478. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health her current plans to ensure that those on the standard public service sick leave scheme due to contracting Long Covid can gain access to other HSE schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15670/26]
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479. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the commitment contained in the HSE Service Plan, published in December 2025, which states that a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be established in the Dublin North East region in 2026; the current status of planning and resourcing for this team; the expected timeline for recruitment and service commencement; and if she…
480. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the total number of beds which are currently closed in all community hospitals in Donegal, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15672/26]
481. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of additional staff, including nurses, care assistants and other staff are needed in each community hospital, in order to safely staff all currently closed beds in these community hospitals in Donegal, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15673/26]
482. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if a site has been identified yet for the new hospital in Limerick; If not, the timeframe; the proposed new Board to progress the project which been constituted yet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15679/26]
483. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when the Government changed the policy on the co-location of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital with the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; if she now recognises the current location as the long-term location of the Rotunda in effective co-location with the Mater; if she is now ruling out re-location to the Rotunda to the Temple Street site or any other site…
484. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health following the dissolution of the CervicalCheck Tribunal, the full costs of the Tribunal from inception to dissolution, by cost type by year; the number of eligible claims; the number of claims made; the number of decisions made; the number of settlements or awards made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15683/26]
485. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the plans which have been established to fund the implementation of the National Review of Cardiac Services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15692/26]
486. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the funding which has been made available for the national stroke strategy; what the funding is being used for; the actions being implemented in 2026 and 2027 as part of the national stroke strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15693/26]
487. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the costs of ensuring adequate national capacity to deliver cardiac rehabilitation to all patients for whom it is recommended, ensuring that staffing and resources are protected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15694/26]
488. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the plans which have been established to fund the implementation of the new cardiac rehabilitation model of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15695/26]
489. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of cardiac rehabilitation services for HSE West and North-west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15696/26]
490. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 427 and 428 of 13 November 2025, if she will advise on the outcome of the review conducted by her officials in relation to the proposed sale of the property; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15714/26]
491. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on an appointment for a person (details supplied). [15717/26]
492. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the work of the non-statutory inquiry into the licensing and use of sodium valproate in women of child-bearing potential in the State; the details of the stages of the inquiry; the remaining timeline for the inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15728/26]
493. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if she will confirm the current number of mental health inpatient beds in each RHA; the additional beds that have been promised to meet shortfalls; the location of the shortfalls; and the timelines attached to delivering those additional beds. [15737/26]
494. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in developing a national eye health workforce strategy under Sláintecare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15738/26]
495. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health if she will introduce independent prescribing legislation for qualified optometrists [15739/26]
496. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking in preparation in the context of 50% of the global population being short-sighted by 2050; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15740/26]
497. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to expand training places and HSE employment for optometrists, orthoptists, and ophthalmologists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15741/26]
498. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she will immediately reassess the safety and clinical appropriateness of telemedicine abortion services in light of rising concerns regarding coercive control; if she will establish a taskforce to investigate the ease with which controlling partners can obtain such medications; her views on the immediate steps being taken to ensure in-person clinical safeguar…
499. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total State funding allocated specifically to post-abortion counselling services in each of the years 2023, 2024, and 2025; the number of women who accessed these specific supports in that period; if she is satisfied that the current 'MyOptions' model provides sufficient face-to-face long-term psychological support; and if she will make a statement on the ma…
500. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the data-sharing protocols between GPs and community pharmacists regarding the distribution of abortion medication; if there is a centralised tracking system to monitor if multiple requests for such medication are made by or for the same individual across different providers; and if she has engaged with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs an…
501. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the health and social care professional training or degree programmes which are reviewed, validated, recognised or otherwise regulated, standardised, or certified by the HSE; the date on which the HSE assumed such roles relative to each profession and each course; the professions covered by this; the reason the HSE has assumed the role in each case rather than…
502. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Health the measures her Department intends to take to support healthcare workers who continue to suffer ongoing health complications as a result of contracting Covid-19 in the workplace during the pandemic; if she will consider recognising long-term post-Covid illness among affected healthcare staff as an occupational illness; and if she will reinstate the special lea…