Health Services Staff

668. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric rheumatologists based at Cork University Hospital, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [26946/25]

675. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the State of hiring an additional 50, 100 and 250 clinical psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26964/25]

721. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to outline the basis for the recruitment embargo on physician associates; to provide an update on the review of this role; the timeline for competition of said review; the number of physician associates currently employed by the HSE; the status of their posts since the review was announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2738…

45. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the actions being taken to increase the supply of occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and physiotherapists. [20791/25]

131. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if there is a speech and language therapist in post at the National Gender Service; and if so, the years in which the National Gender Service had a speech and language therapist. [26203/25]

136. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there is an embargo on hiring radiotherapists with working experience for the HSE; the reasoning for such an embargo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26074/25]

137. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if there is a policy to recruit only graduates for radiotherapists positions; and how this has been analysed in terms of best outcomes for patient care and safety. [26075/25]

138. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason her Department has not made available requisite funds to hire qualified persons with experienced for radiotherapy positions in the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26076/25]

143. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse's per community health network, and per 10,000 of population, across each community health network from 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [26089/25]

162. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE community orthoptist posts in CHO2 area in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [26139/25]

172. Deputy Edward Timmins asked the Minister for Health when the commitment in the Programme for Government to provide a progressive career pathway for healthcare assistants will be implemented; the plan for achieving this across the healthcare sector both public and private; the funding that has been allocated to support this initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26237/25]

173. Deputy Edward Timmins asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the HSE in implementing a progressive career pathway for healthcare assistants; the reason the HSE does not support the participation of its healthcare assistants in the advanced healthcare assistant practitioner apprenticeship programme (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter.…

174. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the allocation of the 26.7 WTE community nursing posts recently announced by her Department, with particular reference to the prioritisation of Dublin mid-west; and if she will indicate when these posts are expected to be filled. [26246/25]

844. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for the average monthly cost to the HSE of a full-time agency staff psychiatrist, clinical nurse specialist, staff nurse, psychologist, social worker and occupational therapist; and to ask for a comparison of average monthly salary costs to the HSE for a staff member who is directly employed by the HSE across the same disciplines, in tabular fo…

887. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of approved speech and language therapist posts, by grade and clinical site, in tabular form; the number of permanent full-time and part-time posts; the number filled on a temporary, locum or agency basis; and the number of vacant posts. [25998/25]

888. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of permanent full-time speech and language therapists hired by the HSE from 2019 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [25999/25]

889. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of permanent speech and language therapists hired by the HSE on a part-time basis from 2019 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [26000/25]

890. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists hired by the HSE on a temporary basis from 2019 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [26001/25]

891. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to establish meaningful pathways to career progression for speech and language therapists in the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26002/25]

893. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for podiatrists in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26009/25]

306. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health regarding the situation where an individual is in the process of being registered with CORU as a social care worker, whether, if they were to take up part time employment in a different field of work, it would affect their registration with CORU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24899/25]

195. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health to outline the progress made in the recruitment of an ophthalmologist in south Tipperary following a retirement (details supplied); the number of children who are now waiting to be seen in the eye clinic; the supports available for parents with children who require an appointment with the eye clinic but have been forced to be seen privately …

178. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health for an update on the vacancy for primary care south Tipperary ophthalmologist following the planned retirement of the ophthalmologist in October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23186/25]

179. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when she will publish terms of reference for the review of the physician associate grade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24150/25]

181. Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on staff recruitment and retention efforts within the HSE in the area of special needs services, particularly in relation to physiotherapists and speech and language therapists; the measures being taken to address shortages and ensure continuity of care for children with additional needs; and if she will make a …