222. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of quarter three for each year 2022 to 2025, in tabular form [52544/25]
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838. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries carried out in Cork hospitals in 2024; the average waiting time for surgery; and the number of patients currently awaiting procedures in 2025. [51154/25]
839. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times in Cork hospitals for hip replacement surgery, cataract surgery, and MRI scans; and the measures being taken to reduce backlogs. [51165/25]
165. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2021 to 2025 on waiting lists in Cork University Hospital who have received care via insourcing activity; the extent to which this has activity reduced waiting lists, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50547/25]
598. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health for an update on the waiting list for surgery for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49766/25]
645. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [50036/25]
362. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on hospital waiting lists nationwide as of September 2025; how this compares to September 2024; the number of consultant posts that remain vacant across the HSE; and the actions being taken to address these vacancies ahead of the 2025 2026 winter season. [49454/25]
1214. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health the efforts being made to reduce the waiting time for children approved for public orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48173/25]
1263. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce current waiting times for children requiring orthodontic treatment, given reports that waiting times are now estimated at up to four years; her plans to introduce a specific initiative to address these delays; if she will confirm whether vacant dental and orthodontic posts are being actively recruited to; if agency staff are…
1316. 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. [48830/25]
2038. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times from referral date for appointments with a paediatric orthopaedic consultant in CHI Crumlin Hospital for children with scoliosis for each category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47301/25]
2039. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times from referral date for appointments with a paediatric orthopaedic consultant in CHI Crumlin Hospital for children with scoliosis for each category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47301/25]
2040. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the overall average waiting times for children with scoliosis to see a paediatric orthopaedic consultant in CHI Crumlin Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47302/25]
2047. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the ongoing delays in access to timely diagnostic and consultant-led care in both public and private healthcare systems, including for patients with urgent referrals and private health insurance; if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); if she will outline the steps being taken to improve access to diagnostics and redu…
2049. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she will provide information regarding public hospital waiting lists (details supplied). [44472/25]
2050. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she will provide information regarding public hospital waiting lists for surgery (details supplied). [44473/25]
2099. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if there is a method for accessing ophthalmology care for children on waiting lists in cases where there is no ophthalmologist currently employed. [44669/25]
2145. Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Minister for Health to specify the waiting list position of a person (details supplied) awaiting care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44863/25]
2211. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health her plans to clear the waiting list for children in life changing pain from scoliosis (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45119/25]
2225. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who having been referred for a MRI scan at UHL 18 months ago has yet to receive an appointment date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45209/25]
2254. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting the use of a holter monitor and cardiac event monitor and the average wait time to access such monitors in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45329/25]
2273. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a date for surgery in the department of vascular surgery WUH has been arranged for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [45433/25]
2276. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the current number of children on waiting lists for scoliosis and spina bifida surgery; the length of time each child has been waiting; and the number of surgeries cancelled or rescheduled in the past three years, disaggregated by reason for cancellation. [45441/25]
2277. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the reason the 2017 Government commitment that no child would wait longer than four months for scoliosis surgery has not been delivered; and the new binding guarantees that will now be made to ensure no child experiences such delays in the future. [45442/25]
2278. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the parents of a child (details supplied) were at any stage informed of their child’s removal from the urgent waiting list; the clinical and administrative basis for this decision; and the measures being introduced to ensure that parents are fully informed and consulted before any such removal in the future. [45443/25]