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Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I am sharing time with Deputies Kelly and Nash. I thank my colleague Deputy Smith for bringing this motion before the House. We have been here many times before. The reality is that we have almost 500,000 women, men and children now being starved to death in front of our eyes. Approximately 1 million more people are on the brink of starvation and, yet, there are 116,000 metric tonnes...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome that we are having statements on this this evening. Although I, for one, would much rather we were talking about all the many other issues in the health service, such as the huge inequalities we see, particularly in the primary care system, we are back again talking about CHI this evening. When we look at the revelations at the weekend on top of the report last week, we are...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome that the O'Farrell family have finally got an apology today. Is it enough? I do not know but we all very clearly know that we are only here, 14 years on from that young man's death, because of the sheer persistence, tenacity and fight of a family. Lucia, Jim, Hannah, Gemma, Pia and Amy, you have been fobbed off and told that Shane was to blame for his own death. No family in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is a reality for public health patients that they have less access to lifesaving drugs compared to private patients and patients in the North, the UK and other countries. We know that only about one third of medicines approved by the EMA ever get authorisation to go on the market and onto the reimbursement lists here. An EU directive is aimed at broadening access to medicines. In...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: -----and why processing times are so slow. Will he commit to seriously ill people that we will ensure speed of access to medicines in this country?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: It is the EU directive on medicinal products for human use.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that providers appear to be applying different criteria in the administration of the SEAI medically vulnerable solar PV scheme; his views on whether this is acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a company (details supplied) is excluding persons who meet the criteria for the SEAI medically vulnerable solar PV scheme where such persons were eligible in 2022 but joined the list after 2022; his views on whether this is acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27365/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to the State of making all public transport free for persons aged under 18, under 25 and under 30 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children living in emergency accommodation for twenty-six months or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26732/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Children living in emergency accommodation for thirty-six months or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26733/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if endometriosis will be considered for long-term illness benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27534/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 561. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any differential made in the HIQA standards for the care of persons under 65 and the care for persons over 65, or any other age, in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27687/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 564. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the accumulated deficits of each voluntary acute hospital in the country, as reported to her Department and-or the HSE, as of 1 January 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26692/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if a voluntary acute hospital (details supplied) carried out a review of services to align them with available funding in 2024; the outcome of any such review; to set out which services, including patient services, were reduced to align with the available funding, including the time period for which any reduction in services applied; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working in adolescent addiction services, per IHA, per speciality, per funded WTE post and per filled WTE post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatric units and staff in each unit within the public health service, by CHO area, from the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26720/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if she will increase the number of breast screening locations, given that the wait time of some patients is over a year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26731/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 656. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that CHI is providing clarity, appropriate information and guidance to parents of patients attending CHI in respect of the medium- to long-term use of bladder gastrostomy buttons between 2018 and to date in 2025 and specifically information on protocol and clinical guidelines in use for the insertion of gastrostomy buttons into the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 657. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the policy governing the Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Family Forum, including the expected frequency of the meetings, whether minutes are taken and circulated to members and how parental engagement is maintained; to confirm the relationship between the CHI Family Forum and The Family Advisory Network as described on the CHI...