698. Deputy Gillian Toole asked the Minister for Health the examination of the Health Products Regulatory Authority pharmacovigilance processes is being carried out in light of the recent British Medical Journal findings (September 16th 2026) of a faulty algorithm in the US Centre for Disease Control Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. [68072/26]
Topics / Medical Inquiries
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsMedical Inquiries
64 questions from 30 TDs, between 20 February 2025 and 29 September 2026.
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64 written, 0 oral
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Independents counted together
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| January 2025 | 0 |
| February 2025 | 4 |
| March 2025 | 2 |
| April 2025 | 20 |
| May 2025 | 7 |
| June 2025 | 1 |
| July 2025 | 4 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 2 |
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 8 |
| December 2025 | 0 |
| January 2026 | 0 |
| February 2026 | 4 |
| March 2026 | 7 |
| April 2026 | 1 |
| May 2026 | 1 |
| June 2026 | 0 |
| July 2026 | 2 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 1 |
| October 2026 | 0 |
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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.
The TDs who asked most
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445. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether the planned statutory inquiry into CHI will include all matters previously examined in internal or external reviews; and to provide copies of those reviews to ensure full transparency in the development of the Terms of Reference. [50333/26]
446. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to provide copies of the recent HSE internal reviews into CHI which identified systemic failures in waiting list management; and to outline the actions that have been taken in response to the findings. [50334/26]
1057. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health further to a number of previous requests, to give a public apology to the hundreds of families that have been affected by the CAMHS Scandal in county Kerry, both north and south (details supplied). [34260/26]
122. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the progress of the expert panel established to address unnecessary hip dysplasia surgeries on children; the current status of reviews for families impacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28455/26]
420. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the discrepancies around the cost of a medical report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22937/26]
424. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the clinical pathways in the health system for treating myalgic encephalomyelitis. [22956/26]
425. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the hospitals that currently provide care to those with severe and very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis; and the names of the consultant doctors. [22957/26]
426. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that sufficient care and treatment is available to sufferers of severe and very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis in the public health system. [22958/26]
427. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the arrangements, if any, the HSE has entered into with clinics or hospitals abroad for the care of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis. [22959/26]
428. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of sufferers of severe or very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis that are currently in public nursing homes and are under 65 years-of-age [22960/26]
429. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently assist a family in County Kerry with an extremely difficult medical situation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22981/26]
1121. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if the clinicians implicated in over-prescribing practices in the North Kerry CAMHS have worked in other services outside of this catchment and whether cases they may have been involved in outside North Kerry will also now be subject to review. [15207/26]
1122. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if the clinicians implicated in over-prescribing practices in North Kerry CAMHS continue to work in the Irish health service. [15208/26]
1019. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure urgent access to a treatment where clinicians advise that delay risks irreversible loss of neurological and functional ability (details supplied); if compassionate or exceptional access mechanisms are available while national reimbursement processes are ongoing; the safeguards currently in place to protect such patients from avoid…
1144. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health whether she is concerned that more than two years on from the exposure of the spinal surgery implant scandal at Temple Street Hospital, the Medical Council who were requested to investigate the surgeon at the centre of the scandal (details supplied), appear to have issued the same surgeon a certificate of good standing to practice in the US; if she will seek clar…
1060. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2576 of 8 September 2025, the status of the external expert review group established to review children who may have undergone unnecessary hip surgeries; if it has been delayed; if recruitment of the international experts has been completed; if the group has convened; if individual case reviews will still commence no later t…
2063. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the external expert panel review, established following the audit (details supplied) of hip surgeries in Children's Health Ireland (CHI), is commissioned and overseen by the HSE independently of CHI; and if CHI retains control over its remit, administration, or communications with families. [60040/25]
2064. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if all children who underwent pelvic or acetabular osteotomy procedures under the CHI orthopaedic service between 2010 and 2024 are included in the EEPR process, regardless of diagnostic category for example both 'stable' and 'dislocated' developmental dysplasia of the hip; and if not, the clinical or governance grounds on which exclusions were made. [60041/25…
2065. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the specific role Children's Health Ireland holds in the EEPR; if CHI staff are providing administrative, data or liaison support; and the way in which the independence of the panel is safeguarded in practice. [60042/25]
2066. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the EEPR will include examination of governance, consent and decision-making processes leading to surgery, as stated in the CHI FAQ of 15 October 2025; and, if not, if it is confined solely to radiological and technical threshold review. [60043/25]
2067. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the way in which families will be informed about their inclusion or exclusion from the EEPR; and if each family will receive a written outcome from the review, given that many have received contradictory information about their child's status. [60044/25]
2068. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if any separate processes are being established by the HSE or her Department to examine systemic governance failures in CHI's orthopaedic services, distinct from the technical clinical review of X-rays and operations under the EEPR. [60045/25]
2069. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when the terms of reference, membership and final report of the EEPR will be published; and if those documents will be made available to families whose children are directly affected. [60046/25]
2135. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health the position regarding undertaking a medical evacuation of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44809/25]