713. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the amount paid out in medical compensation in Ireland in each of the past ten years; and if a regional hospital, HSE, CHO area breakdown can be provided on that figure. [50854/26]
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714. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the total number of adverse incidents reported through the national incident management system in each of the past ten years; if a breakdown can be provided on the number of these incidents that resulted in death, disability, incapacity; and the number of incidents that were severe, moderate and mild, in tabular form. [50855/26]
715. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the total number of adverse incidents reported to the State Claims Agency which related to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in each of the years since the law was enacted, and to date in 2026; if details will be provided of the outcomes of claims taken against the State in relation to the Act; the number of claims settled or ongoing; a…
716. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who are taking or have taken cases against the State alleging that their unborn baby was wrongfully diagnosed and subsequently aborted; the number of claims notified to the State Claims Agency; the number of cases that are ongoing; and the number of cases which have been settled. [50857/26]
717. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a lack of public dermatology appointments and services available to under-16s; her plans to rectify this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50887/26]
718. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2214 of 9 June 2026, to confirm the number of on-site audits of agency staffing suppliers conducted by the HSE in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 individually, given that the reply addressed the year 2025 only; the precise number of instances of non-compliance identified across the six on-site audits conducte…
719. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who have availed of cross border directive for treatment abroad in relation to rheumatology services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50909/26]
720. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if any single national system enables the HSE to identify, across all HSE-funded sites, if a healthcare worker, whether directly employed, agency or locum, who is currently on administrative leave or has been removed from placement, is subject to a criminal investigation or an unresolved patient-safety concern. [50918/26]
721. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health if an urgent MRI at University Hospital Limerick will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50921/26]
722. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied), who is a medical card holder and is pre diabetic, has been refused a drug prescribed by their GP; the financial supports that are available to this person in accessing this drug; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50926/26]
723. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if there is a timeline to revise the HSE’s IVF public funding scheme, particularly the way the eligibility criteria to avail of the program excludes families who have already undergone privately funded IVF treatments (details supplied). [50934/26]
724. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for an operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50937/26]
725. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health if she will review and expand the HSE's rehabilitation aids grant scheme to provide for the funding of specialised vehicle car seats and restraint systems where there is a demonstrated clinical necessity, supported by an occupational therapist or other appropriate clinician; whether she recognises that access to safe transport is essential to enable children an…
726. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE psycho-oncology posts that have been filled in 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [50947/26]
727. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the pain management supports available to them in the interim period prior to their scheduled nerve block procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50954/26]
728. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to support a Pre-Budget Submission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50956/26]
729. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to support a pre-Budget submission by an organisation (details supplied) [50957/26]
730. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the proposed changes to providing supplements that people require for their health without having to take prescribed drugs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50958/26]
731. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in respect of the treatment abroad scheme, whether the public spending code applies to individual funding decisions and to programme-level oversight of the scheme; if not, the framework under which her Department satisfies itself that expenditure under the scheme meets the standards of regularity, propriety and value-for-money required of public funds;…
732. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a formal national policy or governance framework, as distinct from administrative processing arrangements, governs the authorisation, funding and oversight of the treatment abroad scheme; if such a framework exists, to provide a copy or web reference; and if no such framework exists, to confirm this explicitly. [50970/26]
733. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a clinical outcome data is recorded in respect of patients funded under the treatment abroad scheme following the completion of treatment abroad; and if no outcome data is recorded, to confirm this explicitly and the way in which her Department assesses the clinical effectiveness of expenditure under the scheme. [50972/26]
734. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a register of high-cost treatment abroad scheme approvals; if such a register is maintained, to state the monetary threshold or criteria used to classify a case as high-cost; and if no such register exists, to confirm this explicitly, in tabular form. [50974/26]
735. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if she will consider reducing the period of time before which medical card holders can get new dentures from five years to three years where a need has been identified by a dental practitioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50975/26]
736. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to consider additional information and issue a medical card to a constituent in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50976/26]
737. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 2332 and 2333 of 9 June 2026, whether she is satisfied that the National Ambulance Service maintains no national dataset recording the elapsed time between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource; whether she has requested that such a dataset be established; and if she will make a statement on the matte…