Questions

973. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total amount owed to the HSE by patients or former patients who have not paid their hospital bills. [71793/25]

974. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid by the HSE to debt collector companies in each of the past ten years. [71794/25]

976. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of cases which have been taken against the HSE over the alleged misreading of smear tests in each of the past ten years. [71796/25]

977. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total cost to the State associated with the cyber-attack on the HSE and her Department in recent years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71797/25]

978. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have contacted the HSE's drug and alcohol helpline in each of the past ten years. [71798/25]

979. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have undergone the HSE's suicide prevention training in each of the past ten years. [71799/25]

993. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the governance reason the HSE has not implemented a national HR information system capable of recording historic datasets on funded workforce posts; the date on which her Department last assessed the adequacy of the existing reporting platform used to track National Service Plan posts; and the actions now being taken to ensure future compliance with public-service…

994. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the basis on which the HSE concluded that it is not required to maintain historic records of funded posts that remain unfilled for extended periods; her views on whether the absence of such records meets statutory obligations for financial governance, workforce planning, and public-expenditure oversight; and if she will now issue a direction requiring the retentio…

995. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health her Department’s assessment of the risks created by the HSE’s inability to record the duration for which funded posts remain unfilled; the way these gaps are reflected in national workforce plans submitted under the Public Service Reform framework; and the steps she is taking to ensure the HSE’s workforce data infrastructure supports evidence-based planning. [7195…

1013. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 634 of 23 September 2025, if an urgent response from the HSE will be provided (details supplied). [72019/25]

1061. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the current number of whole-time equivalent vacancies for social workers, social care workers and dietitians in the HSE South/South-West region; the average duration of these vacancies; and the projected contribution of apprenticeship schemes to reducing these vacancies in 2025 and 2026. [72250/25]

572. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the interim clinical safeguards she has directed the HSE to introduce for the assessment and treatment of children and young people with gender distress in response to the Cass Review; the guidance her Department has issued to CAMHS and Children’s Health Ireland on the application of a precautionary approach; and the timeframe for finalising updated national clini…

593. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if she will engage with Cork University Hospital and the HSE to examine the need for additional facilities and dedicated space for the rheumatology outpatient department at CUH; if consideration will be given to providing an appropriate area for multidisciplinary team consultations, patient education, and associated administrative functions in order to improv…

301. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to explain the contradiction between the HSE’s written assurance that no Irish child has been referred to a clinic in Antwerp and references in judicial review documentation to a care pathway involving such a clinic; and to outline what steps the Department is taking to reconcile and verify these conflicting claims. [70454/25]

837. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the total amount of HSE funding that has been provided to a service (details supplied) since the WRC agreement in 2023; the dates these payments were made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69038/25]

838. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the engagement which the HSE has had with a service (details supplied) in 2025 regarding the implementation of the agreed 8% uplift which is due to staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69039/25]

953. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the compliance targets, if any, the HSE has set regarding uptake of trauma-informed and culturally competent training among frontline staff; the current completion rates against those targets for each hospital group; and the measures in place to ensure hospitals with low uptake achieve compliance. [69416/25]

1055. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health her plans regarding the installation of solar panels on all HSE buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [70144/25]

1082. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Health to ask the HSE to provide, in respect of the HSE and the three Limerick wind farm planning applications submitted to Limerick City and County Council and An Coimisiún Pleanála (details supplied), if the HSE received a scoping request for each application; the date on which any such scoping request was received; if the HSE received notification of the plann…

508. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if patients who are seated in chairs in emergency departments for extended periods such as for more than six-hours are included in the official trolley numbers published by the Health Service Executive; if not , if she will consider introducing a more comprehensive reporting system that records all patients awaiting an inpatient bed including those who are seat…

517. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the average length of time taken for an applicant for a 2024 HSE development post to complete the clearance process before being placed on payroll, the number of applicants currently in clearance for more than 3 months, 6 months and 12 months, and the operational reasons for these delays. [68911/25]

518. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the impact of the 2024–2025 HSE employment control measures on the staffing targets approved for 2024, the number of posts for which recruitment was paused or deferred as a result, and the expected timeline to lift remaining restrictions in order to fill all outstanding development posts. [68912/25]

519. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the performance targets set by her Department for the HSE regarding recruitment timelines for both replacement vacancies and newly funded service development posts, the monthly metrics used to monitor progress toward these targets, the current national performance against each target, and the expected timeframe to eliminate the reported gap of 6,852 funded WTE pos…

520. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted any central review of the number of non-medical circumcisions undertaken in public hospitals in each of the years 2020 to 2025, whether the HSE has provided annual activity reports on this category of elective procedures, and if so when these reports were received. [68914/25]

521. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health when her Department last received from the HSE a cost-impact analysis for elective procedures without medical indication, including non-medical circumcision, identifying total annual theatre time allocated to such procedures and the effect on paediatric surgery waiting lists. [68915/25]