793. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if additional funding will be allocated for transgender services before the national clinical programme for gender healthcare is complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15625/25]
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794. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the number of staff hours the National Gender Service has spent assisting the UK prison service, and the estimated cost of this to date. [15626/25]
795. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 20 February 2025, the number of nurses and doctors that have availed of the policy outlined in the HR circular 001/23, in tabular form; the average time it has taken between an application being received and the payment of the money; the average amount of money that is approved in each case; and the total amount of mo…
796. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if she will review a case concerning two Palestinian people (details provided) who have been evacuated from Gaza and are in receipt of a family reunification visa as their daughter is an Irish citizen; if she will acknowledge the trauma and terror these elderly people with medical conditions have faced and the fact that they had to leave with no possessio…
797. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 19 February 2025, to provide details of the retail impact assessment and SME test carried out as part of her Department’s consideration of the measures being introduced via the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023; to provide the research undertaken showing how a reduction in the numbe…
798. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health her plans to action the recommendations of the citizens’ assembly on drug use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15650/25]
799. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if her Department is providing any assistance to cancer patients from Laois who must travel to Dublin hospitals for treatment around parking charges, and her plan to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to explore further ways to reduce hospital car parking charges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15657/25]
800. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will continue its safer nightlife programme ahead of summer 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15678/25]
801. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health her plans to expand access to naloxone for frontline health workers in order to help reduce drug deaths; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15684/25]
802. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the total spend by the HSE on independent and privately run mental health services, outside the Irish State, from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [15699/25]
803. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the financial assistance or grants available for persons with prosthetic eyes. [15707/25]
804. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the cost of phase 2 of the HSE’s hospital performance visualisation platform. [15712/25]
805. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 19 February 2025, given that the National Gender Service is unable to provide any examples of companies that have operated in contravention of Irish Medical Council Guidelines, if it will commit to no longer indicating that compliance issues exist. [15721/25]
806. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, if the National Gender Service can explain what local reference ranges are, and their relevance. [15722/25]
807. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, given the National Gender Service indicated the 600 pmol/L is arbitrary and lacks evidence, if it plans to remove it from their endocrine guidelines; and if not, the basis on which for doing so. [15723/25]
808. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, given the National Gender Service indicates that it cannot reliably quantify the potential for risk and benefit, to outline the National Gender Service’s best estimate of the false negative and false positive rate of its assessment process. [15724/25]
809. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 19 February 2025, if she will provide a list of all training sessions and other meetings the National Gender Service had with the Northern Irish health services, including the date, and purpose of the meeting, in tabular form. [15725/25]
810. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 19 February 2025, if she will provide a list of all radio and TV interviews by staff of the National Gender Service which were given in their National Gender Service-capacity, in tabular form. [15726/25]
811. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of complaints made against St. Columcille's Hospital over the past five years, broken down by year and unit, in tabular form. [15727/25]
812. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 19 February 2025, the means by which people with lived experience will be involved in the Gender Healthcare programme; and if it will be in line with the Inform, Consult, Discuss or Collaborate degree of engagement in the HSE's Better Together: The Health Services Patient Engagement Roadmap. [15728/25]
813. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the percentage of social media videos posted on her Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, inclusive. [15743/25]
814. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health for her plans to outline her plans to reduce excessive waiting times for accessing genetic counselling services for individuals discharged from hospital care with a genetic diagnosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15747/25]
815. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health for what supports exist post-discharge for families dealing with complex medical conditions, particularly regarding feeding difficulties and early intervention; what plans there are to improve post-discharge services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15748/25]
816. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that terminal cancer patients are being deprioritised for life-saving and urgent treatment in accident and emergency in favour of flu patients, given the critical nature of their condition and the urgency of their care needs; if she will commit to a review of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15765/25]
817. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Health the current policy is in cancer care centres of excellence regarding the prioritisation of terminal cancer patients requiring life-saving and urgent treatment over patients presenting with non-life-threatening illnesses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15766/25]