PQ Responses - July 2nd 2025

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PQ 36243-25 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health her views on the Medicines Management Programme plan to move all high protein oral supplements to List B; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36245-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of blood tests for Letterkenny University Hospital that are outsourced from March 2024; the cost of this outsourcing during this period; the cost of doing the same percentage of blood tests in-house over the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36248-25 - Paul Gogarty

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of people under 65 who have transitioned out of nursing homes since 2021; the number in the same cohort who have entered nursing homes in that same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36250-25 - Paul Gogarty

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under 65 currently occupying hospital beds while awaiting placement in a nursing home; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36251-25 - Paul Gogarty

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the rationale behind cutting the budget for the enhanced quality of life scheme which supports personal assistants and electric wheelchairs and so on, from €812,000 to €251,000 in the past year; if this reduction can be justified in the context of the Government’s stated aim to end the institutionalisation of under 65s, when this fund was set up to empower people with disabilities to live independently; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36316-25 - Jen Cummins

To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health patients currently receiving treatment in facilities in the United Kingdom funded by the HSE; the length of time each patient has been receiving such treatment; the total cost of these arrangements over the past 12 months; the reasons patients continue to be treated outside the State and whether there are any plans or strategies to repatriate these patients to appropriate services in Ireland, including timelines and resource planning to facilitate this.

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PQ 36342-25 - Eoghan Kenny

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen at the epilepsy monitoring unit at a hospital (Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Cork University Hospital in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025.) in each of the past five years and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36356-25 - Conor Sheehan

To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the installation of a PET scanner at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36401-25 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital ( Unit 1 is a dementia specific unit situated within the 117 acres of grounds at St Stephen’s Hospital, Sarsfield’s Court, Glanmire, Co Cork. It is situated approximately two kilometres from Glanmire village and seven kilometres from Cork city. It is a single storey detached building and is registered to accommodate 16 residents. Currently there is great demand for specialist high dependency beds in Cork for Alzheimer’s, and Dementia. Unit 1, St Stephen's Hospital, which is registered to accommodate 16 residents, currently provided accommodation to 6 residents, with 10 vacant beds. Can you explain why the full allocation of beds are not available to the public.) in Cork will provide the full allocation of beds in its dementia unit to the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36431-25 - Robert O’ Donoghue

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in Fingal west who attended a HSE dentist in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36444-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the current waiting time for children’s therapy services, speech and language, occupational therapy, physiotherapy under the early intervention scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36461-25 - Ciaran Ahern

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychiatrists, by grade, based at Springfield/Tallaght primary care centre in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36462-25 - Ciarán Ahern

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric ENT surgeons based at CHI Crumlin in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36470-25 - Ciarán Ahern

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of WTE social workers by grade based at the Chamber House children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36471-25 - Ciarán Ahern

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of WTE psychologists by grade based at the Tymon children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36480-25 - Ruairí Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline plans to improve the feeding, bathing and mobility facilities at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, for young children who have disabilities and additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36490-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health in view of the requirement for a GP referral to access services at the Balbriggan Primary Care Centre, the specific measures her Department is taking to improve access to services at the centre, particularly for patients facing barriers to GP access; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36506-25 - Tom Brabazon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental nurses and dental hygienists based at Coolock Primary Care Centre in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 36589-25 - Conor Sheehan

To ask the Minister for Health if her Department pays third party ambulance providers such as St. John of Gods to deliver pre-hospital emergency care on behalf of the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36609-25 - Ruth Coppinger

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third-level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 36613-25 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health that considering 31% of patients from an NAI survey reported waiting times of 1-2 years to see a neurologist, the measures she is taking to increase capacity and reduce waiting times; and the number of consultant neurologists there were in 2024 and to date in 2025.

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PQ 36614-25 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that have not been able to access community neuro-rehabilitation services over the past 12 months.

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PQ 36615-25 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists in place; and the number by which she is going to increase this.

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PQ Responses - July 2nd 2025