289. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant respiratory physicians based at Kerry University Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30746/25]
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290. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the cost of a 20% increase in clinical training places for medical interns, initial specialist training, higher specialist training and clinical psychology; the number of extra places this would result in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30754/25]
291. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list for Jigsaw in CHO 4 as off 31 May 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30755/25]
292. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors who successfully completed specialist training for general practitioners in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30756/25]
293. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of consultants in critical care employed by the HSE from January 2020 to 31 May 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30757/25]
294. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of wrist surgeries performed at Kerry General Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30758/25]
295. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health when the vaccine injury compensation scheme will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30761/25]
296. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health if measures are being considered and taken to review the criteria that determine the access of adults with spinal muscular atrophy to approved treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30765/25]
297. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within her Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30776/25]
298. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if she will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by her Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €1 million and which failed to reach completion; the value that was written off, for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30806/25]
299. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if she will provide the list of capital projects, by her Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €5 million and which ran over cost in 2023, along with a description of the contract, the initial price and final price provided, in tabular form. [30824/25]
300. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the reason a type of medication (details supplied) is not currently available in Ireland; if consideration will be given to approving the medication urgently in light of the reported benefits to people living with a specific progressive neuromuscular disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30839/25]
301. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to ensure equitable access to treatments for all adults with spinal muscular atrophy, regardless of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30840/25]
302. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to ensure equitable access to treatments for all adults with spinal muscular atrophy, regardless of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30841/25]
303. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of medical card patients seen through the MRI scanner in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan in the past two years. [30843/25]
304. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no pelvis MRI scanning done for medical card holders in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan. [30844/25]
305. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the MRI scans that are done in Navan for medical card holders. [30845/25]
306. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if the adult ADHD HSE service in Cork is currently taking referrals; the current staffing levels for the service; the wait time to be offered an initial appointment; and the wait time for psychology if applicable. [30851/25]
307. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health to outline the progress made to date in delivering the national bioinformatics roadmap, including key milestones achieved; to provide details on the current number of full-time equivalent bioinformaticians employed in the National Genetics and Genomics Office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30875/25]
308. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health to outline the roll-out plan and associated timelines for the genetics data infrastructure roadmap, including expected phases of implementation, target milestones, and how this will support national genomics capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30876/25]
309. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the implementation of the first phase of the national test directory for rare diseases, which was launched in January 2025; whether the directory reflects the priority rare conditions identified by an organisation (details supplied) and clinical experts in the field; to outline the extent of its current usage by clinicians and services; whi…
310. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health if the National Genetics and Genomics Programme has been opened to a formal procurement process involving all competent service providers, both public and commercial; if not, whether preferred bidders have been identified or announced prior to a transparent and competitive tendering process being undertaken in line with public procurement rules; and if she will ma…
311. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will prioritise the provision of an ambulance base in Killorglin, County Kerry; if she will accept that Killorglin town and the mid-Kerry region is a vast, populated area to be without an ambulance base, an area where the population increases dramatically during the summer period, with visitors to the region and to well-known festivals such as the Puck F…
312. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, by area, by length of time, in each of the years 2015 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30903/25]
313. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a HSE directive to home carers prohibiting them from administering medicated cream (such as difene cream) to someone they are caring for; to explain the logic of what we understand is a change in policy; the reason patients are expected to administer medicated creams like this if they are unable to do so themselves, do not have …