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106 questions match, newest first.

Pa Daly Written 16 Jul 2025 · to Health
291. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Kerry University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [40054/25]
David Cullinane Written 3 Jul 2025 · to Health
348. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1495 of 10 June 2025, the breakdown of weekly and weekend activity, by ordinary rostered hours compared to extra-contractual hours funded via NTPF or other insourcing funding streams, in tabular form. [36726/25]
David Cullinane Written 3 Jul 2025 · to Health
349. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of all acute hospital-related NTPF spending for the period 2020 to 2025, inclusive, by spending type by hospital, and by year, in tabular form. [36731/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 2 Jul 2025 · to Health
252. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the amount of public funding that has been allocated to the NTP fund in 2024 and 2025; and the amount of that funding that has been used for outsourcing public patients to private hospitals. [36448/25]
David Cullinane Oral 26 Jun 2025 · to Health
1. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to ensure that Health Service Executive and National Treatment Purchase Fund spending on insourcing initiatives is transparent and accountable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34742/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
763. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a media report regarding further alleged abuses of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (details supplied); the steps she has taken in response to these allegations; if she has engaged with the HSE, NTPF and the hospital in question on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33714/25]
Matt Carthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
882. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if CHI have used National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) money to pay orthopaedic consultants at rates above the standard approved fees or during their contracted public working hours; if any CHI consultants were effectively double-paid that is, receiving their normal salary plus NTPF-funded fees for treating public patients, contrary to the intent that NTPF work …
Matt Carthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
883. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if those who approved arrangements (details supplied) ensured that all such work was done strictly on overtime with no clash with consultants' public duties; if all payments to consultants for these sessions processed transparently via CHI payroll in line with NTPF's rule against direct pay to consultants; who in CHI management signed off on these arrangements; if…
Matt Carthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
884. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the internal processes that CHI have had in place from 2019 onward to oversee the use of NTPF funds and special waiting-list initiatives; if the CHI executive or board were required to sign off on decisions to use NTPF money for private or insourced clinics; If so, if those protocols followed, for example, if the CEO, CFO, or clinical directors formally approved p…
Matt Carthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
885. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she has ascertained the way in which CHI ensured that patients chosen for any NTPF-funded surgery or clinic were selected based on medical priority and waiting time; if there were instances where long-waiting children were bypassed in favour of others in NTPF sessions; if she is assured that CHI did not engage in any practice of resetting or manipulating waitli…
Matt Carthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
886. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she has ensured that CHI utilized National Treatment Purchase Funds monies to reduce waiting times for the longest-waiting orthopaedic patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34333/25]
Matt Carthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
891. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health in response to reports that CHI orthopaedic surgeons performed hip surgeries at University Hospital Galway and Cork in recent years, who approved sending CHI orthopaedic doctors to Galway and Cork; whether this was part of an official waiting-list initiative or NTPF arrangement; if the same oversight and patient-selection standards applied there as CHI sites; whet…
Matt Carthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Health
893. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health whether any CHI-affiliated surgeons were involved in treating CHI patients at any private providers under NTPF contracts at any stage since 2020; to provide details of each instance; whether any conflict-of-interest declarations or audits have been carried out to ensure that outsourcing decisions were made solely to benefit patients and reduce waiting times; and i…
David Cullinane Written 17 Jun 2025 · to Health
869. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the mechanisms by which the National Treatment Purchase Fund are accountable to the Minister and to the Oireachtas; if she intends to ensure that the National Treatment Purchase Fund is directly accountable to the Oireachtas and Oireachtas Committees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32437/25]
David Cullinane Written 17 Jun 2025 · to Health
900. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the NTPF suspending all insourcing work with a public hospital since 11 April 2025; the name of the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32618/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 17 Jun 2025 · to Health
911. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the date on which her Department was alerted to potential financial irregularities in relation to National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) funded insourcing work at another public hospital, separate to Children’s Health Ireland; if she will identify which hospital the NTPF has suspended all insourcing work with since 11 April 2025; and if she will make a statement…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 10 Jun 2025 · to Health
1311. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the NTPF from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Letterkenny University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [29148/25]
Shane Moynihan Written 10 Jun 2025 · to Health
1446. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health to detail her recent engagement with the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29699/25]
David Cullinane Written 10 Jun 2025 · to Health
1507. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she will outline all reports or correspondence she has received in relation to concerns about NTPF funding since she came into her post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29948/25]
David Cullinane Written 10 Jun 2025 · to Health
1508. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she has received a copy of an internal investigation into the use of NTFP funding at CHI as reported in a newspaper (details supplied); if she will publish the report, if she will ensure that the Oireachtas Committee on Health receives a copy, if not, the reasons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29949/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 8 May 2025 · to Health
401. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of National Treatment Purchase Fund spending per speciality, per year, from 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22983/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 8 May 2025 · to Health
404. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total spend by the National Treatment Purchase Fund on the treatment of Irish patients in Northern Ireland and the whole United Kingdom, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22986/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 8 May 2025 · to Health
405. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of spending by the National Treatment Purchase Fund of private providers of care, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22987/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 8 May 2025 · to Health
406. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total sum of money allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22988/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 8 May 2025 · to Health
407. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total sum of money spent by the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22989/25]