980. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the current staffing levels at Linn Dara approved centre; the number of additional nurses, doctors, and multidisciplinary staff required to restore the centre to its registered capacity of 24 CAMHS beds; the recruitment campaigns currently active; and the timeline to achieve safe and fully staffed operation. [14457/26]
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.
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2,094 written, 3 oral
136
TDs have asked
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Independents counted together
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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 |
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1008. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if clarity will be provided regarding positions that were approved for primary care occupational therapy posts in Laois (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14563/26]
1099. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of consultants that have signed up to the POCC across each speciality and the numbers that have not signed up across each speciality [15102/26]
1119. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for an update on recruitment to the role of director of health and social care professions across each health region. [15205/26]
631. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the average time taken to fill funded vacant posts, from approval to commencement in post, is monitored at national level; if so, the most recent national figure; and if not, whether she will introduce a national time-to-fill benchmark as a matter of policy [13741/26]
632. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the number of funded vacant whole-time equivalent posts in each of the six health regions as of the most recent reporting date; and the corresponding vacancy rate expressed as a percentage of funded workforce [13742/26]
633. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to state the total expenditure on agency staffing in each Health Region in 2024 and 2025 to date; and whether her Department has undertaken any analysis correlating agency expenditure with funded vacancy levels [13743/26]
634. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline the recruitment control measures introduced in 2023 and 2024; the policy rationale for those measures; and whether any impact assessment was undertaken regarding their effect on vacancy levels, service delivery, or patient waiting times [13744/26]
260. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health to detail the current level of staffing in perinatal mental health in each LHO, by role; the current number of vacancies in perinatal mental health in each LHO, by role; and the current number of roles being actively recruited for in perinatal mental health, by role, in tabular form. [12945/26]
283. Deputy Peter Roche asked the Minister for Health the number of dual-diagnosis clinical nurse specialist and advanced nurse practitioner posts, dealing with co-occurring addiction and mental health needs, currently approved nationally; the number filled to date; the number vacant; the number allocated to each CHO in the west of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13150/26]
1024. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE senior staff grade physiotherapists based in each CDNT within CHO3 as of 9 February 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12242/26]
1047. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses since 2021 that are registered in Ireland who previously worked in Japan, in tabular form [11593/26]
1049. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses since 2021 that are registered in Ireland who previously worked in Thailand, in tabular form. [11595/26]
1106. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Health the length of time the CAHMS vacancy for a psychologist for Gorey, County Wexford has been vacant for; the reason this position has not yet been filled; the number of patients currently waiting to be seen by a member of CAHMS in the vicinity; the breakdown of the length of time they have been waiting to receive care, by year;; and if she will make a s…
1107. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Health the length of time the CAHMS vacancy for an occupational therapist for County Wexford has been vacant for; the reason this position has not yet been filled; the number of patients currently waiting to be seen by a member of CAHMS in the vicinity; the breakdown of the length of time they have been waiting to receive care, by year; and if she will make …
1108. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Health the length of time the CAHMS vacancy for an assistant psychologist for County Wicklow has been vacant for; the reason this position has not yet been filled; the number of patients currently waiting to be seen by a member of CAHMS in the vicinity; the breakdown of the length of time they have been waiting to receive care, by year; and if she will make …
1111. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE nurse vacancies currently at Mullingar Regional Hospital; the expected timeframe for filling each of those vacancies, in tabular form. [12057/26]
1174. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to avert industrial action by health care assistants in the HSE home support service in Cork, Clare, Limerick, Kerry and Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12396/26]
1177. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if HSE employment changes, whereby agency staff who have worked in the same role through an agency for at least one year can convert to a permanent HSE contract. [12427/26]
1178. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if she will provide details on the number of agency staff in CHO8 who have successfully switched from agency employment to permanent HSE contract since changes came into effect following agreement with a trade union (details supplied). [12428/26]
1179. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied), who is currently employed through an agency will be offered a permanent HSE contract [12429/26]
1183. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of employees in organisations that receive funding from the HSE but are not deemed HSE employees that have been included in the auto enrolment process; if so, if this has a financial impact for those organisations if this will be rectified in this financial year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12441/26]
1238. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the recruitment being undertaken to ensure the primary care psychology service in Dublin west can be reopened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12850/26]
1243. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive continues to refuse legally compliant written references that confirm only dates of employment and job titles, the full extent of what many private employers are permitted to provide under their own governance and liability policies, and instead applies pressure on private companies to issue verbal or expanded written refe…
1244. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the average recruitment timeline for Health Service Executive nursing positions in County Mayo, from the point at which a vacancy is approved and advertised; to the issuing of a job offer; to the commencement date of the successful candidate; if the Minister will comment on the causes of delays occurring particularly between offer and start date, in tabular form…