859. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of children who were wrongly removed from the scoliosis surgery waiting list. [65503/25]
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860. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of children who simply fell off the scoliosis surgery waiting list when they turned 16 years-of-age, and no longer fell under the scope of CHI; and the number of those children who have passed away. [65504/25]
102. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons treated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [63788/25]
183. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and the urgent steps her Department is taking to ensure that patients who need treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund can avail of it, as in the case of a person (details supplied). [63787/25]
351. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when she will respond to urgent correspondence issued to her by this Deputy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64145/25]
983. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for an operation will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [62861/25]
427. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to review the answer to a previous parliamentary question (details supplied) regarding the sale of a property. [62301/25]
428. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to review a matter detailed in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the sale of a property. [62302/25]
987. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out during 2024 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, by gestation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61331/25]
1045. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 333 of 15 October and 173 of 22 October 2025, the number and location of sites sought in the original questions. [61718/25]
1119. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the reason Children’s Health Ireland has not yet published its 2024 annual report; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, according to the last annual report, it was sitting on €42 million and is currently marked as red by the Charities Regulator for having not filed its report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62228/25]
1717. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [58124/25]
1791. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the case of a medical card application that was refused on means will be examined for a person (details supplied). [58581/25]
2063. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the external expert panel review, established following the audit (details supplied) of hip surgeries in Children's Health Ireland (CHI), is commissioned and overseen by the HSE independently of CHI; and if CHI retains control over its remit, administration, or communications with families. [60040/25]
2064. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if all children who underwent pelvic or acetabular osteotomy procedures under the CHI orthopaedic service between 2010 and 2024 are included in the EEPR process, regardless of diagnostic category for example both 'stable' and 'dislocated' developmental dysplasia of the hip; and if not, the clinical or governance grounds on which exclusions were made. [60041/25…
2065. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the specific role Children's Health Ireland holds in the EEPR; if CHI staff are providing administrative, data or liaison support; and the way in which the independence of the panel is safeguarded in practice. [60042/25]
2066. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the EEPR will include examination of governance, consent and decision-making processes leading to surgery, as stated in the CHI FAQ of 15 October 2025; and, if not, if it is confined solely to radiological and technical threshold review. [60043/25]
2067. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the way in which families will be informed about their inclusion or exclusion from the EEPR; and if each family will receive a written outcome from the review, given that many have received contradictory information about their child's status. [60044/25]
2068. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if any separate processes are being established by the HSE or her Department to examine systemic governance failures in CHI's orthopaedic services, distinct from the technical clinical review of X-rays and operations under the EEPR. [60045/25]
2069. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when the terms of reference, membership and final report of the EEPR will be published; and if those documents will be made available to families whose children are directly affected. [60046/25]
173. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of buildings on hospital campuses across the country that have been erected without planning permission in each of the past ten years; the number of these buildings have been awarded a fire certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57470/25]
818. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if her Department has been notified of a proposed development (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57058/25]
824. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether vertebral body tethering (VBT) was included in HIQA’s review into the governance of implantable medical devices at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), which examined the use of non-CE marked springs at Temple Street; if VBT was not included in that review, the reason for its exclusion, given that CHI has confirmed it has carried out VBT as an “emerging and …
825. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the hospital sites at which vertebral body tethering (VBT) procedures have been carried out, including Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) locations (Temple Street, Crumlin, Cappagh) and any external providers such as a clinic (details supplied) under the national outsourcing arrangements; the means by which follow-up, outcomes and complications relating to VBT have…
826. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether vertebral body tethering (VBT) was reviewed, approved or considered by the CHI Ethics Committee prior to being introduced as a surgical option for children; if not, the reason ethical approval was not sought for a new and experimental procedure; whether the devices used for VBT were brought before CHI’s Medical Devices Committee for assessment, approval …