Written answers

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

 
  • Disability Services
    623. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the status of Cheeverstown House, Templeogue, Dublin 6W; if it is ultimately planned to wind...
  • Ukraine War
    624. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has undertaken an impact assessment of varying the accommodation recognition payment; and, if...
  • International Protection
    625. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of a case of Syrian refugees in Jordan who have Irish resettlement papers and are at risk of...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average length of time of assessments of needs nationally, in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and the number of...
  • Health Services
    629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will adopt a standard criterion for the diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Ireland; and if...
  • Departmental Data
    630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1056 of 19 March 2025, and the letter provided from the HSE in respect of...
  • Mother and Baby Homes
    631. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to purchase the remaining Bessborough grounds; her plans for memorialisation on the site; and if she...
  • Departmental Data
    632. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of health and social care professional positions approved, and the number of social care professional...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    633. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current wait times for a child to receive an initial assessment for autism in the Cork city HSE area. [15075/25]
  • Children in Care
    634. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in residential care at a location in Tipperary (details supplied); the capacity...
  • Care Services
    635. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a list of respite facilities currently accessible to adults with special and additional...
  • Disability Services
    636. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware that people with disabilities using day services in CHO1 are subject to a €4 daily...
  • Grant Payments
    638. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports offered by her Department for upgrading and maintenance of playground facilities, including the...
  • Departmental Data
    639. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a full cost benefit analysis has been carried out on the use of rural hotels for IPAS accommodation; the...
  • Departmental Staff
    640. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will confirm that any pay deal in regard to section 39 workers will cover all section 39 workers; and if...
  • Mother and Baby Homes
    641. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the redress, supports or services available to individuals who spent time in a mother and baby home, but fell...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    642. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will investigate the case of a child (details supplied) with significant additional needs, who has been...
  • Care Services
    643. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria required for a person in County Kerry (details supplied) who wishes to set up a business to provide...
  • Departmental Data
    644. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will continue to financially support, and endorse, the successful roll out across County Kerry, and...
  • Departmental Investigations
    645. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine the case of a person (details supplied). [15399/25]
  • Childcare Services
    646. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding a childcare centre (details supplied), the reason only six days’ notice was given to notify the...
  • Departmental Investigations
    647. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15447/25]
  • Care Services
    648. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will ensure respite services are provided to families in a care centre (details supplied); and if she...
  • Departmental Data
    649. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children of relevant age not attending an ECCE programme in 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a...
  • Disability Services
    650. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the children's disability...
  • Departmental Strategies
    651. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the national LGBTQI+ inclusion strategy II expected to be available to the public, and what her role is in...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    652. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will give consideration to issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to assessments...
  • Ukraine War
    653. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can confirm the continuation of the accommodation recognition payment to Ukrainian refugees; and if she...
  • Departmental Funding
    654. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding increase in capital funding for an organisation (details supplied); and the supports in place to help...
  • International Protection
    655. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria and processes being used to assess the suitability of the former St. Mary’s Secondary School...
  • Childcare Services
    665. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding provided to each city and county childcare committee in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular...
  • International Protection
    666. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres approved in each Gaeltacht, by year for past five years, and by Gaeltacht area; the...
  • Care Services
    668. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline Tusla’s separation policy in instances where multiple siblings from a family are in...
  • Middle East
    669. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will review a case concerning two Palestinian people (details provided) who have been evacuated from Gaza...
  • Departmental Data
    670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with respect to the 14,221 children who are now overdue an assessment of need, the engagement she has made with...
  • Citizens' Assembly
    671. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions recommended in the Report of the Citizen's Assembly on Gender Equality; the action plan produced by...
  • Irish Sign Language
    672. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of social media videos posted on her Department's social media accounts that included closed...
  • Child and Family Agency
    673. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 26 February 2025, if she will confirm whether or not supports and...
  • Departmental Data
    674. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessments of need that result in no diagnosis and no need for support afterwards; for a...
  • Departmental Programmes
    676. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been taken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
  • Departmental Schemes
    682. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
  • Departmental Programmes
    683. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
  • Departmental Funding
    685. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
  • Departmental Programmes
    686. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    687. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
  • Departmental Schemes
    688. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will engage with a group (details supplied) on issues of concern regarding the Bessborough site and the...
  • Departmental Programmes
    689. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
  • Departmental Funding
    692. To ask the Minister for Health to outline whether there are plans to provide additional financial assistance to drugs and alcohol task forces to assist with the extra costs associated with...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    693. To ask the Minister for Health since the introduction of the national access policy in 2022, the number of children placed on the waiting list for autism assessment by a primary care team in...
  • Departmental Data
    694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children assessed for autism by the primary care team in County Clare since the introduction of the national access policy in 2022; and if she...
  • Departmental Funding
    695. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the funding provided by her Department to CareGivers Ireland in 2022, 2023 and 2024; to confirm which section of the relevant legislation this...
  • Health Service Executive
    696. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delay in the HSE providing a reply to a representation submitted by my office in April 2024 (details supplied); and when a reply will be...
  • Departmental Reviews
    697. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15010/25]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    698. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists at Cork University Hospital for CT, MRI and ultrasound scans, in each quarter from 2022, to date in 2025; and the...
  • Health Services Staff
    699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time psychologists, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists employed by the HSE in each CDNT nationwide; and the number...
  • Hospital Charges
    700. To ask the Minister for Health to review hospital car-parking charges for certain cohorts of patient (details supplied) [15036/25]
  • Hospital Admissions
    701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who currently remain in hospital but are clinically discharged and for each of the past five years. [15037/25]
  • Hospital Procedures
    703. To ask the Minister for Health is she aware that once cancer treatment is completed, some patients are prescribed high tech medication for which the HSE can only allow a three-month script,...
  • Departmental Schemes
    704. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on extending the age group that can get access to bowel screening (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Care Services
    705. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends introducing registration for care workers and home carers, much like registration of social care workers through CORU following qualification;...
  • Hospital Services
    706. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the provision of MRI scans in Cavan and Monaghan hospitals; the number and location of all scanners; current waiting lists to access...
  • Hospital Staff
    707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions that have been advertised and have not been filled to date in all our hospitals during the past five years, in tabular form; and...
  • Departmental Budgets
    708. To ask the Minister for Health the capital budget or total capital spend at Beaumont Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    710. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to reduce the current waiting list (details supplied) to attend the ophthalmology outpatient's department of University Hospital...
  • Hospital Services
    711. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 889 of 25 February 2025, if she will provide children with life changing conditions attending St. Lukes Hospital Kilkenny...
  • Departmental Reviews
    712. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15069/25]
  • Health Service Executive
    713. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to increase HSE home support hours for the elderly following a report that CHO 4 has had a waiting list of over 1,000 since 2022,...
  • Departmental Funding
    714. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of allocating the historic funding for pulmonary fibrosis in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15078/25]
  • Health Service Executive
    715. To ask the Minister for Health the regional executive officers or HSE Department given Section 39 granting authority for pulmonary fibrosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Health Services Staff
    717. To ask the Minister for Health the details on the situation in Rosmuc, Leitir Mealláin and Carraroe with regard to ensuring a locum is in place; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Admissions
    718. To ask the Minister for Health when new patients will be accepted to a community hospital in Donegal, which is being delayed by HIQA; and if she will contact HIQA and request it to finalise...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to the PCAAT based at the HSE primary care unit in Callan, County Kilkenny, currently waiting for an assessment; the average waiting...
  • Health Services
    720. To ask the Minister for Health to intervene to provide adequate speech and language therapy services at a school (details supplied), to stop the erosion of this much needed resource at the...
  • Dental Services
    721. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the orthodontal treatment of a child (details supplied); if she will ensure that this child secures the orthodontal treatment they need as a...
  • Emergency Services
    722. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the resignation of multiple helicopter emergency medical service paramedics due to safety concerns (details supplied); the steps being taken...
  • Health Service Executive
    723. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment by the HSE; if she can advise when this assessment will be carried out; if there...
  • Hospital Facilities
    724. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the minimum of 29 post-acute inpatient beds dedicated to neurorehabilitation across counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. [15128/25]
  • Health Service Executive
    725. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a map of the lots to be retained by the HSE at a location (details supplied), the lots to be sold, and the lands across from the main campus owned...
  • Ambulance Service
    726. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the establishment of a new service ambulance base and education centre for the National Ambulance Service on a HSE owned site (details...
  • Hospital Staff
    727. To ask the Minister for Health if she has heard reports of a high prevalence of zero hour contracts being used for healthcare assistants at St. Vincent's Hospital Dublin; the number of such...
  • Disease Management
    728. To ask the Minister for Health the number people with type 1 diabetes admitted for hospital in-patient treatment in 2023 and 2024, by hospital; how many of these were using continuous...
  • Health Services Staff
    729. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given for additional staff as a matter of extreme urgency to allow two respite beds (details supplied) reopen at the earliest possible...
  • Health Service Executive
    730. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has discontinued the provision of a diabetic foot clinic service at Aughnacliffe, Medical Centre, Aughnacliffe, County Longford, which was...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    731. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting since 2020 for an ENT appointment. [15227/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    732. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts under active recruitment, broken down across disciplines, including, but not restricted to, psychology, radiation therapy and social...
  • Hospital Staff
    734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dermatologist registrars based at Tallaght University Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15248/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for WTE cardiological specialist, by job title and by CHO region, in tabular form. [15249/25]
  • Middle East
    736. To ask the Minister for Health if she or Ministers of State from her Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food, water, and electricity to...
  • Mental Health Services
    737. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of vacancies in Waterford mental health services, Waterford CAMHS and University Hospital Waterford department of psychiatry, including the...
  • Ambulance Service
    738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances available, on average, daily in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15279/25]
  • Health Service Executive
    741. To ask the Minister for Health whether the oral immunotherapy drug known as palforzia, used by people who have peanut allergies, has been approved by the HSE for reimbursement; its current...
  • Health Services Staff
    742. To ask the Minister for Health if a position (details supplied) will be filled; the status of those on the panel since 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15287/25]
  • Ambulance Service
    743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons recruited for the National Ambulance Service in each county over each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    746. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce waiting times at the accident and emergency department of Naas General Hospital. [15304/25]
  • Care Services
    747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE-funded day care centres within CHO7 for older persons where transport is provided to services users to and from their homes where the service...
  • Hospital Staff
    748. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in endocrinology at Beaumont Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15306/25]
  • Addiction Treatment Services
    750. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of the addiction services in Carlow and Kilkenny, and the funding they receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15311/25]
  • Healthcare Policy
    751. To ask the Minister for Health to address issues in regard to the national oral health policy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15312/25]
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    752. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list time for counselling in the HSE national counselling service in the Louth/Meath area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Funding
    753. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to fund a community neurorehabilitation team for the north Dublin area as promised in 2019, in order to provide access to vital therapies for people...
  • Departmental Meetings
    754. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet with a person (details supplied) as per their request; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15316/25]
  • Departmental Funding
    755. To ask the Minister for Health if she will assist a group with funding for an event (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15317/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior grade psychologists based in community care within CHO4 in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15352/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    757. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general adult psychiatrists based at Cork University Hospital in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15353/25]
  • Emergency Services
    758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 24-7 HSE rapid response vehicles based in Cork, by location, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15354/25]
  • Departmental Schemes
    759. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently carry out changes to the fair deal scheme given certain anomalies in the scheme (details supplied). [15361/25]
  • Health Services
    760. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no publicly funded routes to access diagnostic services in the southeast for autistic and ADHD adults, especially as public diagnostic...
  • Healthcare Policy
    762. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to ensure that medical professionals receive an adequate amount of experience and training with neurodivergent persons; and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Schemes
    763. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the standardising of the community funded scheme for post-mastectomy products and wigs-hair pieces; when consistent funding will be available...
  • Insurance Coverage
    764. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the payment due for health scans such as CT, MRI, and so on are accepted from the patients' health insurance or medical card, which is...
  • Mental Health Services
    765. To ask the Minister for Health whether a publicly available progress summary covering some or all of the 49 recommendations made in the independent review of the Child and Adolescent Mental...
  • Hospital Facilities
    766. To ask the Minister for Health if Ennis Hospital will no longer accept card or cheque payments from patients; if patients will need to pay via a centralised office on the east coast; and if...
  • Health Service Executive
    767. To ask the Minister for Health if she or any of her Departmental staff were made aware of payroll overpayments within the HSE prior to release of an internal audit on 25 March 2025; and if...
  • Health Services Staff
    768. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses employed in the Lucan area every five years from 1981 to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15415/25]
  • Care of the Elderly
    771. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly funded community groups servicing the needs of older people in the Lucan area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15418/25]
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    772. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for a building, and possible use of the building (details supplied) as a community-led health and wellbeing centre; and if she will make a statement...
  • Departmental Inquiries
    773. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for completion of the audit the clinical audit to look at a sample of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) surgeries performed between...
  • Health Service Executive
    774. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are local people living and paying cash rent to rent bungalows in a hospital in Athy; if the HSE were ever told about the significant risk of...
  • Mental Health Services
    775. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a patient (details supplied) is urgently afforded access to an appointment with a psychiatrist. [15554/25]
  • General Practitioner Services
    776. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to address the severe shortage of GPs in Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15557/25]
  • Departmental Data
    777. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients presenting at hospitals (details supplied) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15567/25]
  • Childcare Services
    781. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports available for a child’s eyecare costs, specifically eye tests, specialist lenses, and so on; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Schemes
    782. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on her discussions with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the rollout of the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Primary Care Services
    784. To ask the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Ennis primary healthcare centre at Station Road, Ennis, County Clare; and the additional staffing and services...
  • Hospital Staff
    786. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of whole-time equivalent positions at University Hospital Limerick and within the UL Hospitals Group on 1 March 2024 and on 1...
  • Health Services
    787. To ask the Minister for Health to outline plans to extend opening hours of the local injuries unit at Ennis Hospital; to provide details of progress being made on the expansion of the...
  • Hospital Facilities
    788. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposed provision and operation of a contracted satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis Hospital, County Clare; and the reason for...
  • Departmental Data
    789. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals reimbursed for their insulin pump training and-or its consumables through the EU Treatment Abroad or Cross Border Healthcare Scheme...
  • Departmental Schemes
    790. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that access the Omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSE's exceptional hardship scheme or have done so...
  • Departmental Data
    791. To ask the Minister for Health to provide data for the Model 4 hospitals (Beaumont, St. James's, St. Vincent's, University Hospital Galway, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital...
  • Departmental Funding
    793. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be allocated for transgender services before the national clinical programme for gender healthcare is complete; and if she will make...
  • Departmental Data
    794. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hours the National Gender Service has spent assisting the UK prison service, and the estimated cost of this to date. [15626/25]
  • Family Reunification
    796. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review a case concerning two Palestinian people (details provided) who have been evacuated from Gaza and are in receipt of a family reunification...
  • Departmental Data
    797. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 19 February 2025, to provide details of the retail impact assessment and SME test carried out as part of her...
  • Citizens' Assembly
    798. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to action the recommendations of the citizens’ assembly on drug use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15650/25]
  • Cancer Services
    799. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is providing any assistance to cancer patients from Laois who must travel to Dublin hospitals for treatment around parking charges, and her...
  • Health Services
    800. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will continue its safer nightlife programme ahead of summer 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15678/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    801. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand access to naloxone for frontline health workers in order to help reduce drug deaths; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15684/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    802. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by the HSE on independent and privately run mental health services, outside the Irish State, from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [15699/25]
  • Grant Payments
    803. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assistance or grants available for persons with prosthetic eyes. [15707/25]
  • Departmental Data
    804. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of phase 2 of the HSE’s hospital performance visualisation platform. [15712/25]
  • Departmental Inquiries
    805. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 19 February 2025, given that the National Gender Service is unable to provide any examples of companies that have...
  • Departmental Data
    808. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, given the National Gender Service indicates that it cannot reliably quantify the potential for...
  • Health Strategies
    812. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 19 February 2025, the means by which people with lived experience will be involved in the Gender Healthcare...
  • Irish Sign Language
    813. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of social media videos posted on her Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    814. To ask the Minister for Health for her plans to outline her plans to reduce excessive waiting times for accessing genetic counselling services for individuals discharged from hospital care...
  • Health Services
    815. To ask the Minister for Health for what supports exist post-discharge for families dealing with complex medical conditions, particularly regarding feeding difficulties and early...
  • Cancer Services
    816. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that terminal cancer patients are being deprioritised for life-saving and urgent treatment in accident and emergency in favour of flu patients,...
  • Hospital Deaths
    818. To ask the Minister for Health if she will conduct a review into a number of inquests and High Court cases (details supplied); if not, her reasoning; the research, if any, her Department has...
  • Hospital Investigations
    819. To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations and reviews held into serious reportable events in maternity units between 2016 and 2023 which resulted in negative outcomes in...
  • Mortality Rates
    820. To ask the Minister for Health the basis for the HSE’s current definition of perinatal mortality rate for the purposes of inclusion on maternity patient safety statements (details...
  • Departmental Data
    821. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any regularly updated public-facing data sources that can be easily accessed by members of the public which state the number of babies under 2.5...
  • Primary Care Centres
    822. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of primary care centres in the State, by regional health area and integrated healthcare area (details supplied), in tabular form; the number...
  • General Practitioner Services
    824. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the strategic review of general practice; the timeline she is working towards for publication; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Deaths
    825. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to give greater statutory recognition and entitlements to women who experience pregnancy loss. [15804/25]
  • Departmental Data
    826. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown, by local health office or local electoral area of the 152 drug poisoning deaths reported for Dublin by the health research board in 2021...
  • Home Help Service
    828. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients approved for home support in Cork and waiting for the care to commence; the HSE’s plan on recruitment of home support workers;...
  • Primary Care Services
    829. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for primary care speech and language therapy in Cork per community health network, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services Staff
    830. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels in community healthcare network 4, northwest Cork; the current vacancies that exist in the network and the measures being put in...
  • Eating Disorders
    831. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the rollout of eating disorder teams; the funding allocated to the rollout for 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Hospital Facilities
    832. To ask the Minister for Health the amount three hospitals (details supplied) earned in car parking fees in 2024. [15851/25]
  • Eating Disorders
    833. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults that presented to accident and emergency departments with eating disorders in 2024 and to date in 2025. [15853/25]

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