1082. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Health to ask the HSE to provide, in respect of the HSE and the three Limerick wind farm planning applications submitted to Limerick City and County Council and An Coimisiún Pleanála (details supplied), if the HSE received a scoping request for each application; the date on which any such scoping request was received; if the HSE received notification of the plann…
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A subject heading for parliamentary questionsHealth Service Executive
1,008 questions from 120 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
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1,008 written, 0 oral
120
TDs have asked
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Independents counted together
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| January 2025 | 2 |
| February 2025 | 31 |
| March 2025 | 32 |
| April 2025 | 43 |
| May 2025 | 36 |
| June 2025 | 50 |
| July 2025 | 40 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 67 |
| October 2025 | 27 |
| November 2025 | 72 |
| December 2025 | 62 |
| January 2026 | 37 |
| February 2026 | 74 |
| March 2026 | 63 |
| April 2026 | 65 |
| May 2026 | 118 |
| June 2026 | 75 |
| July 2026 | 33 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 45 |
| October 2026 | 36 |
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508. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if patients who are seated in chairs in emergency departments for extended periods such as for more than six-hours are included in the official trolley numbers published by the Health Service Executive; if not , if she will consider introducing a more comprehensive reporting system that records all patients awaiting an inpatient bed including those who are seat…
517. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the average length of time taken for an applicant for a 2024 HSE development post to complete the clearance process before being placed on payroll, the number of applicants currently in clearance for more than 3 months, 6 months and 12 months, and the operational reasons for these delays. [68911/25]
518. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the impact of the 2024–2025 HSE employment control measures on the staffing targets approved for 2024, the number of posts for which recruitment was paused or deferred as a result, and the expected timeline to lift remaining restrictions in order to fill all outstanding development posts. [68912/25]
519. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the performance targets set by her Department for the HSE regarding recruitment timelines for both replacement vacancies and newly funded service development posts, the monthly metrics used to monitor progress toward these targets, the current national performance against each target, and the expected timeframe to eliminate the reported gap of 6,852 funded WTE pos…
520. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted any central review of the number of non-medical circumcisions undertaken in public hospitals in each of the years 2020 to 2025, whether the HSE has provided annual activity reports on this category of elective procedures, and if so when these reports were received. [68914/25]
521. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health when her Department last received from the HSE a cost-impact analysis for elective procedures without medical indication, including non-medical circumcision, identifying total annual theatre time allocated to such procedures and the effect on paediatric surgery waiting lists. [68915/25]
528. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has instructed the HSE to provide monthly reports on 2024 development posts filled by temporary or agency staff; and the date on which these data will be supplied to the Oireachtas as requested. [68922/25]
529. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health when she last met senior HSE officials regarding delays in pre-employment clearances for 2024 development posts, the specific actions now underway to shorten clearance timelines; and the monthly KPIs introduced to monitor improvements. [68923/25]
539. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if dupilumab will be made available through the HSE for the treatment of juvenile eosinophilic oesophagitis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68978/25]
263. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the reason a reply has not been provided to a HSE representation submitted in June 2025 (details supplied); and if she will assist in obtaining a response from the HSE at the earliest opportunity. [68381/25]
245. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth the interactions her Department has had with the HSE in terms of the delivery of increased funding for SLT and OT services for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67548/25]
526. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2647 of 29 July 2025, if any further professional bodies have been asked for representatives for the HSE gender programme; and the professions which are currently represented. [67339/25]
527. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the involvement of trans-representative groups in the HSE gender programme. [67340/25]
590. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total number of surgeries carried out by the HSE, outside of the NTPF, in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025. [67716/25]
602. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 18 May 2023, the progress which has been made since the completion of the remedial works in 2023 (details supplied). [67876/25]
630. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she will arrange an appointment with the HSE (details supplied). [67982/25]
641. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if private practice will take place in the new HSE surgical hubs; if private work has been conducted in the South Dublin Surgical Hub since it opened in February; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68031/25]
643. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to specify the projected date by which duplicate financial reporting requirements between the HSE and voluntary hospitals will be eliminated, and to confirm whether interim milestones have been set for the removal of parallel reporting structures pending full IFMS deployment. [68034/25]
644. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the annual estimated cost of maintaining parallel financial systems in voluntary hospitals, including software licences, staffing time and manual reporting processes, and to set out the projected savings associated with eliminating these duplicated systems. [68035/25]
645. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish the monthly IFMS compliance metrics for statutory sites, including the percentage of sites achieving full utilisation, and to provide the projected compliance rate for voluntary hospitals once deployment begins. [68036/25]
646. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline the savings originally projected in the 2015 business case for the Integrated Financial Management System, to identify the year in which those savings were expected to be realised, and to confirm whether these projections have since been revised. [68037/25]
647. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether participation in the Integrated Financial Management System will be made an explicit condition of annual service-level agreements and the release of Exchequer funding to voluntary hospitals. [68038/25]
648. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether her Department or the HSE has carried out any governance risk assessment relating to voluntary hospitals that have not yet been integrated into the Integrated Financial Management System, and to state whether any such assessment will be published. [68039/25]
649. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline the factors delaying the finalisation of the Integrated Financial Management System rollout schedule for voluntary hospitals, and to provide the expected completion date for full deployment. [68040/25]