Health Services

872. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the amount of the total healthcare budget that is outsourced to provide healthcare through independent bodies, private providers or agencies in each of the years 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53388/26]

887. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health with regard to incident data collected by SATUs and collated at national level for annual service reports, the number of incidents that occurred in Tipperary, Clare and Limerick per year for the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53504/26]

888. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1166 of 28 April 2026, the number of UHL FME patients that sought a follow up health check or other services in Cork SATU, as per the arrangement in place and referenced in a previous PQ (details supplied) , by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53505/26]

889. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2790 of 14 April 2026, if further work has been carried out at national and regional level regarding the establishment of a specialist child and adolescent sexual assault treatment unit in the mid-west since the PQ was answered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53506/26]

890. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1156 of 28 April 2026, the further engagements and steps that have taken place at national and regional level since May 2026 regarding the establishment of a mid-west SATU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53507/26]

894. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1168 of 28 April 2026, if the HSE has yet collated overall data regarding the number of victims from the mid-west who have accessed the SATU services elsewhere, notably Galway and Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53541/26]

895. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1168 of 28 April 2026, if information regarding the number of victims from the mid-west who have accessed the SATU services in Cork and Galway has been obtained from said SATUs, given the fact that not all service users engage with An Garda Síochána prior to attending an SATU service; and if she will make …

901. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to expedite the digitalisation of the health service in Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53595/26]

223. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to procure additional ophthalmology service provision to address the needs of the more than 58,000 patients currently on waiting lists for ophthalmology care nationwide; when the next National Treatment Purchase Fund Framework for waiting list activity is expected to be published; when procurement under that framework is ex…

224. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health for an update on the extension and reconfiguration of St Anne's Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52087/26]

225. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of a new primary care centre at Inisboffin, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52088/26]

227. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health for an update on establishing a single point of access for all children, in conjunction with child and adolescent mental health services and primary care services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52090/26]

654. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on a case of a person (details supplied) who is unable to gain access to scheduled respite care; and the date by which they will be provided with scheduled respite care. [51228/26]

655. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing personal assistance hours by at least 270,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51334/26]

692. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the safeguards that exist to prevent vulnerable adults being effectively excluded from routine medical and financial decisions due to overly rigid interpretations of consent requirements in everyday settings such as GP surgeries, dental clinics, and financial institutions. [51595/26]

717. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a lack of public dermatology appointments and services available to under-16s; her plans to rectify this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50887/26]

719. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who have availed of cross border directive for treatment abroad in relation to rheumatology services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50909/26]

731. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in respect of the treatment abroad scheme, whether the public spending code applies to individual funding decisions and to programme-level oversight of the scheme; if not, the framework under which her Department satisfies itself that expenditure under the scheme meets the standards of regularity, propriety and value-for-money requi…

732. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a formal national policy or governance framework, as distinct from administrative processing arrangements, governs the authorisation, funding and oversight of the treatment abroad scheme; if such a framework exists, to provide a copy or web reference; and if no such framework exists, to confirm this explicitly. [50970/26]

733. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a clinical outcome data is recorded in respect of patients funded under the treatment abroad scheme following the completion of treatment abroad; and if no outcome data is recorded, to confirm this explicitly and the way in which her Department assesses the clinical effectiveness of expenditure under the scheme. [50972/26]

734. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a register of high-cost treatment abroad scheme approvals; if such a register is maintained, to state the monetary threshold or criteria used to classify a case as high-cost; and if no such register exists, to confirm this explicitly, in tabular form. [50974/26]

750. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the extent to which paediatric hearing assessments are outsourced, including the number and proportion of cases referred externally; and the total annual cost of such outsourcing. [51026/26]

774. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the long-term measures her Department are taking to prevent negative impacts from relocation on the health of Palestinian refugees accessing medical treatment in Dublin (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51150/26]

776. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the public care available to women who wish to have their hormones tested on an asymptomatic basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51178/26]

782. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the progress made by the HSE and the NWIHP to develop and fund evidence-based, equitable tongue-tie assessment and frenotomy services nationally; the plans in place to standardise regional care pathways so they mirror successful specialist clinics (details supplied); the measures being introduced to address geographic disparities in wait t…