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

Duncan Smith: 2186.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 621 of 8 May 2024, if the national gender service still requires meeting with a consultant psychiatrist as part of the assessment pathway, as is currently indicated on its website (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31808/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2238.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 26 June 2024, to specify the GPs with vasectomy contracts to provide services to medical card patients in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32089/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2317.To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to raise the age for mammograms above 69 years, as part of the BreastCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32475/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2398.To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of providing additional funding to Section 39 organisations to provide pay increases in line with the current public service pay deal; the breakdown, by organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32866/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2399.To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on agency staff in 2023 and 2024 to date across the health service, broken down by staffing type, and to whom the payments were made; the breakdown for the amount spent on nursing agency staff to date in 2024; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2400.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32868/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2401.To ask the Minister for Health the projected full year costs of expanding the free contraception scheme to all women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2402.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2025 of reducing prescription charges to €1 per item with a cap of €10 for all, or to 50 cent per item with a cap of €5 for all; the estimated overall cost of abolishing the charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32870/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2403.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing in 2025 medical cards to all those diagnosed with cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32871/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2404.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing in 2025 discretionary medical cards to all those with a confirmed disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32872/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2405.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing medical card income limits by 5%, 10% or 20%, and in each case the projected additional number of cards that would be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2406.To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for the Home Support Service in 2024; the number of home care packages funded; the projected additional cost of providing a home care package to every identified case in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32874/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2407.To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care and home help hours funded in 2023, and 2024 respectively, and the amount not utilised due to staffing shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2408.To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the flu vaccine programme in 2023 and 2024 respectively; the number of doses that are expected to be provided in 2024 and 2025; the number of doses the State ordered; the estimated cost to provide the flu vaccine free to all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32877/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2409.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing free GP care to all children under 18; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32878/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2410.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing the HPV vaccine for free to adults who have not received it but want to access it through their GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32879/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2411.To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of providing two doses of the chicken pox varicella vaccine free to all children through the primary or school child immunisation programme; the estimated annual cost of providing this in 2025; the estimated five year cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32880/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 2413.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of adding asthma to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32882/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2414.To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding provided for mental health in each of the last two budgets; the detailed breakdown of the status of each of the measures announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32883/24]

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

Duncan Smith: 2415.To ask the Minister for Health the projected costs of fully funding the safe staffing framework; the projected costs of growing the nursing and midwifery workforce by 2,000 WTEs annually for the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32884/24]