Results 141-160 of 4,343 for speaker:Sorca Clarke

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 737. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted a review of inefficiencies or duplication across the HSE mental health services; and if any projected cost savings have been identified. [35513/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which Ireland’s current per capita spending on mental health compares with EU and OECD averages; and the estimated additional cost to bring spending to the EU average. [35514/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 739. To ask the Minister for Health the cost per person of inpatient psychiatric care versus enhanced community based mental health care; and if transition modelling has been carried out. [35515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 745. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of delivering 47 additional community teams, 17 CAMHS ID teams, 41 inpatient CAMHS beds and 20 early intervention in psychosis teams, in tabular form. [35530/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 746. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reopening Keltoi. [35531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 747. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of developing an all island mother and baby perinatal mental health unit. [35532/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 748. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of funding all trainee counselling and educational psychology positions in line with their clinical counterparts. [35533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 820. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the commissioning and staffing of the new CAMHS unit in the new children’s hospital; how it is progressing; the estimated date for when it will commence its operations; her views on whether this will this help the emergency flow of children and adolescents to the new hospital and St. James’s; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 824. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to the National Traveller Health Action Plan in 2024; the mechanisms in place to ensure that this funding reaches Traveller-led and community-based organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 825. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels within Traveller primary healthcare projects across each health region; and whether any additional staff or resources have been allocated since the publication of the national Traveller health action plan. [35982/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 826. To ask the Minister for Health the specific mental health supports provided under the national Traveller health action plan, including the recruitment of mental health professionals from the Traveller community, and how outcomes are being measured. [35983/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 827. To ask the Minister for Health which specific parts of the national Traveller health action plan have not been implemented yet; and when those elements will commence. [35984/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 828. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the audit carried out by CHI. [35992/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 832. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the means by which her Department is monitoring progress on the National Traveller Health Action Plan, particularly regarding Traveller mental health outcomes; if disaggregated health data is being collected and published by ethnicity in line with national equality strategies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36051/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 833. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of names of Traveller organisations her Department engaged during the design and implementation of the National Traveller Health Action plan; the structures in place to ensure their ongoing involvement and oversight; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Travellers who died by suicide in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36053/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I cannot fail to take the opportunity to speak further on the issue I raised with the Minister at committee yesterday around the emergency supply scheme, where somebody from a virtual clinic, or leaving as a previous inpatient of a hospital, has 24 hours to get to their GP if they are a medical card holder and will receive only a seven-day supply of medication. There is a very real...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I thank my colleague for tabling this question. We recently had CHI and the HSE in the committee on this issue. In the Gallery were representatives of the hip dysplasia advocacy group. Afterwards, I met one of those dads in the car park, a young dad and an awful nice guy. He was in a ball of tears. I do not know this man. I had never met him before and he had never met me. That is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister detail the steps she has taken to improve governance and accountability at Children's Health Ireland and will she publish the unpublished review of a department at CHI at Crumlin? Will she outline the steps she has taken to address the issues highlighted in the report?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: There has been scandal after scandal at CHI. There were inappropriate spring implants, possibly hundreds of unnecessary hip surgeries and now a scathing leaked report of an examination of a clinical department at Crumlin hospital. The report has raised exceptionally serious concerns and it follows the Boston review, the HIQA review into unauthorised springs and the hip dysplasia audit. We...