Parliamentary questions

997. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health her plans to improve trauma services at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown. [45751/26]

998. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of bone marrow samples sent to Germany for specialist testing in the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, by referring hospital; the median turnaround time for results to be returned and the annual expenditure on same for those same years, in tabular form. [45776/26]

999. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health to review an application for a primary medical cert (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45779/26]

1000. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if a medication (details supplied) is a reimbursable medication under the drugs payment scheme; the qualifying criteria a patient must meet in order to be approved for reimbursement of this medication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45780/26]

1001. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of mobile and temporary blood donation clinics that have been held each year for the past five years and to the end of May 2026, in tabular form. [45781/26]

1002. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health for an update on her Department's legislative and policy reform agenda as regards medicinal cannabis. [45783/26]

1003. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health if she will commit to investment to deliver a neurology service for Tipperary University Hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45787/26]

1004. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health the actions her Department has undertaken to examine the feasibility of expanding access to the shingles vaccine to over 65s; the timeline for the rollout of such a programme; if a phased rollout has been considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45807/26]

1005. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national register, exclusion list, restriction mechanism or equivalent system exists to prevent agency or locum healthcare workers who have been removed from an HSE-funded site due to performance, conduct, safeguarding or patient safety concerns from being placed at another HSE-funded site; and if she will make a statement on the m…

1006. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of agency or locum healthcare workers who were removed from assignments within HSE-funded services due to performance, conduct, safeguarding or patient safety concerns in each of the years from 2020 to 2025; the number that were subsequently permitted to undertake assignments elsewhere within HSE-funded services; and if she will mak…

1007. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she can assist in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45841/26]

1008. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health when she expects the HSE to confirm urgent access to givinostat for boys living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45878/26]

1009. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department intends to establish national targets for reducing obesity-attributable type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease incidence; the timeline for doing so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45885/26]

1010. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the performance indicators that are currently used to measure the effectiveness of national obesity policy and obesity treatment services; and if she will provide the most recent results available for each indicator. [45886/26]

1011. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a costed implementation plan exists for the National Model of Care for Obesity; the estimated funding required for full implementation; the funding allocated to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45887/26]

1012. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department, the HSE or any agency under their remit has estimated the annual cost of medicines wastage to the State in each year from 2020 to 2026; if so, the methodology used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45890/26]

1013. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the nationwide unused medicines return and disposal service recently announced will include the collection and publication of data on the quantity, type and estimated value of medicines returned annually; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45891/26]

1014. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any value-for-money review, audit, assessment or research has been undertaken since 2020 regarding medicines wastage, over-prescribing, non-adherence to treatment, repeat prescribing or unused medicines; and if they will provide details of any such work. [45892/26]

1015. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any national dataset recording medicines returned for disposal through community pharmacies; if not, whether such a dataset will be established under the new nationwide medicines return scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45893/26]

1016. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national targets, key performance indicators or reduction objectives have been established in relation to medicines wastage; if not, whether consideration is being given to introducing such targets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45894/26]

1017. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the position regarding a drug for people living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (details supplied); the outcome of the HSE Drug’s Group meeting on 10 June 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45899/26]

1018. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of a successor to the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026; if she will hold a public consultation to inform its development; if so, the manner in which this public consultation will be held; if there will be an open call for submissions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45900/26]

1019. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her Department is aware of other areas of medicine which are not available in Irish private hospitals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45905/26]

1020. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if a consultant is still performing certain surgeries in a hospital (details supplied); if the clinical director nominated an appropriately qualified individual to the Independent Expert Review commissioned by the Serious Incident Review Team (SIRT) committee; if the Independent Expert Review has commenced; the timeline being worked towards; …

1021. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the manner in which consultants on public-only consultant contracts (POCC) and those on the non-POCC are rostered in the Rotunda Maternity Hospital, the National Maternity Hospital and the Coombe Hospital during the week and at weekends; if separate rosters are in place during both the week and the weekend (details supplied); and if she will …