Department of Health
FOI Requests — 4736 requests
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Documents or correspondence between sitting/past Ministers and/or officials, and any member or representative of Cannabis Risk Alliance Ireland since 2018.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Records relating to Covid case numbers and close-contact policies in schools from Feb 2020 to present. Corr, minutes, reports and documents between the Department of Health and EY Senior Manager Orla Maher.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All correspondence re: nursing strike and pay dispute.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All correspondence between Minister Harris and Senator Rose Conway-Walsh, for 2017 and 2018.
- Handled outside of FOIReceived —Decided —Department of Health
New Wording: Any email records from Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 regarding the funding of St Johns Ambulance service and in a similar vein, the mention of a child protection officer. Old Wording: I am looking for data on St Johns Ambulance Service. I was specifically looking for how much they receive in government funding every year and do they have a child protection officer.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
• Copies of any representations received by your organisation recommending / asking that you close your account on X (formerly Twitter),and • Copies of any internal notes, memoranda, position papers, submissions, recommendations, or any other record dealing with the issue of continued use, or discontinuation of use, of X. The FOI Act requires applicants to apply for access to specific records. I don't actually want to see any of the representations you may have received - my interest is in knowing how many people have asked or suggested that your organisation stop using X. If you can release a single figure which represents the number of contacts you have had on this issue, that would satisfy this request. I am seeking any single record, or the smallest number of records possible to provide the information sought (the number of representations received). I am not seeking "any and all" such records. I am requesting copies of internal notes, memoranda, etc. Time range for any search from 1st Sep 2024 to 21st Feb 2025 & happy to limit the scope of searches to certain sections / areas, but I think it would be reasonable to include the Minister’s office and the press / public relations / communications / social media unit in your department. (I don’t know your internal structures - I’m happy for you to identify the section most likely to examine any such request and provide a recommendation to the Minister’s office). A six-month time frame for this search would also be acceptable.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Records held referring or relating to all communications between ABO WIND IRELAND LTD and the Department of Health in relation to a proposed Windfarm
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All correspondence between Minister Harris/GP's/nurses and consultants and pharmacists in December 2018, re: provision of abortion services.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
The Waiting List Management Plan prepared by Sláintecare Implementation Office submitted to the Minister/the Secretary General in Quarter 1 & 2, 2021.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Corr to Minister for Health or CMO, from private or voluntary nursing homes.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Any correspondence sent and/or received by then-Minister Simon Harris to/from the then-HSE Director General Tony O'Brien on the topic of, or that makes reference to, scoliosis in children/scoliosis care for children/Harvey Morrison Sherratt. Six months of records from January 1, 2017 - July 1, 2017
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
I request copies of all documents within the Minister for Health's office and the relevant unit within the Department of Health with regards to the internal meeting alluded to in the document attached, which was scheduled for 5th September 2025.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
HLT 01117-25: Briefing for Ministers Meeting with 22Q11 Ireland
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
HLT 00971-25: Minister’s meeting with St Vincent’s University Hospital 22 July 2025
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
I request copies of all documents within the Minister for Health's office and the relevant unit within the Department of Health pertaining to the HRT Advisory Group meeting alluded to in the document attached, which occurred on 9th October 2024, and the second meeting alluded to in the same document.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A copy of all correspondence in relation to the completion date of the NCH, between Minister Carroll MacNeill and the board of the National Children’s Hospital dated between 01/06/25 and 19/09/25.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Correspondence between Professor Breda Smyth, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and the board of National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) from January 1st 2023 to 18th September 2023 regarding the new National Children’s Hospital to include all memo’s, reports, Email attachments, text messages and minutes.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Correspondence/memos/briefings (in both directions) between the HSE and the Minister for Health relating to histopathology in Our Lady Hospital in Drogheda from June 2025 until to date.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All correspondence (letter/email) between the Minister for Health and Masters/Clinical Director of the Dublin maternity hospitals (Rotunda; NMH; Coombe) and Cork University Hospital in regard to the public-only consultant contract. This would include all correspondence sent individually by the Masters/Clinical Director and as a group of clinicians. The timeframe would be 8 March 2023 to 2 September 2024.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A copy of all expense claims made by members of the National Public Health Emergency Team [NPHET] between 1st February 2020 and 30 August 2021.
- Part- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Letter from Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council (SIAC) dated 30 March sent to the Minister for Health on the issue of "recruitment and retention of staff" in the health service.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All records relating to payments made to Hotel Merrion Ltd (t/a The Merrion Hotel) for the period 1 January 2020 - 24 August 2021.
- Part- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
1. Corr between the chief medical officer and the Minister for Health regarding the use of antigen testing for Covid-19 since 01 January 2021 2. Corr between the chief medical officer and the Secretary General of the Department of Health regarding the use of antigen testing for Covid- 19 since 01 January 2021.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Reports, notes to the Minister or the Secretary General re; delays in delivery of flu vaccines/
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A copy of the Department of Health-commissioned report on exclusion zones
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All records held by your Department associated with this entry in the lobbying database: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/56407/national-infertility-support- and-information-group
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Any correspondence between the Department and the National Rehabilitation Hospital in relation to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal since February 2023. Records of minutes from meetings between the Department and the National Rehabilitation Hospital that have taken place since February 2023. Any correspondence between the Department of Health and the Department of Finance since February of the year in relation to the National Rehabilitation Hospital and the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Minutes of meetings of the Department’s sodium valproate stakeholder group from September 2024 to 17 June 2025.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
I am seeking the release of the International Review of Waiting Lists completed by Ernst & Young, as per the attached screenshot.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Records from the period 01.10.2023 - 26.06.2024, held by the Department of Health's Statistics and Analytics Unit, of the Age-Standardised Death Rates in its annual Health in Ireland: Key Trends publications. This should be more than adequate specificity for the Statistics and Analytics Unit to be clear about which records I am requesting - it's the records they used to publish the above statistics for a select number of years in the publication Health in Ireland: Key Trends 2023 this year.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I am seeking the following: Records of correspondence between the Department of Health and Fiona Murphy, chief executive of National Screening Services, regarding the lab at the Coombe hospital that processes Cervical Check tests, for 2023 and the first five months of 2024.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I am seeking access to the list of e-pubs for the months of April and May. This is the general list of letters correspondence received by the department. Clarification from Requester on 26/05/2025 e-pubs refers to Representations (Reps).
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
The name of each special adviser appointed at your department in respect of the 34th Dáil. The name of the minister to whom they were appointed. The date of their appointment. The sanctioned pay rate for them. The relevant pay-scale that applies to them.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, access to copies of correspondence between Minister Donnelly and TikTok during 2023 and 2024.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
In accordance with Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act, 1997 & 2003 & 2014 I wish to request access to the following documents, which I believe to be held by your organisation: Minutes of meetings held between the Department and the HSE National Women and Infants Health Programme (NWIHP) from 16 September 2023 to date. I also request copies of NWIHP’s updates to the Department/Minister during the same period.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A list of e-submissions submitted to the minister through the e-submissions channel. I wish for my request to cover the period from 1/2/2023 – 11/4/23.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Records of internal and external communications between the Department of Health and any outside party such as the HPRA and HSE in relation to the company names “Narooma” a nd/or “Narooma Medical” For the period of the 23rd Mar 2020 to the 14th of April 2021.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All records re: PWC review of cost overruns at the NCH.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All records re ministers, spouses, or partners who travelled abroad for St Patrick's Day 2018 on official departmental business.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
• The Minister's Brief document presented to the incoming Minister upon her appointment as Minister for Health. • A copy of the Minister’s diary from her first day of office to date.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A list of all individuals appointed as Special Advisers to any Minister or Minister of State within the Department, from 2011 to date, including: • Name of the adviser • Minister to whom they were assigned • Date of appointment • Date of resignation or cessation (if applicable) • Sanctioned salary rate at time of appointment • Total remuneration actually paid during the period of their service (gross, per year or cumulative) Any records containing biographical information provided to the Department or held by the Department in relation to those advisers, such as: • Curriculum Vitae (CV) • Biographical summaries prepared for internal use, ministerial briefings, or external publication (e.g., press releases or website bios) I believe the relevant records should all be held by HR / Payroll, although the requested information may not exist in a single precompiled record. I therefore request that, where necessary, new record(s) be created, under Section 17(4) of the FOI Act 2014, for the purpose of collating the requested details — particularly in relation to total pay received, biographical information, and the full timeline of appointments and resignations.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Please can you provide me with the total number of Dept. Of Health staff in receipt of the Keyholder Allowance, broken down by each grade (General Operatives / Clerical Officers / Executive Officers, etc.)
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
I would like all correspondence between the Minister for Health and the chair of the HSE Board Ciaran Devine dealing with a. The National Service Plan 2024 between the dates 1 January 2024 and 20 March 2024.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
1. I would like all correspondence between the Minister for Health and the chair of the HSE Board Ciaran Devine dealing with: c. The six new health regions 2. I would like all correspondence between the Minister for Health and the HSE CEO Bernard Gloster dealing with: a. The six new health regions between the dates 1 January 2024 and 20 March 2024.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copy of a review and correspondence submitted to the Department of Health’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) by the HSE Clinical Lead in Neonatology/Clinical Director of the HSE National Women and Infants Health Programme on the matter of folic acid policy in Ireland, including the issue of food/flour fortification. This review and correspondence were submitted in December 2021. I request the CMO’s substantive response to this correspondence/review. Copy of correspondence submitted to the CMO from the above parties on the same issue in September 2023, including any attachments, and the CMO’s substantive response to these parties on the issue.