109. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures his Department will take to ensure that people living with pulmonary fibrosis have access to appropriate financial supports, including supports with healthcare and household energy costs, given the financial hardship and risk of poverty experienced by many patients. [69019/26]
Topics / Healthcare Policy
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsHealthcare Policy
999 questions from 121 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
999
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990 written, 9 oral
121
TDs have asked
10
parties and groups
Independents counted together
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departments asked
Questions per month
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| January 2025 | 12 |
| February 2025 | 23 |
| March 2025 | 28 |
| April 2025 | 22 |
| May 2025 | 35 |
| June 2025 | 36 |
| July 2025 | 34 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 74 |
| October 2025 | 24 |
| November 2025 | 54 |
| December 2025 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 50 |
| February 2026 | 73 |
| March 2026 | 62 |
| April 2026 | 91 |
| May 2026 | 147 |
| June 2026 | 97 |
| July 2026 | 33 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 26 |
| October 2026 | 50 |
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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
110. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department will examine whether appropriate supports are in place for cancer patients in view of the recent report by the Irish Cancer Society showing income loss and significant costs incurred by patients. [69097/26]
170. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she will review the drugs payment scheme to examine whether the purchase cost of a prescribed CPAP machine can be included under the scheme, rather than limiting support to rental costs. [69099/26]
174. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the supports provided to mothers and children who do not receive a public health nurse visit due to understaffing. [69121/26]
815. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Health the progress being made towards making the drugs enhertu, zongertinib and sevabertinib, which are used to treat HER2 cancers, available for use in Ireland; her plans to make enhertu - which has been recommended for approval by the European medicines agency- available via an early access scheme; her plans to conduct clinical trials using these drugs in Ireland;…
825. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health the total number of patients travelling from county Longford to a hospital (details supplied) for appointments weekly in each of the years 2023 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and the cost to the HSE of such transport annually. [68788/26]
826. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Health whether consideration is being given to the development of a national framework to support access to GPS locating technology and other assistive safeguarding devices for vulnerable children who are assessed as being at significant risk of wandering or absconding; whether any pilot projects or reviews are underway in this area. [68826/26]
837. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health to provide detail on the arrangements in place to provide relief cover for nursing care on Cape Clear island in cases of leave or other absences. [68855/26]
838. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health to provide detail on the current level of nursing provision on Cape Clear, County Cork; the number of days in which there was no nursing cover physically present on the island, from 2025 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and to provide details on the efforts undertaken to fill vacant nursing positions on the island. [68853/26]
839. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health the number treated with intersex genital mutilation, IGM, in each of the years from 2018 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and to provide an indication as to the reasoning in cases in which IGM was deemed necessary. [68849/26]
840. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health the information provided to parents of intersex infants; the involvement, that intersex people have in informing and monitoring this information; and if parents with intersex infants are being referred to an organisation. [68848/26]
841. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health if the incidence of intersex genital mutilation is reducing in Ireland; and if so, to provide data to support this. [68847/26]
842. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health if a medication (details supplied) will be approved for reimbursement and use within the public health service for patients with HER2-mutated non-small cell lung cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68860/26]
844. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health whether she will consider providing full time public health nursing cover on Cape Clear, in line with the Government's commitment in the Our Living Islands strategy to improve health services to island communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68858/26]
847. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 66423/26 whether action will be taken against a social media company (details supplied) which continues to have multiple posts (details supplied) promoting these harmful so-called cures. [68772/26]
854. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 60224/26 and 60228/26 of 7 September 2026, whether a formal mechanism exists to record instances of non-compliance by the Institute of Public Health with its Oversight Agreement; to state yes or no; the number of occasions since 2020 on which non-compliance has been identified; whether the grant suspension provision in the Ov…
434. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the policy in Ireland on umbilical cord donation for stem cell collection and treatment; and if her Department has considered the creation of a public cord blood bank. [67690/26]
450. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to raise the mileage rate for HSE workers, especially those working caring for patients in more rural areas and who have to travel longer distances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67829/26]
529. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health if she will introduce a multi-annual funding framework for the health service that reflects demographic change, healthcare inflation, agreed pay costs and projected demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66395/26]
578. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will include asthma to the long-term illness scheme; to ensure better supports and access to medications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66695/26]
675. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health whether she will request or support a Health Technology Assessment by HIQA examining the extension of continuous glucose monitoring access to people with other forms of diabetes, including Type 2 diabetes, cystic-fibrosis-related diabetes and Type 3c diabetes, with eligibility based on clinical need. [67241/26]
1107. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department intends to establish any criteria, mechanism or review process to ensure equivalence of assessment criteria for publicly funded procedures across hospitals and specialties; the timeframe for doing so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64212/26]
1121. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health the current plans her Department has to include PGT-M in publicly funded fertility care; and the timeline for the implementation. [64131/26]
1143. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if she will review the criteria for the long-term Illness scheme to consider the inclusion of serious lifelong cardiac conditions, particularly in cases where patients require permanent medication following major procedures such as triple bypass surgery. [64368/26]
1202. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to deliver the new Sláintecare clinical pathway for headache in each of the six HSE health areas since the announcement by the then Minister on 14 April 2022; the outstanding aspects to be delivered in each health area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64602/26]