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Liam Quaide Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
801. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health her plans to expand access to naloxone for frontline health workers in order to help reduce drug deaths; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15684/25]
Liam Quaide Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
802. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the total spend by the HSE on independent and privately run mental health services, outside the Irish State, from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [15699/25]
Jen Cummins Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
803. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the financial assistance or grants available for persons with prosthetic eyes. [15707/25]
Liam Quaide Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
804. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the cost of phase 2 of the HSE’s hospital performance visualisation platform. [15712/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
805. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 19 February 2025, given that the National Gender Service is unable to provide any examples of companies that have operated in contravention of Irish Medical Council Guidelines, if it will commit to no longer indicating that compliance issues exist. [15721/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
806. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, if the National Gender Service can explain what local reference ranges are, and their relevance. [15722/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
807. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, given the National Gender Service indicated the 600 pmol/L is arbitrary and lacks evidence, if it plans to remove it from their endocrine guidelines; and if not, the basis on which for doing so. [15723/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
808. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, given the National Gender Service indicates that it cannot reliably quantify the potential for risk and benefit, to outline the National Gender Service’s best estimate of the false negative and false positive rate of its assessment process. [15724/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
809. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 19 February 2025, if she will provide a list of all training sessions and other meetings the National Gender Service had with the Northern Irish health services, including the date, and purpose of the meeting, in tabular form. [15725/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
810. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 19 February 2025, if she will provide a list of all radio and TV interviews by staff of the National Gender Service which were given in their National Gender Service-capacity, in tabular form. [15726/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
811. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of complaints made against St. Columcille's Hospital over the past five years, broken down by year and unit, in tabular form. [15727/25]
Paul Murphy Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
812. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 19 February 2025, the means by which people with lived experience will be involved in the Gender Healthcare programme; and if it will be in line with the Inform, Consult, Discuss or Collaborate degree of engagement in the HSE's Better Together: The Health Services Patient Engagement Roadmap. [15728/25]
Liam Quaide Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
813. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the percentage of social media videos posted on her Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, inclusive. [15743/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
814. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health for her plans to outline her plans to reduce excessive waiting times for accessing genetic counselling services for individuals discharged from hospital care with a genetic diagnosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15747/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
815. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health for what supports exist post-discharge for families dealing with complex medical conditions, particularly regarding feeding difficulties and early intervention; what plans there are to improve post-discharge services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15748/25]
Robert O'Donoghue Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
816. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that terminal cancer patients are being deprioritised for life-saving and urgent treatment in accident and emergency in favour of flu patients, given the critical nature of their condition and the urgency of their care needs; if she will commit to a review of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15765/25]
Robert O'Donoghue Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
817. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Health the current policy is in cancer care centres of excellence regarding the prioritisation of terminal cancer patients requiring life-saving and urgent treatment over patients presenting with non-life-threatening illnesses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15766/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
818. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will conduct a review into a number of inquests and High Court cases (details supplied); if not, her reasoning; the research, if any, her Department has undertaken into the role of a technique in avoidable baby deaths since 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15767/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
819. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of investigations and reviews held into serious reportable events in maternity units between 2016 and 2023 which resulted in negative outcomes in terms of patients’ care and staff conduct (details supplied); if she cannot provide this data, to ask the masters of those hospitals to provide said data in respect of outcomes; and if she will make a stateme…
Pádraig Rice Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
820. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the basis for the HSE’s current definition of perinatal mortality rate for the purposes of inclusion on maternity patient safety statements (details supplied); the body that agreed this definition; the reason for this limited definition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15769/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
821. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if there are any regularly updated public-facing data sources that can be easily accessed by members of the public which state the number of babies under 2.5 kilogrammes, regardless of whether they had a congenital anomaly or not, that died in any given month, on a monthly basis and on a hospital-by-hospital basis; if so, the name of this data source; the reason …
Pádraig Rice Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
822. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the total number of primary care centres in the State, by regional health area and integrated healthcare area (details supplied), in tabular form; the number planned for delivery; the number in HSE owned properties; and the number under lease agreement. [15773/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
823. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the rate of yearly rent on each primary care centre under a lease agreement, and the length of each lease agreement, by primary care centre, in tabular form. [15774/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
824. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the strategic review of general practice; the timeline she is working towards for publication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15775/25]
Séamus McGrath Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Health
825. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she plans to give greater statutory recognition and entitlements to women who experience pregnancy loss. [15804/25]