317. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who attended a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic nationally; including the number who were offered an appointment within the recommended timeframe, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025 to date, respectively, in tabular form. [16139/25]
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318. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who received a cancer diagnosis via a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025, respectively, in tabular form. [16140/25]
319. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if State supports for those looking to quit nicotine inhaling products, such as e-cigarettes and vapes are being considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16141/25]
320. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the financial supports for travel expenses, and other related costs, available to patients, or their travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16142/25]
321. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health to detail the circumstances where air or sea travel fares are covered for patients, or a travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16143/25]
322. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 0 to 24 years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those years, in …
323. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 25 plus years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those years, in …
334. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the "pause" of mesh for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence that has been in place since July 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16230/25]
335. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the reason the pause on mid-urethral sling surgery has not been lifted even though national guidelines which were commissioned, endorsed and published by the HSE in January 2023, recommend that all women who need surgery for stress urinary incontinence should be offered this as an option alongside all other appropriate surgical operations; and if she will make a st…
336. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if the 19 recommendations made by the chief medical officer in his 2018 report "The use of Uro-Gynaecological mesh in surgical procedures" have been addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16232/25]
337. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if the National Mesh Oversight Group has produced the report it was commissioned to complete by the end of 2023; if so, when this report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16233/25]
338. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if the current chief medical officer has provided an update on the pause of mesh for the surgical treatment of stress incontinence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16234/25]
342. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the reason why women with stress incontinence are not offered mid-urethral sling surgery as an option, despite the national clinical guidelines recommending that women have a choice of procedure and that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022, providing for their legal right to make informed decisions about their health; and if she will make a…
264. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the position in respect of the supply and delivery of enhanced inactivated influenza vaccines for older people for the winter season 2025-2026 as the HSE have now withdrawn from the tendering process for enhanced vaccine for this period; whether the HSE will reopen discussions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14557/25]
743. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health her plans to address the shortage of accredited genetic testing services for patients in Ireland; her views on public hospital laboratories not having the resources, equipment, or accreditation to meet the clinical genetic testing needs of patients and clinicians; how she proposes to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13649/25]
744. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health her plans for developing a national genomic processing service; when this will be done; if accredited companies located in Ireland will be included in the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13650/25]
745. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the guidance provided by the HSE to public consultant clinicians on where patient blood samples should be sent for genetic testing; what countries Irish patient blood samples are sent to for testing; the process for validating and approving these testing laboratories; if they send the samples to ISO 15189 accredited laboratories in Ireland; and if she will make a s…
746. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if she has plans to open a public procurement competition for the provision of clinical genetic testing in Ireland; if so, the anticipated timeline for implementation; and the plans she has for retaining genetic testing within Ireland using an accredited laboratory testing centre. [13652/25]
832. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if an audit has been carried out by her Department and the HSE to identify all of the burial grounds which are in the ownership or under their control, and which said grounds were used for the burial of persons from mental health facilities, mother and baby homes, industrial schools, and other institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14084/25]
833. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the burial grounds which are under the control of her Department and the HSE, by county and which were previously managed by the local health authorities or the health boards, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14085/25]
834. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the details of the process in place throughout each of the HSE areas in respect of the management and maintenance of burial grounds which are in their ownership or under their control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14086/25]
835. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the process that has been put in place by her Department and the HSE to help identify the names of the people who are buried in these burial grounds under their management or under their control, and the institutions from which they resided in prior to their death; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14087/25]
836. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if her Department and the HSE have entered into arrangements with local authorities for the management and maintenance of these burial grounds and if any process is in place to transfer the control of same to the local authorities in the respective areas where these burial grounds are situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14088/25]
837. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if there has been any engagement between her Department and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of adopting a joint approach about the management and maintenance of burial grounds under their management or under their control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14089/25]
1458. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the preparations underway in her Department for Ireland to host the world Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin in June 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10560/25]