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Pearse Doherty Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
856. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the cost of the PwC report into the National Children’s Hospital commissioned in January 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7268/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
857. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if there has been any investigation of reported irregularities associated with the €2.1 million spend by a body (details supplied) on a digitisation system launched in late 2020. [7270/25]
Martin Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
858. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health the intended future use of the old Ballygar Health Centre; whether there are plans for its redevelopment or repurposing, considering that it is currently derelict following a fire, an eyesore, and a cause for much public comment. [7308/25]
Martin Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
859. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health if there is any plan in place to provide additional car parking spaces by utilising the green areas surrounding Roscommon University Hospital (details supplied). [7310/25]
Martin Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
860. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health if the minister will provide an update on plans to reinstate a service (details supplied). [7311/25]
Erin McGreehan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
861. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the specific policy and procedure that apply to the discharge of patients by taxi from the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if the policy is adhered to in circumstances (details supplied). [7320/25]
Erin McGreehan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
862. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health if he will review a policy and procedure specifically concerning the psychiatric unit at Drogheda Hospital (details supplied) and provide a report on this review. [7321/25]
Erin McGreehan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
863. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health to clarify the policy in the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda specifically concerning communication with inpatients during their stay and the role of the key nurse assigned daily to a patient; if their role is solely confined to the distribution of medications; and if not, if it is to care for each patient as an individual and their spe…
Erin McGreehan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
864. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the staffing vacancies with the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and the way this impacts on numbers of inpatients that the unit can care for. [7323/25]
Erin McGreehan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
865. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health to issue a review on the practices within the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when an individual arrives seeking urgent treatment during a mental health crisis; and the actions that are taken to care for each individual to engage with and ensure that they do not leave the unit without being assessed by a suitably qualified person. [732…
Erin McGreehan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
866. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the policy within psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when a person who has presented looking for help and treatment during a mental health crisis leaves and sadly dies by suicide; if it is practice that an automatic review into the case occurs; if so, the duration of that review; and if not, the reason. [7325/25]
Matt Carthy Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
867. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of social inclusion posts (of each grade) recruited in the CHO1 area since its inception; the WTE numbers of these posts which were located in Cavan and Monaghan; the number of WTE posts that will transfer along with Cavan and Monaghan in the transition to CHN; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7345/25]
Barry Ward Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
868. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the closure of a care provider (details supplied); the actions she will take to ensure the impact on their service users is minimised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7376/25]
Thomas Gould Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
869. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of people currently awaiting an ophthalmology appointment in Cork, by waiting time, in tabular form. [7408/25]
Thomas Gould Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
871. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting cataract surgery in Cork, by waiting time, in tabular form. [7410/25]
Thomas Gould Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
872. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting scoliosis surgery in Cork, by waiting time, in tabular form. [7411/25]
Frankie Feighan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
873. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the status of the work of the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group; when her Department will publish the planned interim report on challenges of conducting trials in Ireland; when it is intended to produce a final report proposing solutions to the issues impacting clinical research in Ireland; and her observations on the way to reduce administrative burden…
Donna McGettigan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
874. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals that have been reimbursed for their insulin pump training and/or consumables through the EU treatment abroad or cross-Border healthcare scheme since 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7418/25]
Donna McGettigan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
875. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that access to the omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSEs exceptional hardship scheme or have done so since 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7419/25]
Peter 'Chap' Cleere Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
876. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times patients are waiting before they can get an appointment to attend GP practices in Kilkenny, and if there are plans in place to address the difficulty some patients have in securing appointments in GP practices. [7427/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
877. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a schedule of all external legal consultation that she engaged in, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the general nature of the engagement; if the external consultation resulted in a report and or recommendations; and the cost of each consultant and or company engaged, in tabular form. [7437/25]
Seán Fleming Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
878. Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Minister for Health the arrangements that are in place for people who require out-of-hours GP care on an emergency basis, who do not have their own GP due to many GP’s saying their lists are full; the options that are available to people who are in these situations other than going to the nearest accident and emergency department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [744…
Cathal Crowe Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
879. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been reimbursed for their insulin pump training and or its consumables through the EU treatment abroad or cross-Border healthcare scheme since 2019. [7453/25]
Cathal Crowe Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
880. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in Ireland who access the omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSEs exceptional hardship scheme or have done so since 2018. [7454/25]