198. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the gross income received from car-parking charges at each public and voluntary acute hospital for each full year 2021 to 2025 and for the period 1 January to 31 August in 2025 and 2026; the number of paid parking spaces; the applicable hourly, daily and weekly tariffs; the number and value of exemptions, reductions or validations; the amount retained by the h…
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199. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average bed occupancy rate in each public and voluntary acute hospital for the period 1 January to 31 August of 2025 and 2026; the national and HSE Health Region average for each period; the number of days on which occupancy exceeded 85%, 90% and 95% in each hospital where available; and the number of days on which full capacity protocols were in operation…
200. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated appointment cancellation for each quarter in each of the years 2022 to date in 2026 by hospital, broken down by reason for hospital-initiated cancellation, in tabular form. [67553/26]
202. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the overtime expenditure and overtime hours in each public and voluntary acute hospital for each year 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026, broken down by staff group; the number of rostered shifts left unfilled by hospital and staff group; and the number of shifts filled through agency staffing or other temporary arrangements, in tabular form. [67625/26]
581. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors who completed specialist training in public health medicine in 2026; the number currently employed in consultant public health medicine posts; whether a recruitment embargo is affecting the filling of such posts; and when any such restrictions will be lifted. [66638/26]
605. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff employed in excess of the approved 2026 staffing allocation or employment ceiling in each HSE health region and national service at the latest date available; the number of WTEs above allocation by staff category; the associated annualised pay cost; and the extent to which these posts are funded within the existing pay…
606. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the approved whole-time equivalent staffing allocation or employment ceiling for 2026 for each HSE Health Region and National Service; the actual number of WTE staff in post at the latest date available; the number of allocated WTE posts which remain unfilled; and the allocation, number in post and number unfilled broken down by grade and service division in t…
608. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health to list the hours and days of operation for each of the perinatal mental health units within the 19 maternity units across the country. [66826/26]
609. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health to publish the Health Service Personnel Census Report for each month from January 2023 to the most recent data available. [66824/26]
614. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in acute hospitals whose discharge is currently delayed pending the commencement of a home support service by hospital and by HSE health region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66833/26]
615. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours delivered nationally in 2025 and to date in 2026, set against the funded target for each period by HSE health region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66832/26]
618. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of persons assessed and approved for home support who are currently waiting for the service to commence by HSE health region and, where available, by community healthcare organisation and county; the average and longest time spent waiting in each area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66830/26]
624. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of invoices for €100 issued in respect of ED attendances without a GP referral letter; and the number paid for each of the years between 2019 and to date in 2026. [66879/26]
629. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Health the number of total knee replacement surgeries carried out at Galway University Hospital in 2025 and to date in 2026 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66988/26]
1201. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Health the number of clinicians, by health region; the protocol that enables them to prescribe approved medicines (details supplied); the number of clinicians who have prescribed chronic migraine treatments via the protocol annually since its establishment, by health region; the number of clinicians who have prescribed episodic migraine treatments annually via the proto…
1278. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 43613/26 of 12 August 2026, the number of patients recorded on trolleys in each year from 2019 to 2025 and to date 2026; and if the public-only consultant contract has been assessed against trolley numbers, given that the reply did not refer to trolley numbers at any point. [64871/26]
1365. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if she will supply the bed occupancy figures of ICU beds, adult inpatient beds, paediatric inpatient beds in model 4 hospitals for Q1 and Q2; the number of beds included in each count, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65393/26]
1383. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of residents accommodated and the number of admissions in each year from 2019 to date in 2026, in respect of unit 1 at St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire; the nursing and healthcare assistant posts assigned to the unit in each of those years; the number left unfilled at year end; if admissions to the unit were paused at any point; and if so, on whose in…
1390. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals to the South Tipperary Memory Clinic that have been returned to GPs since the service was paused to referrals on 1 January 2026; the clinical pathway available to those patients; whether they will require re-referral when the clinic reopens. [65504/26]
3211. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health for an update on the number of vagus nerve stimulation procedures which have taken place at a site (details supplied) in each of the past five years, and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55224/26]
3212. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health for an update on the number of vagus nerve stimulation battery replacement procedures which have taken place at a site (details supplied) in each of the past five years, and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55225/26]
3213. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting vagus nerve stimulation initial procedures at a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55226/26]
3214. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of vagus nerve stimulation battery replacement procedures which have taken place at a site (details supplied) in each of the past five years, and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55227/26]
3230. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health whether the Department intends to develop a national data collection framework on families affected by substance use, including the wider impacts on parents, siblings, partners and children. [55327/26]
3241. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the actual number and the percentage of electronic referrals from a GP to lung rapid access clinics, by hospital, in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55394/26]