Question from Deputy Mark Ward - PQ 66264-25
Deputy Ward asked for the age intervals at which developmental checks of newborns and infants should be offered by public health nurses. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs and HSE Dublin and Midlands
Published: November 2025
Updated: February 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health the age intervals at which developmental checks of newborns and infants should be offered by public health nurses; the examinations done at each of these intervals; the intervals which are P1, P2 and P3 checks; if services up to P3 checks are being offered to children in Adamstown, Clondalkin, Palmerstown, Lucan, Rowlagh, Rathcoole, Newcastle, Saggart, Citywest, Brittas, Fettercairn, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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