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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 801. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she intends on introducing surrogacy leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16652/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 880. To ask the Minister for Health the number of regional community-based specialist eating disorder services; the locations of these services; the number of WTE health and social care professionals working in these services both total funded and filled positions, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16647/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 881. To ask the Minister for Health when her Department plans to deliver upon the commitment of 16 community-based specialist eating disorder services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 883. To ask the Minister for Health when it is intended to fully implement the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 907. To ask the Minister for Health the consultations or actions her Department has taken with regard to the extension of the temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees unit for work post Covid-19 infection, which is due to expire by 30 June 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16787/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 908. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to extend the temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees for work post Covid-19 infection beyond 30 June 2025, for HSE staff with long-Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16788/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 941. To ask the Minister for Health to outline where the €54 million in HSE savings on medicines was achieved in 2024; what medicines savings were achieved; if it was through negotiation or substitution to generics or other branded drugs; how the figure of €54 million was compiled; to provide copies of the documentation underpinning this figure; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 942. To ask the Minister for Health to outline where the €34 million in HSE savings on management consultancy was achieved in 2024; whether contracts were renegotiated, or how the level of saving was determined; whether contracts ended or the HSE availed of less services; how much was paid to each management consultant company or partnership in 2024, and the reduction on 2023; to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 943. To ask the Minister for Health to outline where the published figure of €163 million in HSE savings on pay and non-pay costs was achieved in 2024; the main headings where savings were achieved; to provide copies of the documentation underpinning this figure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Solar Energy (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 986. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of HSE health and social care facilities that are planned to have solar panels installed in 2025, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17327/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Solar Energy (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 987. To ask the Minister for Health the value of solar panel installation contracts that have been issued, per county, for HSE buildings in 2022, 2023, 2024 and that are planned for 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17328/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Solar Energy (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 988. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of HSE health and social care facilities that have received solar panels in 2024 and 2023, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17329/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 998. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time that patients are awaiting for an initial appointment after being referred for care in hospitals (details supplied), per speciality, per inpatient and outpatient, from 2018 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17386/25]

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

Marie Sherlock: 1006. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all hospitals, separated by model one, two, three and four, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17436/25]

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I very much welcome that we are having these statements. It is important to say that over the past number of weeks, I have spent a good deal of time talking to staff of CHI - doctors and nurses - and many of the parents of patients. As we all accept, every day brilliant work is done across the three sites in question. I know that as a parent who has had to use Temple Street hospital on a...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: May I just make two quick points, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle? First, with regard to the weight of expectation, the Minister raised earlier the 22 new theatres. They will be brilliant when they are up and running, but it will take years for them to open, from what I hear when I talk to the commissioning team in CHI. I think we have 15 theatres at the moment. There is a very serious question...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The reality is that three years ago the commissioning team in CHI put in a request for 382.8 whole-time equivalent staff and they believe they have got little or no response from the HSE or the Department of Health. In fact, in the words of one, they have never been so far behind in the staffing of a new hospital project. We need to make sure that that staffing is put in place next year...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: We have a large number of parents in the Gallery this morning who come from brilliant groups like the NIC Side by Side group, FUSS, the ICON FAACT group and Embrace Autism D9. Many of these are part of the Equality in Education in Dublin Central group. These groups were set up out of sheer desperation because of the lack of health and education services for children. They have provided a...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: This is my final point. While we rightly focus on the many children with autism, there are other children with learning needs such as dyslexia. There is an inherent hostility within the Department of Education that we have seen for many years with regard to the opening of new reading classes in schools. That needs to change.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “Role of jury in High Court defamation actions 4. (1) Subject to subsection (2) and notwithstanding section 94 of The Courts of Justice Act 1924, or any other provision made by or under any enactment or rule of law, where a defamation action is tried by the High Court sitting with a jury—...