Written answers
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Department of Health
Health Services
John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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686. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the funding approved for an organisation (details supplied) given key commitments outlined in Budget 2025 by the Minister for Health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50389/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As the matter raised is a service delivery matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
Donna McGettigan (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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687. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the age restriction on CAR t-cell therapy here, despite it having no such restrictions in other states, to allow a patient (details supplied) to access this potentially lifesaving treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50390/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Donna McGettigan (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is over 75 years-of-age is unable to have surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50394/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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689. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 20 March 2025, the number of cases diagnosed in each of the years since 2018, by condition (details supplied); the number treated with Intersex genital mutilation (IGM); in cases in which IGM was deemed necessary, to provide an indication as to the reasoning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50396/25]
Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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690. To ask the Minister for Health if the incidence of intersex genital mutilation is reducing in Ireland; if so, to provide data to support this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50397/25]
Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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691. To ask the Minister for Health the information provided to parents of intersex infants; the involvement, that intersex people have in informing and monitoring this information; if parents with intersex infants are being referred to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50398/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 689 to 691, inclusive, together.
As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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692. To ask the Minister for Health regarding patients, particularly young persons aged 16 to 25 years of age with multiple disabilities, who have been advised surgery or treatment is not available domestically, the criteria used by the HSE to approve treatment abroad; the number of cases which have been approved or denied in the past three years in the Cork region; the supports in place for such patients while waiting; and the plans to increase domestic capacity for these specialist interventions. [50410/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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693. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a child needing an urgent transfer (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50419/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Marie Sherlock (Dublin Central, Labour)
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694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of holter monitors and cardiac event monitors available in all level four hospitals, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50421/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Marie Sherlock (Dublin Central, Labour)
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695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting the use of a holter monitor and a cardiac event monitor; the average wait time to access such monitors in all level four hospitals, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50422/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible
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