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Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Charges
Clare Daly
300. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce exemptions and cap registration fees in relation to the number of times a child visits the emergency department regarding a life long illness which could be twice or three times a month with fees of €100 per visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24868/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
Clare Daly
331. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has taken responsibility for a doctor on the supervised section of the Irish Medical Council register to work as an ENT consultant at University Hospital Limerick without restriction for the best part of a year. [24951/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
Clare Daly
332. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the attention of a person (details supplied) was drawn either verbally or in writing to the fact that a supervising consultant breached the Irish Medical Council regulations on appropriate supervision by being overseen for much of their tenure including emergency duties. [24952/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
Clare Daly
333. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if concerns were expressed by a senior clinician to the senior management and directorate of University Hospital Limerick in regard to a physician or clinical and professional performance of a surgeon with a demand from their colleague for a review of their cases; and if the relevant Q-Pulse submissions have been ignored to date. [24953/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Staff
Clare Daly
334. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been informed verbally and in writing that a consultant ENT surgeon left the region before finishing their on-call duties while both their absence and refusal to return placed a seriously ill child at risk; and the reason this alleged wrongdoing has not been investigated by the management or directorate of University Hospital Limerick regarding the departure, absence and behaviour of the on-call consultant ENT surgeon, which presented a risk in clinical situations and which has also been submitted onto Q-Pulse. [24954/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Investigations
Clare Daly
335. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) failed to investigate or have investigated the disclosure that over 15 patients had a delayed head and neck cancer diagnosis despite the fact that the clinical incidents had been placed on Q-Pulse by a senior clinician; and the reason the person has failed, neglected or omitted to investigate or have investigated over 30 other serious incident submissions by a consultant ENT surgeon. [24955/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Complaints Procedures
Clare Daly
336. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) determined that serious reportable incidents are not investigated but having opted instead to request a chart review by RCSEng of non-Q-Pulse complaints based on email correspondence and thereby failed to investigate the historical non-defunct NIRF-04 forms despite being informed that more serious cases exist on the Q-Pulse and are lying dormant without meaningful action. [24956/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Deaths
Clare Daly
337. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will take accountability and responsibility for their acts and omissions or failures to prevent a death from incompetence with gross mismanagement of a head and neck cancer patient reported to the University Hospital Limerick administration verbally, by email and on formal Q-Pulse. [24957/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Deaths
Clare Daly
338. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the death of a head and neck cancer patient which is reported on the Q Pulse system relating to University Hospital Limerick as a serious incident has not been adequately investigated; and the reason the HSE and the hospital have not provided open disclosure to the family of the deceased cancer patient despite the fact that the CEO and directorate had been informed of the circumstances of the preventable death well over a year ago. [24958/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Procedures
Clare Daly
339. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) or their subordinates gave direction to members of administration staff at the University Hospital Limerick Group to cancel an operating theatre list of at least 15 patients, many of them children but also involving two cancer cases, within 37 hours before planned surgery in May 2018. [24959/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Services
Clare Daly
340. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the action or omissions or commission a person (details supplied) has taken following cancer diagnosis of a patient which remain unactioned for 18 months after the attending consultant was initially informed of the histopathology results and consequently that patient is now facing chemotherapy radiation and a poorer prognosis as a consequence. [24960/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Complaints Procedures
Clare Daly
341. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) failed to investigate a serious complaint regarding an unactioned cancer diagnosis; the reason the complaint and incident remained on Q-Pulse for over six months without discussion with the submitting consultant; the matrix and priority criteria used to select cases of a planned external review; and his views on whether the person acted with bias in having the patients carefully selected for an external chart review by showing a prejudice in having this unactioned complaint being denied priority ahead of other cases. [24961/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Hospital Staff
Clare Daly
342. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) facilitated and aided a junior doctor who has been reported for tampering with notes on several occasions, missing cancer cases, refusing to see urgent patients, unable to assess chronic ear disease safely or known to regularly photograph patients and their notes on their mobile phone without consent being allowed to run clinics unsupervised and remain unreprimanded for their actions. [24962/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Protected Disclosures
Clare Daly
417. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether a threat by a person (details supplied) to call the authorities on a whistleblower at University Hospital Limerick to be a form of penalisation. [25307/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Open Disclosures Policy
Clare Daly
434. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) allegedly issued a perceived threat against a senior clinician who had requested assistance for a proposed open disclosure meeting with a patient whose cancer diagnosis had suffered delayed treatment for 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25348/19]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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Guardians Ad Litem
Clare Daly
570. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of guardians ad litem; the number employed by Tusla in each of the years 2017 and 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25257/19]
Thu, 13 Jun 2019
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Defence Forces Remuneration
Clare Daly
13. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the fact that almost 90% of Defence Forces personnel earn below the average public sector wage; the steps he will take to address same; and the reason it has not been addressed to date. [24343/19]
Thu, 13 Jun 2019
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Defence Forces Medicinal Products
Clare Daly
17. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Lariam medical advisory group, the establishment of which was recommended in the 2017 report of the Lariam working group, has been created or has met; and if so, the number of times it has met. [24346/19]
Thu, 13 Jun 2019
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Defence Forces Remuneration
Clare Daly
26. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the comments of a former deputy commander of the Army Ranger Wing (details supplied) on the ongoing crisis of pay, morale and retention in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24342/19]
Thu, 13 Jun 2019
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Defence Forces Strength
Clare Daly
27. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address the fact that the Defence Forces lost over a third of their strength between 2014 and 2018 with the result that basic functions cannot be fulfilled in view of the fact that simple recruitment of new members is not enough to fill the gaps left by the departure of experienced members. [24344/19]