Ken O'Flynn

832. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the projected reductions in expenditure on private residential care set out in Tusla's Residential Care Plan, including annual targets, timelines, and the planned expansion of public residential capacity required to achieve reduced reliance on private providers. [71829/25]

836. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department carried out any governance or financial risk review of subcontracted private residential centres in advance of approving additional funding for Tusla in Budget 2026; and to state the title and completion date of any such review. [71969/25]

837. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the evidence base used by her Department to support the Budget 2026 allocation for private residential placements, including whether any assessment of governance, cost exposure or compliance risk was undertaken. [71970/25]

838. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department holds any reports, internal briefs or analyses completed since 2023 relating to governance or oversight of private residential centres funded by Tusla; and to outline the purpose of each document. [71971/25]

839. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the criteria her Department uses to determine whether governance controls for subcontracted private residential providers meet the standard required for continued Exchequer funding. [71972/25]

840. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if any gaps in governance, contracting, monitoring or regulatory assurance were identified by her Department during the 2024–2025 budget preparation process relating to private residential placements; and the actions taken in response. [71973/25]

868. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department maintains a central supplier and payee register for all organisations funded through her Department’s budget; and to outline the mandatory data fields recorded for each supplier. [72517/25]

869. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department requires all organisations funded by her Department to record the legal type of each supplier or payee, such as limited company, partnership, sole trader or registered charity, as part of their financial-governance obligations. [72518/25]

870. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the date on which her Department last reviewed the adequacy of supplier-classification controls and supplier-information standards across organisations funded by her Department; and the findings of that review. [72519/25]

871. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if any internal audit, external audit or management letter issued to her Department since 2020 has raised concerns about incomplete supplier information, supplier-type classification or procurement-record quality in organisations funded by her Department; and the actions taken in response. [72520/25]

872. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to introduce a standardised supplier-information framework, including supplier legal type, across all bodies funded by her Department’s budget; and the expected timeline for implementation. [72521/25]

993. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the governance reason the HSE has not implemented a national HR information system capable of recording historic datasets on funded workforce posts; the date on which her Department last assessed the adequacy of the existing reporting platform used to track National Service Plan posts; and the actions now being taken to ensure future compliance with public-service data-management standards. [71957/25]

994. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the basis on which the HSE concluded that it is not required to maintain historic records of funded posts that remain unfilled for extended periods; her views on whether the absence of such records meets statutory obligations for financial governance, workforce planning, and public-expenditure oversight; and if she will now issue a direction requiring the retention of longitudinal vacancy data for all funded posts. [71958/25]

995. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health her Department’s assessment of the risks created by the HSE’s inability to record the duration for which funded posts remain unfilled; the way these gaps are reflected in national workforce plans submitted under the Public Service Reform framework; and the steps she is taking to ensure the HSE’s workforce data infrastructure supports evidence-based planning. [71959/25]

996. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted any financial-impact assessment of the 6,852 funded WTE posts reported as unfilled as of September 2025; the estimated Exchequer underspend arising from these unfilled posts; and the Department’s policy on how such underspends are monitored and reported. [71960/25]

997. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if she will publish the key performance indicators set by her Department for clearance and screening timelines for both internal and external candidates for funded posts; the national performance against these indicators in 2024 and 2025; and the measures being taken to ensure timely appointment processes. [71961/25]

998. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the evaluation her Department conducted prior to implementing the 2024–2025 HSE employment control measures; the projected effect of those restrictions on achieving the National Service Plan staffing targets for 2024; and whether a full impact review has been completed. [71962/25]

999. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the policy under which the HSE does not maintain post-level records of agency or temporary staff assigned to cover funded development posts; the Department’s assessment of how this omission affects expenditure monitoring, audit trails and compliance with public financial-management standards; and whether she will issue a direction that such records now be maintained. [71963/25]

1000. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the status of the HSE’s project to procure a single national talent-acquisition system; the governance arrangements for this procurement; the expected date for system deployment; and how the Department will ensure that the new system addresses the data and reporting gaps identified in recent PQ replies. [71964/25]

1001. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department holds copies, summaries, notifications or logging records of any public-health risk assessments concerning communicable-disease risks among persons arriving into the State since 1 January 2020, including assessments conducted by the HSE, Public Health Units or the National Health Protection Office; the date on which each assessment was received or recorded by her Department; to identify the unit within her Department responsible for reviewing or tracking such assessments; and to outline the governance process through which her Department exercises oversight of public-health risk assessment activity in circumstances where these assessments are undertaken by the HSE. [71974/25]

1002. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department holds any copies, summaries, notifications or records of public-health risk assessments concerning communicable-disease risks among persons arriving into the State since 1 January 2020, including the date each assessment was received and the unit that logged or reviewed it; and, if no such records are held, to set out how her Department exercises oversight of this area of national health-protection activity. [71975/25]

1003. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to set out the statutory governance responsibilities of her Department in relation to the treatment abroad scheme as it applies to minors; and to outline the Department’s role in approving, overseeing or reviewing referral pathways for gender-related assessment or treatment outside the State. [71976/25]

1004. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the Department’s policy framework, internal guidance or decision-support documents that informed the assessment of clinical safety, safeguarding and public-expenditure implications when minors were referred abroad for gender-related treatment; and if no such framework existed, to state the reason. [71977/25]

1005. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the steps taken by her Department to assess the implications of the Cass Review for Irish policy on gender-related healthcare for minors; and to specify any policy changes, clinical standards or risk-mitigation measures introduced as a result. [71978/25]

1006. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the expenditure-control arrangements, budget ceilings, approval processes and value-for-money mechanisms applied by her Department to overseas gender-related referrals for minors since 2020; and to confirm whether these arrangements have been audited. [71979/25]