1106. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether counselling activity data currently reported to her Department distinguishes between new clients, returning clients, re-referrals, total appointments offered, total appointments attended, cancellations, DNAs and total sessions delivered; and if she will provide the most recent available breakdown by Health Region. [37047/26]
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1107. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the risk that session-based counselling activity figures may overstate service reach where the same individual attends multiple sessions within a reporting period; and, if so, to provide the findings. [37048/26]
1108. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal reconciliation report is produced comparing counselling activity data across Health Regions to identify anomalies, outliers, inconsistent definitions or unusual month-on-month movements; and if so, whether such reports will be published. [37049/26]
1109. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE Mental Health Services Key Performance Indicator Metadata document includes standard national definitions for referral, re-referral, assessment, attendance, discharge, completed case, DNA, cancellation and unique client; and if she will provide those definitions. [37050/26]
1110. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Therapeutic Interventions Service Improvement Programme Board has been given a formal mandate to examine counselling data governance, regional comparability, unmet demand, patient outcomes and workforce capacity; and, if so, to provide its terms of reference. [37051/26]
1111. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the planned mapping of HSE and HSE-funded counselling services will include section 39 providers, National Office for Suicide Prevention-funded services, Tusla-funded counselling services, local low-cost counselling charities and community voluntary providers; and when this mapping exercise will be completed. [37052/26]
1112. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she will commit to publishing a national counselling services dashboard showing, by Health Region, referrals, re-referrals, unique clients, waiting times, sessions delivered, average sessions per client, outcomes and unmet demand. [37053/26]
1116. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2663 of 14 April 2026, whether the expenditure figures provided relate solely to psychological services abroad or whether they also include associated travel, accommodation, administration, translation, assessment, or ancillary clinical costs. [37074/26]
1117. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a centralised database recording referrals abroad for gender-related care under the Treatment Abroad Scheme; and if so, which HSE division is responsible for governance and oversight of that database. [37075/26]
1118. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any audit, value-for-money review, safeguarding review or clinical governance review has been conducted in respect of gender-related referrals abroad involving minors since 2020. [37076/26]
1119. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE can provide the jurisdictions and healthcare providers to which paediatric gender-related referrals abroad were directed under the Treatment Abroad Scheme from 2020 to 2026. [37077/26]
1120. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any external clinical guidelines, international protocols or evidence reviews were relied upon in approving gender-related referrals abroad for minors under the Treatment Abroad Scheme. [37078/26]
1121. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department or HSE has assessed the long-term projected financial exposure associated with gender-related referrals abroad under the Treatment Abroad Scheme. [37079/26]
1122. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national safeguarding framework specific to minors referred abroad for gender-related treatment currently exists. [37080/26]
1123. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether outcome monitoring or long-term follow-up arrangements exist for minors referred abroad for gender-related psychological services under the Treatment Abroad Scheme. [37081/26]
1246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal target timeframe between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource, even where such targets are not publicly reported. [37848/26]
1247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the number of incidents in which ambulance allocation exceeds specified time thresholds including 10, 20, 30 and 60 minutes. [37849/26]
1248. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any patient harm reviews, mortality reviews, or clinical governance assessments have identified ambulance allocation or dispatch delays as a contributory factor since 2020. [37850/26]
1249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any correlation analysis has been conducted between ambulance dispatch timelines and patient outcomes, including cardiac arrest, stroke, trauma or sepsis cases. [37851/26]
1250. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any incidents involving delayed ambulance allocation have been escalated to the HSE Enterprise Risk Register, Serious Incident Management Team, or National Incident Management System since 2020. [37852/26]
1251. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains a central dataset recording the elapsed time between emergency call receipt and ambulance resource allocation for every 999 incident nationally. [37853/26]
1252. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether regional variation data exists comparing ambulance dispatch allocation times across community healthcare organisations or operational regions. [37854/26]
1253. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any independent review has examined whether current ambulance dispatch standards are achievable under existing staffing and fleet levels. [37855/26]
1254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance response-time risks, dispatch-delay risks, emergency resource-allocation risks, or ambulance-capacity pressures have been recorded at local, regional, divisional, or operational level within the National Ambulance Service risk-management system since 2020, even where not escalated to the national NAS Risk Register. [37857/26]
1255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the criteria used by the National Ambulance Service to determine whether ambulance dispatch or response-time risks are escalated onto the NAS Risk Register. [37858/26]