Questions asked 40 total

• Health 35 questions

  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when and the way in which housebound persons will be vaccinated; when housebound persons in County Waterford will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21160/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the way in which persons aged 60 to 69 who would find it difficult to attend a mass vaccination centre such as a person with stage 4 COPD who must carry an oxygen tank will be vaccinated; if they will be vaccinated by a general practitioner or the National Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21161/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the arrangements in place or that have been considered for procuring second generation and booster Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21162/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the staffing compositions of each public health department; the number of approved posts by grade, filled and vacant, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21163/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the additional staff hired for public health departments in 2020 and to date in 2021; the additional posts approved; the number of posts routinely filled by non-HSE hires in each public health department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21164/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the additional staff brought into public health departments in 2020 and to date in 2021, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; the HSE, agency and secondment breakdown of such posts; the number of posts which will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21165/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his plans in the event of a need for annual Covid-19 vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21166/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if the new consultant public health medicine posts are additional posts in public health; if all existing posts will be retained and filled as consultant posts are filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21167/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the role which consultants in public health medicine might play in delivering Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21168/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on integrating public health on an all-island basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21169/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on developing all-island contingency planning to prepare for future island-wide epidemics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21170/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the role played by public health departments; the enhanced role he envisages they will play with the additional consultant public health medicine posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21171/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the way in which public health departments are structured; if this will change with the additional consultant posts; if so, the way they will change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21172/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the prerequisites for adding products to the Medical Cannabis Access Programme; if products can only be added to the Programme if previously prescribed in another EU member state; if so, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21177/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken an analysis of the overall spending on pharmaceuticals in the health service; if so, the conclusions of same; the recommendations for increasing value for money and for increasing access to innovative treatments or clinical trials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21178/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken an analysis for minimising the delivery of low value care in the context of the entire health service; if so, the conclusions and recommendations of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21179/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21246/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the entitlements of persons with endometriosis to medical treatment here and abroad; the extent to which this is covered by the public system; the extent to which this is covered by private health insurance and rights to treatment under same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21390/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the acute hospitals that have been contacted for lists of heart failure patients with regard to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21407/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if this practice of requiring training in the absence of a job offer is in line with the policy of his Department and the HSE; the reason agencies hiring on behalf of the HSE for vaccinator roles are requiring vaccinator training of candidates who have been successful in their application but without offering them a job or renumeration for this training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21456/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to recognising on the basis of currently existing evidence some as-of-yet non-approved Covid-19 vaccines which are being administered in other states for exemption from mandatory hotel quarantine or if the evidence does not support this; if the HPRA has analysed the evidence of the effectiveness of these vaccines not in the context of approval for use here but in the context of reducing transmission and in considering exemptions from hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21478/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the list of conditions which details were requested on in relation to each of the acute hospitals which have been contacted for lists of patients with regard to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21554/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of cases in which patients of mental health services were prescribed excessive amounts of medication in the previous five years, by county; the types of medication which were excessively prescribed; if there have been incidents of harm as a result of this; if so, the number of cases and extent of harm; the safeguards in place to prevent this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21658/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22053/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if those in mandatory quarantine hotel facilities will be given personalised food menus considering special dietary needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22058/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22361/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if an application has been received to add the PCBD110 product to the medical cannabis access programme; if so, when he expects a decision to be made on the addition of the product to the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22373/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the criteria which prospective products for the medical cannabis access programme must meet in order to be recommended for use in the programme; if trace-THC products may be considered for inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22374/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the reason none of the four products currently recommended for use in the medical cannabis access programme meet the criteria of less than 2% THC for use in the treatment of resistant epilepsy established in the clinical guidance on cannabis for medical use of his Department; his plans to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22375/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when the medicinal cannabis access programme will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22376/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if Brexit has had or will have implications on the supply and use of products approved for use under the medical cannabis access programme considering that products approved for use on the programme must be sold or supplied for medical purposes by the relevant public or state body of a member state other than the state and must be currently supplied to patients in the member state as outlined in the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22377/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2152 of 21 April 2021, the exact matters which he has requested officials to examine; the barriers identified; the possible measures to rectify this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22378/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his views on easing visiting restrictions in hospitals for patients with dementia; if the guidance will be reviewed to allow at least one family member to visit those patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22389/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if a primary carer or family member will be allowed in hospitals to take care of persons with dementia in addition to nurses and hospital carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22390/21]
  • 2021-04-29 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of private dentists in each county and in each CHO area who accepted public patients under the DTSS on 1 January in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [22490/21]
• Environment 2 questions

  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a premises (details supplied) and the whole community will be included in the National Broadband Plan; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21248/21]
  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to ensure adequate and satisfactory access to consistent phone signal and fibre optic broadband for the communities of Seanphobal and An Rinn, County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21358/21]
• Tourism 1 question

  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has engaged with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure access to fibre optic broadband and consistent phone signal for Gaeltacht communities and in particular the communities of Seanphobal and An Rinn, County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21359/21]
• Social 1 question

  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Social Protection the regional breakdown by county of requests for supports available under the reasonable accommodation fund 2016-2020; the number of requests that were applied for, granted and refused, respectively under same during the timeframe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21296/21]
• Rural 1 question

  • 2021-04-28 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has engaged with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide funding for and or otherwise ensure access to fibre optic broadband and consistent phone signal for Gaeltacht communities and in particular the communities of Seanphobal and An Rinn in the interest of local development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21360/21]