Hospital Services

790. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if she will consider providing a scheme targeted at new mothers to provide GP visits; similar to what is in place for newborn babies, to provide support postpartum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27650/25]

791. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health if she will set out the services available in the National Pelvic Floor Centre in St. Michael’s Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; her views on whether this service is adequate; her further views on whether there is scope for expanding these services in this location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27651/25]

815. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if she will address a medical matter concerning a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25415/25]

848. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the number of acute hospitals with appointed end-of-life care coordinators; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25753/25]

850. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided by her Department to the Irish Hospice Foundation in 2024 and 2025 to support the hospice friendly hospital programme and the network of end-of-life care coordinators in acute hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25755/25]

851. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that applied for a design and dignity grant fund to improve end-of-life care in 2024; the number of projects grant funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25756/25]

218. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if a voluntary acute hospital (details supplied) carried out a review of services to align them with available funding in 2024; the outcome of any such review; which services, including patient services, were reduced to align with the available funding; the time period for such reduction in services applied; and if she will make a statement …

199. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the restrictions to hospital transport services in Tipperary, which are leaving many patients without transport; to increase the budget for the service to ensure that those in real need of transport are not left without; the reason for the increase in the demand; if hospital transport for beneficiaries of temporar…

208. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Health the plans her Department have to improve the services at Naas hospital; if there are plans for infrastructure investment for the hospital in the next five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24105/25]

232. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health the current staffing level and capacity of psychiatric services at Roscommon University Hospital. [24139/25]

233. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if the need for a paediatric neurologist for University Hospital Kerry will be reviewed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24065/25]

1042. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide details regarding the private clinic located at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street; the details of the contract with the private clinic; the rent per year and if that includes utilities or the use of other on site services; if the administrative staff in the private clinic are also employees of CHI on a part-time basi…

1047. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to confirm the number of spina bifida multidisciplinary team clinics held in Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number at which a consultant spinal surgeon was present; and the number at which a consultant urologist was present. [23528/25]

1048. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to confirm if urological care at Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service is urology consultant led or delivered by a non-consultant hospital doctor; if patients who attend this clinic are discussed at urology rounds or multidisciplinary team discussion with a consultant urologist present; to outline the retention procedure…

1049. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to confirm if it is Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) policy to provide food to all mothers in the postpartum period or only those who breastfeed or pump breast milk for feeding; to confirm if all mothers who arrive in CHI sites by ambulance from maternity hospitals with infants requiring incubator care, high dependency unit care or intensive c…

1085. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health to request the HSE to review and put in place a referral pathway for patients and key resources, to make more use of the Children's Health Ireland Urgent Care Centre at Connolly Hospital particularly for children and parents from the Fingal area, pending the closure Temple Street Children’s Hospital in the coming years; and if she will make a…

1086. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health if the paediatric urgent care centre in Connolly Hospital should be able to deal with an expanded list of particular cases as this centre is easily accessible from Fingal and the more serious cases can be as planned referred on to the new children’s hospital at St James Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23648/25]

1096. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health if the operating hours for ultrasounds at University Hospital Galway will be expanded beyond the current operating hours of Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23711/25]

1129. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that the dental section in Crumlin Childrens Hospital is not doing any preventive dental care at present, unless it is an emergency, due to staff shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24067/25]

1131. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health if patients currently on waiting lists for procedures will be referred for the new Swords surgical hub when it opens later in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24070/25]

1164. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of beds in each private hospital nationwide are currently occupied by a patient who first presented to a public hospital, but was transferred by the HSE for taxpayer paid care, treatment or tests to a private hospital. [24249/25]

1165. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who received treatment in a private hospital in the State at a cost to the taxpayer in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [24250/25]

1166. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of private clinics currently operating in rooms in public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24251/25]

1197. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have undergone genetic testing at St. James's Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [24381/25]

451. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the number of persons attending chemotherapy within the recommended timeframe in each of the relevant hospitals managed by the Ireland East Hospital Group, by month, from July 2024 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [22184/25]