Written answers
Thursday, 2 July 2026
- Mental Health Services
442. To ask the Minister for Health to issue a public apology (details supplied) [50553/26] - Departmental Reviews
443. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all reviews, audits, and reports commissioned or conducted in relation to Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) over the past 10 years;... - Medical Inquiries
445. To ask the Minister for Health whether the planned statutory inquiry into CHI will include all matters previously examined in internal or external reviews; and to provide copies of those... - Medical Cards
448. To ask the Minister for Health if there are guidelines governing the amount a GP can charge a medical card patient for completing a form (details supplied) [50337/26] - Health Services
450. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently assist a family with care needs (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50417/26] - Healthcare Policy
451. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has undertaken an assessment of providing free access to the shingles vaccine to those with a medical card; and if she will make a statement... - Health Services
452. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the extension of the free contraceptive scheme to all ages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50433/26] - Departmental Schemes
453. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); her views on a compensation scheme for long-Covid patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Home Care Packages
454. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department can take to assist a person (details supplied) who is on dialysis and ready to be stepped down from a hospital; and if she will make... - Hospital Services
455. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Cork University Maternity Hospital does not have a dedicated haematologist providing care for pregnant women (details supplied); if there are plans... - Health Services
456. To ask the Minister for Health her response to the closure of a clinic (details supplied) where many individuals were receiving care for ADHD; the response of the HSE to this closure to... - Nursing Homes
457. To ask the Minister for Health if the independent review of the effectiveness of the regulatory and legislative framework for inspecting nursing homes has been completed and submitted to the... - Health Services
458. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to extend the Chronic Disease Management Programme (CDMP) to include epilepsy; the assessments under way by the HSE to add epilepsy to the CDMP; and... - Hospital Services
462. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place for private eye clinics in University Hospital Galway (details supplied); if these are being run exclusively by consultants on... - Health Services
463. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion and opening of a National Mother and Baby Unit for perinatal mental health care; the current status of the project; the... - Health Services Staff
465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeons based at Tallaght University Hospital as of 24 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures as... - Health Service Executive
469. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE can, through its National Environmental Health Service, make health-based submissions to An Coimisiún Pleanála on wind farm... - Healthcare Policy
483. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the inclusion of endometriosis and related care within the eligibility criteria for the HSE critical illness protocol; and whether she is... - Hospital Facilities
488. To ask the Minister for Health further to multiple previous requests, to consider developing a Lyme disease specific department in University Hospital Kerry, for the detection, treatment and... - Health Service Executive
489. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1278 of 26 May 2026 which states cost considerations do not form part of the eligibility assessment for the treatment... - Departmental Schemes
490. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1276 of 26 May 2026 if the national treatment abroad office in Kilkenny is the sole point of approval for all treatment... - Hospital Services
493. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progression of the implementation of masterplan for University Hospital Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50565/26] - Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
494. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of a primary care centre at An Spidéal, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50567/26] - Home Care Packages
496. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether the HSE holds, or can produce, a national aggregate figure for the total number of compliance inspections, audits and reviews conducted... - Healthcare Policy
503. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm directly whether the Health Service Executive has ever conducted an analysis of referral concentration, repeat provider usage, or high-cost... - Health Service Executive
511. To ask the Minister for Health further to the confirmation that no structured national data collection system exists for gender healthcare services for children and young people, whether... - Hospital Staff
513. To ask the Minister for Health when the consultant post at UHL’s long-Covid clinic became vacant; the interim arrangements that exist for new patients in the Midwest; and the timeline... - Hospital Appointments Status
514. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time from referral to first appointment at each of the six long-Covid clinics in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [50608/26] - Health Services
515. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an explanation for the year-on-year decline in long-Covid clinic attendances nationally; and whether this reflects reduced referral activity,... - Health Service Executive
516. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has ever sought or received cumulative manganese exposure data from water suppliers broken down by age group or vulnerability category; the... - Medicinal Products
517. To ask the Minister for Health further to the HSE's confirmation that no national dataset on returned medicines currently exists, whether the national medicines disposal service under CPA25... - Patient Safety
522. To ask the Minister for Health whether the National Incident Management System or any other HSE data system contains a category, field or tag that identifies an incident, complaint or... - Health Service Executive
523. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has conducted any audit or assurance check confirming that privately contracted home support providers actually report complaints, missed... - Departmental Data
525. To ask the Minister for Health given the HSE's confirmation that there is no central logging system for contract breaches by staffing agencies on national framework agreements or supplier... - Health Service Executive
527. To ask the Minister for Health whether the absence of a central logging system for staffing agency contract breaches is recorded on any HSE risk register, internal audit plan or corporate... - Medicinal Products
528. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the approval of the drug skyclarys in the reimbursement scheme; if all of the information and costings have been submitted by... - Health Services
529. To ask the Minister for Health the number of European Health Insurance cards issued by the HSE in the past seven years to date in 2026; the median time in 2026 to dispatch cards from time of... - Appointments to State Boards
530. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is satisfied with the veracity of the credentials and qualifications of all her seven appointees to the Board of Dublin Dental Hospital, as... - Health Service Executive
534. To ask the Minister for Health whether any single national system enables the HSE to identify, across all HSE-funded sites, whether a healthcare worker is directly employed, agency or locum... - Health Services Staff
538. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will direct the HSE to disaggregate its existing quarterly administrative leave reporting to identify all cases arising from a criminal... - Hospital Appointments Status
539. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if it can be prioritised. [50687/26] - Dental Services
540. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, including direct contact details, of all the local HSE principal dental surgeons nationally. [50689/26] - Medical Qualifications
545. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed EU Common Training Framework (CTF) for physiotherapists; if her Department or CORU has taken a formal position on its potential... - Health Service Executive
546. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to ensure that an urgent diagnostic CT scan for cancer is provided for a person (details supplied); her views on whether it is acceptable... - Disabilities Assessments
547. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the supports available to the child concerned; if she... - Medicinal Products
548. To ask the Minister for Health if belzutifan will be made available to people with Von Hippel-Lindau disease; the steps being taken to make this therapy available; and if she will make a...
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