408. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Health if any review has been carried out on the fair deal scheme, its effectiveness in providing care to the elderly and infirm, the assessed value for money of the scheme and any gaps in the scheme, such as where it affects the future or current care needs of another individual in the family, that she plans to address; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22…
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409. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has investigated the costs associated with providing the student population with free HIV rapid testing and PrEP on-campus; if she intends to provide this service to students and the costs associated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22788/25]
410. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has investigated the costs associated with providing the student population with free HIV rapid testing and PrEP on-campus; if she intends to provide this service to students and the costs associated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22788/25]
411. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if her Department will assist in ensuring that a person (details supplied) who is due to age out of CAMHS in July, receives a clear transition plan as a matter of urgency. [22024/25]
412. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health for an update on a primary care centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22026/25]
413. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health if there are plans for €1.4 million in additional annual funding on a rolling basis for St. Lukes Home, Cork CLG; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22040/25]
414. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to carry out an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; if so when this inquiry will be carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22044/25]
415. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health in relation to home care assistants providing home support services, the official policy of the HSE in relation to home care assistants providing assistance with eating and drinking to clients with physical limitations on feeding; when, in what circumstances and on what terms, such assistance may be provided within each individual CHO, in tabular form; the …
416. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a case in which a death certificate has not been issued to the family of the deceased over a year after their passing (details supplied); if she will instruct her Department to investigate the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22060/25]
417. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if it has been brought to her attention that the dispensing fee for HRT is less than that allocated to the contraception scheme (details supplied); to consider increasing the HRT to match the contraception scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22066/25]
418. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 19 February 2025, if the Gender Healthcare Programme considers that there may be a conflict of interest given previous advice given by its staff outside the context of programme to GPs, and if so how they plan on managing that conflict. [22070/25]
419. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 447 of 6 March of 2025, that given it has been previously stated that there's no requirement for the Gender Healthcare Programme to be aligned with the approach of any particular organisation, the reason the model described for prescribing gender hormone therapy for adults is that of just one particular organisation of the man…
420. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 806 of 1 April 2025, given that hormone levels can guide dosage increase treatment decisions, would advising GPs to not monitor hormone levels for their trans patients make it difficult for their prescribing clinicians to make treatment decisions. [22072/25]
421. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 858 of 1 April 2025, the reason the Gender Healthcare programme chose the consult model for engagement, rather than discuss or collaborate. [22073/25]
422. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1576 of 17 January 2023, for an update on the design of the Gender Healthcare Programme's stakeholder engagement plan. [22074/25]
423. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health for the current status and timeline of the National Gender Service moving to a new location. [22075/25]
424. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if she will examine an application by a person (details supplied) for a ACC device; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22076/25]
425. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently approve home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22096/25]
426. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health her plans to fund a paediatric rheumatologist for CHO4; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22099/25]
427. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of complaints made against a service (details supplied) over the past five years, by year and unit, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22110/25]
428. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health for details of the 286 letters mislaid by a hospital administration in early 2021, including if any of those were referrals; if this affected the National Gender Service, and any patient impact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22111/25]
429. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health if allocation space for the National Gender Service in the Vista Building has been approved by HSE Estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22112/25]
430. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the position regarding any research carried out by her Department into the cost of further expanding the medical card to all people over the age of 70; her views on the merits of this proposition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22114/25]
431. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health the average wait time for a call out by the pest control service, run by the HSE for Dublin, following a sighting being logged. [22115/25]
432. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health the number of cases dealt with by the pest control service run by the HSE for Dublin, in 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22116/25]