• Misuse of Drugs
  2034. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of recent data indicating a rise in illicit drug use across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47110/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2035. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant primary care posts currently within HA2 Swords and Balbriggan (Dublin north County), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
• Hospital Services
  2037. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used to assess children with scoliosis for their first appointment with a paediatric orthopaedic consultant at CHI Crumlin Hospital; and if she...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2038. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times from referral date for appointments with a paediatric orthopaedic consultant in CHI Crumlin Hospital for children with scoliosis for...
• Departmental Bodies
  2041. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received from the Minister for Health the materials required under regulation 9 of S.I. No. 413 of 2022 in respect of CORU’s July 2025...
• Health Services Staff
  2042. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists currently employed by the HSE serving County Offaly, the location which they operate from; and if she will make a...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2043. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for occupational therapy services, broken down by waiting timeframes of less than 3, 3-6, 6-12 and more than 12...
• Health Services
  2044. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm the areas that are included in CHO9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44448/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2047. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the ongoing delays in access to timely diagnostic and consultant-led care in both public and private healthcare systems, including for...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2048. To ask the Minister for Health if she will set out her Department and the HSE’s plans for the development of a new hospital in Cork; the current state of progress, the timelines, to...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2049. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide information regarding public hospital waiting lists (details supplied). [44472/25]
• Primary Care Centres
  2051. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for the development of a primary care health centre at a location (details supplied); the steps in the process; when she expects the primary care...
• Hospital Services
  2053. To ask the Minister for Health if the five reviews of maternity care carried out to date at Portiuncula University Hospital were all high-risk pregnancies; if any limited information can be...
• Health Service Executive
  2054. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on plans to sell HSE lands (details supplied); the stage the sale is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44481/25]
• Health Services
  2055. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on a new service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44482/25]
• Hospital Admissions
  2056. To ask the Minister for Health if she will investigate a means to vastly improve the inter-hospital referral system; if she is aware of a number of cases of patients being discharged from...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2057. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); if consideration will be given to expediting the appointment in...
• Ambulance Service
  2058. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make operational motorcycle ambulance or paramedic response vehicles in the Cork region; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2060. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44518/25]
• Health Services
  2062. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the supports available to Irish patients who undergo surgery abroad under the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive and return with serious...
• Hospital Staff
  2063. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 711 of 1 April 2025, whether there are plans in place to provide a child psychologist for children attending the...
• Health Service Executive
  2064. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive look at hiring more invigilators in county Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44564/25]
• Medicinal Products
  2065. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the lack of supply of a medicine (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44571/25]
• Health Services
  2066. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on waiting times for cardiac rehabilitation programmes and the measures being taken to reduce these delays. [44572/25]
• Disabilities Assessments
  2069. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the waiting time for an autism diagnostic assessment for a person (details supplied) has gone from 24/30 months to 30/33 months; and the steps she...
• General Practitioner Services
  2070. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of general practitioners (GPs) in Mullingar, County Westmeath which are accepting new patients; and to provide a list of GPs who will...
• Medicinal Products
  2071. To ask the Minister for Health whether there is any regulation of the price of medicines to ensure cheapest possible access. [44588/25]
• Health Services
  2072. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a timeline of 125 days is given to families when a systems analysis review commences; the number of reviews carried out nationwide in 2024 and the...
• Healthcare Policy
  2074. To ask the Minister for Health the basis and criteria the decision was taken by the Health Service Executive and her Department to withdraw funding after the law on abortion changed from...
• Health Services Staff
  2075. To ask the Minister for Health the changes that have been made to the incremental pay grade for multi-task attendants employed by HSE after March 2025; if all new employees regardless of...
• Medicinal Products
  2076. To ask the Minister for Health to reconsider remarks made in Dáil Éireann on 6 March 2025 regarding the free HRT scheme, specifically the assertion that medication dispensed under...
• Nursing Homes
  2078. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients discharged from nursing homes in each of the past 12 months, by county; and the proportion of persons in each county and month who were...
• Healthcare Policy
  2079. To ask the Minister for Health when she will bring proposals to cabinet regarding a vaccine damage scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44605/25]
• Departmental Data
  2080. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advance healthcare directives submitted to the Decision Support Service, by month since April 2023; the number of decisions made each month in...
• Medicinal Products
  2081. To ask the Minister for Health in light of the recent introduction of the free hormone replacement therapy measure for women experiencing menopause, if she has considered extending similar...
• Health Services Staff
  2082. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapists by grade based at Ballaghaderren primary care centre in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in...
• Health Services
  2085. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken in hospitals to improve the awareness amongst healthcare staff of the needs of visually impaired patients; and if she will make...
• Disability Services
  2086. To ask the Minister for Health if an ADHD assessment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44634/25]
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2087. 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. [44635/25]
• Health Services
  2088. To ask the Minister for Health whether she has considered routine CA-125 testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44638/25]
• Hospital Facilities
  2089. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the upgrade of the emergency department of Galway university hospital; when the project will move to the next stage; the estimated cost; and if...
• Disability Services
  2090. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult ADHD clinics currently operational; in which CHOs those clinics are located; the waiting time for an appointment to the National...
• Hospital Complaints Procedures
  2091. To ask the Minister for Health from what year public hospitals have been required to report adverse incidents affecting their patients to NIMS. [44657/25]
• Health Services
  2092. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 836 of 8 July 2025 the reason the National Gender Service chose to start and dedicate time to this systematic review,...
• Programme for Government
  2093. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of the several trans organisations that were involved in the words of the gender-affirming care part of the current Programme for Government, as...
• Health Service Executive
  2094. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE's gender identity skills training was withdrawn; and when it was withdrawn. [44660/25]
• Medicinal Products
  2095. To ask the Minister for Health if it is HSE policy to instruct pharmacists to deny menopause products to transgender people under the free HRT scheme. [44661/25]
• Health Services
  2096. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the lack of out-of-hours mental health services on the Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry, where there is an urgent need to support...
• Health Services Staff
  2097. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public ophthalmologists available for children across the south east, south, and south-west, WTE and headcount, by catchment area, in each year...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2099. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a method for accessing ophthalmology care for children on waiting lists in cases where there is no ophthalmologist currently employed. [44669/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2100. To ask the Minister for Health her plans regarding special leave with pay for Covid19 after 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44680/25]
• Nursing Homes
  2101. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE residential beds available for nursing home care in Mallow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44684/25]
• Health Services
  2102. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a report (details supplied) regarding allergy services and policies in Ireland; to respond to each of the recommendations in this report; and if...
• Hospital Services
  2103. To ask the Minister for Health the reason allogeneic transplant for paediatric cancer patients is not currently available at CHI at Crumlin, under the National Children’s Cancer...
• Medical Cards
  2104. To ask the Minister for Health to insist that HSE staff are fully informed of the services that the HAA card provides to avoid ongoing issues of accessing help for affected people in...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  2105. To ask the Minister for Health if seasonality is taken into account when providing orthopaedic shoes, to ensure individuals have appropriate footwear for varying weather conditions; and if...
• Hospital Services
  2106. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure return to full capacity of deep brain stimulation for people with Parkinson's in the south-east both in terms of staffing and access to...
• Healthcare Policy
  2107. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to invest in step-down capacity, as distinct from nursing homes, in the south-east for people under 65 as a transitional care option. [44719/25]
• Insurance Industry
  2108. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted an impact assessment of the latest increases in private health insurance premiums, particularly in view of the concurrent...
• Home Help Service
  2109. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite the allocation of home help support for a person (details supplied) who is currently awaiting assistance; if she will ensure that home...
• Hospital Facilities
  2110. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the extension of the accident and emergency department for Portlaoise Hospital; if recruitment has begun for additional staffing...
• Dental Services
  2111. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in Laois who will now take on new clients under the dental treatment service scheme; and the list of practices that do so. [44742/25]
• Road Traffic Accidents
  2112. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scrambler/quad-related injuries-accidents recorded by hospitals; and if this information is not available, if there are plans to collate this...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2113. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the surgery will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Health Services
  2114. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who having been referred by their GP to the medical assessment unit at St. John’s Hospital,...
• Hospital Investigations
  2115. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons the recommendations of the 2018 Professor Walker report was not fully implemented at Portiuncula University Hospital, as referenced in the...
• Hospital Trusts
  2116. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Saolta university health care group or the clinical director at Galway university hospital has provided a rationale for the non-implementation of...
• Hospital Investigations
  2117. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider publishing any internal reviews or audits undertaken in relation to the non implementation of shared clinical governance structures for...
• Hospital Staff
  2118. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant obstetricians that have been appointed specifically to Portiuncula University Hospital’s maternity unit since the publication...
• Hospital Trusts
  2119. To ask the Minister for Health whether a permanent shared governance structure for maternity services between Portiuncula and Galway University Hospitals has been established; and if not,...
• Hospital Investigations
  2120. To ask the Minister for Health whether Galway University Hospital’s maternity unit has undergone an independent review of its clinical outcomes, safety standards and capacity given...
• Hospital Services
  2121. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is satisfied that the transfer of higher risk maternity care from Portiuncula University Hospital to Galway University Hospital is being supported...
• Hospital Investigations
  2125. To ask the Minister for Health whether anonymised summaries of the 12 serious maternity incidents at Portiuncula University Hospital referenced in the Professor Coulter Smith report...
• Hospital Inspections
  2127. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are plans to commission an independent review of the configuration, quality and governance of maternity services across the Saolta hospital...
• Hospital Services
  2128. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to maintain the high quality specialist endocrine service currently provided at Portiuncula University Hospital for women with pregnancies...
• Hospital Investigations
  2131. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the remaining five case reviews to be published as part of Professor Coulter Smith’s report on Portiuncula maternity services. [44781/25]
• Hospital Services
  2132. To ask the Minister for Health the number of maternity units of similar scale to Portiuncula university hospital that rely on locum consultants for obstetric care, and the actions being...
• Pharmacy Services
  2134. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that pharmacies are charging up to €15 for issuing medications blister packed; if she is aware that blister packing multiple...
• Medical Inquiries
  2135. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding undertaking a medical evacuation of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44809/25]
• Medicinal Products
  2136. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm that a product (details supplied) will be placed under the Health Service Executive reimbursable items list so that persons under this...
• Health Services
  2137. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of all mental health allocations made since Budget 2024, including the amount drawn down by the Health Service Executive regions to...
• Legislative Measures
  2138. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish legislation to prohibit commercial sunbed use, following the public consultation closing on 3 October 2025; and the provisions that will...
• Addiction Treatment Services
  2139. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure the sustainability of trauma informed, peer led family addiction support services such as FASN in the North East; and if core...
• Grant Payments
  2140. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for grant aid for the supply of a back up generator in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
• Health Strategies
  2141. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the case outlined in correspondence (details supplied); if she will address the concerns raised; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Health Services
  2142. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of difficulties that have arisen with transgender women accessing the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44850/25]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2143. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she and her Department are taking to increase availability of PReP appointments as the clinics in UHL and Dublin are currently not accepting new...
• Health Services
  2144. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the inclusion of doctors in the prehospital crewing model of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Ireland; if there have been any studies...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2145. To ask the Minister for Health to specify the waiting list position of a person (details supplied) awaiting care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44863/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2146. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the vacancy for a children and young persons occupational therapist and dietician in County Laois has been open; the expected date for when...
• Emergency Departments
  2148. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait times in Mullingar’s emergency department for urgent and non-urgent cases; and the longest recorded wait time in the past year. [44869/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2149. To ask the Minister for Health if the delay in processing a job offer for a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44876/25]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2151. To ask the Minister for Health the total over-expenditure on capital health projects in 2023–2025; and the updated timelines and costs for University Hospital Limerick and Merlin...
• Healthcare Policy
  2152. To ask the Minister for Health to consider developing a Lyme disease specific department in University Hospital Kerry, for the detection, treatment and research of the condition (details...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting psychological treatment in County Kerry, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will...
• Ambulance Service
  2156. To ask the Minister for Health for a detailed progress report in regard to the provision of the overdue ambulance base in Killorglin, County Kerry to serve the Killorglin and greater...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2157. To ask the Minister for Health for a detailed progress report in regard to the provision of the overdue primary care centre in Cahersiveen, County Kerry to serve the Cahersiveen and greater...
• Health Services Staff
  2158. To ask the Minister for Health if she will carry out as a matter of priority, a pilot study/research on all aspects of the health service in the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry; the...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2160. To ask the Minister for Health when the overdue primary care centre in Killarney, County Kerry will open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44908/25]
• Vacant Properties
  2163. To ask the Minister for Health the plans being put in place for all the existing vacant buildings and lands in Killarney, County Kerry and other properties that are coming on stream; and if...
• Healthcare Policy
  2164. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider introducing a national gonorrhoea vaccination programme in Ireland, similar to the newly launched NHS England initiative which offers a...
• Vacant Properties
  2165. To ask the Minister for Health if favourable consideration will be given to allocating a vacant properties to a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Health Services Staff
  2166. To ask the Minister for Health when the post of occupational therapist in a primary care centre (details supplied) will be filled; the progress she is making in doubling the number of...
• Health Services
  2167. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using omnipod insulin pumps in each county from 2020 to 2025, inclusive. [44945/25]
• Departmental Records
  2169. To ask the Minister for Health the location of records relating to Eastern Health Board-funded children’s residential facilities (details supplied). [44952/25]
• Healthcare Policy
  2170. To ask the Minister for Health in light of the findings of the review into Portiuncula university hospitals maternity services (details supplied), if she will commit to a national review of...
• Health Services Staff
  2171. To ask the Minister for Health the number of maternity hospitals that rely on locum consultants for obstetric care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44956/25]
• Healthcare Policy
  2173. To ask the Minister for Health since Portiuncula university hospital covers a large area, and in light of the criteria that have been applied for certain pregnancies deemed high risk,...
• Hospital Investigations
  2174. To ask the Minister for Health when the remaining cases in Portiuncula maternity hospital will be reviewed and published, as part of the report (details supplied); and if she will make a...
• Healthcare Policy
  2175. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to resourcing Portiuncula hospital to enable the full restoration of all maternity services at the hospital, considering two reports...
• Health Services Staff
  2179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants appointed specifically to Portiuncula university hospital maternity unit since the 2018 report (details supplied); if this has been...
• Home Care Packages
  2180. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the care plan the HSE have in place for a person (details supplied). [44985/25]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2181. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44998/25]
• Healthcare Policy
  2182. To ask the Minister for Health whether she has considered alternative pathways for professional recognition for section 91 applicants with CORU registration boards where an employer does...
• Substance Misuse
  2183. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the new health diversion scheme expected to begin before November; the funding to be provided to the scheme in 2025 and 2026 respectively;...
• Healthcare Policy
  2184. To ask the Minister for Health to address the misunderstanding around the free HRT scheme, whereby eligibility has erroneously been assessed on the basis of the purpose of the prescribed...
• Departmental Data
  2185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of transfers from CUH of neonates to CHI Crumlin/Temple Street in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date; the numbers discharged from CHI and numbers...
• Healthcare Policy
  2187. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions that have taken place regarding the continuing future use of Crumlin Children's Hospital and Temple Street Children's Hospital after the...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2191. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for surgery in Sligo university hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45024/25]
• Healthcare Policy
  2192. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recent interruption of mammography services in county Mayo; the reasons for this cessation; the measures being taken to reinstate the...
• Health Services Staff
  2199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health care assistants in Donegal employed by the HSE’s home help department who have left the service since July 2024, when the pay and...
• Organ Donation
  2200. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of an issue in relation to the organ donation opt-out register (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45044/25]
• Health Services
  2203. To ask the Minister for Health whether the local mental health form in Dublin 15 (CHO9) has been stood down, and if so the reason for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Hospital Services
  2204. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of resourcing issues at the endometriosis clinic in Tallaght Hospital and that the hospital now only include women with stage 4 endometriosis...
• National Treatment Purchase Fund
  2205. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 16 July 2025, to provide a breakdown of how the €13.156 million for outsourcing was spent at University...
• Home Help Service
  2206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of care workers currently working under the home support scheme in each county, in tabular form. [45091/25]
• Health Services
  2210. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue in relation to an ADHD diagnosis (details supplied). [45105/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2211. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to clear the waiting list for children in life changing pain from scoliosis (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Departmental Data
  2212. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the number of persons who have been involuntarily detained under the Mental Health Act 2001 in each of the past five years whose primary...
• Healthcare Policy
  2213. To ask the Minister for Health if exceptions exist to facilitate children (details supplied) that were due to be born after 1 October 2024 when the Chickenpox vaccine was added to the...
• Health Services
  2215. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the referral process to join a rehab gym (details supplied); the number of persons on the waiting list to join this gym following...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2216. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite a hospital procedure for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45158/25]
• Healthcare Policy
  2217. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to improve access to healthcare for women suffering from endometriosis (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45160/25]
• Medical Cards
  2218. To ask the Minister for Health whether she intends to increase the weekly eligibility income threshold in respect of the medical card for persons over 70; and if she will make a statement...
• Departmental Data
  2219. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has recorded deaths in Ireland as a direct result of vaping; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45170/25]
• Departmental Properties
  2220. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all unused properties, lands and buildings, under the ownership or control of her Department within County Kerry; the length of time they...
• Health Services Staff
  2221. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent matter in relation to staff shortages (details supplied) in County Kerry will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Home Help Service
  2222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours that are currently approved nationally for home support services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45193/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2225. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who having been referred for a MRI scan at UHL 18 months ago has yet to receive an appointment date; and...
• Hospital Equipment
  2226. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding given by the HSE/State towards the MRI unit in Navan Hospital. [45212/25]
• Hospital Services
  2227. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of the arrangement between Navan Hospital Alliance for the MRI scanner in the hospital; if there are a certain number of scans available to the HSE...
• Departmental Data
  2231. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 304 of 11 June 2025, the full list of MRI scans available to medical card holders within the Navan Hospital MRI unit;...
• Health Services
  2232. To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility of transgender women under the free hormone replacement therapy scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45221/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2233. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on agency staffing in each region, by service division in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [45222/25]
• Departmental Budgets
  2235. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget for the GP access to community diagnostics in each of the past ten years; the units that received the highest amount; the breakdown of the...
• Disability Services
  2236. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the possible avenues or supports available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45234/25]
• Care Services
  2237. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 460 of 20 March 2025, of the 1744.75 hours unallocated, the number of persons this figure represents; the number of...
• Home Care Packages
  2239. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 20 March 2025, of the 730,243 homecare hours allocated in 2024 (details supplied) the number that were supplied...
• Health Services
  2241. To ask the Minister for Health if the free hormone replacement therapy scheme for those experiencing menopause symptoms includes non-cisgendered women experiencing those symptoms; if not,...
• Ambulance Service
  2242. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of an individual with a very serious injury who waited more than five hours for an ambulance to arrive, during which time their condition...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2243. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied) given the urgency of the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Community Care
  2244. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm when the long overdue new community nursing unit in Killarney, County Kerry will open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45277/25]
• Healthcare Policy
  2245. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE treatment abroad scheme includes provision for the treatment of coccydynia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45286/25]
• Health Service Executive
  2246. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify who is responsible for the indemnity insurance in instances where a public patient is treated by a private clinic-doctor from the waiting list; and...
• Departmental Data
  2247. To ask the Minister for Health of all the legal medical claims made against the State in the past ten years, if any of these claims for operations or procedures were made through the TAS...
• Dental Services
  2250. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1108 of 13 May and No. 217 of 9 July 2025, the total number of adults and the total number of children on these waiting...
• Health Services
  2251. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that a telephone support service (details supplied) will cease operation after November 2025; if she will outline the measures her Department...
• Health Services Staff
  2252. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on recruitment and staffing to address the public health nurse shortage in Sligo, as outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if she...
• Hospital Equipment
  2253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of holter monitors and cardiac event monitors available in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45328/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting the use of a holter monitor and cardiac event monitor and the average wait time to access such monitors in a hospital (details...
• Mental Health Services
  2255. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she will take to ensure continued access to child adolescent counsellor hours for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
• Health Services
  2256. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine matters raised by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45349/25]
• Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
  2257. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays in advanced nurse practitioner applications with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (details supplied) in view of the shortage...
• Hospital Procedures
  2258. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence regarding a person (details supplied); if she will address the concerns raised; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2259. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding delays in the provision of an autism assessment for a child; if she will address the concerns...
• Eating Disorders
  2260. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children hospitalised for eating disorders in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [45376/25]
• Hospital Services
  2261. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the recent decision to expand the number of maternity cases to be transferred away from Portiuncula University Hospital to other hospitals; the...
• Ambulance Service
  2263. To ask the Minister for Health the average response times for ambulances in Ireland, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45398/25]
• Hospital Services
  2265. To ask the Minister for Health the targeted surge measures that are funded for Cork University Hospital and the south/southwest region for September–December for example, additional...
• National Children's Hospital
  2266. To ask the Minister for Health the current total projected out-turn cost of the National Children’s Hospital, including the €1.88 billion envelope for construction and...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2273. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for surgery in the department of vascular surgery WUH has been arranged for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [45433/25]
• Medical Cards
  2274. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for an emergency medical card submitted by the medical team caring for a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered urgently; and if...
• Home Care Packages
  2275. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the home care hours promised by the home support office, HSE Kilkenny, relative to the care of a person (details supplied) are...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2276. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children on waiting lists for scoliosis and spina bifida surgery; the length of time each child has been waiting; and the number of...
• Healthcare Policy
  2279. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to the establishment of a statutory inquiry into the governance of Children’s Health Ireland in relation to paediatric spinal...
• Health Services Staff
  2280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric orthopaedic surgeons employed by Children’s Health Ireland; the annual caseload capacity of each; the number of unfilled...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2281. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has considered arrangements with overseas hospitals to provide treatment for Irish children currently on spinal waiting lists; if not, the...
• Bereavement Counselling
  2283. To ask the Minister for Health the psychological and bereavement supports being provided to families whose children have died while awaiting treatment; and if these supports are...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2284. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for a child to access psychology services via primary care in County Kerry. [45449/25]
• Transport Costs
  2285. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the transport requirements of a person (details supplied) and allow funding for transport in this case; and if she will make a statement...
• Health Service Executive
  2286. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45470/25]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2293. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals currently waiting for complex menopause services in County Westmeath, by length of time waiting that is up to 3 months, between 3-6...
• Health Service Executive
  2294. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric haematologist registrars based at CHI Crumlin in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [45486/25]
• Health Services
  2295. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to each regional and local drugs task force in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Data
  2298. To ask the Minister for Health to detail all the Department of Health and Health Service Executive owned sites in County Louth; the number of these sites currently in use; the purpose for...
• Dental Services
  2299. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will address concerns raised by the family; if an appointment will be...
• Healthcare Policy
  2300. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the launch of Ireland’s first publicly funded oral immunotherapy service in Cork University Hospital (details supplied); and her views on...
• Health Services
  2301. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether EpiPens should be available in public spaces on a similar basis to the public availability of defibrillators. [45507/25]
• Hospital Facilities
  2302. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine access to sensory rooms in hospitals; the sensory-friendly facilities that are currently available in hospitals across the State, in...
• Healthcare Policy
  2303. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering the advice of the Law Reform Commission to regulate the provision of independent advocacy services in Ireland; if so, the form of...
• Health Services
  2304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has ceased refunding batteries for sleep apnoea machines under the drugs payment scheme as in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
• Health Services Staff
  2305. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons that successfully completed the privileging course on 11 July 2025 were initially allowed to practice as advanced paramedics and were...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting surgical removal of their wisdom teeth in CHO8, in tabular form. [45529/25]
• Mental Health Services
  2307. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost to fully staff three extra perinatal mental health teams. [45530/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2308. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent staff by job title in HSE adult safeguarding teams within CHO8; and the timeframe for filling each of the vacancies, in...
• Child Safety
  2310. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a child reported as being at risk of sexual abuse in the Dublin south central area was left on a waiting list for over 14 months without...
• Health Services
  2311. To ask the Minister for Health the names of all community health networks; whether the names correspond with the regional population profiles (details supplied); and if she will make a...
• Mental Health Services
  2312. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents accommodated by the HSE in a property acquired for residential mental health service use in a location (details supplied) and the...
• Healthcare Policy
  2313. To ask the Minister for Health whether evaluation has taken place regarding the implementation of the Irish food allergy network’s guidance about best practices in schools and...
• Dental Services
  2314. To ask the Minister for Health to address the lack of dental practices in Kerry accepting new patients under the medical card scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45578/25]
• Ambulance Service
  2315. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in July 2025; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to...
• Medicinal Products
  2317. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the health technology assessment of the muscular dystrophy drug (details supplied); if she will consider the inclusion of this drug on the drugs...
• Hospital Services
  2318. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of Portiuncula University Hospital Maternity Services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45584/25]
• Mental Health Services
  2319. To ask the Minister for Health the operational or administrative measures within the Health Service Executive run psychiatric units have been or will be implemented to fulfil the principle...
• Health Services Staff
  2320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant posts funded by the Health Service Executive; the number of posts which are filled and unfilled per hospital (details supplied), by...
• Departmental Policies
  2321. To ask the Minister for Health to outline her Department’s official position on the definition of biological sex and gender; whether she accepts that biological sex is immutable...
• Health Service Executive
  2322. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for HSE funding and promoting pronoun awareness training modules which state that “biological sex can change over time, in light of the...
• Tax Reliefs
  2332. To ask the Minister for Health the support and assistance available to a family based in County Louth (details supplied) who do not meet the criteria for the disabled drivers and disabled...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to access residential detox beds in CHO3; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45623/25]
• Hospital Staff
  2334. To ask the Minister for Health the whole time equivalent staff, by job title currently vacant at the medical assessment unit based at Ennis General Hospital; the timeframe for filling each...
• Health Services Staff
  2335. To ask the Minister for Health whether all primary care eye teams are in full operation nationwide; to provide details of all primary care eye teams in operation and all PCETs that are not...
• Medicinal Products
  2337. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the eligibility of transgender women under the free hormone replacement therapy scheme; if this matter has been clarified with the...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2338. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for when she expects to see a comprehensive roll out of a full seven-day roster across the hospital network; when she envisages waiting lists can...
• Healthcare Policy
  2339. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commission a cost-benefit analysis of a potential policy decision that moves away from procuring insourcing activity in the health service,...
• Medicinal Products
  2345. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the processing of a medication (details supplied) on the HSE reimbursement list; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Funding
  2346. To ask the Minister for Health the names of organisations funded by the Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme; the total amount received in each of the years 2014 to 2024, and to...
• Medicinal Products
  2347. To ask the Minister for Health when a medication (details supplied) to treat people who have a nut allergy will be made available for those under 18 years of age; and if she will make a...
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  2348. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the challenges posed by sexually transmitted infections in the State as recent data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre underscores the...
• Hospital Services
  2349. To ask the Minister for Health to address issues in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45652/25]
• Mental Health Services
  2350. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public referrals made to a mental health service (details supplied) in 2024; and the number of referrals refused, in tabular form. [45659/25]
• Disability Services
  2351. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the case of a person (details supplied) who has been unable to access either residential accommodation or a day service transport service;...
• Vaccination Programme
  2352. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the current pathway by which a person in Ireland who suffers a serious adverse reaction following vaccination may obtain compensation, including...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on the outpatient gynaecology waiting list at Mullingar Regional Hospital; and of these the number awaiting investigation or...
• Hospital Procedures
  2362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day-case and inpatient surgical procedures carried out for endometriosis at Mullingar Regional Hospital, in the past five years. [45676/25]
• Hospital Services
  2363. To ask the Minister for Health if she has plans to expand endometriosis services at Mullingar Regional Hospital. [45677/25]
• Ambulance Service
  2364. To ask the Minister for Health the funding spent on ambulance bases (details supplied) in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [45688/25]
• Health Services
  2365. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the cessation of child developmental checks under the National Healthy Childhood Programme in Dublin mid-west due to staff shortages in the...
• Ambulance Service
  2366. To ask the Minister for Health the number, category and response time for ambulance call-outs to addresses in Ashbourne, County Meath in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and...
• Healthcare Policy
  2368. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish FSAI analysis for 2015 to 2025 on saturated-fat trends in mass-market products including chocolate, ice cream and frozen desserts; and if...
• Nursing Homes
  2371. To ask the Minister for Health if a fair deal application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45711/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2372. To ask the Minister for Health to provide for each SATU in Ireland, including Mullingar Regional Hospital, the number of approved posts at every staff grade/role; the number of posts...
• Qualifications Recognition
  2374. To ask the Minister for Health to detail her progress in getting a profession recognised with CORU (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45719/25]
• National Children's Hospital
  2375. To ask the Minister for Health the spending to date with a company (details supplied) and any external contractors or management consulting firms on the electronic health records system for...
• Nursing Homes
  2376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in each of the past five years who have been discharged from nursing homes; the proportion of same who were recipients of fair deal...
• Hospital Procedures
  2377. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will receive a medical procedure (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45763/25]
• Disability Services
  2378. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a child (details supplied) who is not receiving the correct homecare for his needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Ambulance Service
  2379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances that have been decommissioned by the Health Service Executive (HSE) national ambulance service to date in 2025; the number...
• Health Strategies
  2382. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand the oral immunotherapy programme for children with peanut and tree nut allergies at Cork university hospital to children aged five years...
• Health Services
  2383. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the external retrospective review of children who have undergone unnecessary hip dysplasia surgery has been delayed until January 2026; and if she...
• Health Service Executive
  2384. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure clear and transparent communication between the HSE and families affected by the retrospective review into unnecessary hip...
• Health Services
  2386. To ask the Minister for Health whether psychological and practical support services are being offered to families whose children have undergone unnecessary hip surgeries; and if she will...
• Health Services Staff
  2387. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to address the uncertainty facing staff at a unit which is due to transfer from a healthcare provider (details supplied) to the HSE at the end of...
• Healthcare Policy
  2388. To ask the Minister for Health the national standards that maternity hospitals follow in relation to bereavement care following pregnancy loss and perinatal death; the staffing requirements...
• Hospital Staff
  2389. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in the maternity department of Mayo university hospital in relation to bereavement care; the number of bereavement midwife posts filled...
• Hospital Services
  2390. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to Mayo university hospital by the HSE for bereavement services in its maternity department from 2016 to date in 2025, in...
• Alcohol Sales
  2393. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has assessed the public health implications of requiring high strength beers often 10-12% ABV to be served only in imperial pint (568ml),...
• Departmental Properties
  2396. To ask the Minister for Health whether a premises (details supplied) is still in the ownership of the HSE; if so, the future plans for the building; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2397. To ask the Minister for Health if she will assist in the case of person experiencing chronic pain (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45817/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2398. To ask the Minister for Health the current target waiting time for scoliosis surgery; the plans and timeline for reducing average waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Vaccination Programme
  2399. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is considering including the shingles vaccine as part of the national immunisation programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Schemes
  2400. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the dual diagnosis pilot scheme; the current sites where the pilot is in operation; the number of service users who have been supported to date;...
• Ambulance Service
  2401. To ask the Minister for Health to review and increase the current resources being allocated to the National Ambulance Service given issues that have been raised (details supplied); and if...
• Mental Health Services
  2402. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the standards and criteria for counsellors and psychotherapists; and if she will make a statement on...
• Primary Care Centres
  2403. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding a development at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45848/25]
• Health Services
  2407. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical evacuation will be expedited for a person from Gaza ( details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45852/25]
• Health Promotion
  2410. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the reported delayed introduction of alcohol health-warning labels; if she intends to proceed with the introduction of labelling in the lifetime...
• Health Services
  2411. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of hospital beds which are unavailable due to delayed transfer of care on grounds of homelessness; and the estimated cost to the...
• Primary Care Centres
  2415. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding a development at a health centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45885/25]
• Medical Inquiries
  2418. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 482 of 24 September 2024 if a medical procedure will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will...
• Hospital Services
  2419. To ask the Minister for Health for an overview of the current neurosurgery services provided at a hospital (details supplied); the current infrastructure available to surgical teams at this...
• Health Services
  2420. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the HSE's plans to expand Ireland's neurosurgery programme and infrastructure to ensure patients can potentially more readily avail of...
• Departmental Bodies
  2422. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on any human resources processes regarding a person (details supplied). [45927/25]
• Health Services
  2423. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the services currently provided for adult patients with epilepsy at Limerick University Hospital; the number and grade of staff that are...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2425. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the date in which the new ophthalmologist appointed in South Tipperary will take up their post; the number of children waiting to be seen by the...
• Medical Aids and Appliances
  2427. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will commit to reviewing the Government’s recycling contract (details supplied) that launched in 2024, as there is no accommodation for...
• Patient Files
  2428. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh to provide details of the background to the decision taken by the hospital in 2009 to operate on...
• Medical Cards
  2429. To ask the Minister for Health the options open to a person applying for a GP visit card (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46027/25]
• Medicinal Products
  2430. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify if under the free HRT scheme transgender people who require HRT can also avail of it for free when prescribed by a doctor; and if she will make a...
• National Children's Hospital
  2431. To ask the Minister for Health for the status of the regaining of pedestrian access behind the rialto Luas stop which has been closed due to the construction of the new children's hospital....
• Hospital Staff
  2432. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the total number of staff on a whole time equivalent basis at the end of June 2025; the number of medical-dental staff on a whole time...
• Departmental Data
  2434. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the gross exchequer allocation, the net allocation, the gross budget outturn, and the net budget outturn, for each public-voluntary...
• Primary Care Centres
  2437. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the primary care centre in Cahersiveen, County Kerry for the residents of Cahersiveen, Iveragh and south Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
• Insurance Levy
  2438. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to review the health insurance levy and to explore options for its reduction which could focus on the potential for increased...
• Health Strategies
  2439. To ask the Minister for Health the reason BreastCheck failed to meet its annual screening targets in 2023 and 2024; her plans to ensure they meet their target in 2025; and if she will make...
• Mental Health Services
  2443. To ask the Minister for Health when the report into the review of CAMHS in north Kerry will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46135/25]
• Healthcare Policy
  2444. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the significantly higher cost of gluten-free food products compared with standard equivalents; the impact this has on people with coeliac disease...
• Suicide Prevention
  2445. To ask the Minister for Health her response to the announcement by an organisation (details supplied) that it will be forced to cut staff due to a fall in donations; her Department's...
• Medicinal Products
  2446. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the continued use of pharmaceutical products manufactured by Israeli companies within the HSE, in light of calls from CHI consultants to end the...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2447. To ask the Minister for Health to review a case (details supplied) and expedite an appointment for surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46142/25]
• Disease Management
  2448. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to improve supports for people with early onset Parkinson's disease; if she plans to increase capacity for deep brain simulation...
• Childcare Services
  2449. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will address the concerns raised; if she will expedite an appointment; and if...
• Departmental Data
  2450. To ask the Minister for Health the average time of a handover from ambulance staff to emergency department staff, broken down by hospital category; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Schemes
  2452. To ask the Minister for Health if she will sanction the reimbursement of versatis under the drugs payment scheme. [46165/25]
• Middle East
  2453. To ask the Minister for Health to review and expedite the case of a medical evacuation for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46166/25]
• Hospital Overcrowding
  2454. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that average wait-times in the Tallaght University Hospital emergency department have risen by 43% since 2020; the actions she is taking to...
• Departmental Schemes
  2456. To ask the Minister for Health if the scheme will include non-financial supports, including medical cards, counselling, vocational rehabilitation, and independent case-management for...
• Health Services
  2465. To ask the Minister for Health if interim payments will be available pending final determination; the criteria for hardship; the process for periodic review of awards where clinical status...
• Hospital Procedures
  2478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of missed or delayed cancer detections identified following the cytology review of a hospital (details supplied); and if she will order an...
• Health Services Staff
  2480. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the strategic workforce planning programme detailed in the Path to Universal Healthcare: Sláintecare and Programme for Government...
• Healthcare Policy
  2483. To ask the Minister for Health whether the free HRT scheme has been fully rolled out; whether the scheme has delays and if they have been resolved. [46314/25]
• Ambulance Service
  2484. To ask the Minister for Health the average handover time from the ambulance staff to ED staff, by category in main hospitals [46318/25]
• Health Services Staff
  2485. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacancy for a position (details supplied) will be filled; the funding provided for the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46320/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2487. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on audiology waiting lists in the past 5 years, per year, in tabular form, and the number of persons that received audiology assessments...
• Departmental Expenditure
  2488. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46353/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2491. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for children and young people to access specialist eating disorder services in each RHA, in 2024 and to date in 2025. [46370/25]
• Cancer Services
  2493. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered introducing a structured screening programme for prostate cancer, similar to BreastCheck and CervicalCheck, given international evidence...
• Departmental Data
  2498. To ask the Minister for Health if she will state whether or not she or her officials were fully aware of the connections between companies (details supplied) and the Department of Health...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2501. 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. [46416/25]
• Departmental Policies
  2502. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the Republic of Ireland who have been granted a long-term illness card under the diagnosis of spina bifida, for each year from 1997...
• Cancer Services
  2503. To ask the Minister for Health if the ‘lookback’ review of matters relating to the miscategorising of pre-cancerous cells by a consultant at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in...
• Departmental Properties
  2506. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the details and addresses of all properties in the ownership of the Department that are absolved from paying commercial rates to the relevant local...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2507. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update regarding a health centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46456/25]
• Health Services
  2508. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the State on advertising campaigns related to abortion provision, by year in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; by category, in tabular...
• Hospital Services
  2511. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the planned discontinuing of coronial postmortems in University Hospital Waterford, effective from 1 January 2026 and that this will mean...
• Cancer Services
  2516. To ask the Minister for Health if a verbal and/or written briefing was provided to An Taoiseach, his officials or political staff by any official of her Department, the HSE, the she and/or...
• Hospital Services
  2518. To ask the Minister for Health if she will assist in improving the waiting conditions in a clinic (details supplied) where patients are required to stand for long periods due to a lack of...
• Health Service Executive
  2519. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide figures on the proportion of practising counsellors and psychotherapists who are contracted with or provide services directly to the HSE;...
• Departmental Data
  2520. To ask the Minister for Health the status of services available at Sheil Hospital, Ballyshannon, County Donegal since it was reopened in February 2024; if all services will be listed; and...
• Health Services
  2521. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for patients referred from primary care to dermatology services for assessment of potentially cancerous moles; and if she will make a...
• Health Service Executive
  2522. To ask the Minister for Health the interventions that can be undertaken to ensure that a person (details supplied) receives the medical care they need as promptly as possible; and if she...
• Health Services Staff
  2523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) to review its English language requirements for overseas-qualified nurses,...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2524. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied) on the NTPF; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46549/25]
• Departmental Data
  2525. To ask the Minister for Health when a retirement home (details supplied) in Waterford was closed; the reason for its closure; if her Department plans to reopen the facility as a public...
• Hospital Appointments Status
  2526. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous Parliamentary Questions, the status of the urgent after-care required by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
• Medical Cards
  2528. To ask the Minister for Health to revise upwards the qualifying income limits for the over 70’s medical card. [46570/25]
• Departmental Correspondence
  2529. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will expedite the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46573/25]
• Health Services
  2530. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider awarding a person (details supplied) a diabetic sensor due to their health circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Cancer Services
  2533. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on plans to extend the cohort eligible for screening under the National Bowel Screening Programme, BowelScreen; when those age 74 years will be...
• Departmental Funding
  2539. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements she has had with the HSE since storm Éowyn this year to ensure that vulnerable people with medical conditions are supported during times...
• Disease Management
  2541. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider including Guillain–Barré syndrome as a long-term illness considering the disease presents similarly to other illnesses...
• Departmental Data
  2542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of checks each year by BreastCheck (details supplied); if BreastCheck prioritises the persons missed in year one for screening in year two; the way...
• Departmental Reports
  2543. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the work of the independent expert carrying out a comprehensive assessment of the physician assistant role internationally, with a view...
• Departmental Correspondence
  2544. To ask the Minister for Health if she will respond to queries in correspondence regarding scoliosis correction and the correction of hip dysplasia (details supplied); and if she will make a...
• Departmental Policies
  2545. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to introduce plain packaging for vaping products in the upcoming Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill and if such as a proposal is...
• Departmental Data
  2546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of chefs on the HSE Dublin north east region panel; When the panel will expire. [46699/25]
• Hospital Staff
  2549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners based within the accident and emergency department of Connolly hospital, Blanchardstown in the years 2024 and to date in...
• Healthcare Policy
  2550. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the discrepancy in care provided to some people with type 1 diabetes (details supplied) compared to the treatment available...
• Hospital Staff
  2551. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant posts by speciality that are vacant at the Mater hospital; and when those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [46715/25]
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2553. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2021 to 2025 on waiting lists in Letterkenny University Hospital who have received care via insourcing activity; the extent...
• Departmental Data
  2555. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dietitians recruited since 2019 that were 1.0 whole-time equivalent (WTE) and below, by year and WTE figure, in tabular form. [46776/25]
• Departmental Policies
  2567. To ask the Minister for Health the reason(s) a type of hearing aid will no longer be issued by the HSE (details supplied); if she is satisfied that these hearing aids are of the same...
• Departmental Consultations
  2569. To ask the Minister for Health the number of business cases received from a hospital in each of the past ten years (details supplied) regarding the expansion of the neurosurgery programme;...
• Departmental Reviews
  2570. To ask the Minister for Health further to PQ No. 254 of 9 July 2025, if her Department has concluded its review of the 2017 Dickson Report regarding Paediatric Urology; if it has received...
• Departmental Schemes
  2571. To ask the Minister for Health if a medication for post-excision management of endometriosis (details supplied) will be added to the drug payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
• Hospital Services
  2573. To ask the Minister for Health further to PQ No. 379 of 10 April 2025, to confirm if the four new allergy service beds that will be opened in the new National Children’s Hospital...
• Health Service Executive
  2574. To ask the Minister for Health to list the service providers used by the HSE and Section 28 hospitals to store patient data; if, in each case, this data is being stored in this jurisdiction...
• Departmental Schemes
  2579. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Programme for Government commitment to review the drugs reimbursement process; if work has commenced on advancing this commitment; the...
• Departmental Investigations
  2580. To ask the Minister for Health if she or her Department has referred a formal complaint to the medical council in relation to the professional conduct of a medic who worked at a hospital...
• Health Service Executive
  2581. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has referred a formal complaint to the medical council in relation to the professional conduct of a medic who worked at a hospital (details...
• Cancer Services
  2582. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA has initiated or been requested by her Department to undertake an investigation into the mis-categorisation of pre-cancerous cells in the case of a...
• Departmental Schemes
  2583. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the HIQA HTA for reimbursement support for continuous glucose monitoring, if there is a clinical basis for extending reimbursement support only to...
• Health Services
  2585. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) was denied treatment under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46833/25]
• Departmental Policies
  2586. To ask the Minister for Health for clarification on the parking charge policy at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46840/25]
• Vaccination Programme
  2587. To ask the Minister for Health the means by which baby and infant vaccination services are typically administered; if parents are required to be registered with a local GP in order for...
• Departmental Contracts
  2588. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the advertised tender for the provision of a contracted satellite haemodialysis unit for UL Hospital Group (Ennis); when the service will be...
• Departmental Strategies
  2589. To ask the Minister for Health whether a proportionality assessment was carried out in setting the standards and criteria for counsellors and psychotherapist; if so, if she will publish the...
• Emergency Services
  2591. To ask the Minister for Health to list the emergency departments that have achieved the baseline of the framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in adult emergency care settings...
• Hospital Staff
  2592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent senior occupational therapists in neuromuscular services based at Beaumont Hospital, in 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
• Health Service Executive
  2593. To ask the Minister for Health the names of HSE funded day care centres for older persons, within CHO9, that provide transport for users to and from the day care centre where that user has...
• Departmental Data
  2594. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a copy of staffing levels, by job title at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46901/25]
• Dental Services
  2595. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO9 where current vacancies exist within dental and orthodontic services; the estimated timeframe for filling each of those vacancies,...
• Departmental Staff
  2596. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a copy of staffing levels, by job title at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46903/25]
• Health Service Executive
  2597. To ask the Minister for Health when a position as registered general nurse for schools in the Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary area will be filled in the HSE; and if she will make a...
• Hospital Waiting Lists
  2598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2024 to 2025 on waiting lists for neurology treatment in Cork University Hospital who have received care via insourcing...
• Departmental Data
  2606. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations CHI has undertaken for children with scoliosis and spina bifida, respectively in each of the past 15 years. [46933/25]
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2607. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children since November 2022 on the waiting list to see the community orthoptist in the HSE mid-west area, by adult and children, and...
• Vaccination Programme
  2608. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide State recognition of a valid medical exemption for an exemption against administration of any future vaccines for a person (details...
• Health Service Executive
  2609. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to ensure physician associates, who have graduated from a State funded program sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons, can be...
• Mental Health Services
  2610. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve mental health services for young people in county Clare, including details of additional resources allocated to mental health...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2611. To ask the Minister for Health the reforms being introduced to address long waiting times for paediatric surgeries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46940/25]
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2612. To ask the Minister for Health the reforms being introduced to address overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick; and the improvements achieved in this regard since January 2025. [46941/25]
• Psychological Assessments
  2613. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the steps taken to support a person (details supplied) following the private psychiatry needs assessment they were advised to provide; when she...
• Departmental Data
  2614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social workers allocated specifically to older person services in November 2023 and July 2025. [46987/25]
• Departmental Funding
  2615. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for specialist social work posts to assist in the roll out of assisted decision-making legislation; the number of specialist posts in...
• Health Service Executive
  2616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals HIQA has made to the HSE safeguarding and protection teams since 2020; if a memorandum of understanding exists between HIQA and the...
• Medicinal Products
  2618. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the NCPE appraisal of ritlecitinib (litfulo) for severe alopecia areata, including current stage, any ongoing HSE pricing and...
• Health Services
  2621. To ask the Minister for Health if JAK inhibitor treatments for severe alopecia areata, where reimbursed will be provided via the high tech arrangement; the intended initiation and...
• Departmental Data
  2622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated for alopecia areata with JAK inhibitors in public hospitals in each of the past three years, by CHO and by medicine, including...
• Health Strategies
  2623. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish a national clinical pathway for alopecia areata within the HSE Model of Care for Dermatology (details supplied); and if she will make a...
• Departmental Data
  2624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public dermatology centres that provide topical immunotherapy for example DPCP or SADBE for extensive alopecia areata; the number treated in...
• Health Services
  2626. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will establish a national registry to capture outcomes for alopecia areata (details supplied); the proposed data controller and governance; the...
• Health Strategies
  2627. To ask the Minister for Health if she will issue guidance on vaccination including the shingles vaccination and infection-risk mitigation for patients commencing JAK inhibitors for alopecia...
• Healthcare Policy
  2628. To ask the Minister for Health for Ireland’s position on the amendments to the international health regulations adopted by the World Health Assembly on 1 June 2024; if Ireland has...
• Health Services
  2629. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the eligibility of dermatology outpatient consultations for alopecia areata under the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive; the documentation...
• Departmental Data
  2630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dermatology referrals for alopecia areata supported by the national treatment purchase fund (NTPF) in each of the past three years; the median...
• Health Services
  2631. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure access to psychological support services for patients with visible hair loss conditions, including alopecia areata and scarring alopecias;...
• Departmental Programmes
  2632. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE medicines management programme will include alopecia areata therapies in its horizon-scanning outputs and publish periodic patient friendly updates...
• Food Safety
  2633. To ask the Minister for Health the regulatory food safety changes that have been implemented to prevent small schools that were registered as food business operators, staff had undergone...
• Health Services Staff
  2636. To ask the Minister for Health if the figures for HSE mental health staff in the June 2025 HSE Employment Report for the Limerick City and Tipperary North Integrated Health Area are...
• Departmental Data
  2637. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health crisis resolution teams in place; the location of each; the number of personnel WTE in each; if all the teams are operational and...
• Health Strategies
  2639. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure nicotine pouches cannot be legally sold to children under 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Legislative Measures
  2640. To ask the Minister for Health when a draft of the Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47101/25]
• Departmental Schemes
  2641. To ask the Minister for Health the plans her Department has to include Amfexa (quick release Dexamfetamine) for the treatment of ADHD in the drugs payment scheme; and if she will make a...
• Departmental Projects
  2643. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 13 May 2025, to provide an update on the progress of a building project (details supplied); when she expects the...
• Health Services Staff
  2644. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the plans to increase the number of senior physiotherapists nationwide; the engagement her Department has had to date with a body (details...
• Health Service Executive
  2645. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals with islandable power or at least 7–14 days’ backup power and water resilience; the planned upgrades for...
• Medicinal Products
  2646. To ask the Minister for Health the current days of cover for the top 100 essential medicines, by category; the medicines experiencing repeated shortages since 2023; the plan to establish a...
• Departmental Data
  2647. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals with islandable power, on-site oxygen generation and at least 7 to 14 days fuel and water resilience; the capital works underway to...
• Nursing Homes
  2648. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be announced for the provision of a new community nursing home in Roscrea. [47231/25]
• Emergency Planning
  2649. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been put in place by her Department to ensure strategic emergency management responses to future storm and severe weather events taking...
• Health Services
  2650. To ask the Minister for Health the total allocation in 2023, 2024 and 2025 for the provision of eye care and ophthalmological services, including outpatient and inpatient treatment,...
• Departmental Schemes
  2651. To ask the Minister for Health whether versatis plasters for the purpose of providing pain relief for those undergoing cancer treatment will be considered for inclusion in the drugs payment...
• Departmental Funding
  2652. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which funding for vacant resident placements is made (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47303/25]
• General Practitioner Services
  2653. To ask the Minister for Health if GPs can refer their patients directly for x-rays and other radiology services locally without the need to refer them to accident and emergency departments;...
• Departmental Data
  2654. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for patients referred by their GPs for an x-ray in Beaumont Hospital, Connolly Hospital and Lourdes Hospital, in tabular form; and if...
• Thalidomide Victims Compensation
  2655. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the historical commercial ties between her Department, a distributor (details supplied) and Chemin Grunenthal during the 1950s; and if she...
• Departmental Records
  2658. To ask the Minister for Health if she can confirm that all files detailing the State’s relationship with providers of thalidomide are publicly available; and if she will make a...
• Departmental Funding
  2659. To ask the Minister for Health if she can confirm that seed funding will be provided to a hospital (details supplied) to commence progress towards an extension which could deliver an...
• Care Services
  2660. To ask the Minister for Health the remaining budget for respite for carers in 2025 for CHO4, broken down by area. [47340/25]
• Departmental Funding
  2663. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 3085 of 29 July, if she will instruct the bodies under her aegis to provide the information requested; and if she will...
• Health Services
  2665. To ask the Minister for Health the status of all-island health service collaborations supported by the Shared Island Fund, including the expansion of bespoke all-island services building on...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2666. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for MRI scans at each hospital in Dublin, and nationally, in each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Health Services Staff
  2667. To ask the Minister for Health the changes to the way in which newly qualified paramedics and advanced paramedics are being offered their authorisation to practice letter; to detail the new...
• Departmental Programmes
  2668. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is considering whether the Stimulating Innovation Management of Polypharmacy and Adherence in The Elderly or SIMPATHY pilot programme,...
• Care Services
  2669. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive neurological endovascular or stroke care therapy. [47476/25]
• Departmental Inquiries
  2670. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the expansion of community intervention teams operating in Dublin Bay North; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Family Reunification
  2671. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the process for MedEvac Palestinians, with Stamp 4 visas, to apply to have family members join them; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2672. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for home help in the south Lee area of County Cork. [47505/25]
• Departmental Data
  2673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints in the south and north Lee areas in County...
• Health Services Staff
  2674. To ask the Minister for Health if all home help organiser positions in south and north Lee have been filled; and if not, when they will be filled. [47507/25]
• Departmental Data
  2675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting on home help allocation longer than six, 12, 18 and 24 months, respectively. [47508/25]
• Departmental Budgets
  2676. To ask the Minister for Health to estimate the cost of providing a medical card to all individuals receiving the carer’s allowance if the means test is removed. [47509/25]
• Health Services
  2677. To ask the Minister for Health if rescheduled orthopaedic surgery is confirmed in Letterkenny University Hospital for a person (details supplied); the reason it was cancelled for a third...
• Primary Care Centres
  2678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres with back-up generators and resilient communications; the planned upgrades for 2025–2027; and if she will make a...
• Departmental Funding
  2681. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that funding will be provided to a hospital (details supplied) to refurbish theatres and introduce robotics capabilities; and if she will make a...
• Mental Health Services
  2682. To ask the Minister for Health if a proportionality assessment was carried out prior to the recent publication of the Standards and Criteria for Counsellors and Psychotherapists by the...
• Hospital Services
  2683. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the CSO showing Ireland’s population reached 5.38 million, driven by net migration of 79,300 in a single year, the specific hospital beds...

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