PQ Responses - April 2nd 2025

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PQ 15859-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the waiting lists for CAMHS for the months of January, February and March 2025, by CHO area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15861-25 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an overview of the National Ambulance Service’s existing capacity to provide emergency cover to all of County Clare; provide an overview of any plans she and her Department has to improve the National Ambulance Service in County Clare; provide details of National Ambulance Service call-outs in County Clare from 1 January 2024 to 27 March 2025 where response times exceeded HSE targets; if she will investigate fully the circumstances which led to a woman having to wait over three hours for an ambulance to arrive to Doonbeg, County Clare on the morning of 24 march 2025 following a road traffic accident; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15880-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 7 February 2025, where it stated that recruitment is underway for an adult eating disorder team in Dublin South West/Kildare and the Midlands, and a CAMHS eating disorder team in Mid-West in 2025, when she envisages seeing patients, the number and the breakdown of staff required for each team, the types of professionals that will make up these teams and what it will look like in practice.

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PQ 15884-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the school dental programme; the number of routine dental checks provided; the timeline for checks and treatments; and the range of treatments offered under the programme.

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PQ 15909-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients claimed for code N08Z under the cross-border directive in 2022, 2023, and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15910-25 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the specific supports and treatments available for patients suffering from Fibromyalgia; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15918-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently waiting to attend each radiation oncology unit in Ireland, by waiting time period, in tabular form (All units nationwide, including the various sites under St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15921-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the last time the staffing model for radiation therapists was updated; if there are plans to review the current staffing model; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 15997-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form.

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PQ 16008-25 - Catherine Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the current ratio of ambulances and staff to the population in the RHA C region; when the last survey was conducted to assess this ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16021-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs currently registered and operational in County Louth and East Meath.

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PQ 16022-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs due to retire in County Louth and East Meath within the next five years.

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PQ 16023-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs retired from practice in County Louth and East Meath from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of these vacancies filled for the same years.

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PQ 16024-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of new GP practices opened in County Louth and East Meath for the years 2020 to 2025.

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PQ 16025-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of newly qualified GPs took up work in County Louth and East Meath for the years 2020 to 2025.

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PQ 16026-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the current average number of patients per GP in County Louth; whether there is a cap on the number of patients each GP can treat; and the number of GP services currently exceed this average.

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PQ 16027-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card patients, GP only card patients, private patients currently registered with a GP service in County Louth and East Meath.

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PQ 16028-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card patients, GP only card patients, private patients currently waiting to secure a place with a registered GP service in County Louth and East Meath.

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PQ 16031-25 - Joanna Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons presented to out of hours services, such as NEDOC etc, in County Louth in 2024 and to date in 2025, who are currently not registered with a GP in the county.

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PQ 16120-25 - Catherine Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to address ambulance delays more broadly; the expected timelines for these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16123-25- Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the status of the infectious disease clinic in Our Ladies of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth.

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PQ 16124-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide details of the number of people who are using disability day services in Louth; specifically, the number of days of service provided during the 2023-2024 period, in tabular form; additionally, the average level of funding allocated per individual over this period; and whether the Department conducted an audit comparing the number of hours funded versus the actual hours provided to service users.

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PQ 16125-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the home care waiting lists in County Louth, and the number of new home care packages provided from 2020 – 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 16126-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to allocate targeted funding for rural home care delivery in order to address the long waiting lists.

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PQ 16127-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on what is being done to ensure that treatment of current patients at HSE Louth Community Care, Dundalk, County Louth, continues in the absence of orthodontists at this Dundalk clinic.

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PQ 16130-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to alleviate the pressure that pharmacist staff at the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit (CPU) are working under because of resource challenges; the total current personnel numbers for the CPU (including whole-time equivalent data) and comparative data for March 2024 and March 2023; the plans that exist to address resource challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16137-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of businesses offering sunbeds according to the HSE National Environmental Health Service in each of the years 2014 to 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 16138-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, including the geographical breakdown, of each of the businesses offering sunbeds who notified the HSE Environmental Health Service, based on the latest available data.

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PQ 16139-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who attended a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic nationally; including the number who were offered an appointment within the recommended timeframe, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025 to date, respectively, in tabular form.

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PQ 16140-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who received a cancer diagnosis via a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025, respectively, in tabular form.

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PQ 16141-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health if State supports for those looking to quit nicotine inhaling products, such as e-cigarettes and vapes are being considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16142 -25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports for travel expenses, and other related costs, available to patients, or their travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16143-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health to detail the circumstances where air or sea travel fares are covered for patients, or a travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16144-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 0 to 24 years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16145-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 25 plus years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16155-25 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health her plans for a health centre in Fermoy, County Cork (HSE Health Centre Ballynoe Main Street, Ballynoe, Fermoy Co. Cork Not Registered on Land Registry. The building is Hse owned. It is completely derelict. It is not on the land registry but is placed between Folio Numbers CK23398 and CK20682F. The building is now infested with rodents causing issues to nearby residents and households. There is an interest locally to take the facility over); if she will engage with the local community regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16158-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs operating in Tipperary.

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PQ 16166-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the details of any public information campaigns undertaken to raise awareness of the use of HHC vapes, particularly with parents and within schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16214 25 - Mark Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure consultants in public hospitals operate under a seven-day roster.

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PQ 16216-25 - Malcolm Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in each county, and to provide a comparable figure for the end of 2023 and end of 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 16302-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on agency staffing in each of the years from 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in the acute mental health unit at Cork University Hospital; and the staff categories these relate to, in tabular form.

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