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TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work

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Erin McGreehan Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
26. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care centre for Dundalk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4896/26]
Ryan O'Meara Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
27. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if she will report on the possible site selection for a community nursing unit in Roscrea; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4892/26]
Barry Heneghan Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
28. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland (ARTI), and the thirteen-year delay in progressing regulation of the profession through CORU; the reasons for this delay; the actions taken by her Department to advance the process; whether she will meet with representatives of ARTI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5026/26]
Maurice Quinlivan Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
29. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health if she will report on the increase in presentations at University Hospital Limerick; the number of patients being treated on hospital trolleys and in hospital corridors; and the immediate steps being taken to address this increase. [4440/26]
Aindrias Moynihan Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
30. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Health if consideration can be given to providing a funded scheme for blister packs for vulnerable and/or incapacitated patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5051/26]
Paul Lawless Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
31. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the current number of children on the waiting list for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; the average waiting time for an initial appointment, with a breakdown of waiting list figures, by county; and the number of children who have been waiting longer than 6, 12 months and 24 months for assessment or treatment. [72983/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
32. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the actions her Department has undertaken to regulate the parent companies of nursing home operators in Ireland and to bring them under the remit of HIQA which the Minister of State recognised as a systemic flaw in the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health on the 18 June 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4909/26]
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
33. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the additional services that will be provided for older people’s care in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5031/26]
Joe Neville Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
34. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to open more primary care centres in north Kildare, specifically in the town of Maynooth, which has a rising population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5020/26]
Peadar Tóibín Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
35. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the average length of time it takes for an ambulance response to reach a patient after a 999 call in each county in the State; if she will provide a county by county breakdown on the time, starting with the county with the longest average wait time, to the county with the lowest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3836/26]
Erin McGreehan Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
36. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health if she will report on the 24-hour mental health triage supports in emergency departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4897/26]
Catherine Ardagh Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
37. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health the NDP provision for the health sector for 2026-2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4980/26]
Louis O'Hara Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
38. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to the establishment of mental health emergency rooms separate to general hospital emergency departments for people experiencing a mental health crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3671/26]
William Aird Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
39. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Health the measures her Department is taking to reduce hospital waiting lists in public hospitals across the IHA-4 HSE Area Midlands, in light of the most recently published national hospital waiting list figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4957/26]
Willie O'Dea Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
40. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health when the strategic review of general practice will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4992/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
41. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health for an update on the national linear accelerators (linac) replacement programme, including details of replacement plans outside Dublin. [4990/26]
Pearse Doherty Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
42. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to address home help waiting lists in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5072/26]
John Paul O'Shea Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
43. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Health the role being played by community hospitals in Macroom and Millstreet in alleviating pressure on acute hospitals through step-down care; and whether all available beds in these facilities are being utilised to support delayed discharges from acute settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4137/26]
Tony McCormack Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
44. Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Health the level of mental health staffing in the midlands region, and whether additional resources will be allocated in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4915/26]
Catherine Callaghan Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
45. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Health to expand cancer screening services in Ireland by introducing multigene next generation sequencing to allow for earlier diagnosis and better treatment outcomes for citizens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4902/26]
Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
46. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently without access to a general practitioner in the Wicklow–Wexford area and across the State, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3417/26]
Aengus Ó Snodaigh Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
47. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the current situation with transferring the Coombe Maternity Hospital to the St. James's Hospital campus in James's Street, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4446/26]
David Cullinane Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
48. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the total number of vacant posts across the health service, by staff group; whether she accepts that recruitment and employment ceilings are undermining safe staffing and service delivery; the outcome she is pursuing in the WRC process with health unions; and when she will publish a time-bound plan to fill vacancies and expand staffing in frontline areas. [5077…
Aisling Dempsey Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
49. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Health for an update on the pause on mid-urethral sling surgery for stress urinary incontinence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4879/26]
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 22 Jan 2026 · to Health
50. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the number of additional posts being allocated to mental health services under the HSE National Service Plan for 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5030/26]