Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Colm Burke - PQ 60530-25
Deputy Burke asked about the action being taken to deal with the capacity issues in dealing with TB cases. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: November 2025
Updated: December 2025
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Question from Deputy Colm Burke - PQ 60530-25
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health the action her Department and the HSE are taking to deal with the capacity issues in dealing with TB cases, in view of the fact that emergency reviews have doubled from 2023 to 2024, which said reviews are used to prevent hospital admissions and to start treatment urgently thus preventing onward transmission; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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