878. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the core hourly rate of €32.73 paid to approved home support providers applies uniformly in all areas, including Cork north central; whether any change to that rate has taken effect in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72417/26]
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879. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for surgery in Letterkenny University Hospital; if they are on the urgent or routine waiting list. [72421/26]
880. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the status of funding under Budget 2027 for an organisation (details supplied) particularly in terms of utility costs offsets, medical cards, and its continued funding at 2026 bracket levels equivalent to €500,000. [72423/26]
881. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE monitors or collects data on the hourly pay received by frontline home support workers employed by approved providers; if the HSE has set minimum expectation for the share of the €32.73 hourly rate that goes to worker pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72419/26]
882. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the funding being provided in Budget 2027 for an organisation (details supplied). [72433/26]
883. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health if she will provide the business case, needs assessment, approval documentation and decision record relating to the HSE mid-west procurement for Community Rehabilitation and Transitional Beds published in March 2026; the reason for the subsequent decision to cancel that procurement within days of its original publication; and if she will set out the circumst…
884. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE withdrew the procurement process for the Provision of Community Rehabilitation and Transitional Beds for HSE Mid-West, published in March 2026; the date on which the decision to withdraw the procurement was made; and whether clinical, operational, financial or procurement considerations informed the decision. [72469/26]
885. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the progress regarding the purchase by the Health Service Executive of a building (details supplied); and to outline the services that will be provided in the short, medium, and long term. [72449/26]
886. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if there has been a provision in Budget 2027 for medical cards to be issued to lung fibrosis patients as a matter of routine care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72392/26]
887. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health whether her Department provides support to home care workers with mileage costs and the cost of fuel (details supplied); whether there are tax credits which home care workers can avail of to assist with the cost of fuel associated with their work as a home carer. [71970/26]
536. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the number children and families whose scoliosis care predates January 2019 will fall outside module 1; and if she will reconsider the timeframe in order that relevant children are not excluded simply because their experiences occurred before January 2019. [69770/26]
537. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health in relation to the Commission of Investigation and module 1, the reason the timeframe for module 1 set to commence from January 2019. [69766/26]
538. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the current number of anorexia and other eating disorder beds in the midwest HSE region; the number in each other HSE region; the number per head of population in each region for each year from 2020 to date, in tabular form; the status of plans to increase the number of anorexia and other eating disorder beds in the HSE midwest region; if there is an eating d…
539. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health when she plans to publish the complete report of the National Disability Needs Analysis 2026. [69817/26]
540. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all the hospitals which provide dermatology services in Ireland. [69816/26]
541. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the engagement she has had with the HSE in relation to the proposal to add the shingles vaccine to the reimbursement scheme. [69821/26]
542. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiologists on site in a hospital (details supplied). [69804/26]
543. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the current average waiting time for a first appointment at a symptomatic breast disease clinic; the number of urgent referrals seen within the two-week target in each of the past 12 months; the number of women currently waiting beyond that target, broken down by hospital; and the steps she is taking to ensure all urgent referrals are seen on time. [69774/26]
544. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason for a delay of up to nine months for the HSE to reimburse patients availing of the EU cross border directive; the action being taken to help patients who avail of loans in order to access speedy healthcare due to growing waiting lists here and who find themselves considerably out of pocket as a result of the delays in reimbursement; and the re…
545. Deputy Gillian Toole asked the Minister for Health the incidence of shingles (varicella zoster), by age for each year 2015-2019 and 2021-2025, in tabular form. [69750/26]
546. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health her plans to make the shingles vaccine (shingrix) available through the HSE. [69824/26]
547. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the number of capital projects that are under way to ensure that every sample in Ireland is not sent abroad, including the amount of equipment and machinery needed; and the stages of current procurement. [69841/26]
548. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the number of staff positions that are currently vacant in the testing of cervical smear samples; and the full complement of staff required in order to test every sample in Ireland and not be sent abroad. [69840/26]
549. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the current pathway to reducing the number of cervical screening samples being tested outside of ireland. [69839/26]
550. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 16642/26 (details supplied), if she is aware that graduate paramedics are currently being redeployed from understaffed stations close to where they live, to other more distant stations that are fully staffed against their will and under the threat of unemployment; her views on this regarding previous commitments made …