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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made by his Department to prioritise improvements in farmer mental health and well-being supports, in particular supports for rural mental health programmes, recognising the unique challenges faced by those in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13798/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: What efforts are being made by the Minister's Department to prioritise improvements in farmers' mental health and well-being supports, in particular supports for rural mental health programmes, recognising the unique challenges faced by those in the sector, and will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: A recent study - and there have been a number of them - by agri-mental health group Farming Minds in UCD found that 23.4% of farmers are considered at risk of suicide, 50% of farmers are currently experiencing moderate to extremely severe depression and almost 40% of farmers are experiencing moderate to extremely severe anxiety and stress. That report and other reports have been produced...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: It is important to highlight this issue, as I said, with the farming organisations but also to work with other groups in rural areas. There was a time when if you were, say, a dairy farmer, you went to the creamery and you met others at IFA meetings, Macra meetings or ICMSA meetings. However, a lot of meetings now are held on Zoom so there is not the same social contact. That is why it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: I raise the number of dental training places that are available in the universities in Ireland. It has not increased in the past 25 years, yet the population has increased by 1.5 million. The number of dentists taking part in the dental treatment services scheme has reduced from 1,492 to 810, which means 682 fewer dentists are available under the scheme. There is an urgent need to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the volume of nicotine pouch sales recorded in the off-trade, by volume, and monetary value in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16146/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to alleviate the pressure that pharmacist staff at the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit (CPU) are working under because of resource challenges; the total current personnel numbers for the CPU (including whole-time equivalent data) and comparative data for March 2024 and March 2023; the plans that exist to address resource challenges; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 315. To ask the Minister for Health the number of businesses offering sunbeds according to the HSE National Environmental Health Service in each of the years 2014 to 2025, in tabular form. [16137/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 316. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, including the geographical breakdown, of each of the businesses offering sunbeds who notified the HSE Environmental Health Service, based on the latest available data. [16138/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 317. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who attended a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic nationally; including the number who were offered an appointment within the recommended timeframe, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025 to date, respectively, in tabular form. [16139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 318. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who received a cancer diagnosis via a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025, respectively, in tabular form. [16140/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if State supports for those looking to quit nicotine inhaling products, such as e-cigarettes and vapes are being considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16141/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports for travel expenses, and other related costs, available to patients, or their travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 321. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the circumstances where air or sea travel fares are covered for patients, or a travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16143/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 0 to 24 years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 25 plus years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 334. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the "pause" of mesh for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence that has been in place since July 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16230/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the pause on mid-urethral sling surgery has not been lifted even though national guidelines which were commissioned, endorsed and published by the HSE in January 2023, recommend that all women who need surgery for stress urinary incontinence should be offered this as an option alongside all other appropriate surgical operations; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if the 19 recommendations made by the chief medical officer in his 2018 report "The use of Uro-Gynaecological mesh in surgical procedures" have been addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16232/25]