895. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be offered a transfer. [73614/26]
Topics / Health Service Executive
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsHealth Service Executive
1,008 questions from 120 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
1,008
questions
1,008 written, 0 oral
120
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
7
departments asked
Questions per month
The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.
Jan 2025Oct 2026
Show as a table
| Month | Questions |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | 2 |
| February 2025 | 31 |
| March 2025 | 32 |
| April 2025 | 43 |
| May 2025 | 36 |
| June 2025 | 50 |
| July 2025 | 40 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 67 |
| October 2025 | 27 |
| November 2025 | 72 |
| December 2025 | 62 |
| January 2026 | 37 |
| February 2026 | 74 |
| March 2026 | 63 |
| April 2026 | 65 |
| May 2026 | 118 |
| June 2026 | 75 |
| July 2026 | 33 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 45 |
| October 2026 | 36 |
Who asks, by party
The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.
The TDs who asked most
Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.
-
303
-
55
-
47
-
47
-
43
-
20
-
19
-
16
Asked of
Debated under the same heading
Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.
The questions
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…
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…
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…
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 …
131. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure all domestic health graduates receive offers of employment with the HSE in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72956/26]
194. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has assessed the impact on patients of transferring outpatient clinics from Beaumont Hospital to Connolly Hospital. [67086/26]
736. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied). [73061/26]
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…
707. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the measures in place to ensure that claims to private health insurers in respect of private patients treated in public hospitals are completed and submitted within the required period; whether recovery of this money is monitored as part of hospital performance management; and the steps being taken to recover claims reported as unpaid over the past three years…
788. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the recruitment controls in place in HSE south west in 2026, including the pause on non-frontline recruitment introduced following the region's first-quarter deficit; the number of posts affected; and the effect on services in Cork. [71830/26]