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Health Services

2,809 questions from 142 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.

2,809
questions
2,798 written, 11 oral
142
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
7
departments asked

Questions per month

The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.

Jan 2025Oct 2026
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MonthQuestions
January 202556
February 202578
March 202573
April 2025110
May 2025158
June 2025127
July 2025135
August 20250
September 2025193
October 202556
November 2025157
December 2025147
January 2026238
February 2026102
March 2026141
April 2026243
May 2026222
June 2026290
July 2026123
August 20260
September 202673
October 202687

Who asks, by party

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.

  • 100% RDR9 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Aontú75 from 2 TDs · 2 seats today
  • Fianna Fáil616 from 33 TDs · 48 seats today
  • Fine Gael281 from 23 TDs · 38 seats today
  • Green Party16 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Independent166 from 14 TDs · 15 seats today
  • Independent Ireland421 from 4 TDs · 4 seats today
  • Labour Party222 from 11 TDs · 11 seats today
  • People Before Profit-Solidarity85 from 3 TDs · 3 seats today
  • Sinn Féin676 from 38 TDs · 39 seats today

The TDs who asked most

Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.

  1. 407
  2. 140
  3. 137
  4. 101
  5. 79
  6. 78
  7. 53
  8. 49

Asked of

Debated under the same heading

Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.

The questions

Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
481. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has evaluated the clinical and economic impact of providing standardised post-loss mental health follow-up in primary care, including the cost of early intervention versus untreated trauma and long-term work absence. [68757/25]
Michael Cahill Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
510. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently address a matter (details supplied) and remove all charges for blister packs for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68890/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
524. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish the underlying actuarial modelling, market projections, and equality assessment used by the Health Insurance Authority in recommending the 2026 stamp-duty increases; and to detail the Department’s own evaluation of affordability risks for policyholders with low or modest incomes. [68918/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
525. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has conducted an impact study on the effect of increased stamp duty on private health insurance on hospitals that rely on privately insured patients for elective activity, including expected reductions in private-patient throughput. [68919/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
532. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the projected total revenue in 2026 from the stamp-duty increase on health-insurance policies, as approved under the Risk Equalisation Scheme; and to provide the Department’s modelling of the expected impact on the Risk Equalisation Fund balance. [68927/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
533. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department prepared any distributional analysis of the levy increase on households earning between €30,000 and €70,000, including the estimated annual cost per policyholder for adults and children used in internal decision-making. [68928/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
534. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department conducted any assessment of the potential impact of higher levies on private hospital activity levels, including projected changes in insured patient volumes for 2026 and the expected financial effect on hospitals. [68929/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
535. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to publish the Health Insurance Authority’s underlying modelling for the 2026 levy recommendation, including the sensitivity tests relating to premium increases and policyholder retention. [68930/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Health
536. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any options were considered to mitigate the effect of the levy increase on policyholders, including phased introduction, reduced levies for child policies, or offsetting measures through tax relief adjustments. [68931/25]
Paul Murphy Written 3 Dec 2025 · to Health
246. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health whether there are any supports for women with endometriosis who received treatment privately before the National Endometriosis Framework; and her plans to introduce reimbursements for women who have had to pay for treatments which are now covered. [68227/25]
Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh Written 3 Dec 2025 · to Health
250. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health if her Department will formally classify endometriosis as a specific, complex chronic disease under the long-term illness scheme or an equivalent support mechanism (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68261/25]
Claire Kerrane Written 3 Dec 2025 · to Health
255. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health her views on the creation of a non-means tested audiology entitlement for persons born deaf; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68281/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 3 Dec 2025 · to Health
269. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the extent to which the community connect programme will include ethnic minority identifiers and the status of the system configuration phase. [68444/25]
Matt Carthy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
522. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the services and organisations that will be supported by a project (details supplied); the amount each service or organisation will receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67335/25]
Paul Murphy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
523. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the circumstances under which the National Gender Services requires parents to attend assessments of adult patients. [67336/25]
Paul Murphy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
524. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the proportion of the National Gender Service's initial assessments for which the attendance of parents is requested. [67337/25]
Donna McGettigan Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
529. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the action she will take to ensure a person (details supplied) receives the diagnostic testing they need promptly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67352/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
545. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of children travelling to Britain for paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant surgery, by year, from 2015 to date in 2055. [67495/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
546. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the cost to the State of sending a child to a British hospital for paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant surgery. [67496/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
547. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the supports which are available to families from the HSE having to travel to Britain for paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant surgery. [67497/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
548. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the actions her Department has taken to encourage CHI to adopt the findings and advice of the repatriation of paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant services to Ireland: a Health Technology Assessment – February 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67498/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
549. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health to publish all correspondence between her Department and CHI relating to the implementation of the findings and advice of the repatriation of paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant services to Ireland: a Health Technology Assessment – February 2023. [67499/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
550. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the financial supports and logistical supports which are available to families upon the death of a child family member at a health facility abroad, for whom that child had been referred to treatment by health services in Ireland. [67500/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
551. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the financial supports and logistical supports which are available to families upon the death of an adult family member at a health facility abroad, for whom that adult had been referred to treatment by health services in Ireland. [67501/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
552. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the precise process following the publication of a HIQA health technology assessment report that makes specific findings and advice to the HSE and her Department, relating to the consideration and implementation or otherwise, of those findings and advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67502/25]