3349. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for an update on the serious incident management process, fact-finding exercise and proposed wider review and improvement plan initiated by the HSE following the findings of mistreatment of residents and safeguarding failures at Bloomfield Hospital; the terms of reference and governance arrangements for each process; the persons or bodies conducting them; the dat…
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3350. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1228 of 10 February 2026 and 1111 of 24 February 2026, the reason the Mental Health Commission does not publish information on the duration of mechanical restraint for enduring risk of harm, notwithstanding that approved centres submit information to the Mental Health Commission from which the duration of each use can be est…
3351. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health to detail the resources being provided to the Mental Health Commission to implement its expanded statutory functions under the Mental Health Act 2026, including the regulation, registration and inspection of community mental health services; the Commission's current staffing complement and annual staffing and non-pay allocation; the number of additional WTE posts…
3352. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health to provide, by integrated healthcare area, the number of currently funded whole-time-equivalent posts in general adult community mental health teams in each of the following disciplines: psychiatry, psychotherapy/counselling, psychology, social work and community mental health nursing; the number of vacancies in each discipline; the corresponding staffing require…
3353. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the single point of access model for child services; the precise process for adjudicating cases where there is disagreement as to the appropriate service or pathway, including who makes the final decision and within what timeframe; whether all relevant professional disciplines and service areas have formally agreed to the mo…
3699. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether there are national clinical guidelines regarding the use of a tenaculum during outpatient hysteroscopy procedures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57428/26]
3700. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the proportion of IUD insertions in HSE-funded services that involve the use of a tenaculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57429/26]
4015. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of children and young people waiting to access each discipline within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, by discipline, HSE health region and integrated healthcare area; the number waiting less than six months, six-12 months, one to two years, two to three years, three to four years, four to five years and more than five years; and if she wil…
4016. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting to access each discipline within adult community mental health teams, by discipline, HSE health region and integrated healthcare area; the number waiting less than six months, six-12 months, one to two years, two to three years, three to four years, four to five years and more than five years; and if she will make a statement on the m…
4017. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting to access each discipline within psychiatry of later life teams, by discipline, HSE health region and integrated healthcare area; the number waiting less than six months, six-12 months, one to two years, two to three years, three to four years, four to five years and more than five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter…
86. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health her views on whether child and adolescent mental health services in intellectual disability, CAMHS-ID, services remain significantly underdeveloped nationally; the current number of approved CAMHS-ID posts, broken down by discipline and team; the number of new CAMHS-ID posts approved in 2026; the shortfall between current approved posts and the staffing levels reco…
200. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has issued any national, regional or local instruction, circular, operational guidance or other direction since 1 January 2026 restricting access to new or increased home support hours for older people or people with disabilities; if so, to provide copies of all such documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51897/26]
201. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of applications for new home support hours, additional home support hours, or reassessments that have been refused, deferred, or approved at a lower level than recommended by the assessing clinician in each HSE Health Region since 1 January 2026; the reason recorded in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51898/26]
202. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether it is now HSE policy in any health region that home support services should be limited to persons requiring palliative or end-of-life care, persons at immediate risk of hospital admission, or other exceptional categories; if so, the criteria applying in each health region and the date on which they came into effect; and if she will make a statement on the …
203. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of persons assessed as requiring home support who, at the latest available date, are awaiting a new home support package; an increase in home support hours; and commencement of an approved package, broken down by HSE Health Region and by priority category assigned by the HSE. [51900/26]
204. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether any HSE Health Region has exhausted, or is projected to exhaust, its allocated home support budget during 2026; whether any financial control measures have been introduced as a consequence; and if she will provide, by Health Region, the allocated budget, expenditure to date, projected year-end expenditure and estimated funding shortfall. [51901/26]
205. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges currently attributable, in whole or in part, to the unavailability of home support services, broken down by hospital and HSE Health Region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51902/26]
206. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the approved whole-time equivalent complement, filled posts and vacancies for HSE-employed home support workers in each HSE Health Region at the latest available date, together with the number of hours of home support unavailable due to staff shortages. [51903/26]
207. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether clinical recommendations regarding home support hours may be reduced or declined for budgetary or resource reasons notwithstanding an assessed care need; if so, the policy basis for this practice; the number of occasions on which this has occurred during 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51904/26]
863. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if a fixed-price contract awarded to a company under contract HSE 24608 relates solely to consultancy, advisory, business case, procurement, programme management and client-side support for the National Electronic Health Record programme; if any part of this contract relates to the purchase, licensing, build, configuration, deployment or maintenance of the Electro…
864. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of personnel assigned to the €8,181,530 National Electronic Health Record strategic partner contract (details supplied), broken down by role, grade or seniority, full-time equivalent status, location and workstream; the hourly or daily rates charged for each role or grade; the total number of consultant days or hours included in the contract; and if she…
865. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the assessment that was undertaken by the HSE before awarding the €8,181,530 a contract (details supplied) to establish whether the work could be carried out by staff within the HSE, eHealth Ireland, the Office of the Chief Information Officer, her Department or other public bodies; the specific skills or capacity gaps that required the use of an external consulta…
866. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has put in place a formal knowledge-transfer and capability-building plan as part of a strategic partner contract (details supplied) for the National Electronic Health Record Programme; the parts of the work under the contract that are intended to build permanent expertise within the HSE; whether the personnel are required to work exclusively on th…
867. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the reasons a replacement of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, originally expected to be completed in Q1 2025 now has a significantly longer timeline; the way in which this timeline compares with the projected timeline for the much more extensive Midleton Primary Care Centre, where construction has not yet commenced; whether the HSE considers the current timeline a…
868. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health in respect of service-users within the Midleton / Youghal and Cobh / Carrigtwohill Adult Mental Health Service catchment areas who required residential mental health placement since the Owenacurra Centre took its last referral in February 2021; the facilities to which those service-users were referred, broken down by facility; the number of service-users and year;…