• Primary Care Services
  1952.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care autism assessment team in south Tipperary; whether the team is functioning at present; how many staff are on the team; and...
• Health Service Executive
  1953.To ask the Minister for Health to clarify a tax issue for HSE workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32615/24]
• Health Services
  1954.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding the free HIV rapid testing and PrEP to within higher education institutes, ensuring students access to such services on campus;...
• Dental Services
  1957.To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the treatment available for medical card holders who require extensive and urgent dental treatment beyond that which can be provided by a...
• Nursing Homes
  1958.To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken in relation to a nursing home (details supplied). [30889/24]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  1959.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the implications of circular 24/2022 from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on retired...
• Dental Services
  1960.To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthodontists currently servicing the waiting list in Clare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30907/24]
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  1963.To ask the Minister for Health how the decision to reduce the reimbursement rate for cataract surgery from €1,928 to €863, through the cross-Border healthcare scheme aligns...
• Hospital Services
  1964.To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the €19 million that was spent by Children's Health Ireland's chiefs; the way this occurred without his knowledge, permission and or...
• Hospital Facilities
  1965.To ask the Minister for Health if construction has started on the development of a helipad in Cork University Hospital; if he will provide a report on the progress of same; and if he will...
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  1966.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the maximum rebate under the cross-Border scheme has been reduced from €1,928 reimbursement to €863; and if he will make a statement...
• Primary Care Centres
  1967.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the delivery of a primary care centre for Blarney, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30928/24]
• Hospital Staff
  1969.To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendation of the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery that clinical nurse specialists in infection prevention and control would continue...
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  1970.To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the reduction in funding for patients getting cross-Border cataract surgery which has been halved from €1,928 to €863 from 1...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1972.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting cataract removal procedures to be carried out in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30943/24]
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  1973.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the decision has been taken that from 1 July 2024 to reduce the subsidy available from the reimbursement subsidy available for a cataract procedure...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  1975.To ask the Minister for Health the details of the waiting list times for cataract removal surgery with the HSE, in tabular form. [30946/24]
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  1976.To ask the Minister for Health the details of how patients from Ireland availed of cataract removal surgery under the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme. [30947/24]
• Nursing Homes
  1978.To ask the Minister for Health if the review sought by a person (details supplied) for the fair deal support for their spouse who has been a resident of a nursing home for an excess of 12...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  1979.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person was forced to wait for a health service in Carlow (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30965/24]
• Health Services
  1980.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30967/24]
• Hospital Staff
  1981.To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions regarding the recommendation of the expert review group that the clinical nurse manager 2 scale would have an additional point on the...
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  1982.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the reimbursement of €1,928 for cataract surgery under the cross-Border directive has been reduced by the HSE to €863 (details...
• Hospital Staff
  1983.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the additional further scale point and long-service increment applied to the clinical nurse manager 2 grade was not applied to the clinical...
• Dental Services
  1984.To ask the Minister for Health if an agreement has been reached with dentists with a view to providing dental services for medical card holders as currently many people on low incomes are...
• Health Services Staff
  1986.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays in payments for CNS and CMS nurses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30982/24]
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  1987.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30983/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  1989.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an overview of funding and capital works that have been approved and delivered in Cork since the Government was formed in 2020; and if he...
• Health Services Staff
  1990.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the special needs dentist who was operating out of Nenagh Hospital has recently left their position and has not been replaced; if the HSE...
• Dental Services
  1991.To ask the Minister for Health if guidance will be provided by the HSE to parents living in the catchment area of Nenagh Hospital who have children with special needs, regarding what they...
• Health Services Staff
  1992.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 408 to 412 of 2 July 2024, and the responses received from the HSE for same, which repeatedly stated that it is at local...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  1996.To ask the Minister for Health if a marriage appointment for a couple can be expedited (details supplied). [31010/24]
• Cancer Services
  1997.To ask the Minister for Health if a plan is in place to ensure the HSE is equipped to administer radioligand therapy treatments for cancer by investing in the infrastructure, the highly...
• Healthcare Policy
  1998.To ask the Minister for Health the measures that were taken to communicate changes in the reimbursement rate for cataract surgery from €1,928 to €863 to patients (details...
• Health Services Staff
  1999.To ask the Minister for Health when the clinical nurse manager 2 salary scale will be extended by the addition of one further scale point and the introduction of a long-service increment, as...
• Nursing Homes
  2000.To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent to date on overall costs since it took statutory control of a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
• Abortion Services
  2001.To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Act 2024 will be commenced in full; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2002.To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of an extended wait for a hospital bed for a person (details supplied) needing surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2003.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an angiogram; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31025/24]
• Medicinal Products
  2004.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the procurement of pharmaceuticals from a supplier (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31028/24]
• Hospital Equipment
  2005.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 27 June 2024, when he will lift staffing and recruitment constraints in order that all DEXA scanners will be made...
• Medical Cards
  2006.To ask the Minister for Health if an organisational medical card, rather than an individual medical card, can be provided for registered charities supporting victims of domestic violence, so...
• Patient Transfers
  2008.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be discharged from Letterkenny University Hospital to a long-term care facility in County Donegal; the reason for the...
• General Practitioner Services
  2009.To ask the Minister for Health if GPs can avail of a maternity leave subsidy scheme from their employers; if this formed part of the GP agreement between his Department and the HSE; when...
• Health Services
  2012.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 397 of 2 July 2024, what were the data points captured in the audits which have been performed thus far by the National...
• Gender Recognition
  2015.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 2 July 2024, if the National Gender Service can detail what it means by gender stability, and what level of...
• Health Services Staff
  2017.To ask the Minister for Health the reason clinical nurse, midwife specialists are no longer aligned with CNM2, after 24 years of alignment, following the Expert Review Body on Nursing and...
• Wage-setting Mechanisms
  2019.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the expert body review on pay scales (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31075/24]
• Health Services
  2020.To ask the Minister for Health if additional respite will be sanctioned for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31079/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2021.To ask the Minister for Health if he will align the wages for clinical nurse specialists and clinical nurse managers 2, given they are vital in the development of Sláintecare. [31085/24]
• Community Care
  2022.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1804 of 17 January 2024, the total bed capacity of a community nursing unit in Carraroe (details supplied); the number of...
• Health Services Staff
  2024.To ask the Minister for Health the details of his engagement with the Community Healthcare West with regard to the impact of the HSE recruitment embargo on the filling of vacant posts in a...
• Covid-19 Tests
  2025.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reinstatement of HSE PCR testing (details supplied); if his Department will ensure that persons receive access to free and accurate PCR...
• Medicinal Products
  2026.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 28 June 2024, the reason VSL3 sachets are no longer covered under the medical card scheme given they were covered...
• Health Services Staff
  2027.To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised by a clinical nurse specialist (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31097/24]
• Health Services
  2029.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has cut its €1,928 reimbursement to patients undergoing cross-border cataract surgery to €863; if the HSé will reverse...
• Primary Care Centres
  2030.To ask the Minister for Health when the Westfield integrated care centre in Ballincollig, Cork, will be fully operational. [31122/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2031.To ask the Minister for Health if he will continue to align the salaries of clinical nurse-midwife specialists and clinical nurse managers 2; if he will urgently ensure the addition of one...
• Health Services
  2032.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 23 May 2024, if the National Gender Service is aware that the mentioned systematic review's methodology has been...
• Abortion Services
  2036.To ask the Minister for Health when the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Act 2023 will commence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• Hospital Staff
  2037.To ask the Minister for Health if his Department have considered extending the clinical nurse manager 2 salary scale by an addition of one further scale point and the introduction of a...
• Primary Care Centres
  2038.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 5 October 2023, if he will provide an update on the provision for a new primary care centre in Rathdowney, County...
• Hospital Equipment
  2039.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the replacement grant for an MRI machine in Monaghan General Hospital was not granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31164/24]
• Health Services
  2040.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the menopause outreach clinic in Cavan General Hospital; when he expects this clinic to be open; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Dental Services
  2041.To ask the Minister for Health if an orthodontic assessment for a person can be rescheduled (details supplied). [31196/24]
• Disability Services
  2042.To ask the Minister for Health the number and exact wait times of children and adolescents waiting less than 12 months and in excess of 12 months for the north Lee, south Lee, north Cork,...
• Mental Health Services
  2045.To ask the Minister for Health the reasons the north Lee child and adolescent primary care psychology services have had a 28-fold increase in waiting list numbers between December 2020 and...
• Health Services Staff
  2047.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery recommended that the CNM2 salary scale would be extended by the addition of one further...
• Medical Cards
  2050.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of equalising medical card thresholds with GP card thresholds, in tabular form; and the number of people to which this would relate, in each...
• Hospital Staff
  2051.To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to introduce a long-service increment to the salary scale of clinical nurse specialists who have had their salaries linked to the...
• Health Services
  2052.To ask the Minister for Health if he will further consider funding for an organisation based in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31253/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2053.To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns relating to the alignment of pay for clinical nurse-midwife specialists within the health service (details supplied); and if he will make a...
• Medicinal Products
  2057.To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce the existing cap of €80 per month for the drug payment scheme in budget 2025. [31259/24]
• Qualifications Recognition
  2058.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the designation of the professional title of counsellor; to report on his engagement with CORU on same; his views on the prevalence of rogue...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2059.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a first appointment; the length of time they have been waiting to see an audiologist in CHO 2, in tabular form;...
• Primary Care Centres
  2061.To ask the Minister for Health the status of a tender process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31302/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2063.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 643 of 3 October 2023, if the further correspondence received from a person (details supplied) can be reviewed and moneys...
• Health Services Staff
  2064.To ask the Minister for Health to provide a timeline for the publication of the HSE’s workforce plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31310/24]
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2065.To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31317/24]
• Departmental Legal Cases
  2067.To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal cases taken by his Department, or by agencies or bodies under his Department’s aegis, against another Department, Government agency...
• Hospital Staff
  2068.To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department and the Health Service Executive have separated the pay of clinical nurse specialist from the clinical nurse manager 2 pay scale, as...
• Medicinal Products
  2069.To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a patient (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31379/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2070.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31382/24]
• Health Services
  2073.To ask the Minister for Health if a partial discharge can be facilitated to allow sale of land to proceed and the full principal amount to be paid in the case of a person (details supplied);...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2074.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment can be expedited for a person (details supplied) or if this person can be accommodated through the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [31392/24]
• Health Services
  2075.To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the geographical assignments for public health nurses in the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal; and to provide a comparative of...
• Disability Services
  2076.To ask the Minister for Health the number of functional vision assessments completed on blind or vision-impaired students at primary and post-primary level, in the past three years, in...
• Hospital Staff
  2077.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in intensive care medicine based at Mullingar Regional Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31418/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2078.To ask the Minister for Health the areas that currently do not have access to early intervention psychosis services within the State, in tabular form. [31419/24]
• Health Services
  2079.To ask the Minister for Health for details, for all CHOs, by region, of the number of respite beds available for older persons, adults with disabilities and children with disabilities, in...
• Home Care Packages
  2084.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on intensive homecare package waiting lists in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31448/24]
• Health Services
  2085.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider funding for an increase in fees to community optometrists and for a national public eye care programme for patients over the age of eight...
• Hospital Services
  2086.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide detail on the operational hours of the pharmacy at University Hospital Limerick; if during all operational hours it is staffed by qualified...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2087.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a child (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31488/24]
• Disability Services
  2088.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a replacement hearing aid for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31527/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2089.To ask the Minister for Health his views on a policy matter raised by a constituent regarding compensation for clinical nurse specialists (details supplied); his plans to seek the...
• Health Services
  2090.To ask the Minister for Health the projected timeframe for the completion of works on a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31546/24]
• Medicinal Products
  2091.To ask the Minister for Health the availability status of the medicine romosozumab given that its reimbursement was announced by the HSE’s chief clinical officer on 6 February 2024...
• Health Service Executive
  2094.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the recruitment of staff for the pricing and reimbursement system; how many of the 34 roles announced have been filled; how many have been...
• Dental Services
  2095.To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists working in the school dental scheme in Laois and Offaly; the progress being made to improve the scheme; and if he will make a statement...
• Care Services
  2097.To ask the Minister for Health the plans to provide a new day care centre at Abbeyleix hospital, including timelines for construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31566/24]
• Departmental Schemes
  2098.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the reimbursement amount for cataract surgery under the cross-border treatment scheme has been reduced from €1,928 to €863; the person...
• Care Services
  2099.To ask the Minister for Health the plans for the interRAI care needs facilitator placements advertised and interviewed for in 2023, as part of the Sláintecare initiative (details...
• Hospital Staff
  2100.To ask the Minister for Health the reason clinical nurse specialists in infection prevention and control in CHI at Crumlin are not included in the recommendation by the expert review body on...
• Health Services Staff
  2101.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists, per grade, employed by the HSE based in County Wicklow in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31580/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2102.To ask the Minister for Health the capital works projects that were carried out at Naas General Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024; the estimated cost for each capital works project; and...
• Hospital Services
  2103.To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in improving access to urgent and emergency care, including critical care and trauma services, since 1 January 2022; the additional funding...
• Home Help Service
  2104.To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE paid each external company that provided home help services to clients on behalf of the HSE within CHO 9 in 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
• Hospital Staff
  2105.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant dermatologists attached to St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31584/24]
• Departmental Schemes
  2106.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons from Kildare who have availed of the cross-border directive scheme refund for cardiology procedures in 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
• Mental Health Services
  2107.To ask the Minister for Health if mental health services will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31599/24]
• Home Care Packages
  2108.To ask the Minister for Health if the current home care package for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can be increased to include weekends; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  2109.To ask the Minister for Health if his Department considered measures to procure some supplies for the 2024-25 winter flu season, following the National Immunisation Advisory...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2110.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a person’s (details supplied) wait for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31610/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2111.To ask the Minister for Health when a consultant dermatologist will be appointed to Letterkenny University Hospital; when weekly dermatology clinics will recommence; and if he will make a...
• Care of the Elderly
  2112.To ask the Minister for Health the Alzheimer’s disease services available in the CHO 7 area, and specifically in Dublin South-West. [31617/24]
• Primary Care Services
  2113.To ask the Minister for Health what new primary care provision has been made in CH07 since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31618/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2114.To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE recruitment freeze will be lifted, and specifically in the area of community and public health nursing; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Mental Health Services
  2116.To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists per grade and per LHO, and the population size they serve, employed in the CHO 4 child and adolescent mental health services, in...
• Health Services Staff
  2117.To ask the Minister for Health if the disciplines of occupational therapy, nursing and social work will also have a regional director appointed to them in the South-West Regional Health Area...
• Primary Care Centres
  2118.To ask the Minister for Health when the new primary care centre at a location (details supplied) will be opened; the WTE staff by job title that will be based at the new centre, in tabular...
• Ministerial Responsibilities
  2119.To ask the Minister for Health if he has spoken with the new UK health secretary. [31642/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2120.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE optometrist and orthoptist based at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form [31643/24]
• Health Services
  2122.To ask the Minister for Health if approval has been given for the recommendations outlined on the publication of the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery in relation to CNM2 and...
• Health Services Staff
  2124.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the full complement of therapists, public health nurses, and so on, that make up the health staff in Curlew Road health centre; the number of health...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2127.To ask the Minister for Health the capital works projects that were carried out at Nenagh General Hospital in 2023 and to-date in 2024; The nature of the capital works projects carried out...
• Health Services
  2128.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details suppled); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31698/24]
• Ambulance Service
  2130.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned ambulance base in Recess in Connemara, which has already received planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Healthcare Policy
  2131.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the committee being formed to review and inform the development of a national diabetes strategy; the terms of reference the...
• Health Services
  2133.To ask the Minister for Health the reason Huntington’s disease and other neurological conditions do not come under the standard operating procedure in CHO4 (details supplied); and if...
• Addiction Treatment Services
  2134.To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated in Budget 2025 for the urgent upgrade and renovation of an addiction treatment centre (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
• Nursing Homes
  2135.To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE nursing homes that have been treated for legionella in the past; if residents were allowed to remain in-situ in any of these cases while...
• Health Services
  2136.To ask the Minister for Health the absolute number of people who completed the quit smoking cessation programme in each of the years 2011 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  2138.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who received the HPV vaccination by 31 December 2023 under the Laura Brennan HPV vaccination catch-up programme; and if he will make a...
• Health Services Staff
  2140.To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent (WTE)-trained colonoscopy staff required to meet colonoscopy target waiting times at the end of each of the years 2014 to...
• Cancer Services
  2144.To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of patients seen within national cancer control programme target surgery timeframes for breast cancer nationally and in each designated cancer...
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  2149.To ask the Minister for Health if a review of the cross-Border agreement is under way regarding cancer and cardiac care with a hospital (details supplied); and the approximate date by which...
• Food Safety
  2151.To ask the Minister for Health the actions the Food Safety Authority of Ireland has taken over the past two years in relation to operations at a company (details supplied) in light of the...
• Disease Management
  2152.To ask the Minister for Health if asthma will be added to the list of long-term illnesses covered by the long-term illness scheme and make persons with asthma eligible for a medical or GP...
• Health Services Staff
  2153.To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for the recruitment of an additional WTE advanced nurse practitioner in paediatric diabetes and an additional WTE advanced nurse...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2155.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged under 18 currently waiting on audiometry tests in CHO9. [31763/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2156.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental nurses, hygienists and dentists based at the dental clinic at St. Conal's Hospital, Letterkenny in 2023 and to date in 2024; and if...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2160.To ask the Minister for Health the average patient waiting time for arrival at the emergency department at Kerry General Hospital to admission for the first six months of 2024 for the cohort...
• Mental Health Services
  2161.To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO3 that have a mental health day centre onsite; and the capacity of each of these day centres, in tabular form. [31769/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2162.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE maternity sonographers working in Cavan General Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31770/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2163.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people employed through HSE in cognitive behavioural therapy in Tipperary. [31771/24]
• Health Services
  2170.To ask the Minister for Health the number of hoists currently in use within the radiology department of Beaumont Hospital. [31778/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2172.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for Jigsaw in CHO7. [31780/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2173.To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources and personnel that will be provided to Wexford General Hospital in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [31781/24]
• Health Services
  2174.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of funding allocated to drug addiction services in County Roscommon in 2023, in tabular form. [31782/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2175.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a CT scan and MRI scan at Naas General Hospital. [31783/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2176.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant endocrinologists based at Tallaght University Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31784/24]
• Care of the Elderly
  2177.To ask the Minister for Health the number of day centres for older persons in County Leitrim funded by the HSE in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the capacity of each of these day centres, in...
• Health Services
  2178.To ask the Minister for Health the number of family planning centres in Limerick city contracted to provide State-funded services only in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31786/24]
• Departmental Budgets
  2179.To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation for Louth County Hospital in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [31787/24]
• Hospital Staff
  2180.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric cardiology registrars based at CHI Crumlin in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31788/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2181.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in Wicklow currently awaiting an appointment for ophthalmology, by waiting times, in tabular form. [31789/24]
• Hospital Equipment
  2182.To ask the Minister for Health the number of ultrasound machines at Sligo University Hospital in 2020 and 2024, in tabular form. [31790/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2183.To ask the Minister for Health the CAMHS staffing levels, as set out in Sharing the Vision, in each of the teams in CHO 6 and CHO 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31805/24]
• Health Services
  2184.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 620 of 8 May 2024, the number of adverse events there have been per year in the national gender service, broken down by...
• Hospital Staff
  2187.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the salary scale for clinical placement co-ordinators is not fully aligned with that of the clinical nurse manager 2 regarding the long-service...
• Medical Cards
  2188.To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the current process in place for reimbursement of blood test costs for medical card holders; if he will consider an information campaign via...
• Disease Management
  2191.To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be ring-fenced in budget 2025 for patients living with epidermolysis bullosa ED in order that they can access vital care that adapts to their...
• Hospital Staff
  2192.To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase funding for the clinical psychologist service based in St. James’s Hospital from 0.25 to 0.5 WTE allowing for a dedicated EB...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2194.To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Kerry (details supplied) will get a date for an appointment in the South Infirmary Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2195.To ask the Minister for Health when the 98 new acute beds for delivery over three years for University Hospital Waterford, announced in May 2024, will be delivered; a project timeline for...
• Hospital Services
  2202.To ask the Minister for Health when cardiac care services at University Hospital Waterford will move to 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week, now that recruitment of the necessary staff can...
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  2203.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE has reduced the amount to be reimbursed to people who have cataracts removed under the cross-Border scheme from €1,928 to...
• Health Services
  2204.To ask the Minister for Health when the national review of cardiac services report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31870/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2205.To ask the Minister for Health if there will be adequate and sustained funding to restore hospital-based cardiac rehab (CR) staffing to at least a minimal level, to include the...
• Health Services
  2206.To ask the Minister for Health in the absence of a current cardiovascular health strategy, how cardiac rehab will be supported by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Abortion Services
  2207.To ask the Minister for Health the number and severity scale of all adverse events reported to the HSE related to termination of pregnancy from January 2019 to May 2024, in tabular form; and...
• Health Services
  2209.To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay; the prioritisation that has been given to the child; and if he will make...
• Prescriptions Charges
  2210.To ask the Minister for Health if fenfluramine is covered by the HSE for reimbursement for the treatment of Dravet’s syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31912/24]
• Health Services
  2212.To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with the ongoing purchase of a product. [31914/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2213.To ask the Minister for Health the vacant posts currently existing in each hospital in the south and south west areas due to the HSE recruitment ban; and the timelines to fill those...
• Dental Services
  2215.To ask the Minister for Health if he has sanctioned a scheme for children on orthodontic waiting lists to see private practitioners for treatment; the categories of orthodontic treatment to...
• Health Services
  2216.To ask the Minister for Health if a scan appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31919/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2217.To ask the Minister for Health if he remains assured that no healthcare workers, public or private, are in any way exploited by way of low pay or other working conditions; and if he will...
• Health Services
  2218.To ask the Minister for Health the financial assistance available to a person (details supplied) towards the work of a club; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31934/24]
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  2220.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for reducing the level of reimbursement (details supplied) for Irish citizens travelling to Northern Ireland for cataract operations; and if he will...
• Health Services
  2221.To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent examination will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [31964/24]
• Gender Recognition
  2222.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 18 June 2024, if the National Gender Service can clarify at exactly what stage the business case has progressed...
• Hospital Admissions
  2231.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have attended the urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31986/24]
• Health Services
  2232.To ask the Minister for Health the future plans in place to increase bed capacity and resources for respite services in Wicklow. [31987/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2233.To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure significant investment into local public health nurses (details supplied); if he is aware of the negative impacts that staffing issues have...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2234.To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for all capital projects in Galway since 2020, broken down by the location, details of projects and final cost, in tabular form; and if he...
• Health Services
  2235.To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to enable the out-of-hours GP services in Galway since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32029/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2236.To ask the Minister for Health when clinical placement co-ordinators for nursing and midwifery will be given parity with clinical nurse manager grade 2 by giving them a long service...
• General Practitioner Services
  2238.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 26 June 2024, to specify the GPs with vasectomy contracts to provide services to medical card patients in CHO4;...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2239.To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32095/24]
• Hospital Investigations
  2240.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 624 of 16 April 2024, if he or his officials have met with a group (details supplied); if so, the outcome of that...
• Hospital Deaths
  2241.To ask the Minister for Health the neonatal mortality rate and number of deaths for each year 2014-2024, nationwide and for each region and each hospital, in tabular form. [32102/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2242.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the CAMHS waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32124/24]
• Health Services
  2243.To ask the Minister for Health the average cost to the Government for HSE occupational therapy intervention per child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32125/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2244.To ask the Minister for Health the average cost to the Government for CAMHS intervention per child and cost to train parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32126/24]
• Health Services
  2245.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the Government to pay for private occupational or psychology services to reduce waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Suicide Incidence
  2246.To ask the Minister for Health the number of suicides in Ireland up to the age of 18 years in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32128/24]
• Gender Recognition
  2247.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 820 of 11 June 2024, the oestradiol and testosterone serum concentrations that are targeted for trans men and women by...
• Health Services
  2248.To ask the Minister for Health to include in the estimates and service plan for the health services for the coming year the appointment of a post (details supplied); and if he will make a...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2249.To ask the Minister for Health the cost per child to have them on a waiting list for occupational therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32142/24]
• Healthcare Policy
  2251.To ask the Minister for Health if the cost of a sleep apnoea machine is covered under the drugs payment scheme; the amount that is refunded, monthly, for this machine; the process for...
• Health Services
  2252.To ask the Minister for Health the number of activities carried out under a heading in the midlands region in 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32149/24]
• Hospital Services
  2254.To ask the Minister for Health the new or expanded services being provided in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2023 and to date in 2024, within the healthcare system in hospitals. [32174/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2255.To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to fill vacancies in primary care in counties Cavan and Monaghan for children who are waiting for occupational therapy, speech and...
• Hospital Facilities
  2256.To ask the Minister for Health the services, staffing and extra beds introduced to Monaghan Hospital in the past 16 months; his plans to enhance services further in the future at Monaghan...
• Health Services Staff
  2257.To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of the public health nurses operating in the relevant areas in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the locations in which there are vacancies at...
• Emergency Departments
  2258.To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department attendances at Cavan General Hospital in the years 2013 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
• Health Services
  2259.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of menopause services; the number of clinics available through the public health service; the contact details for each menopause...
• Hospital Admissions
  2260.To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendances to the minor injury unit in Monaghan Hospital, per month, from 2021 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make...
• Dental Services
  2261.To ask the Minister for Health if the national school dental service has ceased in counties Cavan and Monaghan; how children left untreated can access these services; and if he will make a...
• Health Services
  2262.To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied); the timeline for same; the services that will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32182/24]
• Cancer Services
  2264.To ask the Minister for Health if the ages for cancer screening are being reviewed by his Department for breast and bowel cancer; if his Department will lower the age of same; and if he will...
• Health Services Staff
  2265.To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time midwives working in the maternity department of Cavan General Hospital in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will...
• General Practitioner Services
  2266.To ask the Minister for Health the services provided by NEDOC; the hours the service is provided in Cavan and Monaghan; the enhancements this service received in the past year; and if he...
• Ambulance Service
  2267.To ask the Minister for Health the response times for ambulances in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the steps his Department has taken to increase ambulances, EMTs and paramedics in Cavan and...
• Healthcare Policy
  2268.To ask the Minister for Health the date he is working towards, to introduce legislation concerning safeguard proposals relating to deprivation of liberty; and if he will make a statement on...
• Cross-Border Co-operation
  2269.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a reduction of the reimbursement amount for cataract removal surgery from €1,928 to €863 despite no change in the cost of such a...
• Healthcare Policy
  2270.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that could have benefitted from access to ravulizumab if positive reimbursement recommendations had been issued by the HSE for the...
• Health Service Executive
  2272.To ask the Minister for Health for data on the headcount within HSE’s corporate pharmaceutical unit, the HSE’s drugs group and the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, in...
• Prescriptions Charges
  2273.To ask the Minister for Health when the planned application tracker on the HSE’s website, which details when a reimbursement application for a medicine is received and whether the...
• Health Service Executive
  2275.To ask the Minister for Health the medicine reimbursement decisions taken by the HSE Drugs Group and Executive Management team, for the years 2021 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2277.To ask the Minister for Health how many children in south Tipperary are waiting for ophthalmology services; and when children will be called for their appointments. [32248/24]
• Health Services
  2278.To ask the Minister for Health how many people have now been provided with individual health identifier numbers in accordance with the Health Identifiers Act 2014; and if he will make a...
• Hospice Services
  2279.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a level 3 hospice in Tullamore (details supplied). [32250/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2280.To ask the Minister for Health the reason clinical nurse midwife specialists have not received the long service increment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32255/24]
• General Practitioner Services
  2282.To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a person (details supplied) cannot avail of an MRI scan under the GP access to diagnostics scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Health Services
  2284.To ask the Minister for Health when a HSE report on the death of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be completed; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on...
• Health Services Staff
  2285.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric dermatologist consultants based at CHI Crumlin in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [32288/24]
• Hospital Facilities
  2286.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs, including staffing, required to increase the number of critical care beds nationwide to 405. [32289/24]
• Health Services
  2287.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons within CHO8 on a waiting list for podiatry services. [32290/24]
• Primary Care Centres
  2290.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the primary health centre at Boot Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, including an update on services currently operating; when full services are...
• Health Services Staff
  2291.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on recruitment for staff vacancies in the primary health centre, Boot Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, to include a breakdown of posts filled and...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2292.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in Cork; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Health Service Executive
  2294.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Urgent and Emergency Care Plan (2024-2026), which is to replace HSE Annual Winter Plans; the timeline for approval by the HSE Board and...
• Legislative Measures
  2297.To ask the Minister for Health if he will progress amendments to the Dentists Act 1985, which an organisation has urgently requested (details supplied); if so, the timeline for same; and if...
• Health Strategies
  2298.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation plan for Smile Agus Sláinte, the National Oral Health Policy published in 2019; the timeline for publication of this...
• Legislative Process
  2299.To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not commenced the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Act 2024; the timeline for same; and if he will make a...
• Health Services Staff
  2300.To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which clinical nurse specialists’ (CNS) and clinical midwife specialists’ (CMS) pay was linked; if he intends to adjust CNS...
• Dental Services
  2301.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in second and sixth classes waiting to be targeted under the school dental programme for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2302.To ask the Minister for Health the HSE’s plans for a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32389/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2304.To ask the Minister for Health the reason plans to establish a CAMHS service at Ashbourne primary care centre have stalled; if he will provide an update on plans for a CAMHS service in...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2305.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32397/24]
• Departmental Data
  2306.To ask the Minister for Health the number of maternal deaths for each of the past ten years; and the level of investment made to reduce the number of maternal deaths, for each of the past...
• Medical Cards
  2307.To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the medical card income limits and criteria for discretionary medical cards. [32444/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2308.To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list times for orthopaedic surgery in CHO8, in tabular form. [32445/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2311.To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff vacancies at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, in tabular form. [32449/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2312.To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date plans for the future use of St. Vincent’s Hospital, Athlone. [32450/24]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2315.To ask the Minister for Health to instruct the HSE to develop and launch the necessarily high-profile and wide public-information campaign, explaining how the best way to avoid long-Covid is...
• Healthcare Policy
  2317.To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to raise the age for mammograms above 69 years, as part of the BreastCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32475/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2318.To ask the Minister for Health if he can clarify plans for a disused HSE clinic (details supplied). [32481/24]
• Medical Cards
  2321.To ask the Minister for Health if it is standard practice for a chiropodist to charge a fee for appointments for medical card holders; if so, if he will consider requesting that the fee be...
• Health Services
  2322.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients, and hours provided, for each of the services offered at the HSE health centre in Shannon, County Clare; and if he will make a statement...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2323.To ask the Minister for Health when a person can expect an appointment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32521/24]
• Home Care Packages
  2324.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting homecare support in County Wicklow; the total number of hours allocated in 2023 and to date in 2024 in County Wicklow; the...
• Dental Services
  2326.To ask the Minister for Health the number of independent dental practices that are currently signed up to the dental treatment services scheme in County Wicklow; if he will provide a list of...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2327.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in Wicklow; the average waiting times for appointments, in tabular form; and if he...
• Health Services Staff
  2329.To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult physiotherapists in CHO6 and CHO7 in County Wicklow, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32564/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2333.To ask the Minister for Health the number currently on the waiting list for adult physiotherapy in CHO6 and CHO7, County Wicklow, broken down by length of time, in tabular form; and if he...
• Mental Health Services
  2338.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in County Wicklow; the average waiting time, broken down by length of time, three, six and 12+ months, in...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2339.To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to long-Covid clinics, by county; the average waiting timeframe, broken down by length of time of three, six and 12+ months, in...
• Health Services
  2340.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national newborn bloodspot screening programme; the progress made by the national screening advisory committee to expand the programme; and...
• Nursing Homes
  2341.To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received under the fair deal nursing home support scheme in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the average time for applications to be...
• Health Promotion
  2342.To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department is taking to address the increase in young people vaping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32579/24]
• Health Services
  2343.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a project (details supplied) since its opening in 2023. [32585/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2344.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of hiring an additional 100 speech and language therapists, 100 psychologists, 100 occupational therapists and 100...
• Abortion Services
  2345.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of GPs contracted to provide termination of pregnancy services in the community as of May 2024. [32620/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2346.To ask the Minister for Health when children can expect to be called for appointments (details supplied) once the tendering process is complete for the outsourcing of orthodontal care for...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2347.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting over two years for urgent orthodontal treatment; when they can expect to be called for this treatment;...
• Health Services
  2348.To ask the Minister for Health the number of unfilled occupational therapist posts in CHO6 and CHO7, respectively; and the number of persons waiting to be seen by an occupational therapist...
• Mental Health Services
  2349.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 9 July 2024, if the 42 reports of sexual assaults were reported to the Gardaí; the outcomes of these...
• Health Services
  2351.To ask the Minister for Health the remit of the HSE’s sexual safety task and finish group; if the group will publish what it finds; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Mental Health Services
  2352.To ask the Minister for Health given the recent case where a CAMHS psychiatrist pleaded guilty to sexual assault, whether one of 42 reports of sexual assaults was referenced in the Mental...
• Medicinal Products
  2353.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of investigations at EU level for a drug (details supplied); if there is any such investigation in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
• Health Services Staff
  2355.To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds currently provided in each public and voluntary hospital as of the end of June 2024 or the latest date available, in tabular form;...
• Dental Services
  2357.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting public dental treatment in counties Louth and Meath; and the length of time they are awaiting treatment. [32684/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2360.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists, and the average waiting times they are experiencing, in each outpatient department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital,...
• Primary Care Centres
  2362.To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors employed in a primary care centre (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; and the number of patients...
• Health Services
  2363.To ask the Minister for Health if the respite services in Cahersiveen, County Kerry can be increased, as currently respite services are available at weekends only; and if he will make a...
• Nursing Homes
  2364.To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide the necessary funding to a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32744/24]
• Primary Care Centres
  2365.To ask the Minister for Health the services currently in place at the primary care centre (PCC) in Dromod, County Leitrim; and the plans in place to increase the level of services in the...
• Healthcare Policy
  2366.To ask the Minister for Health if he would consider the implementation of a free menopause scheme, similar to the contraception scheme and the maternity and infant care scheme; and if he...
• Health Services
  2367.To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the allocation of the health budget towards primary care, secondary care and public health, in tabular form. [32769/24]
• Medicinal Products
  2368.To ask the Minister for Health whether all forms of HRT and menopause medication will be covered by the drugs payment scheme; and to provide an update on the inclusion of veoza in the drug...
• Health Services
  2369.To ask the Minister for Health whether payment has been issued to GPs for the treatment of patients aged 30-35 under the contraception scheme; and if not, when it is expected to issue...
• Health Promotion
  2370.To ask the Minister for Health if he would consider regulation around the prevalence of online advertising for alcohol; and if he has engaged with social media and search engine companies in...
• Health Services
  2371.To ask the Minister for Health for an update in regard to the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists; the estimated timeline for the sector to come under the remit of CORU; and if he...
• Dental Services
  2372.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a timeline in regard to providing the Dental Council of Ireland with extended regulatory powers; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Health Services Staff
  2373.To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant community dietitian posts by CHO, in tabular form; and the number for the corresponding period in 2023. [32838/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2381.To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant psychologist posts by CHO, in tabular form; and the number for the corresponding period in 2023. [32846/24]
• Medical Cards
  2382.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons covered by medical cards in each of the years since 2019, including 2024 year-to-date. [32850/24]
• General Practitioner Services
  2383.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons covered by GP visit cards in each of the years since 2019, including 2024 year-to-date. [32851/24]
• Medical Cards
  2384.To ask the Minister for Health if any research has conducted or commissioned into extending eligibility for medical cards, either by age and income limit; if so, to provide a copy of this...
• General Practitioner Services
  2386.To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on the GP visit card scheme in each of the years since 2019, including 2024 year-to-date. [32854/24]
• Legislative Process
  2387.To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for publication of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32855/24]
• Health Services
  2388.To ask the Minister for Health to provide timelines for extending the opening hours of injury units, by unit; the new operating hours in each unit; the reason a unit is to be excluded from...
• Mental Health Services
  2391.To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in addressing the national shortfall of 832 acute psychiatric inpatient beds, as identified by the Specialist Group on Acute...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2392.To ask the Minister for Health the agreed definition of recovery in long-Covid and post-cute Covid clinics; the way in which recovery is measured; if recovery means that patients return to...
• General Practitioner Services
  2395.To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to update GP guidance in respect of recognising current symptoms of Covid and long-Covid, particularly during a significant rise in...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2396.To ask the Minister for Health to provide details regarding the onset of new medical conditions recorded among patients in long-Covid and post-acute clinics, by clinic and year in tabular...
• Public Sector Pay
  2398.To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of providing additional funding to Section 39 organisations to provide pay increases in line with the current public service pay deal; the...
• Health Services Staff
  2399.To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on agency staff in 2023 and 2024 to date across the health service, broken down by staffing type, and to whom the payments were made; the...
• Departmental Schemes
  2400.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32868/24]
• Health Services
  2401.To ask the Minister for Health the projected full year costs of expanding the free contraception scheme to all women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32869/24]
• Departmental Funding
  2402.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2025 of reducing prescription charges to €1 per item with a cap of €10 for all, or to 50 cent per item with a cap of...
• Medical Cards
  2403.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing in 2025 medical cards to all those diagnosed with cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32871/24]
• Home Care Packages
  2406.To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for the Home Support Service in 2024; the number of home care packages funded; the projected additional cost of providing a home care...
• Departmental Programmes
  2408.To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the flu vaccine programme in 2023 and 2024 respectively; the number of doses that are expected to be provided in 2024 and 2025; the number of doses...
• General Practitioner Services
  2409.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing free GP care to all children under 18; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32878/24]
• Departmental Programmes
  2411.To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of providing two doses of the chicken pox varicella vaccine free to all children through the primary or school child immunisation programme;...
• Departmental Schemes
  2413.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of adding asthma to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32882/24]
• Mental Health Policy
  2414.To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding provided for mental health in each of the last two budgets; the detailed breakdown of the status of each of the measures announced; and...
• Health Services Staff
  2415.To ask the Minister for Health the projected costs of fully funding the safe staffing framework; the projected costs of growing the nursing and midwifery workforce by 2,000 WTEs annually for...
• Hospital Facilities
  2419.To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional hospital beds have been delivered in each of 2023 and 2024 to date; the breakdown by type of bed that is, acute, step down and so on;...
• Departmental Expenditure
  2420.To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of delivering 1,500 additional acute beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32889/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2421.To ask the Minister for Health when the last time an audit was completed on the use of St. Loman’s Hospital, Mullingar, to ascertain the parts of the building that are currently in...
• Ambulance Service
  2424.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a site selection for a new ambulance base in Athlone. [32938/24]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2425.To ask the Minister for Health when work will be completed on the 50-bed community nursing unit in Clonbrusk, Athlone (details supplied). [32939/24]
• Hospice Services
  2426.To ask the Minister for Health if all outstanding issues have been resolved with a hospice (details supplied) on its relocation to the satisfaction of the voluntary hospice committee; and if...
• Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
  2427.To ask the Minister for Health further to the recognition of long-Covid supports for a further 12 months for healthcare workers who contracted Covid-19 at the early stages of the pandemic,...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  2428.To ask the Minister for Health when the epidemiological survey approved by the HSE in 2022 to be conducted to provide insight and understanding into the prevalence of long-Covid in Ireland...
• Mental Health Services
  2434.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of establishing and running Ireland’s first mother and baby unit for mothers undergoing mental health issues. [32958/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2435.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 26 June 2024, the number of people for each CHO area who are currently on panels awaiting appointment as...
• Health Services
  2436.To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has to extend the homecare support services to weekends; if he will provide a full-year costing for this; and if he will make a statement on...
• Mental Health Services
  2437.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTEs in perinatal mental health services in the CHO7 area. [32974/24]
• Departmental Schemes
  2438.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the number of dentists enrolled with the dental treatment service scheme, by county, in tabular form. [32975/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2439.To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on a waiting list for home care packages in the CHO 7 area; and how many of those have been waiting more than six months. [32976/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2441.To ask the Minister for Health if, given the HSE recruitment ban has been lifted, he will confirm whether the many vacancies currently filled with agency staff will be advertised for already...
• General Practitioner Services
  2442.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the annual payments since 2020 to providers of community diagnostics under the general practitioner access to community diagnostics scheme;...
• Health Services
  2443.To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33022/24]
• Hospital Procedures
  2444.To ask the Minister for Health what the policy and protocol is regarding do-not-resuscitate orders in UHL and the model 2 hospitals in the mid-west region (Ennis, Nenagh and St. Johns); if...
• Health Services Staff
  2445.To ask the Minister for Health the training that is provided to staff in respect of do-not-resuscitate orders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33024/24]
• Hospital Procedures
  2446.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of do-not-resuscitate orders being offered to patients that are non-compos mentis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33025/24]
• Healthcare Policy
  2449.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of further patients presented to UHL with sepsis since the death of a person (details supplied) who are still not being treated in accordance...
• Mental Health Services
  2450.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of adult psychiatric beds for those with eating disorders in the mid-west region. [33038/24]
• General Practitioner Services
  2451.To ask the Minister for Health the plans to ensure that GPs have suitably fast access to diagnostics equivalent to those in acute settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Hospital Staff
  2452.To ask the Minister for Health how many staff have been lost in the recruitment stages of UHL recruitment to other services; how many left in the panel stages of recruitment; and if he will...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2453.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 10 of 29 February 2024, if the proposal for an externally contracted satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis has been...
• Citizens' Assembly
  2454.To ask the Minister for Health the plans to implement the citizens assembly recommendation for a joint report on an annual basis detailing total and disaggregated expenditure and channels of...
• Health Strategies
  2455.To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to expanding the newborn bloodspot screening panel from nine diseases to at least the European average of eighteen diseases; and...
• Hospital Services
  2456.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients transported in the non-ambulance patient transport policy, 2020-2024, by CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Ambulance Service
  2457.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients transported in emergency ambulances for AS3 non-urgent interfacility transfer, 2020-2024, by CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
• Hospital Services
  2458.To ask the Minister for Health the plans within his Department to expand the non-ambulance patient transport policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33058/24]
• Hospital Facilities
  2459.To ask the Minister for Health given that the six hospitals in the UHL group function as one hospital system, if there are any plans for a shuttle bus or equivalent between the hospitals for...
• Ambulance Service
  2460.To ask the Minister for Health the number of operational emergency ambulance and intermediate care vehicles currently on the road, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Health Services Staff
  2462.To ask the Minister for Health the number of qualified advanced paramedics in the midwest region who are currently serving in desk positions, outside of those on light duty for practical...
• Health Services Staff
  2463.To ask the Minister for Health whether the vacancies in UHG pathology were affected by the recruitment embargo; how his Department intends to address these vacancies; and if he will make a...
• Departmental Reports
  2464.To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for release of Justice Clarke’s report into the mid-west region urgent and emergency care capacity; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Health Services Staff
  2465.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the nursing vacancies in UHL; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33065/24]
• Eating Disorders
  2466.To ask the Minister for Health the number of eating disorder referrals that have been made from UHL emergency department since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Health Services
  2467.To ask the Minister for Health the reason primary care psychology services for County Clare are provided from the Ennis Centre, as opposed to utilising the Kilrush Centre; and if he will...
• Primary Care Services
  2468.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for primary care psychology services in County Clare, divided by local area; and if he will make a statement on the...
• General Practitioner Services
  2469.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the unpredictable nature of satellite Shannondoc service hours in west Clare; if he will facilitate a meeting with service providers; and if...
• Hospital Overcrowding
  2470.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of recent overcrowding at the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; the reasons for this overcrowding; the steps...
• Health Services
  2471.To ask the Minister for Health if he aware there is no podiatrist working in the public health realm in the Louth area; his plans to recruit the required number; what patients are being...
• Dental Services
  2472.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 669 of 23 January 2024, the progress of the tender by the National Oral Health Office for orthodontists to provide care...
• Addiction Treatment Services
  2473.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider additional funding for addiction services provided through the North Eastern Regional Drugs and Alcohol Task Force; and if he will make a...
• Departmental Data
  2474.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who availed of the Northern Planned Healthcare Scheme from June 2023 to June 2024; the types of treatment received, by county; the total...
• Health Services
  2475.To ask the Minister for Health the range and nature of diabetes services available to Louth-based adults and children at hospitals; if there are plans to improve the diabetes service...
• Land Issues
  2476.To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to working with the Minister for Education to finalise the transfer of seven acres of land at a location (details supplied) to...
• Dental Services
  2477.To ask the Minister for Health the cost of subsidising dental practises to allow students to avail of dental check-ups every six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33134/24]
• Departmental Funding
  2478.To ask the Minister for Health the cost of introducing a T-Fund for all HEIs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33135/24]
• Health Promotion
  2479.To ask the Minister for Health the cost in introducing funding for the distribution of 50,000 Sexual health and Guidance packs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33136/24]
• Cancer Services
  2480.To ask the Minister for Health the funding currently provided to community cancer support centres such as a centre (details supplied); if this will be reviewed to ensure there is core...
• Medicinal Products
  2482.To ask the Minister for Health the negotiations that have taken place involving Ireland as part of the BeNeLuxA initiative for purchasing Skyclarys containing omaveloxalone, which is used in...
• General Practitioner Services
  2483.To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs in Drogheda; the number of GPs that are required to deal with the ongoing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33202/24]
• Nursing Homes
  2485.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the ongoing practice of private nursing homes charging medical card holders for products and services to which they are entitled free of charge;...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2486.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the project to construct a rehabilitation unit at Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33236/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2487.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of vacant posts, by grade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33244/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2488.To ask the Minister for Health the number on the waiting lists for CAHMS in Drogheda and south Louth broken down by 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24-month categories, in tabular form. [33245/24]
• Departmental Data
  2489.To ask the Minister for Health the number on the waiting lists for CAHMS in CH08, broken down by county or local area and by 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24-month categories, in tabular form. [33246/24]
• Health Services
  2490.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost for enabling student health facilities to prescribe hormones and offer blood tests to trans and non-binary students. [33288/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2491.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 17 April 2024, if the lack of public health nurses in Dublin mid-west can be investigated (details supplied)....
• Land Issues
  2492.To ask the Minister for Health the future use plans for a hospital location (details supplied); and the position regarding right of way access for locals. [33293/24]
• Healthcare Policy
  2493.To ask the Minister for Health when the CNM2 salary scale will be extended by the addition of one further scale point and the introduction of a long-service increment following...
• Dental Services
  2494.To ask the Minister for Health the current number of dentists working in the school dental scheme in Longford and Westmeath; the progress being made to improve the scheme; and if he will...
• Healthcare Policy
  2495.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 344 of 11 July 2024, if he can respond further to the follow-up concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and...
• Health Services
  2496.To ask the Minister for Health the number of step-down care beds available in CHO 7, and if there are any plans to increase the number available. [33310/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2497.To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists posts currently vacant in the CHO 7 area. [33311/24]
• Departmental Data
  2498.To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses currently operating in CHO 7, and the area covered by each one. [33312/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2499.To ask the Minister for Health given the increased distances to be covered by public health nurse in rural communities, if it is intended to increase the number of public health nurses in...
• Cancer Services
  2501.To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of introducing screening for lung, prostate and gastric cancers, respectively; his plans for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Health Strategies
  2502.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national strategy for accelerating genetic and genomic medicine in Ireland; the additional resources he has committed to this; the plans in...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2503.To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for diagnostic tests; his plans to meet Sláintecare objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33320/24]
• Cancer Services
  2504.To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding he has committed to the national cancer strategy in each year since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33321/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2507.To ask the Minister for Health further to the lifting of the recruitment embargo, if any improvements will be made in respect of the number of ophthalmologists currently working within HSE...
• Departmental Data
  2508.To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents or equipment failures relating to national ambulance service defibrillators in the south-east in each of the past three years....
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2510.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 13 June 2024, to provide an update on the SAR/PBC by the project team and the Galway University Hospital’s...
• Primary Care Centres
  2513.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 866 of 11 June 2024, the status of the proposed primary care centre for Galway city; the expected timeline for the...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2514.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 867 of 11 June 2024, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; the status of the land...
• Care Services
  2515.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of all respite beds in County Galway; the number of these that are currently operational and currently closed, in tabular form; and if he will...
• Health Strategies
  2519.To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a national strategy on osteoporosis, which would cover diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Departmental Expenditure
  2520.To ask the Minister for Health the total funding allocated to osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment in each of the years 2019 to 2023, and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2521.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for treatment for osteoporosis in CHO 2, by county and periods spent waiting, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
• Nursing Homes
  2522.To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to respond to correspondence received from a person (details supplied) regarding the matter of a nursing home charging a medical card holder for...
• Health Services Staff
  2523.To ask the Minister for Health if the discrepancy between the current clinical nurse manager 2 and clinical nurse specialist (CNS) pay scales can be addressed, which has seen the CNS pay...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2526.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a diagnostic waiting list, by type, wait time and location, in tabular form. [33451/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2527.To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment will commence of the 12 remaining neurology nurse specialist posts, funded in budget 2023, following the comments made by the CEO of the HSE at...
• Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
  2528.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of Irish Blood Transfusion Service staff who, despite being front-line workers during the Covid pandemic, have been declined the...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2529.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the application by Tallaght University Hospital for a new 72-bed inpatient unit. [33455/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2530.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on waiting times for both adult and child occupational therapy services in Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown, Rathcoole, Newcastle, Saggart and...
• Departmental Data
  2531.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen by the Bantry Hospital injury clinic annually from 2019 to date, in tabular form. [33491/24]
• Health Services Staff
  2533.To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been released to support the pay increase for all section 39 workers agreed last year; and, if not, when it is expected to be released to those...
• Departmental Bodies
  2534.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the resignation of two disability campaigners from the national steering group set up to shape the HSE’s Roadmap to Improve...
• Dental Services
  2535.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Cavan and County Monaghan; the average waiting times for appointments in...
• Mental Health Services
  2538.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the CAMHS waiting list in County Cavan and County Monaghan; the average waiting time in each county; the number waiting more than six...
• Departmental Data
  2540.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting colonoscopy in County Cavan and County Monaghan; the number of these who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 days and...
• Health Services Staff
  2544.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the number of vacancies at Cavan General Hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time the vacancy has been available, in tabular...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2545.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Cavan and County Monaghan; the average waiting time for appointment in each county,...
• Mental Health Services
  2548.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in July 2021, 2022 and 2023 in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Cork, by area; and...
• Health Services Staff
  2552.To ask the Minister for Health how many neurology specialist nurses are employed at Cork University Hospital in comparison to the national guidelines; and the steps he will take to address...
• Mental Health Services
  2555.To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists to be seen by a psychiatrist at the Carrigaline primary care centre by waiting times of three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months, respectively....
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2558.To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for pain management in CUH and the Mercy hospital by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [33621/24]
• Home Help Service
  2560.To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for home help in south Lee, Cork. [33623/24]
• Mental Health Services
  2563.To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for CAMHS in south and north Lee by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [33626/24]
• Dental Services
  2565.To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists operating under the DTSS scheme who are operating in each of the HSE health regions, by county. [33628/24]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2566.To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for ophthalmology in CUH and Mercy Hospital, broken down by whether they are waiting by 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months. [33629/24]
• Dental Services
  2570.To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for dentistry services in the CUH and Cork South Lee, broken down by people waiting by 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. [33633/24]
• Primary Care Centres
  2572.To ask the Minister for Health if resources are in place to provide a primary healthcare centre in Collinstown, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; if he will provide an update on the provision of this;...
• Health Services Staff
  2573.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of vacancies of medical professionals in Mayo University Hospital; the length of time each position has been vacant, in tabular form;...
• Emergency Departments
  2574.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the emergency department development in Mayo University Hospital. [33668/24]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2576.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on lists as both inpatients and outpatients for Mayo University Hospital; the average wait time; the number waiting more than...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2577.To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for elective surgery in Mayo in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [33671/24]
• Emergency Departments
  2578.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the average emergency department waiting times in Mayo University Hospital, in tabular form. [33672/24]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2579.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for cataract surgery, by county; the average wait time; the number waiting over one, two, three and four years, respectively, by...
• Departmental Funding
  2580.To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the capital funding provided to Cappagh Hospital from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form. [33676/24]
• Vaccination Programme
  2582.To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered measures to procure some supplies for the 2024-2025 winter flu season; if he will outline the preparatory work carried out by...
• Ambulance Service
  2584.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of a 24-hour, 7-days-per-week ambulance service for Arklow and Baltinglass; if this service will be operational in 2024; and if...

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