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Conor D McGuinness Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
726. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE psycho-oncology posts that have been filled in 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [50947/26]
Niamh Smyth Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
727. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the pain management supports available to them in the interim period prior to their scheduled nerve block procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50954/26]
Michael Cahill Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
728. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to support a Pre-Budget Submission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50956/26]
Michael Cahill Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
729. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to support a pre-Budget submission by an organisation (details supplied) [50957/26]
Sean Fleming Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
730. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the proposed changes to providing supplements that people require for their health without having to take prescribed drugs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50958/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
731. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in respect of the treatment abroad scheme, whether the public spending code applies to individual funding decisions and to programme-level oversight of the scheme; if not, the framework under which her Department satisfies itself that expenditure under the scheme meets the standards of regularity, propriety and value-for-money required of public funds;…
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
732. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a formal national policy or governance framework, as distinct from administrative processing arrangements, governs the authorisation, funding and oversight of the treatment abroad scheme; if such a framework exists, to provide a copy or web reference; and if no such framework exists, to confirm this explicitly. [50970/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
733. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a clinical outcome data is recorded in respect of patients funded under the treatment abroad scheme following the completion of treatment abroad; and if no outcome data is recorded, to confirm this explicitly and the way in which her Department assesses the clinical effectiveness of expenditure under the scheme. [50972/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
734. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a register of high-cost treatment abroad scheme approvals; if such a register is maintained, to state the monetary threshold or criteria used to classify a case as high-cost; and if no such register exists, to confirm this explicitly, in tabular form. [50974/26]
Ciarán Ahern Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
735. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if she will consider reducing the period of time before which medical card holders can get new dentures from five years to three years where a need has been identified by a dental practitioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50975/26]
Michael Cahill Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
736. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to consider additional information and issue a medical card to a constituent in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50976/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
737. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 2332 and 2333 of 9 June 2026, whether she is satisfied that the National Ambulance Service maintains no national dataset recording the elapsed time between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource; whether she has requested that such a dataset be established; and if she will make a statement on the matte…
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
738. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2334 of 9 June 2026, whether she will now commission a national analysis examining the relationship between ambulance allocation or dispatch delays and mortality, morbidity, clinical deterioration or other patient outcomes; and if not, the basis on which she is satisfied that no such analysis is required. [50978/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
739. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2330 of 9 June 2026, the recommendations, corrective actions, policy changes or service improvements that arose from the two system analysis reviews identified by the National Ambulance Service as involving ambulance allocation or dispatch delays since 2020; and the date on which each such action was implemented. [50979/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
740. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2335 of 9 June 2026, whether she will publish the two system analysis reviews identified by the National Ambulance Service as having found ambulance allocation or dispatch delays to be contributory factors; and if publication is not possible, the specific findings, recommendations and corrective actions arising from each revie…
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
741. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1010 of 16 June 2026, to specify each performance indicator currently used to measure the effectiveness of national obesity policy and obesity treatment services; and to provide the most recent result available for each such indicator. [50981/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
742. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1011 of 16 June 2026, whether a costed implementation plan exists for the national model of care for obesity; the estimated total funding required for full implementation; the funding allocated to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50982/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
743. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health given that the obesity policy and action plan covers the period 2016 to 2025, the policy or framework that will succeed it from 2026; whether such successor policy has been adopted; and the date of its publication. [50983/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
744. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to previous parliamentary questions on national targets for reducing obesity-attributable type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease incidence, whether the next obesity policy and action plan will contain the measurable targets for reducing the incidence of obesity-attributable type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, as distinct from population overwei…
Danny Healy-Rae Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
745. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health for an update on a matter regarding prescription medication for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51005/26]
Claire Kerrane Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
746. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health whether she intends to make a device (details supplied) reimbursable for people with diabetes type 2, as those with type 1 have access to reimbursement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51013/26]
Claire Kerrane Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
747. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of a request from a local group (details supplied); if she will outline the consideration that has been given to making vacant HSE properties in Ballinasloe available for community/youth groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51014/26]
Shane Moynihan Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
748. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the recommended best practice guidelines for paediatric hearing assessments, including timelines for screening and intervention; and the way in which these are being implemented across all CHOs. [51024/26]
Shane Moynihan Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
749. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for paediatric hearing assessments as of 1 June in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by CHO, including the length of time waiting, in tabular form. [51025/26]
Shane Moynihan Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
750. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the extent to which paediatric hearing assessments are outsourced, including the number and proportion of cases referred externally; and the total annual cost of such outsourcing. [51026/26]