Questions

930. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the steps taken by the HSE to remedy the governance failings identified by HIQA in Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire; whether the same management arrangements will apply when the unit accommodates mental health residents; whether the change of regulator from HIQA to the Mental Health Commission was a factor in the decision; and if she will make a statement…

931. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 65370/26 and 68811/26, which gave differing accounts of who made the decision, the date on which the decision to cease admissions to and deregister Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire was taken; the grade or title of the official who authorised it; whether that decision is recorded in writing; and if she will make a st…

932. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the date of the HIQA inspection of Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire which led to a compliance notice; the date the notice issued; the governance failings identified; the actions and deadline it required of the HSE; the date the HSE was deemed in breach; whether the notice required the unit to be vacated or whether vacating it was a decision of the HSE; an…

933. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 68769/26 and 68810/26, to which the HSE reply provided none of the information sought, the staffing complement and current vacancies in Unit 1 at St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire; the number of admissions to the unit since July 2025; the number of referrals received and declined in that period; the reason the unit's registere…

934. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason appropriate aftercare, such as physiotherapy, was not provided to a patient (details supplied) following surgery for endometriosis at University Hospital Waterford. [74367/26]

935. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if it could be required for GPs, gynaecologist and other medical professionals to provide patients with endometriosis informational pamphlets about this condition, that explains what it is and the way in which to manage it. [74366/26]

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]

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…

940. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if she will make a statement on the description by a person (details supplied) of the "urgent" need for a funded care pathway for Huntington's disease in a recent case. [74361/26]

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…

943. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the two level 2 palliative care beds at Cluain Árann, Tipperary town, County Tipperary; if the accommodation and associated facilities have been completed and are ready for occupancy; the date on which the beds became operationally ready; whether either bed is currently in use; and the reasons for any delay in bringing these beds into se…

944. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 43763/26, the current status of the capital funding application submitted by an organisation (details supplied); the reason a decision remains outstanding almost 12 months later; whether the HSE capital and estates assessment has concluded; the reasons for the prolonged delay; whether funding is being considered under the 2…

945. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the two level 2 palliative care beds at Cluain Árann, Tipperary town, County Tipperary; the outstanding impediments to opening the beds; and the definitive timeline for their commissioning and admission of patients. [74374/26]

946. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if retrospective applications to the ESAIS will be accepted once a clinic has been added to the approved list. [74372/26]

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…

952. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Health whether any pathway is under consideration to enable clinical embryologists to obtain CORU registration or otherwise permit suitably qualified clinical embryologists to be employed in andrology roles within the HSE; whether her Department or the HSE has reviewed the eligibility criteria currently applied to andrology posts in the regional fertility hubs. [743…

953. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 68480/26, whether a written national policy, protocol or set of clinical criteria exists which sets out when an acute hospital may engage a private ambulance provider for an inter facility transfer in place of the National Ambulance Service; if so, the title and date of the document and whether it will be published; if not, wh…

954. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that appropriate funding is available to the HSE to ensure the implementation of the Huntington's Disease care pathway and to enable the appointment of additional HD specialist nurses and the uplifting of multidisciplinary teams in all neurology centres in each health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74394/26]