1989. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund remote ISL interpreting for patients availing of treatment abroad under the EU Cross-Border Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59555/25]
Topics / Health Service Executive
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsHealth Service Executive
1,008 questions from 120 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
1,008
questions
1,008 written, 0 oral
120
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
7
departments asked
Questions per month
The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.
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| Month | Questions |
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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 |
Who asks, by party
The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.
The TDs who asked most
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The questions
2006. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of the unspent HSE pay allocation, by hospital group and community health organisation, specifying the value of salary funding returned or deferred as a result of staff vacancies. [59640/25]
2008. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has carried out an audit of unfilled HSE posts that have remained vacant for more than six months; and if she will publish the findings of that audit, including financial implications for the Exchequer. [59642/25]
2023. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the company that provides the HSE with Covid and flu leaflets that are distributed to local surgeries; and the amount spent by the HSE on these leaflets. [59740/25]
2032. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health what review, if any, the Health Service Executive has undertaken in relation to the findings and recommendations of the Cass Review on gender identity services for children and young people in the United Kingdom; if that review identified any implications for the provision of similar services in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59889/25]
176. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Health if any recruitment embargos that were in place across the HSE have been lifted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57478/25]
190. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health the reasons the HSE will not fund a treatment for a person (details supplied) without an exceptional funding request to their hospital's regional executive officer which is then brought to the HSE senior leadership team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57512/25]
208. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to confirm if 6,000 funded posts have been left vacant by the HSE in 2025 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57569/25]
209. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the 6,000 funded posts left vacant by the HSE in 2025 (details supplied), by grade and location, in tabular form. [57570/25]
214. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 2 April 2025, the amount spent by the HSE on agency staffing and private recruitment firms to date in 2025, in tabular form; the services to which these payments relate; and the amount paid to each agency and firm. [57575/25]
215. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time agency posts converted to HSE posts in 2024 and to date in 2025, by staff category, in tabular form. [57576/25]
216. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time agency posts expected to be converted to HSE posts in 2026, by staff category, in tabular form. [57577/25]
217. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to reduce the HSE’s reliance on agency staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57578/25]
723. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the details of the correct contacts within the HSE to which a query should be sent (details supplied) to the HSE estates section. [56509/25]
746. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of director and assistant director of nursing positions within the HSE that have been filled since 1 January 2025 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56585/25]
747. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of director and assistant director of nursing positions within the HSE that remain vacant to date; to provide a timeline for when these positions will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56586/25]
829. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of all the HSE owned buildings in County Wexford that are currently for sale or going through a defined process to facilitate a sale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57205/25]
855. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if there are systems in place to alert staff working in HSE facilities when a patient has been convicted of violent or sexual crimes; if they are currently serving a sentence and therefore accompanied by prison officers or have been released from prison, similar to the system in place in the UK’s NHS; if not, if she would consider introducing such a system; and i…
383. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on taxis for patients in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [56398/25]
384. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total acute bed capacity across all section 38 and HSE run hospitals, by year, from 2019 to date in 2025. [56406/25]
385. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of ICU bed capacity across all section 38 and HSE run hospitals, by year, from 2019 to date in 2025. [56407/25]
386. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of high dependency units bed capacity across all section 38 and HSE run hospitals, by year, from 2019 to date in 2025. [56408/25]
387. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total number of operating theatres across HSE and S.38 hospitals, by year, from 2019 to date in 2025. [56409/25]
388. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total number waiting for diagnostic scans across all section 38 and HSE run hospitals at end September 2025 and to date in 2025; and the average and longest length of time waited per speciality. [56410/25]
389. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total number of patients classified as delayed transfers of care across all HSE run and section 38 operated hospitals; and the average and longest length of delayed transfer. [56411/25]