Parliamentary questions

1230. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether any external reviews, audits, or investigations, statutory or otherwise, have been commissioned into a hospital (details supplied) in the past ten years. [10498/26]

1231. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether she is satisfied that the Mental Health Commission currently has sufficient statutory powers and resources to regulate private psychiatric hospitals such as a hospital (details supplied); and if not, the legislative or administrative changes she intends to pursue. [10499/26]

1232. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether she is satisfied that inspection findings and compliance ratings issued by the Mental Health Commission in respect of a hospital (details supplied) in the years preceding the recent revelations adequately reflected the risks and deficiencies subsequently uncovered; whether her Department has sought an explanation from the Commission as…

1233. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether the prevalence of chemical restraint has increased or decreased nationally over the past decade; and the conclusions drawn by her Department or the Mental Health Commission in relation to those trends. [10502/26]

1234. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the statutory reporting requirements which currently applies to the use of chemical restraint in approved centres; whether such episodes must be individually logged, audited and inspected; and whether she will publish centre-level data on its use. [10503/26]

1235. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to provide the latest projected timeline for the delivery of a surgical hub at Sligo University Hospital. [10507/26]

363. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health her plans to extend the scheme for healthcare workers who contacted long-Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8797/26]

364. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Health the compliance and enforcement which is taken by her Department to ensure that the FSAI ensure food businesses in Ireland comply with the origin of beef regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8805/26]

365. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health if breast reduction procedures for medical reasons are no longer available under the HSE; if so. the reason this is the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8806/26]

366. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8808/26]

367. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health the situation regarding a person (details supplied) who has long Covid as a result of working for funding paid by her Department to a section 39 organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8811/26]

368. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if a case can be urgently investigated (details supplied) to allow for the earliest possible hospital appointment in the circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8819/26]

369. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the reason she did not approve the rollout of the enhanced influenza vaccine for rollout in 2025 (details supplied). [8821/26]

370. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health to estimate the cost to the health system of increased influenza cases, and more serious cases, which can be attributed to declining to approve the enhanced influenza vaccine for rollout in 2025 (details supplied). [8822/26]

371. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health to estimate the excess deaths attributable to declining to approve the enhanced influenza vaccine in 2025. [8823/26]

372. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if her Department has given consideration to making changes to the treatment abroad scheme to include assistance towards the cost of business-class seating, in instances whereby patients are medically deemed unable to remain upright for the duration of a flight; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8845/26]

373. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if her Department has given consideration to making changes to the treatment abroad scheme to include assistance towards the cost of checked luggage, in instances whereby patients must transport medical supplies home following treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8846/26]

374. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health when the decision was taken that emergency ambulance response times exceeding 60 minutes would not be routinely recorded, collated, or reported as part of the State’s ambulance performance framework; the person that authorised this decision; and whether she is satisfied that the absence of such data is compatible with effective patient safety o…

375. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she accepts that the current National Ambulance Service KPI framework does not measure or report life threatening emergency response delays exceeding 60 minutes; and if so, whether she will direct that this data be formally collected, audited, and published on a routine basis. [8861/26]

376. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any Department of Health policy, guidance, or risk management framework addresses patient harm arising from prolonged ambulance response times beyond existing KPI thresholds; and if not, whether she intends to commission such a framework. [8862/26]

377. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has undertaken, commissioned, or received any clinical risk assessment, patient safety review, or adverse incident analysis relating to emergency ambulance response times exceeding 60 minutes during the period 2023 to date; and if not, the reasons for same. [8863/26]

378. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she accepts that failure to measure extreme emergency response delays limits the State’s ability to identify, assess, and mitigate patient safety risks; and whether she will instruct the Health Service Executive to amend its performance governance arrangements accordingly. [8864/26]

379. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their home assessment of need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8867/26]

380. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the oversight mechanisms which exist within her Department to ensure that National Ambulance Service performance metrics adequately capture risks associated with prolonged emergency response times; and whether those mechanisms have been reviewed in light of rising demand and persistent emergency department congestion. [8876/26]

381. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the number of staff, and the grade employed, in general medicine at Our Lady’s Hospital Navan; and the number of staff vacancies currently within the department. [8879/26]