PQ 530
530. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health when newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will commence; the reasons for the more than two-year delay since the decision to add SMA to the national heel-prick programme; and if he will provide a definitive implementation date. [67355/25]
Introduced
2 December 2025
Last action
—
Status
written
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
2 December 2025
Summary
530. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health when newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will commence; the reasons for the more than two-year delay since the decision to add SMA to the national heel-prick programme; and if he will provide a definitive implementation date. [67355/25]
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Health Screening Programmes
Health Screening Programmes
xml · EN · 2 December 2025
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2025-12-02/530/
- Open data entity: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/question/2025-12-02/pq_530