facilities and mental health services. [33175/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the opening of two new heart and lung transplant beds in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 7. [33439/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the opening of four high dependency unit beds in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 7. [33440/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the additional theatre capacity being provided in Cavan General Hospital in 2019. [33441/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the Ireland East Hospital Group has undertaken a review of maternity services across the group. [33442/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the revenue received as private health insurance income to the end of June 2019 or the latest date available by hospital group in tabular form; and the equivalent figures for 2018. [33443/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the emergency department upgrade at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [33444/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a cystic fibrosis unit in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [33445/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the neurointerventional radiology suite replacement at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [33446/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the additional acute bed capacity provided in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, to date in 2019; and his plans for same during the remainder of 2019. [33447/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the Cavan General Hospital phase 2 new endoscopy unit, CSSD and ward upgrade. [33448/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the opening of five theatres in the phase 2 extension of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [33449/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the opening of a hybrid theatre in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [33450/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the opening of theatre 12 in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [33451/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of progress on a modular build for a theatre and neonatal intensive care unit in the Rotunda Maternity Hospital. [33452/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the incidences to date in 2019 of cases of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae, CPE, at 30 June 2019, by public and voluntary hospitals in tabular form. [33453/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the acute hospitals implementing the requirements for screening of patients with CPE guidelines in tabular form. [33454/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the acute hospitals implementing the national policy on restricted antimicrobial agents in tabular form. [33455/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a target operating model for integrated information services within the HSE. [33821/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if principles for the national framework for models of care design have been finalised. [33822/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of ambulance bypass protocols. [33823/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the review and report of specialist cardiac services. [33824/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a lean capacity improvement plan has been developed. [33825/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the review of the basis for existing hospital and medication charges. [33826/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the work of the interdepartmental working group to review multi-annual health budgeting. [33827/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the governance review of drugs approval and procurement process. [33828/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of the proposed restructuring of the HSE. [34071/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if legislation will be required for the restructuring of the HSE as announced on 17 July 2019; and if so, when such legislation will be published. [34072/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the proposed restructuring of health services means that no hospital trusts will be established. [34073/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the examination undertaken of the use of incentives to support investment by general practitioners, dentists and other professionals in primary care centres, technology and service developments. [34074/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action taken to support general practitioner practices in disadvantaged urban areas. [34075/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners employed by the HSE on a salaried basis each year since 2016. [34076/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the proposed new structures within the HSE will be put on a statutory basis. [34077/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of hospices in each local health office area in tabular form. [34078/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments outstanding for more than two years at the end of June 2019; the number outstanding for more than three years; and the number outstanding for more than four years by each reporting hospital in tabular form [34079/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the proportion of patients who spent less than six hours in an emergency department during the first six months of 2019. [34080/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the medical assessment units, urgent care centres and minor injuries clinics that have extended their Monday to Friday hours of opening since 2016, in tabular form. [34081/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the medical assessment units, urgent care centres and minor injuries clinics that have extended their hours of opening to weekends since 2016, in tabular form. [34082/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the increases in ambulances, EMTs and paramedics in each of the years since 2016. [34083/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the proportion of hospital managers and CEOs educated to master’s level in business administration or equivalent or in the process of achieving such a qualification. [34084/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a report on the work of the performance management unit in the HSE will be provided; the number of whole-time equivalent staff employed within it; the number of reports and reviews it has undertaken; and the recommendations made by it to improve performance# [34085/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when it is planned to negotiate a new consultant contract. [34086/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reviews of the roles and responsibilities of health professionals providing extended scope of practice that have been undertaken since 2016. [34087/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of plans to base health expenditure on multi-year budgeting supported by a five-year health service plan based on realistic and verifiable projections [34088/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the numbers of persons that received treatment under the treatment abroad scheme in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the category and speciality of procedures provided; the number provided in Northern Ireland; and the number provided in the UK. [34448/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on staff in each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form. [34449/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on staff in each community healthcare organisation to date in 2019, in tabular form. [34450/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has undertaken a review of the delivery of relationships and sexuality education in schools in collaboration with the Department of Education and Skills. [30508/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the implementation by the HSE of sexual health promotion training for professionals in the youth sector, those working with at risk groups, and for parents. [30509/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the targeted outreach programmes and campaigns delivered to at risk groups. [30510/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE has expanded condom distribution services with initial focus targeting those most at risk. [30511/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has repeated the indepth general population survey on sexual health and crisis pregnancy to provide up-to-date data to support implementation. [30512/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the extension of the existing national HPV vaccination programme to boys. [30513/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a national cancer screening registry. [30644/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the roll out of the framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist medical and surgical care settings; the hospitals in which it is operational; and the timeframe for extending it to all acute settings. [30645/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of additional high dependency unit beds in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30683/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of additional high dependency unit beds in Cork University Hospital. [30684/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of an additional 30 bed ward in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [30685/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a 40 bed modular ward block in South Tipperary General Hospital. [30686/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bariatric surgery procedures carried out in hospitals in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [30687/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a serious incident management forum for maternity services in each hospital group. [30688/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the pilot anaesthetics model of care for general hospitals with maternity services. [30689/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of a phased national plan for benign gynaecology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30690/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has identified the suite of clinical guidelines required in maternity services; and the gaps identified in terms of the development and-or review of new or existing clinical guidelines. [30691/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has defined the detailed care pathways to be made available to women in all maternity services based on the mode of care proposed in the national strategy thereby enabling a standardised and consistent planning approach. [30692/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has prepared a detailed implementation plan for the recommendations set out in the report on the use of transvaginal mesh. [30693/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the assessment of midwifery workforce levels against the 2016 birth rate plus methodology in the context of the new model of care. [30694/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has developed a national suite of KPIs for maternity services including the model of care. [30695/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has identified and defined the educational supports and training programmes required by staff to ensure a safe, competent and supported maternity workforce. [30696/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the development of acute paediatric units in CUH, UHG and UHL in line with the paediatric model of care; and the number of additional consultant paediatricians, clinical nurse specialists and allied health professionals in whole-time equivalent terms recruited to date in each in 2019. [30721/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the development of the all-island paediatric cardiology service in Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin services, to date in 2019. [30722/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the way in which the paediatric cardiology network in CUH, UHG and UHL has been developed to date in 2019. [30723/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the increase in staffing for paediatric rheumatology to improve the access and timelines of treatment; and the number and categories of additional medical and health professionals recruited for same in 2019 in whole-time equivalent terms. [30724/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if an additional allergy consultant, genetics consultant and dermatology consultant have been appointed in Children’s Health Ireland in 2019. [30725/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there has been an increase in staffing in Children’s Health Ireland to include a consultant haematologist and advanced nurse practitioners for the haematology stem cell transplant service to address the increase in demand. [30726/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if two additional clinical nurse specialists have been appointed to Children’s Health Ireland to the outpatient antibiotic therapy service that allows suitable patients on intravenous antibiotics to be discharged early from hospital and treated in their home. [30727/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if an advanced nurse practitioner has been appointed to the paediatric neurosurgery service in Children’s Health Ireland, Temple Street. [30728/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is on target to achieve savings or cost reduction or improved income generation in a number of areas set out in the HSE 2019 service plan (details supplied); and the achievements in each in the first half of 2019 to date. [30739/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the HSE on 1 July 2019 or the latest date available. [30740/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the €198.5 million development funding being held by his Department in 2019 for release to the HSE on approval of implementation plans and commencement of specific developments (details supplied); and the funding released for each specific development as of 11 July 2019, in tabular form. [30741/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Ireland East Hospital Group in the first six months of 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [30897/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the RCSI hospital group in the first six months of 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position is has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [30898/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Children’s Health Ireland Hospital Group in the first six months of 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position is has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form. [30899/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Saolta Hospital Group in the first six months of 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position is has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30900/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in the first six months of 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position is has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30901/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the South-South West Hospital Group in the first six months of 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position is has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30902/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the University of Limerick Hospital Group in the first six months of 2019; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position is has been filled; and the number of applications for each speciality in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30903/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Ireland East Hospital Group as of 8 July 2019, in tabular from. [30904/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the RCSI Hospital Group as of 8 July 2019, in tabular form. [30905/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Children’s Health Ireland hospital group as of 8 July 2019, in tabular from. [30906/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Saolta hospital group as of 8 July 2019, in tabular form. [30907/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the Dublin Midlands hospital group as of 8 July 2019 in tabular form. [30908/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the South/South West hospital group as of 8 July 2019 in tabular form. [30909/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the University of Limerick hospital group as of 8 July 2019 in tabular form. [30910/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the 13,000 extra residential care beds recommended in the health service capacity review. [30931/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of amending the fees charged under the NHSS to enable nursing home residents with an assessed weekly income of €300 or less to retain a minimum of €60 weekly. [30934/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost, current and capital, of providing a mobile catheterisation laboratory for Waterford University Hospital. [30935/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year running costs of opening each medical assessment unit on a seven day basis. [30936/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an extra 500 hospital consultants; and the average estimate for support staff required per consultant. [30937/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 4,000 nursing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30938/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of increasing the general practitioner rural practice allowance to €25,000. [30940/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of implementing the national maternity strategy. [30941/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional three million home support hours for older persons. [30942/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of completing the recruitment required for the full implementation of A Vision for Change. [30943/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the drug payment threshold to €100. [30944/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 speech and language therapists. [30945/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 occupational therapists. [30946/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 physiotherapists. [30947/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 50 dental surgeons. [30948/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing an additional emergency ambulance; and the estimated full year cost of additional personnel required for its staffing. [30949/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost full year cost of providing an additional 1.5 million personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30950/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 200 intensive home care packages for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30951/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 100 critical care beds. [30952/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an additional 150 inpatient rehabilitation beds. [30953/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting fewer than 13 weeks following a referral for routine colonoscopy or OGD at the end of June 2019 or latest date available; and the number waiting more than 13 weeks. [30984/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of postgraduate education programmes being provided for nurses and midwives. [30985/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives with authority to prescribe medicines. [30986/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives with authority to prescribe ionising radiation x-ray. [30987/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of six national foundation education programmes for nurses in critical care, surgical pre-assessment, acute medicine unscheduled care, frailty, emergency care and anaesthetic recovery room nursing [30988/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a national framework and establishment of an online resource to support and guide professional development planning for all nurses and midwives. [30989/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of education provision by centres of nursing and midwifery. [30990/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a nursing postgraduate entry programme. [30991/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of community intervention teams in each community healthcare organisation as of 30 June 2019 or latest date available; the number of staff whole-time equivalent in each on that date; and the corresponding data for the same dates in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [30992/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals for treatment to each community intervention team in the first and second quarter of 2019, in tabular form. [30993/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who received specialist palliative care treatment in their normal place of residence in each month to date in 2019. [30994/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures cancelled and postponed in each public hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30995/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures cancelled and postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30996/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures the HSE has procured from private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; the amount spent by the HSE on the procedures in private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30997/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures procured by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each year since its restoration in 2017; and the type and specialties of procedures in tabular form. [30998/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients removed from outpatient lists in to date in 2019 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [30999/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments the HSE has procured from private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; the amount spent by the HSE on the appointments in private and independent hospitals to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31000/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the projection on the number of medical cards to be provided in 2019; and the likely full year costs or savings in 2019 of a variation from projection. [31013/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage occupancy rate in public residential care units for the most recent calendar month available and for the previous eleven months in tabular form. [31014/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of community healthcare organisations which have established waiting lists for home care on a standardised basis. [31015/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events being notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [31016/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations commenced within 48 hours of the event occurring. [31017/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations completed within four months of notification of events occurring. [31018/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of reportable events to date in 2019 reported within 30 days of occurrence to the designated officer. [31019/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when it is planned to carry out further evaluations to determine the reason for the identified variation on recent findings regarding mortality rates in the case of acute myocardial infarction. [31249/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the pay deal agreed with nurses and midwives in February 2019 will be put in place; the full cost of the pay deal for nurses and midwives in 2019 and 2020; and the nature of offsetting cost reduction measures such as changes to roster arrangements that are to be put in place to deal with the cost of the new pay deal. [30150/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if each community healthcare organisation and hospital group published operational plans for 2019; and if so, if they have been published on the Health Service Executive website. [30404/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the implementation of the 45 recommendations of the trauma steering group in tabular form. [30405/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the implementation of the recommendations of the Scally report in tabular form. [30406/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has completed reviews of the existing approved models of care for four chronic diseases (details supplied); and if a service gap analysis has been conducted. [30407/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented to emergency departments with influenza during the influenza seasons in 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19, in tabular form. [29734/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the costs or estimated costs to the health service in providing prevention measures and treatment of influenza in each of the years from 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and the costs associated with vaccinations, prescriptions, treatment in primary care settings and treatment in acute care settings. [29735/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the measures or diagnostic tools being used in hospital settings to diagnose influenza. [29736/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the average cost to the health service of a patient staying in an acute hospital bed overnight; and the average cost per bed night for an inpatient stay in an intensive care unit. [29737/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the average cost to the health service of a patient requiring isolation in a hospital. [29738/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who contracted influenza while in a public hospital during the influenza seasons 2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. [29739/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the figures relating to the uptake of influenza vaccinations during the 2018-2019 influenza season; the percentage of the population that received the vaccination; the percentage of the HSE identified vulnerable groups that received the vaccination; and the percentage of non-vulnerable groups that received the vaccination. [29740/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the spend on antibiotics under the primary care reimbursement service in each of years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form. [29741/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to invest in antimicrobial resistance measures, particularly developing and supporting the development of new diagnostics tools. [29742/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in relation to implementing the HIQA assessment on C-reactive protein point-of-care testing, namely the recommendation for a managed and monitored pilot programme in primary care settings. [29743/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the diagnostic tools, such as the proposed C-reactive protein point-of-care testing, being considered by HIQA and his Department to reduce antibiotic overprescribing. [29744/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the budget allocated to a service (details supplied) in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28721/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for adults with an intellectual disability in County Wicklow in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form. [28725/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for children with an intellectual disability in County Wicklow in each of the years from 2008 to 2018, in tabular form. [28726/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for adolescents with an intellectual disability in County Wicklow in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form. [28727/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for residential care for adults with an intellectual disability in County Wicklow in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form. [28728/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of adults with intellectual disabilities in residential care in County Wicklow. [28729/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme at the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; and the length of time waiting by local health area in tabular form [28871/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 28 June 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [28872/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of June 2019, in tabular form. [28873/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in June 2019 in each public and voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [28874/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in each ambulance station in each month to the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient carrying vehicle in 7 minutes and 59 seconds or less, in tabular form. [28875/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over that experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours during June 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [28876/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area to the end of June 2019; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months plus, respectively, in tabular form. [28877/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationally in June 2019; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same, respectively, in tabular form. [28878/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four months for treatment in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital at the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; the number waiting four to eight and more than eight months for same; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients. [28879/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [28880/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [28881/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [28882/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care at the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [28883/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of June 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [28884/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI Hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28885/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28886/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28887/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28888/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28889/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28890/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28891/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28892/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28893/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the South/South West Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28894/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28895/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28896/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28897/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram scan in the South/South West Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28898/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28899/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28900/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28901/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28902/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28903/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28904/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28905/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta Hospital Group [28906/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28907/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28908/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28909/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28910/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University of Limerick Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28911/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University of Limerick Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28912/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University of Limerick Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28913/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28914/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28915/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28916/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28917/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28918/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28919/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28920/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28921/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28922/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28923/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28924/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28925/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 June 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [28926/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses recruited to date in 2019 across all sectors of the health service; and the net increase in nursing numbers resulting from the recruitment. [28927/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists recruited to date in 2019; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in speech and language therapists numbers resulting from the recruitment. [28928/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists newly recruited to date in 2019; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in occupational therapists numbers resulting from the recruitment. [28929/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists newly recruited to date in 2019; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in physiotherapists numbers resulting from the recruitment. [28930/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28931/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28932/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28933/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28934/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved senior house officer posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28935/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved registrar posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28936/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved senior registrar posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28937/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved clinical dental surgeon posts in whole-time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28938/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved general dental surgeon posts in whole-time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28939/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved senior dental surgeon posts in whole-time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28940/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved registered intellectual disability nurse posts in whole-time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [28941/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that attended the rapid access lung clinic in designated cancer centres during the first six months of 2019. [28942/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that attended the rapid access prostate clinic in cancer centres during the first six months of 2019; and the number of patients attending prostate rapid clinics that attended or were offered an appointment within 20 working days of receipt of referral in the cancer centres over the same period. [28943/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on agency staff in each month to date in 2019; the equivalent figures for each month in 2018; the proportion of the anticipated agency staff expenditure of the HSE for 2019 that has been incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28944/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount collected in prescription charges for medical card prescriptions in each of the years 2015 to 2018; and the projected amount for 2019. [28945/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of elective inpatient discharges in each public and voluntary hospital during the first six months of 2019. [28946/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of haemodialysis patients treated in acute hospitals during the first six months of 2019. [28947/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of haemodialysis patients treated in contracted centres during the first six months of 2019. [28948/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home therapies dialysis patients treatments during the first six months of 2019. [28949/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of acute stroke patients that spent all or some of their hospital stay in an acute or combined stroke unit during the first six months of 2019. [28950/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of patients with confirmed acute ischaemic stroke that received thrombolysis during the first six months of 2019. [28951/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances decommissioned by the National Ambulance Service to date in 2019; the number of new emergency ambulances acquired to date in 2019; the number of intermediate care ambulances decommissioned to date in 2019; the number of new intermediate care ambulances acquired to date in 2019; the number of rapid response vehicles decommissioned to date in 2019; the number of new rapid response vehicles acquired to date in 2019; the number of vehicles commissioned or purchased as rapid response vehicles by the service acquired to date in 2019; the number in use; the number awaiting entry into service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28952/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances in service; the number by the year they entered service by pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service and the HSE region in which they are based; the number of intermediate care ambulances in service; the number according to the year they entered service by pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service and the HSE region in which they are based in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28953/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the distances travelled by emergency ambulances that are in service by each HSE region and subdivided by every 50,000 or 80,000 km; the distances travelled by intermediate care ambulances in service; the distances travelled by rapid response vehicles in service in such a capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28954/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health area, in tabular form. [28955/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency medicine consultants in each public or voluntary hospital with an emergency department; the number of 24 hour emergency departments; and the number that have an emergency medicine consultant available daily on a 24 hour basis. [28956/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the revenue raised between 1 January and 31 December 2018 from charges for private patients in public beds in public and voluntary hospitals; the details for 2015, 2016, and 2017; the number of procedures from 1 January to 31 December 2018 in each public and voluntary hospital which treated private patients in public beds; the equivalent figures for 2015, 2016 and 2017; the number of applications for payment by the insurer submitted by each hospital for such procedures carried out between 1 January and 31 December 2018; and the equivalent figures for 2015, 2016 and 2017. [28957/19]
• 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
• 2019-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the work of the contraception working group in his Department; the finalised terms of reference; the timeline for completion of the work of the group; the consultation process; the stakeholders the group has engaged with to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28459/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount by which the HSE budget is overspent as of the end of quarter 2 of 2019; the projection for the full year overspend; the additional spending commitments he has made to date during 2019; his plans to seek a supplementary budget or bring full year healthcare expenditure in on budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28086/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that the HSE capital plan has not been published to date; his further views on whether this delay amounts to poor financial management; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27890/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a shortage of full-time consultants in post here and that this shortage is a material contributor to the current waiting lists; if he will commence the unwinding of new entrant pay disparity for consultants in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27894/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason he has not made public the De Buitléir report on private practice in public hospitals; when he plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27891/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE budget is overspent as at the end of quarter 2 of 2019; the projection for the full-year overspend; the additional spending commitments he has made during 2019; his plans to seek a supplementary budget or bring full-year healthcare expenditure in on budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27888/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if relevant parties will be informed that the new maternity hospitals are to have no dedicated facilities for private patients further to an unanimous adoption of a Private Members' motion on maternity care by Dáil Éireann; if the relevant parties will commence the planning and design phases for the Coombe hospital, Rotunda Hospital and University Maternity Hospital, Limerick; the capital spend by year allocated for the building of these maternity hospitals and centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27892/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the strategies and policy proposals published by his Department since 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27523/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the HSE strategies and policy proposals published since 2014; the number of these which have been launched by him or his predecessors, by a Minister of State or featured ministerial participation in the launch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27524/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason he is not immediately releasing the de Buitléir report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27527/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the purpose of the recent establishment of two subsidiaries by a group (details supplied); and if this means the group will now commence owning and investing in private hospitals and clinics. [27546/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if his Department, as shareholder of a group (details supplied), is now engaging in a strategy to purchase private hospitals and clinics. [27547/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of category C consultants in each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [27548/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has conducted an audit of respite provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27604/19]
• 2019-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a review of newborn screening will be conducted in view of recent advances in detection and treatment of conditions and the expansion of services and screening in Italy and other countries with a view to that review providing the changes required to ensure Ireland has the best possible newborn screening services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28179/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time permanent medical, nursing and other positions at a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27304/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the budget allocated to a project (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27305/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical, nursing and other positions delivered by agency staff at a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27306/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the future of a project (details supplied); his plans for additional full-time, permanent staff positions in medical, nursing and other areas at the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27307/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of gay and bisexual men being turned away each week from the Gay Men's Health Service due to a lack of capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27308/19]
• 2019-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if it is within the scope of the role of home carers provided through State funding to assist with household chores on behalf of the person they are caring for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27324/19]
• 2019-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant positions in each public and voluntary hospital; the number filled on a whole-time equivalent basis; the number vacant as of 20 June 2019 or the latest date available; and the number filled on a locum or non-specialist basis by hospital in tabular form. [27008/19]
• 2019-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on consultant doctors for each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form. [27009/19]
• 2019-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on consultant doctors for each community healthcare organisation to date in 2019, in tabular form. [27010/19]
• 2019-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on agency staff to date in 2019; and the proportion of the projected spend for agency staff originally estimated for 2019 that has now been used up. [27011/19]
• 2019-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of MRI scanners in each public voluntary hospital; the year in which each scanner entered service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27156/19]
• 2019-06-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the 2019 HSE capital plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/19]
• 2019-06-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours provided in each local health office area for each month to date in 2019, in tabular form; and the way it compares against the target for each month [25503/19]
• 2019-06-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2019 of the agreement for healthcare support assistants to be paid for the time it takes them to travel to persons' homes; the estimated full year cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25504/19]
• 2019-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to tackle an increase in sexually transmitted infections in Carlow IT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24625/19]
• 2019-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the waiting lists for gynaecologists per speciality and hospital nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24364/19]
• 2019-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the protocols for women to make use of the rapid access pathways in cases in which they need urgent medical assistance after cervical cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24392/19]
• 2019-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason a nursing home in Kilcoole, County Wicklow, is still empty almost a year after completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24440/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there are insurance liability risks for recipients of home care supports if a caregiver alleges he or she was injured on the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24253/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if HSE-employed home carers and-or privately employed home carers are covered for injuries sustained while they are at the homes of their clients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24254/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 31 May 2019, or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [23903/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of May 2019, in tabular form. [23904/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in May 2019 in each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [23905/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responders in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in each ambulance station in each month in 2019 to the end of May or the latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in tabular form. [23906/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours during May 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [23907/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each local health office, LHO, area to the end of May 2019; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and 12 months plus, respectively, in tabular form. [23908/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in May 2018; the number of ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes for same, respectively, in tabular form. [23909/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four months for treatment in Our Lady’s Children's Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital at the end of May 2019 or the latest date available; the number waiting four to eight months and more than eight months, respectively; and if the same information will be provided for other spinal patients in tabular form. [23910/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of May 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [23911/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of May 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [23912/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of May 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [23913/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care at the end of May 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [23914/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of May 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [23915/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23916/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23917/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23918/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23919/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23920/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23921/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23922/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23923/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23924/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23925/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23926/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23927/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23928/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form [23929/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23930/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23931/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23932/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23933/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23934/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23935/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23936/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23937/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23938/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23939/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23940/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23941/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23942/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23943/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23944/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University of Limerick Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23945/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23946/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23947/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23948/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23949/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23950/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23951/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23952/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23953/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23954/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23955/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23956/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 May 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [23957/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme at the end of May 2019 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of persons awaiting placement under the scheme for each local health area in tabular form; and the length of time waiting. [23958/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 6 March 2019, the list of new drugs approved by the HSE each year since 2014, in tabular form; the cost in the year they were approved; the cost in each subsequent year; the projected cost in future years; the way in which the forecast of €150 million referenced in the reply is to be allocated per year per drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24222/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who has developed cervical cancer after she was given a false negative result by CervicalCheck can be given the supports and facilities provided to the patients in the official 221 Plus group despite the fact that her diagnosis was not as a result of the audit undertaken by CervicalCheck but arose instead after her referral to a gynaecologist. [24240/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the length of the waiting lists and times for women nationally waiting for a gynaecology appointment, assessment or treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24241/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there are insurance liability risks for recipients of home care supports if a caregiver alleges he or she was injured on the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24247/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if HSE-employed home carers and-or privately employed home carers are covered for injuries sustained while they are at the homes of their clients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24248/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the building of a primary care centre in Greystones, County Wicklow; if the initial contractor is still in place; if not, if a new contractor is now in place; if not, the status of same; the timeline for completion of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24251/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the building of a primary care centre in Arklow, County Wicklow; if the initial contractor is still in place; if not, if a new contractor is now in place; if not, the status of same; the timeline for completion of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24252/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the waiting list times for women nationally for a gynaecology appointment, assessment or treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24262/19]
• 2019-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme; the average waiting time; the number of persons awaiting placement by local health area, in tabular form; and the length of time waiting. [21422/19]
• 2019-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the independent review group to examine the removal of private practice from public acute hospitals will report; and when the report will be published. [21512/19]
• 2019-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views of claims by an organisation (details supplied) that the funding being proposed for the new oral health policy is completely inadequate. [21328/19]
• 2019-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of a reversal of FEMPI fee cuts for dentists. [21329/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether Ireland has a severe shortage of hospital consultants; his further views on whether a major reason for same is new entrant pay disparity; his plans to rectify same; the number of consultants employed at post-2012 pay rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21143/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the implications for the National Screening Service of the recent High Court judgment in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20743/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the measures that will be taken to reduce waiting times for children awaiting assessment by early intervention teams in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20747/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action he is taking regarding the ongoing industrial dispute in the ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20745/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason there has been a lack of progress in rolling out the national maternity strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20746/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason the list for those waiting more than a year and a half for an outpatient appointment increased from circa 13,000 three years ago to over 100,000 in March 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20744/19]
• 2019-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has ceased publishing performance and management data reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20203/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when medical cannabis will go on sale here at licensed pharmacists; the way in which it will be distributed to pharmacists once approved; and the location from which it will be sourced. [19631/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if companies other than pharmacists will be allowed to apply for licences to distribute medical cannabis. [19632/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons here entitled to avail of medical cannabis. [19633/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of plans to build a new oncology treatment facility at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19657/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the part-time and full-time nurse staffing levels at University Hospital Waterford compared to recommended sanctioned levels. [19668/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans for recruitment of additional nurses at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19669/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 26 April 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [19873/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in April 2019 in each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [19874/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responders in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in each ambulance station in each month to the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in tabular form. [19875/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours to the end of April 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [19876/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area to the end of April 2019; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months respectively, in tabular form. [19877/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same, respectively in tabular form. [19878/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months, respectively for treatment at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and if the same information for other spinal patients will be provided in tabular form. [19879/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [19880/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [19881/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available. [19882/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available. [19883/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 weeks and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [19884/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a speech and language assessment in primary care at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [19885/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a speech and language therapy appointment in primary care at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12 , 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [19886/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an occupational therapy appointment in primary care at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12 ,12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [19887/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a physiotherapy appointment in primary care at the end of April 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [19888/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19890/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19891/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19892/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19893/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19894/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19895/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19896/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19897/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19898/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19899/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19900/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19901/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19902/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19903/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19904/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19905/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19906/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19907/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19908/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19909/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19910/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19911/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19912/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19913/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19914/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19915/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19916/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19917/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans for vital breast cancer assessment services following proposals to cut the existing five one-stop centres to three; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19934/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the knock-on effects for the CervicalCheck system further to the announcement that the main Irish laboratory (details supplied) used by CervicalCheck is to cease accepting new smears from general practitioners as part of arrangements to clear its backlog of tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19956/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19969/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19970/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19971/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19972/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19973/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19974/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19975/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19976/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19977/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19978/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19979/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19980/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19981/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 30 April 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [19982/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if €24 million will be reallocated from the health capital budget in both 2019 and 2020 to address the overrun in the costs for the new national children's hospital [20121/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reassurance that can be offered to those concerned regarding the Zostavax vaccine for shingles in view of the litigation in the United States of America alleging serious side effects [20126/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) in respect of a declined appeal decision from November 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18110/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason the number of specialist nurse practitioners dedicated to supporting persons with Parkinson's disease is low; his plans to increase the number of specialist nurses for Parkinson's disease; if so, when they will be hired; the locations to which they will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18127/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will address the discrepancy between patients who have long-term illness support as opposed to those who have a medical card with regard to payment for medication for those who have Parkinson's disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18128/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase core funding for an organisation (details supplied); if so, the amount by which and when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18129/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed. [18156/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding allocated in 2019 for the development of the new radiation oncology unit in University Hospital Galway; the timeframe for the completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18163/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the machinery and equipment being used for radiotherapy services in University Hospital Galway; the age of same; if when parts are breaking down they are not replaceable due to their age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18164/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the HSE home care services budget for 2019; the number of hours to be provided; the number of recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18363/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of increasing general practitioner training places from 202 to 274. [18377/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there is a HSE plan for a respiratory consultant in Tralee University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17296/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason a residential centre for autism (details supplied) in County Kerry has not been opened five years after it was finished. [17297/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will publish a UK review of orthodontic services here carried out between 2012 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17541/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the publication of an audit of orthodontic services begun in 2015 after the HSE received a highly critical report from two UK experts into allegations that children’s teeth were damaged by HSE orthodontic services more than a decade previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17542/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of times he interacted directly with a person (details supplied) in person, by telephone, email or in another way; the issues discussed; if his officials attended the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17548/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of new ambulance bases at Ardee, Mullingar, Limerick, Cork and Galway. [17734/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of a structured replacement programme for equipment and ambulances and minor capital works as promised in the National Development Plan 2018-2027. [17735/19]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will publish its review of failings in dental and orthodontic services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17812/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of the extension of free general practitioner care for children up to 12 years of age. [17073/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of the first phase of restoration of FEMPI for general practitioners; and the estimated full year cost of the restoration. [17075/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2020 of the second phase of restoration of FEMPI for general practitioners; and the estimated full year cost of the restoration. [17076/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of implementing the framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in all acute hospital settings; the number of additional nursing staff, that is, whole-time equivalent that would be required for the implementation of the framework in all acute hospital settings; the number of additional healthcare assistants, that is, whole-time equivalent required for same; and if he will report on the development of a national implementation plan for incremental roll out across hospitals. [17134/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children that will be in receipt of free general practitioner care if it is extended as proposed in 2020; and the net increase in the number of children covered resulting from the proposed change. [17189/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public health doctors recruited each year since 2014; and the number recruited to date in 2019. [16766/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of implementing the new national oral health policy; the estimated full year cost of the complete implementation of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16785/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of the new national oral health policy; his plans to bring forward an implementation plan for the policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16786/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 12 March 2019, if the phone records for 28 April 2018, between his Department and the national screening service, will be provided; if the calls will be identified; and the times the cals made regarding the offer of an out-of-cycle smear test (details supplied). [16854/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 12 March 2019, if the email and all related correspondence between the national screening service and his Department relating to the offer of an out-of-cycle smear test (details supplied) will be provided. [16855/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 12 March 2019, the way in which the information was shared within his Department in relation to concerns raised regarding an offer of an out-of-cycle smear test by the national screening service with his Department by phone on 28 April 2018; the level of seniority and role of persons within his Department the concerns were shared with; if his attention was drawn to the concerns raised; and if so, when. [16856/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 12 March 2019, the way in which the information was shared within his Department in relation to concerns raised regarding an offer of an out-of-cycle smear test, by the national screening service with his Department by email; the level of seniority and role of persons within his Department the concerns were shared with; if his attention was drawn to the concerns raised; and if so, when. [16857/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he sought to meet the senior management of CervicalCheck after receiving a 2018 memo CervicalCheck: Patient claim following a diagnosis of cervical cancer, Briefing note for Minister Harris, or after the case referred to in the memo became public on 25 April 2019 or at any time before expressing publicly that he did not have confidence in them. [16858/19]
• 2019-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the capacity in primary care in whole-time equivalent terms for the positions outlined on page 9 of the Executive Report of the Health Service Capacity Review 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16960/19]
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care centres that have become operational since 2010; the year in which they opened; the other primary care centres due to be built; the status of same; and when they are due to open, by county, in tabular form. [16051/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in March 2019; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than of 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40, 60 and 90 minutes for same; and the number that waited more than 120 and 180 minutes for same. [15858/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15866/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15867/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15868/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15869/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15870/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for cholagiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15871/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15872/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15873/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15874/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15875/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15876/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15877/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15878/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15879/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15880/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15881/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15882/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15883/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15884/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15885/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta University Health Care Group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15886/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15887/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15888/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15889/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15890/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15891/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15892/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University Limerick hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied), in tabular form. [15893/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15894/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15895/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15896/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15897/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15898/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15899/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI hospital group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15900/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15901/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15902/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15903/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15904/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15905/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for a cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15906/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 31 March 2019 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group less than three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15907/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 29 March 2019 or the latest date for which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [15923/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to 31 March 2019, in tabular form. [15924/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less in each ambulance station in each month to date in 2019, in tabular form. [15925/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over that experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours to 31 March 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [15926/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area to 31 March 2019; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero-three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [15927/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in March 2018; and the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20, 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls, in tabular form. [15928/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four, four to eight, and more than eight months for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients. [15929/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [15930/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [15931/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available. [15932/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively, at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available. [15933/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [15934/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a speech and language assessment in primary care at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [15935/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a speech and language therapy appointment in primary care at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [15936/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an occupational therapy appointment in primary care at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [15937/19]
• 2019-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a physiotherapy appointment in primary care at 31 March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting from zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [15938/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of the 10% increase across all general practitioner visit card weekly income thresholds; and the estimated full year cost of same. [14796/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of the €10 reduction in the monthly drugs payment scheme threshold from €134 to €124; and the estimated full year cost of same. [14797/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of the reduction in prescription charges from €2 to €1.50 for all medical card holders over 70 years of age; and the estimated full year cost of same. [14798/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the decision not to make Spinraza available to patients here now that a 28-day period has## passed which allowed the drug company time to respond to the initial State decision or provide further information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14961/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of information technology and associated fit-out plans for the new national children’s hospital; the costs and configuration involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14971/19]
• 2019-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the expenditure plan linked to the Sláintecare action plan; the costs by year dedicated to each action point in the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14477/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if medical students who graduated in Latvia are ineligible for internships in hospitals here as they are deemed to have completed their basic medical training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13282/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 253 of 9 October 2018 and 194 of 13 March 2019, if he will make a new offer of a meeting with the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13829/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to address the new entrant pay disparity for consultant doctors; the status of new contracts for hospital consultants; the number of meetings he has had on these topics with consultant representative groups (details supplied) in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12662/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a value engineering exercise has been or will be carried out in regard to identifying opportunities to reduce the building costs for the national children's hospital; if so, if changes are being implemented or considered for implementation further to this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12197/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to address the new entrant pay disparity for consultant doctors; the status of the new contracts for hospital consultants; the number of meetings he has had on these topics with consultant representative groups (details supplied) in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12198/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the CervicalCheck delays; the number of women waiting for test results for more than four weeks; the length of time women are waiting; the projected commencement date for the HPV test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12196/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of negotiations to reverse FEMPI for general practitioners; if a schedule or timeline for full reversal has been agreed; if so, the timeline in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12194/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is operating within budget to date in 2019 including the current and capital expenditure budgets; if not, the areas in which the budget is overrunning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12195/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 9 October 2018, the reason there has been no attempt to arrange a meeting since July 2018 with the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12459/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical graduates from medical schools here; the number of such graduates who commenced internships here; the number of those graduates who completed internships here in each of the years 2004 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12680/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the proposals in the 2019 HSE service plan to reconfigure the overall bed stock to a more sustainable level giving rise to a reduction in bed numbers of 80 to 100 beds; the sectors of the health service in which this reconfiguration is taking place; the locations of the beds to be withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12687/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action which has been taken since the publication of the health service capacity review to increase the number of step down beds; the local health office areas that have had extra beds provided; the target for extra beds in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12688/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the replacement and refurbishment of 90 community nursing units nationally announced on 26 January 2016, in tabular form; the funding allocated to each project in 2019; and the expected completion date for each. [11466/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of times he met with a person (details supplied); the issues discussed; if his officials attended the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11476/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 26 February 2019, the details of interactions including dates, substance of advice and position taken by CervicalCheck between his Department and the organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11495/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the HSE on 1 March 2019 or the latest date available. [11499/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health area in tabular form. [11500/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress being made on providing a person (details supplied) with an inpatient place at the National Rehabilitation Centre, Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11592/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital managers and CEOs educated to MBA level or equivalent; and the number who have been funded to acquire such a qualification since 2016. [11656/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of scheduled treatments and procedures cancelled in all acute hospitals in 2018. [11670/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of conferring consultant status on specialists in public health medicine here further to a report (details supplied). [11713/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the target date for the opening of the new 60-bed modular unit at University Hospital Limerick; the target date for the opening of the new permanent 90-bed structure at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11836/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a revised decision on minimum unit pricing in the event of an extension to Article 50 will be committed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12029/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for delaying minimum unit pricing pending further clarity on Brexit in view of the fact that statistics show the level of cross-Border trade has not increased between 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12030/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 24 January 2019, the breakdown of orthodontic patients waiting less than two years for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12098/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1195 of 20 June 2017, if he will provide the international benchmarking exercise used to compare the construction cost of the planned national children’s hospital with other hospitals built throughout the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12310/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress being made on offering the FreeStyle Libre device to diabetic patients over 21 years of age for free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12313/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a report on the new drugs budget for the HSE 2019 will be provided; the amount that has been spent; the items on which the money has been spent; the amount remaining in view of a media report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11153/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a detailed analysis of the decision not to make Spinraza available to persons here will be provided including but not limited to the final agreed costs to the HSE and the final agreed costs in all other relevant jurisdictions; if the costs for Ireland are broadly comparable to all other jurisdictions in which Spinraza is being made available; the rationale for it not being made available here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11180/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 1 March 2019 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [11277/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2019, in tabular form. [11278/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less for each ambulance station in each month in the year to the end of February 2019 or the latest date available; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less. [11279/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2019; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [11280/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area. [11281/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [11282/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationally in January 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same, respectively in tabular form. [11283/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four months in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital; the number waiting four to eight and more than eight months for treatment; and if the same information will be provided for other spinal patients in tabular form. [11284/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients who were removed from outpatient lists each month in 2018 as a result of validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant in each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [11285/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11286/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11287/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52, and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11288/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52, and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11289/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [11290/19]
• 2019-02-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the expenditure by the new national children’s hospital on public relations and public affairs consultants in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and the fees paid to individual companies providing such services in the same period in tabular form. [10161/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of cervical smear tests provided by the national screening service in each of the years 2012 to 2018. [9392/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he or his officials received advice from the national screening service between 25 and 28 April 2018 that recommended against the introduction of out-of-cycle smear tests prior to his decision to approve out of cycle smear tests. [9410/19]
• 2019-02-20
  VOTE
  Confidence in Minister for Health

  • ~ abstained on the motion motion failed · 53–58
• 2019-02-20
  VOTE
  Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 · 2 divisions

  A bill to amend the Health Act 2004 to provide that the Health Service Executive shall be governed by a board and not a directorate and that the Executive shall have a chief executive officer accountable to that board; to provide for the amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 1–5
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 4–2
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made on the commencement of the compassionate access programme for patients that require treatment with medicinal cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7779/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made on the granting of importation licences for medicinal cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7780/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there are changes in circumstances envisioned for patients already granted licences for medicinal cannabis when the compassionate access programme is commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7781/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if Ireland's full participation in the four pillars of the BeNeLuxA collaboration, including information sharing, horizon scanning, joint assessment and joint pricing and reimbursement, will require amendments to existing national legislation or statutory instruments. [8125/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to undertake a regulatory impact assessment and-or a cost-benefit analysis of Ireland's participation in the BeNeLuxA initiative. [8126/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if his officials have engaged with officials from other member states on the establishment of the international horizon scanning initiative; the status of progress; and if Ireland will be a participant in the initiative. [8127/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the fiduciary duties of directors of Irish registered legal entities that are wholly owned subsidiaries under the Companies Act 2014 may preclude these companies from engaging in joint pricing and reimbursement negotiations that may occur as part of the BeNeLuxA collaboration; and his views on whether this could be a barrier to Irish registered companies engaging in future pilot joint negotiations. [8128/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when an action plan to implement Sláintecare will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8335/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of legislation to ensure safe access to premises in which termination of pregnancy services may be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8365/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 24 January 2019, the number of persons waiting for orthodontic treatment by time periods (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8366/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 24 January 2019, if comparable data can be supplied for each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8367/19]
• 2019-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 29 January 2019, if the note provided to him on 7 September 2018 by his officials updating him on the emerging position of the cost increases involved with building the new national children’s hospital will be provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7443/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding received from the European Investment Bank for the construction of the new children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6767/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will direct the HSE to mandate that patients are informed when their treating consultants are not on the specialist register, including the reason they are not on the specialist register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5519/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the schedule of all costs, subsequent changes to costs and current projected costs associated with the national children's hospital from initial tenders to date; the details of costs covered by the development board (details supplied) and the Children's hospital group and other associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5394/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is equitable that graduate nursing and midwifery salaries are significantly less than the graduate nursing salaries for allied health professionals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5393/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the initiatives being taken to address the long waiting times for dental waiting lists for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5391/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the projects identified as required or likely to be delayed in view of the additional funds required for the National Children's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5390/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there are potential clinical implications, including the potential for delayed initiation of treatment for women being asked to take repeat smear tests due to the delays in testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5392/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he has received a pay and numbers strategy from the HSE; if so, the key details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5052/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on nurses in 2018. [5383/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of officials in his Department who specialise in mental health policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5481/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the roll-out of new national trauma centres, including the planned trauma centre at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; the deadlines for submissions, decisions and implementation in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4444/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of amending the fees charged under the NHSS to enable nursing home residents with an assessed weekly income of €300 or less to retain a minimum of €60 weekly. [4599/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost, current and capital, of providing a mobile catheterisation laboratory for Waterford University Hospital. [4600/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year running costs of opening all medical assessment units on a seven day basis. [4601/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an extra 500 hospital consultants; and the average estimate for support staff required per consultant. [4602/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 4,000 nursing staff. [4603/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of abolishing prescription charges. [4604/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of increasing the general practitioner rural practice allowance to €25,000. [4605/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of implementing the national maternity strategy. [4606/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 3 million home support hours for older persons. [4607/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of completing the recruitment required for the full implementation of A Vision for Change. [4608/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of reducing the drug payment threshold to €100. [4609/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 speech and language therapists. [4610/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 occupational therapists. [4611/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional two hundred physiotherapists. [4612/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 50 dental surgeons. [4613/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing an additional emergency ambulance; and the estimated full-year costs of additional personnel required for its staffing. [4614/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 1.5 million personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4615/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 200 intensive home care packages for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4616/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 100 critical care beds. [4617/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an additional 150 inpatient rehabilitation beds. [4618/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries and procedures being postponed or cancelled in anticipation of the proposed strike by nurses at the end of January 2019. [3849/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries and procedures being postponed or cancelled in anticipation of the proposed strike by nurses at the end of January 2019. [3850/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the €667 million capital expenditure in health in 2019, by project, in tabular form. [3928/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of repeat cervical smear tests conducted since May 2018 that are now invalid owing to delays in assessing them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4339/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the monthly timeline of each notification of cost increase that was provided to him by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board regarding the construction costs of the new national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4399/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the planned primary healthcare centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow and its services or facilities are at risk of delay or cancellation due to the cost overruns on the new national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4417/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in 2018 for each public voluntary hospital in tabular form. [3433/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 17 January 2019 or the latest date for which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [3434/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less for each ambulance station by month in the year to the end of December 2018 or the latest date available in tabular form. [3435/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over that experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours in 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [3436/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area. [3437/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting for time periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [3438/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency departments nationwide in December 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same, respectively in tabular form. [3439/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four months for treatment; the number waiting four to eight months; the number waiting more than eight months; and if similar information will be provided for other spinal patients for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, respectively in tabular form. [3440/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients that have been removed from outpatient lists in 2018 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [3441/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care; and the number waiting for time periods (details supplied). [3442/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting by time periods (details supplied). [3443/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; the number waiting by time periods (details supplied). [3444/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients in each relevant hospital that have been waiting for an outpatient appointment since before 1 January 2017; and the number of patients in each that have been waiting since before 1 January 2016 for an outpatient appointment in tabular form. [3445/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a detailed action plan to implement Sláintecare will be published. [3446/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting by time periods (details supplied). [3447/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting by time periods (details supplied). [3448/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of measures to expand access to Pembrolizumab to all clinically suitable women with cervical cancer. [3688/19]
• 2019-01-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the capital allocation for the construction of the new children’s hospital; the final outturn for same in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the breakdown for each of the satellite centres in each year; and the allocation for each in 2019, in tabular form. [3133/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the list of delayed capital projects due to the overspend on the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2309/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the State’s financial liabilities arising out of compensation in relation to the CervicalCheck controversy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2427/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a compensation tribunal will be established immediately in order that women terminally ill with cervical cancer can have their claims processed as quickly as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2428/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if women who find their cervical smear tests were misread and have now been diagnosed with cancer can avail of the care package being provided to the 221 women whose smears were audited by CervicalCheck; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2429/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the waiting time for cervical smear test results; the number of women waiting for a repeat smear test following his commitment to provide same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2430/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has commenced preparatory work on the establishment of the CervicalCheck tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2431/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the legislation to establish the CervicalCheck tribunal will be published; when the tribunal will be operational in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2432/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if working premises have been secured for the proposed CervicalCheck tribunal; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2433/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the terms of reference for the independent statutory tribunal to deal with claims arising from the CervicalCheck controversy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2434/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the investment in bed capacity in the short, medium and long-term as outlined in the Sláintecare report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2458/19]
• 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 Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a national lead for youth mental health will be in place in line with recommendation 8 of the National Youth Mental Health Taskforce Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54099/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the Pathfinder project will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54100/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when strategic funding for youth mental health will be announced as per recommendation 10 of the National Youth Mental Health Taskforce Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54101/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to address failings found within the "Your service, your say" system in view of media reports; if the actions include a full review; if official contact has been made with those affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54164/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of recorded violent assaults on general practitioners and their staff in the course of their work over the past ten years, either at their practice premises, on home visits or at out-of-hours centres, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54408/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the measures he plans to introduce in the new GMS contract to ensure the protection of general practitioners from violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54409/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost of postal services to the HSE each year; the price paid for letters, envelopes and stamps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1149/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason those aged 70 years of age and older are refused bowel screening by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1152/19]
• 2018-12-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the planned publication date of the new national oral health policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53732/18]
• 2018-12-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing free dental care for children aged six, seven and eight years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53733/18]
• 2018-12-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant positions in whole-time equivalent terms which are vacant or filled by a locum in each relevant hospital in tabular form. [53917/18]
• 2018-12-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital filled by a non-specialist consultant; and the percentage of consultant positions in whole-time equivalent terms that are filled by a non-specialist consultant in each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [53918/18]
• 2018-12-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the significant increase in costs for the new children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54032/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the CEO or equivalent of each hospital and each hospital group on 1 January 2014, 1 January 2015, 1 January 2016, 1 January 2017, 1 January 2018 and 1 December 2018; the number of these who received their appointment following an open competition; the number holding the position in an acting and or temporary capacity; the appointed persons on each date who subsequently have been appointed to other roles within the HSE or hospitals; the details of such subsequent appointments; and if these subsequent appointments were the result of an open competition in each public and voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [52704/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on the rate of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis here; his further views on the benefits offered by the use of irritable bowel disease, IBD, nurse specialists in the treatment and management of these conditions; the number of IBD nurse specialists here; his plans to broaden the number of IBD nurse specialists; when further recruitment of IBD nurse specialists is expected to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52726/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the projected expenditure on cancer services for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52772/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the expenditure on the national cancer strategy in 2017; the projected expenditure on the strategy in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52773/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the projected expenditure under the national cancer control programme for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52774/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on nurses for the first nine months in each of the years since 2009, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52837/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the protected disclosure made by a person (details supplied) regarding the standards of care offered to children with disabilities at a school as reported in the media on 25 November 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52838/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a formal investigation has been initiated by a State body following the protected disclosure made by a person (details supplied) into standards of care for children with disabilities in a school as reported in the media on 21 November 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52839/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 6 December 2018, the impediments that exist to commencing Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53041/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if funding for drugs services in Ballymun will be restored in view of the recent rise in anti-social behaviour and crime linked to cocaine in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53050/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in procurement under the private ambulance tender framework that commenced in 2017 and has not progressed since September 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53101/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the new children’s hospital; when construction will be completed; when it will be open to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53125/18]
• 2018-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the relocation of the national maternity hospital to St. Vincent’s University Hospital; the timeframe for same; the issues arising with regard to ownership; if religious ethos will not be a factor in clinical practice in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52632/18]
• 2018-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the relocation of the Rotunda Hospital to Connolly hospital; the timeframe for same; the issues arising with regard to ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52633/18]
• 2018-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for assessment by early intervention teams in each LHO area and in CHO 7; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12, 12 to 18, 18 to 24 and more than 24 months, respectively. [52642/18]
• 2018-12-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the financial supports available for non-medical costs for families of sick children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52320/18]
• 2018-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding due from the HSE to a service (details supplied); when outstanding funding will issue; if no services will be impacted as a result of the delays in payment by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51533/18]
• 2018-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for assessment by early intervention teams in each LHO area in CHO 6; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12, 12 to 18, 18 to 24 and more than 24 months, respectively. [51761/18]
• 2018-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when sections 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Act 2018, as amended, will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51485/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the risks posed to women by the increase in waiting time of up to 20 weeks or more to receive CervicalCheck screening results, the failure to transfer all samples to slides within the six weeks required and the colposcopy waiting lists now being over one year in some areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51152/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of sanctioned consultant posts; the number of sanctioned whole-time equivalent posts if different; the number of consultants on the specialist register with permanent contracts; the gap between sanctioned whole-time equivalents and employed whole-time equivalents who are on the specialist register and have permanent contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50799/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to expand the remit and powers of the Health Information and Quality Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50798/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the negotiation of a new general practitioner contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50800/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when an outpatient action plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50796/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the additional resources in terms of additional staff and beds required for emergency departments to meet the six hour target for admission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50797/18]
• 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 for the motion motion passed · 90–15
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 9–101
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 10–89
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 90–16
  • ~ abstained on an amendment to the bill motion failed · 30–63
  • ~ abstained on an amendment to the bill motion failed · 29–65
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 27–75
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–67
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 30–75
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 21–64
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 10–75
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 21–69
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 1; and the number of staff employed in each by position and-or grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50320/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 2; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50321/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 3; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50322/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 4; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50323/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 5; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50324/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 6; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50325/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 7; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50326/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 8; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50327/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 9; and the number of staff employed in each by position and grade, that is, general practitioner, nurse and therapy posts in tabular form. [50328/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number, in tabular form, of patients to date in 2018 in each acute hospital who have waited more than 48 hours in an emergency department prior to being admitted to a ward. [50661/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients in each relevant hospital who have been waiting more than two years for an outpatient appointment; and the number of patients in each who have been waiting more than three years for an outpatient appointment, in tabular form. [50662/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 28 November 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [50909/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2018, in tabular from. [50910/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less by each ambulance station by month in the year to the end of October 2018 or the latest date available, in tabular form. [50911/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours to date in 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [50912/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided by each LHO area. [50913/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting up to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [50914/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in October 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited more than 20, 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes, respectively, to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls in tabular form. [50915/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled and postponed in each public hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50916/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for spinal fusion and other spinal operations, respectively, waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months, respectively, in both Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children's University Hospital for treatment, in tabular form. [50917/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled and postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50918/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients who have been removed from outpatient lists for each public and voluntary hospital each month in 2018 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant, in tabular form. [50919/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [50920/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [50921/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [50922/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [50923/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [50924/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement each of the 32 recommendations in the review of the nursing homes support scheme 2015 on the administration of the scheme in tabular form. [50925/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement each of the 13 recommendations in the review of the nursing homes support scheme 2015 on the cost of long-term residential care in tabular form. [50926/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement each of the 12 recommendations in the 2015 review of the nursing homes support scheme 2015 for future service provision in tabular form. [50927/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement each of the four recommendations in the review of the nursing homes support scheme 2015 on residential care capacity [50928/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events being notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [50929/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations commenced within 48 hours of the events occurring. [50930/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations completed within four months of the events occurring. [50931/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of reportable events in 2018 reported within 30 days of occurrence to the designated officer. [50932/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he has been in contact with the HSE about the interview board involved in recruiting a person (details supplied); if the members of the board will no longer be involved in future interview panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50607/18]
• 2018-12-04
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 5 divisions

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

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

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

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 25–59
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 22–61
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 21–71
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a detailed action plan to implement Sláintecare will be published. [49668/18]
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the multi-annual unscheduled care plan will be published. [49678/18]
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the determination and progress of priority objectives for general practitioner contractual reform. [49679/18]
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of a patient safety, complaints and advocacy policy. [49680/18]
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare executives task force will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49681/18]
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the expansion of activity based funding for inpatient and day cases to other acute hospitals during 2018. [49682/18]
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the examination of the use of activity based funding for outpatient services. [49683/18]
• 2018-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a governance review of the drugs approval and procurement process has taken place; and the status of same. [49684/18]
• 2018-11-28
  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 · 31–59
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 31–61
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 43–45
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 34–64
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 9–90
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the recommendations of a 2014 report (details supplied) into the genetic department at Crumlin children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49052/18]
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no specialist in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome employed here; if one can be hired; when they can commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49179/18]
• 2018-11-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided by LHO, local health office, area; the waiting list for home care packages by LHO area by the length of time those waiting have been on the waiting list; the number of home care supports provided per LHO area of between one and seven hours, seven and 14 hours, and 14 hours and more; the number of consumer-directed home support hours being provided by LHO area; the cost associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49482/18]
• 2018-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to include private companies in the protected disclosures legislation, including companies providing healthcare services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48655/18]
• 2018-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the figure of 221 women being adversely affected by the CervicalCheck issues is accurate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48806/18]
• 2018-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the average number of acute hospital beds available in public hospitals in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by inpatient and day case, in tabular form. [47828/18]
• 2018-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the 2019 HSE service plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47872/18]
• 2018-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated scale of disease-related malnutrition here; the clinical setting in which disease-related malnutrition predominantly exists; the estimated cost impact of disease-related malnutrition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48040/18]
• 2018-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the measures being undertaken to accurately measure the scale of malnutrition in the community setting here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48041/18]
• 2018-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the obstacles that have been encountered in appointing a new chief executive for the HSE; the number of applications received to date for the position; his plans to revise the terms and conditions of the appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47562/18]
• 2018-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated additional full-year expenditure needed in each of the next five years in order to maintain existing levels of health services. [47295/18]
• 2018-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated additional full-year expenditure needed in each of the next five years to meet demographic challenges. [47296/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the fall in the number of staff nurses employed in the health services from April to September 2018 with 245 fewer employed over the course of those months. [47144/18]
• 2018-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the almost €50 million which was earmarked for the provision of additional hospital beds and for developments for medical card patients is to be used to deal with overspending in the health service; and the way in which the €50 million was to have been assigned in tabular form. [46457/18]
• 2018-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if just over €200 million in health service funding for specific new initiatives for 2019 is being held back; and if so, the specific initiatives and the funding for each in tabular form [46458/18]
• 2018-11-08
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 2 divisions

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

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 0–8
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 0–7
• 2018-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance by age group (details supplied). [46058/18]
• 2018-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional staff, emergency ambulances, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles that are required for the National Ambulance Service to meet targets set by HIQA in its 2016 capacity review, in tabular form. [46119/18]
• 2018-11-07
  VOTE
  Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 · 6 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 · 0–7
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 0–7
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 0–8
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 0–7
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 0–7
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 0–7
• 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 Public

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the share of public expenditure allocated to voted health expenditure in each year since 2010, in tabular form. [45709/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of public expenditure on health as a share of gross domestic product in each year since 2010, in tabular form. [45710/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of public expenditure on health as a share of gross national income in each year since 2010, in tabular form. [45711/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a multi-annual plan will be brought forward which will commit to the timeframe for when the 2,600 additional acute hospital beds recommended under the capacity review will be located. [44696/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional nursing staff required in hospitals in order to implement the recommendations of the framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix. [45017/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a letter of determination sent to the HSE in respect of Estimates for public services 2018 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45039/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 October 2018 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan (details supplied). [45071/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 October 2018 or the nearest available date for a CT scan (details supplied). [45072/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 October 2018 or the nearest available date for a bone scan (details supplied). [45073/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 October 2018 or the nearest available date for an angiogram (details supplied). [45074/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 October 2018 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram (details supplied). [45075/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 October 2018 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography (details supplied). [45076/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 1 October 2018 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan (details supplied). [45077/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if emergency funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) to cover the costs of continuity of service provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45108/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason health spending has overrun to a large extent since 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45155/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action he will take to reduce the dependency on agency nurses in the health sector and the increased costs for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45701/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount spent to date in 2018 on agency nurses in the health sector; and the equivalent figures for 2015, 2016 and 2017. [45702/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the projected full-year expenditure on agency nurses in 2018; and the outturn for same in 2015, 2016 and 2017. [45703/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on the impact on nursing recruitment of a 20% pay gap between HSE staff and their equivalents in agency employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45704/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if €100,000 in funding will be included in his final budget preparations for the roll-out of the just a minute card (details supplied). [45840/18]
• 2018-11-06
  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 to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 1–7
• 2018-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the schedule of types of medical treatments covered by the NTPF for 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of procedures and average fee paid for each treatment type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44258/18]
• 2018-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the supports available to the deaf community in accessing mental health supports, including the provision of mental health professionals fluent in sign language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44259/18]
• 2018-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason legal fees can or cannot be returned to persons (details supplied). [44371/18]
• 2018-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 431 of 16 October 2018, the number of additional acute beds that will be provided by the additional funding of €10 million in 2019. [43999/18]
• 2018-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 431 of 16 October 2018, the hospitals in which the 600 acute beds to be phased in by the end of 2020 will be located in tabular form. [44000/18]
• 2018-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the portion of the €206 million for the selected measures for Sláintecare implementation that will support the commencement in 2019 of a multi-annual investment in general practice. [44002/18]
• 2018-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2019 of specific measures announced in budget 2019 (details supplied). [44003/18]
• 2018-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the schedule of types of medical treatments covered by the NTPF for 2017 and to date in 2018, including each treatment type; the number of procedures; the average fee paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44113/18]
• 2018-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the supports available to the deaf community in accessing mental health supports, including the provision of mental health professionals fluent in sign language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44114/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the overrun in health spending in 2018; if he was informed by the HSE in late 2017 or early 2018 that such an overrun was likely; the steps he took to avoid an overrun; the overrun in each health sector; the amount realised in savings to date in 2018 under the HSE's value improvement programme; the amount by which anticipated revenues have fallen short; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43914/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the general practitioner sector is facing a recruitment and retention crisis; his further views on whether the refusal to reverse FEMPI measures for general practitioners is a major driver of the crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43553/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the items of new expenditure in budget 2019 which would not be there without the existence of Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43554/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a recruitment and retention crisis in relation to hospital consultants; his further views on whether the wide disparity in new entrant pay is a major driver of this crisis; his plans in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43556/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of plans to tackle the waiting times for assessment and treatment for children with scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43557/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the NTPF should be extended to cover children with special needs that are waiting for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43555/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he has sought changes to the timing of allocations to the health service under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 to bring forward spending of over €900 million originally earmarked for the end of the ten-year programme; and the outcome of such discussions as part of the recent estimates process. [43200/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the way in which section 10(b) of the Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Act 2014 is being honoured in the health budget for 2019; and if the deficit recorded in 2018 will be considered as a first charge in 2019. [43201/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the capital projects in the health service which have been delayed for three months or more in 2018; and the reason for the delay in tabular form. [43202/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the project to provide a modular build at South Tipperary General Hospital; when the project will be completed; and the number of extra beds to be provided. [43210/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans for a new cancer centre in County Cork in view of An Bord Pleanála's refusal to grant Mercy University Hospital permission for same; the location in which the new centre will be built; when the centre will be open for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43254/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the meetings and dates on which he met with stakeholder organisations and professional bodies (details supplied) in relation to the implementation of termination of pregnancy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43255/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason the timeline for rolling out the HPV test by October 2018 was missed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43256/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated overrun in health for 2018; the areas of the healthcare system and geographies the overrun is allocated to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43636/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the research or data he has commissioned or his attention has been drawn to regarding the number and location of general practitioner surgeries that are no longer accepting new patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43637/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the NTPF should be extended to cover children with special needs who are waiting for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43638/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of meetings he has had with general practitioner representative organisations including organisations (details supplied) in relation to talks on the new general practitioner contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43639/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the new general practitioner contract negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43640/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if previously closed acute beds in Letterkenny University Hospital will be reopened in 2019; if so, the number of beds which will be reopened; when this will happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43641/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of new acute beds opened in 2018; the locations of those beds; the breakdown of those beds by type, for example, ICU, HDU, ward and rehab; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43643/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of new acute beds he plans to open in 2019; the locations of those beds; the breakdown of those beds by type, for example, ICU, HDU, ward and rehab; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43644/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to include funding to upgrade the Rotunda Hospital in the capital plan in view of ongoing multi-year delays in a new campus being built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43645/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the preparations being made to increase acute hospital capacity in winter 2018-2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43646/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the 2019 HSE service plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43647/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the provision of health care is being undermined by reduced salaries for those recruited since 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43648/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the waiting time to assessment and to access therapies for children with special needs by county or by the smallest available geographic breakdown if county level data is not available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43649/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount and type of investment in pancreatic cancer research here; his plans to co-operate with other countries fighting the disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43848/18]
• 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
• 2018-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reversing the cuts to reduce fees payable to general practitioners introduced under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009. [43010/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when an additional orthodontist will commence work at St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, in order to ease waiting times for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41832/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients in each public and voluntary hospital who have been removed from outpatient lists to date in 2018 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant. [41903/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a home support hours package in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [41906/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours provided in each LHO area in each month from January to September 2018; and the way in which this compares against target for each month. [41907/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of primary care centre projects (details supplied) announced on 22 April 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41910/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the Ireland East hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41914/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the RCSI hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41915/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the Dublin Midlands hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41916/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the Saolta University Health Care Group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41917/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the South/South West hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41918/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in the UL hospital group; and the details of each (details supplied). [41919/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the significant multi-annual investment in general practice which he announced in budget 2019; the specific funding to be provided in 2018 to general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42079/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the additional funding for winter pressures in 2018-19 and new beds in 2019-20 which he announced in budget 2019; the specific funding to be provided for winter pressures; the additional services that will be provided with this funding; the number of new beds that will be provided in 2019-20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42080/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the additional home support hours required by 2031 (details supplied). [42269/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a new director general and-or chief executive officer of the HSE will be appointed. [42316/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of expanding access to free general practitioner care through a 10% increase in the weekly income thresholds for general practitioner visit cards; and the full year cost of same. [42319/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of reversing the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, reductions to general practitioner fees announced in July 2013. [42471/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of paying all new entrant consultants recruited since 2012 at the pre-2012 rate of salary. [42472/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42473/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42474/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42475/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42476/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42477/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively. [42478/18]
• 2018-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care centre projects announced on 17 July 2012, in tabular form; the status of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41314/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason he has been unable to meet with the family of a person (details supplied). [40754/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress being made on implementing the recommendations of the HSE report 51449 (details supplied). [40755/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of inpatient and day case public patient beds in each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [40764/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the outsourcing contracts in place regarding hospitals (details supplied). [40844/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason only one child has been forwarded for treatment abroad by the HSE during 2018 even though four month targets have not been met and some children have been left waiting so long for their surgery that they have been deemed not to be clinically fit to have surgery. [40845/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason such a large proportion of children who are clinically listed for spinal surgery have been moved to a suspended category of wait list. [40846/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the wait time for a first scoliosis assessment with a specialist surgeon hospital (details supplied). [40847/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the average wait time for spinal surgery once a child has been placed on a surgery list in hospitals (details supplied). [40848/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if children (details supplied) are now discharged from their HSE orthopaedic specialist consultant here; and the person that will routinely follow-up these patients. [40849/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost in regard to the tendering process of the outsourcing contracts for scoliosis surgeries during 2017 (details supplied); the other costs that were incurred during this process, that is, renegotiation of contracts, including additional post-op follow-up of children in the UK and Germany and the costs of a French contract that was never utilised. [40850/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the Children's Hospital Group, CHG, is actively following national protocols as per the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF; and the person or body that oversees the wait lists in the CHG ensures compliance to national NTPF protocols in regard to the national wait lists for scoliosis. [40851/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the wait time for HSE funding approval for bracing therapy if a child has a medical card; the reason children across the Children's Hospital Group, CHG, do not have equal access to bracing therapy and funding; and the further reason funding often depends on the hospital the child attends and whether or not they have a medical card. [40852/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the action which can be taken to ensure legal costs are returned to staff cleared of wrongdoing at a facility (details supplied) which provides services to adults with intellectual disabilities. [40876/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of new general practitioners required over the next five years to provide for the replacement of general practitioners retiring over the same period; the number that will be required for replacing retiring rural general practitioners by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40951/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds to be provided in modular units in 2018 for each relevant acute hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40962/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided in each relevant acute hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40963/18]
• 2018-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the detail of the allocation of €55 million in 2018 to fund the National Treatment Purchase Fund to address waiting lists for those on same; the amount of this funding which has been spent; the number of patients that have been treated under the fund to date in 2018; and the number that have been treated since the restoration of the fund in 2017. [40965/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme; the average waiting time; the number of persons awaiting placement under the scheme in each local health office area, in tabular form; and the length of time waiting [40361/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of State-owned nursing homes in each county; the bed capacity in each; and the number of beds currently occupied, in tabular form. [40362/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons under and over 16 years of age waiting for orthodontic treatment for one year or less, one to two, two to three, three to four and more than four years, respectively, by LHO area, in tabular form. [40363/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health area. [40364/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE community intervention teams nationwide; if there is one in each local health office, LHO; if not, the LHOs that do not have a community intervention team exclusive to their locale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40365/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the preparations being put in place by his Department and the HSE for the introduction of pregnancy termination services. [40458/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of officials in his Department who have been assigned to oversee the introduction of pregnancy termination services. [40459/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of officials in the HSE who have been assigned to oversee the introduction of pregnancy termination services. [40460/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the additional funding being provided to ensure the timely introduction of pregnancy termination services. [40461/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the consultation that has taken place with professional representative bodies with regard to the introduction of pregnancy termination services. [40462/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of existing beds closed in each hospital and step-down facility, including rehabilitation units, palliative care units and nursing homes. [40467/18]
• 2018-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant positions in each public and voluntary hospital; the number of those filled on a whole-time equivalent basis; the number of those vacant as of 30 September 2018 or the latest date available; and the number of those filled on locum or non-specialist basis in tabular form. [40574/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 28 September 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [40331/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form. [40332/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by a first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less by ambulance station in each month in 2018 to August or latest date available. [40333/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) regarding vehicles associated with the national ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40334/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances in service by the year they entered service; the number between pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service and the HSE region in which they are based; the number of intermediate care ambulances currently in service by the year they entered service; the number by pods and vehicles in terms of the date they entered service; the HSE region in which they are based, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40335/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles in service in such a capacity, respectively, by HSE region and subdivided by every 50,000 miles or 80,000 kilometres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40336/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred [40337/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each local health office, LHO, area. [40338/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a home care package in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and 12 months plus, respectively. [40339/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20, 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls, respectively, in tabular form. [40340/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each public hospital to date in 2018 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40341/18]
• 2018-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40342/18]
• 2018-10-03
  VOTE
  Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015

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

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 23–65
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of paramedics at each level who have been hired in each month since January 2017, by unqualified, qualified to paramedic and qualified to advanced paramedic, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39463/18]
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of job offers made for paramedic posts in each month since January 2017; the offers made to unqualified, qualified to paramedic and qualified to advanced paramedic, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39464/18]
• 2018-09-26
  VOTE
  Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 · 2 divisions

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

  • ~ abstained on an amendment to the bill motion failed · 27–55
  • ~ abstained on an amendment to the bill motion failed · 25–56
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason only six paediatric scoliosis patients have been sent abroad for treatment under the treatment abroad scheme in view of the backlog of cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38548/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the progress made on the national roll-out of the no-fry zone in County Wicklow, which prevents the sale of fatty or fast food near schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38549/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of hospices and palliative care units that receive funding from the HSE as section 39 entities; the number of beds in each hospice and palliative care unit; the number of whole-time equivalent staff employed in each; and the funding provided by the HSE in 2016, 2017 and 2018, in tabular form [38789/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of amending the fees charged under the nursing homes support scheme, NHSS, to enable nursing home residents with an assessed weekly income of €300 or less to retain a minimum of €60 weekly. [38790/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year current and capital cost of providing a mobile catheterisation laboratory for Waterford University Hospital. [38791/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year running costs of opening all medical assessment units on a seven day basis. [38792/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an extra 500 hospital consultants; and the average estimate for support staff required per consultant. [38793/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 4,000 nursing staff. [38794/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of abolishing prescription charges. [38795/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of increasing the general practitioner rural practice allowance to €25,000. [38796/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of implementing the national maternity strategy. [38797/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 2.2 million home help hours. [38798/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 5,000 homecare packages. [38799/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of completing the recruitment required for the full implementation of A Vision for Change. [38800/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of reducing the drug payment threshold to €100. [38801/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 speech and language therapists. [38802/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 occupational therapists. [38803/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 200 physiotherapists. [38804/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting an additional 50 dental surgeons. [38805/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing an additional emergency ambulance; and the estimated full-year costs of additional personnel required for its staffing. [38806/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional one and a half million personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38807/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 200 intensive homecare packages for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38808/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 100 critical care beds. [38809/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an additional 150 inpatient rehabilitation beds. [38810/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the national maternity strategy; and the estimated additional extra funding that will be required for its implementation. [38811/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff in community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, in tabular form; the specific medical or healthcare posts in each team in each community healthcare organisation; and the estimated full-year cost of providing a full neuro-rehabilitation team in each CHO. [38812/18]
• 2018-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of times he or one of his predecessors has required HIQA to undertake an investigation in accordance with section 9 of the Health Act 2007; the reason for each request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38043/18]
• 2018-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the financial situation of the HSE; the extent to which spending is ahead of profile; the likely overrun for the year; the way in which HSE income for the year is also comparing to forecasts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38032/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of assisted living facilities in operation by county and community healthcare organisation; the number of beds available in each county; the occupancy level as a percentage; if there are additional facilities planned; if so, the location of these facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35470/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of applications for assisted living facilities for those diagnosed with dementia and or Alzheimer's; the number of applications granted; the number of applications by persons that have not been diagnosed with dementia and or Alzheimer's; and the number of applications granted in each of the years 2016 and 2017 and to date in 2018. [35471/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the capital and annual operational cost of establishing five new publicly owned dementia specific units with a capacity of 20 places for dementia patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35919/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost of extending the nursing home support scheme to all dementia sufferers requiring long-stay care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35920/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the cost of increasing the nursing home support scheme maximum agreed prices for private and voluntary nursing homes by 5% for all places in dementia specific units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35921/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if all national clinical leads for the HSE national clinical programmes are freed from conflicts of interest by ensuring that they declare whether they are in receipt of pharmaceutical funding for advisory or other work. [36078/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the planned tenure of each hospital clinical director post; and if post holders have exceeded that tenure. [36079/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if an annual commissioning plan for additional hospital beds will be brought forward with regard to the national development plan and the health service capacity review. [36080/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients in each public and voluntary hospital who have been removed from outpatient lists each month in 2018 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant. [33533/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the days of the week and hours of the day during which magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scans are provided in each public and voluntary hospital to public patients, in tabular form. [33534/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the days of the week and hours of the day during which computed tomography, CT, scans are provided in each public and voluntary hospital to public patients, in tabular form. [33535/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the days of the week and hours of the day during which ultrasound scans are provided in each public and voluntary hospital to public patients, in tabular form. [33536/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the level of qualification of hospital managers; the educational attainment of each hospital manager, per hospital group, in an anonymised form; the subject area of study, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33903/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the level of qualification and educational attainment including subject area, per grade for each hospital grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33904/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have received treatment under the treatment abroad scheme in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the category or specialty of procedures provided; the number provided in Northern Ireland; and the number provided in Britain. [34100/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the allocation of €55 million in 2018 to fund the National Treatment Purchase Fund to address waiting lists for those waiting longest; the amount of this funding now spent; the number of patients who have been treated under the auspices of the fund to date in 2018; and the number who have been treated since the fund’s restoration in 2016. [34101/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of the 221 cases that were screened at each of the laboratories used by CervicalCheck. [34102/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of smear tests that were carried out by all laboratories used by CervicalCheck since the screening programme first began, in tabular form. [34103/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the numbers of staff whole-time equivalent employed by the National Treatment Purchase Fund at the end of 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [34698/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant positions in each public and voluntary hospital; the number which are filled on a whole-time equivalent basis; the number which are vacant as of 19 July 2018 or the latest date available; and the number which are filled on a locum or non-specialist basis in tabular form. [34880/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on staff in each public and voluntary hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form. [34881/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the agency spend on staff for each community healthcare organisation to date in 2018, in tabular form. [34882/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on agency staff to date in 2018; and the proportion of the projected spend for agency staff originally estimated for 2018 that has now been spent. [34883/18]
• 2018-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the extension of a general practitioner card to persons in receipt of domiciliary care allowance but that do not receive a carer's allowance or carer's benefit. [31735/18]
• 2018-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health to outline the status of the roll-out of a training scheme in palliative care for carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31736/18]
• 2018-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health to set out the number of licences granted under the compassionate access programme for medical cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31737/18]
• 2018-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the services to be provided by the modular cath lab at University Hospital Waterford; the timeline for this service to be in place; the hours in which this lab will operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31899/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients 75 years of age and over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours from January to June 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [31206/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months for a spinal fusion in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Children's University Hospital in tabular form; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients [31207/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 29 June 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [31208/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients attending the rapid access lung clinic in designated cancer centres during the first six months of 2018. [31209/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients attending the rapid access prostate clinic in cancer centres during the first six months of 2018; and the number attending prostate rapid clinics who attended or were offered an appointment within 20 working days of receipt of referral in the cancer centres over the same time period. [31210/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent on agency staff each month to date in 2018; the equivalent figures for each month in 2017; the proportion of the HSE’s anticipated agency staff expenditure for 2018 that has been incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31211/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the amount collected in prescription charges for medical card prescriptions in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and the amount projected for 2018. [31212/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of elective inpatient discharges in each public and voluntary hospital during the first six months of 2018. [31213/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of haemodialysis patients treated in acute hospitals during the first six months of 2018. [31214/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of haemodialysis patients treated in contracted centres during the first six months of 2018. [31215/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home therapies dialysis patients treatments during the first six months of 2018. [31216/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges during the first six months of 2018. [31217/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of acute stroke patients who have spent all or some of their hospital stays in an acute or combined stroke unit during the first six months of 2018. [31218/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of patients with confirmed acute ischaemic stroke who received thrombolysis during the first six months of 2018. [31219/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide statistical information on emergency ambulances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31220/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency and intermediate care ambulances respectively in service; the number of each distinguished between pods and vehicles by year, date they entered service and the HSE region in which they are based, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31222/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles in service respectively, by HSE region and subdivided by every 80,000 km in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31223/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health area in tabular form. [31224/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions in each public and voluntary hospital in categories (details supplied) in tabular form. [31225/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less by each ambulance station by month to the end of June 2018 or the latest date available in tabular form. [31226/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of emergency medicine consultants in each public and voluntary hospital with an emergency department; the number of 24-hour emergency departments; and the number that have an emergency medicine consultant available daily on a 24-hour basis in tabular form. [31227/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the revenue raised from charges for private patients in public beds; the number of procedures in each hospital which has treated private patients in public beds; and the number of applications for payment by the insurer that were submitted by each hospital for such procedures carried out by each public and voluntary hospital from 1 January and 31 December in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form. [31228/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent speech and language therapists per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31361/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent child psychologists per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31362/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent physiotherapists per county for each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31363/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent occupational therapists per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31364/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding allocation to secondary specialist care for children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities, per county for each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31365/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funding allocation for nursing homes per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31366/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent public health nurses per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31367/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent specialists dedicated to home care teams per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31368/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent specialists dedicated to residential services assistance for elderly persons per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31369/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent key workers dedicated to assisting people with complex needs per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to February 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31370/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent child and adolescent mental health psychologists per county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31371/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the publication date for the outpatient waiting list action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31372/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the anonymised details of all disciplinary actions which have taken place or are planned in response to or relevant to patient safety incidents in maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital including those detailed in recent reports. [30039/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patient safety incidents which have taken place; the number which have resulted disciplinary actions in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to the end of March 2018, by hospital group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30040/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the Health Service Executive's value improvement programme, which is targeting improvement opportunities up to €346 million; the financial value of such improvement opportunities to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30240/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if an additional six beds have been provided in the National Rehabilitation Hospital. [30241/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of the nursing home support scheme as of 1 July 2018. [30242/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [30243/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in University Hospital Galway. [30244/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in University Hospital Limerick. [30245/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. [30246/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in University Hospital Waterford. [30247/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30248/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional beds provided to date in 2018 in St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny. [30249/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the project to provide a modular build at South Tipperary General Hospital. [30250/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of the medical assessment services at Roscommon University Hospital. [30251/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of paediatric homecare packages being provided. [30252/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting fewer than 13 weeks and more than 13 weeks respectively following a referral for routine colonoscopy or oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy, OGD, at the end of June 2018 or latest date available. [30253/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of postgraduate education programmes for nurses and midwives being provided. [30254/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives with authority to prescribe medicines. [30255/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives with authority to prescribe ionising radiation, that is, X-ray. [30256/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of six national foundation education programmes for nurses in critical care, surgical pre-assessment, acute medicine unscheduled care, frailty, emergency care and anaesthetic recovery room nursing. [30257/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a national education programme to prepare 130 nurses for advanced practitioner roles has been commissioned; and if not, when same will occur. [30258/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of the public health nurse sponsorship programme to 150 nurses. [30259/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of the sponsorship for healthcare workers to train as nurses to 30 places, incorporating both academic fees and salaries. [30260/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a national framework to establish an online resource to support and guide professional development planning for all nurses and midwives. [30261/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of education provision by centres of nursing and midwifery. [30262/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a nursing postgraduate entry programme. [30263/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses newly recruited to date in 2018 across all sectors of the health service; and the net increase in nursing numbers resulting from this recruitment. [29935/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists recruited to date in 2018; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in speech and language therapist numbers resulting from this recruitment. [29936/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists newly recruited to date in 2018; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in occupational therapist numbers resulting from this recruitment. [29937/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists newly recruited to date in 2018; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care and acute disability services; and the net increase in physiotherapist numbers resulting from this recruitment. [29938/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29939/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form [29940/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29941/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29942/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved senior house officer posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29943/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved registrar posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29944/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved senior registrar posts in whole-time equivalent terms in each public and voluntary hospital; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29945/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved clinical dental surgeons in whole-time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29946/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved general dental surgeon posts in whole time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29947/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved senior dental surgeon posts in whole time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29948/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of approved registered disability nurse posts in whole time equivalent terms employed by the HSE; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [29949/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 July 2018; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [29953/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of community intervention teams in each community healthcare organisation as of 30 June 2018 or the latest date available; the number of whole time equivalent staff in each on that date; and the corresponding data for the same date in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form. [29954/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals for treatment to each community intervention team in the first and second quarter of 2018, in tabular form. [29955/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that received specialist palliative care treatment in their normal place of residence in each month to date in 2018. [29956/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the primary care centre projects announced on 17 July 2012; the status of same in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29957/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events being notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [29958/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations commenced within 48 hours of the events occurring. [29959/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations completed within four months of notification of the events occurring. [29960/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of reportable events in 2017 that were reported within 30 days of occurrence to the designated officer. [29961/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in June 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes, respectively, for same in tabular form. [29962/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that have been cancelled and postponed in each public hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29963/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that have been cancelled and postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29964/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures the HSE has procured from private and independent hospitals to date in 2018; the amount spent by the HSE on these procedures in private and independent hospitals to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29965/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the HSE on 1 July 2018 or the latest date available. [29966/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public or voluntary hospitals that carry out MRI scans; the number of persons waiting as of 1 July 2018 or the nearest available date for such a procedure at each of the hospitals in waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29967/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public or voluntary hospitals that carry out CT scans; the number of persons waiting as of 1 July 2018 or the nearest available date for such a procedure at each of the hospitals in waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29968/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public or voluntary hospitals that carry out bone scans; the number of persons waiting as of 1 July 2018 or the nearest available date for such a procedure at each of the hospitals in waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29969/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public or voluntary hospitals that carry out angiograms; the number of persons waiting as of 1 July 2018 or the nearest available date for such a procedure at each of the hospitals in waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29970/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public or voluntary hospitals that carry out electroencephalograms; the number of persons waiting as of 1 July 2018 or the nearest available date for such a procedure at each of the hospitals in waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29971/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of public or voluntary hospitals that carry out endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; the number of persons waiting as of 1 July 2018 or the nearest available date for such a procedure at each of the hospitals in waiting periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29972/18]
• 2018-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards for persons over 70 years of age at the end of June 2018 by each local health area in tabular form [29973/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the negotiation of a new general practitioner contract, the engagement he has had with an organisation (details supplied) in the negotiations and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28600/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the procedures in place to enable the sharing of best practice between hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28313/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a cannabis for medicinal use access programme will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28316/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a Sláintecare implementation plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28312/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when the HSE will have a new director general; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28314/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the measures to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28315/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the extent to which his attention was drawn to the use of private investigators to track hospital consultants, pertaining to public and private work; if contracts were used to detail the surveillance required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28602/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the oversight measures, contractual obligations and regulations in place in cases in which his Department hires a private investigator to investigate health service staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28603/18]
• 2018-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the report due to be published by the HSE working group established to examine lymphoedema services here; the publication date for the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27386/18]
• 2018-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the settlement reached with hospital consultants on 15 June 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27142/18]
• 2018-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the disciplinary proceedings which were enacted as a result of the publication of the Report of the External Independent Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital. [27143/18]
• 2018-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the schedule of supports being offered to women affected by the controversy surrounding the CervicalCheck screening service; the number of women for whom supports are in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27144/18]
• 2018-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the proactive outreach actions being taken to contact and offer additional screening services for those with a high risk profile for cervical cancer in view of the controversy surrounding the CervicalCheck screening service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27145/18]
• 2018-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a business case for a modular catheterisation laboratory for the south east; the decision date for the business case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27146/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the regulations placed on nursing homes by HIQA for dementia patients; the way in which this differs from non-dementia patients; if there is a requirement for extra nursing and care workers for dementia patients; if there is a requirement for secured accommodation for dementia patients; the average extra cost for a nursing home to accept a dementia patient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25128/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the rules in relation to the fair deal scheme for nursing homes with regard to the prices agreed between nursing homes and the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if there is a difference between a dementia patient and a non-dementia patient; if there is a difference in the subvention provided to nursing homes for accepting a dementia patient and a non-dementia patient as a consequence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25129/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant places with secured accommodation in public nursing homes, private and voluntary nursing homes, respectively in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25130/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of secured accommodation places in public nursing homes, private and voluntary nursing homes, respectively in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25131/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of dementia patients on waiting lists for secured accommodation in public nursing homes private and voluntary nursing homes, respectively in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25132/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of and likely publication date for the development of a three year unscheduled care plan for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25208/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of additional measures to be included in the 2018 winter initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25209/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the KPIs on a daily, weekly and monthly basis as appropriate for both admitted and non-admitted patient experience time, PET, nine hour to 24 hour breaches and delayed discharges (details supplied) to date in 2018, in tabular form. [25210/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a centralised repository supported by the national document control system for the management of the HSE national PPPGs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25211/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of family forums and residents' councils across each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25212/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a contract management support unit for section 38 and 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25213/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the publication date of the HSE's report on estates maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25214/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the completion of analysis of the various cohorts of consultants not on the Medical Council specialist register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25215/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the known level of compliance with the HSE consultants qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25216/18]
• 2018-06-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health to outline his plans to expand a pilot course for family carers of those with life limiting illnesses; the expected timeline for this expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25621/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the Sláintecare estimate of 2,590 for new acute beds and which is provided for in the capital plan will be updated based on the ESRI's analysis suggesting that approximately 4,500 new acute beds are in fact required. [23764/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the extent to which the State will provide the 13,000 extra residential care beds that the health service capacity review anticipates will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23504/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will be reviewing governance structures in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23502/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the HSE’s budget; if spending is within profile; if hospitals are in budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23500/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a plan to tackle outpatient waiting lists will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23503/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the ongoing and continuing difficulty in growing the nursing and midwifery workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23501/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours in April 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [22983/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each LHO area. [22984/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a home care package in each LHO area; and the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively. [22985/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons covered by medical cards as of 1 May 2018. [22986/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons covered by general practitioner visit cards as of 1 May 2018. [22987/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and more than 180 minutes for same in tabular form. [22988/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each public hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22989/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22990/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided in each LHO area in each month from January to April 2018; and the way in which this compares against the target for each month. [22991/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the HSE on 1 May 2018 or the latest date available. [22992/18]
• 2018-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 18 May 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available. [22993/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months for treatment, respectively; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients [21995/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent general practitioners per county; the number working with private lists and public lists, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22041/18]
• 2018-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals to hospitals by each general practitioner; the number of visits to each general practitioner; the rate of referral per general practitioner to hospitals in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22042/18]
• 2018-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the commencement of negotiations for a new contract for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21849/18]
• 2018-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if electronic transmission of blood test results has ceased in some cases; the areas in which this has ceased; and the actions he will take to resolve the issue [20800/18]
• 2018-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of additional staff by category required to meet additional acute bed targets annually in the coming five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20868/18]
• 2018-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the occasions on which he or either of his two predecessors communicated with the Health Service Executive under the terms of section 5 of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2013 since the commencement of the Act; the nature of the direction provided to the HSE on each occasion; the occasions on which the Director General informed him or either of his two predecessors of the measures taken by the HSE to comply with a direction issued under section 5; and if such information was furnished within such period as was specified by him in tabular form. [20917/18]
• 2018-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of specialist inflammatory bowel disease nurses employed; the number employed on the same date in 2017; and the estimated full year cost of increasing the number to 28 in line with international best practice. [21148/18]
• 2018-05-10
  VOTE
  Health Service Reform

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

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged 0 to 18 years of age on waiting lists for an assessment with their local child and adolescent mental health team; the length of time they have been waiting by community health care organisation area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20358/18]
• 2018-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged 0 to 18 years of age on waiting lists for treatment with their local child and adolescent mental health team; the length of time they have been waiting by community healthcare organisation area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20359/18]
• 2018-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged 0 to 18 years of age on waiting lists for a speech and language assessment; the length of time they have been waiting by HSE community healthcare organisation area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20360/18]
• 2018-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged 0 to 18 years of age on waiting lists for speech and language treatment; the length of time they have been waiting by HSE community healthcare organisation area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20361/18]
• 2018-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged 0 to 18 years of age on waiting lists for an initial assessment of need from early intervention teams; the length of time they have been waiting by HSE community health care organisation area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20362/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of compensation payments made by the HSE on foot of incidents in maternity units in 2017, in tabular form; the amount of each individual payment; and the maternity unit in which the incident took place. [19806/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events in 2017 and to date in 2018 that were notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [19807/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations in 2017 and to date in 2018 that commenced within 48 hours of the events occurring. [19808/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of mandatory investigations commenced in 2017 that were completed within four months of notification of the events occurring. [19809/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of reportable events in 2017 and to date in 2018 that have been reported within 30 days of occurrence to the designated officer. [19810/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the National Screening Service will implement the recommendations of the HIQA review of information management practices at BreastCheck; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20120/18]
• 2018-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the patient and child safety measures in place for Temple Street Children's Hospital; if he is satisfied that there are no concerns regarding the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19344/18]
• 2018-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if a multi-annual consideration was made on a recent cost study analysis of a facility (details supplied); if the full level of funding reinstated in 2017 has been released; if funding in 2018 has been released; if the HSE has investigated the impact on the service of the possible non-release of funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19410/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of implementing the framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in all acute hospital settings; the number of additional whole-time equivalent nursing staff who would be required to implement the framework in all acute hospital settings; and the number of additional whole-time equivalent healthcare assistants required for same. [18776/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the National Cancer Control Programme or NCCP has drawn up a plan to develop an integrated cancer control and surveillance service for defined population subgroups with an inherited familial predisposition to cancer. [19066/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if an investigation has taken place into the reasons for the variation in CervicalCheck screening uptake rates in different counties. [19070/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of his plans for financial assistance for fertility treatment; the criteria attached in this regard; the proposed timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19118/18]
• 2018-04-25
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the examination of an additional scenario under the capacity review which assumes primary and acute care is free at point of use will be commissioned in line with Sláintecare recommendations. [18122/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the negotiation of a new general practitioner contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17265/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of additional capacity in acute hospitals to alleviate high levels of bed occupancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17088/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the recent Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health's report on evaluating orphan drugs will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17089/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a Sláintecare implementation plan will be brought forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17090/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his views on the finding of the health service capacity review that some 13,000 extra residential care beds are needed; the action being taken to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17087/18]
• 2018-04-19
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the proposed four new elective-only hospital facilities nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17091/18]
• 2018-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who have indicated they will not take on additional medical card patients by county; the number of medical card patients seen by general practitioners by county; the number of medical cards issued by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16864/18]
• 2018-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the waiting list for mobility appliances in each CHO; the number of persons waiting over six months and over one year and two years by CHO, respectively; the number of those who are children in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16865/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the process by which a condition is included on the long-term illness list; the previous occasion on which an additional condition was included on the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16044/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if Crohn's disease or colitis have been considered for inclusion on the long-term illness list; the status of this consideration; the associated cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16045/18]
• 2018-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the reduction of staff at a service (details supplied); if the HSE has identified the impact on services; if contingency plans have been put in place for the potential loss of staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14772/18]
• 2018-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that no progress has been made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11184/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of freedom of information requests his Department has received in the past eight years; the number of which were accepted without further escalation and not accepted respectively; the number requested which were not accepted that were escalated to the Information Commissioner; the number of which the Information Commissioner ruled in favour of the person requesting the freedom of information; the number of which the Information Commissioner ruled against his Department; the number his Department appealed to the High Court; the number the High Court ruled against his Department in favour of the applicant; the number which were then brought to the Court of Appeal by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9293/18]
• 2018-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the availability of palliative care services, by area; the level of service provided; the staff provided, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6144/18]
• 2018-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the doctor on-call service meets all relevant EU laws, guidelines and standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6145/18]
• 2018-02-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a pilot programme to provide palliative care training to carers; if successful, his further plans to roll out this scheme on a much greater level; when such a scheme may be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6146/18]
• 2018-01-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the circumstances of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed with a view to releasing funding. [54553/17]
• 2017-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the policy changes undertaken by St Columcille's Hospital with regard to the number of inquiries to private and voluntary nursing homes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54123/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position regarding Irish citizens accessing health care in Northern Ireland, including for minor and major procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50038/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on Ireland's bid to host the European Medicines Agency. [50046/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and, if so, the details of this correspondence. [50061/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health when a clinical review of Lyme disease was last carried out by his Department; if a clinical review is planned; if not, if he will conduct a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50163/17]
• 2017-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the terms of the UK's exit from the EU; if such preparations involve the drawing up of detailed and specific contingency plans in the event of a hard Brexit and a trade regime based on WTO tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48779/17]
• 2017-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position regarding Ireland’s bid to host the European Medicines Agency. [44897/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of all planning and research work under way on the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or related State agencies; if this analysis is intended for publication; the expected completion and publication date respectively of this research, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46122/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, project focused on managing medicine shortages after Brexit. [39872/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of clinical posts that were in place for south Dublin, Dún Laoghaire and north Wicklow CHO for mental health services in each of the years 2014 to 2016, inclusive, and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36925/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated time needed to fill vacancies for mental health professionals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36926/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds closed in each CHO area; the number that have been closed to date in 2017; his plans to mitigate the impact of these closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36927/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to address staff shortages in each CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36928/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the health products regulatory authority is engaged in the development of risk mitigation strategies regarding the impact Brexit will have on accessing specific medical drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38120/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 20 June 2017, the analysis and risk assessments conducted to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38131/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the State's bid to host the European Medicines Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38662/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of sectorial response plans to Brexit, the publication date of these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38696/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the issues identified for consideration in the context of Brexit, including opportunities and their prioritisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38712/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of issues identified for consideration in the context of Brexit, including threats and their prioritisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38728/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the scenario planning that has been conducted by his Department for Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38744/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the methodology employed in the prioritisation of responses to Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38760/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funds that have been requested in response to threats resulting from Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38776/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the funds have been allocated in response to threats resulting from Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38808/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in his Department for Brexit-related roles; the expected date for these roles to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38824/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his Department’s priorities for risk mitigation in response to Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38840/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the membership and role of all Brexit-related stakeholder engagement groups working with his Department on Brexit issues; the number of times each stakeholder group has met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38856/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the Brexit-related research currently being undertaken by his Department; the topics under consideration; the date this research commenced; the expected date for completion and publication in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38888/17]
• 2017-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the development of sectorial response plans to Brexit; the publication date of these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33341/17]
• 2017-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the level of support the Government is offering in order to relocate the European Medicines Agency to Ireland; and if he will provide the associated cost suggested. [25704/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the pharmaceutical products used by the HSE exclusively available from UK manufacturers; the annual cost of these products; the risks to ongoing availability in the case of no agreement being reached in Brexit negotiations; if contingency planning is in place for these products; the expected timeline for accreditation of these products in this scenario; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26556/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the threats identified by his Department with regard to the responsibilities of his Department as a result of no deal being reached in Brexit negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26905/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has developed proposals to maintain an all-island approach to animal health and disease issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25406/17]
• 2017-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the health services’ preparations for Brexit. [20784/17]
• 2017-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to provide mental health classes to secondary school pupils; the implementation plan for this proposal; the development of the curriculum; if there is a consultation process envisaged for this curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3797/17]
• 2017-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the response time for each ambulance journey in County Wicklow; the area to which the ambulance was called; the travel time for each ambulance to its destination for each of the years 2014 to 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3575/17]
• 2017-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the details of any gaps in coverage for ambulance services in County Wicklow in 2015 and 2016; the dates on which these gaps occurred; the area in which these occurred; the number of requested call-outs of ambulances which occurred on these dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3576/17]
• 2016-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if getting married would affect access to an existing medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38280/16]
• 2016-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the factors that led to the need for an additional €1 million in funding for Wicklow Hospice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34431/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if, with regard to changes to the display of alcohol products on business premises contained within the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill, to indicate the evidence that this will cause a reduction in the abuse of alcohol; if his Department has estimated the cost to retailers entailed in enacting these proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24433/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the national maternity strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25513/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if an implementation group has been put in place with regard to the national maternity strategy; if this group has met to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25514/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of the end of a contract in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will investigate a new contract. [18075/16]
• 2016-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if broadband Internet access is available to patients for each public hospital, in tabular form; if this service is available to patients on a majority of wards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16935/16]
• 2016-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed site of the national children’s hospital, the net additional cost of transitioning the entirety of St. James’s Hospital, including the proposed maternity hospital, net of higher costs of building on the St. James’s site, net of the estimated costs associated with the building of the new maternity hospital on the site, net the cost of upgrading the Connolly site, to the Connolly site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13157/16]
• 2016-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed national children’s hospital, the proposed timeline for completion of the hospital at St. James's and the proposed timeline for completion at the Connolly site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13158/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the average cost to the State of a visit to an accident and emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9686/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the availability of ambulance services in County Wicklow, including if there are periods for which there is a reduced service or areas where a service is not provided and when and where these occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9966/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the navigational equipment provided to ambulance crews, including the nature of this technology, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9967/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health to set out the status of the progress of approval of the drug Lumacaftor or Ivactor; the actions he will take to ensure its availability; the criteria he will use to assess its use for persons with cystic fibrosis; the further actions he will take to support this drug, if approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9278/16]
• 2015-10-07
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons over 80 years of age who do not have a medical card. [34890/15]