678. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of people in each month of 2025 who have been discharged from nursing homes; the proportion of same who were recipients of fail deal supports; and for a breakdown of the reasons for these discharges, in tabular form. [50346/25]
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679. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a proposal to establish a national radiotherapy equipment replacement programme (details supplied); if she will commit to doing so to address the critically outdated linear accelerators in many of the State’s public cancer treatment facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50354/25]
680. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if funding for automatic wearable blood sugar sensors can be provided for those Type 2-rated patients whose condition makes them prone to regular, dangerous Hypoglycaemia or Hyperglycaemia blood sugar levels, and who are presently drawing multiple small blood samples on a daily basis, manually from their finger pads (details supplied); and if she will make a st…
681. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of assaults reported/recorded against patients at Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, for each quarter for each of the years 2023 to 2025, inclusive, in tabular form; the number of these reported/recorded assaults that were investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50367/25]
682. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of assaults reported/recorded against staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, for each quarter for each of the years 2023 to 2025, inclusive; the number of these reported/recorded assaults that were investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50368/25]
683. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health if she will request the HSE to fund vaccinations for persons with a condition (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50377/25]
684. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the number and locations of WTE senior dental surgeons with a special interest in special needs posts, that were filled within the primary care system of CHO7 in the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [50378/25]
685. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons with a special interest in knee and hip replacement surgery based at St. James's Hospital in the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [50379/25]
686. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the status of the funding approved for an organisation (details supplied) given key commitments outlined in Budget 2025 by the Minister for Health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50389/25]
687. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health to urgently review the age restriction on CAR t-cell therapy here, despite it having no such restrictions in other states, to allow a patient (details supplied) to access this potentially lifesaving treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50390/25]
688. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is over 75 years-of-age is unable to have surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50394/25]
689. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 20 March 2025, the number of cases diagnosed in each of the years since 2018, by condition (details supplied); the number treated with Intersex genital mutilation (IGM); in cases in which IGM was deemed necessary, to provide an indication as to the reasoning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50396/25]
690. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the incidence of intersex genital mutilation is reducing in Ireland; if so, to provide data to support this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50397/25]
691. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the information provided to parents of intersex infants; the involvement, that intersex people have in informing and monitoring this information; if parents with intersex infants are being referred to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50398/25]
692. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health regarding patients, particularly young persons aged 16 to 25 years of age with multiple disabilities, who have been advised surgery or treatment is not available domestically, the criteria used by the HSE to approve treatment abroad; the number of cases which have been approved or denied in the past three years in the Cork region; the supports in place for such pa…
693. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health to examine the case of a child needing an urgent transfer (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50419/25]
694. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of holter monitors and cardiac event monitors available in all level four hospitals, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50421/25]
695. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting the use of a holter monitor and a cardiac event monitor; the average wait time to access such monitors in all level four hospitals, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50422/25]
696. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the draft heads of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2025; if she will commit to publication in advance of the Christmas recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50424/25]
697. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the draft heads of the Health (Single Use Vapes) Bill 2025; if she will commit to publication in advance of the Christmas recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50425/25]
698. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide further details with respect to the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill, listed for priority drafting in the Government’s Autumn Legislative Programme; the proposed main provisions of the Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50426/25]
699. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health further to publication of the Government's Autumn legislative programme, the rationale for the proposed revised approach to legislation on nicotine inhaling products which will now involve two separate bills, i.e., a Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill and a Public Health (Single Use Vapes) Bill 2025; the matters to be …
700. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently allow for a person (details supplied) to be placed in a nursing home, close to their family and friends; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50455/25]
701. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the waiting times for gender-affirming care in Ireland, which are currently more than ten years; if members of the trans community will be consulted about this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50469/25]
702. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the amount of expenditure on off-site storage solutions for the past five years to date; if she will provide a breakdown of items (details supplied) not stored in her Department on annual basis. [50495/25]