Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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225. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which ongoing investigation and research continues to take place into diabetes in Ireland; if specific initiatives are in mind to address this health issue in the short to medium term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6283/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to reply directly to the Deputy in this regard.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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226. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which funding towards research into diabetes and the means to control the disease in Ireland remains available; his plans for particular initiatives in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6284/21]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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227. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which research and innovation is applied within the health services to diabetes with particular reference to public information and prevention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6285/21]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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228. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department continues to examine the threat of diabetes throughout Ireland with particular reference to the need to check its progress and address the most salient issues arising from such investigation; his plans for the future in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6286/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 226, 227 and 228 together.

As the issues raised are of an operational matter, I have asked the HSE to reply directly to the Deputy in this regard.