Parliamentary questions

Care Services

David Cullinane

1079. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who avail on a 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 day-a-week basis of day services at peak since 1 January 2019, respectively. [41749/21]

Care Services

David Cullinane

1080. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fully meet demand for day services on pre-pandemic levels. [41750/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1081. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of an additional dementia key worker. [41751/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1082. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of an additional dementia advisor. [41752/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1083. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting an additional dementia coordinator. [41753/21]

Health Service Executive

David Cullinane

1084. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a 1% and 5% increase to the day care services current and capital budgets. [41754/21]

Health Service Executive

David Cullinane

1085. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of refurbishing day care service centres in need of works. [41755/21]

Health Service Executive

David Cullinane

1086. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a 1% and 10% increase to HSE expenditure on day services on pre-pandemic levels. [41756/21]

Disability Services

David Cullinane

1087. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to move 100 adults with a disability aged under 65 from a nursing home to assisted living; and the breakdown of ancillary costs. [41757/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1088. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 150 additional therapists for children’s disability network teams. [41758/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1089. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 additional physiotherapist posts. [41759/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1090. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 additional occupational therapist posts. [41760/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1091. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 additional speech and language therapist posts. [41761/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1092. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 additional practice nurse posts. [41762/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1093. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 additional public health nurse posts. [41763/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1094. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 additional public-only general practitioners. [41764/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1095. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 30 additional dementia advisors and key workers. [41766/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1096. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated current and capital cost of five new palliative care beds and staffing. [41767/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1097. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of an additional psychologist for every CAMHS and primary care centre and number of posts. [41768/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1098. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 276 additional psychologists. [41769/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1099. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to increase investment in approved mental health centre capital works, site maintenance and upgrade works budget to €30 million. [41770/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1100. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to provide a consistent 7-day week outpatient child and adolescent mental health services model. [41771/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1101. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of establishing a National Advocacy Service for mental health services users. [41773/21]

Disability Services

David Cullinane

1102. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of an additional disability services residential place. [41777/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1103. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of an older persons services long-stay bed. [41778/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1104. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of an older persons services short-stay bed. [41779/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1105. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost to replace all privately provided older persons services short-stay beds with public beds. [41780/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1106. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of a mental health approved centre bed. [41781/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1107. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of a mental health community residence bed. [41782/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1108. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of a specialist palliative care bed. [41783/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1109. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of a social inclusion bed. [41784/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1110. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost to return rehabilitation bed and detox bed levels to pre-pandemic level peak. [41785/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1111. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of reopening 120 rehabilitation beds. [41786/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1112. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of reopening 48 detox beds. [41787/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1113. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of a new rehabilitation bed. [41788/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1114. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current cost of a new detox bed. [41789/21]

Hospital Staff

David Cullinane

1125. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of the work undertaken to reopen the GMHS; the progress made to date regarding the recruitment of permanent staff at St James's Hospital, Meath primary care centre, St. Vincent's Private Hospital and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in order to resume new applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41811/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

David Cullinane

1126. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the indicative timeframe for when the GMHS will fully reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41812/21]

Healthcare Policy

David Cullinane

1180. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he plans to adjust the blood transfusion policy regarding men who have sex with men in line with evidence-based practice as has recently occurred in the North and in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42019/21]

Departmental Staff

David Cullinane

1231. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the 2019 and 2020 budget and staffing composition of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer. [42151/21]

Departmental Staff

David Cullinane

1232. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the 2019 and 2020 budget and staffing composition of the Office of the Chief Nursing Office. [42152/21]

State Bodies

David Cullinane

1233. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the 2019 and 2020 budget and staffing composition of HIQA. [42153/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

David Cullinane

1255. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of specific guidance on the treatment of long Covid; the criteria and strategies for the ongoing evaluation of patients; if research reports and data are or will be made publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42233/21]

Departmental Schemes

David Cullinane

1257. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his plans to add emphysema and asthma to the long-term illness scheme or otherwise reimburse costs; the reason these conditions are not included on the long-term illness scheme; if he will reconsider same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42244/21]

Hospital Waiting Lists

David Cullinane

1258. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists as inpatients and outpatients, respectively in all departments in University Hospital Waterford; the breakdown for the cardiology department including treatment and diagnoses; the number of persons on the waiting list for emergency cardiac care in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42250/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1311. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to deliver an additional 200 intensive support packages. [42421/21]

Information and Communications Technology

David Cullinane

1312. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the delivery and full operationalisation of the single integrated financial and procurement management system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42422/21]

Departmental Data

David Cullinane

1376. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of developing a national strategies inclusive of such costs as public and sectoral consultations, consultant fees and other ancillary costs based on the latest three strategies which his Department has published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42631/21]

Legislative Measures

David Cullinane

1387. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of and his plans regarding the statutory homecare bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42723/21]

Legislative Measures

David Cullinane

1388. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s review of and plans regarding the deferred private members’ professional homecare bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42724/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1402. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to specialist care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42833/21]

Commissions of Inquiry

David Cullinane

1426. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42994/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1443. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of new early intervention teams that have been established since February 2020 in view of the programme for Government commitment to fully implement the access and inclusion model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43084/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1444. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE school age teams currently operating across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43085/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1445. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost to fund a school age team in its entirety, including a clinical psychologist, occupational therapist and speech and language therapist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43086/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1446. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of service providers by type of provider contracted by the HSE to provide rehabilitation services by community health organisation, CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43087/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1447. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €100; the estimated cost of reducing same in increments of €15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43088/21]

Dental Services

David Cullinane

1448. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the annual spend on the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2000 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43089/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1449. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of community rehabilitation teams currently in operation for each community healthcare organisation, CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43090/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1450. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated first year and full-year cost of setting up a new community rehabilitation team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43091/21]

Ambulance Service

David Cullinane

1451. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the reason the National Ambulance Service does not recognise intermediate care operatives as ambulance personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43092/21]

Ambulance Service

David Cullinane

1452. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the reason the National Ambulance Service is asking intermediate care operatives to work on emergency ambulances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43093/21]

Ambulance Service

David Cullinane

1453. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the staffing levels of the National Ambulance Service by CHO; the current number of wholetime equivalent posts by occupation currently working; the recommended and budgeted number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43094/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1454. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence regarding vaccination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43095/21]

Dental Services

David Cullinane

1455. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the units by community healthcare organisation, CHO, or any smaller unit in which HSE dental services have been limited to emergency provision only for children and or adults for each month of 2020 and to date in 2021, as has occurred in County Kildare and west County Wicklow; if any other units are considering the confinement of services; the reason in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43096/21]

Dental Services

David Cullinane

1456. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when routine and elective treatments including school dental checks and dental appointments for children and adults will resume in Kildare and west Wicklow; if any of these services have been suspended in any other CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43097/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1457. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if advice will be provided regarding a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43098/21]

Hospital Staff

David Cullinane

1458. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of consultants at Beaumont Hospital performing full removal of transobturator mesh implants; the number of surgeries performed in the past month; the outcomes of these surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43099/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1459. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if there are or will be any special procedures including supervision by an immunologist of persons who are vaccine candidates but are likely to suffer from anaphylaxis or another reaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43100/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1460. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing additional dedicated children’s beds for psychiatric care to stop the practice of using beds in adult psychiatric services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43101/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1461. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE early intervention teams presently in operation across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43102/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1462. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE school age teams in operation across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43103/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1463. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a new HSE school age team by individual category. [43104/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1464. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the net change in the number of and wholetime equivalent staffing of early intervention teams since February 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43105/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1465. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a new early intervention team by individual category. [43106/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1466. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his position in relation to the recent HSE commitment to recruit medical and nursing students as vaccinators; if these positions will be reimbursed; if the HSE can outline the eligibility criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43107/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1467. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when x-ray services will be reinstated in University Hospital Waterford; the number of persons awaiting an urgent general practitioner referral x-ray in the Hospital; the waiting time for such an x-ray; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43108/21]

Disease Management

David Cullinane

1468. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken regarding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of Lyme disease and to ensure that persons suffering with Lyme disease or chronic Lyme disease are being properly supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43109/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1469. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of Consultant Applications Advisory Committee regularised approved consultant posts; the number of posts registered on the Doctors Integrated Management E-System as vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43110/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1470. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the supports and safeguards that have been provided for vaccinators who do not have professional indemnity insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43112/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1471. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the details in relation to insurance for vaccinators; if nurses who have been recruited as vaccinators and are former members of the union will be covered by the union's professional scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43113/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1472. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he and the HSE have considered plans submitted by a society (details supplied) relating to a dedicated unit to treat and rehabilitate patients with intestinal failure; if he has made a decision on the proposal for such a unit at a location such as St. James’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43114/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1473. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of assistant psychologists that are currently working in a voluntary capacity within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43115/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1474. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his views on the recruitment of assistant psychologists in an unpaid capacity; if the review has been carried out; if the results of the review will be made available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43116/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1475. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his plans to expand the current national pilot assistant psychology programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1476. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of acute inpatient beds in the health service; the number of beds in wards; the number of beds in single room isolation; the estimated cost to replace 10% of beds in wards with single isolation; if he has plans or targets to replace beds over a fixed time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43118/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1477. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average revenue cost of a community bed by type of community bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43119/21]

Dental Services

David Cullinane

1478. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have withdrawn from the dental service scheme in the period 31 May 2020 to 31 May 2021, by county and by CHO area in tabular form; the number of dentists that remain on the scheme by county and by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43120/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1479. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of providing at least one advanced nurse practitioner in each heart failure service unit. [43121/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1480. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of ten wholetime equivalent lactation consultants. [43122/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1481. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 new nursing posts. [43123/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1482. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of non-training NCHD posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43124/21]

Health Service Executive

David Cullinane

1483. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE patients who have been facilitated for treatment in the United States for full or partial removal of transobturator mesh implants; if a patient could access public funding for such treatment in the US; if so, the person or body that authorises same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43125/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1484. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost to restore pay equality for consultants on type B contracts; the additional cost of any back pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43126/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1485. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of a 100% uptake each year of the HPV vaccine. [43127/21]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1486. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 new healthcare assistant posts. [43128/21]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1487. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will address the immediate funding need for dementia-specific day care services provided by a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43129/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1488. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost for the school immunisation programme if uptake was to be 100% each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43130/21]

Vaccination Programme

David Cullinane

1489. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost for the school immunisation programme if those who did not get the HPV vaccine in their year of eligibility were to receive it during a subsequent school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43131/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

David Cullinane

1490. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Education, the HSE and higher education institutes to ensure that students on clinical placements in hospitals who opt not to be vaccinated can complete their placements without failing or repeating the previous academic year; if allowing students to have regular Covid-19 testing privately will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43132/21]