920. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if there has been any engagement between her Department, HSE and a union (details supplied) on the proposed introduction of a national programme for the safe disposal of unused medications in the community in line with EU Directive 2001/83/EC; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39082/25]
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
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1,008 written, 0 oral
120
TDs have asked
11
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Independents counted together
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departments asked
Questions per month
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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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935. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the criteria that must be met before HSE pest control services within Dublin region attends a private house to carry out pest control works. [39175/25]
954. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health If she will address the current uncertainty facing staff at a healthcare facility (details supplied); the arrangements that have been made to retain the existing staff currently employed at the unit; the steps the HSE is taking to ensure continuity of employment and service delivery during this transition; and if she will ensure that the HSE engages immediately …
999. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the locations within CHO1 where HSE funded audiologists are based in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39655/25]
332. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Health if the HSE’s managed access protocol and individual patient approval system is available to adults with spinal muscular atrophy who were previously excluded from treatment solely due to their age at the time of reimbursement approval; and, if so, the process or criteria that would apply in such cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38374/25]
386. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if respect for international law and human rights throughout the supply chain, from production to delivery, is written into the HSE's procurement policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38603/25]
388. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 362 and 363 of 11 June 2025, if the HSE will reply to the questions asked and that they will be answered within the timeframe required under Standing Order 52; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38608/25]
753. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health the total number of administrative staff and senior managerial staff in the HSE in 2005, 2015 and 2025, by grade, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36985/25]
778. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE only began publishing purchase order data for payments over €100,000 on its website from quarter 4 of 2021 onwards (details supplied). [37223/25]
843. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to confirm that she has received a copy of the HSE's nationwide review of insourcing and outsourcing arrangements; if she has considered its contents; if she will publish the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37540/25]
867. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the levels of expenditure that the HSE sanctions without sign-off from the HSE senior leadership team, with sign-off from the HSE senior leadership team, and following consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation; if these levels of expenditure are consistent across all areas of healthcare exp…
886. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will accept the HSE's recommendation to end insourcing arrangements in the health service by 30 June 2026; if she will commit to this deadline based on the steps to phase out insourcing provided for in the HSE's review of insourcing and outsourcing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37838/25]
356. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health when HSE staff (details supplied) can expect to be contacted by the HSE regarding their future in the organisation as a result of recent changes; if they will be offered new positions within the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36779/25]
691. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health for an update on an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35330/25]
39. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34535/25]
59. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health her views on the significant growth in procurement expenditure by the HSE in recent years, rising from €1.29 billion in 2020 to over €4.19 billion in 2024,and to explain what mechanisms are in place to ensure value for money, transparency, and oversight in light of the fact that the HSE has confirmed it cannot currently track whether spending exceeds original cont…
315. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health her views on the HSE’s confirmation that it has not been in a position to meet the Government’s 15-day prompt payment target or to produce the quarterly compliance reports required under Government Decision S29296; the way in which this has been allowed to continue for over a decade, given that all other departments and public bodies have been publishing prompt p…
768. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if the common assessment approach to the needs of older people known as InterRAI is fully operational across all six HSE health regions; and if the electronic version piloted with co-funding from an organisation (details supplied) almost a decade ago forms part of this process. [33725/25]
804. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health the number of publicly funded respite beds the HSE had in private nursing homes in Cork, in each of the past five years, including 2025. [33931/25]
809. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for electric-powered wheelchairs from the HSE within CHO9; and the average waiting time for same. [33972/25]
815. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to carry out a full review of HSE recruitment policies, pay grades and working conditions for our frontline medical workers; to ensure all beds are available for use, at all times in Community Hospitals, such as Dingle and Cahersiveen in County Kerry, along with many others; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34042/25]
816. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to immediately introduce incentives to attract the required staff to such places as Cahersiveen Community Hospital on the Iveragh Peninsula in South Kerry, where the HSE has confirmed that beds remain unoccupied at the facility, including two palliative care beds due to staffing shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34043/25]
817. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to immediately introduce incentives to attract the required staff to such places as West Kerry Community Hospital on the Dingle Peninsula in South Kerry, where the HSE has confirmed that beds remain unoccupied at the facility, due to staffing shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34044/25]
820. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the total number of individuals, by grade and/or profession, employed by the HSE for each of the years 2015 to 2024, in tabular form. [34049/25]
822. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Health the financial cost to date of the May 2021 cyberattack on the HSE; the measures now in place to address the exposed vulnerabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34051/25]