894. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the reason Addison’s disease, a chronic condition requiring lifelong hormone replacement therapy and ongoing medical monitoring, is not included in the long-term illness scheme; whether her Department has assessed the financial burden placed on patients who must pay for essential prescribed medication and related treatment; whether consideration will be given to a…
911. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68479/26, the number of approved and filled intermediate care WTE posts in the National Ambulance Service South region, and in Cork specifically, at 31 December in each of the years 2022 to 2025 and at 30 September 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73741/26]
912. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68479/26, the number of intermediate care vehicles in the National Ambulance Service fleet at 31 December in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and at 30 September 2026; the average number of those vehicles off the road in each of those years; the basis, including any fleet review or utilisation data, on which the National Ambulan…
914. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68479/26, the reason the number of intermediate care WTE in situ in the National Ambulance Service fell from 194 at the end of 2023 to 189 at the end of 2024, while approved WTE rose from 243 to 269 over the same period; the number of intermediate care staff recruited and the number who left in each of the years 2022 to 2025 a…
915. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a clinical risk assessment of the transfer itself, as distinct from a care needs assessment, has been completed for each resident of Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire; the number of residents transferred to date; the number placed in public units and in private nursing homes respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73823/26]
921. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to measure the time from first presentation to diagnosis of endometriosis as a national performance indicator, in view of the HSE confirming that this figure is not routinely reported; the current waiting times at the supra-regional endometriosis centres at Cork University Maternity Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital; the care pathway …
925. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 63798/26, the total agency and locum expenditure by section 38 and section 39 organisations providing mental health services funded by the HSE in each year from 2021 to 2025, as these organisations were excluded from the figures provided in the HSE reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73882/26]
927. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the cost of agency, overtime and cross cover arrangements used to cover vacant posts in the ophthalmology department at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in 2025 and to date in 2026; and the number of patients waiting for an ophthalmology outpatient appointment and procedure at the hospital, by time band, at the latest date available, in tabular form. […
928. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68752/26, the expected appointment date for each vacant post in the ophthalmology department at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital for which no start date has been confirmed; the stage each recruitment campaign has reached; and if any of these posts are subject to approval under the HSE pay and numbers strategy, in t…
929. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68812/26, which confirmed Unit 5 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire is unoccupied, whether Unit 5 was assessed as accommodation for the mental health residents of the second floor of Block 8; the outcome of that assessment; the deadline set by the Mental Health Commission for their relocation; and if she will make a statement …
930. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the steps taken by the HSE to remedy the governance failings identified by HIQA in Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire; whether the same management arrangements will apply when the unit accommodates mental health residents; whether the change of regulator from HIQA to the Mental Health Commission was a factor in the decision; and if she will make a statement…
931. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 65370/26 and 68811/26, which gave differing accounts of who made the decision, the date on which the decision to cease admissions to and deregister Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire was taken; the grade or title of the official who authorised it; whether that decision is recorded in writing; and if she will make a st…
932. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the date of the HIQA inspection of Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire which led to a compliance notice; the date the notice issued; the governance failings identified; the actions and deadline it required of the HSE; the date the HSE was deemed in breach; whether the notice required the unit to be vacated or whether vacating it was a decision of the HSE; an…
933. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 68769/26 and 68810/26, to which the HSE reply provided none of the information sought, the staffing complement and current vacancies in Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire; the number of admissions to the unit since July 2025; the number of referrals received and declined in that period; the reason the unit's registere…
936. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HSE Internal Audit will include the HSE south-west, mid-west, west and north-west, and Dublin and south-east regions in a follow up audit of non-EU doctor recruitment in its 2027 Internal Audit Plan; the date on which that plan will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74365/26]
937. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Regional Executive Officer for HSE south-west has commenced the periodic monitoring and compliance reviews of onboarding controls required under recommendation 1 of HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626 for non-EU doctors recruited at hospitals in the region, including Mallow General Hospital, since 2024; the date on which the results will be availab…
938. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HSE internal audit will include the HSE south-west, mid-west, west and north-west, and Dublin and south-east regions in a follow up audit of non-EU doctor recruitment in its 2027 Internal Audit Plan; the date on which that plan will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74363/26]
939. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Regional Executive Officer for HSE south-west has commenced the periodic monitoring and compliance reviews of onboarding controls required under recommendation 1 of HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626 for non-EU doctors recruited since 2024 at each hospital (details supplied); the date on which the results for each hospital will be available; and i…
941. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors sampled at each of the seven hospitals examined in HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626 for whom evidence of each mandatory pre employment check was not on file, by hospital and by check, in tabular form, as recorded in the audit working papers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74360/26]
942. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626, the grade or role of the person who authorised the acceptance of medical council certificates of good standing and Irish passports in place of overseas police clearance in four cases; whether HSE policy permits such substitution; whether a documented risk assessment exists for each case and for the case where cle…
947. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to recommendation 2 of HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626, which required an immediate review of the personnel files of the doctors found to have incomplete onboarding documentation, the number of those files reviewed to date in the HSE Dublin and midlands region; the number of deficiencies remediated; the number of those doctors who are currently emp…
948. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68926/26, the proportion of non-consultant hospital doctor records on the NDTP NERs database for which all pre-employment documentation, including Garda vetting and overseas police clearance, has been uploaded, by health region; the status of implementation of each recommendation of the HSE internal audit of non-EU doctor recr…
949. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68801/26, the number of consultant posts which remained unfilled at the close of the recruitment campaign in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 separately, by specialty and health region; the number of consultant posts recruited regionally rather than through Public Jobs which remained unfilled in the same period…
950. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68796/26, the reason the applicant source breakdown totals 3,141 responses when the cohort referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 2282 of 9 June 2026 numbered 2,216 applicants; whether applicants could select more than one source; the recruitment campaigns and period the table covers; how the six journal responses reconcile…
951. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 64311/26, if she will confirm whether an audit took place in 2020 (details supplied); if not, whether the reply to Question No. 1032 was incorrect; if the work described as the 2022 audit of the scheme formed part of the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit of the HSE annual financial statements for 2022 rather than a separ…