Ní féidir ach ceisteanna agus freagraí a foilsíodh tar éis Iúil 2012 a amharc anseo. Is féidir amharc de réir téarma nó dátaí ar leith ó Mhárta 2016 ar aghaidh do Ranna Rialtais. Foilsítear freagraí scríofa de réir mar a fhaightear iad ó Ranna. Chun ceisteanna parlaiminte a foilsíodh roimh Iúil 2012 a fheiceáil, cuardaigh Díospóireachtaí na Dála.
Ceisteanna agus freagraí le haghaidh gach suí
Leathanach 1 de 29
Máirt, 25 Meith 2019
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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]
Déar, 20 Meith 2019
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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]
Déar, 20 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Máirt, 18 Meith 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]
Déar, 13 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Máirt, 11 Meith 2019
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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]
Déar, 30 Beal 2019
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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]
Céad, 29 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2019
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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]
Céad, 22 Beal 2019
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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]