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Health 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.

Jan 2025Oct 2026
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MonthQuestions
January 20252
February 202531
March 202532
April 202543
May 202536
June 202550
July 202540
August 20250
September 202567
October 202527
November 202572
December 202562
January 202637
February 202674
March 202663
April 202665
May 2026118
June 202675
July 202633
August 20260
September 202645
October 202636

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.

  • 100% RDR1 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Aontú49 from 2 TDs · 2 seats today
  • Fianna Fáil145 from 28 TDs · 48 seats today
  • Fine Gael72 from 23 TDs · 38 seats today
  • Green Party7 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Independent62 from 9 TDs · 15 seats today
  • Independent Ireland309 from 3 TDs · 4 seats today
  • Labour Party94 from 11 TDs · 11 seats today
  • People Before Profit-Solidarity14 from 2 TDs · 3 seats today
  • Sinn Féin180 from 32 TDs · 39 seats today

The TDs who asked most

Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.

  1. 303
  2. 55
  3. 47
  4. 47
  5. 43
  6. 20
  7. 19
  8. 16

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Debated under the same heading

Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.

The questions

Peadar Tóibín Written 14 Oct 2025 · to Health
887. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid out in compensation by the HSE in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [55223/25]
Carol Nolan Written 14 Oct 2025 · to Health
894. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health to provide details of all contracts entered into by the HSE for the purchase of property or land in County Offaly from 2021 to date in 2025; the total value of such contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55357/25]
Barry Heneghan Written 14 Oct 2025 · to Health
898. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she will provide details of employment opportunities available for people with mild intellectual disabilities within HSE services and hospitals in north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55402/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 14 Oct 2025 · to Health
904. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Health the number of a senior management team who attended an event (details supplied); the cost of travel and accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55439/25]
Alan Kelly Written 7 Oct 2025 · to Health
662. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the details of all contracts that the HSE have entered into for the purchase of lands or buildings here in the years 2023, 2024 and to 1 October 2025. [53487/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 7 Oct 2025 · to Health
670. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Health to outline all contracts entered into by the HSE for the purchase of property and land in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by hospital group and the locations of property and land, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53608/25]
Paula Butterly Written 2 Oct 2025 · to Health
419. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE’s IT payment systems are not fully operational, resulting in delays to small medical supply companies receiving payment for goods and services provided; and when the system will ensure payments are made within 30–40 days, in line with the principle that these payments are made from taxpayers’ money. [52703/25]
Albert Dolan Written 30 Sep 2025 · to Health
889. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 778 of 8 July 2025, the reason the Health Service Executive only began publishing purchase order data for payments over €100,000 on its website from quarter four of 2021 onwards; the reason equivalent reports for the period prior to quarter four 2021 are not available on the HSE’s website; and if he will confirm whether the p…
Albert Dolan Written 30 Sep 2025 · to Health
890. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will publish its procurement related purchase order payment reports (details supplied) in machine-readable formats such as CSV or Excel on a quarterly basis, in line with open data standards; if not, the legal, technical, or operational constraints that prevent compliance with the requirement under S.I. No. 376/2021, which transpos…
Peadar Tóibín Written 30 Sep 2025 · to Health
891. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to provide details if internal HSE audits on consultants' pay identify national treatment purchase fund insourcing or outsourcing payments as having contributed to the breach of public pay policy or extraordinary payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51736/25]
Claire Kerrane Written 30 Sep 2025 · to Health
915. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on a site (details supplied); the HSE plans for the lands retained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51936/25]
Paul Murphy Written 30 Sep 2025 · to Health
928. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has received the risk assessment part of a review (details supplied; and if she will commit to publishing it in full and unredacted. [52024/25]
Duncan Smith Written 30 Sep 2025 · to Health
929. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if delays are occurring across the HSE in regard to the issuing of medical licences; the medical disciplines most impacted by same, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52075/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 25 Sep 2025 · to Health
336. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of all the HSE owned buildings in counties Longford and Westmeath that are currently for sale or going through a defined process to facilitate a sale. [50910/25]
Michael Cahill Written 23 Sep 2025 · to Children
90. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to facilitate the opening of a service (details supplied) on a full-time basis, seven days and nights per week; her views on whether one night of respite care in a five-year period is acceptable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50174/25]
Rory Hearne Written 23 Sep 2025 · to Health
635. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Health for the make-up of audiology service provision in HSE Dublin and North East region, broken down by former LHO area, detailing the number of services provided by the HSE directly, the private sector and charities/voluntary organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49994/25]
Barry Heneghan Written 23 Sep 2025 · to Health
648. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that 'family carer' is formally included as an occupation option on the HSE’s iPass system, given that there are over 500,000 family carers in the State who provide essential care, and given that the system is currently being updated. [50090/25]
Eoghan Kenny Written 23 Sep 2025 · to Health
656. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health if she has been made aware of case of a person (details supplied); the steps the HSE is taking in relation to this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50156/25]
John McGuinness Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Health
348. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing a carer's business plan promised by the HSE, Limerick, relative to a person (details supplied) while they resided in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49416/25]
John Paul O'Shea Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Health
355. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Health if she will consider additional financial supports for community and voluntary organisations including Section 39, Section 56, Section 10 and Section 40 through their annual service level agreements with the HSE to assist with inflation costs & statutory sick pay costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49444/25]
John McGuinness Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Health
361. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the businesses or persons that provide private assessments for children referred by the HSE, relative to determining a diagnosis for autism, ADHD, Asperger's, and, other such conditions; the cost of this service and the amounts paid by the HSE in each of the past five years; if the professional qualifications and standards of those provid…
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Health
367. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of food-business notifications, by county, which have been lodged with HSE environmental health for school meal providers since 2023; the number of on-site and off-site providers; and the number of inspections and enforcement actions taken in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [49513/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Health
369. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish HSE guidance issued to schools on mandatory written allergen information for non-prepacked foods, including the 2025 update to FSAI guidance note 28; and to detail audit findings on compliance in schools. [49515/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Health
373. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish HSE advice on minimum seated eating time needed for children to consume a hot meal safely; the communication of this to schools; and to provide any risk assessments regarding rushed eating and choking risk in infants classes. [49519/25]
John Paul O'Shea Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Health
377. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Health if the HSE would consider funding CAR T-cell therapy for cancer patients in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49530/25]