Questions

452. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department or Tusla maintains any national benchmarks, targets, or internal performance indicators in respect of time-to-permanency for children in care; if not, the rationale for the absence of such targets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33786/26]

453. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any internal analysis, audit, or review has been undertaken in the past five years to assess delays in permanency planning for children in State care; if so, to provide details and findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33787/26]

454. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Ireland benchmarks its performance in achieving permanency outcomes for children in care against other EU or comparable jurisdictions; and if so, to provide details of such comparisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33788/26]

455. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children who have remained in State care for more than five years without achieving reunification, adoption, or guardianship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33789/26]

456. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any statutory or policy-based maximum timeframe exists for achieving permanency for children in State care; if not, whether consideration has been given to introducing such a framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33790/26]

457. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the governance and oversight arrangements in place to monitor delays in permanency outcomes for children in State care, including any reporting obligations to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33791/26]

458. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including early years, childcare and disability infrastructure projects, delivered under the remit of her Department, and bodies under its aegis, which have been completed on time and within budget in Dublin in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statemen…

459. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether St. Clare’s Baby Home, Stamullen, County Meath, is included in the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the rationale for its inclusion or exclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33855/26]

460. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding streams or grant schemes that are currently available through her Department or Tusla to support registered charities providing counselling and therapeutic supports to children and young people; and if she will confirm whether such organisations may apply for Tusla funding or Departmental programme funding. [33864/26]

461. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of civil and public servants employed by her Department in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [33945/26]

462. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied). [33462/26]

463. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health her plans to appoint a new orthopaedic surgeon in University Hospital Limerick following the retirement of a surgeon (details supplied) in order that patients are not faced with lengthy delays for surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33463/26]

464. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the status of a referral to the HSE special care dental service for a person (details supplied) who is a medical card holder with complex health needs; the steps she will take to ensure this high-risk patient is prioritised for hospital-based dental care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33464/26]

465. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health her plans to appoint a permanent principal dental surgeon (PDS) for the mid-west region following the recent retirement of the previous incumbent; the steps being taken to ensure that temporary cover arrangements (details supplied) have the administrative capacity to process urgent exceptional case dental funding for County Clare; and if she will make a state…

466. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she is satisfied that a national Integrated Model of Care for Acute and Chronic Pain Services can be developed and implemented effectively where the HSE has confirmed that national data relating to the funding of individual regional chronic pain services is not available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33470/26]

467. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the forthcoming Integrated Model of Care for Acute and Chronic Pain Services will require each HSE Health Region to maintain dedicated cost centres for chronic pain medicine outpatient services and interventional pain procedures [33471/26]

468. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE intends to introduce a national reporting framework for chronic pain services covering expenditure, staffing, outpatient activity, interventional procedure activity, waiting times and cancellations by HSE Health Region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33472/26]

469. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any baseline assessment of existing chronic pain services, including funding, staffing, capacity, waiting lists and regional variation, has been completed to inform the forthcoming Integrated Model of Care for Acute and Chronic Pain Services; and if so, whether she will publish it. [33473/26]

470. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of specific cost centres for pain medicine and interventional pain procedures has been identified as a barrier to planning, funding or evaluating chronic pain services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33474/26]

471. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has estimated the annual cost of providing chronic pain services across acute hospitals and community settings; and if no such estimate exists, whether she will request that such an estimate be prepared. [33475/26]

472. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the forthcoming Integrated Model of Care for Acute and Chronic Pain Services will include minimum staffing standards for each Health Region, including consultant pain medicine, nursing, psychology, physiotherapy and occupational therapy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33476/26]

473. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the forthcoming Integrated Model of Care for Acute and Chronic Pain Services will include implementation timelines, regional funding requirements and measurable performance indicators; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33477/26]

474. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the risk that patients with chronic pain are subject to unequal access to services depending on their Health Region, given the absence of nationally available funding data for regional chronic pain services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33478/26]

475. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she will require the HSE to publish an updated national map of publicly funded chronic pain services, given that the most recent national survey cited by the HSE dates from 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33479/26]

476. Deputy Gillian Toole asked the Minister for Health if information (details supplied) in relation to a series of matters regarding the policy, clinical and financial rationale for restricting access to long-acting injectable buprenorphine will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33481/26]