Written answers
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
- Medical Aids and Appliances
161. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the current policy on the provision and financial support for hearing aids, in view of the case of a person who has had severe hearing loss... - Mental Health Services
162. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the actions being taken to raise the level of psychotherapy standards and criteria; the level with which she and her Department have engaged... - Health Services
163. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that a person (details supplied) with an aggressive form of leukaemia, can be permitted to receive Car T-cell therapy; if it will be reimbursed in... - Legislative Measures
164. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for bringing forward the Health (Adult Safeguarding) Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50534/25] - Hospital Waiting Lists
165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2021 to 2025 on waiting lists in Cork University Hospital who have received care via insourcing activity; the extent to... - Ambulance Service
166. To ask the Minister for Health her views regarding the national ambulance service being under-resourced in terms of the low number of ambulances in its fleet and a lack of paramedics to give... - Health Strategies
168. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 378 of 22 May 2025, the status of the long-awaited National Endometriosis Framework; the timeline being worked towards in... - Health Services Staff
169. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to introduce advanced practice posts for medical scientists; the work carried out to date to progress this role under the HSCP Advanced Practice... - Healthcare Policy
170. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to establish a national biobank office and introduce primary biobanking legislation, as recommended by the Irish Health Research Forum in 2023;... - Legislative Measures
171. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national research ethics bill, approved by Government in 2019; to expand on the comment “work is ongoing”, as per the Autumn... - Departmental Schemes
172. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details as to her instruction to her officials to engage with concerns related to the exclusion of transgender people from the free HRT... - Health Services
173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of locations and practitioners that publicly provide frenotomy services for babies with tongue tie issues. [50642/25] - Hospital Staff
174. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget allocation to National Rehabilitation Hospital in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [50643/25] - Health Services
175. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost to offer every woman aged over 65 years a DEXA scan as part of their life-course management programme delivered through their GP. [50644/25] - Primary Care Centres
176. To ask the Minister for Health if each rehab gym within primary care centres in CHO9 allows users to use these surgeries at pre-surgery or post-surgery periods; and the opening hours of each... - Health Services
177. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50650/25] - Cancer Services
179. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the NSAC work to consider the further expansion of the cancer screening programmes; when the BreastCheck and BowelScreen programmes will be... - Industrial Disputes
180. To ask the Minister for Health to review a link and details within same and provide an update on this impending dispute (details supplied); the steps her Department is taking to resolve this... - Health Services Staff
181. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no dietician in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Services Waiting Lists
184. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on waiting times for cardiac rehabilitation programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50727/25] - Hospital Staff
186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiologist and cardiology registrars attached to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and... - Health Services
189. To ask the Minister for Health if screening will be introduced for spinal muscular atrophy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50743/25] - Medicinal Products
194. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medication (details supplied), which is used in the treatment of severe allergies, is not currently covered under the medical card scheme or the... - Hospital Services
196. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the delivery of the long delayed, joint centre of excellence for diabetes care at Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University... - Dental Services
197. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the proposals to provide orthodontic services for children in Cavan and Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50842/25]
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