953. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68480/26, whether a written national policy, protocol or set of clinical criteria exists which sets out when an acute hospital may engage a private ambulance provider for an inter facility transfer in place of the National Ambulance Service; if so, the title and date of the document and whether it will be published; if not, wh…
955. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the percentage of inter facility transfer bookings accepted by the national ambulance service against the HSE national service plan target of 80 per cent in each of the years 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date, nationally and for HSE south-west, with a separate figure for Cork University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73864/26]
956. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of inter facility transfers carried out by private ambulance providers under the HSE procurement framework; the total cost of same, in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date, by HSE health region and, by hospital, including Cork University Hospital and the Mercy University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73865/26]
957. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the name of the HSE procurement framework used by acute hospitals for inter facility transfers which the National Ambulance Service cannot service; the date it was awarded; its duration and estimated value; the providers appointed to it; the clinical governance, licensing and staffing standards those providers are required to meet; and if she will make a statement…
958. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total agency expenditure in the HSE's mental health division in 2026 to date, by health region, local health office and staff category; the projected outturn for 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73877/26]
960. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to PQ No. 1241, to confirm whether the HSE holds a central or aggregate record of deaths of patients occurring during or following treatment funded under the treatment abroad scheme, in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73908/26]
961. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether referring consultants are under an obligation to report complications, re-admissions or deaths following treatment funded under the treatment abroad scheme to the HSE or another body; if so, the basis of that obligation and the body to which such reports are made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73910/26]
962. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if she will direct the HSE to establish a national record of clinical outcomes for patients treated under the treatment abroad scheme, given that the HSE has stated that patient outcomes, adverse incidents and patient safety fall outside the scheme's remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73913/26]
967. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3821, whether any consultant post was advertised in publications (details supplied) from 2021 to date in 2026; if so, the body that paid for each advertisement, including any recruitment advertising agency, media buying agency or other intermediary used by the Health Service Executive, a health region, or a section 38 hospital…
969. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the average annual cost to the HSE in 2025 of an agency consultant psychiatrist and an agency psychiatric nurse in mental health services, compared with the cost of a directly employed equivalent; whether any value-for-money review of agency spending in mental health services, which totalled €120.99 million in 2025, has been carried out; and if she will make a sta…
970. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 846 and 874, the number of allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment made against HSE employees, agency staff or contractors in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, for each of the six HSE health regions, including allegations made by patients and service users; the number referred to An Garda Síochána;…
971. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 63798/26, the reasons agency costs in mental health services in local health office, LHO, North Lee rose from €0.71 million in 2021 to €3.97 million in 2025, and in LHO north Cork from €2.35 million in 2024 to €4.82 million in 2025 (details supplied); the number of agency whole-time equivalents engaged in each area in each of …
972. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 870, which HSE health regions, hospitals and services were included in the scope of the HSE's internal audit of international, non-EU, consultant and non-consultant hospital doctor recruitment; the number of doctors in each region whose files were found to lack Garda vetting or overseas police clearance; the number for whom th…
973. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 63798/26, which provided agency costs for the HSE's mental health division, by local health office only, whether the HSE holds agency and locum expenditure for each approved centre, each child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, team and each community mental health team in any finance, payroll or invoice system; if …
975. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in the HSE Cork north and east area who have been approved for home support but are waiting for a carer to be assigned, as of the most recent date available; the number of approved hours not delivered; the average and longest waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73872/26]
978. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 70297/26, the agency whole-time equivalents converted to direct employment in each health region, by staff category, from the commencement of the July 2025 framework to 31 December 2025; the headcount converted to date; the grades converted within the management and administration category; the estimated annual saving from con…
980. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 880, confirming that regional data on allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment against staff is not collated centrally, if she will direct the HSE to establish a central national record of such allegations, covering allegations made by staff, patients and service users; the timeframe for doing so; and if she will make …
982. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 874 of 29 September 2026, to clarify the table of cases before the national dismissal appeals committee, given that the 2021 case is described as a dismissal upheld yet the employee returned to work following appeal; the outcome of each appeal from 2021 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74351/26]
983. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients whose discharge from Cork University Hospital, the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital was delayed pending home support or carer availability, on the last day of each month from January 2025 to September 2026, by hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73871/26]
985. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has requested that the HSE introduce a means of identifying patient safety incidents involving agency, panel and locum staff as a discrete national dataset, in view of the HSE's confirmation that no such dataset currently exists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74330/26]
986. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total number of delayed transfers of care at Cork University Hospital, the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital as of the most recent date for which figures are available, broken down by reason for delay including home support, nursing home or Fair Deal, rehabilitation and other, by hospital, in tabular form; and if sh…
987. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has carried out any analysis, at hospital or regional level, of the relationship between levels of agency staffing and the rate of reported patient safety incidents; if not, the reason this has not been done given the scale of HSE expenditure on agency staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74329/26]
990. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HSE framework agreements with staffing agencies require the agency to be notified where a worker it supplies is involved in a patient safety incident; the number of agency workers removed from placement following a patient safety incident in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74328/26]
992. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 49266/26, the number of serious incident reviews completed by the HSE in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 in which agency staffing or other workforce arrangements were identified as a contributory factor, in tabular form, by hospital group or health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74327/26]
994. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 49266/26, whether the HSE has assessed the technical feasibility, cost and timeframe of adding a field to the national incident management system to record the employment status of staff involved in a patient safety incident (directly employed, agency, panel or locum); if such a change has been considered or ruled out; the rea…