701. Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Health whether any patient deaths from 2014 through 2024 inclusive are attributed to the lack of trained advanced paramedics with the National Ambulance Service; in which county the patient lived and was treated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4759/25]
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702. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health if she intends to scrap parking charges for cancer patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4781/25]
703. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health if she intends to make medical cards an automatic entitlement for cancer patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4782/25]
704. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that stem cell therapy is treated as an elective procedure for cancer patients and that this has a direct impact in terms of access to beds; if she will review this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4783/25]
705. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4801/25]
706. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within the Department; if any section of her Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for, and costs associated with same; and if she has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [4812/25]
707. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to reimburse women affected by the delay to the rollout of the free HRT scheme which was due to begin in January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4819/25]
708. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if her Department still plans to bring forward legislation to amend the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; the elements of the Act that the Bill will amend; when she expects the Bill to get Cabinet approval and be introduced in Dáil Éireann at second stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4829/25]
709. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the level of alcohol brand advertising broadcast on terrestrial television during the Six Nations Rugby Championship game between Ireland and England; if this contravenes the daytime broadcasting watershed under Section 19 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4835/25]
710. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that an alcohol brand was advertised in the middle of the field of play during the Six Nations Rugby Championship game between Ireland and England at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin; if this contravenes the restrictions on advertising during sporting events under Section 15 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the…
711. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health to review a case (details supplied) and escalate this referral; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4839/25]
712. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to clarify the position of current apprenticeships in electrical instrumentation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4028/25]
713. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to outline his Department’s plans for expenditure of monies allocated in the Budget 2025 skill package for training to support digital transformation. [4069/25]
714. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for his plans for investing in digital skills such as basic digital literacy and in increasing education in areas like AI and quantum computing in further and higher education institutions. [4070/25]
715. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to publish the ministerial brief he received on commencing his role; and when and by what means it will be published. [4093/25]
716. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the anticipated impact on training courses in the 2025-2026 academic year of the end of the human capital initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4159/25]
717. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the €50 million increase in funding for ‘enterprise-focused higher education’ under the National Training Fund, as set out in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025, will be made available to training courses currently funded by the human capital initiative, given that the initiative is due to come…
718. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the need for a stipend or financial supports to supply radiation therapy students with assistance with uniform purchase or rental, travel and reimbursement for work on clinical placements; and his plans to bring financial reimbursement in line with other courses, such as nursing. [4166/25]
719. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the…
720. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General of his Department; whether this scale has changed in the past year; whether there are proposals to change this scale in the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4319/25]
721. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the establishment of an electric mobility capability centre in Mullingar. [4346/25]
722. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the budget allocated to SOLAS in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [4347/25]
723. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a schedule of expenditure relating to IT external service provision in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, including the company name and amount expended with them, in tabular form. [4474/25]
724. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of apprentice training course offers that have not been accepted due to the distances between the offered training course and the apprentice’s residence, for the years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4527/25]
725. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will address the situation whereby Solas is offering job training in colleges miles away from apprentices’ homes, and they are given six weeks to find accommodation or forfeit their training to go back on the national waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4528/25]