PQ Responses - February 25th 2025

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PQ 5760-25 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to address the chronic under-funding of a centre (Blanchardstown Centre for Independent living.) which has seen its service users rise from 80 in 2018 to 492 in 2024, but its funding has not increased at all in this same period.

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PQ 6427-25 - Rory Hearne

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to report on work being done in respect of early diagnosis interventions and access to services as referenced in the Disability chapter of the Programme for Government.

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PQ 6973-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth her plans to address staffing deficits in children’s disability network teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6974-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if she will ensure funding for dietetic services for adult disability services in Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 6976-25 - Ruairí Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown, by county, of the numbers of children waiting on assessments of needs and therapies across the State; the plans in place to reduce the backlogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7077-25 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the urgent steps being taken to improve disability services in south Tipperary; the number of vacancies within CDNT teams 4 and 5; the numbers of children waiting for occupational therapy, speech therapy and psychology services within these CDNT teams; whether those waiting for services can access services privately with reimbursement; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7166-25 - Ryan O'Meara

To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are available to an individual diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and advised to to acquire a CGM sensor (as they struggle to monitor their glucose levels and they have a history of related hospitalisations, but cannot afford the costs associated with same); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7172-25 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the reason benefit-in-kind is to be applied to first responders who bring their emergency vehicle home with them at night; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7183-25 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if she will address staffing issues (Minister I write on behalf West Kerry Community Hospital staffing issues At present on every shift there are currently 4 healthcare workers and 2 nurses and they have now been informed that it will go from 4 healthcare assistants to 3 healthcare which is not feasible to run a hospital on a daily basis); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7185-25 - Cian O'Callaghan

To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure a funding increase for an organisation (the An Saol Foundation) to allow it to keep up with operating costs inflation, and to ensure it can implement the 12 recommendations put forward for the organisation by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7191-25 - Eoghan Kenny

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the reason funding to further develop services in Cork and Kerry for residential care for persons with disabilities has not been allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7235-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances in which ambulances are permitted to take patients to the minor injuries unit (MIU) at Monaghan Hospital, rather than an emergency department in another hospital; whether there has been any change to the criteria applied in these instances; whether new or additional changes to this criteria are planned; the number of times that an ambulance brought patients to the MIU at Monaghan Hospital, in each month in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7236-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the National Ambulance Service utilised a helicopter to transport patients from locations in County Monaghan, by each hospital, in each month in 2024; the number brought to each hospital in each month to which patients were presented; the average time in each month within which the helicopter ambulance arrived on scene from the original call to the ambulance service, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7237-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of presentations in each month in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and 2024 to the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7238-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health if there are proposals to further expand the operating hours of the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7252-25 - Paul McAuliffe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting to see an orthopaedic consultant in the Mater Hospital; the number of those waiting for six months or more; the number of those waiting for one year or more; and when they expect waiting times to be reduced.

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PQ 7258-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the temporary stepdown 50 bed rehab unit in Nenagh being operated by a company (details supplied); the weekly occupancy rates; the details of any changes made to the operating contract since commencement; when the contract expires; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7308-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the intended future use of the old Ballygar Health Centre; whether there are plans for its redevelopment or repurposing, considering that it is currently derelict following a fire, an eyesore, and a cause for much public comment.

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PQ 7310-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Health if there is any plan in place to provide additional car parking spaces by utilising the green areas surrounding Roscommon University Hospital (Currently, patients, including those with significant mobility issues, are having to walk from the local GAA grounds due to the lack of adequate parking within the hospital premises.).

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PQ 7311-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Health if the minister will provide an update on plans to reinstate a service ( given that the primary care psychology service in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon has been inactive for the past 18 months due to a member of staff leaving in late 2024 and a subsequent HSE recruitment embargo for the first half of 2024, can the Minister provide an update on plans to reinstate this essential service for the local community?).

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PQ 7322-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the policy in the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda specifically concerning communication with inpatients during their stay and the role of the key nurse assigned daily to a patient; if their role is solely confined to the distribution of medications; and if not, if it is to care for each patient as an individual and their specific care needs.

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PQ 7325-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health the policy within psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when a person who has presented looking for help and treatment during a mental health crisis leaves and sadly dies by suicide; if it is practice that an automatic review into the case occurs; if so, the duration of that review; and if not, the reason.

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PQ 7335-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide the average waiting times for physiotherapy broken down by county; a breakdown of the length of the waiting list in each of the years 2014 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7336-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide the average waiting times for occupational therapy broken down by county; a breakdown of the length of the waiting list in each of the years 2014 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7337-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the steps that have been taken to have the vacant posts in CDNT's filled; the steps that have been taken to improve staffing levels in the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7338-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the average waiting times for speech and language therapy broken down by county; a breakdown of the length of the waiting list in each of the years 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7339-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of staff in the Child Disability Networks Teams in County Kerry; and the percentage of posts filled in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and psychology and other disciplines, in tabular form.

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PQ 7345-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of social inclusion posts (of each grade) recruited in the CHO1 area since its inception; the WTE numbers of these posts which were located in Cavan and Monaghan; the number of WTE posts that will transfer along with Cavan and Monaghan in the transition to CHN; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7376-25 - Barry Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the closure of a care provider (Dun Laoghaire Home Care Services provides home support packages to clients under a Section 39 agreement on behalf of the State.); the actions she will take to ensure the impact on their service users is minimised; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7409-25 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed eye clinic in Cork has fully opened; and if not, the reason.

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PQ 7411-25 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting scoliosis surgery in Cork, by waiting time, in tabular form.

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PQ 7418-25 - Donna McGettigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals that have been reimbursed for their insulin pump training and/or consumables through the EU treatment abroad or cross-Border healthcare scheme since 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7424-25 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 978 of 5 February 2025, the breakdown of the overdue applications for assessments of need, by the number of months that individuals have been waiting, for each local health area, in tabular form.

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PQ 7453-25 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been reimbursed for their insulin pump training and or its consumables through the EU treatment abroad or cross-Border healthcare scheme since 2019.

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PQ 7454-25 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Ireland who access the omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSEs exceptional hardship scheme or have done so since 2018.

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PQ 7457-25 - Seán Ó Fearghaíl

To ask the Minister for Health what is the very latest on the new build for Holy Angels Day Care Centre, Carlow on the Kelvin Grove site and if she can provide a timeline for the next stages, and if she will make a statement on the matter. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the up to date position on the new build for a day care centre (Holy Angels Day Care Centre, Carlow on the Kelvin Grove site); if she can provide a timeline for the next stages; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7469-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals that have been reimbursed for their insulin pump training, and or its consumables through the EU treatment abroad scheme or the cross-Border healthcare scheme since 2019.

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PQ 7470-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that currently access the omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSE’s exceptional hardship scheme, or have done so since 2018. -

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PQ 7492-25 - Barry Ward

To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to the cessation of advanced paramedic training courses operated by the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7508-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide data on the final cost of public procurement tenders where her Department or agencies under the aegis of her Department acted as the contracting authority in each of the past five years, indicating the number of tenders where the final cost was under, on, or over the contract award value at the time of tendering, in tabular form.

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PQ 7526-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent in excess of the contract award value for all public procurement tenders within her Department and agencies under the aegis her Department of in each of the past five years.

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PQ 7535-25 - Peter Cleere

To ask the Minister for Health if children attending St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny have access to psychology services to assist them in dealing with life-changing conditions such as diabetes.

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PQ 7542-25 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth her plans to increase staffing and training of additional therapists in children's disability teams; the current WTE staffing shortfall, by CHO area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7543-25 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children waiting for services for each of the nine CDNTs in CHO2; the length of time children are waiting for initial contact from a CDNT; the waiting time for a child to receive an assessment of need after they receive an initial contact from each CDNT, by 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, and 24+ months, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7548-25 - Peter Cleere

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children in Kilkenny waiting for a first speech and language therapy assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7550-25 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if she will provide the waiting list times for assessment of needs, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7551-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth her Department's plans for decreasing the number of vacancies on the Balbriggan and Swords children's disability network teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7559-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the funding and staff allocated to National Ambulance Service emerging threat units; the number of units which were recommended to be established; the number in place; the plans for expanding these teams in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7560-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics who were paid the advanced paramedic allowance in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the number of intended recipients in 2025; and the number of new recipients in 2024 and 2025.

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PQ 7561-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics who qualify for the advanced paramedic allowance who are currently employed by the National Ambulance Service but who are not in receipt of the allowance; if there are paramedics qualified to receive the allowance but are not in receipt of the allowance, the reason why; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7562-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if she will mandate the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to engage with unions and workers on resolving a dispute relating to the application of benefit-in-kind on the use of NAS vehicles off-roster, such as for voluntary first response; if she will ensure that where paramedics are using NAS vehicles in their own time to respond, following a request from the NAS, to local incidents as first responders, that such paramedics are not penalised financially for volunteering to save lives because of their use of NAS vehicles; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7567-25 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth what funding is in place for persons needing to access residential placements for family members living in Fingal west; if she will detail the application process; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7576-25 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an initial appointment with CAMHS, in Limerick, listed by waiting time, in tabular form.

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PQ 7577-25 - Maurice Quinlivan

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children on the CAMHS assessment waiting lists and CAMHS therapy services waiting list; in the CHO3 area, in tabular form.

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PQ 7615-25 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health the number of county beds in use in the HSE community hospitals of Shane, Abbeyleix and Mountmellick, County Laois.

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PQ 7616-25 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for expansion of HSE beds in community hospitals in Laois.

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PQ 7627-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations her Department is engaged with to deliver selumetinib in a cost-effective manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7628-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists registered to accept medical card patients in Dublin Fingal west; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7631-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the reason Cork University Hospital is using beds originally intended for the dental treatment in Mallow General Hospital; the steps being taken to avoid the cancellations of dental services for patients with disabilities who require urgent treatment under general anaesthetic; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7634-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to outline the process being undertaken to facilitate clinical supervision for the Coolock, Clontarf and Kilbarrack CDNT teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7638-25 - Ruth Coppinger

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the nurses' helpline in Blanchardstown Connolly Memorial Hospital was discontinued; if, in light of the fast and efficient service it provided the community, if his Department will consider reinstating the helpline as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7662-25 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen in Southdoc, Blackpool, Cork in January 2019, 2021,2023 and 2025.

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PQ 7681-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth to provide the waiting lists for CDNT in all CHO regions, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7695-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Roscommon waiting for an appointment with a psychiatry of old age community team; the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively.

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PQ 7696-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Roscommon waiting for an appointment with a general adult community service mental health team; the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively.

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PQ 7697-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Roscommon waiting for an appointment with a CAMHS team; the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks, respectively.

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PQ 7698-25 - Paul Gogarty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the CAMHS assessment waiting lists and CAMHS therapy services waiting list, as of February 2025; the total number in each CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7727-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children in Louth currently on the waiting list for an assessment of needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7728-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgery appointments that have been cancelled or postponed, by procedure type, at Cavan Monaghan Hospital, between 1 December 2024 and 18 February 2025; the reasons for these cancellations; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7729-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgery appointments that have been cancelled or postponed at Cavan Monaghan Hospital, in each month from January 2022 to date in 2025, by procedure type, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7786-25 - Shane Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Adamstown primary care centre.

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PQ 7787-25 - Shane Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on plans to develop a primary care centre for Lucan.

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PQ 7817-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the current status of Southdoc in Blackpool, as a number of users in the northside of Cork city have stated that the service appears to be wound down, that when they call to make an appointment that they are referred to a Southdoc service on the southside of the city, that this is particularly difficult for people who have limited transport options; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7833-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of people with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in Roscommon; the number of people currently on the waiting list for same in Roscommon; and the number waiting 0-3 months, the number waiting 3-6 months, the number waiting 6-12 months and the number waiting 12 months plus, in tabular form.

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PQ 7841-25 - Willie O'Dea

To ask the Minister for Health the reason that toxicology testing is not undertaken at University Hospital Limerick at the weekends; and the reason that accessing toxicology results is so difficult during the week; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7851-25 - Micheál Carrigy

To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the decision by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to require advanced paramedic training officers and NAS managers to park emergency response vehicles at ambulance bases instead of taking them home, given that this will end voluntary out-of-hours emergency response by trained personnel, impacting patient care in local communities; if the implications of this policy on emergency response times have been fully assessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7852-25 - Aindrias Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the efforts being taken to ensure adequate access to residential respite services for young people with complex needs in the Cork area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7865-25 - Peter Cleere

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends reopening a vacant building (in Mullinavat, formerly the Keogh Practice) as a GP practice.

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PQ 7866-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of people on the physiotherapy waiting list in Roscommon; the numbers waiting less than four months, four to 12 months, and more than 12 months, and for each category the numbers waiting aged 0-4 years, 5-17 years, 18-64 years and aged 65 plus.

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PQ 7867-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of people on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list in Roscommon; the numbers waiting less than four months, four to 12 months, and more than 12 months, and for each category the numbers waiting aged 0-17 years and those aged 18 years and above.

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PQ 7868-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of people on the speech and language therapy initial treatment waiting list in Roscommon; the numbers waiting less than four months, four to 12 months, and more than 12 months, and for each category the numbers waiting aged 0-17 years and those aged 18 years and above.

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PQ 7869-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of people on the speech and language therapy further treatment waiting list in Roscommon; the numbers waiting less than four months, four to 12 months, and more than 12 months, and for each category the numbers waiting aged 0-17 years and those aged 18 years and above.

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PQ 7870-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he would detail the number of people on the occupational therapy first time assessment waiting list in Roscommon; the numbers waiting less than four months, four to 12 months, and more than 12 months, and for each category the numbers waiting aged 0-4 years, 5-17 years, 18-64 years and aged 65 plus.

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PQ 7871-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of children in Roscommon currently awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the 2005 Disability Act.

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PQ 7873-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if she has considered the need for a dedicated children’s respite centre in Donegal to address the growing need for respite hours in the county and the current lack of available respite for families; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7874-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the reason the process to award emergency funding to organisations in Donegal through the children’s disability grant fund, announced in November 2023, with the successful applicants announced in June 2024, has taken so long; if funds have not been awarded, when it will be awarded to all successful applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7876-25 - Cathy Bennett

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the current vacancy rate in children's disability network teams; and her proposals to recruit sufficient staff to ensure that children have access to the therapies and services they require.

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PQ 7883-25 - Pat Buckley

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are waiting for homecare support in Cork east; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in Cork east; the average number of hours granted to each successful applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7884-25 - Pat Buckley

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth `her plans to reduce the waiting times for assessment of needs in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7925-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of people with disabilities in receipt of personal assistance hours in Roscommon; and if he would also detail the number of people currently on the waiting list for same in Roscommon; and the number waiting 0-3 months, the number waiting 3-6 months, the number waiting 6-12 months and the number waiting 12 months plus, in tabular form.

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PQ 7957-25 - Marian Harkin

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the review of the physician associate role; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7959-25 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time security staff currently employed at Letterkenny University Hospital; the number of full-time security staff on each shift at Letterkenny University Hospital; and the number of full-time security staff currently off on leave at Letterkenny University Hospital, in tabular form.

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PQ 7960-25 - Pádraig MacLochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time security staff currently employed at Sligo University Hospital; the number of full-time security staff on each shift at Sligo University Hospital; and the number of full-time security staff currently off on leave at Sligo University Hospital, in tabular form.

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PQ 7961-25 - Pádraig MacLochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of violent incidents directed towards staff at Letterkenny University Hospital, for each of the years 2016 to 2025 inclusive, in tabular form.

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PQ 7962-25 - Pádraig MacLochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of violent incidents directed towards staff at Sligo University Hospital, for each of the years 2016 to 2025 inclusive, in tabular form.

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PQ 7970-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health if Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown had a broken CT scanner recently ( it is true that last weekend (15th – 16th February) , with seven such patients on Saturday alone, that they suffered delays in getting the scan results when the various computer systems were not compatible and that the resultant cost of these issues amounts to somewhere in the region of €100,000) and if patients in need of CTs were transferred elsewhere by ambulance at great cost with two doctors each time; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 7971-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all the most expensive machines that is, CT Scanners, MRI machines and so on, that are held in the HSE system; and the number of these that are currently not working; if a maintenance department tasked with keeping these costly machines working and serviced exists; and the steps that are being taken to ensure that machine malfunction do not impact on patient care.

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PQ 8009-25 - John Paul O'Shea

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the breakdown of the waiting lists for all CDNTs in CHO4, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8010-25 - John Paul O'Shea

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the breakdown of all posts by speciality for all CDNTs in CH04 area, outlining whether the post is filled or vacant, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8017-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance crews who are ready and mobile to receive another call within 20 minutes of patient handover, for each emergency department and each hospital, for each quarter in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 8025-25 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health if a circular has issued from her Department or from the HSE in the past 12 months regarding discretionary medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8045-25 - John Clendennen

To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of locations where patients can access 80cm MRI machines in Ireland; if none are available, where is a person requiring an urgent MRI of this particular specification to go; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8052-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of breast screening units, per county, in tabular form.

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PQ 8053-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Longford-Westmeath registered for bowel screening; and the number of people, according to the census, who are eligible for bowel screening.

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PQ 8054-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who are eligible for a cervical check; and the number of cervical checks that have taken place in 2024 to date, per county, in tabular form.

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PQ 8055-25 - Sorca Clark

To ask the Minister for Health the number of diabetic retina screening units, per county in tabular form; and the way she plans on improving access and registration processes for diabetic retina screening.

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PQ 8058-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer following gynaecology consultation in 2023 and to date in 2024.

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PQ 8061-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health the steps she plans to take to improve access to person-centred child and adolescent mental health services teams.

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PQ 8068-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1363 of 22 January 2025, the stakeholders who are involved in discussions in relation to the Draft Report on St. Brigid’s campus, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in tabular form.

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PQ 8086-25 - Robert O'Donoghue

To ask the Minister for Health to report on progress on any negotiations between the HSE and Alexion in relation to the price of the drug Selumetinib (Koselugo), an important drug for the treatment of neurofibromatosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8113-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates on a home support service for older people recruitment panel in each month in 2023 and 2024, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form.

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PQ 8114-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of health care assistants recruited by the Home Support Service for Older People in each month in 2023 and 2024, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form.

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PQ 8115-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates currently on a Home Support Service for Older People recruitment panel by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and the number of candidates who have been on the panel for 0-12 months, 1-2 years and greater than three years.

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PQ 8116-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the amount expended on carrying out assessments of need, by month in 2024 and 2023; the total amount paid to agencies to carry out these assessments; the company names of the top beneficiaries of payments and amounts paid to each of these agencies in both years.

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PQ 8154-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health the increased staffed investment she plans to make to address the waiting list crisis in Primary Care Child and Adolescent Psychology Services in CHO9; and when she intends to a recruitment drive for same to begin.

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PQ 8160-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health to examine the impact of changes in dental practice at (Dublin Dental University Hospital), specifically the way the practice has adopted the approach which prioritises patients based on the suitability for teaching need; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 8189-25 - Charles Ward

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists attached to Inishowen children's disability network team in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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