Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Human Trafficking

Billy Kelleher

394. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a HSE plan has been developed to provided supports and appropriate health services for victims of human trafficking. [53845/17]

Palliative Care Services

Billy Kelleher

395. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of each of the ten recommendations from the palliative care support beds review, in tabular form. [53846/17]

Minor Ailments Scheme

Billy Kelleher

396. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the evaluation of the 2016 pharmacy-based minor ailment scheme pilot project; and if the project will be extended further. [53847/17]

Medical Card Data

Billy Kelleher

397. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons covered by medical cards on 1 December 2017. [53848/17]

Medical Card Data

Billy Kelleher

398. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons covered by general practitioner visit cards on 1 December 2017. [53849/17]

Mental Health Services Data

Billy Kelleher

399. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of children that have attended a CAMHS service in 2017. [53850/17]

Health Services Expenditure

Billy Kelleher

400. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when multi-annual plans and budgets for health expenditure both current and capital will be brought forward. [53851/17]

HSE National Service Plan

Billy Kelleher

401. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the HSE will publish a five-year service plan. [53852/17]

National Treatment Purchase Fund

Billy Kelleher

402. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the allocation of the €15 million in 2017 to fund the National Treatment Purchase Fund to urgently address waiting lists for those persons waiting longest; the amount of this funding that has now been spent; and the number of persons that will receive scheduled treatment as a result of this expenditure. [53853/17]

Mental Health Services

Billy Kelleher

403. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the way in which his Department is honouring the commitment to fully implement A Vision for Change. [53854/17]

Ambulance Service Data

Billy Kelleher

404. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in November 2017; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40, 60, 90, 120 and 180 minutes for same, in tabular form. [53855/17]

Medicinal Products Prices

Billy Kelleher

405. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of medicines that have had their price reduced as of 1 December 2017 further to the framework agreement on the supply and pricing of medicines; the details of each medicine; and the extent of the price cut. [53856/17]

Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments

Billy Kelleher

406. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if online primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, processing has now been extended to dentists and clinical dental technicians. [53857/17]

Medical Card Applications

Billy Kelleher

407. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the web-based paperless medical card application process to reduce the number of paper-based applications will be introduced. [53858/17]

Health Services

Billy Kelleher

408. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on considering the further recommendations of the clinical advisory group including conclusions on the assessment of the burden of disease as agreed for implementation by the HSE and his Department. [53859/17]

Health Services

Billy Kelleher

409. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has developed a burden of illness assessment tool. [53860/17]

Medicinal Products

Billy Kelleher

410. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the additional resources that have been provided to ensure that the assessment process for new medicines is implemented effectively. [53861/17]

General Practitioner Training

Billy Kelleher

411. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if new arrangements for management of general practitioners training involving the Irish College of General Practitioners have been finalised and implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53862/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

412. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of adults who have been deemed appropriate for treatment for substance use in 2017; and the number who have received treatment within one calendar month, by LHO, in tabular form. [53863/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

413. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of children who have been deemed appropriate for treatment for substance use in 2017; and the number who have received treatment within one week, by LHO, in tabular form. [53864/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

414. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the review of services in all CHOs in relation to the person-centred care planning processes of the drugs rehabilitation framework reassessment, key working and care planning. [53865/17]

Medicinal Products Availability

Billy Kelleher

415. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if regulations to allow for the introduction of buprenorphine naloxone and buprenorphine products have been agreed and introduced. [53866/17]

Medicinal Products Availability

Billy Kelleher

416. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the working group to progress increased access to buprenorphine naloxone and buprenorphine products. [53867/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

417. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the HSE training programme for addiction staff, level 2 general practitioners and pharmacists in relation to buprenorphine naloxone and buprenorphine products. [53868/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

418. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the increase in addiction residential treatment beds and additional treatment episodes that has been provided in 2017. [53869/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

419. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of integrated care pathways and referral pathways from the pharmacy needle exchange to other agencies. [53870/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

420. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the details of the expansion of other paraphernalia such as foil within the pharmacy needle exchange programme to allow persons the option of smoking rather than injecting. [53871/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

421. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the guidelines and strategic statement on hidden harm. [53872/17]

Drug Treatment Programmes Data

Billy Kelleher

422. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of opioid substitution treatment outside prisons. [53873/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

423. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time from referral to assessment for opioid substitution treatment. [53874/17]

Home Help Service Data

Billy Kelleher

424. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided in each local health office area monthly in 2017 to date; and the way in which this compares against target figures in tabular form. [53875/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

425. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time from opioid substitution assessment to exit from waiting list or treatment commenced. [53876/17]

Primary Care Centres Provision

Billy Kelleher

426. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the delivery of the primary care education pathways and research in dementia education programme to primary care teams in collaboration with the National Dementia Office and social care services; the number of sites that have been selected for same; and the location of each. [53877/17]

Home Help Service Data

Billy Kelleher

427. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each LHO area in tabular form. [53878/17]

Home Help Service Data

Billy Kelleher

428. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of intensive home care packages being provided in each LHO area in tabular form. [53879/17]

Home Help Service Data

Billy Kelleher

429. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of home help hours being provided in each LHO area in tabular form. [53880/17]

Hospital Beds Data

Billy Kelleher

430. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 8 December 2017 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [53881/17]

Hospitals Discharges

Billy Kelleher

431. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in all public and voluntary acute hospitals at the end of November 2017 or the latest date available; and the number of discharges which have been delayed for periods (details supplied) in tabular form. [53882/17]

Emergency Departments Waiting Times

Billy Kelleher

432. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if persons aged 75 years of age or over have experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours in 2017; and, if so, the hospital in which the wait occurred [53883/17]

Organ Donation Data

Billy Kelleher

433. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the targets in place for organ donation and transplant rates; if they have been achieved in 2017; and if not, the progress made towards achieving the targets [53884/17]

Health Services Reports

Billy Kelleher

434. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the planning of a national genetic and genomic medicine network service which will operate on a hub and spoke basis; the location of the hubs and spokes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53885/17]

Hospitals Discharges

Billy Kelleher

435. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of elective inpatient discharges in each public and voluntary hospital in 2017. [53886/17]

Patient Data

Billy Kelleher

436. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons with haemodialysis treated in acute hospitals in 2017. [53887/17]

Patient Data

Billy Kelleher

437. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons with haemodialysis treated in contracted centres in 2017. [53888/17]

Patient Data

Billy Kelleher

438. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of home therapies dialysis treatments in 2017. [53889/17]

Hospitals Discharges

Billy Kelleher

439. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in 2017. [53890/17]

Stroke Care

Billy Kelleher

440. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the percentage of persons with acute stroke who have spent all or some of their hospital stay in an acute or combined stroke unit in 2017. [53891/17]

Patient Data

Billy Kelleher

441. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the percentage of persons with confirmed acute ischaemic stroke that received thrombolysis in 2017. [53892/17]

Hospital Services

Billy Kelleher

442. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the acute hospitals which have a COPD outreach programme. [53893/17]

Patient Data

Billy Kelleher

443. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons attending the rapid access lung clinic in designated cancer centres in 2017. [53894/17]

Patient Data

Billy Kelleher

444. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons attending the rapid access prostate clinic in cancer centres in 2017; and the number of persons attending prostate rapid clinics that attended or were offered an appointment within 20 working days of receipt of referral in the cancer centres over the same time period. [53895/17]

Health Services Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

445. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent on agency staff each month in 2017; the equivalent figures for each month in 2016; the proportion of the HSE’s anticipated agency staff expenditure for 2017 that has been incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53896/17]

Home Help Service Data

Billy Kelleher

498. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each LHO area. [54107/17]

Home Care Packages Data

Billy Kelleher

499. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for home care packages in each LHO area in tabular form; and the number waiting zero to three months, three to six months, six to 12 months and 12 months plus respectively. [54108/17]

Hospitals Data

Billy Kelleher

500. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of transitional care beds being provided to all acute hospitals to support older persons moving to long-stay care or requiring convalescence. [54109/17]

National Carers' Strategy Status

Billy Kelleher

501. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the multi-divisional group to progress the implementation of the national carers’ strategy. [54110/17]

Departmental Operations

Billy Kelleher

502. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the carers' need assessment tool tested for implementation in 2017 through the SAT project. [54111/17]

Respite Care Services

Billy Kelleher

503. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the work of the HSE multi-divisional review group to review respite services to determine the requirements for respite care and identify the gaps in service provision; and the gaps identified for each CHO, in tabular format. [54112/17]

Home Care Packages

Billy Kelleher

504. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the HSE multi-divisional group review of the progress of the recommendations of the home solutions report on Telecare services; and the action taken as a result of the review. [54113/17]

Public Health Policy

Billy Kelleher

505. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the HSE policy and guidelines for the early identification of carers. [54114/17]

Departmental Operations

Billy Kelleher

506. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of a carers' needs assessment; and if it will be progressed through the SAT project in 2017. [54115/17]

HSE Data

Billy Kelleher

507. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the CHOs that have established residents' councils, family forums, service user panels or equivalent in social care, in tabular form. [54116/17]

Hospitals Data

Billy Kelleher

508. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons being supported through transitional care in alternative care settings. [54117/17]

Hospitals Data

Billy Kelleher

509. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in acute hospitals approved for transitional care to move to alternative care settings. [54118/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

Billy Kelleher

511. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the details for both Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital of the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four months, four to eight months and more than eight months for treatment, in tabular form; and if the same information will be provided for other spinal patients. [54124/17]

Medicinal Products Availability

Billy Kelleher

148. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if Vimizim will be sanctioned for persons (details supplied) immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53262/17]

Schools Health and Safety

Billy Kelleher

174. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if first aid training will become compulsory for all physically capable teachers and special needs assistants, SNAs (details supplied) through Government funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52846/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans

Billy Kelleher

289. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the four-month target for persons with scoliosis for 2017 has been discontinued and does not appear in the programme for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52800/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans

Billy Kelleher

290. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if an immediate independent clinical review of scoliosis services will be agreed to in view of the failure to meet scoliosis targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52801/17]

HSE Records

Billy Kelleher

301. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received files relating to a relative, as promised; when this information will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52831/17]

Dental Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

314. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the level of dental services provided to elderly medical card holders in long-term care; the services and accommodations in place to cater for their needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52851/17]

Community Care Provision

Billy Kelleher

342. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a media report (details supplied) which suggests that 168,438 adult bed days per year, equivalent to 460 beds per day, could be saved through the targeted use of oral nutritional supplements in the management of disease-related malnutrition in the community; the measures that have been put in place to free up these beds in the midst of the acute facility beds shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53070/17]

Community Care Provision

Billy Kelleher

343. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the prevalence of disease-related malnutrition across all health and social care settings in the past five years according to clinical treatment settings including inpatient, outpatient, nursing homes and general practitioner clinics by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53071/17]

Community Care Provision

Billy Kelleher

344. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to use nutritional screening and malnutrition rates as mandatory quality indicators across all clinical treatment settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53072/17]

Community Care Provision

Billy Kelleher

345. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the initiatives his Department is engaged in with regard to mitigating against the annual cost of disease-related malnutrition in the community setting in which 93% of persons with malnutrition reside and which is estimated to be more than the annual cost of obesity at some €1.4 billion per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53073/17]

Community Care Provision

Billy Kelleher

346. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the example of best practice displayed by the Netherlands in tackling the issue of disease-related malnutrition through the establishment of the Dutch malnutrition steering group (details supplied) which successfully reduced the prevalence of malnutrition across all healthcare settings over a 12-year period; his plans to bring forward a similar initiative here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53074/17]

Community Care Provision

Billy Kelleher

347. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans regarding dietitians within CHOs and community settings; the sourcing allocation that is being made available to community dietitians to meet current and future demand levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53075/17]

Community Care Provision

Billy Kelleher

348. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a 2016 HIQA report (details supplied); the actions that have been taken since the report’s publication to address these shortcomings in view of the fact that malnourished persons stay in acute beds for 30% to 70% longer than non-malnourished persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53076/17]

Junior Cycle Reform

Billy Kelleher

51. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on to teachers’ claims that there is inadequate time to deliver the junior cycle syllabus to pupils. [51896/17]

Garda Operations

Billy Kelleher

260. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been an assessment or audit of the costs that the almost 2 million false breath tests have had on the Garda budget; if overtime payments were made to members of An Garda Síochána while carrying out the fake breath tests; if there was a reduction in policing services to the public due to the fake breath test scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51919/17]

Speech and Language Therapy Data

Billy Kelleher

335. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists in each HSE area in tabular form. [51584/17]

Nursing Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

336. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent public health nurses in each HSE area in tabular form. [51585/17]

Mental Health Services Data

Billy Kelleher

337. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years on waiting lists for an appointment with their local child and adolescent mental health team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51586/17]

Mental Health Services Data

Billy Kelleher

338. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for an appointment with their child and adolescent mental health team by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51587/17]

Speech and Language Therapy Data

Billy Kelleher

339. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years on waiting lists for a speech and language assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51588/17]

Speech and Language Therapy Data

Billy Kelleher

340. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for speech and language assessment, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51589/17]

Speech and Language Therapy Data

Billy Kelleher

341. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years on waiting lists for speech and language therapy treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51590/17]

Speech and Language Therapy Data

Billy Kelleher

342. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for speech and language therapy treatment, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51591/17]

HSE Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

343. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for an initial assessment of need to determine severity of a condition or disability from the early intervention teams, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51592/17]

HSE Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

344. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for an initial assessment of need from the early intervention teams, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51593/17]

Medicinal Products Regulation

Billy Kelleher

346. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the persons who will be on the new drugs committee; the qualifications that make them experts in assessing medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51600/17]

General Practitioner Data

Billy Kelleher

369. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health office, LHO, in tabular form. [51825/17]

Stroke Care

Billy Kelleher

143. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the details of the working group set up by the national stroke programme to develop guidelines on the affect a stroke has on a person's mood; the timeframe for the completion of the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51264/17]

Stroke Care

Billy Kelleher

144. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the support that will be put in place to ensure that the availability of counselling and psychology services to support the consequences of stroke are enhanced in locations once guidelines are developed and published; if this will be provided for in the HSE's service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51265/17]

Stroke Care

Billy Kelleher

145. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the research or investigation taking place to identify the reason for the increased incidence rates in stroke among persons of working age; if this research and planning will be part of the health service capacity review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51266/17]

Health Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

146. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the plans in place to introduce a national screening programme for atrial fibrillation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51267/17]

General Practitioner Contracts

Billy Kelleher

147. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of discussions as part of the negotiation of the new general practitioner contract to introduce opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation in general practice in view of the fact that a health technology assessment by HIQA has shown that it is likely to be highly cost-effective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51268/17]

Stroke Care

Billy Kelleher

148. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of stroke units; if so, the number and locations; if funding is being made available in the HSE's service plan for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51269/17]

Stroke Care

Billy Kelleher

149. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of stroke beds; the number and location; if funding is being made available in the HSE's service plan for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51270/17]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Billy Kelleher

150. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress on recruitment for early supported discharge staff in line with increasing capacity in the three operational locations; the further progression on the establishment of two further teams in University Hospital Limerick and Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51271/17]