Questions

239. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to ensure workforce development, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34963/25]

240. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to ensure there is patient information and supports for those under the hereditary cancer model of care. [34964/25]

241. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to provide patient information and supports, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34965/25]

242. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the actions her Department has taken to identify the IT infrastructure required to enable the implementation of this hereditary cancer model of care, including genetic counselling network and referral to national specialist genetics multidisciplinary teams. [34966/25]

816. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health when she next intends to visit Beaumont Hospital. [32166/25]

817. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the podiatry services currently available to medical card holders aged over 65 within the Dublin 5, 13 and 17 areas. [32167/25]

818. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health If she will provide a copy of staffing levels at Kilbarrack primary care centre, Dublin 5. [32168/25]

819. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, within the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital; and the expected timeframe for filling each of the vacancies, in tabular form. [32169/25]

181. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the optimum staffing allocation per clinical post in the neurosurgery department at Beaumont Hospital; the current status of these posts; and how staffing levels compare to international standards. [26308/25]

182. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists based at CAMHS in Dublin 3, in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form [26309/25]

183. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists based in Tonlegee Road primary care centre in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form [26310/25]

2325. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the policy changes her Department plans to implement to increase the number of GP services available in Dublin 3,5, 9, 13, and 17. [20244/25]

2364. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the waiting lists for children in each Dublin postal code, 1 to 24, waiting for an appointment for an occupational therapist, speech and language therapist and physio therapist, in tabular form. [20491/25]

2427. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric ophthalmologist registrars based at CHI Temple Street, in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [20839/25]

2428. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health The locations within CHO9 where dental surgeons and senior dental surgeons with a special interest in special needs dentistry are based in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [20840/25]

2429. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of regional community-based specialist eating disorder services; the locations of these services; the number of WTE health and social care professionals working in these services [20841/25]

2430. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE community orthoptist posts by location within CHO9. [20842/25]

2431. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of permanent full-time job offers Beaumont Hospital made to graduate nurses in 2024; the number of those offers that were accepted. [20843/25]

949. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health if funding is available this year to refurbish Raheny health centre, Dublin 5. [16991/25]

950. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the primary care centres and or health centres within CHO9 that currently offer adult mental health day services, in tabular form. [16992/25]

951. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Clontarf Orthopaedic Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [16993/25]

749. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health if all HSE safeguarding teams in community healthcare organisations are now fully integrated into the six new HSE regions; if not, the issues holding up the process; and the additional skills and training planned for HSE safeguarding staff to deal with complex financial issues arising from safeguarding. [13656/25]

750. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health if she has considered the report of the Law Reform Commission of April 2024 “A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding”; and if she intends to bring forward legislation to establish a National Adult Safeguarding Agency independent of the HSE; and, if so, the timeframe for the enactment of such legislation and the establishment of such an agency. [13657/25]

751. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the total cost of the HSE’s National Safeguarding Office computerised system for recording and analysing reports of abuse of vulnerable adults, from project definition to final testing and implementation; the members of the project board that oversaw the project; the number of times it met; and if the minutes of these meetings will be made public. [13658/25]

752. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the total number of social workers currently employed in the HSE and HSE-funded hospitals and social care services; the number of social workers currently employed in each level 4, level 3 and level 2 hospital in each of the six new HSE regions; the comparable number employed in 2020; and her plans to expand social work services in the community. [13659/25]