PQ Responses - May 13th 2025

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PQ 15084-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the infrastructure needs at University Hospitel Kerry ( 96 bed block in additional to 39 beds already in train ( ED presentations ↑18 % on 2023 numbers ). Permanent Oncology / Haematology build ( Patients numbers requiring chemotherapy is increasing year on year , over 5000 patients treated in UHK last year and facility does not have capacity to cope with increased demand . Will reduce need for Kerry people to travel to Cork ). New maternity unit required due to clinical risks to mother and baby due to current location of unit -too far from theatre . Sixth operation theatre - to facilitate Obs/Gynae demands . Ambulatory care block to include Endoscopy , Surgical and Medical Day Units , Outpatient Dept and Radiology . Office accommodation – due to the increase . Additional parking for staff).

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PQ 20973-25 - Catherine Ardagh

To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to CAMHS by CHO7 in the past 12 months; the number of those referrals rejected by CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23171-25 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the hospital transport budget for all hospitals in the south-east and mid-west regions; the qualifying criteria for patients availing of hospital transport; the application process for hospital transport; the way in which a wheelchair user can avail of their own transport; the supports available to a patient who must seek their transport; the way in which they avail of it in a timely fashion, to ensure that no vulnerable patients are left without hospital transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23174-25 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health the level of expenditure on hospital transport provided to members of the travelling community from Tipperary; if members of the travelling community are automatically supplied with hospital transport when transport services are restricted for most patients; the level of expenditure on hospital transport being provided to IPAS or BOTP residents in Tipperary over the past two years; the number of patients who were provided with hospital transport services from Tipperary in the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23177-25 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health the services and treatment options that are available for people with a disease (Lyme Disease); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23178-25 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care centre for An Cheathrú Rua, County Galway; when the business case will be completed; and if the details for the business case will be done by the end of May 2025.

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PQ 23184-25 - Mattie McGrath

To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the restrictions to hospital transport services in Tipperary, which are leaving many patients without transport; to increase the budget for the service to ensure that those in real need of transport are not left without; the reason for the increase in the demand; if hospital transport for beneficiaries of temporary protection or international protection applicants is taken from the hospital budget or provided from an alternative budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23186-25 - Michael Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the vacancy for primary care south Tipperary ophthalmologist following the planned retirement of the ophthalmologist in October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23204-25 - Eoghan Kenny

To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and psychology services are currently working at a centre (Mayfield Health Centre); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23211-25 - Pádraig MacLochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recent announcement by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) on the recruitment of additional staff does not include any additional paramedic posts for the west/north-west region; if she will give a firm assurance that people living in the west/north-west region are being provided with the same level of service from the NAS as people living in all other regions, with evidence of same.

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PQ 23226-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if an application for funding for intellectual disability residential services by an organisation (St John of God in Kerry for those who attend Ashfield Lodge.); if this project will be funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23243-25 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no permanent psychiatry expertise or consultants available on a 24/7 basis to address emergency psychiatry admissions of patients under 18 years at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, and to treat patients under 18 years in crisis who are referred by their GP; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23280-25 - Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of spiking that have been reported in the past five years, per county; including reports to hospitals and Gardaí; in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23284-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details regarding the traction system referred to in HIQA’s review on governance of implantable medical devices at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), including use of non-CE marked springs in surgery at CHI Temple Street (On page 88 of the HIQA report, it states -“Instead, they explained to HIQA that they presumed that the springs were to be used as spare parts or replacement parts for an external traction system that utilises springs in its design. […] They told HIQA that they and Surgeon A had worked together on such a traction system a number of years previously.”); the number of children it was used on; if it was CE marked; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23439-25 - Ruairí Ó Murchú

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for funding and for a carer for HSE home support in each month of 2025, by RHA and IHA; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23449-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health to set out the bed base occupancy rates for each model 3 and model 4 hospital in this State as of 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, or on similar and relevant dates, in tabular form.

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PQ 23450-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health to set out the increase in emergency department (ED) presentations for each model 3 and model 4 hospital ED between 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, and their corresponding admission rates for each of these dates,in tabular form.

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PQ 23469-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if she will request the HSE to make the new, life changing prostate cancer therapy, pluvicto, a treatment that has been approved by the European Medicines Agency, available to all public patients at the earliest possible date; the cost of this treatment; how soon will it be available to patients in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23485-25 - Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to ensure that the current 15 to 18 month wait for an appointment on referral to the ADMiRE Clinic in CAMHS is decreased; the efforts being made to ensure timely appointments for those requiring access to the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23496-25 - James Geoghegan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update in respect of the proposed Rathmines primary care centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23497-25 - James Geoghegan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the proposed Baggot Street primary care centre; the efforts the HSE is making regarding their proposed disposal of the old Baggot Street Hospital, which is adjacent to the primary care centre proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23498-25 - Aidan Farrelly

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of waiting lists, to include banded waiting times, in the CDNT in North Kildare for occupational therapy, psychology, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and dietetics.

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PQ 23499-25 - Aidan Farrelly

To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the recruitment of staff for the ADHD clinic in CHO 7.

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PQ 23512-25 - Pádraig O’Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new acute hospital for Glanmire, Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23521-25 - Pat Buckley

To ask the Minister for Health ether weight loss medication (Mounjaro injections. These injections were originally meant for the treatment of diabetes, but they have an incredible effect on weight loss for obese patients.) can be covered under the medical card scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23524-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints Children’s Health Ireland received in 2024; the response time for complaints; the percentage of complaints which required additional time beyond 30 days; if all complaints unaddressed beyond 30 days were given updates every 20 working days until the process had concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23525-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland has a mechanism for measuring the effectiveness of its complaints process; if they publish complaint related data; and if so, to provide a copy.

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PQ 23526-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of months Children’s Health Ireland has been operating an auto response email from its complaints office (There has been an auto email response advising that the complaints' office is receiving a high number of complaints and to expect a delay in receiving a reply.).

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PQ 23527-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if a number of required positions have been filled in Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service; and the number that remain vacant, in tabular form (According to CHI’s temple street's own published report* and HSE documents, it has been stated that the Spina Bifida MDT should consist of the following positions:Neurosurgeon, Consultant Urologist, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (lower limbs), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (spinal), Spina Bifida Nurse Specialist, Paediatrician with interest in Neurodisability, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Medical Social Worker, Dietitian, Speech and Language Therapist, Psychologist, Orthotist, Play Therapist, Neuro-ophthalmologist, Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Ref: The Health and Therapy Needs of Children with Spina Bifida in Ireland").

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PQ 23530-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if it is Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) policy to provide food to all mothers in the postpartum period or only those who breastfeed or pump breast milk for feeding; to confirm if all mothers who arrive in CHI sites by ambulance from maternity hospitals with infants requiring incubator care, high dependency unit care or intensive care are provided with food; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23536-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of average accident and emergency waiting list times, broken down by hospital, in each of the years 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23538-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown of the numbers of persons on CDNT waiting lists in Kerry; the average waiting times to access these services; to provide a breakdown of the numbers waiting more than 12 months; to outline the longest wait times in years and months, in each of the years 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23561-25 - Michael Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the actions she is taking to support children with eating disorders (Minister I have been contacted by parents with children who have various types of eating disorders in Kerry. While they are grateful for services they do get they believe we do not do enough for them. Can the Minister give me a detailed explaination as to what we are doing for children with eating disorders and what servies are avaiable to them and what is envisaged in trying to help further by having more services for them); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23566-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists for primary care services in Kerry in each of the years 2015 to date in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23568-25 - Ann Graves

To ask the Minister for Health the current number of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) teams operating in Fingal East; their remit, inclusion and exclusion criteria; the number of staff employed in each team, and the time they allocated to DBT work specifically; the waiting list for accessing such services and rates of referrals which are rejected; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23594-25 - Darren O'Rourke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital bed days that were lost due to the lack of availability of home care packages and availability of nursing home places, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23638-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health when will the build commence for the new accident and emergency department in Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23640-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health when will a new inpatient bed block or blocks be built at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23641-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health if planning permission is in place with Dublin City Council for the building of these new inpatient wards at Beaumont Hopital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23642-25- Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health how many new beds are planned in the new inpatient wards at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23643-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health what will the total inpatient bed capacity be at Beaumont Hospital when the new inpatient beds are completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23644-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health the budget for the delivery of the new inpatient wards at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23645-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health if the funds for the inpatient wards at Beaumont Hospital are included in the HSE capital budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23646-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE will arrange the construction of fast track modular build hospital beds, 50 to 100, on a suitable temporary site location at Beaumont Hospital as an interim measure in 2025, using the planning permission provisions and regulations in the Covid legislation to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23647-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health to request the HSE to review and put in place a referral pathway for patients and key resources, to make more use of the Children's Health Ireland Urgent Care Centre at Connolly Hospital particularly for children and parents from the Fingal area, pending the closure Temple Street Children’s Hospital in the coming years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23650-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for capital investment to support the expansion of mental health services in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23651-25 - Erin McGreehan

To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to fill consultant and specialist orthodontist vacancies in Dundalk; if people in urgent need of care can avail of an alternative appointment or the national treatment purchase scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23654-25 - Emer Currie

To ask the Minister for Health the total number of speech and language therapists currently employed within CHO9; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23657-25 - Joe Cooney

To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the number of WTE psychologists based at East Clare Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 23661-25 - Joe Cooney

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at University Hospital Limerick in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 23662-25 - Joe Cooney

To ask the Minister for Health the projects in County Clare that are included in the HSE Capital Plan 2025; the funding allocated to each in this plan; and the timeframe for progress of each project, in tabular form.

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PQ 23663-25 - Joe Cooney

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for psychology services in primary care within CHO3.

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PQ 23664-25 - Joe Cooney

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE lactation consultants based within community care settings of CHO3 in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 23673-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if Pluvicto, the new, life-changing prostate cancer medication that has been approved by the European Medicines Agency, will be made available to all public patients at the earliest possible date; the estimated full year cost of providing this treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23680-25 - Catherine Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to ensure that Clifden hospital remains open on a permanent basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23702-25 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that aero-medical and special operations section of the Health Service Executive and Galway University Hospital have confirmed their satisfaction as to implications for safety of operations to and from the helipad at University Hospital Galway, in accordance with condition No. 13 of An Bord Pleanala decision in case ( ABP-313286-22,) for an apartment block at Westside Shopping Centre, Galway.

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PQ 23711-25 - Louis O'Hara

To ask the Minister for Health if the operating hours for ultrasounds at University Hospital Galway will be expanded beyond the current operating hours of Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23729-25 - Pádraig MacLochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 27 March 2025, if she will provide a detailed breakdown of the reasons 132 of the 200 appeals to reimbursement recommendations for continuous glucose monitor sensors submitted by clinicians on behalf of their patients were rejected ( The Adult Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Guideline V2 (National Clinical Guideline No.17, May 2024) recommends continuous glucose monitoring for all people living with type 1 diabetes. The HIQA Rapid Health Technology Assessment of Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus endorses these guidelines and recommends continuous glucose monitoring for all people living with type 1 diabetes.); if the patients rejected on appeal were clinically confirmed with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes at secondary care level; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23755-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, 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 23756-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, broken 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 23757-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on occupational therapy waiting lists in County Kerry, 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 23758-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on physiotherapy waiting lists in County Kerry, 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 23759-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting dental appointments in County Kerry, 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 23760-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies within University Hospital Kerry, by occupation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23782-25 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for adults special care needs GA waiting list for routine dental care in each hospital, in tabular form.

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PQ 23790-25 - Malcolm Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new primary care centre for Gorey, County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23802-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the campaigns her Department have undertaken to recruit qualified professionals from abroad to work within the disability services such as the Children’s Disability Network Teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23980-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the current situation, whereby vulnerable elderly sick people in need of nursing home care, either short or long-term, are being placed in nursing homes miles away from their families and friends (this is adding to a high level of stress to an already very difficult situation, making families travel very long distances, sometimes in excess of 5 hours, to visit their loved ones); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 23983-25 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that due to delays in funding approval for certain service users, an organisation (Meals on Wheels; and that meals on wheels are not being reimbursed for the meals they provide to service users who were waiting to have funding approved;) must pay out of pocket to provide meals and that there is no mechanism by which the organisation can back date funding once approval comes through; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24000-25 - Carol Nolan

To ask the Minister for Health if a decision was taken at Department of Health and HSE level, prior to the abortion law changing in 2019, to adopt an approach to pregnancy counselling services, such as including the withholding of public funding from any pregnancy counselling agency not prepared to engage in abortion referral under the new legal regime proposed in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24024-25 - Tony McCormack

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the midlands region, including County Offaly, has fewer ambulance resources now than it did 25 years ago; if there are plans to review the level of ambulance service provision in the region to ensure timely emergency response; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24026-25 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of treatment for chronic conditions in Mayo University Hospital and in primary care centres in Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24031-25 - Shane Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to address the shortfall of regional inpatient neurorehabilitation beds across the country, highlighted in the inpatient rehabilitation mapping report published by the HSE in September 2024.

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PQ 24036-25 - William Aird

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update regarding the provision and location of a primary care centre for Mountrath, County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24037-25 - William Aird

To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for additional beds for people with Dementia at Shaen Hospital, Portlaoise, County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24047-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that only patients on waiting lists under the care of the Mater Misercordiae University Hospital will be referred to the Swords surgical hub when it opens later this year for their procedures; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24051-25 - Aindrias Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a project ( Macroom Community Hospital, Macroom, Co Cork); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24052-25 - Louis O'Hara

To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to re-advertise the tender for the construction of a primary care centre in Portumna, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24054-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance response time in County Meath in each of the past ten years; and the steps she is taking to decrease ambulance response time in the region.

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PQ 24055-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish-qualified nurses recruited by the HSE in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025.

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PQ 24064-25 - Mark Ward

To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of primary health care centres in the Dublin mid-west area; to provide a timeline of their roll out; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24065-25 - Danny Healy-Rae

To ask the Minister for Health if the need for a paediatric neurologist for University Hospital Kerry will be reviewed (Kerry children who present with seizures to UHK cannot have the necessary scans carried out in Tralee and need to be referred to CUH. I understand that this is a specialised area of paediatrics but as there is currently over a year of await to be seen in CUH by a Paediatric Neurologist, so there is an obvious urgent need to increase the number of Paediatric neurologists. Parents are left concerned and worried while they wait for an appointment with a paediatric neurologist in CUH. It is not fair that young children are left suffering with seizures while waiting for a diagnosis.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24070-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health if patients currently on waiting lists for procedures will be referred for the new Swords surgical hub when it opens later in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24078-25 - Grace Boland

To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department has undertaken to advertise outside of Ireland for healthcare professionals and healthcare workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24080-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the share of GMS practices that receive the social deprivation practice grant, from the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24084-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health if the number of amputees in Ireland is collated in a national database; if not, the reason; if she plans to establish a database of amputees to inform and improve service provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24085-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health if all amputees are guaranteed prosthetics following amputation surgery; the process for obtaining prosthetics following surgery; the funding and supports available to obtain more advanced prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24086-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Service Improvement Programme completed its review of the existing provision of limb prosthetic services in 2024; if so, whether this review has been published; the actions that have been taken to improve provision of prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24094-25 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of an eating disorder team for Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24101-25 - Willie O'Dea

To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe to increase the number of consultants in emergency medicine by a further 50%; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24119-25 - Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices that are currently accepting new medical card patients in the Cork area and the south Lee area as of now, and at this same point in 2024, 2023 and 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24121-25 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health whether dialysis patients travel together via taxi.

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PQ 24123-25 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the provision of a home help service in west Cork is failing to deliver the required hours to people, which in turn is increasing the likelihood of re-admission to an already creaking acute hospital service.

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PQ 24124-25 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are very few convalescence beds available in west Cork, which is delaying patient discharges from the acute hospitals and slowing recovery.

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PQ 24128-25 - John Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the locations around the country where community health organisations are providing specific services for adults who suffer from ADHD; the staffing cohort at each location; the number of patients benefitting from the services at each location, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24129-25 - John Connolly

To ask the Minister for Health the location of each CAMHS-ID facility in the country; the staffing cohort at each facility; the number of patients benefiting from the services therein, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24130-25 - Sean Ó Fearghaíl

To ask the Minister for Health her plans to develop more regional inpatient rehabilitation beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24132-25 - Emer Currie

To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the current staffing levels within the HSE school dental programme in CHO9, in light of the significant number of children under 13-years-old awaiting dental screenings; her plans to increase staffing and restore a full screening schedule; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24137-25 - Cormac Devlin

To ask the Minister for Health the proposals in place to ensure separate access to acute emergency care for patients with mental health issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24139-25 - Martin Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing level and capacity of psychiatric services at Roscommon University Hospital.

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PQ 24141-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-patient beds for eating disorders in north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24143-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health in light of the failure to provide nursing cover for Tory island, when commitments will be fulfilled regarding providing nursing cover on the island at all times; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24145-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the provision of orthodontal services in the north-east region; the reasons for delays in accessing services; and her proposals to ensure adequate service levels.

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PQ 24148-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure safe staffing in the helicopter emergency medical service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24150-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health when she will publish terms of reference for the review of the physician associate grade; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24151-25 - Thomas Gould

To ask the Minister for Health the action she has taken to reopen Southdoc Blackpool; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24189-25 - Roderic O'Gorman

To ask the Minister for Health if sustainability for climate criteria are written into the HSE’s procurement policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24207-25 - Sorca Clarke

To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the current staffing levels within CAMHS teams in west Cork and the wider Cork area; and the number of children who have been referred to CAMHS west Cork but who have never been seen.

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PQ 24215-25 - Réada Cronin

To ask the Minister for Health the rights parents or guardians have to be consulted and involved in medical decisions during the decision-making representative application process; if supports are available to families struggling with legal costs regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24224-25 - Seán Crowe

To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in adult mental health services in CHO7; the number of child and adolescent mental health service beds in CHO7; the average waiting time to access a bed in either service; the average occupancy rate of beds in either service; and the number of individuals currently waiting to access a bed in either service.; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24249-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in each private hospital nationwide are currently occupied by a patient who first presented to a public hospital, but was transferred by the HSE for tax-payer paid care, treatment or tests to a private hospital.

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PQ 24250-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received treatment in a private hospital in the State at a cost to the taxpayer in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025.

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PQ 24251-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of private clinics currently operating in rooms in public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24253-25 - Johnny Guirke

To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider lifting the recruitment embargo to allow for the employment of physician assistants already in training or in clinical placements in hospitals here, at a time when skilled healthcare staff are required to be retained in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24254-25 - Pa Daly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of elderly people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, 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 24256-25 - Louis O'Hara

To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will ensure that mental health records of people presenting to accident and emergency experiencing a mental health crisis are immediately referenced upon arrival; her plans to ensure that they are secured and monitored once they have presented; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24274-25 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of student placements in Blanchardstown Children's Disability Network Team, in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 24288-25 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the locations of primary care centres where intravitreal injections for age-related macular degeneration currently takes place.

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PQ 24289-25 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologists working in the public health service; her plans to expand this number; and the international recommended best practice ratio for ophthalmologists to population and current ratios.

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PQ 24335-25 - Fionntán Ó Suilleabháin

To ask the Minister for Health if she will approve the outstanding service level agreement for a meals on wheels group (Meals on Wheels, Gorey/Courtown; The Hatch Lab, Innovation House, M11 Business Campus, Gorey, Y25A8H2); if funding will be provided as agreed in 2024, noting that no funds have been received since September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24343-25 - Catherine Connelly

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, the current staffing shortfall at the HSE’s Galway community audiology services; when the posts will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 24359-25 - Colm Burke

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients undergoing treatment for sleep disorders in Ireland in each of the years 2020 to 2024, and as of 30 April 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.