PQ Responses - February 19th 2025

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PQ 6455-25 - Liam Quaide front page preview

PQ 6455-25 - Liam Quaide

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will be issuing an exemption for educational, counselling and clinical psychology trainees from current recruitment controls for the next college term; and the number of psychology trainee placements that will be funded nationally.

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PQ 6469-25 - James Geoghegan front page preview

PQ 6469-25 - James Geoghegan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if she can detail for each year between 2020 to date in 2025 the total number of High Court, Court of Appeal or Supreme Court proceedings where the disability complaints officer, disability appeals officer or the Health Service Executive is a named party to those proceedings where it relates to the assessment of need, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6470-25 - James Geoghegan front page preview

PQ 6470-25 - James Geoghegan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if she can detail for each year between 2020 to date in 2025, by reference to each discipline and network team, the total number of persons employed in Sandymount children’s disability network team 1, Sandymount children’s disability network team 2 in delivering occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and psychology, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6471-25 - Seán Crowe front page preview

PQ 6471-25 - Seán Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if the drug vamorolone is currently being considered for approved use by the HSE.

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PQ 6474-25 - Jen Cummins front page preview

PQ 6474-25 - Jen Cummins

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the resourcing and staffing for public health nurse for developmental checks in Drimnagh, Dublin 12.

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PQ 6482-25 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire front page preview

PQ 6482-25 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists designated in a full-time capacity to the Carrigaline primary care centre; if there are locums; and the plans to recruit further in this regard.

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PQ 6483-25 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire front page preview

PQ 6483-25 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists designated in a full-time capacity for the south Lee area, broken down by adult primary care, child primary care, adolsecent and family psychology services; if there are locums; and the plans to recruit further in this regard.

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PQ 6523-25 - Ivana Bacik front page preview

PQ 6523-25 - Ivana Bacik

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by her Department or by any State or semi-State body under the aegis of her Department in each of the past five years; if so, the number and extent of any such overspends, in tabular form; to outline the plans to ascertain levels of such overspends; the further plans to ensure that such information is reported to her Department in a timely fashion; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6539-25 - Joe Cooney front page preview

PQ 6539-25 - Joe Cooney

To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds closed at HSE community hospitals in Raheen and Ennistymon, County Clare; to outline the reason for their ongoing closure; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6541-25 - Joe Cooney front page preview

PQ 6541-25 - Joe Cooney

To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that were lost to the HSE Community Hospitals at Raheen and Ennistymon, County Clare, during 2024 due to the HSEs pay and numbers strategy.

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PQ 6543-25 - Gary Gannon front page preview

PQ 6543-25 - Gary Gannon

To ask the Minister for Health the current national deficit in consultant posts across the country, specifically in relation to vascular surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6554-25 - Erin McGreehan front page preview

PQ 6554-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children on a waiting list for assessment of need appointments, by county and length of time waiting, in a tabular form.

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PQ 6555-25 - Erin McGreehan front page preview

PQ 6555-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of vacancies in the children's disability network teams in north and south Louth; if each vacancy is being actively recruited or advertised; the pay scale for each vacant role; and if a panel of prospective employees has been collated for any of the vacant roles.

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PQ 6556-25 - Erin McGreehan front page preview

PQ 6556-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled procedures in Our lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth.

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PQ 6585-25 - Seán Crowe front page preview

PQ 6585-25 - Seán Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if the drug givnostat is being considered for approval for use by the HSE.

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PQ 6640-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 6640-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 816 of 22 October 2024, the reason the planning for the development of the new transgender HSE Model of Care does not include any patient representative groups.

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PQ 6641-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 6641-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 817 of 22 October 2024, the specific international guidelines on the management of transgender persons the transgender clinic in University Hospital Galway was referring to regarding hormone targets and weight.

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PQ 6642-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 6642-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1439 of 22 January 2025, if the National Gender Service can provide a list of the companies and services that have operated in contravention of Irish Medical Council guidelines; which specific guidelines they contravened; and if the Irish Medical Council guidelines apply to each of these companies and services, in tabular form.

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PQ 6643-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 6643-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1439 of 22 January 2025, if there is no risk associated with hormone concentrations, the reason page ten of the National Gender Service’s ‘Recommendations for Endocrine Care in the National Gender Service’ version 3.0 warn about the risks of thromboembolic disease for oestrogen concentrations over 600 pmol/L.

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PQ 6646-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 6646-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health when the National Gender Service's meetings with the Northern Irish health services started; and when was the most recent meeting.

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PQ 6648-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 6648-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that while employed to develop the HSEs transgender model of care, staff of the programme have written to GPs discouraging them from providing essential blood tests for their transgender patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6650-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 6650-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Gender Service listed the clinical lead of the HSEs Gender Healthcare Programme as a contact for informal enquiries in a recent job posting for a senior medical social worker.

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PQ 6663-25 - Cathal Crowe front page preview

PQ 6663-25 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health if paramedics can no longer keep response cars at their home location as it is considered a benefit-in-kind; if so, if she will intervene to overhaul the new rule in recognition of the important and time sensitive role that paramedic response car drivers play in medical emergencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6722-25 - Pádraig Rice front page preview

PQ 6722-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE Elective Hospitals Programme Demand Model; the work completed to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6729-25 - Marie Sherlock front page preview

PQ 6729-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who travelled abroad under the EU cross-Border directive for treatment for endometriosis in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6730-25 - Marie Sherlock front page preview

PQ 6730-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure the regular (monthly or quarterly) publication of figures relating to cancer care from all hospitals, in consistent machine readable formats, as per the NHS in the UK, specifically outlining: monthly numbers of newly diagnosed cancers and referral sources; types of cancer; time from first contact to first consultation in weeks (2, 3, 4, 6 and 6+); time from first consultation to definitive diagnosis and reasons for any delay; time from diagnosis to first treatment and reasons for any delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6738-25 - Marie Sherlock front page preview

PQ 6738-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of staff and clinicians allocated to cleft lip and palate services in Cork and Dublin respectively; the associated support services needed for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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