TDs / Ken O'Flynn

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Ken O'Flynn

Independent Ireland Cork North-Central TD in this Dáil since 29 November 2024

Official Oireachtas profile

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9,005
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
86,377
words spoken in the chamber
Across 393 contributions. Plus 40 contributions from the chair, not counted
295
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
421
topics asked about
Across 20 departments

From the Dáil chamber only: committee meetings are not in this archive.

What they ask about

The subject headings the Oireachtas filed their questions under.

Who they ask

The departments their questions were addressed to.

Month by month

Low months are usually recesses, when the Dáil does not sit. The archive runs to 22 October 2026.

Questions asked 9,005 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026

Contributions to debates 393 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026
Show as a table
MonthQuestionsContributions
December 2024 0 1
January 2025 0 1
February 2025 17 20
March 2025 14 22
April 2025 24 16
May 2025 227 18
June 2025 49 14
July 2025 35 24
August 2025 0 0
September 2025 663 33
October 2025 297 9
November 2025 1,060 18
December 2025 621 2
January 2026 190 45
February 2026 911 14
March 2026 387 38
April 2026 691 31
May 2026 2,122 20
June 2026 635 22
July 2026 289 11
August 2026 0 2
September 2026 347 12
October 2026 426 20

Debates they spoke in most

Plus 188 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.

Asked about similar topics

Worked out by computer from the subject headings of each TD's questions, giving more weight to headings few TDs use. It shows shared subjects, not shared views.

Party, constituency and offices

  1. constituency Cork North-Central 29 November 2024 to now
  2. party Independent Ireland 29 November 2024 to now
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1112. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she will commit to publishing a national counselling services dashboard showing, by Health Region, referrals, re-referrals, unique clients, waiting times, sessions delivered, average sessions per client, outcomes and unmet demand. [37053/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1116. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2663 of 14 April 2026, whether the expenditure figures provided relate solely to psychological services abroad or whether they also include associated travel, accommodation, administration, translation, assessment, or ancillary clinical costs. [37074/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1117. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a centralised database recording referrals abroad for gender-related care under the Treatment Abroad Scheme; and if so, which HSE division is responsible for governance and oversight of that database. [37075/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1118. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any audit, value-for-money review, safeguarding review or clinical governance review has been conducted in respect of gender-related referrals abroad involving minors since 2020. [37076/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1119. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE can provide the jurisdictions and healthcare providers to which paediatric gender-related referrals abroad were directed under the Treatment Abroad Scheme from 2020 to 2026. [37077/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1120. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any external clinical guidelines, international protocols or evidence reviews were relied upon in approving gender-related referrals abroad for minors under the Treatment Abroad Scheme. [37078/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1121. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department or HSE has assessed the long-term projected financial exposure associated with gender-related referrals abroad under the Treatment Abroad Scheme. [37079/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1122. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national safeguarding framework specific to minors referred abroad for gender-related treatment currently exists. [37080/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1123. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether outcome monitoring or long-term follow-up arrangements exist for minors referred abroad for gender-related psychological services under the Treatment Abroad Scheme. [37081/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal target timeframe between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource, even where such targets are not publicly reported. [37848/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the number of incidents in which ambulance allocation exceeds specified time thresholds including 10, 20, 30 and 60 minutes. [37849/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1248. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any patient harm reviews, mortality reviews, or clinical governance assessments have identified ambulance allocation or dispatch delays as a contributory factor since 2020. [37850/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any correlation analysis has been conducted between ambulance dispatch timelines and patient outcomes, including cardiac arrest, stroke, trauma or sepsis cases. [37851/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1250. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any incidents involving delayed ambulance allocation have been escalated to the HSE Enterprise Risk Register, Serious Incident Management Team, or National Incident Management System since 2020. [37852/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1251. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains a central dataset recording the elapsed time between emergency call receipt and ambulance resource allocation for every 999 incident nationally. [37853/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1252. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether regional variation data exists comparing ambulance dispatch allocation times across community healthcare organisations or operational regions. [37854/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1253. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any independent review has examined whether current ambulance dispatch standards are achievable under existing staffing and fleet levels. [37855/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance response-time risks, dispatch-delay risks, emergency resource-allocation risks, or ambulance-capacity pressures have been recorded at local, regional, divisional, or operational level within the National Ambulance Service risk-management system since 2020, even where not escalated to the national NAS Risk Register. [37857/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the criteria used by the National Ambulance Service to determine whether ambulance dispatch or response-time risks are escalated onto the NAS Risk Register. [37858/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1256. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any proposals, recommendations, or requests to escalate ambulance dispatch or allocation risks onto the NAS Risk Register were considered, rejected, deferred, or removed since 2020. [37859/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1257. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal reviews have examined discrepancies between ambulance demand pressures and the absence of dispatch-related risks on the NAS Risk Register. [37860/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1258. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the percentage compliance achieved by the National Ambulance Service with the EMS Dispatch Standard for Ireland in each year from 2020 to 2026 to date. [37861/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1259. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any areas of non-compliance, partial compliance, or repeated performance exceptions have been identified under the EMS Dispatch Standard since 2020. [37862/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1260. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance dispatch-time targets or performance thresholds are routinely missed at national or regional level; and if so, the most frequently affected categories. [37863/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 19 May 2026 · to Health
1261. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal reporting on prolonged dispatch allocation times exceeding specified thresholds. [37864/26]