PQ Responses - May 21st 2025

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PQ 26074-25 - Paul Donnelly front page preview

PQ 26074-25 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health if there is an embargo on hiring radiotherapists with working experience for the HSE; the reasoning for such an embargo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26075-25 - Paul Donnelly front page preview

PQ 26075-25 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy to recruit only graduates for radiotherapists positions; and how this has been analysed in terms of best outcomes for patient care and safety.

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PQ 26076-25 - Paul Donnelly front page preview

PQ 26076-25 - Paul Donnelly

To ask the Minister for Health the reason her Department has not made available requisite funds to hire qualified persons with experienced for radiotherapy positions in the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26086-25 - Michael Cahill front page preview

PQ 26086-25 - Michael Cahill

To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE no longer provides funding for a centre (Rose Cottage, Tymon North Place Neighbourhood Centre, Tymon North Place Tallaght Dublin 24) to open five days a week for people with Alzheimer's disease; the estimated full-year cost of funding two extra days opening a week; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26089-25 - Marie Sherlock front page preview

PQ 26089-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse's per community health network, and per 10,000 of population, across each community health network from 2018 to 2020, in tabular form.

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PQ 26092-25 - Marie Sherlock front page preview

PQ 26092-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of those currently in receipt of medical card; and the estimated numbers of the population entitled to the card.

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PQ 26093-25 - Marie Sherlock front page preview

PQ 26093-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health her Department's assessment of the number of GP's with a GMS contract who work part-time hours.

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PQ 26108-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26108-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the approved staffing composition of each children's disability network team in Waterford, by profession and grade, in tabular form; and the whole-time equivalent vacancies on each team.

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PQ 26109-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26109-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of psychology vacancies on children's disability network teams in Waterford; if there are any teams without a psychologist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26110-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26110-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality whether there is a pause on the assessments of need process across any of the children's disability network teams in Waterford.

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PQ 26111-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26111-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality whether there is a pause on the assessments of need process across any of the children's disability network teams in the State.

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PQ 26112-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26112-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of assessments of need carried out by each children's disability network team in Waterford for each year from 2022 to date in 2025.

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PQ 26113-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26113-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need with a children's disability network team in Waterford, by team, for each quarter from 2022 to date in 2025.

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PQ 26114-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26114-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for therapies with a children's disability network team in Waterford, by team.

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PQ 26115-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26115-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of children who are receiving services from a children's disability network team in Waterford, who are not in receipt of full services, by team.

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PQ 26116-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26116-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if each children's disability network team in Waterford has a full complement of staff to carry out assessments of need; and if not, the reason why.

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PQ 26117-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26117-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of service statements issued by each children's disability network team in Waterford for each quarter from 2022 to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 26125-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26125-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Health the quality controls which are in place for the acceptance of assessments conducted by private psychologists for use in access to public services; and the metric by which certain psychologists are accepted and others are not.

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PQ 26132-25 - Albert Dolan front page preview

PQ 26132-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of WTE assessment officers based in CHO2 in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 26133-25 - Albert Dolan front page preview

PQ 26133-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of young adults within an intellectual disability in Galway that are on the waiting list for day services.

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PQ 26134-25 - Albert Dolan front page preview

PQ 26134-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she will provide details of autism assessment waiting times in CHO2 area.

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PQ 26138-25 - Albert Dolan front page preview

PQ 26138-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiation therapists employed in Galway University Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 26139-25 - Albert Dolan front page preview

PQ 26139-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE community orthoptist posts in CHO2 area in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form.

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PQ 26143-25 - Shane Moynihan front page preview

PQ 26143-25 - Shane Moynihan

To ask the Minister for Health if she will improve access to accurate testing and adequate treatment for Lyme disease and coinfections to prevent long-term chronic illness in patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26160-25 - John Paul O'Shea front page preview

PQ 26160-25 - John Paul O'Shea

To ask the Minister for Health the level of overall funding provided by her Department to the HSE South, Cork and Kerry, for distribution to Section 39 agencies from 2020 to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26162-25 - John McGuinness front page preview

PQ 26162-25 - John McGuinness

To ask the Minister for Health to arrange for a meeting room to be made available in a facility (the old St. Canices Hospital building Lacken, Dublin Road, Kilkenny), for use by local organised groups whose members are recovering from major life changing health issues, such as acquired brain injury or stroke; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26180-25 - Brian Brennan front page preview

PQ 26180-25 - Brian Brennan

To ask the Minister for Health the current status of transfer of lands from the HSE to the Department of Education for a school (Avondale Community College, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. The field is adjacent to the school car park owned by the HSE, previous Mercy Sisters. Coordinates - 52.933645, -6.236109); if further efforts will be made to proceed with this transfer; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26205-25 - Paul Murphy front page preview

PQ 26205-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for adults to be seen within the National Gender Service.

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PQ 26207-25 - Mairéad Farrell front page preview

PQ 26207-25 - Mairéad Farrell

To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals who currently hold a medical card; the number who currently hold a discretionary medical card; and these figures for May, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form.

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PQ 26216-25 - Ruth Coppinger front page preview

PQ 26216-25 - Ruth Coppinger

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality for a progress report on reducing the waiting list for accessing children's disability network teams in Dublin west; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26237-25 - Edward Timmins front page preview

PQ 26237-25 - Edward Timmins

To ask the Minister for Health when the commitment in the Programme for Government to provide a progressive career pathway for healthcare assistants will be implemented; the plan for achieving this across the healthcare sector both public and private; the funding that has been allocated to support this initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26238-25 - Edward Timmins front page preview

PQ 26238-25 - Edward Timmins

To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the HSE in implementing a progressive career pathway for healthcare assistants; the reason the HSE does not support the participation of its healthcare assistants in the advanced healthcare assistant practitioner apprenticeship programme (which is a career pathway, given that 30 HSE staff applied for the programme in 2024).; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26248-25 - David Cullinane front page preview

PQ 26248-25 - David Cullinane

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if the health service has contracted companies (Irish Resilience Clinic ATC Ireland Psychology Waterford Psychology Psych Options), or otherwise engaged commercially with these companies for the provision of assessments of needs.

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PQ 26283-25 - Robert Troy front page preview

PQ 26283-25 - Robert Troy

To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for primary school students to avail of speech and language therapy in County Longford through primary care services.

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PQ 26284-25 - Robert Troy front page preview

PQ 26284-25 - Robert Troy

To ask the Minister for Health if the current expected waiting time for service users of speech and language therapy is in the region of 14-months, what actions are being taken to address this extremely long waiting time, specifically in cases where primary school students urgently need to avail of services.

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PQ 26293-25 - Barry Heneghan front page preview

PQ 26293-25 - Barry Heneghan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections and enforcement actions undertaken under the annual sunbed inspection programme in each of the past five years; how the effectiveness of these measures is being evaluated in preventing breaches of the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014, particularly with respect to underage access, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 26308-25 - Tom Brabazon front page preview

PQ 26308-25 - Tom Brabazon

To ask the Minister for Health the optimum staffing allocation per clinical post in the neurosurgery department at Beaumont Hospital; the current status of these posts; and how staffing levels compare to international standards.

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PQ 26310-25 - Tom Brabazon front page preview

PQ 26310-25 - Tom Brabazon

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists based in Tonlegee Road primary care centre in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form.

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