1181. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if she will allow community paramedics to work appropriate NAS shift patterns that reflect local patient demand, service need and existing terms and conditions (details supplied). [64545/26]
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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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1183. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of staff vacancies in Thurles CMHT; the length of time each of the vacancies have been in existence; and the status of recruitment efforts for each position. [64542/26]
1185. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the staff positions currently filled in Thurles CMHT. [64540/26]
1186. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the staff positions currently filled in Nenagh CMHT. [64539/26]
1237. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health to confirm that funding has been set aside both in respect of the capital cost, commissioning and recruitment of the required number of staff in order to proceed with the development of a stem cell transplantation and advanced cellular therapies unit in Cork University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64736/26]
1264. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health for an update on staffing numbers in the primary care centre in Cherry Orchard; the number of vacancies per post; the waiting times for child psychology, child occupational therapy and child physiotherapy; and the number of children waiting for each of these services, by month, in tabular form. [64589/26]
1267. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July or [56368/26], the total number of nursing and midwifery staff recruited internationally by HSE services outside the national frameworks in 2023, 2024 and 2025, given the reply's own caveat that framework data does not capture direct international recruitment by services. [64878/26]
1270. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July 2026, the specific measures in place to ensure that the domestic supply of nurses and midwives is expanding at a rate sufficient to replace the fall in international recruitment, including the projected domestic graduate output for each year to 2028. [64877/26]
1273. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, of the consultants recorded as being on POCC23 terms, the number who are new appointees; and the number who transferred from a previous contract, in each year since the introduction of the contract. [64873/26]
1274. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, the evidential basis for attributing the change in outpatient and day case activity to the public-only consultant contract; to confirm whether elective inpatient discharges fell by 8.3% between 2019 and 2025, as reported; and, if so, the reason for that reduction. [64872/26]
1307. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the reason new HSE staff are not entitled to increments from previous HSE experience (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65070/26]
1318. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists posts filled at St Francis Primary Care Centre, Galway as of 7 September 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65165/26]
1319. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE general dental surgeons posts filled at Shantalla health centre Galway as of 7 September 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65168/26]
1321. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if the position of a paediatric physiotherapist in Dungarvan primary care centre is vacant; if so, when this vacancy will be filled given west Waterford is without a HSE paediatric physiotherapist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65169/26]
1349. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in public health nurses being released from posts when a transfer has been accepted to another county. [65278/26]
1377. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of podiatrists, expressed in whole-time equivalents, currently employed in community services in Cork city and county; the number of funded posts; the number of vacant posts as of the latest date available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65417/26]
1381. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to resolve issues and long delays with PHN transfers between different regional HSE areas (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65429/26]
1401. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapists posts filled within adult community rehabilitation services in CHO9 as of 8 September 2026, in tabular form. [65570/26]
1427. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the relocation financial assistance available to EU and non-EU candidates recruited to physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics and psychology posts; the number of eligible candidates in each profession in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number offered the assistance; the number who received it; the total e…
1428. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has assessed whether the annual number of graduates from Irish physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and dietetics programmes is sufficient to replace staff leaving the HSE and also meet planned service expansion; the projected additional workforce requirement in each discipline to 2030; and the proportion of that requir…
1433. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health if the HSE or a public hospital contracts for cleaning services, who verifies the contractor’s compliance with the employment regulation order; if a contractor is required, at tender or during a public contract, to demonstrate that mandatory safety training is provided as paid working time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65713/26]
1439. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the number of dietitians currently on HSE recruitment panel within CHO5; and when does this panel expire. [65747/26]
1441. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of funded vacant posts in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics and psychology at the latest available date; the number of applicants for those posts who were CORU-registered and required employment sponsorship; the number deemed appointable or offered posts; and the number whose appointment did not proceed because…
1446. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health if agency workers who take up employment with the HSE do not have their experience as agency workers taken into consideration and effectively start again on the pay scale; to confirm that this was not always the practice; and if she will consider reverting to the previous practice of taking experience into consideration regardless of if it is with an agen…
1451. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has assessed whether the annual number of graduates from Irish physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and dietetics programmes is sufficient to replace staff leaving the HSE and also meet planned service expansion; the projected additional workforce requirement in each discipline to 2030; and the proportion of that requir…