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Tue, 19 Oct 2021
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Disability Services
Catherine Murphy
757. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the locations of feeding clinics across the State supporting persons with disabilities who have difficulties swallowing and are prone to choking due to their disabilities. [50568/21]
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
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Hospital Services
Catherine Murphy
758. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the number of hours the migraine clinic is available at Beaumont Hospital from the current three hours per week to seven hours per week. [50569/21]
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
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Hospital Services
Catherine Murphy
759. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for patients awaiting an appointment at the falls clinic in Tallaght University Hospital; and the number of patients on the waiting list. [50570/21]
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
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Health Services
Catherine Murphy
760. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for eye examinations in County Kildare. [50571/21]
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
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Health Services Staff
Catherine Murphy
761. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting 15 additional full-time eye clinic liaison officers. [50572/21]
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
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Eating Disorders
Catherine Murphy
762. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting 12 additional adult eating disorder teams. [50573/21]
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
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Hospital Equipment
Catherine Murphy
763. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the hospitals which have a TRASNA telemedicine stroke machine installed; if each machine is operational; and the uses in each case for the machine. [50574/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Financial Services
Catherine Murphy
98. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he and or his officials have engaged with lending institutions here in respect of persons that availed of pandemic unemployment payments and as a result were placed in a position that they were required to restructure credit arrangements and as a result had negative credit rating applied to them over the course of 2020 and 2021; and if so, his plans to remedy this situation. [50347/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Rights of the Child
Catherine Murphy
143. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding adopting the Optional Protocols to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. [50197/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Health Services
Catherine Murphy
185. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will seek the necessary finance for the establishment of a designated intestinal failure unit or service in Ireland in order that that the HSE fulfils its ethical and legal responsibility to reduce the unacceptably high rates of complications and mortality among persons with intestinal failure. [50238/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Mental Health Services
Catherine Murphy
208. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the role of dedicated national lead for mental health in the HSE. [50331/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Catherine Murphy
209. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health his Department’s plans to engage with the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in respect of introducing an individual risk assessment for all prospective donors to compliment arrangements in place regarding persons that can donate blood in Northern Ireland. [50332/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Mental Health Services
Catherine Murphy
210. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health his plans to provide multi-annual funding to non-statutory mental health service providers that deliver services in line with Sharing the Vision. [50333/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Health Services
Catherine Murphy
211. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide additional funding for cancer services and support improvements in the wider health sector. [50334/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Healthcare Policy
Catherine Murphy
212. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the way in which his Department is working towards reducing in-patient charges in the health system. [50335/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Health Services
Catherine Murphy
213. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the amount provided to date for the implementation of the National Cancer Strategy; and the date on which it will be fully Implemented. [50336/21]
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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Parking Provision
Catherine Murphy
214. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of the amounts directly collected by all HSE hospitals and primary care centres in respect of car parking charges for visitors and patients in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; if he will also provide the amounts collected by contracted companies to run and manage car parking facilities at HSE hospitals and primary care centres for the same time period; and if he will provide the dividend received by the HSE from private car parking management companies in respect of car parking at HSE sites in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [50337/21]
Tue, 12 Oct 2021
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Employment Rights
Catherine Murphy
28. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to engage with payroll software developers in the planned roll-out of statutory sick pay for 2022; the degree of engagement that has taken place; his plans to open a consultation in advance of the roll-out; if his attention has been drawn to a perceived absence of a detailed specification of requirements regarding the calculation and reporting of the proposed statutory sick pay; and the date on which he plans to make that information available to the relevant stakeholders. [49489/21]
Tue, 12 Oct 2021
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Employment Rights
Catherine Murphy
29. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to directly engage with an association (details supplied) in 2021 in the context of the roll-out of statutory sick pay. [49490/21]
Tue, 12 Oct 2021
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Cycling Facilities
Catherine Murphy
63. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a full update in respect of completion of the pedestrian and cycle connections on all sections of the Sallins bypass; and the amount required in order to complete these works. [49153/21]