Parliamentary questions

1105. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the current status of the HSE’s pause on the recruitment of physician associates; the reason for the continued delay in completing the review of the PA role; the expected timeline for publication of this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9855/26]

1106. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the number of physician associate graduates from the 2024 and 2025 cohorts who remain unable to take up employment in the HSE due to the recruitment pause; the measures being considered to support these graduates pending the completion of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9856/26]

1107. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the way in which the pause in physician associate recruitment aligns with current workforce planning needs, including pressures on emergency departments, waiting lists, and consultant and NCHD staffing shortages; the role envisaged for PAs in addressing these challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9857/26]

1108. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if an urgent case (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9858/26]

1109. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health the action that is being taken in relation to the fact that infant formula that was removed from shelves across Europe was also sold in Ireland, despite assurances to the contrary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9878/26]

1110. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to increase GP recruitment and retention in areas of population growth, including Blessington, Co. Wicklow; the supports available for those currently on GP waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9883/26]

1111. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE have carried out an internal review or investigation into the impact of the three-day waiting period provision within the existing abortion legislation, including input from women who continued their pregnancies after an initial consultation about abortion with a GP; and if she will make a statement on the ma…

1112. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health to report on current number of people opting out of organ donation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9899/26]

1113. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health her views on plans the HSE has to increase organ donations in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9900/26]

1114. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health to report on the most current organ donation refusal rate and consent rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9901/26]

1115. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health to report on the most common reason stated for refusing to donate organs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9902/26]

1116. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health to report on the average wait time for a transplant, by organ for the most recent data available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9903/26]

1117. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health to report on the current number of people awaiting transplant by organ; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9904/26]

1118. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health to report on the number of people for most recent data available who were removed from the transplant wait list for reasons other than receiving a transplant and then died within 90 days of removal from the list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9905/26]

1119. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has any centrally approved governance, compliance, or safeguarding framework applicable to non-statutory bodies that receive direct funding from her Department, excluding bodies funded through or overseen by the HSE; and if not, to state when the absence of such a framework was last examined by her Department and the rea…

1120. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the minimum governance, reporting, and compliance standards are required by her Department to be applied by departmental line units when overseeing non-statutory bodies funded directly by her Department, excluding HSE-funded bodies; whether those standards are set out in written Departmental policy or guidance; and how her Department assures c…

1121. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health what risk assessment, safeguarding assurance, and service-quality oversight mechanisms are operated directly by her Department in respect of non-statutory bodies receiving direct Departmental funding, separate from financial audit, expenditure controls, or post-hoc review by the Comptroller and Auditor General. [10008/26]

1122. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has carried out any internal review, audit, or evaluation since 2020 of the adequacy of its governance and oversight arrangements for non-statutory bodies funded directly by her Department; and if so, to provide the date of each review, the scope of the review, and the principal findings. [10009/26]

1123. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if it has been brought to her attention that there is a gross lack of nursing home vacancies in the Mid-West region and that many families are finding it impossible to secure places for ill or disabled relatives that require full nursing home care; her plans to alleviate the situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10044/26…

1124. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the number of orders for detention in places of care sought from the High Court by the HSE in 2023, 2024 and 2025 through a firm (details supplied); and the related public expenditure. [10046/26]

1125. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health the services that are available for a child who has a brain tumour and requires a full-time nurse while attending preschool; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10113/26]

1126. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health for a further update with regard to a reply received to a query regarding a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a much-needed hip replacement. [10123/26]

1127. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the level of funding provided to the national treatment purchase fund in 2026, by funding purpose; if there is a stay on funding for outsourcing or any other service provided, or organised by, or through the national treatment purchase fund in general, or for any specific institutions, clinics, or provider otherwise, in tabular form; if so…

1128. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the reason funding is not available to Tallaght University Hospital for outsourcing inpatient procedures through the National Treatment Purchase Fund; whether this is due to funding not been sanctioned for the year; if there is a reason the hospital is prevented from accessing such funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. […

1129. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under her remit. [10157/26]