PQ Responses - July 29th 2025

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PQ 40844-25 - Ruairí Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists based at Clogherhead health centre in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 40845-25 - Ruairí Ó Murchú front page preview

To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls received at NorthEast Doctor on call service based in Drogheda in 2024 and to-date in 2025; of the calls received, the number that were necessary to have the doctor make a house call; and the number of doctors, nurses and administrative staff based at this service, in tabular form.

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PQ 40846-25 - Ruairí Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental nurses that are currently on panels awaiting a job offer.

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PQ 40882-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by her Department and agencies under its aegis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40920-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all addiction step-down facilities currently operating in County Galway; who operates each facility; the public body or agency that holds responsibility for their regulation or oversight; and the range of support available at each location including counselling, medical care and so on, in order to ensure that individuals recovering from addiction are receiving appropriate, high-quality, support and that all such facilities meet required standards of care and service provision.

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PQ 40921-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a centralised register or list of all addiction step-down facilities in the State; and the formal process by which such facilities are established or acquired including the criteria used to assess their suitability, the consultation or engagement required with local stakeholders, and the regulatory or quality assurance checks applied prior to approval or funding.

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PQ 40960-25 - Liam Quaide

To ask the Minister for Health the work being undertaken by her officials and-or the HSE to establish real-time suicide reporting in Ireland and associated infrastructure; if she will outline any collaboration with An Garda Síochána in relation to data sharing in this regard and a timeline for the finalisation of data-sharing; the timeline for the establishment of a national system of real-time suicide reporting in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40994-25 - Conor Sheehan

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of and number of hospital admissions for children aged 13 and under attributed to tooth decay-dental issues in Ireland, per hospital, from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 40995-25 - Conor Sheehan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitalisations for children caused by tooth decay, broken down by hospital group, from 2014-2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41027-25 - Paul McAuliffe

To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to expand the roll out of interRAI single assessments for home support; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41030-25 - Paul McAuliffe

To ask the Minister for Health the average hours of home support delivered to older people in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41031-25 - Paul McAuliffe

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the average hours of home support delivered to disabled people in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41032-25 - Paul McAulffe

To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for home support in HSE Dublin north city and west, Dublin north west and Dublin north county; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41036-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the gestation at delivery of all neonatal deaths and stillbirths following termination of pregnancy recorded in weeks plus days in perinatal death notification forms, which provide data for the annual perinatal mortality national clinical audit, in each of the years from the beginning of 2019 until the end of 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41039-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of practicing dentists registered in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41040-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Wexford registered with the dental treatment services scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41060-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant payments for each year, in tabular form; and to confirm whether these figures include all schemes and discretionary grant programmes administered directly by the Department or through its agencies.

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PQ 41091-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of young people aged under 18 who have been referred to mental health services in each of the past five years where the primary or a contributing factor was the use of THC or cannabis-related substances; if she will provide this data, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41094-25 - Cathy Bennett

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental positions in County Monaghan, including the number vacant, by quarter since 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41095-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting lists for cancer screening and cancer treatment at year end in each of the past ten years.

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PQ 41096-25 - Peader Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons screened for cancer in the State in each of the past ten years; the types of cancer screened for; and the annual screening target in each of those years, in tabular form.

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PQ 41097-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who began chemotherapy treatment in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025, by county, in tabular form.

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PQ 41098-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for eye treatment in each count; and the average waiting length, per county.

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PQ 41099-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of private and public nursing homes beds are registered in the State for each of the past five years; the number of nursing homes that have opened and closed in each of the past five years; the number of nursing homes places needed in the State at present and for each of the next seven years; and the average cost of a nursing home bed in the public and private sector.

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PQ 41101-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer surgeries carried out in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025.

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PQ 41102-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents recorded in the health service 2018 to 2025; and the nature of adverse incidents.

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PQ 41103-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of adverse incidents recorded in the health service statutory organisations (hospital and community) 2018 to 2025.

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PQ 41104-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents recorded in each hospital group 2018 to 2025; and the nature of adverse incidents.

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PQ 41105-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents that were recorded in each hospital 2018 to 2025; and the nature of adverse incidents.

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PQ 41106-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents that were recorded in each CAMHS region 2018 to 2025; and the nature of adverse incidents.

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PQ 41109-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently clinically discharged from hospital, but who remain in hospital; the number who have been in hospital despite being clinically discharged for over 3 months, for over six months, for over one year and for over two years, by hospital.

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PQ 41110-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in each emergency department in the country.

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PQ 41111-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the single longest length anyone was left waiting in each emergency department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025 .

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PQ 41115-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of HSE staff currently absent from work.

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PQ 41117-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by each hospital in the State to debt collectors over the past decade; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41118-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cyber security staff recruited by the HSE, in each of the past ten years.

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PQ 41119-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments cancelled by each hospital in the State, in each of the past ten years.

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PQ 41153-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to fund and implement the hereditary cancer model of care in Ireland, with particular reference to improving genetic testing and surveillance for those at risk of inherited cancers like pancreatic cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41154-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer who were referred for genetic testing following diagnosis, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41155-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health the estimated proportion of pancreatic cancer patients with inherited genetic mutations who are currently receiving access to genetic testing, counselling, and tailored treatment plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41156-25 -Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the current resourcing of the hereditary cancer model of care within the National Cancer Strategy; if she will outline the additional funding being considered to ensure national access to this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41226-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the month in which the new Nenagh community nursing home will be fully open.

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PQ 41231-25 - Brendan Smith

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the level of respite services available in Cavan and Monaghaan for children and for adults; the further proposals to extend the range of such services in 2025 and 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41233-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health for a list of professional bodies the HSE gender programme has asked for representatives from, such as bodies for pharmacists, psychologists, and occupational therapists.

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PQ 41240-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the assessment and potential inclusion of the psychiatric medication lumateperone for the treatment of bipolar disorder under the drug payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41244-25 - Seán Fleming

To ask the Minister for Health when facilities will be provided at a health centre (A car parking area at the Clonaslee Health Centre, Co. Laois, the HSE has a substantial piece of land on the grounds on which the health centre is built and there is no facilities for cars to park here and all people attending the health centre have to park on the public road and elderly people having to cross a very busy road to get in and out of the health centre.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41246-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if every effort will be made to ensure that Kerry patients are placed in the nearest community hospital or nursing home to where they and their loved ones reside given this is not currently happening; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41254-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to provide extra psychiatric capacity at a facility (in Crosslanes in Drogheda.), given the fact that people are being sent home for the lack of capacity; and if she will end the practice of sending patients home with serious mental health challenges in taxis.

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PQ 41259-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE and an organisation (the IMO (Irish Medical Organisation) have come to an agreement on the endometriosis framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41261-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the capital projects which are at appraisal stage, by region and service division, in tabular form; the year in which each business case was submitted; and the estimated funding requirement for the project.

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PQ 41310-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress of each individual action outlined in the 2022 HSE position paper on the prevention of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41311-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals diagnosed with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41312-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the specific criteria used for the diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41313-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the aftercare supports that are available to an individual with a diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41314-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the mandatory required training that all HSE clinicians must undertake in order to support patients living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41316-25 - John Brady

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the rehabilitation unit in Leopardstown Hospital, Dublin is closing; who has directed this closure; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 41334-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of children referred for an autism spectrum disorder assessment to a CNDT (St Gabriel's South City CDNT in Limerick.) team through either the children's services disability form or through the assessment of need process in each of the years 2022 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 41335-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of children formally assessed by clinicians in a CDNT unit (by the St Gabriel's CDNT in Limerick city.) in each of the years 2023 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if an autism spectrum disorder using ASD specific assessment tool were used such as the ADOS 2 and ADI R tools or equivalent.

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PQ 41373-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the reason children with autism spectrum disorder in County Kerry no longer receive the previously standard six-week block of speech and language therapy per year; and whether this level of support will be reinstated locally given the impact on early development.

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PQ 41374-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she is aware of the significant delays in accessing SLT and OT services through children's disability network teams in Kerry, due to chronic understaffing and the use of limited-hour contracts; and the targeted actions being taken to address these staffing issues in the county.

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PQ 41375-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the reason no permanent psychologist is currently assigned to CDNT teams in parts of Kerry, leaving schools and parents without professional behavioural support for children with autism; and if this will be addressed in the short term.

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PQ 41377-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the efforts being made to increase capacity at overnight respite centres serving Kerry families (such as the Arches in Tralee); and whether additional funding and staffing will be provided this year.

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PQ 41378-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she will review the eligibility criteria of respite services, such as a service (Home from Home in Kerry.), to ensure children with behavioural challenges are not excluded from accessing essential care.

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