Questions

804. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health her views on the adequacy of dementia and Alzheimer's care in south Dublin; and on the need for HSE-led day care services for people with dementia in south Dublin. [16356/26]

808. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently arrange the necessary services required by a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16361/26]

848. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the criteria used by the Health Service Executive to define and measure “success” in respect of outcomes arising from elective surgical procedures performed in public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16536/26]

849. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive maintains a comprehensive national record of mortality and morbidity data associated with elective surgical procedures carried out within the public health system; the format in which such data are collected and reported; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16537/26]

850. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal policies, protocols, or governance frameworks in place within the Health Service Executive governing the management and remediation of complications arising from elective surgical procedures performed in Ireland, including the funding and oversight arrangements for remedial treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16538/26]

856. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently intervene in the case of a person (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16610/26]

857. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health if she will outline the drawdown of items in Beaumont Hospital in the 2025 Capital Plan (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16621/26]

858. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16626/26]

866. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department to reach out to this family and make sure the situation is resolved. [16647/26]

926. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16968/26]

964. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health when the temporary respite house at Fenagh, County Leitrim will be fully prepared and available for occupancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17171/26]

475. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will expedite the provision of a new maternity unit at University Hospital Kerry given the clinical risks to both mother and baby due to the location of the existing unit, which is quite a distance from the operating theatre; if this urgent and necessary facility be progressed in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15658/26]

476. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to expedite the development of the new 108-bed block on the campus of University Hospital Kerry, which will significantly help address the overcrowding in the accident and emergency department, along with the trolley crisis at the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15661/26]

478. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health her current plans to ensure that those on the standard public service sick leave scheme due to contracting Long Covid can gain access to other HSE schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15670/26]

489. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of the expansion of cardiac rehabilitation services for HSE West and North-west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15696/26]

523. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a formal methodological review, evidence appraisal, or structured policy evaluation of international clinical guidance, including the WPATH Standards of Care, was undertaken between 2018 and 2023 prior to adoption or application within Irish healthcare services; if so, to provide the title and date of such review; and if not, to explain the basis upon whic…

525. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal interim clinical governance arrangements, safeguards, or policy instructions currently apply to gender healthcare services for children and adolescents pending completion of the updated national Model of Care; whether any written direction, circular, or instruction has issued since publication of the Cass review; and if she will make a statement on the …

526. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to specify the statutory authority, national clinical guideline, or formally approved policy framework under which gender healthcare services for minors are currently delivered within the public health system; the date on which that framework was approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15854/26]

592. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of External Governance Reviews undertaken pursuant to Sections 38 and 39 of the Health Act 2004 between 2022 and 2024 that identified material financial, governance, procurement, safeguarding or internal control deficiencies; the number in each year that resulted in enhanced monitoring arrangements, revised service level agreements, funding conditions o…

594. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether all non-statutory bodies in receipt of direct HSE funding, including those in receipt of less than €3 million annually, are subject to a structured governance review cycle; and if not, the criteria used to determine inclusion or exclusion. [15986/26]

604. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide a current hospital-by-hospital list of all publicly funded chronic pain management services; to specify in respect of each hospital whether a dedicated multidisciplinary chronic pain service is in operation; to detail the disciplines available within each service, including pain medicine consultants, psychology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and n…

606. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients, by Health Region, referred outside their region of residence in the past 24-months due to the absence of a local chronic pain service or insufficient local capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16017/26]

608. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether all publicly funded chronic pain services operate in accordance with a nationally approved clinical model mandating multidisciplinary care; if not, to identify which services do not meet such standards; and the timeframe for compliance. [16019/26]

614. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the evaluation of the iPain Centre pilot at Beaumont Hospital has been completed; the date on which it was finalised; whether the evaluation has been submitted to her Department; whether she will publish the evaluation report in full; the total Sláintecare Integration Innovation Fund allocation provided to the project over its three-year pilot period; the …

618. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has approved a workforce planning model quantifying the additional whole-time-equivalent occupational therapy posts required in Cork South-West primary care services to achieve a maximum waiting time of 12-weeks for adults and children; and if she will provide the number of additional posts identified under that model. [16034/26]