979. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to confirm that the information contained in relation to the primary childhood immunisation schedule declination form being issued to parents by the HSE, when completed, will not be shared with any other section or agency of her Department; and if it is used to limit liability. [17292/25]
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
parties and groups
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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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.
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299. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if she will publish the terms of reference of the HSE Drugs Group and the HSE products committee for medicines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16350/25]
325. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will engage with a local volunteer health group (details supplied) and consider providing it with an office space in the Nenagh primary care centre, which is currently under construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16477/25]
275. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on agency staffing and private recruitment firms, from 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the services to which these payments relate; and the amount paid to each agency and firm. [15863/25]
293. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health to review correspondence (details supplied) and provide an update from the HSE on a case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15999/25]
314. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the progress made to alleviate the pressure that pharmacist staff at the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit (CPU) are working under because of resource challenges; the total current personnel numbers for the CPU (including whole-time equivalent data) and comparative data for March 2024 and March 2023; the plans that exist to address resource challenges; and if she w…
315. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the number of businesses offering sunbeds according to the HSE National Environmental Health Service in each of the years 2014 to 2025, in tabular form. [16137/25]
316. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health to provide a list, including the geographical breakdown, of each of the businesses offering sunbeds who notified the HSE Environmental Health Service, based on the latest available data. [16138/25]
696. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the reason for delay in the HSE providing a reply to a representation submitted by my office in April 2024 (details supplied); and when a reply will be forthcoming. [15000/25]
713. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to increase HSE home support hours for the elderly following a report that CHO 4 has had a waiting list of over 1,000 since 2022, which is the highest currently in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15076/25]
715. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the regional executive officers or HSE Department given Section 39 granting authority for pulmonary fibrosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15079/25]
716. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health on the progress of the 0.2 WTE pulmonary fibrosis clinical care pathway lead role that was originally committed to by the HSE in April 2023, but remains unstaffed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15080/25]
723. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment by the HSE; if she can advise when this assessment will be carried out; if there is any way that this can done through the NTPF; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15123/25]
725. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health to provide a map of the lots to be retained by the HSE at a location (details supplied), the lots to be sold, and the lands across from the main campus owned by the HSE. [15130/25]
730. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has discontinued the provision of a diabetic foot clinic service at Aughnacliffe, Medical Centre, Aughnacliffe, County Longford, which was previously available to patients; if so, the rationale behind this decision; if there are any plans to reinstate this essential service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15224/25]
741. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health whether the oral immunotherapy drug known as palforzia, used by people who have peanut allergies, has been approved by the HSE for reimbursement; its current status in Irish healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15284/25]
767. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she or any of her Departmental staff were made aware of payroll overpayments within the HSE prior to release of an internal audit on 25 March 2025; and if so, if she will provide details of any relevant correspondence related to the matter. [15408/25]
774. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the reason there are local people living and paying cash rent to rent bungalows in a hospital in Athy; if the HSE were ever told about the significant risk of this; the reason it was never acted upon; and if she will intervene in this situation and pause this rent that is forced on these vulnerable older people. [15475/25]
384. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to publish responses to parliamentary questions for the year 2025, as it has for previous years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14756/25]
222. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the actions that will be taken in regard to the recent downgrade in the quality and size of pull-ups provided by the HSE for children with toileting needs (details supplied) which is causing huge stress to families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14606/25]
223. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if, in light of the correspondence between an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE regarding a service level agreement application submitted on 8 July 2024, as well as subsequent communications, she will provide an update on the status of the application; the steps her Department and or the HSE has taken on the application; and if she will make a statement on …
248. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of people working in HR roles in the south and south west hospital region. [14362/25]
689. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the total paid to private consultancy firms by the HSE, from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, by company and category of consultancy, in tabular form. [13333/25]
749. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health if all HSE safeguarding teams in community healthcare organisations are now fully integrated into the six new HSE regions; if not, the issues holding up the process; and the additional skills and training planned for HSE safeguarding staff to deal with complex financial issues arising from safeguarding. [13656/25]
751. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the total cost of the HSE’s National Safeguarding Office computerised system for recording and analysing reports of abuse of vulnerable adults, from project definition to final testing and implementation; the members of the project board that oversaw the project; the number of times it met; and if the minutes of these meetings will be made public. [13658/25]