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Showing questions asked by Paul Murphy under the heading Gender Recognition.

25 questions match, newest first.

Paul Murphy Written 10 Dec 2025 · to Health
328. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the exact number of representatives with direct lived experience who are on the working group for the National Clinical Programme for Gender Healthcare. [70648/25]
Paul Murphy Written 10 Dec 2025 · to Health
329. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of all interim care options being considered by the HSE while the HSE's transgender model of care is being developed. [70649/25]
Paul Murphy Written 10 Dec 2025 · to Health
330. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if she will commit to the trans community being consulted before implementing any interim care options while the HSE's transgender model of care is being developed. [70650/25]
Paul Murphy Written 10 Dec 2025 · to Health
331. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if she will confirm that the clinician in the recording mentioned during the trans healthcare Dáil debate on 3 December 2025 (details supplied) has no involvement in the National Clinical Programme for Gender Healthcare, including as a member of the working group or clinical advisory group. [70651/25]
Paul Murphy Written 7 May 2025 · to Health
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]
Paul Murphy Written 7 May 2025 · to Health
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…
Paul Murphy Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Health
410. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health to provide the exact number of children on hormone blockers in Ireland currently. [10349/25]
Paul Murphy Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Health
411. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of children in Ireland who have had gender-affirming surgery. [10350/25]
Paul Murphy Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Health
412. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of children who were referred abroad for gender affirming surgery; and where exactly they are being referred to. [10351/25]
Paul Murphy Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Health
413. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of children being prescribed gender affirming hormones in Ireland. [10352/25]
Paul Murphy Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Health
414. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of adults being prescribed gender affirming hormones in Ireland. [10353/25]
Paul Murphy Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Health
415. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if the Gender Service instructed GPs in Ireland to stop hormone testing for trans people. [10354/25]
Paul Murphy Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Health
416. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health whether the free HRT scheme apply to trans women; and the criteria that will be used to make the assessment. [10355/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
224. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 816 of 22 October 2024, the reason the planning for the development of the new transgender HSE Model of Care does not include any patient representative groups. [6640/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
225. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 817 of 22 October 2024, the specific international guidelines on the management of transgender persons the transgender clinic in University Hospital Galway was referring to regarding hormone targets and weight. [6641/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
226. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1439 of 22 January 2025, if the National Gender Service can provide a list of the companies and services that have operated in contravention of Irish Medical Council guidelines; which specific guidelines they contravened; and if the Irish Medical Council guidelines apply to each of these companies and services, in tabular form…
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
227. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1439 of 22 January 2025, if there is no risk associated with hormone concentrations, the reason page ten of the National Gender Service’s ‘Recommendations for Endocrine Care in the National Gender Service’ version 3.0 warn about the risks of thromboembolic disease for oestrogen concentrations over 600 pmol/L. [6643/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
228. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1440 of 22 January 2025, the page number and exact text from each of the referenced documents that indicate that puberty blockers have led to bone fractures, in tabular form. [6644/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
229. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if the common issue of transgender people being denied key blood tests by their GPs will be in scope for the Model of Care being developed by the HSE. [6645/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
230. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health when the National Gender Service's meetings with the Northern Irish health services started; and when was the most recent meeting. [6646/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
231. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of transgender youth who initiated puberty blockers and or HRT in Children's Hospital Ireland at Crumlin since the start of 2021, by year, in tabular form. [6647/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
232. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that while employed to develop the HSEs transgender model of care, staff of the programme have written to GPs discouraging them from providing essential blood tests for their transgender patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6648/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
233. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if the National Gender Service can provide a source for the claim by their staff in a recent interview (details supplied) that in the UK and other countries there is approximately a four to one gender ratio for transgender youth coming forward. [6649/25]
Paul Murphy Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
234. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the reason the National Gender Service listed the clinical lead of the HSEs Gender Healthcare Programme as a contact for informal enquiries in a recent job posting for a senior medical social worker. [6650/25]
Paul Murphy Written 22 Jan 2025 · to Social
865. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection when the annual report under section 6 of the Gender Recognition Act for 2023 will be published. [46843/24]