Questions asked 28 total

• Health 20 questions

  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community healthcare facilities to date for each month in 2021 and to date in 2022, by hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41941/22]
  • 2022-09-08 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. [42047/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if a child who has received an assessment report under the Disability Act 2005 is entitled to a review of that assessment on an annual basis. [42145/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to colon cancer detection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his plans to work with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to address the discrepancy between training for educational psychologists and clinical psychologists with the latter receiving a substantial payment of college fees by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42174/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if Irish front-line healthcare workers who contracted Covid-19 in their workplace, particularly those suffering from long-Covid, will be considered to have contracted a prescribed occupational disease in view of the opinion of the European Union Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work that Covid-19 caused by work in disease prevention, health and social care contexts should be included in the European schedule of occupational diseases annexed to Commission Recommendation 2003/670/EC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42195/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of hospitals operating the Da Vinci surgical system; if there are plans to expand the robotics programme in hospitals; if funding will be provided by his Department to implement same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42420/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); his plans to review the current staffing levels and standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42422/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for insulin pumps by hospital in tabular form; the number waiting for funding or waiting otherwise; the number under 18 and over 65 years; the number waiting by timeband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42448/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on diabetes-related waiting lists by community healthcare organisation, CHO, in tabular form; the number waiting for outpatient, inpatient, and day case appointments; the number on equipment or supplies waiting lists by list; the number of persons aged under 18 and over 65 years on each list; the number waiting by timeband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42449/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on diabetes-related waiting lists by hospital in tabular form; the number waiting for outpatient, inpatient, and day case appointments; the number on equipment or supplies waiting lists by list; the number of persons under 18 and over 65 years on each list; the number waiting by timeband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42450/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the expenditure of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan funding of €75m for e-health and ICT by programme to date in tabular form; the amount remaining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42614/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1629 of 26 July 2022, if there are no avenues for a dispenser-supplier, outside of the prescribed manufacturer-suppliers set in Schedule 3 of the HSE-IPHA Framework Agreement (2021) to apply or otherwise petition for the inclusion of a medicine or appliance on the long-term illness scheme; the reason there are any means by which a medical doctor, pharmacist, or other licensed prescriber may petition for the inclusion of a product on such schemes and reimbursement lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42670/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if teleconsultations are permitted within the free contraception scheme; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42686/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 599, 602 and 603 of 5 July 2022, the value of fines issued to each hospital for each relevant period in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42718/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the full cost of all services, assessments or interventions to children provided by non-HSE organisations through primary care services in each of the years from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42881/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated amount that the health service would save if the State applied a zero rate of VAT to non-oral medicines by service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42887/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of paramedics in training with the National Ambulance Service by year of training and cohort in tabular form; the intake number in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the numbers graduating in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43021/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of overtime hours worked by HSE staff by staff category to date by month in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43022/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of overtime hours worked by HSE staff by staff category by month in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43023/22]
• Further and Higher Education 3 questions

  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there are plans to provide funding for the training of educational psychologists; and his plans to address this in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42176/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will address the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42588/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if advice will be provided on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43060/22]
• Environment 2 questions

  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans for interim solutions for householders in rural areas waiting on broadband that is some years away under the national broadband plan; if he will provide further details on the efforts to accelerate the roll-out of the national broadband plan in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42053/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason he has not signed off on a 2% pensionable increase for An Post pensioners, which was effective from 1 January 2022; the timeline for the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42633/22]
• Social 2 questions

  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42419/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence; if she will review particular circumstances on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42815/22]
• Finance 1 question

  • 2022-09-08 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Finance if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42668/22]