1847. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of WTEs in children’s respite services in the CHO7 area each year for the past five years, in tabular form. [41732/26]
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A subject heading for parliamentary questionsHealthcare Infrastructure Provision
466 questions from 100 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
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1848. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of properties that are in use for the provision of children’s respite services in the CHO7 area each year for the past five years, in tabular form. [41733/26]
1852. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any internal operational guidance, assessment template, decision-support document, evidential framework, or staff instruction document used in practice when determining eligibility under the treatment abroad scheme; and if so, if copies will be provided. [41759/26]
1853. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal mechanism exists within the treatment abroad scheme to ensure consistency of eligibility decisions between applicants presenting with comparable clinical circumstances; and if they will outline that mechanism. [41760/26]
1854. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal audit, external audit, clinical governance review, or value-for-money review has examined treatment abroad scheme eligibility decision-making processes since 2020; and if so, to provide details and publication status. [41761/26]
1855. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains written evidential thresholds or documentary standards required before prior authorisation may be approved under the treatment abroad scheme; and if they will provide details. [41762/26]
1856. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether treatment abroad scheme approval decisions are subject to secondary review, peer review, multidisciplinary review, or independent oversight before final authorisation is granted. [41763/26]
1857. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether all categories of treatment funded under the treatment abroad scheme are subject to identical governance, evidential, audit, and approval standards; and if any category-specific governance arrangements exist. [41764/26]
1858. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number and location of SATUs currently operating in each county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41765/26]
1863. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that the Donabate Health Centre has 2.5 public health nurses working in the centre to support a current population close to 15,000 which will surpass 20,000 in two years time; will she acknowledge that additional resources are urgently required to ensure the growing Donabate community has sufficient resources to provide supports to the growing co…
1894. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the reason day care facilities in Donegal town Community Hospital are only available two days per week; if she aware that a large number of people are waiting for day services in Donegal town Community Hospital; the plans in place to increase the day care services to a seven day-a-week service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41861/26]
1899. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national framework exists to measure consistency of service eligibility decisions across Health Regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41866/26]
1900. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any patient-impact analysis has been conducted regarding regional variation in decision-making within the Health Regions structure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41867/26]
1904. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the treatment abroad scheme is subject to a documented risk-management framework; and if so, whether she will provide the title and date of the current framework. [41871/26]
1906. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the dates on which the Comptroller and Auditor General conducted any audit, review or examination relating to the treatment abroad scheme since 2020. [41873/26]
1907. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any expenditure-control thresholds, referral-value triggers or enhanced approval mechanisms apply within the treatment abroad scheme for high-cost treatments. [41874/26]
1908. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department receives regular reporting regarding the number and aggregate value of treatment abroad scheme approvals by specialty or treatment category. [41875/26]
1909. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal value-for-money review of the treatment abroad scheme has been conducted since 2020; and if so, when and by whom. [41876/26]
1910. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the treatment abroad scheme appears on any Department of Health or HSE corporate or operational risk register. [41877/26]
1913. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the treatment abroad scheme maintains a unique case identifier linking each approved application to associated invoices, reimbursement records, payment dates, and treatment completion records; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41882/26]
1914. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether all expenditure under the treatment abroad scheme is capable of being reconciled on a patient-by-patient basis through a single integrated dataset; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41883/26]
1915. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the treatment abroad scheme operates through a fully integrated digital financial management and verification system or through manual and partially manual reconciliation processes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41884/26]
1916. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether payments made under the treatment abroad scheme are subject to post-treatment verification procedures prior to final reimbursement; and if she will provide details of the verification process applied. [41885/26]
1917. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any overpayments, duplicate payments, unverified invoices, disputed charges, or retrospective expenditure adjustments have been identified within the treatment abroad scheme since 2020; and if she will provide annual figures in tabular form. [41886/26]
1918. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the date on which the most recent internal audit review of the treatment abroad scheme was completed; whether any recommendations were issued arising from that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41887/26]