Questions

2197. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to increasing funding for smoking cessation services, in view of the large demand for the QUIT services currently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45038/25]

2198. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if her Department plans to establish a CORU register for physiologists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45039/25]

2339. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if she will commission a cost-benefit analysis of a potential policy decision that moves away from procuring insourcing activity in the health service, including any additional investment required to treat the same number of public patients on waiting lists via outsourcing activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45633/25]

2340. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the number of cancer cases that have been diagnosed via insourcing activity between 2021 and 2024; the extent to which cancer appointments have been cancelled because of recent guidance from the Health Service Executive to senior hospital management to immediately limit insourcing activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45634/25]

2341. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health when a policy decision on the future use of insourcing activity in the health service will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45635/25]

2342. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if she will instruct her officials and the HSE to carry out a detailed assessment of the impacts of a phasing out of insourcing activity in the health service, including for patients on hospital waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45636/25]

2343. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to consult all relevant stakeholders in advance of making a policy decision on the future of insourcing activity, including hospital management, patient advocacy groups and insourcing providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45637/25]

2344. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients in each of the years 2021 to 2024 on waiting lists who have received care via insourcing activity, in tabular form; the extent to which this has actively reduced waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45638/25]

338. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health whether women who have undergone surgery and now require support services, including breast protheses, can access those support services with a supplier of their choice, and that the HSE South/Southwest cannot dictate the supplier that they must attend for such services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35097/25]

560. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establishing a baby loss certificate for early pregnancy loss-miscarriage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31607/25]

1466. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health for an update on her plans to implement the Programme for Government commitment to investigate new methods for earlier reimbursement of certain treatments, including early access schemes for rare diseases and cancer medicines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29790/25]

1191. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if she will examine the creation of a national sleep programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24363/25]

744. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health her plans for developing a national genomic processing service; when this will be done; if accredited companies located in Ireland will be included in the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13650/25]