Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Medical Aids and Appliances

David Cullinane

513. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE medicines management programme, MMP, preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the Freestyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44500/22]

Medical Aids and Appliances

David Cullinane

514. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of applications for FreeStyle Libre that were submitted by individual hospitals for persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number that were approved; the number that were refused in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; if there are plans to remove the age restriction on FreeStyle Libre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44501/22]

Hospital Waiting Lists

David Cullinane

515. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of children on initial and further waiting lists in County Tipperary by speciality in tabular form; the number of children by wait length; the number of children that are waiting for the first contact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44502/22]

Sexually Transmitted Infections

David Cullinane

516. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the availability of sexually transmitted infection testing kits in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44504/22]

Sexually Transmitted Infections

David Cullinane

517. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of sexually transmitted infection clinics by CHO nationally; the staffing numbers and vacancy numbers at each; the length of time that the vacancies have existed; the active recruitment campaigns, if any, for the vacancies in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44505/22]

Sexually Transmitted Infections

David Cullinane

518. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Waterford; the availability of STI testing kits in Waterford; his plans to expand STI screening service in Waterford; the steps that his Department is taking to fund and resource this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44506/22]

Medicinal Products

David Cullinane

519. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the inclusion of the drug Praluent for reimbursement in the drug payment scheme; if he will provide an update on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44507/22]

Health Services

David Cullinane

520. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if will provide an update on the day care services in north Sligo, Cliffoney and Mougherow; when those services will resume to meet the demand in the area; the interim measures that are being considered by the HSE to provide off-site services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44508/22]

Health Services

David Cullinane

521. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when day care services will resume in west Sligo and at the day care centre in Easkey; if there are plans to resume a five-day service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44509/22]

National Broadband Plan

David Cullinane

48. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans for interim solutions for householders in rural areas waiting on broadband that is some years away under the national broadband plan; if he will provide further details on the efforts to accelerate the roll-out of the national broadband plan in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42053/22]

Public Sector Pensions

David Cullinane

74. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason he has not signed off on a 2% pensionable increase for An Post pensioners, which was effective from 1 January 2022; the timeline for the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42633/22]

Pension Provisions

David Cullinane

361. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Finance if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42668/22]

State Pensions

David Cullinane

1082. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42419/22]

Departmental Correspondence

David Cullinane

1107. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence; if she will review particular circumstances on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42815/22]

Budget 2023

David Cullinane

1293. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there are plans to provide funding for the training of educational psychologists; and his plans to address this in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42176/22]

Third Level Education

David Cullinane

1305. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will address the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42588/22]

Third Level Admissions

David Cullinane

1320. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if advice will be provided on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43060/22]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1475. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community healthcare facilities to date for each month in 2021 and to date in 2022, by hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41941/22]

Undefined

David Cullinane

1506. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42047/22]

Disabilities Assessments

David Cullinane

1549. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if a child who has received an assessment report under the Disability Act 2005 is entitled to a review of that assessment on an annual basis. [42145/22]

Disease Management

David Cullinane

1553. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to colon cancer detection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/22]

Medical Research and Training

David Cullinane

1556. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his plans to work with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to address the discrepancy between training for educational psychologists and clinical psychologists with the latter receiving a substantial payment of college fees by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42174/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

David Cullinane

1559. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if Irish front-line healthcare workers who contracted Covid-19 in their workplace, particularly those suffering from long-Covid, will be considered to have contracted a prescribed occupational disease in view of the opinion of the European Union Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work that Covid-19 caused by work in disease prevention, health and social care contexts should be included in the European schedule of occupational diseases annexed to Commission Recommendation 2003/670/EC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42195/22]

Hospital Facilities

David Cullinane

1615. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of hospitals operating the Da Vinci surgical system; if there are plans to expand the robotics programme in hospitals; if funding will be provided by his Department to implement same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42420/22]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1616. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); his plans to review the current staffing levels and standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42422/22]

Medical Aids and Appliances

David Cullinane

1622. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for insulin pumps by hospital in tabular form; the number waiting for funding or waiting otherwise; the number under 18 and over 65 years; the number waiting by timeband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42448/22]

Hospital Waiting Lists

David Cullinane

1623. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on diabetes-related waiting lists by community healthcare organisation, CHO, in tabular form; the number waiting for outpatient, inpatient, and day case appointments; the number on equipment or supplies waiting lists by list; the number of persons aged under 18 and over 65 years on each list; the number waiting by timeband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42449/22]

Hospital Waiting Lists

David Cullinane

1624. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on diabetes-related waiting lists by hospital in tabular form; the number waiting for outpatient, inpatient, and day case appointments; the number on equipment or supplies waiting lists by list; the number of persons under 18 and over 65 years on each list; the number waiting by timeband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42450/22]

Departmental Expenditure

David Cullinane

1669. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the expenditure of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan funding of €75m for e-health and ICT by programme to date in tabular form; the amount remaining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42614/22]

Medicinal Products

David Cullinane

1686. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1629 of 26 July 2022, if there are no avenues for a dispenser-supplier, outside of the prescribed manufacturer-suppliers set in Schedule 3 of the HSE-IPHA Framework Agreement (2021) to apply or otherwise petition for the inclusion of a medicine or appliance on the long-term illness scheme; the reason there are any means by which a medical doctor, pharmacist, or other licensed prescriber may petition for the inclusion of a product on such schemes and reimbursement lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42670/22]

Health Services

David Cullinane

1690. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if teleconsultations are permitted within the free contraception scheme; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42686/22]

Hospital Staff

David Cullinane

1704. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 599, 602 and 603 of 5 July 2022, the value of fines issued to each hospital for each relevant period in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42718/22]

Primary Care Services

David Cullinane

1735. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the full cost of all services, assessments or interventions to children provided by non-HSE organisations through primary care services in each of the years from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42881/22]

Tax Code

David Cullinane

1739. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated amount that the health service would save if the State applied a zero rate of VAT to non-oral medicines by service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42887/22]

Ambulance Service

David Cullinane

1783. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of paramedics in training with the National Ambulance Service by year of training and cohort in tabular form; the intake number in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the numbers graduating in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43021/22]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1784. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of overtime hours worked by HSE staff by staff category to date by month in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43022/22]

Health Services Staff

David Cullinane

1785. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of overtime hours worked by HSE staff by staff category by month in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43023/22]

Septic Tanks

David Cullinane

618. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to domestic septic tanks registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39704/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

880. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a passport application (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicants travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39685/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

881. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a passport application (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicants travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39686/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

906. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of passport applications for children (details supplied) given that they have exceeded the target issue date and applicants’ travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39823/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

907. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a passport application for a child (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicant’s travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39829/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

908. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a passport application for a person (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicants travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39860/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

921. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of passport applications for children (details supplied) given that they have exceeded the target issue date and applicants’ travel dates are imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40091/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

922. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of passport applications (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicants travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40119/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

927. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of passport applications for a person (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicants travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40241/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

982. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a passport application (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicants travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41045/22]

Passport Services

David Cullinane

983. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a passport application (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicant's travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41084/22]

School Transport

David Cullinane

1039. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Education if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39698/22]

Family Reunification

David Cullinane

1508. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Justice if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39862/22]