Hospital Procedures

304. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of guidance on mixed-gender wards and accommodation in hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38290/26]

1066. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health if each WTE consultant neurologists based at Beaumont Hospital carry out daily ward rounds in additional to doing outpatient clinics; and whether some consultant neurologists just carry out outpatient clinics, theatre time and do not carry out daily ward rounds. [36896/26]

508. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of children that required repeat surgery due to retained surgical items left in their bodies, for each of the last ten years; and to detail the categories of items retained in the children’s bodies. [35811/26]

1024. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34018/26]

1033. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether she will establish a national policy framework to define and classify elective procedures based on clinical necessity, including low-value or non-essential interventions; the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32606/26]

1035. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health how the Health Service Executive currently assesses value for money in respect of elective procedures in circumstances where no standardised definition of clinical necessity exists and where the clinical rationale for procedures is not captured in centralised datasets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32608/26]

1036. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal audit, external audit, or examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General has assessed the appropriateness, clinical necessity, or value for money of elective procedures funded by the State in the absence of standardised definitions and centralised data capture; if so, to provide details and findings; and if she will ma…

1037. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has undertaken any benchmarking or comparative analysis of international models used to identify, classify, and reduce low-value or clinically unnecessary procedures; whether there are plans to adopt or adapt such models within the public health system [32610/26]

1038. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of standardised definitions, national policy, and centralised data collection in respect of elective procedures has been formally recorded as a governance or financial oversight risk within her Department or the Health Service Executive risk registers [32611/26]

1039. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health what mechanisms are in place to ensure consistency in clinical decision-making across hospitals and regions in respect of elective procedures where no national definition of clinical necessity exists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32612/26]

1040. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any review has been undertaken to assess the potential scale of elective procedures carried out without clear medical indication within the public health system; if so, to provide details; and if not, whether such a review will be commissioned [32613/26]

1041. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive collects any data, formally or informally, on patient-requested procedures or procedures undertaken primarily for quality-of-life rather than clinical necessity reasons; and if so, to provide details of how such data is used for governance and planning purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matte…

1223. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a consultant in Cork University Hospital, a level one tertiary hospital, was unable to make an urgent or emergency referral to the ENT department in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital (details supplied); whether it is policy that the South Infirmary does not accept consultant to consultant referrals from other hosp…

232. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of cases of ENT surgeries being cancelled or placed on standby at short notice by Beaumont Hospital due to lack of bed availability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28970/26]

233. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of cases of ENT surgeries being cancelled or placed on standby in error in Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28971/26]

200. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health the timeframe in which she intends to deliver provision of MRI scans at Monaghan Hospital; and if she has considered providing for CT scans at Monaghan Hospital. [28450/26]

847. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department is satisfied that current data collection practices for outpatient non-attendance are robust, standardised, and free from retrospective reclassification. [28187/26]

891. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the full sequence of hip-related interventions is assessed as a single clinical pathway, or only as separate procedure-specific reviews (details supplied); if so, the person or body that holds responsibility for ensuring that such end-to-end oversight occurs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28674/26]

867. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of paediatric osteotomies carried out under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals and the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh in each of the years from 2010 to 2016, by location, in tabular form. [21558/26]

1010. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of cancelled procedures at Portiuncula University Hospital in the past 12 months due to capacity constraints, in tabular form. [22340/26]

1703. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures that were cancelled by management at University Hospital Galway in 2025; the nature of the procedures cancelled; the reason for the cancellations, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18464/26]

1704. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures that were cancelled by medical consultants at University Hospital Galway in 2025; the nature of the procedures cancelled; the reason for the cancellations, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18465/26]

1705. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the protocol within University Hospital Galway to be followed in the cancellation of procedures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18466/26]

1881. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the reason an orthopaedic operation in February 2026 was cancelled in Letterkenny University Hospital for a person (details supplied); if a re-scheduled surgery date in March 2026 will go ahead; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19402/26]

1956. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health if she will examine the practice whereby endoscopy units are temporarily shut and repurposed for other hospital pressures, including emergency department overflow, as highlighted by clinicians who note that this practice reduces diagnostic capacity at times of high demand. [19704/26]