Written answers

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Department of Health

Gender Recognition

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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555. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 1 February 2024, if he believes that transgender patients are allowed to choose to access care under models of care other than that of the National Gender Service. [7655/24]

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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556. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 1 February 2024, if the National Gender Service can explain exactly how the assessment quality can be compromised by being virtual, and if they have ever offered virtual assessments. [7656/24]

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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558. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 366 of 1 February 2024, if thromboembolic and liver disease are not a risk of elevated testosterone levels, how has this information persisted across all four versions of the National Gender Service’s Endocrinology NCHD Induction document. [7658/24]

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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559. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 1 February 2024, if hormone concentrations can guide treatment decisions and the reason the NGS recommend GPs not to monitor them. [7659/24]

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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561. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 1 February 2024, the details of the National Gender Service’s outstanding business cases and the calculations that demonstrate these will reduce the waiting list to months. [7661/24]

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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562. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 1 February 2024, if any patient of the National Gender Service has ever been turned away due to their lack of employment and its impact on their occupational functioning. [7662/24]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 555, 556, 558, 559, 561 and 562 together.

As this is a service matter I have referred the question to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

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