476. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal mechanisms her Department has in place to obtain assurance that the HSE is monitoring governance, audit, and compliance issues in voluntary hospitals; the process by which her Department is notified of any significant governance risks or failures identified by the HSE in those hospitals; and the actions her Department takes when such risks or failures a…
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477. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the procedure within her Department for responding to serious governance concerns in voluntary hospitals when such issues are escalated by the HSE; and the criteria her Department uses to determine when further action or intervention is warranted. [68738/25]
478. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of inspections, compliance notices, closure orders or enforcement actions issued by the FSAI and authorised officers in meat processing facilities over the past three years; the types of breaches detected; and the follow-up actions taken in each category. [68741/25]
479. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the reason her Department holds no independent records on the adequacy of the HSE's financial reporting, audit controls or compliance systems for voluntary hospitals, given that voluntary hospitals receive more than €7 billion annually in State funding; and if she will confirm whether any Department-led assurance, verification or risk assessment has taken place in…
480. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department will introduce a national data-collection framework to track short and long-term mental health outcomes for pregnancy loss, including access to counselling, waiting times, and follow-up; and the proposed timeline for that framework. [68755/25]
481. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has evaluated the clinical and economic impact of providing standardised post-loss mental health follow-up in primary care, including the cost of early intervention versus untreated trauma and long-term work absence. [68757/25]
482. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal guidance issued by her Department to the HSE regarding paid or authorised leave for staff who experience pregnancy loss before the 24th week of pregnancy; the procedures in place to ensure consistent implementation of this guidance across all HSE hospitals and community services; the number of staff who have availed of such leave in each of the past thr…
483. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the internal HR circulars, memoranda, or instructions issued by the HSE to managers regarding leave arrangements for staff who experience early pregnancy loss; the date of issue of each document; and the process in place to monitor compliance with these instructions. [68761/25]
484. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has undertaken or commissioned any review of compassionate leave policies for pregnancy loss within the HSE; the scope of any such review; and the expected timeline for publication of findings. [68762/25]
485. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the dates and findings of any facility, safety, hygiene or environmental inspections carried out by or reported to her Department in relation to the Orchid Centre at Cork University Hospital in the past eighteen months, including issues of overcrowding, ventilation, temperature control, accessibility and maintenance of basic patient supplies; the actions taken by …
486. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the current waiting list for chronic pain services in each hospital, the number of patients waiting more than 12 months and more than 18 months, the number of patients aged over 65 years within those lists, and the corresponding figures for Cork University Hospital and other hospitals serving the Cork region. [68779/25]
487. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to list all hospitals that provide chronic pain services, to identify which of these have a dedicated multidisciplinary pain service including psychology, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, to confirm the number of whole-time equivalent pain consultants assigned to each service, and to outline which regions do not have a local chronic pain service. [68780/25]
488. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to set out the current number of recognised training posts in pain medicine, the number of trainees in the current cycle, the expected number of new consultants qualifying in pain medicine over the next five years, the attrition rate from this specialty, and any planned expansion of training places for 2026. [68781/25]
489. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total value of funded HSE posts that remained unfilled in 2024, by month, in each hospital group and community health organisation. [68805/25]
490. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total monthly value of salary funding associated with unfilled HSE posts in 2024 in each hospital group and community health organisation. [68806/25]
491. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total number of funded WTE posts that remained unfilled for more than three consecutive months in 2024 in each hospital group and community health organisation. [68807/25]
492. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if any portion of the salary allocations associated with unfilled HSE posts in 2024 was internally re-assigned to non-pay budgets within the HSE; and to provide a breakdown of any such reallocations by hospital group and community health organisation. [68808/25]
493. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total value of internal transfers made between pay and non-pay expenditure lines within the HSE in 2024; and the month in which each transfer occurred. [68809/25]
494. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the year-end reconciliation for the HSE 2024 pay allocation showing each hospital group and community health organisation's pay budget allocation, pay expenditure, and any difference between the two. [68810/25]
495. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any hospital group or community health organisation recorded vacancy-driven surpluses in their 2024 pay budget, and to provide the value of those surpluses in each case. [68811/25]
496. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to detail any HSE internal finance guidance in place during 2024 governing the treatment of unspent pay allocation arising from unfilled posts; and to provide copies of such guidance. [68812/25]
497. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the process by which the HSE monitors vacancy-related impacts on pay expenditure; and the reporting mechanisms used by hospital groups and community health organisations to notify the National Finance and Procurement Division. [68813/25]
498. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total number of funded posts that remained unfilled at year end 2024 in each hospital group and community health organisation; and the corresponding value of the associated salary allocation. [68814/25]
499. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total number of funded posts that remained unfilled in 2024 at Cork University Hospital, by month; and the total value of the associated salary allocation in each month. [68815/25]
500. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total number of funded posts that remained unfilled in 2024 at Mercy University Hospital, by month; and the total value of the associated salary allocation in each month. [68816/25]