Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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1232. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Gender Service believes that trans people need to be in their mid- to late twenties before they are mature enough to decide to pursue medical transition, as per a recent radio interview (details supplied). [13698/24]

Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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1233. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that in a recent radio interview (details supplied), National Gender Service staff considered the process to access hormones via Tavistock to be too easy. [13699/24]

Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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1234. To ask the Minister for Health if, following a recent radio interview (details supplied), the National Gender Service staff believe asexuals are entitled to the same medical care and at the same age as all other sexualities. [13700/24]

Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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1235. To ask the Minister for Health if, when writing the Chief Clinical Officer's business case "Model of Care and Implementation Plan for Transgender care", it was intended that service users could be excluded from the Advisory Group due to their interest in their own healthcare being considered purely ideological. [13701/24]

Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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1236. To ask the Minister for Health what consultation was done with the trans community before abandoning the Programme for Government's commitment to WPATH as per a recent article (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13702/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1232 to 1236, inclusive, together.

As this is a service matter, I have referred the Deputy's question to the HSE for response.