1300. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if her Department has considered creating a statutory right to timely mental-health care for children under 18. [29117/25]
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1301. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health her views on recent data showing over 4,200 children on CAMHS waiting lists, with over 620 waiting longer than one year; and the policy changes she intends to pursue. [29118/25]
1302. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is providing free GP visits to members of Roma communities, protection applicants and undocumented migrants only; the numbers of clinics being provided; the cost of these services; the means testing carried out for access to these free GP services as Irish citizens are subject to means-testing for free GP services; the reasons these communit…
1303. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for speech and language services from primary care centres in Dublin from the date of referral; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29126/25]
1304. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she has engaged with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to discuss the promotion of bilingual food labelling in Ireland; if so, the outcomes of that engagement; and if not, whether she will commit to such coordination to ensure that future discussions on EU food labelling policy reflect the State’s obligations in respect of…
1305. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she will reconsider the remit of the inter-departmental group on the Food Information to Consumers Regulation to include the issue of bilingual labelling, in light of the State’s legal obligations to promote the Irish language under the Constitution and the Official Languages Acts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29129/25]
1306. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she will support the inclusion of bilingual labelling as part of Ireland’s national position on future revisions to the EU Food Information to Consumers Regulation, even if such provisions are not currently included in the draft EU proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29130/25]
1307. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health if surgery performed on a person (details supplied) was necessary; whether there will be any examination of surgeries performed on children prior to 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29135/25]
1308. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in view of the fact that the renal dialysis unit in Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) is running at maximum capacity for a long time, the cost of out-sourcing additional demand for dialysis to NHS hospitals in the north of Ireland (inclusive of both transport and dialysis costs) in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 for patients from…
1309. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in view of the lack of capacity in the laboratory department in Letterkenny University Hospital, the cost of outsourcing routine blood samples to private laboratories from January 2025 to date. [29146/25]
1310. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm the expenditure on private ambulances by Letterkenny University Hospital for 2024. [29147/25]
1311. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the NTPF from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Letterkenny University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [29148/25]
1312. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, given that over 60% of hospital consultants have now signed the new contracts which significantly enhances their salary and contains a clause on weekend working, the number of hospital consultants that are now rostered for duty on weekends in the overall band 3 and 4 acute, secondary-care hospitals funded by the HSE (including voluntary hosp…
1313. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapists based at primary care centres within CHO1 in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29151/25]
1314. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for an ultrasound can be expedited for a person (details supplied). [29153/25]
1315. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of dentists working in the school dental scheme within Donegal in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29154/25]
1316. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to detect breast cancer at the earliest possible time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29157/25]
1317. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of CT scanners, MRI scanners and PET scanners available for use at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, in 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of days per week each scanner operates, in tabular form. [29173/25]
1318. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the types of procedures that will be carried out at the new north Dublin surgical hub due to open later this year; and the number of medical and nursing staff that will take place in this new surgical hub. [29174/25]
1319. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant gastroenterologists based at the Mater Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [29175/25]
1320. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health when the new CDNT services will be operational in the Clondalkin primary care centre on Boot Road, if she will outline the level of service that will be provided as part of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29191/25]
1321. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE have considered implementing a standard procedure where medical service providers are in direct contact with health insurance providers so that there is no requirement for the patient to contact their health insurance provider to seek a reimbursement for the cost of their medical treatment; and if she will make a statement on th…
1322. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of posts recommended in A Vision for Change and the number of posts filled in CAHMS by the following Departments: Psychiatry, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Psychology, Social Care, Social Work and Dietetics, respectively. [29196/25]
1323. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) staff hours recommended in A Vision for Change and the Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) staff hours filled in CAHMS by the following Departments: Psychiatry, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Psychology, Social Care, Social Work and Dietetics, respectively. [29197/25]
1324. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of Spinal Muscular Atrophy testing in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme, further to her predecessor’s commitment in November 2023 to include SMA in the heel prick test and the allocation of funding for this in Budgets 2024 and 2025; to outline the role of her Department in overseeing delivery, including …