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TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work

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Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
528. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has instructed the HSE to provide monthly reports on 2024 development posts filled by temporary or agency staff; and the date on which these data will be supplied to the Oireachtas as requested. [68922/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
529. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health when she last met senior HSE officials regarding delays in pre-employment clearances for 2024 development posts, the specific actions now underway to shorten clearance timelines; and the monthly KPIs introduced to monitor improvements. [68923/25]
Barry Ward Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
539. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if dupilumab will be made available through the HSE for the treatment of juvenile eosinophilic oesophagitis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68978/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 3 Dec 2025 · to Health
263. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the reason a reply has not been provided to a HSE representation submitted in June 2025 (details supplied); and if she will assist in obtaining a response from the HSE at the earliest opportunity. [68381/25]
Paul Murphy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
526. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2647 of 29 July 2025, if any further professional bodies have been asked for representatives for the HSE gender programme; and the professions which are currently represented. [67339/25]
Paul Murphy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
527. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the involvement of trans-representative groups in the HSE gender programme. [67340/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
590. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total number of surgeries carried out by the HSE, outside of the NTPF, in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025. [67716/25]
Robert Troy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
602. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 18 May 2023, the progress which has been made since the completion of the remedial works in 2023 (details supplied). [67876/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
630. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she will arrange an appointment with the HSE (details supplied). [67982/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
641. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if private practice will take place in the new HSE surgical hubs; if private work has been conducted in the South Dublin Surgical Hub since it opened in February; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68031/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
643. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to specify the projected date by which duplicate financial reporting requirements between the HSE and voluntary hospitals will be eliminated, and to confirm whether interim milestones have been set for the removal of parallel reporting structures pending full IFMS deployment. [68034/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
644. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the annual estimated cost of maintaining parallel financial systems in voluntary hospitals, including software licences, staffing time and manual reporting processes, and to set out the projected savings associated with eliminating these duplicated systems. [68035/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
645. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish the monthly IFMS compliance metrics for statutory sites, including the percentage of sites achieving full utilisation, and to provide the projected compliance rate for voluntary hospitals once deployment begins. [68036/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
646. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline the savings originally projected in the 2015 business case for the Integrated Financial Management System, to identify the year in which those savings were expected to be realised, and to confirm whether these projections have since been revised. [68037/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
647. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether participation in the Integrated Financial Management System will be made an explicit condition of annual service-level agreements and the release of Exchequer funding to voluntary hospitals. [68038/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
648. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether her Department or the HSE has carried out any governance risk assessment relating to voluntary hospitals that have not yet been integrated into the Integrated Financial Management System, and to state whether any such assessment will be published. [68039/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
649. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline the factors delaying the finalisation of the Integrated Financial Management System rollout schedule for voluntary hospitals, and to provide the expected completion date for full deployment. [68040/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
651. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the real-time financial oversight mechanisms that will apply to voluntary hospitals once IFMS is deployed, and to set out how this data will be used to strengthen governance, auditing and expenditure control. [68042/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
652. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the 2025 overspend in acute hospitals, primary care, agency staffing and high-tech drugs, disaggregated by hospital group and HSE region. [68047/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
653. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the specific management and expenditure-control measures that will be implemented in 2026 to prevent further overspends, including targets for reduced agency use and revised approval protocols. [68048/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
662. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will establish a formal reporting process to identify approved posts that remain unfilled for more than six months; and the expected timeline for introducing such a system. [68057/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
676. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of staff recruited in 2024 and to date in 2025 in the South South-West Hospital Group and Cork Kerry Community Healthcare under the Department’s recruitment and retention initiatives, including graduate retention, targeted campaigns and agency conversions. [68073/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
693. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE employees who do not have contracts of employment with the HSE, and to account for why no contracts are in place for those employees. [68091/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
694. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE employees who do not have access to the public service pension, and to account for why no access is in place for those employees. [68092/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
695. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that the HSE is fully compliant with employment law with respect to the employment and payment of its staff. [68093/25]