2679. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether a proportionality assessment under S.I. No. 413 of 2022 was carried out, whether by her Department or by CORU on delegation, prior to the adoption on 11July 2025 by the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board of the Standards of Proficiency and the Criteria for Education and Training Programmes for counsellors and for psy…
Parliamentary questions
Questions
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
Browse the questions
Showing questions under the heading Departmental Bodies.
78 questions match, newest first.
2680. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the basis for the delineation of practice whereby counsellors are trained to work with mild to moderate presentations while psychotherapists are trained for moderate to severe and complex presentations in the Standards of Proficiency adopted in July 2025; if she will provide the workforce and access to care impact assessment underpinning this delineation; the p…
340. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the governance and reporting arrangement regarding the NTPF; how it reports to the Minister; if the NTPF is accountable to the Oireachtas, including Oireachtas committees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31026/25]
341. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the spend of all money by the NTPF since 2020, broken down by salaries, by insourcing and outsourcing of care and any other incurred expenditure, further broken down by year and by allocation to each hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31027/25]
342. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of reviews, investigations, HR investigations or reports carried out by the NTPF into insourcing of care at public hospitals since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31028/25]
343. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of reviews, investigations, HR investigations or reports carried out by the public hospitals into insourcing of care at public hospitals that the NTPF is aware of since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31029/25]
585. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health her views on a recent no confidence vote by an association (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26783/25]
654. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health the bodies that operate under the aegis of her Departments; those bodies which her Department funds on an annual recurring basis; those similarly funded by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26927/25]
344. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 15 May 2025, her plans to evacuate children that are currently stuck in Gaza, awaiting medical treatment and exposed to famine. [26406/25]
316. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will outline the number of agencies or quangos established by her Department in each of the past ten years and the cost to the State of funding each one. [24936/25]
1110. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of her Department, focusing particularly on those that may overlap in their missions and areas of operation (details supplied). [23817/25]
1111. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health for each non-governmental organisation under the aegis of her Department, to provide a detailed breakdown of its core activities, geographical areas of operation, target demographics, and the specific services or programmes they provide (details supplied). [23835/25]
1112. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to specify the total amount of funding allocated to each of the identified non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under her Department’s aegis over the past five years, broken down by State funding directly administered through central government agencies, departments, or any other public bodies; grants provided by local authorities or regional entities; additiona…
1113. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of non-governmental organisations under her Department’s aegis that charge fees for their services, including membership fees, participation fees, or any other forms of charge to the public; to specify which of these organisations charge fees while also receiving public funding, and how this practice is monitored to ensure tha…
1114. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to identify any existing oversight mechanisms or audits that are conducted to assess the effectiveness of funding allocated to non-governmental organisations under the aegis of her Department (details supplied). [23890/25]
1115. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to state whether any review or audit has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness, redundancy, and administrative costs of State funding for non-governmental organisations, NGOs, under the aegis of her Department; if such a review has not yet been conducted, to request a detailed timeline and plan for implementing a comprehensive review of NGO funding under t…
1116. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide a summary of any specific steps taken to streamline non-governmental organisations under the aegis of her Department, eliminate redundancies, and prevent the duplication of services where organisations may be competing for similar grants or operating in the same areas with little coordination (details supplied). [23926/25]
1117. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline the total administrative costs associated with non-governmental organisations under the aegis of her Department, including the overhead costs related to compliance, reporting, and auditing requirements; and to compare these costs to the overall financial aid allocated to the organisations, identifying whether the administrative expenses are in proporti…
1118. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide a full and detailed explanation of how her Department monitors and ensures transparency in the use of public funds by non-governmental organisations under her aegis. (details supplied). [23962/25]
540. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health if her Department aggregates or compiles quarterly prompt payment reporting data submitted by public bodies and agencies under its remit, in accordance with Government Decision S29296 of 19 May 2009, 2 and 8 March 2011, and 28 March 2017; if so, to provide the compiled data or summary tables for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024 to date; if not, the reason her Depar…
542. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health to confirm which public bodies under the aegis of her Department are required to submit quarterly prompt payment reports in accordance with Government Decision S29296 of 19 May 2009, 2 and 8 March 2011, and 28 March 2017, regarding the 15-Day Prompt Payment Commitment; to provide a comprehensive list of those bodies; and to specify which of those bodies submitted…
729. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of her Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13577/25]
1811. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Health the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of her Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12156/25]
1812. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Health to identify, by body name and associated skills gap, any skills gaps identified by the chairperson of that board in correspondence to her Department or a Minister in respect of the composition of the board of the body referred, for each year between 2020 and 2025, in tabular form; to identify any body where the chairperson of that board never identified skill…
1813. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Health to confirm that for each year between 2020 and 2025 in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of her Department, at least one member of the audit and risk committee of that board has recent, relevant financial experience for each of those years; where that is not the case, to identify that body, by reference to the year or years where no so such memb…