1813. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) who is due to be discharged from a hospital, where the family is not yet ready to receive the person and a carers’ package is not in place; whether respite or other interim supports can be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19062/26]
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1814. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health when she intends to publish the final report of the workforce planning sub-group of the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19084/26]
1815. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the process for public health nurses (PHN's) who have left PHN work but remain on the nursing register and wish to return to public health nursing. [19085/26]
1816. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the way in which public health nurses (PHN's) who have left and wish to return to work as a PHN can be facilitated on a formal structure other than doing agency work, as there is a national transfer panel in place for PHN but this is only for PHN's to move around the country, and is only open to practising PHN's. [19086/26]
1817. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if each of the five health regions have implemented a regional transfer policy between acute and community services; if not, when will this policy be implemented. [19087/26]
1818. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that the HSE recognises and responds to the time-critical nature of Friedreich’s ataxia during the current price negotiations for skyclarys; the way in which the commitments, which are outlined in the National Rare Disease Strategy 2025–2030, and the 2026 IPHA Framework Agreement (which aims for a 180-day decision timeline), ar…
1819. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if the Government intends to refund or directly pay for privately sourced Paediatric Community Nursing Assessment Tool (PCAT) assessments in cases where significant delays exist in the provision of PCAT assessments by the HSE. [19097/26]
1820. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19109/26]
1821. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the State agency or body that is engaged in negotiations with the HSE in respect of the sale and transfer of a building (details supplied). [19126/26]
1822. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health if her Department will send a delegation to participate in the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) fifty-ninth session on 13-17 April 2026 and share the unique journey and positive impacts of Ireland's progress with respect to law, policy and practice on reproductive health and rights in Ireland at associated side-events and panel discu…
1823. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she will explain the legal basis upon which the HSE and National Ambulance Service have departed from a 15 year established practice of offering permanent contracts to paramedics upon successful completion of their training; if she will address concerns that this departure constitutes a breach of the public law doctrine of legitimate expectation for those c…
1824. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the email issued by the National Ambulance Service on 18 December 2025 stating that permanent contracts would be offered to the graduating cohort once their degree results were finalised; if she accepts that this communication constituted an explicit promise of permanent employment; if she will outline the reason this commitment has not been…
1825. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she has assessed the personal, financial, and professional impact on the 76 newly qualified paramedics and others currently in training who relied on the long standing practice of automatic permanent contracts, including those who secured mortgages, started families, or declined other employment opportunities on the basis of this expectation; and if she wil…
1826. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the way in which the decision to withhold permanent contracts aligns with the acknowledged staffing shortages in the National Ambulance Service and the planned expansion of the frontline workforce in 2026; and if she will explain how this decision is compatible with the public interest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19140/26]
1827. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she has evaluated the likely impact of this decision on recruitment and retention within the National Ambulance Service, particularly given the demanding nature of the role and the reliance on trainees who work full time while completing an honours degree; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19141/26]
1828. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she will instruct the HSE and NAS to reverse the decision to withhold permanent contracts from the 76 newly qualified paramedics and to reinstate the long standing practice for all current trainees, in order to uphold the principle of legitimate expectation and ensure workforce stability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19142/26]
1829. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the supply shortages affecting atropine eye drops used in the treatment of progressive myopia in children; the steps being taken to ensure continued access to this treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19150/26]
1830. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce the cost of hearing aids; her views on whether it is fair for an individuall to pay over €4,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19162/26]
1831. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a bus service (details supplied) is facing a reduction of service to only three days a week; if so, the reason for this reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19173/26]
1832. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if, through the HSE West/ North-West Region, she can provide a list of all non-statutory organisations in County Mayo funded to provide the following services for older people by age cohorts 65+ and 75+, the amount of funding provided to each organisation for each service; the basis on which this funding is allocated; the total amount across all organisations …
1833. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if, through the HSE West/ North-West Region, she can provide the number of older people in County Mayo brought from their homes to acute hospitals by the National Ambulance Service in each of the past three years; the number of those living alone; the number of older people discharged from Castlebar Hospital after midnight over this period; the level of capita…
1834. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health the reason for the disparity in discretionary payments under the primary care community services (PCCS) scheme for children with certain eye conditions and/or additional needs who require spectacles; if her attention has been drawn to some families being required to pay in excess of €400 per pair of glasses for young children in certain Community Healthcare Org…
1835. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown, by CHO area, of the discretionary supports available for children under the PCCS scheme; the criteria applied in each area; the number of children supported in each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19192/26]
1836. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the neurology appointment for a person (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19194/26]
1837. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted an assessment of reports from the UK regarding loopholes in the law there which allow for the modifying of disposable devices by adding non-operational charging ports, or including token removable or refillable pods, and their marketing as "reusable"; and if measures will be introduced to avoid similar loopholes in the context of t…