Written answers
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Department of Health
Gender Recognition
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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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 to, and in particular, whether funding has been approved. [31974/24]
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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2223.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 2 July 2024, if the National Gender Service is aware of a recently published randomised controlled trial showing a reduction in poor health outcomes, including suicidality, for those receiving trans healthcare (details supplied). [31975/24]
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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2224.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the research underlying the National Gender Service’s statement that social contagion is causing huge numbers of children to incorrectly think they are transgender, as reported in an article (details supplied). [31976/24]
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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2225.To ask the Minister for Health for details of all the attacks being made on the National Gender Service, as reported in an article (details supplied). [31977/24]
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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2226.To ask the Minister for Health if the National Gender Service is in the business of saying if people have gender dysphoria, given apparently conflicting public statements (details supplied). [31978/24]
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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2227.To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of patients of the National Gender Service to which they ‘often say not right now’, as mentioned in a radio interview (details supplied). [31979/24]
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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2228.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been told by the National Gender Service following assessment that they will not be seen for five years, as mentioned in a radio interview (details supplied). [31980/24]
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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2229.To ask the Minister for Health the reason, given that the National Gender Service indicated in a radio interview that it ‘just doesn’t know’ if its assessment model can identify risks, it recommends against other models (details supplied). [31981/24]
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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2230.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 2 July 2024, if the program will consider the possibility that the mentioned report may have been produced in bad faith, given the reported involvement of multiple members of a hate group, in addition to serious issues found by international experts (details supplied). [31982/24]
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.
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