395. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total number of management and administrative posts created under the Enhanced Community Care programme set against the number of frontline clinical posts filled under the same programme, and the combined annual cost of each category. [66153/26]
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396. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether public health nurses and health and social care professionals in work sharing arrangements who wish to increase their hours or return to full time are being refused on budgetary grounds or under the pay and numbers strategy; and the number of such requests refused in 2025 and to date in 2026. [66152/26]
397. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse posts currently vacant, and the current waiting times for public health nursing and for community therapy services including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics and speech and language therapy, broken down by health region. [66151/26]
398. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the specific key performance indicators against which community healthcare network managers are assessed; whether any evaluation or value for money review of the role has been carried out since its introduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66150/26]
399. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the date on which the role of community healthcare network manager was first sanctioned; to provide the approved job specification and competency framework for the role; and to set out the business case that supported its creation. [66149/26]
400. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of community healthcare network manager posts sanctioned since the establishment of the Community Healthcare Networks; the grade at which each is employed; and the total annual cost of these posts including employer costs, broken down by HSE health region. [66148/26]
1124. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the protocols in place at Cork University Hospital to ensure that a registered nurse with the required clinical competencies is available on each ward at all times, including at night and during staff breaks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64342/26]
1126. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of clinical nurse manager posts assigned to each inpatient ward at Cork University Hospital; the number of those posts currently vacant or filled on an acting basis; the arrangements in place to ensure ward level nursing leadership at all times, including during staff breaks and training periods; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64340/…
1127. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the current nursing complement and the nurse to patient ratios on the oncology and neurology wards at Cork University Hospital; the manner in which the nursing skill mix on each ward is determined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64339/26]
1267. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July or [56368/26], the total number of nursing and midwifery staff recruited internationally by HSE services outside the national frameworks in 2023, 2024 and 2025, given the reply's own caveat that framework data does not capture direct international recruitment by services. [64878/26]
1270. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July 2026, the specific measures in place to ensure that the domestic supply of nurses and midwives is expanding at a rate sufficient to replace the fall in international recruitment, including the projected domestic graduate output for each year to 2028. [64877/26]
1273. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, of the consultants recorded as being on POCC23 terms, the number who are new appointees; and the number who transferred from a previous contract, in each year since the introduction of the contract. [64873/26]
1274. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, the evidential basis for attributing the change in outpatient and day case activity to the public-only consultant contract; to confirm whether elective inpatient discharges fell by 8.3% between 2019 and 2025, as reported; and, if so, the reason for that reduction. [64872/26]
1377. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of podiatrists, expressed in whole-time equivalents, currently employed in community services in Cork city and county; the number of funded posts; the number of vacant posts as of the latest date available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65417/26]
741. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the €11.62 million direct pay surplus recorded in primary care within CHO 4 in 2024 reflects unfilled permanent posts; the primary care vacancy rate in CHO 4 for 2024; if her Department will confirm whether there is any assessed correlation between unfilled primary care posts and the agency and overtime deficits recorded in mental health and older persons withi…
718. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2214 of 9 June 2026, to confirm the number of on-site audits of agency staffing suppliers conducted by the HSE in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 individually, given that the reply addressed the year 2025 only; the precise number of instances of non-compliance identified across the six on-site audits conducte…
720. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if any single national system enables the HSE to identify, across all HSE-funded sites, if a healthcare worker, whether directly employed, agency or locum, who is currently on administrative leave or has been removed from placement, is subject to a criminal investigation or an unresolved patient-safety concern. [50918/26]
751. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2792 of 14 April 2026, the number of instances since July 2025 in which a health region exceeded its agency expenditure limit; and the corrective action taken in each such instance, by region. [51031/26]
752. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1079 of 6 May 2026, which confirmed that no formal cost-benefit analysis comparing long-term direct employment with agency staffing has been conducted, and that the only comparator in use is a generic 30% premium which by her Department's own account excludes pension provisions over an employee's career; if her Department inte…
753. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1083 of 6 June 2026, to confirm whether the HSE holds any grade-specific cost comparison between agency and directly employed staff for nursing, medical and allied health grades respectively; if so, to provide same; and if not, the reason a single blended premium is applied across distinct grade markets. [51033/26]
754. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2314 of 9 June 2026, and noting that the same reply confirms health regions hold autonomy to reconfigure vacancies, whether any national assessment has been undertaken of the number of funded posts left unfilled or reconfigured as a result of agency spend limits; and whether any such risk is recorded on a national risk registe…
761. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the proportion of new HSE clinical recruits that were internationally recruited in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by profession, in order to establish the current baseline of reliance against which any self-sufficiency ambition would be measured [51058/26]
823. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the WTE staffing, by job title and funding that would be required to fully resource two additional adolescent dual diagnosis teams. [51425/26]
825. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapist posts, by grade that have been filled within Cork Primary care system as of 30 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 30 June 2022, in tabular form. [51427/26]
828. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the WTE staffing, by job title and funding that would be required to fully resource two additional early supported discharge teams in the community. [51430/26]