1150. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance delays exceeding 60 minutes resulted in incident reviews, serious incident assessments, or patient-safety escalations in 2024, 2025 or to date in 2026. [38878/26]
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1151. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE Incident Management Framework contains any specific provisions relating to prolonged ambulance response delays. [38879/26]
1152. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department of Health has assessed whether the absence of national reporting on extreme ambulance delays limits oversight of patient safety risks. [38880/26]
1153. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HIQA has ever been requested to examine governance arrangements relating to prolonged ambulance response times. [38881/26]
1154. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether ambulance delays are incorporated into any corporate, enterprise, or clinical risk registers maintained by the HSE or National Ambulance Service. [38882/26]
1155. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department receives any routine exception reporting where NAS response performance materially deteriorates below National Service Plan KPI levels. [38883/26]
1156. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal review has examined whether prolonged ambulance delays should constitute automatically reportable adverse incidents. [38884/26]
1157. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department maintains a central register identifying all statutory, non-statutory, intermediary-funded, and externally governed bodies receiving funding from the Department or the HSE; and if not, whether such a register will be established. [38919/26]
1158. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal criteria or classification methodology is used by the Department or the HSE to determine whether a publicly funded organisation is categorised as statutory, non-statutory, voluntary, intermediary-funded, or publicly controlled for governance purposes; and if so, to provide details. [38920/26]
1159. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has conducted any mapping exercise since 2020 identifying which publicly funded health-related bodies are subject to the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, the Charities Governance Code, service-level agreements, or alternative governance frameworks; and if so, to provide details. [38921/26]
1160. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any publicly funded health-sector bodies classified by the Central Statistics Office as public bodies are legally independent companies limited by guarantee; the number identified; and the aggregate level of State funding provided to such bodies in each year since 2020. [38922/26]
1161. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department has conducted any governance risk assessment regarding publicly funded bodies that are legally independent of the State but depend primarily on Exchequer funding; and if so, to provide details. [38923/26]
1162. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health which specific body or office holds ultimate responsibility for approving, setting, reviewing, and enforcing national ambulance dispatch standards in Ireland. [38924/26]
1163. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Priority Dispatch Standard published by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council contains defined maximum permissible time thresholds for emergency call handling, triage, dispatch allocation, or mobilisation; and if so, to provide details. [38925/26]
1164. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the September 2025 review of the Priority Dispatch Standard identified any recommendations, deficiencies, operational concerns, governance gaps, or patient safety risks relating to ambulance dispatch practices; and if so, to provide details. [38926/26]
1165. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal audit, external review, internal review, incident analysis, or governance assessment of ambulance dispatch delays has been conducted by the HSE, National Ambulance Service, HIQA, PHECC, or any external body since 2020; and if so, to provide details, including dates and findings. [38927/26]
1166. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of defined national maximum ambulance dispatch-time thresholds has been recorded on any HSE, National Ambulance Service, Department of Health, or associated risk register since 2020; and if so, to provide the risk category, current status, and mitigation measures. [38928/26]
1167. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of introducing free MART (ICS-formoterol) inhalers for children aged 12-17 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38931/26]
1168. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health if she will consider introducing free MART (ICS-formoterol) inhalers for children aged 12-17 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38932/26]
1169. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is considering funding the use of 'focal therapy' for the treatment of prostate cancer; the timeline for a decision on this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38934/26]
1170. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if measures have been put in place to prevent persons entering the State who are travelling directly or indirectly from the Congo and other countries impacted by the current Ebola outbreak; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38941/26]
1171. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the contingency measures in place at Irish ports and airports to screen for potential imported cases of the Bundibugyo Ebola strain from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda, in light of the confirmed cross-border spread and the PHEIC declaration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38944/26]
1172. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the specific advice that has been issued to the public and healthcare professionals regarding travel to or from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, following the WHO’s determination of the Ebola outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38946/26]
1173. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if Ireland’s national pandemic and infectious disease preparedness plans have been reviewed in light of the recent Ebola outbreak which lacks a specific licensed vaccine; the lessons from previous Ebola responses that are being applied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38949/26]
1174. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the current stock of personal protective equipment and any Ebola-specific medical countermeasures held in Ireland’s strategic national reserve; whether additional procurement is planned in response to the declared international health emergency in central Africa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38952/26]