PQ Responses - July 17th 2025

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PQ 40208-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies within Letterkenny University Hospital, broken down by specific role and department, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40209-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health when a permanent consultant neurologist will be appointed at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40210-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health when all vacancies at Letterkenny University Hospital affecting the treatment of diabetes will be filled; the efforts that have been made to fill the vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40212-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Donegal, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40255-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Health the location of a service (Where does Westdoc operate out of in Mayo.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40256-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding house calls by Westdoc (The number of house calls completed by Westdoc in 2023 and 2024. The cost of Westdoc over the two years.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40257-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Health her views on improvements to Westdoc services (If the Minister will consider modernising the Westdoc services in Westport and Knock to improve accessibility for those to travel from all areas in Mayo.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40258-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Health her views on centralising Westdoc service (If the Minister will consider centralising the Westdoc service to Castlebar, the centre of the County.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40273-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths that have occurred on the operating table during open heart surgery in Irish hospitals, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40296-25 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health if there will be sufficient car parking spaces in the new Children’s Hospital and the associated Ronald McDonald House to cater for the demand of spaces from the parents of in-patients, those at the paediatric accident and emergency department and those children who must attend as out-patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40298-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the current ownership status of each site and the building of each primary care centre, respectively, nationwide, delivered via her Department and HSE public private partnership; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40320-25 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health to outline details of any programmes under which the HSE may facilitate access to medicines in emergency circumstances for medicines not on the reimbursement list; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40322-25 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on new medicines and new uses of existing medicines from January 2025 to 31 May 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40323-25 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that all aspects of the reimbursement process are in compliance with the HSE's code of governance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40352-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of people awaiting a home help package in Donegal, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40353-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on occupational therapy waiting lists in Donegal, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40355-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on physiotherapy waiting lists in Donegal, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40356-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting dental appointments in Donegal, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40360-25 - Ruairí Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of children waiting to be seen by CDNTs across the State, categorised by CHO, team and number of weeks waiting, in tabular form.

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PQ 40361-25 - Ruairi Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Health the current number of both unfilled and filled adult multidisciplinary therapy posts in the State in 2024 and 2025, by CHO, and by occupation, in tabular form.

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PQ 40362-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new Lifford Community Hospital project; the timeframe for the delivery of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40366-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of vacancies that exist in CDNTs in County Donegal, by CDNT region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40368-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health for the number of vacancies that exist within CAMHS in County Donegal, broken down by area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40417-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all Public-Private Partnership projects under her remit, including project name, contract value, and start/end date since 2010; and to confirm whether any projects have been subject to cost overruns, renegotiation or early termination since 2010.

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PQ 40433-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to recruit and retain additional therapy staff to meet growing demands in both children's and adult services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40434-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to transition away from emergency-only responses in disability support services towards a rights-based, planned model of support; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40438-25 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of reimbursement claims submitted and reimbursed (PCRS), per month, for first and second consultations for terminations of pregnancy by GPs, from January to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40440-25 - William Aird

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the status of the National Ophthalmology Programme as it relates to children residing in County Laois; if she is aware that these children are currently required to travel to a health centre in Athlone (Clonbrusk Health Centre) for outpatient services, a distance of approximately 80km; the steps being taken to establish paediatric ophthalmology services in County Laois given the ongoing impact on families; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40442-25 - Michael Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2426 of 29 April 2025, the status of filling the post for an ophthalmologist in Clonmel, the absence of which is causing lengthy waiting times for routine and urgent referrals; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40445-25 - John McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she will outline the number of vacant positions in the Kilkenny-Thomastown CDNT area; the length of time that each position has remained vacant; the efforts being made to recruit the necessary professionals; the number of children on the waiting list; if those waiting the longest will be referred to private specialists; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40447-25 - John Mc Guinness

To ask the Minister for Health the process by which HSE employees suffering long-Covid can engage with senior officials to determine their future pay and conditions or sick pay entitlements prior to the termination of the current Covid scheme; if the HSE will proactively engage with all affected employees to ensure a uniformed national response to ease the anxiety and uncertainty being experienced by employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40463-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health that Children's Health Ireland would produce a booklet of medical acronyms that can be given to parents of all new admissions in the CHI group.

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PQ 40465-25 - Jen Cummins

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the status of the review on rehabilitative training; when the report of each review will be completed and published; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40477-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an ambulance base in Killorglin, County Kerry as a matter of priority; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40478-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a primary care centre in Cahersiveen, County Kerry as a matter of priority; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40504-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she will commit to providing ring-fenced funding to address the current and historic financial deficits experienced by voluntary disability service providers such as an organisation (Kerry Parents & Friends Association.).

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PQ 40550-25 - Michael Carrigy

To ask the Minister for Health if her Department, or any agency under its aegis, has procured services from a company (Starlink, a satellite internet service operated by SpaceX), including but not limited to internet connectivity, satellite communications, or associated technologies; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40590-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments offered and children seen following the audit into pelvic osteotomies at Children's Health Ireland; whether any surgeries have been determined as unnecessary; whether any effort has been made to determine whether any surgeries were necessary or unnecessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40600-25 - Conor McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding given to each county as part of the drugs payment scheme in each of the years 2014 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40601-25 - Conor McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding given to each county as part of the oncology drugs management scheme in each of the years 2014 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40603-25 - Conor McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding given to each county as part of eating disorder teams expansion in each of the years 2014 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40604-25 - Conor McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding given to each county as part of the rare diseases fund in each of the years 2014 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40654-25 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health the expected date for the commissioning of phase 1 of the (new wing) of St. Vincent’s Hospital, Mountmellick, County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40677-25 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health if the existing building will be maintained in use pending completion of phase 2 second new wing and at that point be refurbished; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40678-25 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health to outline the current position regarding funding for the construction of phase 2 (second new wing) for St. Vincent’s Hospital, Mountmellick, County Laois; and the projected timeframe for works on the project to begin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40686-25 - Roderic O'Gorman

To ask the Minister for Health if the entitlement to counselling for survivors and former residents of mother and baby institutions, via the National Counselling Service, as provided for in the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, is time limited; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40687-25 - Roderic O'Gorman

To ask the Minister for Health if the entitlement to counselling for survivors and former residents of mother and baby institutions, via the National Counselling Service, as provided for in the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, has been altered; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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