761. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the status of pay alignment discussions between advanced nurse practitioner and assistant director of nursing grades; whether the Department intends to depart from the alignment established by the 2004 Labour Court ruling between these grades; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48868/26]
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762. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether advanced nurse practitioners will receive equivalent pay restoration and back pay to that already awarded to CNM2 and below grades since 2023; the timeline for resolving this matter, given it remains outstanding seven years after the 2019 nursing strike; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48869/26]
770. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the reason the consultant oral and maxillo facial surgeon post at Cork University Dental School and Hospital fell from 0.35 whole-time equivalent in December 2025 to 0.00 whole-time equivalent in April 2026; the reason principal dental surgeons whole-time equivalent staffing fell from 12.51 in December 2025 to 10.31 in April 2026; the reason consultants in restora…
771. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she can confirm that no analysis is undertaken to establish whether equivalent procedures funded under the treatment abroad scheme could be sourced at lower cost in an alternative eligible jurisdiction prior to approval; whether she considers the absence of any cost-comparison mechanism across jurisdictions to represent a gap in value-for-money oversight o…
773. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the centralised register referenced is broken down by clinical urgency, specialty, and procedure type individually, or whether this data exists only in aggregate form for EU Commission reporting purposes. [48939/26]
774. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the specific funding programmes or grant schemes for charities providing counselling, psychotherapy, and community-based mental health supports which will be open for application in 2026 and 2027, respectively; the opening and closing dates for each scheme; and if she will provide a full list of organisations funded by each Regional Health Authority under Section …
787. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the mechanism by which HSE HR Shared Services independently verifies supplier compliance with HR Circular 06/2026, given that HR Shared Services has confirmed it has received no notifications of erasure or sanction from any framework supplier to date; whether the HSE cross-checks framework supplier notifications against erasure and sanction records held by regulat…
789. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2547 of 9 June 2026, the number of the 12,899 respiratory medicine claims rejected under the PCRS between 2023 and 2026 to date, that remain unpaid following resubmission; the breakdown of this unrecovered figure, by year and, by rejection reason; the steps her Department and the HSE are taking to address the volume of rejecti…
790. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the reason the southwest HSE region accounts for five of the 18 invasive meningococcal disease cases notified to date in 2026 and four of the 11 serogroup B cases, a disproportionate share relative to its population; if any cluster investigation, outbreak control team, or enhanced surveillance response has been initiated in the southwest region in response to this…
791. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the current MenB vaccine uptake rate among the eligible infant cohort in the southwest HSE region compared to the national average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48999/26]
792. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2462 of 14 April 2026, if any timeframe targets exist within the HSE or her Department for the period between notification of a meningococcal disease case and completion of contact identification or commencement of post-exposure prophylaxis; if performance against any such timeframe is recorded or monitored; if a dataset exist…
793. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the mechanism in place to escalate or flag a meningococcal disease case where the duty consultant in public health medicine does not undertake the risk assessment described as “immediate” within a defined period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49001/26]
795. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the gross expenditure under the GMS, DPS, LTI and high-tech drug scheme for each year of the years 2020 to 2025; whether any formal national mechanism exists to monitor or analyse medicines waste across these schemes; and if no such mechanism exists, whether one is planned and the timeline. [49003/26]
839. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has set a national target uptake rate for MenB, MenC and MenACWY vaccines under the Primary Childhood and School Immunisation Programmes; if so, the target for each vaccine; the date by which it is to be achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49257/26]
840. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health given that the National Immunisation Information System will only capture data on children born from 1 October 2025 onward, the specific measures in place to improve immunisation data quality and identify coverage gaps for children born before that date; whether any interim system or process will be introduced to support regional immunisation committees in identif…
841. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether any external professional body, advocacy organisation, or international clinical body was consulted on the wording of the 2019 CAAC application; and if none were consulted, to confirm this directly. [49260/26]
842. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether any evidential appraisal framework, systematic evidence review, or comparable methodology was applied before WPATH standards of care version seven was referenced in the 2019 CAAC application; and if no such framework exists, to confirm this directly. [49261/26]
843. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to name the specific HSE governance structure, committee, or officeholder that approved the inclusion of WPATH standards of care version seven in the 2019 CAAC application, given that the HSE reply of 23 June 2026 described the post’s approval but did not identify any approving body or individual. [49262/26]
844. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether the HSE holds documentary records, including minutes, memoranda, or internal correspondence, relating to the inclusion of WPATH standards of care version seven in the 2019 CAAC application; and if such records exist, to confirm under the retention policy and the duration of period they are held. [49263/26]
845. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if any clinical safety, medico-legal, or child safeguarding assessment was carried out prior to the reference to WPATH Standards of Care Version 7 in the 2019 CAAC application; and if no such assessment was carried out, to confirm this directly. [49264/26]
846. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of a centrally recorded number of missed shifts by agency staff supplying workers to HSE-funded services has been identified as a workforce governance risk by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49265/26]
847. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has sought assurance from the HSE that patient safety incidents involving agency staff are captured through any existing reporting mechanism, given the HSE's confirmation that no central record is maintained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49266/26]
848. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 698 of 23 June 2026, whether she has raised with the HSE the absence of central tracking of Garda vetting lapses relating to agency staff, given the patient safety implications; and the timeline for HSE response. [49267/26]
849. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department considers the absence of central recording of credentialing and registration compliance failures among agency staff to be consistent with the assurance framework underpinning HSE national framework agreements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49268/26]
850. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 687 to 692 of 23 June 2026, the date by which her Department expects the HSE to respond to PQs, all of which received a "service matter" referral with no substantive information provided. [49269/26]