Results 261-280 of 1,868 for speaker:Marie Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the total sum of money spent by the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 408. To ask the Minister for Health when she anticipates the report on the National Treatment Purchase Fund for 2024 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 402. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the HSE on the Waiting List Action Plan in 2022, 2023, 2024, and projected for 2025; a breakdown of that spending per HSE or National Treatment Purchase Fund, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22984/25]

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

Marie Sherlock: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital beds delivered from 2022 to date in 2025, and projected to the end of 2025, per year, per hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22985/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this important motion. It is a pity that the Minister is stepping out because I have some important questions for her, but no doubt the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, will be able to take them up. There is considerable frustration among parents, early years workers and providers because, while this issue got an awful lot of attention in the run-up...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by the sugar-sweetened drinks tax each year since its introduction to date in 2023, broken down by the yield in each band; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the plant protein drinks and drinks containing milk fats covered by the sugar sweetened drinks tax as they have a calcium level below 119 milligrams per 100 millilitres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22430/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of abolishing the parental levy on the school milk scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated to the national stroke strategy in order that its recommendations are implemented in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been made available for the national stroke strategy; what the funding is being used for; the actions being implemented in 2025 as part of the national stroke strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs of ensuring adequate national capacity to deliver cardiac rehabilitation to all patients for whom it is recommended, ensuring that staffing and resources are protected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22174/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 445. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been established to fund the implementation of the new cardiac rehabilitation model of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22175/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 458. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the hospitals that have written to the chairperson of the board of the HSE in 2024 to raise concerns about their funding allocation for each of the years 2020 to 2025. [22195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the plans she has to increase bed capacity and resourcing to address overcrowding and pressure on the accident and emergency department at Tallaght University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will take steps to ensure medical card eligibility thresholds are reviewed and adjusted regularly in response to rising social protection payment rates and inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22697/25]

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—...

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.

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...

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...