Health Services Staff

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…

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 reta…

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]

250. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health her views on the fact that while the number of NHDs has risen by 52% between 2012 and 2021, the number of hospital consultants has risen by 44% over the past decade, while the number of nurses and midwives has risen by 36% and the number of administrators and managers has risen by 50%, the number of dentists employed by the HSE has in fact falle…

326. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of WTE psychologists employed by national educational psychological services as of 29 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures for the corresponding period in 2023, in tabular form. [50786/26]

367. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of psychologists currently employed by NEPS; the number of sanctioned psychologist posts in NEPS; the estimated full-year cost of running NEPS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51348/26]

718. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2214 of 9 June 2026, to confirm the number of on-site audits of agency staffing suppliers conducted by the HSE in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 individually, given that the reply addressed the year 2025 only; the precise number of instances of non-compliance identified across the six on-…

720. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if any single national system enables the HSE to identify, across all HSE-funded sites, if a healthcare worker, whether directly employed, agency or locum, who is currently on administrative leave or has been removed from placement, is subject to a criminal investigation or an unresolved patient-safety concern. [50918/26]

751. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2792 of 14 April 2026, the number of instances since July 2025 in which a health region exceeded its agency expenditure limit; and the corrective action taken in each such instance, by region. [51031/26]

752. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1079 of 6 May 2026, which confirmed that no formal cost-benefit analysis comparing long-term direct employment with agency staffing has been conducted, and that the only comparator in use is a generic 30% premium which by her Department's own account excludes pension provisions over an employee's career; if…

753. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1083 of 6 June 2026, to confirm whether the HSE holds any grade-specific cost comparison between agency and directly employed staff for nursing, medical and allied health grades respectively; if so, to provide same; and if not, the reason a single blended premium is applied across distinct grade markets. [5…

754. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2314 of 9 June 2026, and noting that the same reply confirms health regions hold autonomy to reconfigure vacancies, whether any national assessment has been undertaken of the number of funded posts left unfilled or reconfigured as a result of agency spend limits; and whether any such risk is recorded on a n…