Health Service Executive

2312. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE-funded hydrotherapy pools available for public use; and the locations of these pools, in tabular form. [20196/25]

2413. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of national independent review panel reports underway currently, by CHO area and, by the type of service under review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20754/25]

2414. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of national independent review panels launched in each of the past ten years, by CHO area and, by the type of service reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20755/25]

2415. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of the pseudonyms ascribed to each person subject to a National Independent Review Panel (NIRP) since the NIRP was established; and the titles of each report generated by the NIRP since it was established. [20756/25]

398. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the number of caterers within the HSE are employed by agencies from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [18215/25]

399. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spends on agency staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18216/25]

416. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if surgical excision of endometriosis is currently being offered as a management treatment to patients by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18319/25]

420. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the HSE’s plans for the former dispensary building in Ballynoe, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18341/25]

263. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1837 of 19 March 2025, to define the phrases in disposal and retained assets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17746/25]

264. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1837 of 19 March 2025, to clarify the way in which the HSE distinguishes between domestic and non-domestic facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17747/25]

857. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has outsourced any vertebral body tethering procedures to private facilities (details supplied); and if so, the number of cases that have been handled through these arrangements. [16525/25]

862. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health how the HSE ensures that outcomes from vertebral body tethering surgeries are accurately tracked and monitored in the absence of a spine register. [16530/25]

863. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health how the HSE is tracking and collecting safety and performance data for vertebral body tethering surgeries, given that there is no specific ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS code for this procedure. [16531/25]

864. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if the lack of a distinct coding system for vertebral body tethering is affecting the ability to audit and assess patient outcomes; and the steps being taken to introduce an appropriate classification system. [16532/25]

866. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health how the HSE tracks and monitors the use of vertebral body tethering-specific medical devices in the absence of a dedicated procedure code. [16534/25]

937. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that senior management teams in the HSE have given approval to well-paid public consultants setting up private companies to do public work (details supplied). [16923/25]

941. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health to outline where the €54 million in HSE savings on medicines was achieved in 2024; what medicines savings were achieved; if it was through negotiation or substitution to generics or other branded drugs; how the figure of €54 million was compiled; to provide copies of the documentation underpinning this figure; and if she will make a statemen…

942. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health to outline where the €34 million in HSE savings on management consultancy was achieved in 2024; whether contracts were renegotiated, or how the level of saving was determined; whether contracts ended or the HSE availed of less services; how much was paid to each management consultant company or partnership in 2024, and the reduction on 2023;…

943. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health to outline where the published figure of €163 million in HSE savings on pay and non-pay costs was achieved in 2024; the main headings where savings were achieved; to provide copies of the documentation underpinning this figure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16965/25]

979. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health to confirm that the information contained in relation to the primary childhood immunisation schedule declination form being issued to parents by the HSE, when completed, will not be shared with any other section or agency of her Department; and if it is used to limit liability. [17292/25]

299. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if she will publish the terms of reference of the HSE Drugs Group and the HSE products committee for medicines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16350/25]

325. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will engage with a local volunteer health group (details supplied) and consider providing it with an office space in the Nenagh primary care centre, which is currently under construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16477/25]

275. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on agency staffing and private recruitment firms, from 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the services to which these payments relate; and the amount paid to each agency and firm. [15863/25]

293. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health to review correspondence (details supplied) and provide an update from the HSE on a case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15999/25]

314. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the progress made to alleviate the pressure that pharmacist staff at the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit (CPU) are working under because of resource challenges; the total current personnel numbers for the CPU (including whole-time equivalent data) and comparative data for March 2024 and March 2023; the plans that exist to address resource chal…