Parliamentary questions

1028. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the health system for prolonged emergency department stays for people in mental health crisis, including security costs, extended bed occupancy and delayed discharge. [4281/26]

1029. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the average cost per patient of an emergency department mental health presentation compared with community-based crisis intervention. [4282/26]

1030. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of providing a dedicated mental health emergency room in each model 3 and model 4 hospital. [4283/26]

1031. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of hospitals which are currently without mental health assessment spaces and the estimated cost of bringing each into compliance with Mental Health Commission standards. [4284/26]

1032. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of sanctioned mental health posts in emergency and liaison services which remain unfilled and the associated underspend. [4285/26]

1033. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the projected cost of expanding child and adolescent mental health liaison services to operate on a 24-basis in emergency departments. [4286/26]

1034. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding the role of Model 2 hospitals in providing mental health crisis assessment and short-stay care. [4287/26]

1035. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the amount of the mental health budget announced in each of the past three budgets that was not spent; and the reasons for any underspend. [4288/26]

1036. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health if she will clarify whether personal data held by her Department and its customer-facing sections is subject to processing by artificial intelligence tools (details supplied). [4304/26]

1037. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health if she and or her officials have conducted a data protection impact assessment with regards to the use of artificial intelligence tools, and, if so, the dates on which this assessment was conducted. [4309/26]

1038. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health , further to the response to Parliamentary Question No. 958 of 18 November 2025, the number of babies that were born alive after abortion procedures in cases where neither major congenital anomaly nor extreme prematurity, at 22 weeks or earlier, were involved; the protocols and actions or interventions which were followed to protect the bab…

1039. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health , further to the response to Parliamentary Question No. 958 of 18 November 2025, to provide a copy of the established national guidance documents mentioned as being followed when a baby is born showing signs of life after abortion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4314/26]

1040. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of wholetime equivalent, WTE, consultant dermatologists based at Tallaght University Hospital as of 12 January 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4317/26]

1041. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO 7 awaiting home help services as of 12 January 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4318/26]

1042. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of wholetime, WTE, consultant paediatric nephrologists based at CHI Crumlin in 2024 and 2025 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4319/26]

1043. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented to the accident and emergency department at Children's Health Ireland, CHI, Crumlin over each day of the recent Christmas and new year period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4320/26]

1044. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if she will add inflammatory bowel disease to the list of conditions for inclusion in the long-term illness scheme; if she will describe the criteria deployed under the terms of the Health Act 1970 to include a condition within the ambit of the scheme; if she will agree that the typical experience of patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative c…

1045. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health to confirm if HSE Dublin and North East health region is the new name for CH09; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4337/26]

1046. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health to confirm the areas covered by HSE Dublin and North East health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4338/26]

1047. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health an update on the approval status of the drug givinostat; if officials from her Department have been in contact with their counterparts in the North to examine the possibility of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy accessing treatment in the North as an interim measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4348/26]

1048. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the plans to remove the income threshold for access to a medical card for persons over 70 years-of-age in order to ensure universal access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4349/26]

1049. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the special leave with pay scheme and that some form of long-term support will be put in place for these workers, particularly given that approximately 166 employees of the HSE are affected by long-Covid since 2020 as a result of working on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she w…

1050. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the reason CervicalCheck does not inform a patient which HPV type or the number of HPV types which were found in a patient that tests positive for HPV viruses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4371/26]

1051. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health her plans to expand CervicalCheck screening to include genotyping to identify the specific strains of HPV; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4372/26]

1052. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if she has confidence that CervicalCheck screening covers all high-risk HPV types; how often an evidence review takes place into testing and risk in order to inform screening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4373/26]