1450. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of a shortage of a skin cancer drug efudix through pharmacies; the action being taken by her Department in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29703/25]
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1451. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reasons a specific HSE support service for parents has been moved online (details supplied); if her Department will consider reversing this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29715/25]
1452. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent speech and language therapy posts offered annually to new graduates in the HSE, in each of the past five years; to provide a compassion with the number of graduates qualifying each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29716/25]
1453. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she is considering expanding the long-term illness scheme to include inflammatory bowel disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29718/25]
1454. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she has received a copy of a study; if she has responded to the author of that study; if she intends to request that the Health Information and Quality Authority reviews the findings of this study; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29719/25]
1455. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the review into urgent and emergency care in the mid-west region has been completed; if she has received a copy of this review; if not, the date at which she expects the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to finalise this review; if she will commit to publishing the review when she receives it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [297…
1456. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. of 27 May 2025, if she can confirm the dates in which the correspondence detailed was issues (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29721/25]
1457. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when she expects the HIQA report into the requirement of a second accident and emergency model 4 hospital in the midwest to be published. [29723/25]
1458. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if there is a protocol governing the treatment of referrals on the waiting lists when they are being referred back to primary care from a CDNT. [29746/25]
1459. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the reimbursement of the shingles vaccine by the corporate pharmaceutical unit of the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29747/25]
1460. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health when James Connolly Memorial Hospital will be used to give a dental service to those who need specialist care under general anaesthetic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29752/25]
1461. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on waiting lists for specialist dental care under general anaesthetic, in tabular form. [29753/25]
1462. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the number of anaesthesiologists will be working in James Connolly Memorial Hospital to reduce the two year long waiting list for treatments requiring general anaesthetic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29754/25]
1463. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if recruitment of public dentists is still facing an embargo due to HSE budget constraints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29755/25]
1464. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the plans she is putting in place to expand or invest in the dental schools in UCC and Trinity College Dublin to train enough dental practitioners to meet patient demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29756/25]
1465. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if her Department is aware of an academic study (details supplied) that shows increased public health benefits, including increased vaccine coverage rates, in France, following the decision of the French government to legislate for the HPV vaccine to be administered in pharmacies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29789/25]
1466. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health for an update on her plans to implement the Programme for Government commitment to investigate new methods for earlier reimbursement of certain treatments, including early access schemes for rare diseases and cancer medicines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29790/25]
1467. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if she is concerned by the latest data from the EFPIA Patient Wait Indicator 2024, indicating an average wait time of 645 days for access to new medicines in Ireland, which constitutes a further disimprovement on last year's figures; to outline what plans are underway to improve the structures and speed of the system, in line with the Programme for Government comm…
1468. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if the 34 new whole-time equivalent positions for the agencies involved in the HSE's medicines pricing and reimbursement system, as initially prescribed in February 2023 by the then-Minister for Health, have now been successfully filled; whether they have commenced their engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29792/25]
1469. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health for an update on the development of a vaccine alliance, aimed at boosting the uptake of childhood vaccines and reducing vaccine hesitancy, which was first launched by the then-Minster for Health in September 2019 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29793/25]
1470. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health her views on the findings of a report (details supplied) in relation to the development of a system of transferable exclusivity vouchers; whether she is supportive of the introduction of such a system at Irish and EU level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29794/25]
1471. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health if she has replied to correspondence from a representative organisation (details supplied); the steps she will take in response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29798/25]
1472. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of new Collinstown Clondalkin primary healthcare centre in Rowlagh, Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29808/25]
1473. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health the number of days outpatient services were suspended in Nenagh Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29809/25]
1474. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently intervene and open the two hospice units at St. Anne's Community Hospital, Cahersiveen, County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29810/25]