Parliamentary questions

Hospital Staff

John Brassil

326. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if a full-time security person at the Sliabh Mish unit, University Hospital Kerry, will be provided in view of the ongoing security issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51622/18]

Departmental Funding

John Brassil

332. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if funding for a centre (details supplied) is still available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51651/18]

HSE Funding

John Brassil

333. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will continue to fund the running of a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51652/18]

Services for People with Disabilities

John Brassil

347. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if the application process for second-level students transitioning to adult services will be reviewed; if the application process and decision-making timeline can be reviewed at the start of each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51689/18]

Autism Support Services

John Brassil

351. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the location in which a school can apply for autism-specific services for students transitioning from second-level to adult day services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51715/18]

Services for People with Disabilities

John Brassil

352. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health his plans to develop more adult day services for persons (details supplied) transitioning out of a school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51718/18]

Respite Care Services Funding

John Brassil

358. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if additional funding will be made available as requested by the HSE in its submission to the health estimates process for respite care services for counties Cork and Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51779/18]

Greenways Funding

John Brassil

227. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for the north County Kerry greenway; when a decision on funding will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51261/18]

Pharmacy Services

John Brassil

119. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health his plans to help community pharmacists expand their services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50802/18]

Medicinal Products Expenditure

John Brassil

123. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the action he is taking to make savings on the drugs budget by increasing the use of biosimilar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50801/18]

Disability Allowance Payments

John Brassil

294. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times from when an appeal of disability allowance is granted by the appeals office to when payment issues from the disability allowance section; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51009/18]

Schools Building Projects Status

John Brassil

197. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the stage 2 submission by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50295/18]

Legislative Measures

John Brassil

79. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress to date on the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018; the date for implementation of this Bill; if employees who are forced to retire before this Bill is enacted will be given leeway to remain in employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49886/18]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

John Brassil

137. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on Translarna; if engagement with or inclusion of patient representation will occur as part of the assessment process for Translarna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49869/18]

Hospital Procedures

John Brassil

428. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied the necessary provisions are available here, including doctors who have undergone specialist training, to allow full removal for all women affected by transvaginal mesh complications within a reasonable timeframe; when the chief medical officer's report will be available; if he will consider making the treatment abroad scheme available for this treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49300/18]

HSE Expenditure

John Brassil

458. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the expenditure on medicines and its percentage of the total health budget in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49514/18]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

John Brassil

459. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the medicines that have been approved as cost effective by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics but have yet to be reimbursed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49515/18]

Primary Care Centres Provision

John Brassil

132. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 20 September 2018, if a reply has been received from the developer; if planning permission and legal agreements have commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48690/18]

School Accommodation

John Brassil

144. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in respect of a request to purchase a site for the building of a new school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48619/18]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications

John Brassil

465. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if an application under the fair deal scheme will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48290/18]

Child and Family Agency Expenditure

John Brassil

572. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an organisation (details supplied) will receive an increase in funding in view of the fact that its case load has increased significantly since 2012, which contrasts with a 16% reduction in state support from 2012 to 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48176/18]

Hospital Appointments Status

John Brassil

108. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47459/18]

Health Services Staff Remuneration

John Brassil

129. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if he will direct the HSE to extend the short timeframe for the return of forms by section 39 organisations in view of the fact that all information has already been provided for pay restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47526/18]

Pharmaceutical Sector

John Brassil

301. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on proposed changes to Regulation (EC) No. 469/2009 to allow for a SPC manufacturing waiver; her views on this initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47188/18]

Community Employment Schemes Data

John Brassil

549. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacancies on employment schemes nationally in view of the reliance on these schemes to carry out essential work and repairs (details supplied); the steps she will take to address concerns of scheme providers that expect to face much greater difficulties in hiring participants for schemes due to a return to full employment; if she has given consideration to changing the rules of schemes to allow greater flexibility including longer participation times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46561/18]

Student Universal Support Ireland Administration

John Brassil

79. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that a route planner (details supplied) is used when assessing distances for the adjacent or non-adjacent SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46295/18]

Mobile Telephony Use

John Brassil

83. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to effect a new circular to ban the presence and use of mobile phones by students in all national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46327/18]

Nursing Staff Recruitment

John Brassil

174. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the provisions in place to recruit and retain graduate psychiatric nurses within the local mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46333/18]

Nursing Staff Data

John Brassil

175. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the number of 2018 graduate psychiatric nurses who have been provided employment contracts; the number recruited; the type of contract provided in each area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46334/18]

Foreshore Licence Applications

John Brassil

291. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of a foreshore licence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46213/18]

Illness Benefit Waiting Times

John Brassil

164. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she and the Secretary General of her Department will appear before the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts about the delays in payments of illness benefit to circa 50,000 persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45993/18]

Deer Culls

John Brassil

189. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to introduce a deer management plan for Killarney National Park; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45980/18]

Land Acquisition

John Brassil

190. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress regarding the purchase of land for the new entrance for a walkway to a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45988/18]

National Parks and Wildlife Service Staff

John Brassil

191. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the regional manager and district conservation officer posts will be filled for Killarney National Park (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46037/18]

Deer Culls

John Brassil

192. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the culling carried out by the National Parks and Wildlife Service since the deer on Innisfallen Island, Killarney, were found starving in March 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46057/18]

School Transport

John Brassil

325. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction funding through the NTA initially on a pilot basis for the provision of a school bus service to schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45217/18]

Hospital Appointments Status

John Brassil

529. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health to set out the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44760/18]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

John Brassil

534. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health to set out the status of the recommencement of arthroplasty operations at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44789/18]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

John Brassil

535. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health to set out the number of arthroplasty operations that have been undertaken at University Hospital Kerry since 15 October 2018; the number that have been for private and public patients, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44790/18]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

John Brassil

536. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health to set out the number of public patients who were on the waiting list for a procedure prior to the suspension of arthroplasty operations at University Hospital Kerry; the number of public patients waiting for an arthroplasty operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44791/18]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

John Brassil

537. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health to outline the reason arthroplasty procedures have not recommenced for public patients at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44792/18]

Hospital Procedures

John Brassil

538. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health when arthroplasty procedures will recommence for public patients at University Hospital Kerry; if it is a matter of funding; if so, his plans to meet the funding shortfall; his views on whether the current situation regarding arthroplasty operations at the hospital is acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44793/18]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

John Brassil

539. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health to outline his plans to address the need for patients to have arthroplasty operations whilst services are suspending at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44794/18]

Hospital Appointments Status

John Brassil

540. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health to set out the status of an outpatient appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44808/18]

Health Products Regulatory Authority

John Brassil

649. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health his views on the proposal by the Health Products Regulatory Authority to increase its fees by 8% in 2019, further to an increase in fees in 2018, if his attention has been drawn to the rationale for these fee increases; his views on whether such an increase is justified against a backdrop of increased costs for pharmaceutical and other healthcare providers resulting from Brexit in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45334/18]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

John Brassil

676. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health when a review will take place to determine the next steps for reimbursement of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system; when he expects the review to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45467/18]

Hospital Appointments Status

John Brassil

677. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45470/18]

Voluntary Sector Funding

John Brassil

696. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the statutory funding or grant aid available to voluntary food banks and soup kitchens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45529/18]

Industrial Disputes

John Brassil

715. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the balloting of members of a union (details supplied) for industrial action in counties Cork and Kerry in view of the failure of the HSE to implement the revised contracts within the agreed timeframes; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45597/18]

Industrial Disputes

John Brassil

716. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to prevent possible industrial action in respect of revised home care contracts in counties Cork and Kerry by members of a union (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45599/18]