400. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE's service level agreement with SouthDoc specifies approved methods for collecting patient fees; whether doctors providing services through SouthDoc are permitted to accept payments into personal accounts, including Revolut; what financial recording, auditing and accountability arrangements apply to such payments; whether SouthDoc is required to pro…
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431. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE sets a minimum mileage or travel reimbursement rate that home support providers approved under the authorisation scheme must pay to carers who use their own vehicles; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75236/26]
440. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 50574/26, whether, of the 525 compliance audits of home support providers under the authorisation scheme examined travel time or mileage payments to carers; the number of providers found to be non-compliant on those terms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75231/26]
442. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether home support providers contracted by the HSE are required to pay carers for travel time and mileage from their home to their first call of the day and from their last call back home; whether the HSE monitors compliance with this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75227/26]
443. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has assessed the gap between mileage paid by home support providers and the actual fuel and running costs carers incur on rural routes, where a carer covering about 100 km a day may receive a small fraction of the cost; whether the national hourly rate paid to providers includes a component for carers' travel costs; and if she will make a statement…
444. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE sets a minimum mileage reimbursement rate that home support providers approved under the authorisation scheme must pay to carers who use their own vehicles to travel between clients; if not, whether such a minimum is under consideration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75223/26]
457. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the current status of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026; the expected date of enactment; the dates on which the provisions restricting colours, imagery, flavour descriptors and advertising of nicotine inhaling products are expected to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75281/26]
459. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether consideration has been given to providing a statutory definition of a specialist retailer of nicotine inhaling products, distinguishing premises whose primary business is the sale of such products from general retailers, in view of the difficulty in defining a vape shop identified by the Minister of State with responsibility for public health; whether her …
462. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of applications for retail licences for tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products received since 2 February 2026; the number granted, refused and outstanding; the number of licences suspended or revoked; the number of retailers registered to sell tobacco products prior to 2 February 2026 that had not applied for a licence by 2 August 2026; and if …
463. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of targeted compliance checks carried out by the HSE since 2 February 2026 to detect the sale of tobacco products or nicotine inhaling products without a licence, by county and separately for Cork city and Cork County; the number of premises found to be selling without a licence; the enforcement action taken, including prosecutions; and if she will make…
481. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of retail licences granted to date under the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023, broken down by licence type, that is, tobacco products only, nicotine inhaling products only, and both, by county, separately for the administrative areas of Cork City Council and Cork County Council, and by retail premises and online s…
239. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE has assessed the case for a national osteoporosis screening programme, including DEXA scanning for women over 50 years-of-age; if the matter has been referred to the National Screening Advisory Committee for consideration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74790/26]
240. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions for hip fractures in persons aged 50 and over in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by gender; the estimated annual cost to the health service of treating osteoporotic fractures, including rehabilitation and long term care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74794/26]
241. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of heart transplants, lung transplants and combined heart and lung transplants carried out in the Mater Misericordiae University hospital in each month from January 2025 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [74796/26]
242. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of DEXA scans provided to public patients under the GP access to diagnostics scheme in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the current average waiting time for such a scan in the HSE south-west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74793/26]
243. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for a heart transplant and for a lung transplant at the end of each quarter from quarter 1 2025 to date in 2026; and the average waiting time in each case, in tabular form. [74798/26]
244. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients, adult and paediatric, who received a heart or lung transplant outside the State under the treatment abroad scheme or another arrangement in 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [74801/26]
246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of potential heart and lung transplants that did not proceed in 2025 and to date in 2026 due to bed, theatre or staffing capacity at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. [74803/26]
247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the number of individual persons, as distinct from treatment cases or episodes, who presented for treatment with gambling as their main problem in each of the years 2021 to 2025, by HSE health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74805/26]
249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the number of persons currently waiting to commence treatment for gambling addiction in the HSE south-west region, broken down by service; the longest current wait from referral; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74806/26]
252. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, if the HSE will confirm the accuracy of the average waiting times reported in table 3 for the HSE Dublin and north-east and HSE Dublin and south-east regions, which are identical at 1.47 days in 2021 and at 2.16 days in 2025; if the HSE will confirm the percentage increase in cases treated for gambling as a main prob…
253. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the number of persons in each of the years 2021 to 2025 who were referred for gambling addiction treatment in the HSE south-west region but did not commence treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74810/26]
254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the services in counties Cork and Kerry that provide treatment for gambling addiction; the funding allocated to each such service in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, including any allocation from the additional investment in gambling treatment services since 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74808/26]
255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the median and maximum waiting time in days between referral and commencement of treatment for gambling as a main problem in each HSE health region in each of the years 2021 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74807/26]
894. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the reason Addison’s disease, a chronic condition requiring lifelong hormone replacement therapy and ongoing medical monitoring, is not included in the long-term illness scheme; whether her Department has assessed the financial burden placed on patients who must pay for essential prescribed medication and related treatment; whether consideration will be given to a…