Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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1524. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive can account for the recent diminution of services offered at the Broadford primary care centre, County Clare; his plans to reinstate services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63489/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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1525. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting time for those seeking transgender health care (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that just to be first seen is now a waiting time of over two and a half years; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that according to a study carried out, this kind of waiting time is actively dangerous, considering the rates of both suicidal ideation and attempts among pretransition trans people; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients are forced to answer invasive questions regarding their sexuality, including various sex acts they have engaged in, the number of partners they have been with and the genders of these partners; his views on whether such questions are of zero clinical necessity; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients have reportedly been refused treatment on the basis of them being autistic or having ADHD. [63493/21]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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1526. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development by the HSE of a well-governed and patient-centred healthcare service for adults and children in the transgender community, in line with the Programme for Government; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being faced by persons on the matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63494/21]

Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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1530. To ask the Minister for Health the improvements his Department is making in the area of healthcare for trans persons; his views on whether the current waiting time of over two and a half years to be first seen is unacceptable; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this has declined further during the Covid-19 pandemic; his views on the immense negative impact this is having on the mental health of pre transition trans persons given the rates of both suicidal ideation and attempts in this group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63499/21]

Frank Feighan (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1525, 1526 and 1530 together.

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