Questions

1238. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the name, grade and unit of the official within her Department, and separately within the HSE, who holds responsibility for clinical, as distinct from financial, outcome monitoring of procedures funded under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64752/26]

1241. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any record of clinical outcomes, including complications, readmissions or mortality, for patients treated under the treatment abroad scheme; if so, to provide those data in tabular form for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64751/26]

1242. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals under the treatment abroad scheme in each of the past five years that have been suspended, restricted, reviewed or escalated on grounds of clinical outcome, standard of care or patient safety, as distinct from cost or eligibility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64750/26]

1244. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health Ireland's position in EU negotiations on the proposed introduction of maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements and whether Ireland will seek to defer any agreement on such levels until the most up-to-date scientific evidence has been assessed. [64731/26]

1245. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the status of the roll out of Skyclarys (omaveloxolone) for patients with Friedreich's ataxia; the reason for delays following re-imbursement approval; when eligible patients can expect to access the treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64785/26]

1246. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health for an update on an application for pricing and reimbursement (details supplied); if engagement with clinicians, patient organisations and other stakeholders has taken place, or is intended; and if timely access to this drug will be ensured for those who require it. [64800/26]

1247. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of fillings that took place under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [64803/26]

1248. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of extractions that took place under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [64802/26]

1251. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 691 of 28 May and 723 of 14 July 2026, to specify the stakeholder and advocacy group representatives who fed into the work led by the HSE Quality Improvement Lead on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services consultant post concerned; and to confirm whether any external advocacy input, as distinct from documented clini…

1252. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total number of approved treatments that took place under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [64805/26]

1253. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of dental cleanings that took place under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [64804/26]

1254. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of a case (details supplied); if there is a comprehensive explanation for the significant delay in emergency service availability to the child following the accident; and what, if any, efforts are ongoing to ensure such delays do not occur in the future. [64834/26]

1256. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure urgent access to welireg (belzutifan) for people with von Hippel-Lindau disease. [64863/26]

1257. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the details of any contracts in place between her Department and agencies under her remit with a company (details supplied) known to have provided material support to the IDF in Gaza, which the Government considers to be guilty of genocide, since 2023. [64859/26]

1263. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the reason the company which has the contract for printing medical cards has been unable to do so for over a month; the reason medical card holders are being asked to download the HSE application in lieu of a physical card; when the printing of medical cards will resume; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64916/26]

1264. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health for an update on staffing numbers in the primary care centre in Cherry Orchard; the number of vacancies per post; the waiting times for child psychology, child occupational therapy and child physiotherapy; and the number of children waiting for each of these services, by month, in tabular form. [64589/26]

1266. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the number of specialised coronary care beds provided in UHG, CUH, UHL, the Mater, St. James's and St. Vincent's hospitals that have real-time telemetry monitoring connected at bed to a live critical care unit, CCU, monitoring station. [64881/26]

1267. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July or [56368/26], the total number of nursing and midwifery staff recruited internationally by HSE services outside the national frameworks in 2023, 2024 and 2025, given the reply's own caveat that framework data does not capture direct international recruitment by services. [64878/26]

1268. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health when personnel in the National Ambulance Service, including paramedics, will receive the agreed pay increase and back pay that is due. [64879/26]

1269. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health If she will provide an update on the construction and refurbishment works at St. Christopher's Hospice, Cavan; and if she will confirm the expected completion date and opening timeline. [64890/26]

1270. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July 2026, the specific measures in place to ensure that the domestic supply of nurses and midwives is expanding at a rate sufficient to replace the fall in international recruitment, including the projected domestic graduate output for each year to 2028. [64877/26]

1271. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 28 July 2026, the assessment her Department has made of the impact of this reduction on nursing and midwifery staffing levels, including any effect on vacancy rates and safe staffing frameworks. [64875/26]

1273. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, of the consultants recorded as being on POCC23 terms, the number who are new appointees; and the number who transferred from a previous contract, in each year since the introduction of the contract. [64873/26]

1274. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, the evidential basis for attributing the change in outpatient and day case activity to the public-only consultant contract; to confirm whether elective inpatient discharges fell by 8.3% between 2019 and 2025, as reported; and, if so, the reason for that reduction. [64872/26]

1275. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that the reduction of income to public maternity hospitals as a result of the ending of private maternity care will be offset and not result in a reduction in hospital budgets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64946/26]