Questions

346. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she allow for Mounjaro to be accessed on the medical card (details supplied). [36712/25]

740. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the protocols in place to review and adjust thyroid medication dosages for women following childbirth, particularly where the dosage was increased during pregnancy; in the absence of protocols, the measures that will be taken to ensure that postnatal thyroid treatment is appropriately monitored to avoid adverse effects such as depression and suicidal ideation; a…

741. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of cases in which women have remained on elevated thyroid medication postpartum without review, resulting in serious mental health side effects including depression and suicidal thoughts; and if the HSE has conducted or will conduct any review or audit into such cases. [35519/25]

742. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the clinical guidelines currently in place for general practitioners and endocrinologists regarding the monitoring and adjustment of thyroid hormone levels in postpartum women; and if updated guidance will be issued to ensure safer prescribing practices. [35520/25]

743. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether postnatal mental health services and screening procedures include evaluation for physiological causes such as thyroid hormone imbalance; and if he will take steps to improve interdisciplinary collaboration between endocrinology and mental health services for new mothers. [35521/25]

744. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the measures being taken to raise awareness among healthcare professionals and the public about the connection between thyroid hormone imbalance and severe postpartum depression or suicidal ideation; and if additional training, guidance, or public information campaigns will be supported in this area. [35522/25]

37. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the current average ambulance response time; the average ambulance response time in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34063/25]

62. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who left emergency departments without being seen in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34062/25]

324. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the nurse to patient ratio in Ireland, broken down by hospital. [35042/25]

325. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the doctor to patient ratio in Irish hospitals, broken down by hospital. [35043/25]

326. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the consultant to patient ratio in Irish hospitals, broken down by hospital. [35044/25]

327. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she was aware of a pilot scheme in operation in Navan Hospital currently running that has reduced the visiting hours for families (details supplied); the reasoning for such a measure; and if she will consider that many relatives are elderly and would consider this time late to travel to the town. [35046/25]

747. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of temporary locations used for the Covid vaccine rollout that are still being rented in each county; the cost per county for rent since all Covid restrictions were lifted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33530/25]

769. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the reason the opt out register is not live in advance of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024 coming into force; and how do people opt out now. [33739/25]

824. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the infrastructure projects being built or commissioned by her Department that are currently late in their delivery; and the infrastructure projects currently over budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34094/25]

887. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the reason the address is needed for the opt out register of the organ donation scheme (details supplied). [34339/25]

888. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have registered their opt out register of the organ donation scheme in the first week of the portal going live. [34340/25]

910. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1161, the reason her Department has yet to correct the inaccurate précis of statute provided by her Department’s pensions specialist (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34481/25]

808. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when the contract for the refurbishment of the blood laboratory in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan will be signed and completed. [32095/25]

825. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of consultants and WTE NCHDs located in medicine, surgery and emergency departments in Our Lady's Hospital Navan. [32225/25]

856. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1165 of 13 May 2025, to outline the same relevant statistics for all individual hospitals which may have specific local arrangements in place with private entities for service provision. [32383/25]

857. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health in relation to treatments paid for under the national treatment purchase fund where an individual received care in a private setting, if an agreed hourly rate is paid to clinicians agreed centrally, or agreed regionally or by provider; and to outline these for different types of treatment - surgical, exploratory and so on - since its inception. [32384/25]

886. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the services available nationally to support those who have suffered from child loss. [32556/25]

937. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if she would be open to meeting with the family in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32796/25]

303. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of medical card patients seen through the MRI scanner in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan in the past two years. [30843/25]