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Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2222.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 18 June 2024, if the National Gender Service can clarify at exactly what stage the business case has progressed to, and in particular, whether funding has been approved. [31974/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2223.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 2 July 2024, if the National Gender Service is aware of a recently published randomised controlled trial showing a reduction in poor health outcomes, including suicidality, for those receiving trans healthcare (details supplied). [31975/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2224.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the research underlying the National Gender Service’s statement that social contagion is causing huge numbers of children to incorrectly think they are transgender, as reported in an article (details supplied). [31976/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2225.To ask the Minister for Health for details of all the attacks being made on the National Gender Service, as reported in an article (details supplied). [31977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2226.To ask the Minister for Health if the National Gender Service is in the business of saying if people have gender dysphoria, given apparently conflicting public statements (details supplied). [31978/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2227.To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of patients of the National Gender Service to which they ‘often say not right now’, as mentioned in a radio interview (details supplied). [31979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2228.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been told by the National Gender Service following assessment that they will not be seen for five years, as mentioned in a radio interview (details supplied). [31980/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2229.To ask the Minister for Health the reason, given that the National Gender Service indicated in a radio interview that it ‘just doesn’t know’ if its assessment model can identify risks, it recommends against other models (details supplied). [31981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2230.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 2 July 2024, if the program will consider the possibility that the mentioned report may have been produced in bad faith, given the reported involvement of multiple members of a hate group, in addition to serious issues found by international experts (details supplied). [31982/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2233.To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure significant investment into local public health nurses (details supplied); if he is aware of the negative impacts that staffing issues have on patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2247.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 820 of 11 June 2024, the oestradiol and testosterone serum concentrations that are targeted for trans men and women by the transgender clinic in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda (details supplied). [32129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2321.To ask the Minister for Health if it is standard practice for a chiropodist to charge a fee for appointments for medical card holders; if so, if he will consider requesting that the fee be removed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32517/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2434.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of establishing and running Ireland’s first mother and baby unit for mothers undergoing mental health issues. [32958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Procurement Contracts (11 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how his Department ensures that procurement competitions are run fairly in local Government, and if there is a process for making complaints to the ombudsman about this process when someone is unsatisfied with the outcome. [30593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (11 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or officials from his Department will meet with a group (details supplied); and if not, the reason therefor. [30598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 3 July 2024, what supports are provided for English language learning for under 18 international protection applicants outside of school, for example, during the summertime. [30632/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [29525/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The way that children with additional needs are failed by this State is nothing short of scandalous. I have no end of parents contacting me who have been on waiting lists for long times and with no end in sight. What it comes down to is the understaffing and underfunding of our health service and an absence of therapists. I will give one particular example, namely, the massive shortage of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It does not seem to me to that the HSE is recruiting because the vacancies still exist.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The far right is on the March across Europe. They topped the poll in six countries in the European Union elections. They came second in another two. They got about 20% right across the EU. A key question is this: how were they defeated? We have debated before whether the so-called "centre" is best placed to defeat them or whether the left is best placed to defeat them. We have seen a...