Ken O'Flynn

515. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide an explanation for the year-on-year decline in long-Covid clinic attendances nationally; and whether this reflects reduced referral activity, reduced capacity, or reduced demand. [50609/26]

516. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has ever sought or received cumulative manganese exposure data from water suppliers broken down by age group or vulnerability category; the basis on which the 80 µg/L guideline value is considered adequate for infants, children, older persons and medically vulnerable groups, given that it is a general population threshold; whether the absence of a vulnerable-group-specific protocol for manganese exposure assessment appears on any HSE risk register or audit plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50610/26]

517. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to the HSE's confirmation that no national dataset on returned medicines currently exists, whether the national medicines disposal service under CPA25 will record returned medicines as a defined, structured national dataset; to specify the data fields that dataset will capture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50611/26]

518. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether data on the volume, type and cost of medicines returned under the CPA25 disposal service will be published; the frequency of such publication; the date on which the first such report will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50612/26]

519. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the confirmed commencement date of the national medicines disposal service under CPA25, given the HSE's statement that the service is due to commence "over the summer" in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50613/26]

520. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a baseline estimate of the annual cost of unused, expired or otherwise wasted medicines will be established at the commencement of the CPA25 disposal service; the methodology to be applied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50614/26]

521. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether waste-reduction targets will be set on foot of the data collected under the CPA25 disposal service; the office responsible for owning and governing that dataset; whether that dataset features on any HSE risk register or audit plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50615/26]

522. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Incident Management System or any other HSE data system contains a category, field or tag that identifies an incident, complaint or safeguarding concern as involving a privately contracted home support provider, as distinct from directly employed HSE staff; and if not, to confirm that incidents involving privately contracted home support providers cannot be separately identified or counted. [50624/26]

523. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has conducted any audit or assurance check confirming that privately contracted home support providers actually report complaints, missed visits, safeguarding incidents and medication-related incidents to the HSE, given the Executive's stated expectation that such incidents "would be reported"; and to provide the findings of any such audit. [50625/26]

524. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to identify the post within the HSE that holds responsibility for assuring that privately contracted home support providers report safeguarding and medication-related incidents; and whether the inability to extract such data from HSE systems is recorded on any risk register or audit plan. [50626/26]

525. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health given the HSE's confirmation that there is no central logging system for contract breaches by staffing agencies on national framework agreements or supplier panels; the number of suppliers removed from those panels for non-compliance in each of the past three years; and the reason for each removal. [50627/26]

526. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the information the on-site audits of agency supplier panel members record; where the findings of those audits are held; whether those findings are aggregated centrally; and if they are not aggregated, to explain how the HSE monitors repeat or pattern non-compliance across suppliers. [50628/26]

527. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of a central logging system for staffing agency contract breaches is recorded on any HSE risk register, internal audit plan or corporate risk register; and the total expenditure on agency staffing through national supplier panels in each of the past three years. [50629/26]

530. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she is satisfied with the veracity of the credentials and qualifications of all her seven appointees to the Board of Dublin Dental Hospital, as announced on 26 May 2026 via her Department’s website; and whether she will guide her Department to publish the biographical summaries of the other three appointments whose details are not yet presented online (details supplied). [50673/26]

531. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the date on which the HSE first began considering a centralised mechanism to record healthcare professionals subject to criminal investigation; whether a decision has now been made; and if not, the date by which a decision will be made. [50674/26]

532. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.1080 of 12 May 2026, whether her Department or the HSE has sought the outstanding data from HSE regions in respect of cases involving criminal investigation of healthcare staff since 2015; and the date on which that data was requested. [50675/26]

533. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the date by which a complete national figure for healthcare staff subject to criminal investigation since 2015 will be available. [50676/26]

534. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any single national system enables the HSE to identify, across all HSE-funded sites, whether a healthcare worker is directly employed, agency or locum and the workers currently on administrative leave or removed from placement, or subject to a criminal investigation or an unresolved patient-safety concern. [50677/26]

535. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to HR Memo 015/2026, whether the Absence Code A0702 dataset used to record HSE employees on administrative leave records the reason for that leave, including whether the leave arises from a criminal investigation. [50678/26]

536. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE employees currently recorded on administrative leave under Absence Code A0702; and the number of these cases that arise from an ongoing criminal investigation. [50679/26]

537. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health given that HR Memo 015/2026 confirms administrative leave cases are monitored quarterly by the Chief People Officer and reported quarterly to the Chief Executive Officer, the reason a separate centralised reporting mechanism is required to record healthcare staff subject to criminal investigation rather than disaggregating the existing quarterly reporting. [50680/26]

538. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she will direct the HSE to disaggregate its existing quarterly administrative leave reporting to identify all cases arising from a criminal investigation; and the timeframe for same. [50681/26]

83. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total cost incurred by the Passport Service in the development, procurement, implementation, and operation of the new IT system, Turas, broken down by year and by category of spend, including development, procurement, software licensing, staff training, and ongoing operational and maintenance costs; whether an element of this work was carried out by external contractors or consultants and, if so, the cost of same; and if she will provide a direct answer to the cost question asked, in tabular form (details supplied). [49993/26]

84. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 212, 213 and 214 of 25 June 2026, in which her Department stated that there have been no significant service disruptions to the Passport Service’s new IT system, Turas, since its deployment in December 2025, the precise criteria used by her Department or the Passport Service to classify an incident as a “significant service disruption”; the total number of scheduled system upgrades, unscheduled outages, and pre-planned service outages that have occurred since December 2025, broken down by category and by duration; whether the two pre-planned weekend outages referenced in the reply, and the routine scheduled upgrades of two to four hours’ duration, are excluded from her Department’s definition of a significant service disruption; and if she will confirm the total cumulative hours during which the Turas system was unavailable to passport applicants or Passport Service staff since deployment. [49994/26]

131. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged directly with the ETF industry on how the emerging proposals for personal investment accounts (details supplied) will operate in the context of the obligations of the deemed disposal rule applying to ETFs. [49970/26]