Ken O'Flynn

842. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Department has received any briefing regarding risks associated with reliance on private residential childcare placements, including cost inflation, placement shortages, or geographic dependency. [36704/26]

844. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason the HSE does not currently collect the average duration of vacancies within Children's Disability Network Teams; whether she considers this compatible with effective workforce planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36861/26]

845. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Children's Disability Network Teams currently operating below recommended staffing levels; the staffing deficit within each team, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36862/26]

846. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any national target vacancy rate exists for Children's Disability Network Teams; whether any escalation mechanism applies where vacancy levels exceed defined thresholds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36863/26]

847. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Children's Disability Network Team posts approved under previous new service developments which remained unfilled at year end 2025; the associated unspent allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36864/26]

848. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any independent review has been conducted into the impact of staffing vacancies within Children's Disability Network Teams on waiting times, unmet need, delayed intervention or child outcomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36865/26]

849. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently awaiting initial assessment, therapy intervention or review by a Children's Disability Network Team, broken down by waiting time band and HSE region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36866/26]

850. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the HSE intends to publish the June 2026 Children's Disability Network Team workforce review in full; whether this will include team-by-team vacancy data; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36867/26]

875. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains statistics on the number of Emergency Care Orders involving children under one year of age in each year from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form. [37064/26]

876. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Emergency Care Orders involving children under one year of age which subsequently resulted in the child being returned to parental care within 30 days, 90 days and six months respectively, in each year since 2020. [37065/26]

877. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any external inspection body, internal audit unit, or safeguarding review mechanism has ever examined the proportionality or evidential basis of Emergency Care Orders involving infants under one year of age. [37066/26]

878. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla conducts any retrospective case review where an Emergency Care Order involving an infant is subsequently discharged, overturned, or not renewed by the courts. [37067/26]

879. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether national guidance exists governing evidential thresholds and proportionality assessments for Emergency Care Order applications involving newborn babies and infants. [37068/26]

880. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether regional variation exists in the rate of Emergency Care Orders involving children under one year of age and whether comparative analysis is conducted by Tusla. [37069/26]

881. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration has been given to establishing an independent post-decision review mechanism for emergency child removals involving infants under one year of age. [37070/26]

947. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any service-specific clinical governance framework exists in areas where the HSE has confirmed that no structured national data collection system is currently in place; and if she will provide copies of any such framework. [36532/26]

948. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal risk assessment has been undertaken regarding the absence of national audit and monitoring systems in certain healthcare pathways; and if so, to provide the date and findings of such assessments. [36533/26]

949. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department has received legal advice regarding the State's safeguarding and patient-safety obligations in circumstances where national audit mechanisms are absent. [36534/26]

950. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health how the HSE measures compliance with clinical governance standards in service areas where no national outcome dataset or audit infrastructure currently exists. [36535/26]

951. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any external or independent review has been commissioned into the adequacy of governance and safeguarding arrangements in healthcare pathways where national data systems remain under development. [36536/26]

952. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department considers reliance on general HSE governance structures, without dedicated national audit systems, sufficient to satisfy the State's obligations under patient-safety and safeguarding frameworks. [36537/26]

953. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department considers it acceptable that it does not receive national waiting-list data for PrEP services; whether this limits ministerial oversight of access to HIV prevention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36538/26]

954. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she will require the HSE to provide quarterly national reporting on PrEP waiting times, demand, capacity and unmet clinical need. [36539/26]

955. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the estimated excess demand of approximately 30% for PrEP services has now been eliminated following additional capacity introduced in Q3 and Q4 2025; and if not, the current estimated level of excess demand. [36540/26]

956. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a national maximum waiting-time standard for access to PrEP services will be introduced under the forthcoming sexual health Model of Care. [36541/26]