Written answers

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

  • Medicinal Products
    223. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the Medicines Management Programme plan to move all high protein oral supplements to List B; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36243/25]
  • Hospital Procedures
    224. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of blood tests for Letterkenny University Hospital that are outsourced from March 2024; the cost of this outsourcing during this period; the...
  • Nursing Homes
    225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in nursing homes living with early onset Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions; and if she will make a...
  • Hospital Services
    227. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Cherry Orchard Hospital campus is not being used to provide a full range of services for people with neurodegenerative conditions in Dublin Mid-West...
  • Food Labelling
    228. To ask the Minister for Health the reason she continues to deflect responsibility for bilingual food and drink labelling to the Department of Rural and Community Development and the...
  • Medical Cards
    230. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to granting an automatic entitlement to a medical card to patients who are prescribed oxygen (details supplied). [36256/25]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    231. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) who has been referred for cataract surgery at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will...
  • Departmental Schemes
    232. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case for an addition to the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36269/25]
  • Product Labelling
    233. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the updated regulations on alcohol labelling including calorie content, health warnings and other information; and if she will make a...
  • Public Sector Pensions
    235. To ask the Minister for Health whether the widow or widower of a person formerly employed by the health service, predating the introduction of PRSI for public servants, has an entitlement to...
  • Health Services
    236. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the cases of two young children (details supplied) who have undergone surgery for hip dysplasia; and when their family will receive their review...
  • Mental Health Services
    237. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive psychological services through CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36289/25]
  • Assisted Human Reproduction
    238. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022, including the establishment of the Assisted Human...
  • Mental Health Services
    239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health patients currently receiving treatment in facilities in the United Kingdom funded by the HSE; the length of time each patient has...
  • Health Strategies
    240. To ask the Minister for Health the expected capital expenditure required in future years to underpin the implementation in full of ‘Digital for Care: A Digital Health Framework for...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    241. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait times for appointments at the epilepsy monitoring unit at a hospital (details supplied); the number of patients currently awaiting...
  • Hospital Equipment
    243. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the installation of a PET scanner at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36356/25]
  • Hospital Facilities
    244. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital (details supplied) in Cork will provide the full allocation of beds in its dementia unit to the public; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Hospital Staff
    248. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing numbers at the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital, broken down...
  • Dental Services
    249. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in Fingal west who attended an HSE dentist in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    250. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for general adult psychological counselling, including HSE primary care psychology and GPs referring to mental health services; and...
  • National Treatment Purchase Fund
    252. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of public funding that has been allocated to the NTP fund in 2024 and 2025; and the amount of that funding that has been used for outsourcing public...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    253. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time, by hospital group and speciality, for inpatient and day-case procedures; and the five longest specialties in terms of average wait...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    254. To ask the Minister for Health if she will accept the Labour Court’s recommendation to extend the special scheme of paid leave for certain eligible public health sector employees...
  • Healthcare Policy
    255. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering including fibromyalgia as a long-term illness; if she will consider access for patients to GP visit cards/medical cards regardless of...
  • Medicinal Products
    256. To ask the Minister for Health if she will instruct the HSE to cease plans to move all high-protein oral nutritional supplements to list B (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Hospital Procedures
    257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments, including surgeries and procedures, carried out in Tallaght University Hospital on a Saturday from 2022 to date in 2025,...
  • Health Services Staff
    258. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychiatrists, by grade, based at Springfield/Tallaght primary care centre in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form;...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    261. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive support services of speech therapy, occupational therapy and psychology services; and if she will make a statement...
  • Hospital Facilities
    262. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline plans to improve the feeding, bathing and mobility facilities at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, for young children who have...
  • Healthcare Policy
    263. To ask the Minister for Health to outline details of the recent move of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee from the Royal College of Physicians to the Health Information and...
  • Primary Care Centres
    266. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the requirement for a GP referral to access services at the Balbriggan Primary Care Centre, the specific measures her Department is taking to...
  • Dental Services
    267. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental nurses and dental hygienists based at Coolock Primary Care Centre in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [36506/25]
  • Hospital Procedures
    268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries cancelled at University Hospital Limerick, by surgery type and reason for cancellation, in tabular form, since January 2023; and if she...
  • Ambulance Service
    269. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department pays third-party ambulance providers such as St. John of God to deliver pre-hospital emergency care on behalf of the HSE; and if she will...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    270. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will implement the terms of a recent Labour Court recommendation to extend the temporary special scheme of paid leave for public health service...
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    271. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent case concerning a patient in County Kerry (details supplied) can be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36608/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    272. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a...
  • Hospital Waiting Lists
    273. To ask the Minister for Health that considering 31% of patients from an NAI survey reported waiting times of one to two years to see a neurologist, the measures she is taking to increase...
  • Health Services
    274. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have not been able to access community neurorehabilitation services over the past 12 months. [36614/25]
  • Health Services Staff
    275. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists in place; and the number by which she is going to increase this. [36615/25]
  • Hospital Facilities
    276. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to funding an additional 25 specialist inpatient neurorehabilitation beds for the Dublin-midlands region; and if she will commit to funding...
  • Home Help Service
    277. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help hours will be put in place for a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [36617/25]
  • Hospital Appointments Status
    278. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery can be scheduled for a person as soon as possible (details supplied). [36618/25]

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