445. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether the planned statutory inquiry into CHI will include all matters previously examined in internal or external reviews; and to provide copies of those reviews to ensure full transparency in the development of the Terms of Reference. [50333/26]
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446. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to provide copies of the recent HSE internal reviews into CHI which identified systemic failures in waiting list management; and to outline the actions that have been taken in response to the findings. [50334/26]
2063. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the external expert panel review, established following the audit (details supplied) of hip surgeries in Children's Health Ireland (CHI), is commissioned and overseen by the HSE independently of CHI; and if CHI retains control over its remit, administration, or communications with families. [60040/25]
2064. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if all children who underwent pelvic or acetabular osteotomy procedures under the CHI orthopaedic service between 2010 and 2024 are included in the EEPR process, regardless of diagnostic category for example both 'stable' and 'dislocated' developmental dysplasia of the hip; and if not, the clinical or governance grounds on which exclusions were made. [60041/25…
2065. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the specific role Children's Health Ireland holds in the EEPR; if CHI staff are providing administrative, data or liaison support; and the way in which the independence of the panel is safeguarded in practice. [60042/25]
2066. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the EEPR will include examination of governance, consent and decision-making processes leading to surgery, as stated in the CHI FAQ of 15 October 2025; and, if not, if it is confined solely to radiological and technical threshold review. [60043/25]
2067. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the way in which families will be informed about their inclusion or exclusion from the EEPR; and if each family will receive a written outcome from the review, given that many have received contradictory information about their child's status. [60044/25]
2068. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if any separate processes are being established by the HSE or her Department to examine systemic governance failures in CHI's orthopaedic services, distinct from the technical clinical review of X-rays and operations under the EEPR. [60045/25]
2069. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when the terms of reference, membership and final report of the EEPR will be published; and if those documents will be made available to families whose children are directly affected. [60046/25]
694. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 750, 751 and 752 of 25 February 2025, when he intends to write to this Deputy regarding the office of the State pathologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38982/25]
113. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 686, 687 and 688 of 25 February 2025, when a response will issue to this Deputy as promised in his reply of one month ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14275/25]
686. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if his attention has been drawn to a finding of professional misconduct by the Medical Council in relation to the former deputy State pathologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7902/25]
687. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if his Department records the number of court cases over the past two decades in which a former deputy State pathologist (details supplied) testified; and if such data can be shared with this Deputy. [7903/25]
688. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of convictions or acquittals in court which resulted after testimony delivered by the former deputy State pathologist. [7904/25]