Results 61-80 of 2,169 for speaker:Marie Sherlock

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 77. To ask the Minister for Health to account for the dramatic drop over the past eight years in breast cancer patients with an identified B5 or C5 receiving surgical intervention within the 20-working day target - with surgery identified as the first treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52489/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: From the Department's hospital productivity dashboard, we know that the specialty that has seen the largest increase in waiting times over the past three years has been breast surgery. From parliamentary questions we have asked, we are aware that for breast cancer patients for whom surgery is the first treatment there is a HSE commitment to treatment within 20 days. Over the past eight...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: For the past two decades we have seen some very significant improvements in cancer care in this country but there is a very real and very well-founded concern now that cancer care outcomes may regress if the current trend in the delays in care continue. We have an excellent framework in terms of the deadlines that have been set down within the NCCP with a 95% target of ten working days for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I very much share the Minister's concern but I know, for example, that there is an MRI scanner in a major hospital for which they cannot get access to the post because there has been a suppressed post. I can talk to her afterwards about this. There is also the reality of the very significant inequality for some women out there. Research published this year by the National Cancer...

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

Marie Sherlock: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to address the significant waiting list for endometriosis care, the understaffing of endometriosis hubs, with 747 women waiting for surgery; the financial supports being considered for women who are forced to travel abroad for essential care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52430/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to reopen the lymphedema clinic in St. James’s Hospital to support patients with this debilitating condition and which is closed over a year (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 191. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the drastic impact that the ending of reason one and reason four for phased dispensing in the recent community pharmacy deal will have on vulnerable older persons and those with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if she is confident that the 4,000 to 4,500 new and refurbished inpatient hospital beds across the country that have been committed to in the programme for Government will be delivered by 2029; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52427/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA funding allocation for the full delivery of phase 4 of the Royal Canal greenway project remains in place and is protected, pending the receipt of full planning permission from An Coimisiún Pleanála. [52812/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will commence works immediately on phase 4 of the Royal Canal greenway project upon receipt of planning permission from An Coimisiún Pleanála. [52813/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes he plans to make to the Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 that will allow medical charities operating GP practices to continue on a sustainable basis without recourse to emergency funding streams from the HSE. [52789/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of each primary and post-primary school that has been granted DEIS band 1 and DEIS band 2 status, respectively, in every year from 2019 to 2025; and the number of SNAs per school, in each of the years 2019 to 2025. [52810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has received no additional SNA support since becoming a DEIS school in 2019. [52811/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord in receipt of HAP from a local authority in respect of a tenant, must inform that local authority when there is a change to the rent or to any other associated costs. [52790/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be made available to local authorities for the provision of additional dog wardens in 2026, given the impact that dog fouling has on children, wheelchair users and people who are vision impaired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52848/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 385. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of an application by thalidomide sufferers to a foundation (details supplied); when she expects that the applications will be processed and payments made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52734/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Reports (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 394. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to implement the recommendations of the 2024 PLACES report commissioned by her Department on pregnancy loss. [52791/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 396. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how the NCS IT system was able to process applications in respect of school-going age for 41 hours per week. [52806/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 397. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions taken by her Department on foot of the fault in the NCS IT system; the resources allocated to the follow-up inspection; and the number of services inspected as part of this investigation. [52807/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 398. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason parents have to renew their NCS eligibility every eight weeks; and the plans she has to lengthen this period. [52808/25]