Questions

2517. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the date on which she and/or her Department was briefed and informed of issues regarding a consultant at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and the miscategorising of pre-cancerous cells which is now the subject of an independent review; and if the briefing came from the Department of Health or the HSE. [46504/25]

2580. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if she or her Department has referred a formal complaint to the medical council in relation to the professional conduct of a medic who worked at a hospital (details supplied) whose work is the subject of the review into the mis-categorisation of pre-cancerous cells; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46812/25]

2581. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has referred a formal complaint to the medical council in relation to the professional conduct of a medic who worked at a hospital (details supplied) whose work is the subject of the review into the mis-categorisation of pre-cancerous cells; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46813/25]

2582. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if HIQA has initiated or been requested by her Department to undertake an investigation into the mis-categorisation of pre-cancerous cells in the case of a number of patients at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46814/25]

2599. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the overall number and percentage of health care assistants working in HSE long-term residential care facilities currently that have the recommended QQI/FETAC level 5 qualification for health care assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41041/25]

2686. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the quantum amount contained in the indemnity fund set aside as a condition of the transfer of the ownership of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda from an order (details supplied) to the then NEHB in the 1990s; if the independent review of the fund has been completed; if so, if she will provide this Deputy and a group with either a copy of the review or the deta…

180. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health to request advice from the HSE on a matter (details supplied); if alternative pain management injection administration approaches and related issues will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38016/25]

270. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will implement the terms of a recent Labour Court recommendation to extend the temporary special scheme of paid leave for public health service employees unfit for work post-Covid-19 infection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36595/25]

682. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health to request that the HSE revisits the way in which a complaint was addressed at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35278/25]

740. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third-level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31799/25]

774. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if she will give an update on waiting times for under-18s for Orthodontist services in Drogheda and Dundalk and if there are plans in place to reduce waiting times for these services in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31935/25]

861. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the issues Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients are having getting timey access to a new drug for the condition (details supplied); if immediate steps will be taken to make this drug available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32396/25]

1385. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health for an update on her consideration of the request made to her and to the Taoiseach by an organisation (details supplied) and the victims and survivors of a former doctor with whom they work, to consider the establishment of a Commission of Investigation into the actions of the former doctor and related matters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29467/…

1424. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to increase the income thresholds for the awarding of medical cards, given the rising cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29603/25]

862. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if she will consider providing interim funding to an organisation (details supplied) that is currently concluding an application for a longer-term funding relationship with the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25843/25]

1007. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no permanent psychiatry expertise or consultants available on a 24-7 basis to address emergency psychiatry admissions of patients under 18 years at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, and to treat patients under 18 years in crisis who are referred by their GP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23243/25]

1008. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an appointment with CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23248/25]

2404. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if referrals to hospital emergency departments from out-of-hours services like NEDOC are not liable for a charge at accident and emergency; and if so, if she will investigate the reason a person (details supplied) is being pursued by a debt collection agency for payment of this charge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20722/25]

376. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health when she plans to meet with representatives of a victims group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14740/25]

394. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if her Department has received legal advice requested by her predecessor in September 2024 from the Attorney General in relation to the publication of the 'Drogheda Review' undertaken by Judge TC Smyth in 2009; the date on which the formal advice was received by her Department from the Attorney General; if she will outline her next steps on this issue; and if she wil…

408. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health when she expects the review currently being undertaken in relation to issues pertaining to the indemnity agreement signed off by the Medical Missionaries of Mary in the context of the transfer of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital to the former North Eastern Health Board in 1997; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14897/25]

223. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if, in light of the correspondence between an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE regarding a service level agreement application submitted on 8 July 2024, as well as subsequent communications, she will provide an update on the status of the application; the steps her Department and or the HSE has taken on the application; and if she will make a statement on …

1470. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if she will provide this Deputy with an update from the HSE on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10587/25]

1476. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health to provide details of grant schemes available through her Department and the HSE to support frontline community-based health responders such as Irish Red Cross branches to access support for investment in equipment etc; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10598/25]

1800. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the number of people attending Dundalk Clinic for type 1 diabetes, broken down by those who have commenced treatment on pump therapy, those who have expressed an interest in pump therapy and are still on a waiting list and those who remain using insulin pens, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12110/25]