2261. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if a full remuneration review can be undertaken to ensure all frontline staff in the health service are being paid sufficiently, in order that it is not an obstacle to recruitment, which appears to be the case at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19966/25]
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
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| Month | Questions |
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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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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
2270. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health if her Department will determine the professional pathways for an occupation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20033/25]
2271. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health if she will consider introducing a framework for certain positions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20034/25]
2273. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health if she will publish the audits of service users carried out by the National Gender Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20037/25]
2280. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if it is her intention to deliver pay equality for workers in Section 39 organisations to bring their remuneration in line with their counterparts working in the public service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20057/25]
2281. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if home care workers employed by community and voluntary sector organisations and registered charities will be included in any moves to deliver parity between workers in this sector and their counterparts in the public service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20058/25]
2285. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, if the information on staffing shortfalls at the HSE Galway community audiology service can now be provided; if the posts have now been filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20082/25]
2287. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the staffing shortfalls in audiology services by community health organisation and local health office, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20084/25]
2318. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of current vacancies and the number of assigned posts for public health nurse positions for CHO7; and the number of public health nurses required by population, as projected by Sláintecare guidelines, categorised by area, in tabular form. [20217/25]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
2430. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE community orthoptist posts by location within CHO9. [20842/25]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 posts across both area…
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]