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Tue, 27 Jun 2023
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Pharmacy Services
Johnny Guirke
771. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health if he has or will conduct a review of pharmacy dispensing fees and the extent of service provision by community pharmacists; if he has or will engage with an organisation (details supplied) on the matter; the dates on which he has or will engage; if he will establish a review which encompasses the scope of services provided or which could be provided by community pharmacy; if he will include scoping of a minor ailments or minor illness scheme in community pharmacies in the terms of reference of the aforementioned review. [31352/23]
Tue, 23 May 2023
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National Car Test
Johnny Guirke
208. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Transport the measures he is currently implementing to reduce NCT wait times in view of the extraordinary average NCT wait times in counties Meath and Westmeath of over five months, and given that not everybody can avail of a priority booking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24487/23]
Tue, 23 May 2023
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National Car Test
Johnny Guirke
209. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Transport in view of the fact that some NCT applicants in County Meath who booked their tests in August 2022 have only now received the test after over nine months, and have valid NCT certificates only until September 2023, a situation replicated across the State, if he will consider amending the legislation to allow the NCT certificates to be valid for twelve months from the date of testing and issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24488/23]
Tue, 23 May 2023
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Wastewater Treatment
Johnny Guirke
397. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide any independent peer-reviewed scientific and/or industry-based evidence as to how the installation of a fine bubble-diffused aeration system can increase a waste-water treatment plants' physical PE load capacity by more than 20% (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24146/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
336. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position regarding the roll-out of the national neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO 8 covering County Meath; if he will ensure the neuro-rehabilitation team will be provided for CHO 8 and the Meath area as a matter of extreme urgency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20298/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
337. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled adults on the HSE list for services in County Meath; the number on a waiting list for services; the number of whom are neuro-disabled people; and the number who are classified as having an acquired brain injury, by number and percentage of the total, in tabular form. [20300/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
338. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled adults on the HSE list for services in County Meath who are on a waiting list to see physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, by number and percentage of the total, in tabular form. [20301/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
339. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech and language therapists, respectively, delivering services in County Meath, that is, not allocated, but actually on the ground delivering services, by number and percentage of the total, in tabular form. [20302/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
340. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position regarding funding for acquired brain injury services in County Meath; the amount that is actually being provided via the voluntary sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20303/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
341. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funds that are allocated to an organisation (details supplied) for the physical and sensory disability service in Dunboyne, County Meath; the allocation that is going to people with acquired brain injury; if there is a specific allocation for such service users with funding for appropriately trained staff and activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20304/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
342. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the HSE in partnership with an organisation (details supplied) will revert to providing physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and so on, directly to service users attending in relation to the physical and sensory disability service in Dunboyne, County Meath rather than at the HSE Bailis service in Navan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20305/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Disability Services
Johnny Guirke
343. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the HSE plans to recruit co-ordinators, managers and other relevant staff to Meath disability services who have expertise and qualifications in managing disability services, with the ability to access funding to align disability services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20306/23]
Wed, 3 May 2023
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Health Strategies
Johnny Guirke
390. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health when the roll-out of the National Epilepsy Care Programme will take place; when patients in CHO 8 can expect to see an improvement in epilepsy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20299/23]
Tue, 25 Apr 2023
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Child Abuse
Johnny Guirke
255. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Education if the national school in Kells, County Meath, involving the Christian Brothers up to the year 1988, will be included in the scoping inquiry into historical sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19031/23]
Tue, 25 Apr 2023
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Child Abuse
Johnny Guirke
256. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Education the number of reports received of alleged historical sexual abuse in the then Christian Brothers-run national school in Kells, County Meath, for each of the years from 1968 to 1988, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19032/23]
Thu, 20 Apr 2023
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Housing Provision
Johnny Guirke
262. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in County Meath in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular form. [18702/23]
Thu, 20 Apr 2023
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Housing Provision
Johnny Guirke
263. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in County Westmeath in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular form. [18703/23]
Wed, 29 Mar 2023
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Assisted Human Reproduction
Johnny Guirke
183. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the number of people who availed of IVF treatment at private clinics across the country in 2022, and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15579/23]
Wed, 29 Mar 2023
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Health Services Staff
Johnny Guirke
184. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health to indicate any outstanding psycho-oncology services posts at this moment in time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15580/23]
Wed, 29 Mar 2023
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Health Services
Johnny Guirke
185. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to psycho-oncology services in 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15581/23]