Written answers

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1295. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people currently waiting for speech and language therapy in Mayo; the number who have been waiting three months, six months, one year and...
  • Health Services Staff
    1296. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of vacancies in the speech and language therapy in Mayo; and the steps his Department is taking to recruit more SLT professionals in the Mayo...
  • National Maternity Hospital
    1299. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new national maternity hospital project; and if the project has navigated the various decision gates in order to proceed....
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for paediatric occupational therapy services in the Tralee and west Kerry area; the number of staff available to...
  • Health Services Staff
    1302. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of only one part-time palliative care social worker covering all of counties Laois and Offaly will be rectified, given other counties with a...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1303. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred by University Hospital Limerick to the neurology department at University...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1304. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to provide pay and conditions parity for section 39 healthcare workers. [46181/24]
  • Departmental Staff
    1305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of civil servants in his Department, and in agencies under the aegis of his Department, who were on career break in 2023 or 2024, by month and...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1308. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [46260/24]
  • Primary Care Centres
    1309. To ask the Minister for Health the way a healthcare professional can open a clinic at the new primary care centre, Tullamore Road, Kilbeggan; if such facilities are available to private...
  • Medicinal Products
    1310. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE’s recent EU tender for a platform to develop a national medicinal product catalogue; when it is expected to be delivered; if its...
  • Departmental Funding
    1311. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been allocated to the lymphoedema model of care to date; if so, the amount of funding that has been allocated, and in what years; and if he...
  • Health Services
    1312. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand services for lymphoedema patients; to provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46269/24]
  • Health Services Staff
    1315. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46272/24]
  • Health Services
    1316. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE supplies free bowel cancer test kits to the public; the criteria to receive one; if there are plans to introduce them for persons in their 50s; and...
  • Health Services Staff
    1317. To ask the Minister for Health is he aware of a situation in Linn Dara, Cherry Orchard, CHO7, that has occurred so newly qualified staff nurses who received their registration pin in...
  • Medicinal Products
    1318. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46277/24]
  • Hospital Facilities
    1319. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to develop an overflow carpark for Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46278/24]
  • Health Services
    1320. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing three extra postnatal hubs. [46286/24]
  • Mental Health Services
    1321. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available to CAMHS teams to carry out electrocardiograms, blood tests and other necessary tests for people with eating disorders. [46287/24]
  • General Practitioner Services
    1322. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the rural practice allowance for GPs by 33%. [46288/24]
  • Departmental Budgets
    1323. To ask the Minister for Health how the €2 million additional funding for the National Maternity Strategy in Budget 2025 will be spent. [46289/24]
  • Health Services
    1324. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing three extra menopause clinics. [46290/24]
  • Primary Care Services
    1326. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant optometry and ophthalmology roles in primary care services in CHO7. [46303/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1327. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46309/24]
  • Nursing Homes
    1328. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to immediate action on the fair deal pricing review, releasing the review within 100 days of Government formation; and if he will make a...
  • Mental Health Services
    1330. To ask the Minister for Health the monitoring, support and evaluation efforts that are put in place when a person is released from the National Forensic Mental Health Service. [46324/24]
  • Departmental Bodies
    1331. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by his Department with regard to the inclusion of certified athletic therapists within the CORU register; and if he will make...
  • Hospital Equipment
    1332. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to increase funding for urology (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46359/24]
  • Medicinal Products
    1333. To ask the Minister for Health if concerns regarding the lack of supply for a certain medicine (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46362/24]
  • Hospital Staff
    1334. To ask the Minister for Health the number of international recruitment fairs to the UK where officials from Mullingar Regional Hospital were present seeking to recruit additional doctors,...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all primary care centres within CHO8 specifying whether a GP is operation out of the centre, in tabular form. [46368/24]
  • Mental Health Services
    1336. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an out-of-hours CAMHS for children in County Longford. [46369/24]
  • Hospital Staff
    1337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant dermatologists with a special interest in skin fragility at St. James's Hospital in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [46370/24]
  • Primary Care Services
    1338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO8 awaiting podiatry within primary care services as of 4 December 2024. [46371/24]
  • Hospital Staff
    1339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant plastic surgeons with a special interest in back and spinal reconstruction at Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and...
  • Hospital Services
    1340. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of three additional "see and treat" gynaecology clinics. [46410/24]
  • Hospital Staff
    1341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior physiotherapists in neonatology at Rotunda Maternity Hospital in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [46411/24]
  • Eating Disorders
    1342. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully staffing three new eating disorder teams. [46412/24]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for vascular surgery with addresses in Meath; and the average waiting times, in tabular form. [46413/24]
  • Dental Services
    1344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children referred for four or more dental extractions under general anaesthetics in CHO8 area in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1345. To ask the Minister for Health when a neurology appointment will be made for a person in Donegal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46420/24]
  • Healthcare Policy
    1346. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of the National Traveller Mental Health Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46421/24]
  • Medicinal Products
    1347. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1002 of 5 November 2024, given that Melatonin has not been reviewed since 2008, if he will instruct the NCPE to review...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    1348. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46435/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1349. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for surgery for a person (details supplied). [46436/24]
  • Hospital Facilities
    1350. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to address the severe shortage of parking spaces at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46437/24]
  • Hospital Staff
    1351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants in emergency medicine based at Wexford General Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [46443/24]
  • Mental Health Services
    1353. To ask the Minister for Health if a number of issues pertaining to a day centre (details supplied) in Dingle will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46462/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1354. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update from the HSE as to how much longer a person (details supplied) will be waiting for an appointment with the ENT consultant in Crumlin; and...
  • Addiction Treatment Services
    1355. To ask the Minister for Health the current level of funding allocated to addiction services. [46474/24]
  • Medical Cards
    1362. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans on reviewing the medical card application process for cancer patients where a household sees a loss of one wage due to illness but cannot obtain a...
  • Hospital Facilities
    1363. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the consideration of a draft report (details supplied) by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46506/24]
  • Insurance Coverage
    1364. To ask the Minister for Health if he will work with health insurance providers to remove policy upgrade waiting periods before accessing higher levels of cover; and if he will make a...
  • Health Service Executive
    1365. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure that the HSE store for disabled aids equipment in Mountmellick, County Laois is made safe and reopened, given the current unacceptable situation...
  • Domestic Violence
    1366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pregnant victims of domestic violence reported in each hospital, per county, in 2023 and to date in 2024. [46533/24]
  • Medicinal Products
    1367. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a drug shortage (details supplied); the steps that will be taken to address this shortage; and if he will make a statement...
  • Home Help Service
    1370. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure home help hours are put in place for a person (details supplied). [46549/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1371. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite hip surgery (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46552/24]
  • Clinical Trials
    1373. To ask the Minister for Health what can be done to increase Ireland’s participation rate in cancer related clinical trials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46559/24]
  • Health Services
    1374. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken, and the current situation in respect of his commitment, to provide free HRT in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1376. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the recruitment of staff for the new primary care centre in Clondalkin on the Boot Road; the levels of staff recruited, per...
  • National Children's Hospital
    1377. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the CAMHS unit in the new national children’s hospital; the size and capacity of the unit; the number and type of staff to be...
  • Mental Health Services
    1379. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on waiting lists for CAMHS for the month of December, by CHO area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46578/24]
  • Medicinal Products
    1380. To ask the Minister for Health the consequences for the rollout of free HRT with the shortages of the drug estradot in Irish pharmacies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46580/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1381. To ask the Minister for Health if an MRI appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied) who, having been referred to University Hospital Limerick to address knee swelling, has...
  • Health Services
    1384. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the efforts to ensure that a child (details supplied) will receive the treatment they need; his proposals for other children with the same...
  • Hospital Facilities
    1386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff accommodation units currently provided by Children’s Health Ireland, by location; the number once the new Children’s...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1387. To ask the Minister for Health what progress has been made in plans to provide a primary care centre in Cahersiveen, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46592/24]
  • Health Services
    1388. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment facility can be set up, staffed and funded at University Hospital Kerry, adjacent to Killarney National...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1389. To ask the Minister for Health what progress has been made in plans to provide a primary care centre in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46606/24]
  • Health Services
    1390. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons lose their long-term illness card for ADHD at 16 years when it is a lifelong condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Primary Care Services
    1391. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the provision of a minor injuries and diagnostic clinic on the grounds of the old District Hospital/Killarney Community Hospital, along with a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1392. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the chronic waiting times, especially for our senior citizens, who have been left waiting on chairs and trolleys for 24, 48 hours and...
  • Care of the Elderly
    1393. To ask the Minister for Health to consider the urgent need for additional nursing staff/home carers to cater for our elderly loved ones, as there is a huge shortfall of required caring...
  • Medicinal Products
    1394. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are in place for patients who have come off the drug methadone and who now deal with tooth decay (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Home Care Packages
    1395. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and a homecare package expedited for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46657/24]
  • Data Protection
    1396. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to allegations of potential data regulation breaches at a location (details supplied) due to certain remote work arrangements;...
  • Mental Health Services
    1397. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels and vacancies for relevant child and adolescent mental health teams covering County Waterford. [46668/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1398. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [46675/24]
  • Eating Disorders
    1399. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the cost barriers that exist for those who are looking for help with an eating disorder; if he will ensure that support is...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1400. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46678/24]
  • Health Services
    1401. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a patient with renal failure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46690/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1402. To ask the Minister for Health to review case of a person (detail supplied); if a procedure will be expedited; if he will provide clarity on this issue; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1403. To ask the Minister for Health when a speech and language therapist will be appointed at a primary care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46703/24]
  • Primary Care Services
    1404. To ask the Minister for Health the stage of the development of a minor injuries clinic for Killarney to improve health services, including accident and emergency in Kerry as a whole; and if...
  • Hospital Overcrowding
    1405. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent investment will be made to improve waiting lists and bed accommodation numbers/availability and accident and emergency overcrowding and waiting...
  • Health Services
    1406. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of crisis resolution services; the provisions in place to provide services within County Wexford; and if he will make...
  • Hospital Staff
    1407. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists, by grade working in University Hospital Kerry, in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Staff
    1408. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time public health nurse posts within CHO4, in 2023 and 2024; the specific geographic area within CHO4 that currently has no public health...
  • Dental Services
    1409. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a school dental screening service waiting list, by age in CHO in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46720/24]
  • Health Services Staff
    1410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse posts per CHO; and the number of posts filled and the number of vacancies, in tabular form. [46737/24]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1411. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the resource allocation and spending to date by his Department on implementation of the National Traveller Health Action...
  • Nursing Homes
    1413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-term nursing home beds in the system for both private and public facilities in County Meath for each of the past ten years to date; if...
  • Departmental Data
    1416. To ask the Minister for Health the step-down facilities that exist in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46767/24]
  • Disability Services
    1417. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to urgently reinstate the speech therapy department and recruit a speech therapist for the Kilnamanagh/Tymon primary care...
  • Departmental Strategies
    1418. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the lack of official recognition for babies who do not meet the criteria of a stillbirth as set out in the Civil Registration Act 2004, if the...
  • Care Services
    1419. To ask the Minister for Health the turnover of medical staff for each of the past five years to date at CAMHS Ashbourne, County Meath. [46780/24]
  • Ambulance Service
    1421. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update, including a timetable for delivery, for the planned new ambulance base for Gorey, County Wexford. [46793/24]
  • Care Services
    1422. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the range of services provided at Arklow primary care centre, County Wicklow; the proposals, if any, to expand the range of services available; and...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1424. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals he has to increase the number of doctors operating in general practice nationally, and also specifically in both counties Wicklow and Wexford;...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1425. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to date of work relating to the construction of the National Children’s Hospital; to indicate a timetable for opening; and if he will make a...
  • Cybersecurity Policy
    1428. To ask the Minister for Health to outline supports provided by his Department and/or the Health Service Executive to section 38 and section 39 organisations to address cybersecurity; if he...
  • Artificial Intelligence
    1429. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and agencies under the aegis of his Department have policies on the use of artificial intelligence within the Department; whether training...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1430. To ask the Minister for Health for Health if a CAMHS appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [46802/24]
  • Pharmacy Services
    1431. To ask the Minister for Health what Teva pharmaceutical products, if any, are being used in Irish hospitals; if he has plans to use substitute products from other companies; and if he will...
  • Care Services
    1432. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on primary care centres in Blarney, Glanmire and Mayfield. [46805/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1433. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children awaiting a CAMHS appointment, by wait time, in tabular form. [46806/24]
  • Departmental Investigations
    1434. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the taskforce handbook review. [46807/24]
  • Hospital Facilities
    1435. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the elective hospital in Cork. [46814/24]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1436. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery can be expedited for a person (details supplied). [46828/24]
  • Departmental Data
    1437. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to psychiatric hospitals or units, and child and adolescent units, in 2024. [46830/24]
  • Departmental Policies
    1439. To ask the Minister for Health how the 600 pmol/L maximum concentration for oestrogen therapy in the "Recommendations for Endocrine Care in the National Gender Service" version 3.0 was...
  • Departmental Investigations
    1440. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the studies showing that puberty blockers lead to bone fractures, as indicated by National Gender Service staff in a recent interview (details...
  • Departmental Data
    1441. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Gender Service can provide the number of lay activists who were promoted into senior policy development positions related to transgender...
  • Departmental Policies
    1443. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 24 September 2024, if the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda's gender clinic can explain how cessation of...
  • Departmental Reviews
    1444. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 492 of 24 September 2024, when the HSE is expected to complete its current review of the Cass review. [46842/24]
  • Pharmacy Services
    1445. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to make melatonin available for children with autism diagnosis under the hardship scheme for medication, and not part of...
  • Departmental Schemes
    1446. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any financial assistance towards the of oxygen cylinders for people dependant on same, specifically those with a diagnosis of COPD; and if no...
  • Nursing Homes
    1447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public nursing home beds in each county, for each of the past ten years. [46857/24]
  • Departmental Properties
    1449. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the number of properties owned by the HSE in an area (details supplied) that are in use or are vacant, with the length of time of vacancy, in...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1450. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite referral for a person (details supplied) to the step-down unit in Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46875/24]
  • Disability Services
    1451. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of facilities for people with disabilities in Tallaght Hospital (details supplied); if he will instruct the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1452. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46895/24]
  • Hospital Staff
    1453. To ask the Minister for Health the current and planned future arrangements for healthcare workers with long covid. [46900/24]
  • Ambulance Service
    1454. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the National Ambulance Service issued a NASCAP Level 2, 3, and 4 notice, for each relevant day for the period 2022 to 2024, inclusive....
  • Healthcare Policy
    1455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to establishing an independent commissioner for ageing and older people, similar to that which is in place in both Northern Ireland and...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1456. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46906/24]
  • Departmental Data
    1458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric intensive care beds at each CHI hospital; the number and medical categories of scheduled surgeries cancelled due to lack of...
  • Medical Cards
    1459. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders waiting to be assigned a GP by the HSE; the current wait times for these assignments, by county, in tabular form; and if he...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1460. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting times of up to one hour for response on the Caredoc phone line in Arklow; if so, the measures he is putting in...
  • Medicinal Products
    1461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the HSE to overrule the recent recommendation from the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and make pluvicto available for reimbursement...
  • Nursing Homes
    1462. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a nursing home bed in Ballina, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46920/24]
  • Appointments to State Boards
    1463. To ask the Minister for Health if a list will be provided of all persons appointed to State or semi-State boards under his remit since 1 November 2024. [46930/24]
  • Hospital Overcrowding
    1464. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to respond to calls from an organisation (details supplied) to improve the chronic and dangerous overcrowding issues in hospitals here; and if he...
  • Care Services
    1466. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are in place to provide compassionate and expedited support for terminally ill patients and their families, particularly in cases where the...
  • Mental Health Services
    1467. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a staffing matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1009/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    1469. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of open posts currently unfilled as of 25 January 2025 in the Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, across all departments, including the...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1470. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the total funding investment in the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, over the past eight years; the future expansion plans to help deal...
  • Hospital Facilities
    1471. To ask the Minister for Health if a canopy can be erected to the rear of a hospital (details supplied) to protect patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1027/25]
  • Disease Management
    1478. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment and management of a rare disease (details supplied) is still being facilitated under the treatment abroad scheme for adults, and if not, the...
  • Departmental Policies
    1479. To ask the Minister for Health to provide his policy regarding transvaginal tape sling procedure to treat urinary incontinence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1054/25]
  • Departmental Data
    1481. To ask the Minister for Health the level of excess deaths that occurred in Ireland in each of the past ten years; and the details of the cases of the excess deaths for each year. [1059/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    1484. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assistant psychologist posts the HSE intends to recruit in 2025; and the location and estimated recruitment date of each post, in tabular form....
  • Mental Health Services
    1485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make urgent representations for a child with the child and adolescent mental health services (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Education and Training Provision
    1487. To ask the Minister for Health the reason students in fourth year children's and general integrated training courses are not receiving the €500 subsistence payment (details...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1489. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on the ban of on the sale of single-use disposable and flavoured vapes. [1095/25]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    1491. To ask the Minister for Health if and when the recognition payment for health care workers, agency workers in Covid testing laboratories and many others working throughout the pandemic will...
  • Home Help Service
    1494. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support staff, personal assistants; the number of recipients of home support services and personal assistance services; the number of...
  • Emergency Departments
    1496. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1260 of 5 November 2024, if the response provided is an interpretation of the criteria by the National Ambulance Service...
  • Ambulance Service
    1497. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1260 of 5 November 2024, if he will further examine the request for information (details supplied); and if he will refer...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1498. To ask the Minister for Health further to the enactment of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023, to provide an update on plans to fully ban the sale...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    1499. To ask the Minister for Health further to correspondence received regarding the National Clinical Program for Adults with ADHD (details supplied), the steps being taken to address regional...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1500. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary healthcare centre for Gorey; the timeline for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1136/25]
  • Healthcare Policy
    1501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including organ transplant recipients in the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1143/25]
  • Disability Services
    1502. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the roll out of the national clinical program for adults with ADHD, in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1147/25]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1504. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied). [1158/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1505. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the recruitment of a HSE community dietitian manager in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1159/25]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1506. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the urgent case of a person (details supplied); if a hip replacement will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1161/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1507. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the recruitment campaign for HSE home care workers in the Sligo Leitrim area; the number of home care workers recruited since January 2024 to...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1508. To ask the Minister for Health if hip surgery for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1171/25]
  • Hospital Services
    1512. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to further resource the complex menopause clinic in University Hospital Galway (details supplied); if a review has been carried out in relation to...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1513. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering adding Crohn's disease to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1192/25]
  • General Practitioner Services
    1514. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the funding provided by the Government to the joint Irish College of General Practitioners/Health Service Executive non-EU rural GP...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    1515. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1206/25]
  • General Practitioner Services
    1517. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on any work his Department has undertaken to increase the number of general practitioners in communities; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1518. To ask the Minister for Health what plans his Department have undertaken to ensure Balbriggan primary care centre is fully occupied by the medical and administration teams assigned to the...
  • Hospital Staff
    1520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant haematologists attached to University Hospital Limerick in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
  • Ambulance Service
    1521. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE rapid response vehicles available on a 24-7 basis in Limerick as of 6 January 2025; if this number will be further increased during 2025;...
  • Emergency Services
    1522. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO3 where rapid access stabilisation units are located; the opening hours of each of these units, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1523. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1237/25]
  • Dental Services
    1525. To ask the Minister for Health how many dentists are currently part of the dental treatment service scheme in Cork north central, and in Mallow, County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
  • Health Services
    1526. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the current weight management services in operation across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1252/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1527. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the number of staff working in weight management services broken down, by location and service, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1530. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of people on waiting lists, detailing times, area, and service, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1532. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for brain surgery in Beaumont Hospital to remove a tumour; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services Staff
    1533. To ask the Minister for Health to give urgent attention to an ongoing issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1272/25]
  • Medical Cards
    1534. To ask the Minister for Health what percentage of medical card reassessments are successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1282/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    1535. To ask the Minister for Health if he can reinstate the position whereby gluten-free products are reimbursable items under the general medical services (scheme) as the additional cost of...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1536. To ask the Minister for Health if polycystic ovary syndrome will be recognised under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1305/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    1537. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to covering medications like Ozempic under the drug payment scheme for polycystic ovary syndrome; and if he will make a...
  • Home Care Packages
    1538. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a recruitment campaign for HSE home care workers in the Sligo-Leitrim area; how many home care workers have been recruited since January 2024...
  • Cancer Services
    1539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently eligible for BreastCheck screening who are waiting for their first mammogram in the Dublin northwest HSE area of Dublin 7, 11,...
  • Coroners Service
    1541. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government provides postmortem services for babies who have died just before birth or after they have been born; if so, the location; and if he will...
  • Cancer Services
    1542. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that a treatment (details supplied) is available for prostate cancer patients in Ireland for whom it is deemed medically...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1543. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list time for the complex menopause clinic in Galway University Hospital; if there are plans to expand this clinic and reduce waiting...
  • Dental Services
    1544. To ask the Minister for Health the dental services available to persons with disabilities in County Monaghan; the reason such dental services are no longer available in Monaghan Hospital;...
  • Mental Health Services
    1546. To ask the Minister for Health for details of wait times for CAMHS services in Wicklow for Q3 and Q4 of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1387/25]
  • Health Services
    1547. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1399/25]
  • Hospital Services
    1548. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated current costs that would be required to extend the opening hours of the urgent care centre at CHI in Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown from...
  • General Practitioner Services
    1549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of house calls that were carried out by doctors from each treatment centre of D-Doc services during each day of the recent Christmas-New Year...
  • Medical Cards
    1550. To ask the Minister for Health the position on medical cards for individuals with a diagnosed lifelong condition, that will not improve or change (details supplied); the reason new GP...
  • Primary Medical Certificates
    1551. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a primary medical certificate for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [1425/25]
  • Healthcare Policy
    1553. To ask the Minister for Health the current policy in relation to mixed-sex wards in Irish hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1448/25]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1554. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment in Beaumont for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1451/25]
  • General Practitioner Services
    1556. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied) needing advice on obtaining a GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1458/25]
  • Home Help Service
    1557. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended on home help and home care, by month in 2024; the amount paid to private agencies for the provision of these services; and if he will...
  • Mental Health Services
    1558. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of referrals for support services to Kildare CAMHS service currently awaiting assessment. [1474/25]
  • Eating Disorders
    1559. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation towards National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [1475/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    1560. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologist attached to Naas General Hospital in the years of 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [1476/25]
  • Ambulance Service
    1561. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable to wait on an ambulance for almost six hours, especially for an 84-year-old person; if he will address the matters...
  • Emergency Departments
    1562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation bays in the accident and emergency department of St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Home Care Packages
    1563. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the value of contracts awarded to companies for the provision of home care services in each of the past three years and the names of the...
  • Dental Services
    1565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS-registered dentists based in Carlow in the years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1567. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have knee surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1501/25]
  • General Practitioner Services
    1569. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is correct for Caredoc in Carlow to refuse to see patients, who are under general practitioners outside the county, as they were...
  • Hospital Staff
    1570. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the post of primary care dietitian in St. Luke’s Hospital to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1524/25]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1571. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a hospital appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1527/25]
  • Health Services
    1576. To ask the Minister for Health the number of international protection applicants who were offered a public health screening in 2022-2024; the number who were not offered a public health...
  • Medical Cards
    1577. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) where a discretionary medical card has been refused will be reviewed; the criteria used when deciding if a...
  • Health Services
    1579. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the care policy (details supplied); the reason for any difference in policy by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1572/25]
  • Health Promotion
    1581. To ask the Minister for Health for the costs incurred to date in the development and rollout a public awareness campaign (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1582. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on an operation so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1604/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    1583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter with the HSE/CAMHS (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1605/25]
  • Hospital Transfers
    1584. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent patient (details supplied) transfer from Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal to St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin will take place; the...
  • Care Services
    1585. To ask the Minister for Health if respite will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1608/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    1586. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to introducing a tiered payments scheme for all student nurses and midwives (details supplied); if any similar proposals are...
  • Medicinal Products
    1587. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 564 of 15 November 2022, the way a person can be reimbursed for a therapy if no alternative product exists (details...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    1589. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the appropriate pathway to secure a diagnosis of autism and ADHD in adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1628/25]
  • Dental Services
    1590. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a child (details supplied) on the dental waiting list; if an appointment will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1592. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will be offered an appointment in Belfast again for hip surgery; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Disability Services
    1593. To ask the Minister for Health the alternate pathways being provided to therapies for a person (details supplied) and others like them, having been told that there is no speech and language...
  • Cancer Services
    1594. To ask the Minister for Health to request the HSE to address a serious matter (details supplied) in relation to diagnostic failures and the treatment implications for a person; the steps...
  • Health Services Staff
    1595. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the financial toll that long-Covid has on healthcare workers with the disease, given that the long-Covid payment scheme is due to end in...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1596. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary care centre for Mayfield, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1669/25]
  • Hospital Facilities
    1598. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new elective hospital for Cork; the progress that has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1671/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    1599. To ask the Minister for Health the psychology waiting list numbers and wait times in months for children and adolescents in Cork North Lee, in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1600. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Crumlin Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1689/25]
  • Hospice Services
    1602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-consider the re-opening Of St. Brigid’s palliative care unit in Carrick on Suir, County Tipperary; the current position on the matter;...
  • Home Care Packages
    1603. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care support hours for older people provided in each LHO area in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1735/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    1604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the north Kerry CAMHS review; the timeline for delivery; the progress to date; the reasons for the delay; if consideration has been given...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on hospital waiting lists in Kerry; to provide a breakdown, per hospital of the number on the waiting list; to provide a breakdown of the...
  • Dental Services
    1606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on adult dental waiting lists in Kerry; to provide a breakdown of the number on the waiting list; to provide a breakdown of the average...
  • Mental Health Services
    1608. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by the number of months they have been waiting, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Dental Services
    1609. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment on the school dental programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1753/25]
  • Departmental Properties
    1610. To ask the Minister for Health the full address and Eircode of each property that is directly occupied by his Department where that address is located in Dublin, in tabular form; and if he...
  • Dental Services
    1611. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people currently waiting for public dental appointments in Mayo; the number whom have been waiting 3, 6, 12 months, 1 and 2 years, in...
  • Mental Health Services
    1618. To ask the Minister for Health the progress achieved in 2024 in the recruitment of additional personnel for CAMHS teams in County Laois. [1800/25]
  • Nursing Homes
    1619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for a public nursing home placement in County Laois. [1801/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    1620. To ask the Minister for Health to guarantee reimbursement of spinraza by the HSE for patients over 18 years of age with SMA Types I, II or III. [1802/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    1621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS services throughout the country with specialist ADHD clinics with specific specialist defined pathway for children and adolescents...
  • Primary Care Services
    1623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff based at the primary care centre in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, both part-time and full-time; and what their roles are. [1836/25]
  • Ambulance Service
    1624. To ask the Minister for Health if advanced paramedics courses are being run by the National Ambulance Service at present in County Wicklow; and if not, if there are plans to do so. [1840/25]
  • Home Care Packages
    1625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a home support package is put in place for a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [1851/25]
  • Official Travel
    1627. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a schedule of all foreign travel undertaken by him and their accompanying officials in 2023 and 2024, including flight, hotel, transfers and other...
  • Medicinal Products
    1628. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, if any, to make the medication lumateperone available via the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1872/25]
  • Hospital Services
    1629. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the future of a service (details supplied); and details of the staff who have been employed in this service. [1873/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    1630. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of Palforzia; and the current availability of same and timeline for acceptance under the drugs repayment scheme. [1878/25]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1631. To ask the Minister for Health the current inpatient waiting lists in University Hospital Kerry, by specialty, in each of the years 2019 to date, in tabular form. [1885/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists, per grade and per LHO; the population size they serve, employed in the CHO 4 primary care child and adolescent psychology...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1634. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children and adolescents waiting for an appointment with the CHO 4 primary care psychology service in each of the years 2019 to date, in...
  • Health Services Staff
    1635. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of HSE vacancies in Kerry, broken down by location and specialism, in each of the years 2019 to date, in tabular form;...
  • Hospital Admissions
    1636. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients for each quarter of each year 2019 to 2024, inclusive, Statewide...
  • Emergency Departments
    1637. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of patients who were waiting zero to six hours, zero to nine hours, nine to 24 hours, and 24-plus hours for admission to an...
  • Hospital Services
    1639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, for each quarter of each year 2022 to 2024, inclusive, by hospital group...
  • Health Services Staff
    1642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against staff at HSE facilities in each quarter for each of the years 2019 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Ambulance Service
    1643. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance turnaround time at each emergency department in each quarter between 2020 and 2024, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, in each quarter of each year from 2019 to 2024; the...
  • Dental Services
    1648. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists on the dental treatment services scheme at the end of each quarter for each year 2019 to 2024, by LHO; the number of dentists who...
  • Health Services Staff
    1651. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE spend on agency staffing for each quarter for each year 2019 to 2024 to date, in tabular form; the services to which the expenditure relates; the...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1652. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with complex orthopaedic conditions on waiting lists with Children's Health Ireland; his plans for making treatment abroad accessible...
  • Nursing Homes
    1653. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing home beds in the State in each of the years since 2020, broken down by HSE-provided and HSE-funded under sections 38 and 39 of the...
  • Home Care Packages
    1654. To ask the Minister for Health the current hourly direct cost and indirect cost of delivering home care; the total cost of direct and indirect delivery of home care in each of the years...
  • General Practitioner Services
    1655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP training places on offer in each of the years from 2018 to 2024; the planned increases in training places; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Health Service Executive
    1656. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed update on implementation of the new HSE health regions; if the hospital groups and CHOs have been stood down; and if he will make a...
  • General Practitioner Services
    1657. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who undertook specialist training for general practice in each of the years from 2018 to 2024; the number who completed the training...
  • Dental Services
    1659. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons within CHO 4 on a waiting list for dental service in the years 2019 to date, in tabular form. [1940/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    1660. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to CAMHS psychology in CHO 4 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [1941/25]
  • Medical Records
    1662. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the digitisation of patient and medical records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1950/25]
  • General Practitioner Services
    1663. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of improved, grouped, local services for general practice patients, including X-ray facilities and ancillary services to avoid the...
  • Emergency Departments
    1664. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that emergency department staff are empowered to accept the assessment of a referring general practitioner on admitting a patient, in order...
  • Health Services Staff
    1665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to removing any recruitment embargo for front-line medical staff, whether in name or in practice; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    1667. To ask the Minister for Health the status of, and future plans for, St. Michael's Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1956/25]
  • Eating Disorders
    1668. To ask the Minister for Health to provide detail on proposals to increase the number of adults inpatient beds for eating disorder treatments; and to detail where it is expected to place...
  • Dental Services
    1669. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the current number of public dentists and the current waiting lists for public dentistry, by local area, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    1670. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the expansion of State-funded IVF treatment, as announced in budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1974/25]
  • Hospital Facilities
    1672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient residential beds available in each county, for the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    1674. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the progress being made on the construction of a ten-bed extension to the department of psychiatry, Drogheda, County Louth; the...
  • Mental Health Services
    1675. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the progress being made to return the CAMHS in Dundalk and north Louth to full operation; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Medicinal Products
    1676. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the efforts being made to ensure Ozempic is available to all those with a prescription for it; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1677. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a primary care centre in Dundalk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1985/25]
  • Emergency Departments
    1678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the average emergency department waiting times, broken down by hospital, in the years 2019 to date, in tabular form. [1994/25]
  • Disability Services
    1681. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the life plan for intellectually disabled or autistic children of parents who are now older and want to put services in place for...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    1682. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a day care facility in Cork city to cater for homeless people who exit night-time accommodation and have nowhere to access support or...
  • Abortion Services
    1683. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is proposed to accept the recommendations of the Marie O'Shea report into abortion services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2026/25]
  • Departmental Contracts
    1684. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of any public contracts in his Department provided to companies or individuals who do not pay tax in Ireland, including the names of the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1686. To ask the Minister for Health if an MRI appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2091/25]
  • Healthcare Policy
    1687. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish an all-Ireland approach to rehabilitative medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2111/25]
  • Care Services
    1689. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with a day care centre in Kildare South (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2121/25]

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