936. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HSE Internal Audit will include the HSE south-west, mid-west, west and north-west, and Dublin and south-east regions in a follow up audit of non-EU doctor recruitment in its 2027 Internal Audit Plan; the date on which that plan will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74365/26]
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937. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Regional Executive Officer for HSE south-west has commenced the periodic monitoring and compliance reviews of onboarding controls required under recommendation 1 of HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626 for non-EU doctors recruited at hospitals in the region, including Mallow General Hospital, since 2024; the date on which the results will be availab…
938. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HSE internal audit will include the HSE south-west, mid-west, west and north-west, and Dublin and south-east regions in a follow up audit of non-EU doctor recruitment in its 2027 Internal Audit Plan; the date on which that plan will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74363/26]
939. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Regional Executive Officer for HSE south-west has commenced the periodic monitoring and compliance reviews of onboarding controls required under recommendation 1 of HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626 for non-EU doctors recruited since 2024 at each hospital (details supplied); the date on which the results for each hospital will be available; and i…
941. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors sampled at each of the seven hospitals examined in HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626 for whom evidence of each mandatory pre employment check was not on file, by hospital and by check, in tabular form, as recorded in the audit working papers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74360/26]
942. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626, the grade or role of the person who authorised the acceptance of medical council certificates of good standing and Irish passports in place of overseas police clearance in four cases; whether HSE policy permits such substitution; whether a documented risk assessment exists for each case and for the case where cle…
947. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to recommendation 2 of HSE Internal Audit report OPS012RGN0626, which required an immediate review of the personnel files of the doctors found to have incomplete onboarding documentation, the number of those files reviewed to date in the HSE Dublin and midlands region; the number of deficiencies remediated; the number of those doctors who are currently emp…
948. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68926/26, the proportion of non-consultant hospital doctor records on the NDTP NERs database for which all pre-employment documentation, including Garda vetting and overseas police clearance, has been uploaded, by health region; the status of implementation of each recommendation of the HSE internal audit of non-EU doctor recr…
949. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68801/26, the number of consultant posts which remained unfilled at the close of the recruitment campaign in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 separately, by specialty and health region; the number of consultant posts recruited regionally rather than through Public Jobs which remained unfilled in the same period…
950. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68796/26, the reason the applicant source breakdown totals 3,141 responses when the cohort referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 2282 of 9 June 2026 numbered 2,216 applicants; whether applicants could select more than one source; the recruitment campaigns and period the table covers; how the six journal responses reconcile…
951. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 64311/26, if she will confirm whether an audit took place in 2020 (details supplied); if not, whether the reply to Question No. 1032 was incorrect; if the work described as the 2022 audit of the scheme formed part of the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit of the HSE annual financial statements for 2022 rather than a separ…
980. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 880, confirming that regional data on allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment against staff is not collated centrally, if she will direct the HSE to establish a central national record of such allegations, covering allegations made by staff, patients and service users; the timeframe for doing so; and if she will make …
982. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 874 of 29 September 2026, to clarify the table of cases before the national dismissal appeals committee, given that the 2021 case is described as a dismissal upheld yet the employee returned to work following appeal; the outcome of each appeal from 2021 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74351/26]
990. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HSE framework agreements with staffing agencies require the agency to be notified where a worker it supplies is involved in a patient safety incident; the number of agency workers removed from placement following a patient safety incident in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74328/26]
992. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 49266/26, the number of serious incident reviews completed by the HSE in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 in which agency staffing or other workforce arrangements were identified as a contributory factor, in tabular form, by hospital group or health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74327/26]
1006. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE took account of patients' clinical need and social circumstances, including patients unable to work pending a surgical consultation, when deciding which appointments to cancel or retain in advance of the strike on 14 October 2026; the derogations agreed with health unions for that day and for any further strike day on 21 October 2026; and if she w…
1035. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 70916/26, if the HSE records the number of people awaiting a first public health nursing assessment or visit in each health region and in the Cork north and east integrated healthcare area; if not, the reason the HSE does not measure waiting times for public health nursing; the number of nursing patient referrals received in …
679. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68803/26, which showed that Publicjobs incurred advertising costs of €99,979 on consultant recruitment campaigns since 2024, mostly for advertisements in the British Medical Journal, with costs recovered from the client, while journals were cited as the information source by 0.5% or fewer of applicants, the amount reimbursed b…
696. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the oversight role, if any, retained by National HR in respect of pre-employment screening carried out by regional recruitment teams under the HSE HR Operating Model; whether National HR has the power to direct a region to take corrective action where screening failures are identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [70586/26]
874. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE employees placed on administrative leave, suspended or dismissed following allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68917/26]
880. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a central record of allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment arising in HSE-run or HSE-funded facilities; if not, the reason; whether she will direct the establishment of such a record; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68913/26]
1110. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to PQ 44070/26, to confirm the position stated by the Health Service Executive namely that there is no criteria or review process to consider equivalence of publicly funded procedures across hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64209/26]
1226. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2902 of 14 April 2026, whether the HSE currently holds a comparable measure of agency savings across all HSE regions; and if not, the date by which such a measure will be in place. [64767/26]
1227. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2902 of 14 April 2026, the total HSE agency spend to the most recent available date in 2026, set against the €720 million ceiling in the National Service Plan 2026, broken down by HSE region; and whether the HSE is currently on profile to meet that ceiling. [64766/26]
1228. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2902 of 14 April 2026, the number of occasions on which each of Tiers 1 to 4 of the Performance and Accountability Framework escalation process has been invoked in relation to agency staffing controls to date in 2026, broken down by HSE region. [64765/26]