Written answers

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

  • Misuse of Drugs
    993. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on progress towards banning the sale of hexahydrocannabinol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23549/25]
  • Meals-on-Wheels Services
    994. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that due to delays in funding approval for certain service users, an organisation (details supplied) must pay out of pocket to provide meals...
  • Patient Transport
    995. To ask the Minister for Health the hospital transport budget for all hospitals in the south-east and mid-west regions; the qualifying criteria for patients availing of hospital transport;...
  • Health Services
    997. To ask the Minister for Health the services and treatment options that are available for people with a disease (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23177/25]
  • Primary Care Centres
    998. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care centre for An Cheathrú Rua, County Galway; when the business case will be completed; and if the details for the business...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    999. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23182/25]
  • Medicinal Products
    1000. To ask the Minister for Health for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation regulating medical advertising and labelling, in particular the legislation regulating what health...
  • Departmental Strategies
    1001. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the innovation and economic growth section of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland; whether she views the...
  • Health Services Staff
    1004. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and psychology service staff currently working at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
  • Ambulance Service
    1005. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recent announcement by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) on the recruitment of additional staff does not include any additional paramedic...
  • Dental Services
    1006. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1568 of 19 March 2025, if she will review this case again where a child (details supplied) has been on a waiting list...
  • Mental Health Services
    1007. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no permanent psychiatry expertise or consultants available on a 24-7 basis to address emergency psychiatry admissions of patients under 18...
  • State Claims Agency
    1009. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times has the State Claims Agency paid the legal costs and-or compensation incurred by a private company such as a clinic (details supplied) in...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-invasive pregnancy test providers that supply the Irish market; the number of these that are located abroad; the number of these that do not...
  • Health Promotion
    1012. To ask the Minister for Health if any further steps are planned to resolve the impact vaping is having on our young people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23276/25]
  • Departmental Data
    1013. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of spiking that have been reported in the past five years, per county; including reports to hospitals and gardaí, in tabular form;...
  • Departmental Reviews
    1014. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details regarding the traction system referred to in HIQA’s review on governance of implantable medical devices at Children’s...
  • Nursing Homes
    1015. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the national treatment purchase fund review of the nursing home pricing system, given that the programme for...
  • Vaccination Programme
    1016. To ask the Minister for Health if she will explain the reason the shingles vaccine is not included in the national immunisation programme, despite overwhelming clinical evidence of its...
  • Energy Usage
    1022. To ask the Minister for Health the specific measures taken in her departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our climate targets for 2030;...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1023. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 25 April 2024 if she will now expedite the urgent aftercare required by a person who had cataracts removed under...
  • Mental Health Services
    1025. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment to attend CAMHS, Kilkenny, will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [23432/25]
  • Primary Care Services
    1026. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals on the waiting list for primary care occupational therapy services in Carlow and Kilkenny; the steps being taken to reduce the...
  • Obesity Levels
    1027. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commission a comprehensive national report on the prevalence and projected trends of obesity in Ireland, with particular reference to the growing...
  • Health Services Staff
    1028. To ask the Minister for Health if an HSE employee who was granted a career break in 2023 and sought to return to work in September 2024 will be approved to return immediately; if she will...
  • Care Services
    1029. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for funding and for a carer for HSE home support in each month of 2025, by RHA and IHA; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1030. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [23445/25]
  • Hospital Facilities
    1031. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the bed base occupancy rates for each model 3 and model 4 hospital in this State as of 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, or on similar and relevant...
  • Emergency Departments
    1032. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the increase in emergency department (ED) presentations for each model 3 and model 4 hospital ED between 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, and their...
  • Medicinal Products
    1033. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request the HSE to make the new, life changing prostate cancer therapy, pluvicto, a treatment that has been approved by the European Medicines...
  • Mental Health Services
    1035. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to ensure that the current 15- to 18-month wait for an appointment on referral to the ADMiRE Clinic in CAMHS is decreased; the efforts...
  • Health Services Staff
    1036. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the recruitment of staff for the ADHD clinic in CHO 7. [23499/25]
  • Primary Care Centres
    1037. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the proposed site for the north east primary care centre, and what planning stage the project is at. [23500/25]
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    1039. To ask the Minister for Health if smaller and independent shopkeepers will be exempted from the hefty tobacco products licence fees, as per the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1040. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long on an operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23519/25]
  • Medical Cards
    1041. To ask the Minister for Health whether weight loss medication (details supplied) can be covered under the medical card scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23521/25]
  • Hospital Services
    1042. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details regarding the private clinic located at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street; the details of the contract with the...
  • Hospital Complaints Procedures
    1043. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints Children’s Health Ireland received in 2024; the response time for complaints; the percentage of complaints which required...
  • Hospital Staff
    1046. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if a number of required positions have been filled in Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service; and the number that...
  • Hospital Services
    1047. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the number of spina bifida multidisciplinary team clinics held in Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number at which a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1050. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists at University Hospital Kerry, broken down by speciality, in each of the years 2015 to date; and if she will make a...
  • Emergency Departments
    1051. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of average accident and emergency waiting list times, broken down by hospital, in each of the years 2015 to date; and if she will make...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1052. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the numbers of persons on CAMHS psychology waiting lists in Kerry; the average waiting times to access these services; to provide a...
  • Misuse of Drugs
    1053. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on progress towards banning the sale of hexahydrocannabinol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23548/25]
  • Care Services
    1054. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive care supports, and how her Department plans to address the shortfall in supports available to those suffering...
  • Health and Safety
    1055. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ban the use of sunbeds, as endorsed by the Taoiseach; if, in the interim, she will take action to ensure that sun bed providers are not accepting...
  • Medical Cards
    1056. To ask the Minister for Health whether Addison’s disease be covered under the medical card and the drugs repayment scheme. [23557/25]
  • Eating Disorders
    1057. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the actions she is taking to support children with eating disorders (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
  • General Practitioner Services
    1058. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists for GPs in Kerry in each of the years 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Primary Care Services
    1059. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists for primary care services in Kerry in each of the years 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
  • Mental Health Services
    1060. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists for psychological services in Kerry, broken down by child, young person and adult, in each of the years 2015 to date,...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    1062. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new elective hospital for North Dublin will proceed to a formal planning application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23624/25]
  • Emergency Departments
    1072. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has undertaken to deliver a new expanded modern accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    1074. To ask the Minister for Health what capacity will the new accident and emergency department in Beaumont Hospital have compared to the current emergency department; and if she will make a...
  • Hospital Services
    1085. To ask the Minister for Health to request the HSE to review and put in place a referral pathway for patients and key resources, to make more use of the Children's Health Ireland Urgent Care...
  • Health Services Staff
    1087. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of speech and language therapists currently employed within CHO 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23654/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    1088. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at University Hospital Limerick in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form....
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    1089. To ask the Minister for Health the projects in County Clare that are included in the HSE Capital Plan 2025; the funding allocated to each in this plan; and the timeframe for progress of...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1090. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for psychology services in primary care within CHO 3. [23663/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1091. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE lactation consultants based within community care settings of CHO 3 in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [23664/25]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1092. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently consider the case of a person (details supplied), aged 51-years-old and suffering with MS, who is currently awaiting assessment by a...
  • Health Services
    1093. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is suffering from a chronic neurological disorder and enduring constant debilitating pain has not got the benefit...
  • Planning Issues
    1094. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that aero-medical and special operations section of the Health Service Executive and Galway University Hospital have confirmed their satisfaction...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1095. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred by University Hospital Limerick for prostate surgery at St....
  • Hospital Services
    1096. To ask the Minister for Health if the operating hours for ultrasounds at University Hospital Galway will be expanded beyond the current operating hours of Monday to Friday between 9 a.m....
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    1098. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers with Covid-19 currently in receipt of the special leave with pay. [23714/25]
  • Medical Aids and Appliances
    1099. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 27 March 2025, if she will provide a detailed breakdown of the reasons 132 of the 200 appeals to reimbursement...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    1101. To ask the Minister for Health her plans for healthcare workers with Covid-19 upon the ending of the special leave with pay but who continue to suffer disabling symptoms that render them...
  • Medical Cards
    1102. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card scheme does not cover the cost of providing a GP medical cert, which is a requirement for over 70-year-old applicants to a renew a...
  • Mental Health Services
    1103. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1104. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on occupational therapy waiting lists in County Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
  • Dental Services
    1106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting dental appointments in County Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
  • Hospital Staff
    1107. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies within University Hospital Kerry, by occupation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23760/25]
  • Health Services
    1108. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for adults special care needs GA waiting list for routine dental care in each hospital, in tabular form. [23782/25]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1109. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the number of patients on the public waiting list for cataract surgery as at the end of April 2025, male or female, age, and how long they...
  • Departmental Bodies
    1110. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of her Department, focusing particularly on...
  • Nursing Homes
    1119. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the current situation whereby vulnerable elderly sick people in need of nursing home care, either short- or long-term, are being placed in...
  • Departmental Schemes
    1120. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to review the eligibility criteria for the long-term illness scheme to include inflammatory bowel conditions, such as Crohn’s disease and...
  • Abortion Services
    1121. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision was taken at Department of Health and HSE level, prior to the abortion law changing in 2019, to adopt an approach to pregnancy counselling...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    1126. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps her Department has taken to expand IVF support to those experiencing secondary infertility; the supports currently in place for secondary...
  • Primary Care Centres
    1127. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to re-advertise the tender for the construction of a primary care centre in Portumna, County Galway; and if she will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1128. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list in Crumlin Childrens Hospital dental section; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24066/25]
  • Hospital Services
    1129. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that the dental section in Crumlin Childrens Hospital is not doing any preventive dental care at present, unless it is an emergency, due to...
  • Hospital Staff
    1130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts in orthodontics in Crumlin Childrens Hospital that are currently waiting to be filled, how long the vacancies have existed; and if...
  • Hospital Services
    1131. To ask the Minister for Health if patients currently on waiting lists for procedures will be referred for the new Swords surgical hub when it opens later in 2025; and if she will make a...
  • Nursing Homes
    1132. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department has undertaken to ensure that the fair deal scheme does not impede succession planning in particular the succession of agricultural...
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    1133. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on her plans to commence each section of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Medical Qualifications
    1134. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department has undertaken with the Department of Further and Higher Education and third level institutions to increase the supply of graduates...
  • Health Services
    1135. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on her work to ensure even more routine healthcare services are available in the evenings and weekends as mentioned in the Programme for...
  • Vaccination Programme
    1136. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work her Department has undertaken through the Laura Brennan HPV Catch Up Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Health Services
    1137. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work her Department has carried out to work towards the full digitisation of Irish healthcare records; and if she will make a statement...
  • Health Services Staff
    1139. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department has undertaken to advertise outside of Ireland for healthcare professionals and healthcare workers; and if she will make a statement...
  • General Practitioner Services
    1140. To ask the Minister for Health the share of GMS practices that receive the social deprivation practice grant, from the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
  • Health Services
    1142. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of amputees in Ireland is collated in a national database; if not, the reason; if she plans to establish a database of amputees to inform and...
  • Health Service Executive
    1145. To ask the Minister for Health the list of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24118/25]
  • Oireachtas Committees
    1146. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which she will ensure the Disability Committee is accessible to parents and carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24116/25]
  • Dental Services
    1147. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices that are currently accepting new medical card patients in the Cork area and the south Lee area as of now, and at this same...
  • Health Services
    1149. To ask the Minister for Health whether dialysis patients travel together via taxi. [24121/25]
  • Health Service Executive
    1150. To ask the Minister for Health if sustainability for climate criteria are written into the HSE’s procurement policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24189/25]
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    1152. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to address the waiting lists regarding assessment of needs tests for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24198/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1154. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the current staffing levels within CAMHS teams in west Cork and the wider Cork area; and the number of children who have been referred...
  • Hospital Services
    1155. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on any plans or protocols for children who present to accident and emergency departments with psychiatric crises; and if...
  • Mental Health Services
    1156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to CAMHS by CHO7 in the past 12 months; the number of those referrals rejected by CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Facilities
    1157. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the infrastructure needs at University Hospital Kerry (details supplied). [15084/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    1158. To ask the Minister for Health the redress that has already been delivered and is further planned for patients and their families who were found to have suffered at the hands of the...
  • Abortion Services
    1159. To ask the Minister for Health if, given the HSE’s statement highlighting a link between telemedicine abortion and coercive control, she will commit to ending the practice of...
  • Assisted Decision-Making
    1160. To ask the Minister for Health the rights parents or guardians have to be consulted and involved in medical decisions during the decision-making representative application process; if...
  • Health Services Staff
    1161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people availing of the temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees unfit for work post-Covid-19 infection; if she will...
  • Dental Services
    1162. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) can have the dental intervention they need, within a timeframe that allows them to...
  • Health Service Executive
    1163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in adult mental health services in CHO7; the number of child and adolescent mental health service beds in CHO7; the average waiting time to...
  • Hospital Services
    1164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in each private hospital nationwide are currently occupied by a patient who first presented to a public hospital, but was transferred by...
  • Health Services Staff
    1167. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the introduction of a regulatory framework for the currently unregulated role of physician assistants, enabling this role to be formally...
  • Home Help Service
    1169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elderly people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Mental Health Services
    1170. To ask the Minister for Health to outline her plans to provide an alternative to accident and emergency for people experiencing a mental health crisis; if this will be included in her...
  • Hospital Staff
    1172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE secretaries working with each consultant paediatric dermatologist based at CHI Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form....
  • Primary Care Centres
    1173. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of primary care centres where intravitreal injections for age-related macular degeneration currently takes place. [24288/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologists working in the public health service; her plans to expand this number; and the international recommended best...
  • Health Services
    1176. To ask the Minister for Health to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who urgently needs a transfer of care to a medical consultant/team, a full-time healthcare assistant...
  • Tobacco Control Measures
    1177. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered the potential impact of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2024 on specialty vape shops from a ban on vape...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    1180. To ask the Minister for Health if the possibility could be examined of amalgamating appointments (details supplied), as trying to get to all of the appointments in two different places will...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1181. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to keep the model of care for long-Covid under review, as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Meals-on-Wheels Services
    1183. To ask the Minister for Health if she will approve the outstanding service level agreement for a meals on wheels group (details supplied); if funding will be provided as agreed in 2024,...
  • Medical Cards
    1184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of over 70's medical cards in circulation at the end of April 2025, for each local health area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
  • Health Services Staff
    1185. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, the current staffing shortfall at the HSE’s Galway community audiology services; when the...
  • Medical Cards
    1186. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a medical card holder (details supplied) needing assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24356/25]
  • Health Services
    1187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients undergoing treatment for sleep disorders in Ireland in each of the years 2020 to 2024, and as of 30 April 2025, in tabular form; and if...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting diagnosis for sleep apnoea in Ireland, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24360/25]
  • Health Services
    1189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients undergoing treatment for sleep apnoea in Ireland in each of the years 2020 to 2024, and as of 30 April 2025, in tabular form; and if...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1191. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the creation of a national sleep programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24363/25]
  • Cancer Services
    1193. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether it is appropriate that there is no national skin cancer screening programme in Ireland at present; if there are any plans to establish...
  • Healthcare Policy
    1195. To ask the Minister for Health to estimate the current annual costs to the Exchequer of treating skin cancer and related conditions. [24379/25]
  • Hospital Services
    1197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have undergone genetic testing at St. James's Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [24381/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    1198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE public health nurses covering the Palmerstown area in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [24382/25]
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    1200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 5A waiting list patients seen in the CHO7 area under the HSE orthopaedic treatment waiting list initiative in 2024. [24384/25]
  • Hospital Staff
    1201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, at functional neurological disorder services at St. James's Hospital; and the expected timeframe for filling...
  • Health Services Staff
    1202. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric plastic surgeons based at CHI Crumlin in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [24386/25]
  • Mental Health Services
    1203. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an urgent CAMHS assessment following GP referral, given their severe behavioural challenges and significant...
  • Health Services
    1206. To ask the Minister for Health the coordinated care pathways available for children with multiple diagnoses, such as ASD, epilepsy, and speech delays, who are ineligible for CAMHS and...
  • Mental Health Services
    1207. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department will intervene in the case of a child (details supplied). [24405/25]
  • Health Services
    1208. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the future of the physiotherapy service currently based in St. Joseph's Campus in Longford town; if she is aware that the...
  • Cancer Research
    1209. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to increase the number of clinical trials, with a strong focus on cancer drugs. [24415/25]
  • Voluntary Hospital Sector
    1210. To ask the Minister for Health the accumulated deficits of each voluntary hospital nationwide as reported to her Department and or the HSE as of 1 January 2025, in tabular form; and if she...
  • Hospital Facilities
    1212. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that all emergency departments across the State have a safe space for cancer patients, forced to access care through this route. [24446/25]
  • Medical Cards
    1213. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that all diagnosed cancer patients receive a medical card. [24447/25]
  • Healthcare Policy
    1214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and the reason for the delay in signing off on regulations and commencement of inquiry into the historical licensing and use of sodium valproate...
  • Abortion Services
    1215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare providers who provide abortion services in each county, both in raw figures and as a percentage of total healthcare provision cover,...
  • Health Services Staff
    1216. To ask the Minister for Health if the appointment of a paediatric rheumatologist for the Munster region is being considered, given the strong demand for such a service by those suffering...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    1217. To ask the Minister for Health whether the helipad at the new National Children’s Hospital will be capable of accommodating the new AgustaWestland AW189 helicopters used by the Irish...
  • Health Services
    1219. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene in the dispute between the HSE and healthcare workers in relation to the pay and numbers strategy; the discussions she has had regarding...
  • Departmental Policies
    1220. To ask the Minister for Health the action she is planning to take on the implementation of alcohol labelling, as per Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; her views on the proposed pausing or...
  • Home Help Service
    1221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, broken by area and by length of time, in tabular form [24945/25]

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