4031. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand or increase the staffing levels within each National Counselling Service, local County office and the wider National Counselling Service services (details supplied). [58793/26]
Topics / Health Services Staff
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsHealth Services Staff
2,097 questions from 136 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
2,097
questions
2,094 written, 3 oral
136
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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| January 2025 | 27 |
| February 2025 | 81 |
| March 2025 | 96 |
| April 2025 | 96 |
| May 2025 | 103 |
| June 2025 | 94 |
| July 2025 | 145 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 96 |
| October 2025 | 49 |
| November 2025 | 116 |
| December 2025 | 68 |
| January 2026 | 76 |
| February 2026 | 96 |
| March 2026 | 138 |
| April 2026 | 143 |
| May 2026 | 162 |
| June 2026 | 215 |
| July 2026 | 62 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 148 |
| October 2026 | 86 |
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.
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The questions
498. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health her plans and the current actions she has undertaken to address the chronic shortage of healthcare assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54381/26]
525. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid by the HSE to agency staffing providers in each of the past five years, broken down by each provider and the amount paid in each year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54469/26]
526. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the number of agency staff engaged by the HSE in each of the past five years and the associated expenditure incurred, broken down by each public acute hospital and by staff category, including nursing and midwifery, medical and dental, health and social care professionals, healthcare support, management and administration, and all other categories, in tabular f…
606. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies within University Hospital Kerry, broken down by specific role and department, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54745/26]
392. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the progress in recruiting staff outside this State for employment in the HSE to provide a range of healthcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53829/26]
393. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between a job specification and the actual role and renumeration (details supplied); the reason the core specifications previously published have been disregarded; her views on whether this was misleading and may have led to potential candidates not applying; if those recruited have signed permanent contracts yet…
417. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time carers in Cork over the age of 65. [54140/26]
433. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she has investigated if public-only consultants in laboratories in other public hospitals are engaged in private work on site (details supplied); if other public laboratories have service level agreements in place with private facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54258/26]
704. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2027 of a 7.5% uplift in medical interns, GP, basic specialist and higher specialist training places; and the number of additional places this would create, in tabular form. [52648/26]
737. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts in Cashel CDNT; the length of time each of these posts has been vacant; the efforts taken to fill each of these vacant posts to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52811/26]
741. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the €11.62 million direct pay surplus recorded in primary care within CHO 4 in 2024 reflects unfilled permanent posts; the primary care vacancy rate in CHO 4 for 2024; if her Department will confirm whether there is any assessed correlation between unfilled primary care posts and the agency and overtime deficits recorded in mental health and older persons withi…
742. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health whether she has considered the matter of the European Commission's common training framework for physiotherapists; the engagements she has had on this matter; the submissions she has or will make on this matter; whether she intends to participate; whether she considers it important that Irish professional regulatory bodies such as CORU retain the final say in …
808. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Health the number of clinicians working in each supra regional specialist centre; and their specialty areas in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53145/26]
810. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Health the number of clinicians working in each regional specialist centre (the Coombe, the Rotunda and Limerick); and each of their specialty areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53147/26]
813. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Health the number of the 65 whole-time-equivalent healthcare professionals that have been prioritised through the HSE National Service Plan 2026 to expand and fully implement the National Framework for the Management of Endometriosis who are already in place; and where they are placed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53150/26]
835. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent physiotherapists employed in the HSE in Dublin; the number of vacancies in such posts; if she is satisfied there is a satisfactory number of staff to meet the needs of the area in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53174/26]
836. Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Health if there are job vacancies for physiotherapy services in Mayo University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53179/26]
869. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the total number of sanctioned whole-time equivalent posts per medical discipline in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of posts that remain unfilled per discipline, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53385/26]
870. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the total number of locum staff employed in public hospitals through private healthcare agencies in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the total estimated cost in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53386/26]
873. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated average wage of Section 38 and Section 39 workers separately; the number of workers in each section in 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53389/26]
903. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on a breach of public pay scales identified at a hospital (details supplied); the steps taken to date to ensure that the hospital complies with public pay policy; if this matter has been resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53603/26]
914. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE scrub nurse posts filled at Beaumont Hospital as of 30 June 2026; and if the same figures will be provided as of 30 June 2022, in tabular form. [53737/26]
915. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health whether any business cases have been submitted seeking additional cardiology staffing resources for Beaumont Hospital since 2023; if so, the details of such submissions; and the outcome of each, in tabular form. [53738/26]
93. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health her plans to increase clinical training capacity across health professions in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52161/26]