427. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1639 of 9 June 2026, whether her Department will direct Tusla to centrally record and analyse the proportion of Emergency Care Order applications that progress to Interim Care Orders, Care Orders or Supervision Orders; and the reasons this information is not currently collated, given its relevance to…
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428. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1640 of 9 June 2026, to confirm whether any key performance indicator, governance metric or audit measure of any kind exists in respect of the use of Emergency Care Orders under Section 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; and if none exists, whether she will direct that such oversight arrangements be put …
429. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No's. 972 and 973 of 26 May 2026, to set out the criteria applied by the national review panel in deciding whether a referral concerning the death of a child known to Tusla proceeds to a formal review; and whether these criteria are published. [50660/26]
430. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether learning is formally identified, recorded and acted upon in cases concerning the death of a child known to Tusla which do not proceed to a formal review by the national review panel; and the mechanism by which this is done. [50661/26]
431. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of referrals concerning the deaths of children known to Tusla for which a decision on formal review remains pending, by year from 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and the average time taken to reach a decision on whether to proceed to a formal review. [50662/26]
432. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 876 of 19 May 2026, whether Tusla will commence collection of data on the number of children under one year of age subject to an emergency care order who are subsequently returned to parental care; and the timeframe for same. [50663/26]
433. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 28 May 2026, whether the absence of a national guidance, benchmark or threshold framework governing emergency care order applications under section 13 of the Child Care Act 1991 has been assessed as a risk; and whether her Department intends to develop such a framework. [50664/26]
434. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 497 of 28 May 2026, whether Tusla will commence collation of the number of children taken to safety under section 12 of the Child Care Act 1991, broken down by Tusla area; and whether her Department will engage with An Garda Síochána to ensure these removals are centrally recorded. [50665/26]
435. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 314 of 15 April 2026, to commission an independent, externally conducted value-for-money review of expenditure on private residential childcare placements; and if not, the reason. [50666/26]
436. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1016 of 26 May 2026, the average cost of a State-operated residential childcare placement and of a privately operated residential childcare placement; or to confirm that no comparative cost analysis between the two is conducted. [50667/26]
437. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 490 of 23 April 2026, the average annual cost per child of a private residential childcare placement in each year from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form. [50668/26]
438. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1018 of 26 May 2026, whether a formal assessment of the risks arising from market concentration and dependency on a small number of private residential childcare providers has been carried out; and whether such risk is recorded on the Tusla corporate risk register. [50669/26]
439. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 492 of 28 May 2026, whether she will commit to establishing a longitudinal outcome tracker for care-experienced young adults covering housing, education, employment, mental health and addiction; and the expected publication date of outputs from the Care Experiences Programme. [50670/26]
440. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to Parliamentary Question No 488 of 28 May 2026, whether Tusla will commence central collation of the number of young people whose aftercare supports cease at 21 years-of-age and the number who subsequently re-engage with services. [50671/26]
441. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 841 of 19 May 2026, the average duration of a special emergency arrangement placement for mainstream children in each year since 2022; and the number of such placements that were in unregistered settings. [50771/26]
442. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to issue a public apology (details supplied) [50553/26]
443. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of all reviews, audits, and reports commissioned or conducted in relation to Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) over the past 10 years; and to furnish copies of each named review to the Oireachtas. [50331/26]
444. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether all reports and internal reviews relating to patient safety, waiting lists, and governance at CHI have been shared with affected families; and if not, to provide a timeline for their full publication and to furnish copies of each such review. [50332/26]
445. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether the planned statutory inquiry into CHI will include all matters previously examined in internal or external reviews; and to provide copies of those reviews to ensure full transparency in the development of the Terms of Reference. [50333/26]
446. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to provide copies of the recent HSE internal reviews into CHI which identified systemic failures in waiting list management; and to outline the actions that have been taken in response to the findings. [50334/26]
447. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to detail all governance reviews concerning CHI, the HSE, and her Department in relation to oversight failures; and to furnish copies of each such report. [50335/26]
448. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Health if there are guidelines governing the amount a GP can charge a medical card patient for completing a form (details supplied) [50337/26]
449. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to review medical grounds and award a medical card to a Kerry family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50356/26]
450. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to urgently assist a family with care needs (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50417/26]
451. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health if her Department has undertaken an assessment of providing free access to the shingles vaccine to those with a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50423/26]