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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Medicinal Products (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I put it to the Minister that 1 June is 19 days away. The majority of pharmacists I have spoken to - and have spoken to many - tell me they are not signing up to the free HRT scheme. I understand that no communication has been made to the pharmacists about the software. It is my understanding that the providers of the software have not been given any information by the Department about...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Medicinal Products (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for the reply. At the heart of this mess are women on HRT and the women who could be on it. For non-GMS patients, the cost is €35 to €70 per month. This is a serious amount of money for many women. I am hugely passionate about this scheme but this crack of announcing first and working out the details later is simply unacceptable. There are four key...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Reviews (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I am calling for an urgent and speedy review of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. Many of us recognise and applaud the intent and ambition of the Act in supposedly giving greater power and autonomy to vulnerable individuals and to significantly increasing the numbers registering enduring power of attorney, EPA. The reality has proved very different, however. I want to relay...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Reviews (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for that. It is important to understand and listen to the experience of those who have the working knowledge of how this Act has operated. Five years is simply too long a period for a review of this legislation to take place. I want to relay to the Minister of State some of the views of the Huntington's Disease Association of Ireland, which talks about how the...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Deputy Cummins and the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important motion. They have a long track record in this area. From a Labour Party perspective, I wholeheartedly welcome this motion. It addresses an issue that was close to the heart of our former education spokesperson, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who very much championed it in a cold place when his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 401. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of National Treatment Purchase Fund spending per speciality, per year, from 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22983/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by the National Treatment Purchase Fund on the treatment of Irish patients in Northern Ireland and the whole United Kingdom, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22986/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 405. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of spending by the National Treatment Purchase Fund of private providers of care, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22987/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the total sum of money allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the total sum of money spent by the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 408. To ask the Minister for Health when she anticipates the report on the National Treatment Purchase Fund for 2024 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 402. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the HSE on the Waiting List Action Plan in 2022, 2023, 2024, and projected for 2025; a breakdown of that spending per HSE or National Treatment Purchase Fund, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22984/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital beds delivered from 2022 to date in 2025, and projected to the end of 2025, per year, per hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22985/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this important motion. It is a pity that the Minister is stepping out because I have some important questions for her, but no doubt the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, will be able to take them up. There is considerable frustration among parents, early years workers and providers because, while this issue got an awful lot of attention in the run-up...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by the sugar-sweetened drinks tax each year since its introduction to date in 2023, broken down by the yield in each band; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the plant protein drinks and drinks containing milk fats covered by the sugar sweetened drinks tax as they have a calcium level below 119 milligrams per 100 millilitres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22430/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of abolishing the parental levy on the school milk scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated to the national stroke strategy in order that its recommendations are implemented in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been made available for the national stroke strategy; what the funding is being used for; the actions being implemented in 2025 as part of the national stroke strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs of ensuring adequate national capacity to deliver cardiac rehabilitation to all patients for whom it is recommended, ensuring that staffing and resources are protected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22174/25]