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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2026
205. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the provisions being made for healthcare needs for the additional population in the Donore Avenue-South Circular Road area. [40364/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2026
204. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the infrastructure being planned and developed for the increase in population from circa 2,000 to circa 8,000 within the next one to three years in the Donore Avenue/South Circular Road area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40363/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1502. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the approved and filled whole-time-equivalent posts for 0-18 primary care speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology in the Dublin south-east and the Dublin and north-east health regions, broken down by integrated healthcare area within each health region; the number of vacancies in each discipline; the length of time each post has been vacant; the date recruitment was last attempted in each instance; and whether any post is suppressed, paused, left unfilled or otherwise affected by the HSE pay and numbers strategy, in tabular form. [40313/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1501. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the current waiting lists for 0-18 primary care speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology in HSE Dublin and south-east and HSE Dublin and north-east, broken down by integrated healthcare area within each health region; and the number waiting more than 12 months and more than two, five, four years and so on, in each discipline, and the longest wait for each, in tabular form. [40312/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1499. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Health the status of the proposed new elective hospital in Cork; i the current stage of planning, design and delivery; the expected timeline for construction and opening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40303/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1497. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if her Department and the HSE are developing a strategic infrastructure programme to plan for replacement and expansion at public radiation oncology services, as stated by An Tánaiste; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40292/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1492. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if she will consider a proposal to allow elderly people who are not entitled to a medical card and who have paid PRSI all their lives be exempt from the €100 accident and emergency charge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40267/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1469. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the measures being taken to prevent foetal alcohol syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40045/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1423. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department intends to establish a national classification framework distinguishing medically necessary procedures from elective, quality-of-life, experimental or non-urgent procedures for public funding and governance purposes. [39782/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1421. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department or HSE maintains any national estimate of the number of minors currently engaged in overseas healthcare pathways supported directly or indirectly through public funding arrangements. [39780/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1420. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any standardised post-treatment follow-up protocol applies to minors returning to Ireland following healthcare treatment, assessment or intervention abroad funded directly or indirectly by the State. [39779/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1419. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national reporting mechanism exists for adverse incidents, safeguarding concerns, regret outcomes or complaints associated with minors referred abroad under publicly funded healthcare pathways. [39778/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1418. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any review has examined whether existing HSE governance systems are sufficient to monitor long-term psychological, safeguarding or clinical outcomes for minors referred abroad for healthcare interventions. [39777/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1415. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal safeguarding review process applies where minors are referred outside the State for healthcare interventions under HSE-funded schemes. [39774/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1414. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any centralised framework exists governing long-term outcome monitoring for minors referred abroad for treatment or assessment under publicly funded healthcare schemes. [39773/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1413. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department has identified any governance risks arising from fragmented or non-interoperable national healthcare datasets across different HSE divisions, regions or programmes. [39762/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1412. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any independent external review has examined the adequacy of national audit and oversight systems across healthcare pathways involving overseas treatment referrals, vulnerable patients or cross-border care arrangements since 2020. [39761/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1409. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national policy exists setting minimum audit, outcome-monitoring or data-governance requirements before new healthcare pathways, treatment programmes or overseas referral arrangements are operationally supported by the State. [39758/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1408. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any healthcare pathways have been identified by the Department or HSE as operating without complete national outcome datasets despite involving vulnerable patients, minors, safeguarding considerations or high-cost public expenditure; and if she will provide details. [39757/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1405. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of national audit or outcome-monitoring systems in any healthcare pathway has been recorded on any Departmental or HSE risk register since 2020; and if she will provide details of any such entries. [39754/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1404. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department maintains a central register identifying healthcare pathways or services in which no unified national audit system, outcome-monitoring framework, or standardised national dataset currently exists; and if she will provide details. [39753/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1390. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the number of healthcare assistants and home support workers who left employment in Cork in 2024 and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39669/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1386. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the number of approved but unfilled home support and healthcare assistant posts in the HSE south-west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39665/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1373. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether Action 9 of the HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention, published in September 2022, namely "Expand availability of Drug and Alcohol Liaison Midwifery Services, with access to full range of supports (including detoxification) in pregnancy" led by HSE Acute Hospitals; National Women and Infants Health Programme; HSE Social Inclusion; HSE Mental Health which was due to be completed within three years of publication, has now been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39573/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1370. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health to outline the process and administrative requirements for patients seeking treatment under the Cross Border Directive; and to provide the number of applications, approvals, refusals and reimbursements recorded under the scheme in each of the past three years, together with any planned changes or improvements. [39554/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1369. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health to set out the full process and eligibility criteria for patients accessing the Northern Ireland Planned Healthcare Scheme; and to provide the number of applications, approvals, refusals and reimbursements issued under the scheme in each of the past three years, along with any planned changes or improvements. [39553/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1367. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health if she will consider adding Crohn's disease to the long-term illness scheme, given the incurable nature of the disease and significant impact on patients' lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39551/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1364. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health whether Action 14 of the HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention, published in September 2022, namely “Explore potential for screening and appropriate surveillance of FASD cases” led by HSE Public Health; National Women and Infants Health Programme; HSE National Screening Service; which was due to be completed within three years of publication, has now been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39502/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1361. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health the current population figures for persons aged over 70 years and children under eight years in north County Dublin that her Department and the HSE are using to provide healthcare;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39483/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1333. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 917 of 6 May 2026, the reason individuals (details supplied) in County Sligo who attend day care centres are being charged a €4 daily fee for using HSE funded transport operated by the Local Link; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39326/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1319. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of a national waiting list or central referral pathway for PrEP has been formally identified within the HSE or Department of Health as a patient safety, governance or access risk. [39276/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1317. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any centralised record of persons unable to access public PrEP services due to capacity constraints; and if not, whether she considers the absence of such data to represent a governance or public health oversight issue. [39274/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1291. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department of Health has carried out any review assessing whether certain procedures regularly funded abroad under the treatment abroad scheme could be developed domestically within the public health system. [39193/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1284. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department has examined the establishment of an independent oversight or inspection mechanism for the treatment abroad scheme, comparable to governance arrangements applying in other areas of publicly funded healthcare expenditure. [39186/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1256. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any comparative database or benchmarking framework examining the average cost of equivalent procedures between different EU/EEA healthcare systems under the treatment abroad scheme. [39151/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has ever formally disputed, queried, challenged or sought clarification regarding the cost of treatment invoiced under the treatment abroad scheme by another EU/EEA healthcare system; and if she will provide the number of such cases since 2020. [39150/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal threshold, trigger mechanism or anomaly detection system exists within the treatment abroad scheme to identify unusually high-cost invoices received from healthcare providers in other EU/EEA states. [39149/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1239. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of unfilled permanent consultant psychiatry posts currently vacant within the public health system, broken down by specialty, service type, and Health Region. [39105/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1236. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a national supplier performance framework for healthcare staffing agencies and whether any suppliers have, within the past five years, been suspended, sanctioned, financially penalised, removed from frameworks, or subject to corrective action requirements. [39102/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1234. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether an agency or locum healthcare worker removed from one HSE-funded site due to performance, conduct, safeguarding, or patient safety concerns can subsequently be redeployed elsewhere within the HSE system without a central restriction mechanism. [39100/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1233. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a centralised national system for recording complaints, safeguarding concerns, removals from placement, “do not return” notifications, credentialing concerns, disciplinary concerns, or repeated performance issues relating to agency or locum healthcare workers across HSE-funded services. [39099/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1232. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide, for each HSE hospital, approved mental health centre, CAMHS service, and community healthcare service, the total whole-time equivalent staffing complement, the number represented by agency or locum staff, and the percentage agency dependency, broken down by staff category, Health Region, and year. [39098/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1231. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide, for each of the past five years, the total expenditure by the HSE and Section 38 voluntary hospitals on temporary agency and locum staffing, broken down by supplier name, staff category, Health Region, hospital, community healthcare organisation, and service site. [39097/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1218. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a review has been undertaken regarding access to intravenous antibiotic treatment for severe lyme disease cases within the public health system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39062/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1190. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if she will consider introducing a single clinically-led prioritisation system for ophthalmology referrals based solely on clinical need irrespective of referral pathway; the reasons such a system does not already exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38998/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1186. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the number of additional notifications the HSE expects annually as a result of the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2026; the staffing and resource implications for public health departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38992/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1182. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if the inclusion of updated references to Covid-19 variants and influenza in the 2026 Regulations indicates any planned reintroduction of enhanced surveillance, testing or public health restrictions for respiratory viruses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38988/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1181. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the HSE and public health system of adding Hantavirus to the list of notifiable diseases, including training, laboratory testing, contact tracing and potential isolation measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38987/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1174. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the current stock of personal protective equipment and any Ebola-specific medical countermeasures held in Ireland’s strategic national reserve; whether additional procurement is planned in response to the declared international health emergency in central Africa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38952/26]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2026
1173. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if Ireland’s national pandemic and infectious disease preparedness plans have been reviewed in light of the recent Ebola outbreak which lacks a specific licensed vaccine; the lessons from previous Ebola responses that are being applied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38949/26]