Written answers

Wednesday, 19 February 2025

  • Health Services Staff
    202. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will be issuing an exemption for educational, counselling and clinical psychology trainees from current recruitment controls for the next college...
  • Capital Expenditure Programme
    203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects his Department is engaged in with the HSE; the status of each project, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Investigations
    204. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each phase of the review into the use of surgical implants in CHI; the terms of reference for which was published by HIQA on 17 November 2023,...
  • Eating Disorders
    206. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to address the acute lack of beds for anorexia patients in the mid-west region (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Medicinal Products
    207. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug vamorolone is currently being considered for approved use by the HSE. [6471/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    208. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the resourcing and staffing for public health nurse for developmental checks in Drimnagh, Dublin 12. [6474/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    209. To ask the Minister for Health when it is intended to provide free hormone replacement therapy; if people who have been charged will be reimbursed for this cost in January and February due...
  • Health Services Staff
    210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists designated in a full-time capacity to the Carrigaline primary care centre; if there are locums; and the plans to recruit further in...
  • Mental Health Services
    211. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists designated in a full-time capacity for the south Lee area, broken down by adult primary care, child primary care, adolescent and...
  • Home Help Service
    212. To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will urgently be put in place for a person (details supplied). [6508/25]
  • Health Service Executive
    213. To ask the Minister for Health if the companies from which the HSE buy services are obliged to be audited even if they are not-for-profit companies; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    214. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by her Department or by any State or semi-State body under...
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    215. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will be introducing of a proposed licensing fee for retailers to sell tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products from 2 February 2026;...
  • Hospital Facilities
    216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of closed beds at HSE community hospitals in County Clare, by bed type and hospital location in January 2024 and January 2025, in tabular form. [6538/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    219. To ask the Minister for Health the current national deficit in consultant posts across the country, specifically in relation to vascular surgery; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on waiting lists for specialist vascular surgery care nationwide, including those awaiting initial consultation in outpatient...
  • Hospital Procedures
    221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled procedures in Our lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [6556/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    222. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug givinostat is being considered for approval for use by the HSE. [6585/25]
  • Gender Recognition
    223. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated wait time for new referrals for a first appointment with the National Gender Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6588/25]
  • Medical Cards
    235. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements of British state pension recipients ordinarily resident in this country to apply for a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Ambulance Service
    236. To ask the Minister for Health if paramedics can no longer keep response cars at their home location as it is considered a benefit-in-kind; if so, if she will intervene to overhaul the new...
  • Flexible Work Practices
    237. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Health Strategies
    238. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE Elective Hospitals Programme Demand Model; the work completed to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6722/25]
  • Disease Management
    239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff that have required to implement the National Endometriosis Framework; the number of posts already filled; the number remaining...
  • Cancer Services
    242. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure the regular (monthly or quarterly) publication of figures relating to cancer care from all hospitals, in consistent machine readable...
  • Health Strategies
    243. To ask the Minister for Health the investment in genetics testing that has been spent in Children's Health Ireland Crumlin since 2019; if the investment is considered to have kept pace with...
  • Health Services Staff
    245. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine a process where section 38 and section 39 staff could transfer to be employees of the HSE; the cost factors associated with same; and if...
  • Capital Expenditure Programme
    246. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects being undertaken by the HSE nationally that are in excess of €200 million; the status of each project, in tabular form;...
  • Departmental Consultations
    247. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects that consultancy houses are giving advice on currently; the spend per project to each consultancy house, in tabular form; and if...
  • Health Services Staff
    248. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of staff and clinicians allocated to cleft lip and palate services in Cork and Dublin respectively; the associated support services needed for same;...
  • Ambulance Service
    249. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of staff in receipt of the advanced paramedic allowance in the National Ambulance Service, region by region, and by grade code from the...

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