2633. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline the audit, monitoring, and review mechanisms in place to ensure compliance with clinical governance, safeguarding, and evidence-based practice in respect of gender-related assessment and treatment pathways for minors. [23651/26]
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2634. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether a single national service, lead clinician, or designated authority has responsibility for coordinating gender-related assessment and treatment pathways for minors; and if not, to set out how responsibility is currently distributed. [23652/26]
2635. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the total number of minors referred for gender-related assessment in each of the past five years, and to indicate the services or pathways to which such referrals were directed. [23653/26]
2636. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether any independent review, audit, or evaluation has been conducted since 2020 into the governance, clinical standards, or outcomes associated with gender-related assessment or treatment pathways for minors; and to provide details of same. [23654/26]
2637. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health her plans for the roll out of the Meningitis B vaccine to persons over 15 years-of-age. [23661/26]
2638. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to set out for each of the past five years, the total number of complaints made by employees within the Health Service Executive relating to sexual assault, sexual misconduct and workplace violence perpetrated by colleagues; the number of such complaints that were resolved informally, subject to formal investigation and upheld following investigation; whether all…
2639. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the number of specialists currently in place in the Mater Hospital's lymphoedema programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23665/26]
2640. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health to provide details of funding provided to the Mater Hospital's lymphoedema programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23666/26]
2641. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to progress the lymphoedema model of care further to successful outcomes from proof-of-concept services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23667/26]
2642. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive maintains a monthly record of funded but unfilled posts at Cork University Hospital; if so, the number of such posts for each month in 2024, and the total associated salary allocation in each month, in tabular form; and if such records are not maintained, to outline the governance, reporting and oversight arrangements in place…
2643. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the reasons inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease, is not included in the long-term illness scheme; whether she will consider amending the Health Act 1970 to include inflammatory bowel disease in the scheme, in line with other chronic and lifelong conditions; the supports available to children diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease and their…
2644. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health if she will consider including systemic lupus erythematosus as part of the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23675/26]
2645. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health if she intends to increase the number of long-term illnesses included in the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23676/26]
2646. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to specify the clinical and operational risk thresholds that must be satisfied before patient transfer to the National Children's Hospital can proceed, particularly during the November to March period [23677/26]
2647. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a formal written risk assessment on winter patient transfer has been completed; if so, to provide the date of completion and whether it will be published [23678/26]
2648. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the contingency protocols in place in the event that transfer coincides with peak winter pressures, including escalation triggers and deferral mechanisms. [23679/26]
2649. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to identify the individual or body with final decision-making authority regarding the timing of patient transfer to the National Children's Hospital. [23680/26]
2650. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any independent external clinical or operational review has been commissioned in respect of the transfer plan; and if so, to provide details. [23681/26]
2651. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to set out the current financial control and oversight mechanisms in place for primary care laboratory testing, including standard lipid profile testing, in circumstances where a national dataset on activity and cost is not held centrally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23704/26]
2652. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the total annual expenditure on primary care laboratory testing for each of the past five years, including any estimated or modelled figures used in the absence of a comprehensive national dataset; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23705/26]
2653. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any system is currently in place to attribute laboratory testing costs to individual service areas, patient cohorts, or primary care providers; and if not, the interim measures being used to support cost accountability pending the implementation of the National Laboratory Information System; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23706/26]
2654. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to detail any audits, reviews, or value-for-money assessments carried out in respect of primary care laboratory testing, including standard lipid profile tests, in the past five years; and if she will provide the findings of such assessments. [23707/26]
2655. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national or regional oversight mechanisms are in place to monitor patterns of laboratory test ordering in primary care, including safeguards against duplication or unnecessary testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23708/26]
2656. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to outline how value-for-money in primary care laboratory testing is currently assessed and assured in the absence of a national dataset capturing the volume and cost of such testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23709/26]
2657. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the implementation timeline for the National Laboratory Information System, including key milestones, expected completion date, and the governance arrangements in place to ensure delivery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23710/26]