239. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of an eating disorder team for Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24094/25]
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240. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she will review the enforcement of legislation prohibiting the use of sunbeds by persons under the age of 18, in light of reports that sunbed operators are accepting false identification or failing to request any proof of age; if his Department will undertake inspections or awareness campaigns to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the ma…
241. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health to indicate how the recent funding announcement of €1.89 million through the Community Service Enhancement Fund will be distributed, and whether it will be allocated to community-based drug area task forces or to the HSE directly. [24098/25]
993. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on progress towards banning the sale of hexahydrocannabinol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23549/25]
994. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that due to delays in funding approval for certain service users, an organisation (details supplied) must pay out of pocket to provide meals and that there is no mechanism by which the organisation can back-date funding once approval comes through; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23983/25]
995. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the hospital transport budget for all hospitals in the south-east and mid-west regions; the qualifying criteria for patients availing of hospital transport; the application process for hospital transport; the way in which a wheelchair user can avail of their own transport; the supports available to a patient who must seek their transport; the way in which they …
996. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the level of expenditure on hospital transport provided to members of the Travelling community from Tipperary; if members of the Travelling community are automatically supplied with hospital transport when transport services are restricted for most patients; the level of expenditure on hospital transport being provided to IPAS or BOTP residents in Tipperary ove…
997. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the services and treatment options that are available for people with a disease (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23177/25]
998. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care centre for An Cheathrú Rua, County Galway; when the business case will be completed; and if the details for the business case will be done by the end of May 2025. [23178/25]
999. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23182/25]
1000. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation regulating medical advertising and labelling, in particular the legislation regulating what health and medical claims sellers can make about their products. [23187/25]
1001. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health to clarify the innovation and economic growth section of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland; whether she views the “diverse range of clinical disease characteristics” in Ireland as an opportunity for private profit-making; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23193/25]
1002. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health in light of reports that individuals’ genomic data may be at risk when private companies responsible for generating and storing the data are in distress (details supplied), the reason the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland makes no reference to either retaining genomic services in public ownership or bringing priva…
1003. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health in light of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine’s commitment to building the genetics and genomics workforce for the future, for details of engagements with the Department of Further Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science regarding raising PhD stipends in the life sciences to the living wage and granting PhD st…
1004. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and psychology service staff currently working at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23204/25]
1005. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason the recent announcement by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) on the recruitment of additional staff does not include any additional paramedic posts for the west/north-west region; if she will give a firm assurance that people living in the west/north-west region are being provided with the same level of service from the NAS as people livin…
1006. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1568 of 19 March 2025, if she will review this case again where a child (details supplied) has been on a waiting list for orthodontic care since 2019 and has been advised that will likely to be 2027 before this child can get an appointment.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23224/25]
1007. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no permanent psychiatry expertise or consultants available on a 24-7 basis to address emergency psychiatry admissions of patients under 18 years at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, and to treat patients under 18 years in crisis who are referred by their GP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23243/25]
1008. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an appointment with CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23248/25]
1009. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of times has the State Claims Agency paid the legal costs and-or compensation incurred by a private company such as a clinic (details supplied) in each of the past ten years; and amount that has been paid out by the State Claims Agency for legal costs and-or compensation for a private company in each of the past ten years. [23257/25]
1010. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of non-invasive pregnancy test providers that supply the Irish market; the number of these that are located abroad; the number of these that do not have a doctor who engages with clients; the number that do not have a nurse who engage with clients; the regulations in place to ensure that these non-invasive prenatal testing providers have a doctor who…
1011. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of prescription weight loss drug providers that supply the Irish market; the number of these that are located abroad; the number of these that do not have a doctor who engages with clients; the number that do not have a nurse who engage with clients; the number that provide a prescription on the basis of a website form; the number for which regulatio…
1012. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Health if any further steps are planned to resolve the impact vaping is having on our young people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23276/25]
1013. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Health the number of cases of spiking that have been reported in the past five years, per county; including reports to hospitals and gardaí, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23280/25]
1014. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide further details regarding the traction system referred to in HIQA’s review on governance of implantable medical devices at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), including use of non-CE marked springs in surgery at CHI Temple Street (details supplied); the number of children it was used on; if it was CE marked; and if she will make a statement on the matter…