687. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE Chief Internal Auditor has identified regional inconsistency as a governance or operational risk within any audit, assurance, or advisory work since 2022. [36197/26]
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688. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health how the HSE ensures equal treatment of patients across all six Health Regions in circumstances where no dedicated audit of regional decision-making consistency has been conducted. [36198/26]
689. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any external assurance body has reviewed consistency of governance arrangements across the six Health Regions since 2022. [36199/26]
690. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national escalation mechanism exists where differing regional interpretations of HSE policy arise; and if she will provide details of same. [36200/26]
691. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE intends to undertake a dedicated internal audit into consistency of decision-making across Health Regions; and if not, the reason for this position. [36201/26]
722. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any key performance indicators currently used within the Health Regions framework specifically measure consistency of decision-making, policy application, or service eligibility across regions; and if so, to provide details of those indicators. [36286/26]
725. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health number of formal escalations, interventions, corrective actions, or performance management measures initiated under the Performance and Accountability Framework in respect of Health Regions since their establishment. [36289/26]
726. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any independent external evaluation has been commissioned regarding governance consistency within the Health Regions model; and if not, whether such an evaluation is planned. [36290/26]
727. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department has assessed the risk that increased regional autonomy could result in unequal access to services or inconsistent operational interpretation of national policy across different parts of the State. [36291/26]
728. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether patients or service users currently have any formal mechanism to challenge regional inconsistencies in service access, eligibility determinations, or operational decisions between Health Regions. [36292/26]
729. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether comparative regional dashboards exist showing differences in operational approvals, expenditure patterns, staffing allocation, or service delivery outcomes between the six Health Regions. [36293/26]
730. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE intends to publish periodic comparative reports assessing consistency of service delivery and operational governance across all Health Regions [36294/26]
1040. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE records the reason for agency staffing expenditure by category, including vacancy cover, sick leave, maternity leave, surge activity, or unfilled recruitment; and if so, to provide the breakdown for 2024, 2025, and to date in 2026. [34125/26]
470. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of specific cost centres for pain medicine and interventional pain procedures has been identified as a barrier to planning, funding or evaluating chronic pain services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33474/26]
471. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has estimated the annual cost of providing chronic pain services across acute hospitals and community settings; and if no such estimate exists, whether she will request that such an estimate be prepared. [33475/26]
839. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE provides any direct supports, allowances, or reimbursement schemes to assist families caring for persons requiring continuous electrically powered medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators in the home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31916/26]
840. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has carried out any assessment of the financial burden placed on households providing home-based care for persons dependent on electrically powered medical devices; if any policy proposals are under consideration to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31917/26]
950. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a formal definition of "medically indicated" is applied by Children's Health Ireland in the scheduling of elective paediatric procedures; whether this definition is standardised nationally; and if she will provide the criteria used. [32408/26]
951. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any audit, internal or external, has been conducted within the past five years to verify that all elective paediatric procedures undertaken within Children's Health Ireland meet the threshold of medical necessity; and if she will provide details of any such audits. [32409/26]
952. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE requires Children's Health Ireland to classify elective procedures by urgency, clinical necessity, or priority category for the purpose of capacity planning; and if she will outline any such classification framework. [32410/26]
953. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any modelling or scenario analysis has been conducted at Department or HSE level on the impact of theatre allocation decisions on paediatric waiting lists; and if she will provide details of same. [32411/26]
954. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the allocation of paediatric surgical theatre time is subject to any national performance or value-for-money oversight framework; and if she will outline the mechanisms in place. [32412/26]
1029. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to set out in detail the accounting methodology applied by the HSE under the Treatment Abroad Scheme for attributing expenditure to a given financial year, including whether expenditure is recorded on a cash, accrual, or episode-of-care basis; the point at which expenditure is recognised in the accounts; and the mechanisms in place to link each payment to an indi…
1032. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total value of expenditure recorded under the Treatment Abroad Scheme in 2024 that relates to approvals granted in previous years; and the proportion of 2024 expenditure not attributable to approvals issued in that same year. [32601/26]
1046. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether patients requiring surgical treatment for lipoedema are currently being referred abroad under the Treatment Abroad Scheme; the number of such referrals and associated expenditure in each of the past five years; and whether this pathway is subject to review. [32624/26]