Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Clare Daly

391. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that survey findings by an organisation (details supplied) and the views of persons self-funding its use are considered as part of the HSE review when making his final decision on the issue of the FreeStyle Libre device being made available to all persons with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26328/19]

Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

136. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns involving allegations of assault by staff working for an organisation (details supplied) and the apparent failure of the HSE to investigate and deal with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25865/19]

Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on concerns regarding an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25866/19]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

HSE Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

139. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE recruitment freeze brought in for three months will be lifted by the end of June 2019, in view of the fact that no update or information has been given on the matter and that staff had accepted permanent promotional positions only to have them frozen. [24647/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

549. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 18 April 2019, the basis on which he stated that all protected disclosures must be treated as confidential when the statutory obligation only goes so far as imposing a requirement to keep the identity of the maker of the protected disclosure confidential. [23852/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

550. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his predecessor received a protected disclosure in September 2014 alleging conduct damaging to the health and welfare of personnel and further alleging serious and substantial procurement irregularities in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, (details supplied); and if in regard to the health and welfare element of this protected disclosure, the report constituted a report to an appropriate person under section 13(1) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 of an offence under the same section which the complainant was under a statutory obligation to make. [23853/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

551. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the responsibility he has when the mismanagement in regard to a matter (details supplied) by the board members was subsequently brought to his attention having regard to the provisions of the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011. [23854/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

552. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if senior officials in his Department met with the president, vice-president and another board member of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, and directed that a prompt, impartial and proportionate investigation must be undertaken in respect of the protected disclosure received by his Department in September 2014 alleging conduct damaging to the health and welfare of personnel and further alleging serious and substantial procurement irregularities in the NMBI. [23855/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

553. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if senior officials in his Department, following a meeting in September 2014 with the president, vice-president and another board member of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, in regard to a protected disclosure received in September 2014 alleging conduct damaging to the health and welfare of personnel and further alleging serious and substantial procurement irregularities in the NMBI, received correspondence from the president of the NMBI stating that there was no foundation for the complaints involved, that the matter had been dealt with in a comprehensive and timely manner and that no further action was warranted. [23856/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

554. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the evidence and documentation sought and received by his officials from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, in support of an assurance that the complaints made in a protected disclosure (details supplied) were without foundation and that no further action was warranted; if the president of the NMBI in December 2014 refused to forward the material sought by his officials; and the steps taken to insist that the evidence and documentation in question be furnished. [23857/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

555. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his officials directed the board of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, in January 2015 to appoint an independent third party to review the contents of a protected disclosure in regard to the NMBI received by his Department in September 2014; and if the NMBI instead appointed a retired civil servant to carry out a scoping exercise rather than a review of the complaint. [23858/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

556. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if it was reported to his officials by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, that a scoping exercise (details supplied) involved interviews of two to three hours with several persons without the interviewer taking notes, contemporaneous or otherwise; and if his officials sought an explanation as to the reason this protocol was followed. [23859/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

557. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he sought or received a copy of the full report of a scoping exercise (details supplied) completed in April or May 2015; and if not, the action he took upon completion of the scoping exercise. [23860/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

558. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his officials received by letter dated 27 May 2015, a copy of the recommendations of the report of the scoping exercise carried out by a retired civil servant on behalf of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, in regard to a protected disclosure sent to his Department in 2014; and if this letter was copied to the person who was the subject matter of the complaint. [23861/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

559. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the report of a scoping exercise (details supplied) was shared by the president and vice-president of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, with the person who was the subject of the complaint prior to the recommendations of the report being shared with his Department. [23862/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

560. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if in respect of the specific recommendation in a report (details supplied) to address with the person the subject matter of the complaint, the matter of an electronic record containing a strategy to harm the career of a senior member of staff in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, he was informed by letter from the president of the NMBI dated 25 August 2015 that the board of the NMBI had decided not to pursue this recommendation. [23863/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

561. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the attention of his officials was drawn to the fact that on 25 August 2015, the then president of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, arranged a meeting with the maker of a protected disclosure in regard to issues at the NMBI, which had been sent to his Department in September 2014, and attempted on behalf of the person complained of to make a deal that if the maker of the protected disclosure would withdraw the complaints in regard to the health and welfare of staff in the NMBI, the person complained of would leave the employment of the NMBI within a matter of weeks. [23864/19]

Hospital Acquired Infections

Clare Daly

565. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 629 of 26 March 2019 and 685 of 8 May 2019, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that HSE hospitals do not follow the control checklist 1.0 for an outbreak of carbapenemase producing enterobacterales, CPE, during CPE outbreaks; his views on whether the failure by hospitals to use the tool custom designed to manage CPE outbreaks is contributing to the spread of such outbreaks in hospitals here; and the steps he will take to remedy the matter. [23876/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

674. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, paid a contribution of in excess of €20,000 toward the legal costs of a person (details supplied) whose actions were the subject of a protected disclosure submitted to his Department in September 2014 prior to findings being made in regard to those complaints. [24160/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

675. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the then president of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, in May 2016 signed a report on a protected disclosure submitted to the Minister's Department in September 2014 in regard to the conduct of a person (details supplied) which stated that consultants to the NMBI did not have the opportunity of interviewing the person, the subject matter of the complaint, by reason of their having left the organisation to work abroad. [24161/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

676. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the president of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, in a report on a protected disclosure submitted to the Minister's Department in September 2014 in regard to the conduct of a person (details supplied) stated that the board upheld each element of the protected disclosure and considered the issues to be fully investigated and closed, in circumstances in which the issues relating to the health and well-being of staff were not investigated despite the person who had made the protected disclosure repeatedly making known to his officials their concern at the ongoing situation regarding the risks to the health and well-being of staff. [24162/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

677. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the maker of a protected disclosure submitted to his Department in September 2014 in respect of the conduct of a person (details supplied) made a complaint to the Ombudsman regarding the conduct of the investigation of the protected disclosure by and on behalf of him. [24163/19]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

88. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason payments have ceased to residents of a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23076/19]

Health Services

Clare Daly

124. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take regarding the new in loco parentis rule which means that parents who are carers cannot leave their children with a qualified nurse unless another competent nurse to be present is nominated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23000/19]

Medicinal Products Availability

Clare Daly

217. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when Spinraza treatment will be rolled out to persons with spinal muscular atrophy in view of the suffering and deterioration in their health and quality of life in the absence of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22353/19]

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Clare Daly

222. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that CHO area 8 has run out of funding for 2019 for prosthetics and bras for women in recovery from surgery following breast cancer; his plans in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22389/19]

Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

223. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the announcement that due to the high number of referrals to the primary care mental health service, it is closed for new referrals from the Raheny, Donaghmede, Edenmore and Kilbarrack area for the remainder of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22397/19]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Clare Daly

230. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the removal of the BreastCheck unit from a location (details supplied) and the consequence that the nearest alternative location is Eccles Street; when a more suitable location will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22414/19]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

270. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take in the case of a child (details supplied) who is at high risk of self-harm and under the care of CAMHS. [22610/19]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

271. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that CAMHS is advising parents to seek help privately for seriously ill children who are deemed to be at high risk of self-harm; and if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the waiting lists for private consultations are also over three months and in the case of high-risk children, including a child (details supplied), waiting three months is not an option in cases in which their conditions are immediately life threatening. [22611/19]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Clare Daly

272. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the under-resourcing of CAMHS nationally and specifically the service in Swords, County Dublin in which several staff are working a three day week. [22612/19]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

289. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the supports which can be extended to a person (details supplied). [22758/19]

Health Insurance

Clare Daly

291. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason private health clinics are seeking details of both private health insurance in addition to medical card details from persons who hold both; his views on whether the seeking of the information by them means they are claiming twice for patients with medical cards and private insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22770/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

297. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 788 of 8 May 2019, the reason the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, MBI, does not have an in-house legal team to deal with fitness to practise and other everyday legal issues at the organisation in view of the fact that the organisation spent approximately €7 million on legal costs and fees between 2016 and early 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22823/19]

National Children's Hospital

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a private facility that cannot be accessed by all children will be included as part of the new children’s hospital which is funded from public funds. [22162/19]

Coroners Service

Clare Daly

439. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the body to which concerned families can refer for accountability in circumstances in which a post mortem report contains serious inaccuracies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21899/19]

Hospital Acquired Infections

Clare Daly

441. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent case of CPE on a children’s ward in University Hospital Limerick; and his views on the fact that the hospital is not fully equipped to prevent the spread of CPE in view of this latest case. [21966/19]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

451. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a free foot assessment service for persons with diabetes has been withdrawn from north County Dublin; and the steps he will take to reinstate same. [22009/19]

Midwifery Services Provision

Clare Daly

54. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the level of midwifery staffing in many maternity units remains below the Birthrate Plus recommendations and in some cases well below same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20840/19]

Maternity Services

Clare Daly

63. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the rate of induction of first-time mothers here is too high; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20839/19]

Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

273. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when work is expected to be completed in view of the fact that he previously indicated that he would give further consideration to the need for an inquiry into foetal valproate syndrome, and in view of the fact the valproate response team of the HSE has completed its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20327/19]

Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

274. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will meet a forum (details supplied) and respond to its request for an inquiry into accountability issues and compensation for those persons and families already affected by foetal valproate syndrome. [20328/19]

Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

275. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the length of time his attention has been drawn to the risks associated with the use of valproate in pregnancy; the actions taken to minimise these risks in particular prior to 2014 when the European Medicines Agency implemented its first series of risk reduction measures; and his views on the recent study published in a journal (details supplied). [20329/19]

Disabilities Assessments

Clare Daly

276. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the healthcare assessment and needs of children suspected of having foetal valproate syndrome will be prioritised; and if there will be no delay in diagnosis and service provision [20330/19]

Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

277. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the prevalence of foetal valproate syndrome within the population here. [20331/19]

Clinical Trials

Clare Daly

278. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the clinical trials conducted on sodium valproate here prior to its licensing in 1975; and if no clinical trials were conducted, the international clinical trial data used as the basis for its approval. [20332/19]

Protected Disclosures

Clare Daly

281. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 18 April 2019, if he will amend his response that all protected disclosures received by his Department are given due attention in keeping with the policies and procedures of his Department in accordance with the Act in view of the fact that it has failed to make a decision in regard to whether or not to investigate at least one protected disclosure (details supplied) in its possession within the 21 days as laid out in its policy and procedures. [20348/19]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

86. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting over a year and a half for vital home therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20172/19]

Hospital Appointments Administration

Clare Daly

105. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if appointments for a department in a hospital (details supplied) are being cancelled at short notice due to the fact that this department is being used as an overflow for the accident and emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20246/19]

Medicinal Products Availability

Clare Daly

603. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the availability of medication for multiple sclerosis named Ocrevus or alternatively ocrelizumab; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18392/19]

Hospitals Policy

Clare Daly

685. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 629 of 26 March 2019, the reason none of the hospitals in question use the CPE outbreak control checklist 1.0 for guidance in dealing with CPE outbreaks, nor do they maintain a record for the purposes of accountability and audit of recommended control actions taken; and his views on the lack of accountability or audit trail in regard to this issue. [18669/19]

Medicinal Products Availability

Clare Daly

719. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views in relation to the lengthy delays in access to new medicines experienced by sufferers of MS here in comparison with sufferers in other western European countries; and his plans to address the matter [18807/19]

Medicinal Products Availability

Clare Daly

722. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to allow persons with multiple sclerosis access to new medicines available in other EU states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18815/19]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

750. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that a person (details supplied) is not left without a hoist, enabling the person to leave bed and access various appointments. [18923/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

788. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the companies and-or organisations employed on a contract basis by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, from June 2016 to date; the purpose of each engagement; the length of each engagement; and the cost to the NMBI for the relevant period of engagement. [19023/19]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

867. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the services available for children with autism in the north Dublin area, including sensory gyms and other sports, recreational and social services. [19369/19]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

868. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for children with autism to access crucial physiotherapy and psychological assessment and treatment. [19370/19]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

869. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the status of the case of a child (details supplied) with autism who has been waiting for physiotherapy and psychological services. [19371/19]

Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme

Clare Daly

921. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the level of liability of the pharmaceutical industry in respect of vaccine injury; and if it has been indemnified by the State with the Exchequer taking on liability such as in the Pandemrix vaccination programme. [19548/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

186. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 717 and 718 of 26 March 2019, the person or body with which the obligations and responsibilities in the code of practice for the governance of State bodies rest in situations in which the chairman and the board have behaved inappropriately. [18176/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

187. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 717 and 718 of 26 March 2019, the appropriate entity to deal with an allegation of wrongdoing by the chairperson of the board of a State body; and his role in such circumstances. [18177/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

188. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 718 of 26 March 2019, if no action was taken by his Department following it being alerted to an email (details supplied); and if the allegation in regard to wrongdoing by the chairperson of the board contained therein was left to the chairperson and the board to address or not, internally. [18178/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

189. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of complaints, notifications and disclosures of wrongdoing in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, from current or former personnel since July 2014; the date of receipt of each by his Department or his predecessors and-or the NMBI; the nature of the wrongdoing complained of in each case; the action taken by the him and each former Minister, his Department and-or the NMBI; the duration and outcome of such action; and the cost of associated legal and consultancy costs of the NMBI and his Department. [18179/19]

Physiotherapy Provision

Clare Daly

340. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to opening a forum for discussion among the physiotherapy profession regarding the suitability of the panel system in the medium to long-term for the national recruitment of physiotherapists. [17514/19]

Physiotherapy Provision

Clare Daly

341. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the proposal to create another staff grade physiotherapist panel behind the supplementary panels of the original 2016 panel carried out in 2017 and 2018 (details supplied); and if he will disband in full the 2016 staff grade physiotherapist panel, both original and supplementary, in the interests of fairness. [17515/19]

Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

347. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a bulletin (details supplied) is an accurate portrayal of the work being undertaken in this area of mental health with particular reference to the lack of permanent positions available for talk therapists at primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17531/19]

Mental Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

348. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason there are only two permanent positions advertised through the national recruitment panel in March 2019; and if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is having on the inability of the HSE to develop appropriate talking therapies or psychotherapy, particularly in view of the growing demand for same. [17532/19]

Home Care Packages Provision

Clare Daly

361. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) was approved by the HSE in Sligo for a home care package on 7 November 2018; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that, to date, despite the failing health of the person, the HSE in Sligo has still not provided the service; his plans to introduce legislation to compel the HSE to provide such services without delay when approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17620/19]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data

Clare Daly

400. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the house of a person in a nursing home under the fair deal scheme cannot be sold while the person is alive in the context of assisting families whose children may want to buy out, for example, grandparents’ homes, generating new mortgages, stamp duties and giving the HSE revenue earlier than it would otherwise receive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17730/19]

Eating Disorders

Clare Daly

418. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the lack of support for young persons in terms of the waiting lists to gain assistance for serious eating disorders in north County Dublin in view of the strain on resources of organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17786/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

335. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 26 February 2019, his views on the length of time it is taking to fill the CEO post in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI (details supplied). [16131/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

336. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the change in title and tenure for the most recent advertisement for the position of CEO of the NMBI following two advertisements in 2018 for a five-year business as usual CEO; the reason for this change; and the person currently fulfilling the CEO position on the board. [16132/19]

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Clare Daly

337. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the consultants and-or persons employed on a contract basis by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, from June 2016 to date; the purpose of each engagement; the length of each engagement; and the cost to the NMBI for the relevant period of engagement. [16133/19]

Medicinal Products Regulation

Clare Daly

372. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the way in which it is planned to establish the number of children affected by anti-convulsant syndrome as a result of sodium valproate being given to their mothers during pregnancy. [16280/19]

Medicinal Products Regulation

Clare Daly

373. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the pathways available for parents to have their children diagnosed with anti-convulsant syndrome as a consequence of sodium valproate; and the pathways for needs assessment and treatment that will be provided for them. [16281/19]

Medicinal Products Regulation

Clare Daly

374. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans for a fully resourced public information campaign on to the risks of taking sodium valproate during pregnancy. [16282/19]

Medicinal Products Regulation

Clare Daly

375. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the HPRA has imposed a requirement that warnings on the risks of sodium valproate must be displayed on the external packaging of the drug and that the medication should not be dispensed without original packaging. [16283/19]

Medicinal Products Availability

Clare Daly

444. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the situation in which pharmacists are restricted in the amount of chromospheres they are allowed to keep, with particular reference to the fact that such restrictions do not appear to be required in other EU states and cause considerable hardship to persons who require same. [16590/19]

Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

242. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the evidence in regard to the harms caused by Pandemrix in view of a commitment to do so at Leaders' Questions on 15 May 2018. [14868/19]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

247. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the impact of a lack of funding for Cork Kerry Community Healthcare and that the known level of need exceeds the funding available resulting in a failure to meet the long-term needs of a number of persons who require residential services; his plans to address the funding shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14753/19]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

122. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the named officers within the HSE national office of nursing and midwifery who set in train the suspension of a person (details supplied) in 2014; and the authority of which named officer under which the was decision taken. [14611/19]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

123. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the information produced relating to the practice of a person (details supplied); and the person or body that decided to underwrite and justify the decision to suspend the person in 2014. [14612/19]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

124. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the named officers in the HSE national office of nursing and midwifery who decided to pursue a systems analysis of the home birth records of a person (details supplied); the authority under which the decision to undertake a systems analysis was made; if the systems analysis was completed; if so, the location of the records of findings from the systems analysis; and if a copy of same will be provided. [14613/19]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

125. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the cost to the HSE of the legal proceedings related to the case of a person (details supplied). [14614/19]

National Maternity Strategy Implementation

Clare Daly

126. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of times, in light of the recommendations of the national maternity strategy, that the steering group for the implementation of the model of care has met since it was established. [14615/19]