Health Service Executive

414. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for the number of reported assaults on HSE staff during the course of their work duties for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and to provide any additional information that may be available, such as the breakdown of professions affected, occurrences in mental health services and physical health services and disability services and community and ho…

415. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for the number of HSE staff who had to take in excess of three months’ leave from work after sustaining assaults during the course of their work duties for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and to provide any additional information that may be available, such as the breakdown of professions affected, occurrences in mental health services and physi…

704. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether provision has been made in the Health Service Executive’s draft service plan for the establishment or support of an equine therapy centre in Tuam, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32188/25]

728. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement her Department has had with the HSE on its proposed audit of capacity and provision of respite services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32572/25]

744. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 15 May 2025, if the HSE has compiled the requested information regarding the number of GPs by county or smallest geographic region available; the number per capita; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31824/25]

810. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of applications for HSE home support (older people) in CHO 4 in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32113/25]

811. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of approvals for HSE home support (older people) in CHO 4 in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32114/25]

812. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of refusals for HSE home support (older people) in CHO 4 in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32115/25]

813. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the average number of hours granted to HSE home support (older people) clients in CHO 4, broken down by LHO, in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32116/25]

828. Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Minister for Health to outline the procedure in place by the HSE in respect of equality of care provided for people in nursing homes where the HSE has paid for the nursing home care through the fair deal scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32276/25]

843. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the locations within CHO9 area where HSE substance misuse teams are based; the number of WTE staff, by job title working in each of these teams, by location, in tabular form. [32340/25]

852. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of private nursing homes that the HSE have taken control of; to set out the reason, clinical or financial, for 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32369/25]

501. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health the amount of money spent on taxi fares between hospitals (details supplied) covered by the HSE; to breakdown the reasoning behind the fares, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31400/25]

509. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if the HSE board has submitted a comprehensive plan to her Department to help monitor and measure the value gained as a result of the implementation of the new consultant contract, as directed in the letter of determination that issued in November 2024. [31442/25]

510. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has adopted a standardised approach regarding the number of outpatient clinics, consultants in their respective specialties would be expected to provide, in a given week, as directed in the letter of determination that issued in November 2024. [31443/25]

511. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has issued detailed guidance to hospitals around outpatient targets under any standardised approach to consultants working in individual specialties, as directed in the letter of determination that issued in November 2024. [31444/25]

513. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the action the HSE board has taken on foot of concerns raised by her predecessor in relation to the lack of a standardised approach to large variations in the volume of outpatient work being carried out (details supplied). [31446/25]

514. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the quantitative data the HSE has sought from hospitals to ensure the phasing out of private practice for consultants who have moved to the new POCC contract. [31447/25]

515. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the quantitative data the HSE board has submitted to demonstrate the effective phasing out of private practice by consultants who switched to the new POCC contract, as requested in the letter of determination that issued in November 2024. [31448/25]

518. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the work and remit of the HSE Access Programme team; the number of staff employed in the team, the total salary cost of the team since its inception, broken down by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31459/25]

523. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps the CEO of the HSE has taken to manage conflicts of interest in relation to the insourcing of care at public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31464/25]

525. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if the head of the HSE has identified any potential perverse incentives in relation to the insourcing and outsourcing of care to manage waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31466/25]

535. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health is she is aware that at present approximately 20 adults are excluded from access to approved SMA treatments solely because they were over 18 at the time of the original HSE approval; if she will review the criteria for access to these treatments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31518/25]

306. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if the adult ADHD HSE service in Cork is currently taking referrals; the current staffing levels for the service; the wait time to be offered an initial appointment; and the wait time for psychology if applicable. [30851/25]

313. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a HSE directive to home carers prohibiting them from administering medicated cream (such as difene cream) to someone they are caring for; to explain the logic of what we understand is a change in policy; the reason patients are expected to administer medicated creams like this if they are unable to do so them…