PQ Responses - May 20th 2025

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PQ 25154-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health in light of concerns across the Iveragh Peninsula, if an urgent intervention can be made to ensure the opening of two hospice beds in Cahersiveen Community Hospital, County Kerry, that are absolutely vital to the entire region; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25199-25 - Brian Stanley

To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to add Ozempic and Saxenda to the list of medications available under the drugs payment scheme for weight loss programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25203-25 - James Geoghegan

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the plans for the improvement and expansion of disability day services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25236-25 - Pearse Doherty

To ask the Minister for Health which local health authorities have a reimbursement scheme offering an ESB rebate in lieu of the excess electricity costs incurred by running a home oxygen generator/machine; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25241-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the number of personnel who have retired from the National Ambulance Service in each county in each of the past ten years, in tabular form.

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PQ 25242-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health whether there is any provision within the National Ambulance Service's recruitment framework specifically aimed at targeting staffing needs in the west and north west regions.

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PQ 25274-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health if she will establish a clinical programme for pulmonary fibrosis, to ensure that patients receive the highest standard of care and equitable access to a range of specialist healthcare supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25275-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the clinical care pathway advisor for pulmonary fibrosis has not yet begun their work; the timeline she is working towards in ensuring this person is in post with supporting resources; the reason the supporting programme manager has still not commenced their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25276-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the €1 million funding allocated to pulmonary fibrosis, including the specific line items detailed in the 2025 HSE National Service Plan (In October 2024, Minister Donnelly allocated €1m in funding for pulmonary fibrosis - €500,000 in Budget 2025 and a further €500,000 in 2026. The allocated funding appeared as a line item in the 2025 HSE National Service Plan. The Irish Lung Fibrosis Association (ILFA) met with the HSE and the Department of Health in January 2025 to determine the allocation of funding. It was agreed in that meeting that the funding would go toward a pulmonary rehabilitation pilot (€275,000), a disease registry (€150,000), and a Section 39 grant for ILFA to increase its service capacity for patients (€75,000). The HSE stated that further discussions and the work progressing would require the Clinical Care Pathway Advisor to be situated in post.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25349-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric occupational therapists based in primary care in CHO3 in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 25350-25- Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapist attached to CHO3 older persons services, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in tabular form.

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PQ 25362-25 - Frankie Feighan

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if funding will be provided in this year's Budget to fully staff the community neurorehabilitation team for the northwest in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country (A fully staffed community neurorehabilitation team for the North West has been promised since 2019 with the publication of the Implementation Framework for the National Neurorehabilitation Strategy. A further a commitment in the 2024 HSE service plan to establish a fully staffed community neurorehabilitation team in the Northwest was never delivered. Community neurorehabilitation teams of 12 whole time equivalent staff are being established this year in the South, West and East of the country. In the Northwest, the existing team is only funded for less than 3 staff to serve a similar population.).

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PQ 25372-25 - Seán Ó Fearghaíl

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 18 May 2022, when voretigene neparvovec luxturna will be added to the reimbursement list in line with the Health Act 2013 and the national framework agreed with the pharmaceutical industry under which a company must submit an application to the HSE to have a new medicine approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25444-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children's dentists working within the public healthcare system in each of the last five years, by county, in tabular form.

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PQ 25445-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children seen by a public dentist in each of the past five years, by county, in tabular form.

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PQ 25453-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists employed by CAMHS in the Kildare area; the number of psychologists working in CAMHS in the Kildare area; the size of the waiting list for access to CAMHS services in the Kildare area; the average time waiting to secure an appointment with a psychologist in the Kildare area; and the average waiting time to access CAMHS services in the Kildare area in 2020 to 2025, inclusive, in tabular form.

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PQ 25471-25 - Pádraig O'Sullivan

To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the freestyle libre 2 system available on medical card to those using both metformin and insulin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25476-25 - Aengus Ó Snodaigh

To ask the Minister for Health the current state of play of the HSE's plan to develop a primary care centre at a location (Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12. which is long-promised and has meant that the adjacent Mother McAuley Centre hass been told for years not to invest in upgrades as they were part of the proposed development.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25547-25 - Peadar Tóibín

To ask the Minister for Health whether she was aware that there are very few dentist offices that are available in Ireland to wheelchair users who have a medical card; the actions being taken to address this issue as it has come to this deputies attention that many are being sent to Newry for treatment, obviously this is a very long travel for people with mobility issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25627-25 - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if funding will be provided in this year's Budget to fully staff the community neurorehabilitation team for the north-west in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country (A fully staffed community neurorehabilitation team for the Noth West has been promised since 2019 with the publication of the Implementation Framework for the National Neurorehabilitation Strategy. A further a commitment in the 2024 HSE service plan to establish a fully staffed community neurorehabilitation team in the North West was never delivered. Community neurorehabilitation teams of 12 whole time equivalent staff are being established this year in the South, West and East of the country. In the North West, the existing team is only funded for less than 3 staff to serve a similar population.).

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PQ 25636-25 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of PET scanners available in the public health system; the number of days per week each scanner operates, the number of scans carried out by each machine, for the past 24 months, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25637-25 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of any arrangements to lease-rent, on a temporary or permanent basis, PET scanners in the public system to the private health system; where this leasing-rental is taking place; the number of hours, if any, spent training private sector staff to operate the scanner; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25639-25 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a complete list of all stakeholders represented temporarily or long-term at the termination of pregnancy Data Governance Group, established following the 2023 Review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25640-25 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health the purpose and remit of the work of the TOP Data Governance Group; the number of meetings it has held to date, in tabular form; to outline its tasks and or work streams; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25641-25 - Malcolm Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ongoing procurement process for the provision of a primary care centre at Gorey, County Wexford; if the current status of that process precludes meetings with elected representatives to discuss the ongoing delays in that process; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25642-25 - Malcolm Byrne

To ask the Minister for Health the average time it takes from conception to completion of a primary care centre; and if the fifteen years to date involving the planned primary care centre at Gorey, County Wexford represents the longest period of any such process.

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PQ 25712-25 - Liam Quaide

To ask the Minister for Health for the average monthly cost to the HSE of a full-time agency staff psychiatrist, clinical nurse specialist, staff nurse, psychologist, social worker and occupational therapist; and to ask for a comparison of average monthly salary costs to the HSE for a staff member who is directly employed by the HSE across the same disciplines, in tabular form.

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PQ 25749-25 - Liam Quaide

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality for an update on the reinstatement of therapists from children disability network teams back to special schools since August 2024, and a breakdown of relevant figures including of recruitment attempts to backfill those posts within CDNTs following reinstatement of those therapists in special schools.

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PQ 25750-25 - Louis O'Hara

To ask the Minister for Health how the length of time the two ambulance crews in Tuam, County Galway are at Tuam Ambulance Base while not out on calls on a weekly basis for the years 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25754-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients admitted to each acute hospital in 2024, where it was known that an EPA, AHCD or Decision-Making Representation Order was in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25766-25 - Holly Cairns

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 924 of 8 April 2025, whether the HSE could provide the requested population size served by the Dublin and South East Regional Health Area.

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PQ 25768-25 - Rose Conway-Walsh

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on plans for the 75-bed rehabilitation unit planned for a hospital (the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25770-25 - Barry Ward

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the actions she is taking to address the waiting lists regarding assessment of needs tests for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25816-25- David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health if osteotomies conducted on children at locations other than Temple Street, Crumlin, and Cappagh hospitals will be considered in any further review of cases and surgical practice following the clinical audit at the aforementioned hospitals; if not, whether an audit will be conducted across other departments or hospitals to ascertain whether they should be included; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25839-25 - Ken O'Flynn

To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a facility in County Cork ( HSE Health Centre Ballynoe. Main Street, Ballynoe, Fermoy Co. Cork. Not Registered on Land Registry. The building is Hse owned. It is completely derelict. It is not on the land registry but is placed between Folio Numbers CK23398 and CK20682F. The building is now infested with rodents causing issues to nearby residents and households. There is an interest locally to take the facility over.) and if he will engage with the local community regarding same.

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PQ 25854-25 - Aidan Farrelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapists based in Wicklow primary care services, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 25856-25 - Aidan Farrelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrist based in Kildare mental health team in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 25857-25 - Aidan Farrelly

To ask the Minister for Health the number of deep brain stimulation surgeries carried out in Beaumont Hospital, in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 25891-25 - Mark Wall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of collisions requiring ambulance dispatch in Kildare for 2023 and to date in 2025; and the average time of dispatch, in tabular form.

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PQ 25892-25 - Mark Wall

To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance paramedic staff assigned to the Kildare area in 2023 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 25900-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health if she would detail the public nursing homes available for older people in each LHO area, in tabular form.

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PQ 25906-25 - Louise O'Reilly

To ask the Minister for Health the reason neurodivergent and neurodiverse people are not automatically qualified for the vulnerable persons register; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25926-25 - John McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health the status of a public consultation process relative to establishing a master plan for the development of community facilities on the land owned by the HSE at Lacken, Dublin Road, Kilkenny; the number of submissions made; if a draft report is available; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25936-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided for tobacco cessation services from 2014 to 2024, and to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25938-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of retail outlets registered to sell tobacco on the National Register of Tobacco retailers in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25950-25 - Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic surgeons currently working at Tallaght University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25954-25 - Alan Kelly

To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to help the recruitment crisis in the National Ambulance Service nationwide; the plans in place to recruit staff in north Tipperary, seeing only one ambulance is operating in the whole of north Tipperary last night; the plans in place to retain staff currently operating in the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 25966-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of persons on waiting lists for home care and for additional home care hours in counties Roscommon and Galway; and the average waiting time for each waiting lists in each county, in tabular form.

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PQ 25998-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved speech and language therapist posts, by grade and clinical site, in tabular form; the number of permanent full-time and part-time posts; the number filled on a temporary, locum or agency basis; and the number of vacant posts.

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PQ 25999-25 - Pádraig Rice

To ask the Minister for Health the number of permanent full-time speech and language therapists hired by the HSE from 2019 to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 26008-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the current staffing vacancies within each of the children's disability network teams in New Ross, Enniscorthy, Wexford and Gorey in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26009-25 - Johnny Mythen

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

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PQ 26010-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of occupational therapists currently employed as part of the children's disability network teams in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26011-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting to be seen by child and adolescent primary care psychology services nationally; the average length of time on the wait list; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26012-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting to be seen by child and adolescent primary care psychology services and waiting time in months in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26019-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the current wait list for persons under 18 years-of-age awaiting orthodontal treatment in County Wexford; the number of persons waiting 24, 36 and 48 months and longer, respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26020-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the breakdown CDNT data for County Wexford teams to date in 2025 regarding staff numbers, positions filled, positions vacant and the caseload, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26021-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to CAMHS teams in County Wexford in 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of referrals accepted; the number of referrals rejected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. -

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PQ 26022-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the current WTE positions, filled and vacant, in Wexford CAMHS teams, broken down by discipline, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26028-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of people approved for the provision of home care in CHO 5; the number of those people who have received home care provision; the number of those people who are waiting for the provision of home care; the length of time in two-month increments that those people who have not yet received home care provision have been waiting; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26029-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in County Wexford, in each of the past 12 months; the number provided each month since March 2020 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26030-25 - Johnny Mythen

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting home care support in County Wexford; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in County Wexford; the average number of hours granted to each successful applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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