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]
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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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]
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]
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]
254. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies currently within cardiology services in public health service. [17669/25]
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]
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]
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]
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]
911. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of house calls carried out by doctors from each of the treatment centres of ShannonDoc services during each day of the 2024-2025 Christmas-new year period, in tabular form. [16810/25]
913. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown, by county, on the monthly basis from January 1 2024 to 31 December 2024, of how many staff providing homecare services working for the HSE are not working their full contract hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16818/25]
919. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for the primary care psychology staffing levels, by grade of psychologist, and per population size, served in each integrated health area of the South West Regional Health Area, as of March 1 2025. [16839/25]
920. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for the primary care psychology staffing levels, by grade of psychologist, and per population size, served in each integrated health area of the Dublin and North East Regional Health Area, as of March 1 2025. [16840/25]
921. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for the primary care psychology staffing levels, by grade of psychologist, and per population size, served in each integrated health area of the West and North West Regional Health Area, as of March 1 2025. [16841/25]
922. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for the primary care psychology staffing levels, by grade of psychologist, and per population size, served in each integrated health area of the Dublin and Midlands Regional Health Area, as of March 1 2025. [16842/25]
925. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health for the current primary care psychology staffing levels, by grade of psychologist, and per population size, served in each integrated health area of the Mid West Regional Health Area, as of March 1 2025. [16845/25]
926. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health for the current primary care psychology staffing levels, by grade of psychologist, and per population size, served in each integrated health area of the Dublin and South East Regional Health Area, as of March 1 2025. [16846/25]
927. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the total cost of agency healthcare staff for the years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 by CHO, Regional Health Area and by discipline, in tabular form. [16847/25]
946. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health to clarify if there are primary care psychology staff in each primary care centre in the country. [16985/25]
1005. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently examine a case in respect of retired HSE workers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17434/25]
1069. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of graduates in speech and language therapy from Irish higher education institutions in each of the years 2020 to 2024; the projected number in each of the years 2025 to 2029; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17245/25]
1070. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of graduates in occupational therapy from Irish higher education institutions in each of the years 2020 to 2024; the projected number in each of the years 2025 to 2029; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17246/25]
288. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide specific examples of where the HSE has been supported by external providers in accessing international candidate markets to source both occupational therapists and speech and language therapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16495/25]
289. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the WTE vacancies, by job title, currently in the neuro-rehabilitation team covering CHO7; and the estimated timeframe for filling each of the vacancies on the team, in tabular form. [16500/25]
290. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant paediatric neurologists at University Hospital Limerick; the number of whole-time equivalent vacant consultant paediatric neurologist positions at University Hospital Limerick; and when these vacancies will be filled on a permanent basis. [16327/25]