Ken O'Flynn

2149. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive conducts any national audit, verification or quality assurance process to ensure consistency and accuracy in counselling activity data submitted by Health Regions to the National Business Information Unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20372/26]

2150. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether national counselling activity statistics published by the Health Service Executive are adjusted or reconciled to avoid double counting where an individual client receives multiple counselling sessions within a reporting period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20373/26]

2151. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has considered introducing a centralised national reporting framework for counselling activity within the Health Service Executive in order to ensure consistency of definitions and comparability of activity data across Health Regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20374/26]

2152. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive maintains a national data dictionary, reporting manual or technical guidance document defining the indicators and activity measures used in HSE national performance reporting; whether such documentation is provided to Health Regions when submitting activity data through Corporate Information Facility reporting templates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20377/26]

2153. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive has issued national guidance or instructions governing the completion of Corporate Information Facility reporting templates used by Health Regions when submitting service activity data to the National Business Information Unit; whether these templates include standardised definitions of activity measures and client counts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20378/26]

2154. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive operates a national verification or audit framework to review the accuracy and methodological consistency of performance data submitted by Health Regions through Corporate Information Facility reporting templates before such data is incorporated into national performance reports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20379/26]

2155. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department has reviewed the governance arrangements under which Health Regions validate service activity data locally prior to submission to the National Business Information Unit; and whether national controls exist to ensure comparability of performance statistics across regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20380/26]

2156. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive publishes or makes available the reporting methodology used to compile national service activity statistics, including the definitions used for activity indicators and the procedures applied to avoid duplication or double counting in national totals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20381/26]

2267. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the expected date on which the performance and evaluation framework for the National Demonstration Park for Modern Methods of Construction will be formally approved; whether the framework will be published; and whether it will include measurable targets relating to housing output, training capacity, and construction efficiency. [20399/26]

2268. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the membership of the Project Advisory Group overseeing the National Demonstration Park for Modern Methods of Construction; the entities that have entered into Memoranda of Understanding governing the development of the Park; and whether those agreements will be published. [20400/26]

2269. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science whether a written risk assessment or project assurance review was undertaken prior to the decision to commence capital works on the National Demonstration Park for Modern Methods of Construction before the performance and evaluation framework had been finalised; and if so, whether he will publish or summarise that assessment. [20401/26]

2270. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the total capital allocation approved to date for the National Demonstration Park for Modern Methods of Construction; the expenditure incurred to date; and the projected total cost of completion. [20402/26]

2303. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of staff recruited to his Department in the grades of Clerical Officer, Executive Officer, and Higher Executive Officer in each of the past five years; and if he will provide the figures in tabular form. [20039/26]

2304. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of staff recruited to his Department in the grades of Clerical Officer, Executive Officer and Higher Executive Officer in the past five years who did not successfully complete their probationary period; and if he will provide the figures broken down by grade and by year. [20040/26]

2305. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if records are maintained regarding the stage of probation at which employment ceased for staff who did not complete probation in the grades of Clerical Officer, Executive Officer and Higher Executive Officer in the past five years; and if so, the number whose employment ceased within the first three months, six months, or nine months of probation. [20041/26]

2306. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of staff in the grades of Clerical Officer, Executive Officer and Higher Executive Officer who transferred to another Department or public body during their probationary period in the past five years. [20042/26]

2307. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of staff in the grades of Clerical Officer, Executive Officer and Higher Executive Officer within his Department whose probationary period was extended in each of the past five years; the reasons such extensions may be applied; and the number of those staff who subsequently successfully completed probation or whose employment ceased. [20043/26]

18. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she accepts that emergency ambulance responses to clinical status 1 purple and red calls exceeding 60 minutes represent a patient safety failure; when she first became aware that such extreme delays are not included in published National Ambulance Service performance indicators; whether she considers a system acceptable in which more than half of red life-threatening emergency calls miss response time targets; and the immediate actions she will take to ensure full transparency, regional equity, and patient safety in emergency ambulance response times. [11575/26]

105. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the expenditure-control framework applied by her Department to the treatment abroad scheme since 2020; if any budget ceilings, sanction limits, or cohort-specific controls apply to referrals for persons aged under 18 years; and the way in which her Department assures value-for-money where costs are set by external health systems and the scheme is described as demand-led. [11576/26]

512. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health when she expects to make a decision on the report prepared by the expert group established by the HSE to examine the implications of the final review (details supplied) for gender-related healthcare services in Ireland; whether she has received and reviewed that report; whether any recommendations within it relate to safeguarding, clinical standards, or risk-mitigation for children and adolescents; and the reason the findings of that report have not yet been published or acted upon. [7691/26]

513. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the way in which she can defend the development or revision of national policy and models of care for gender identity services for children and young people in circumstances where the Health Service Executive has confirmed that neither her Department or the HSE has any policy governing the collection, verification, or publication of data on referrals, diagnoses, comorbidities, treatment pathways or outcomes; when she first became aware of these data gaps; and the immediate steps she is now taking to ensure that paediatric healthcare policy is grounded in evidence, outcome monitoring and proper governance. [9787/26]

514. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the way in which she satisfies herself that public funds are being spent in a manner that meets basic standards of governance, safeguarding, and accountability (details supplied); and whether she accepts that reliance on financial audit alone does not constitute effective oversight. [9969/26]

16. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the total capital and current expenditure allocated to the Reserve Defence Forces in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the proportion this represents of the overall defence budget in each year; whether she considers this allocation adequate given the recommendations of the Commission on the Defence Forces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17548/26]

17. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the current strength of the Reserve Defence Forces broken down by Naval Service Reserve, Army Reserve, and Air Corps Reserve; the number of vacancies in each branch; the average waiting time for a reservist to complete initial training; the number of reservists who have resigned in each of the past five years citing training backlogs or equipment shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17549/26]

18. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence whether ring-fenced capital funding exists for the Reserve Defence Forces; if not, the reason therefor; whether reservists are currently required to personally purchase any items of equipment or uniform that should be provided by the State; the estimated total value of equipment shortfalls currently experienced by the Reserve Defence Forces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17550/26]