Parliamentary questions

722. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied), who is a medical card holder and is pre diabetic, has been refused a drug prescribed by their GP; the financial supports that are available to this person in accessing this drug; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50926/26]

723. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if there is a timeline to revise the HSE’s IVF public funding scheme, particularly the way the eligibility criteria to avail of the program excludes families who have already undergone privately funded IVF treatments (details supplied). [50934/26]

724. 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. [50937/26]

725. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health if she will review and expand the HSE's rehabilitation aids grant scheme to provide for the funding of specialised vehicle car seats and restraint systems where there is a demonstrated clinical necessity, supported by an occupational therapist or other appropriate clinician; whether she recognises that access to safe transport is essential t…

726. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE psycho-oncology posts that have been filled in 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [50947/26]

727. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the pain management supports available to them in the interim period prior to their scheduled nerve block procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50954/26]

728. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to support a Pre-Budget Submission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50956/26]

729. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to support a pre-Budget submission by an organisation (details supplied) [50957/26]

730. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the proposed changes to providing supplements that people require for their health without having to take prescribed drugs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50958/26]

731. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in respect of the treatment abroad scheme, whether the public spending code applies to individual funding decisions and to programme-level oversight of the scheme; if not, the framework under which her Department satisfies itself that expenditure under the scheme meets the standards of regularity, propriety and value-for-money requi…

732. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a formal national policy or governance framework, as distinct from administrative processing arrangements, governs the authorisation, funding and oversight of the treatment abroad scheme; if such a framework exists, to provide a copy or web reference; and if no such framework exists, to confirm this explicitly. [50970/26]

733. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a clinical outcome data is recorded in respect of patients funded under the treatment abroad scheme following the completion of treatment abroad; and if no outcome data is recorded, to confirm this explicitly and the way in which her Department assesses the clinical effectiveness of expenditure under the scheme. [50972/26]

734. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a register of high-cost treatment abroad scheme approvals; if such a register is maintained, to state the monetary threshold or criteria used to classify a case as high-cost; and if no such register exists, to confirm this explicitly, in tabular form. [50974/26]

735. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if she will consider reducing the period of time before which medical card holders can get new dentures from five years to three years where a need has been identified by a dental practitioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50975/26]

736. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to consider additional information and issue a medical card to a constituent in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50976/26]

737. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 2332 and 2333 of 9 June 2026, whether she is satisfied that the National Ambulance Service maintains no national dataset recording the elapsed time between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource; whether she has requested that such a dataset be established; and if she will make a st…

738. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2334 of 9 June 2026, whether she will now commission a national analysis examining the relationship between ambulance allocation or dispatch delays and mortality, morbidity, clinical deterioration or other patient outcomes; and if not, the basis on which she is satisfied that no such analysis is required. […

739. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2330 of 9 June 2026, the recommendations, corrective actions, policy changes or service improvements that arose from the two system analysis reviews identified by the National Ambulance Service as involving ambulance allocation or dispatch delays since 2020; and the date on which each such action was implem…

740. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2335 of 9 June 2026, whether she will publish the two system analysis reviews identified by the National Ambulance Service as having found ambulance allocation or dispatch delays to be contributory factors; and if publication is not possible, the specific findings, recommendations and corrective actions ari…

741. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1010 of 16 June 2026, to specify each performance indicator currently used to measure the effectiveness of national obesity policy and obesity treatment services; and to provide the most recent result available for each such indicator. [50981/26]

742. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1011 of 16 June 2026, whether a costed implementation plan exists for the national model of care for obesity; the estimated total funding required for full implementation; the funding allocated to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50982/26]

743. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health given that the obesity policy and action plan covers the period 2016 to 2025, the policy or framework that will succeed it from 2026; whether such successor policy has been adopted; and the date of its publication. [50983/26]

744. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to previous parliamentary questions on national targets for reducing obesity-attributable type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease incidence, whether the next obesity policy and action plan will contain the measurable targets for reducing the incidence of obesity-attributable type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, as distinct fro…

745. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health for an update on a matter regarding prescription medication for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51005/26]

746. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health whether she intends to make a device (details supplied) reimbursable for people with diabetes type 2, as those with type 1 have access to reimbursement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51013/26]