2179. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the number of consultants appointed specifically to Portiuncula university hospital maternity unit since the 2018 report (details supplied); if this has been the recommended level for safe maternity care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44964/25]
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674. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health if the funding for podiatry services has been discontinued for people with type 2 diabetes (details supplied); if so, the date this was discontinued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35204/25]
800. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health at the time of the overview, the WTE number and grade of CR staff employed in each hub site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35842/25]
801. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who participated in a phase 3 cardiac rehab programme in each site (hospital and hub) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35843/25]
802. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the criteria used to deliver funding to support 13 permanent cardiac rehab posts to integrated health authority regions (IHA) 1 and 2 (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35844/25]
748. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health whether it is possible for a brother-in-law of the person receiving long-term care in a nursing home to be named as a 'family successor”, in order to qualify for the three-year cap on family farms under the fair deal programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31835/25]
1281. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health if he will give the approval for the drug givinostat to be permitted for treatment to patients suffering with Duchene muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29042/25]
1546. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health if, in light of a recent Mental Health Commission report that has confirmed that general emergency departments are failing people in a mental health crisis every day, he will support the development of a mental accident-and-emergency departments to support people who is in a mental health crisis such as that seen in the NHS; and if she will make a stateme…
359. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for a routine CT scan in Roscommon University Hospital as of the 16 May 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26459/25]
360. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the weekly capacity for routine CT scans in Roscommon University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26460/25]
361. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the number of office staff and medical staff located and employed in the radiology department in Roscommon University Hospital; the number employed in these areas in each of the years 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26461/25]
2230. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health if a brother-in-law of a person receiving long-term care in a nursing home can be named as a family successor (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19814/25]
2308. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the reason the data regulations have yet to be signed off on which would finally enable the formal commencement of the Inquiry that was given Cabinet approval to establish an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate in Ireland after many years of delay on the part of successive Governments despite the various assurances th…
781. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health when the air ambulance will be returning to the Athlone base; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9824/25]
782. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health if the Minister will clarify the reason the rapid response service is not available in Roscommon on Thursdays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9825/25]
1305. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the number of civil servants in his Department, and in agencies under the aegis of his Department, who were on career break in 2023 or 2024, by month and grade, and by length of career break; the number of civil servants in his Department and in agencies under the aegis of his Department who were on career break for longer than five years or longer than s…
1306. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies, by month and by grade, in his Department, and in agencies under the aegis of his Department, in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46211/24]
1307. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health to provide an assurance that no civil servant has had their career break extended beyond five years where there is a suitable vacancy in their home Department or agency; to provide an assurance that, where a civil servant has had their career break extended beyond five years on account of there being no suitable vacancy in their home Department or agency,…