524. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish the underlying actuarial modelling, market projections, and equality assessment used by the Health Insurance Authority in recommending the 2026 stamp-duty increases; and to detail the Department’s own evaluation of affordability risks for policyholders with low or modest incomes. [68918/25]
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525. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has conducted an impact study on the effect of increased stamp duty on private health insurance on hospitals that rely on privately insured patients for elective activity, including expected reductions in private-patient throughput. [68919/25]
532. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the projected total revenue in 2026 from the stamp-duty increase on health-insurance policies, as approved under the Risk Equalisation Scheme; and to provide the Department’s modelling of the expected impact on the Risk Equalisation Fund balance. [68927/25]
533. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department prepared any distributional analysis of the levy increase on households earning between €30,000 and €70,000, including the estimated annual cost per policyholder for adults and children used in internal decision-making. [68928/25]
534. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department conducted any assessment of the potential impact of higher levies on private hospital activity levels, including projected changes in insured patient volumes for 2026 and the expected financial effect on hospitals. [68929/25]
535. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish the Health Insurance Authority’s underlying modelling for the 2026 levy recommendation, including the sensitivity tests relating to premium increases and policyholder retention. [68930/25]
536. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any options were considered to mitigate the effect of the levy increase on policyholders, including phased introduction, reduced levies for child policies, or offsetting measures through tax relief adjustments. [68931/25]
246. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health whether there are any supports for women with endometriosis who received treatment privately before the National Endometriosis Framework; and her plans to introduce reimbursements for women who have had to pay for treatments which are now covered. [68227/25]
250. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health if her Department will formally classify endometriosis as a specific, complex chronic disease under the long-term illness scheme or an equivalent support mechanism (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68261/25]
255. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health her views on the creation of a non-means tested audiology entitlement for persons born deaf; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68281/25]
269. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the extent to which the community connect programme will include ethnic minority identifiers and the status of the system configuration phase. [68444/25]
522. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the services and organisations that will be supported by a project (details supplied); the amount each service or organisation will receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67335/25]
523. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the circumstances under which the National Gender Services requires parents to attend assessments of adult patients. [67336/25]
524. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the proportion of the National Gender Service's initial assessments for which the attendance of parents is requested. [67337/25]
529. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the action she will take to ensure a person (details supplied) receives the diagnostic testing they need promptly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67352/25]
545. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of children travelling to Britain for paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant surgery, by year, from 2015 to date in 2055. [67495/25]
546. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the cost to the State of sending a child to a British hospital for paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant surgery. [67496/25]
547. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the supports which are available to families from the HSE having to travel to Britain for paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant surgery. [67497/25]
548. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the actions her Department has taken to encourage CHI to adopt the findings and advice of the repatriation of paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant services to Ireland: a Health Technology Assessment – February 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67498/25]
549. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health to publish all correspondence between her Department and CHI relating to the implementation of the findings and advice of the repatriation of paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant services to Ireland: a Health Technology Assessment – February 2023. [67499/25]
550. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the financial supports and logistical supports which are available to families upon the death of a child family member at a health facility abroad, for whom that child had been referred to treatment by health services in Ireland. [67500/25]
551. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the financial supports and logistical supports which are available to families upon the death of an adult family member at a health facility abroad, for whom that adult had been referred to treatment by health services in Ireland. [67501/25]
552. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the precise process following the publication of a HIQA health technology assessment report that makes specific findings and advice to the HSE and her Department, relating to the consideration and implementation or otherwise, of those findings and advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67502/25]
556. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Health the number of children who were scheduled for scoliosis treatment or surgery in either Britain or the US for the period of January 2025 to November 2025; and the number who are scheduled for such treatment or surgery in either Britain or the US over the next three months. [67530/25]
560. Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the results of a pilot project (details supplied); if her Department has further plans to extend this pilot in other areas across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67545/25]