Health Services Staff
An official questions-paper heading. 1,863 questions (2 oral, 1,861 written), first 2025-01-22, latest 2026-07-28.
Questions under this heading, per month
Jan 2025Jul 2026
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| Month | Questions |
|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 27 |
| Feb 2025 | 81 |
| Mar 2025 | 96 |
| Apr 2025 | 96 |
| May 2025 | 103 |
| Jun 2025 | 94 |
| Jul 2025 | 145 |
| Sep 2025 | 96 |
| Oct 2025 | 49 |
| Nov 2025 | 116 |
| Dec 2025 | 68 |
| Jan 2026 | 76 |
| Feb 2026 | 96 |
| Mar 2026 | 138 |
| Apr 2026 | 143 |
| May 2026 | 162 |
| Jun 2026 | 215 |
| Jul 2026 | 62 |
Addressed to
| Department | Questions |
|---|---|
| Health | 1,757 |
| Children | 88 |
| Finance | 6 |
| Further and Higher Education | 5 |
| Public Expenditure | 4 |
| Education | 2 |
| Justice | 1 |
Debates under the same heading
Dáil debate sections whose official heading is exactly these words.
| Date | Debate section |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | Health Services Staff |
| 2026-04-29 | Health Services Staff |
| 2026-02-18 | Health Services Staff |
| 2026-01-21 | Health Services Staff |
| 2025-12-03 | Health Services Staff |
| 2025-10-02 | Health Services Staff |
| 2025-02-18 | Health Services Staff |
The questions
Ken O'Flynn
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2321. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE have any plan to make resources available to the South Doc services Blackpool, Cork city to have an out of hours doctor available and to recruit further staff for the facility. [20227/25]
Emer Currie
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2383. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health the total number of vacant speech and language therapist posts currently within CHO9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20548/25]
Sorca Clarke
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2393. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if she believes that it would be important to routinely collect data on the job vacancies within CAMHS to ensure the effective delivery of services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20632/25]
Michael Murphy
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2426. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 934 of 25 February 2025, the status of filling the post for an ophthalmologist in Clonmel, the absence of which is causing lengthy waiting times for routine and urgent referrals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20814/25]
Tom Brabazon
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2427. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric ophthalmologist registrars based at CHI Temple Street, in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [20839/25]
Tom Brabazon
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2428. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health The locations within CHO9 where dental surgeons and senior dental surgeons with a special interest in special needs dentistry are based in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [20840/25]
Tom Brabazon
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2429. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of regional community-based specialist eating disorder services; the locations of these services; the number of WTE health and social care professionals working in these services [20841/25]
Tom Brabazon
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2430. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE community orthoptist posts by location within CHO9. [20842/25]
Tom Brabazon
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2431. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of permanent full-time job offers Beaumont Hospital made to graduate nurses in 2024; the number of those offers that were accepted. [20843/25]
Albert Dolan
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2433. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the reasons the position of psychologist at the Athenry primary care centre, County Galway, has not yet been filled; if this position remains open; if it is currently being actively advertised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20889/25]
Paul Donnelly
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2439. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff grade podiatrist and senior grade podiatrist aligned to the chronic disease management team within CHO9 in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [20911/25]
Paul Donnelly
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2440. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of high-dependency beds and intensive care beds opened and staffed in each hospital part of HSE Dublin and north east health regions as of 22 April 2025; and if she will provide same figures as of 30 April 2021, in tabular form. [20912/25]
Catherine Ardagh
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2462. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in each local health centre and primary care centre in the CHO7 area with a month-by-month breakdown of the total from 1 January 2023 to 1 January 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21162/25]
Catherine Ardagh
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2463. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health the immediate steps she and her senior officials are taking to ensure that public health nursing staffing levels in the Dublin 12 area are returned to a level that can meet demand and deliver child health and development assessments again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21163/25]
Ken O'Flynn
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2467. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a full report on the current status of podiatry services in Cork city and North Cork; the number of staff currently working in podiatry services in these areas, including administrative and clinical roles; the number of staff currently on maternity leave, sick leave, or other forms of extended leave; the number of vacant po…
Barry Heneghan
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
2479. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE secretaries working with each consultant neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21264/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-04-10 · to Health
361. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of clinicians and their speciality, working for the national gender service for each of the years 2020 to date. [18089/25]
Johnny Mythen
written
2025-04-10 · to Health
364. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of all vacant healthcare posts unable to be filled in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18112/25]
Natasha Newsome Drennan
written
2025-04-10 · to Health
367. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Health when staff at a nursing home (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will receive their section 39 payment increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18126/25]
David Cullinane
written
2025-04-10 · to Health
418. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 6 March 2025, if she will specify the current stage of the recruitment process concerned; the expected timeframe for said post to be filled; the specific interim measures put in place to enable a resumption in services locally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18321/25]
Donna McGettigan
written
2025-04-09 · to Health
254. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies currently within cardiology services in public health service. [17669/25]
Charles Ward
written
2025-04-09 · to Health
258. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant geriatricians attached to the Donegal integrated care programme for older persons in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17694/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-04-08 · to Health
880. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of regional community-based specialist eating disorder services; the locations of these services; the number of WTE health and social care professionals working in these services both total funded and filled positions, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16647/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-04-08 · to Health
881. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health when her Department plans to deliver upon the commitment of 16 community-based specialist eating disorder services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16648/25]
Pa Daly
written
2025-04-08 · to Health
889. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time public health nurse posts within CHO4, in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date; the specific geographic area(s) within CHO4 that currently have no public health nurse in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16705/25]