291. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Kerry University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [40054/25]
Topics / National Treatment Purchase Fund
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsNational Treatment Purchase Fund
106 questions from 32 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
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348. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1495 of 10 June 2025, the breakdown of weekly and weekend activity, by ordinary rostered hours compared to extra-contractual hours funded via NTPF or other insourcing funding streams, in tabular form. [36726/25]
349. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of all acute hospital-related NTPF spending for the period 2020 to 2025, inclusive, by spending type by hospital, and by year, in tabular form. [36731/25]
252. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the amount of public funding that has been allocated to the NTP fund in 2024 and 2025; and the amount of that funding that has been used for outsourcing public patients to private hospitals. [36448/25]
1. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to ensure that Health Service Executive and National Treatment Purchase Fund spending on insourcing initiatives is transparent and accountable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34742/25]
763. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a media report regarding further alleged abuses of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (details supplied); the steps she has taken in response to these allegations; if she has engaged with the HSE, NTPF and the hospital in question on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33714/25]
882. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if CHI have used National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) money to pay orthopaedic consultants at rates above the standard approved fees or during their contracted public working hours; if any CHI consultants were effectively double-paid that is, receiving their normal salary plus NTPF-funded fees for treating public patients, contrary to the intent that NTPF work …
883. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if those who approved arrangements (details supplied) ensured that all such work was done strictly on overtime with no clash with consultants' public duties; if all payments to consultants for these sessions processed transparently via CHI payroll in line with NTPF's rule against direct pay to consultants; who in CHI management signed off on these arrangements; if…
884. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the internal processes that CHI have had in place from 2019 onward to oversee the use of NTPF funds and special waiting-list initiatives; if the CHI executive or board were required to sign off on decisions to use NTPF money for private or insourced clinics; If so, if those protocols followed, for example, if the CEO, CFO, or clinical directors formally approved p…
885. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she has ascertained the way in which CHI ensured that patients chosen for any NTPF-funded surgery or clinic were selected based on medical priority and waiting time; if there were instances where long-waiting children were bypassed in favour of others in NTPF sessions; if she is assured that CHI did not engage in any practice of resetting or manipulating waitli…
886. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she has ensured that CHI utilized National Treatment Purchase Funds monies to reduce waiting times for the longest-waiting orthopaedic patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34333/25]
891. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health in response to reports that CHI orthopaedic surgeons performed hip surgeries at University Hospital Galway and Cork in recent years, who approved sending CHI orthopaedic doctors to Galway and Cork; whether this was part of an official waiting-list initiative or NTPF arrangement; if the same oversight and patient-selection standards applied there as CHI sites; whet…
893. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health whether any CHI-affiliated surgeons were involved in treating CHI patients at any private providers under NTPF contracts at any stage since 2020; to provide details of each instance; whether any conflict-of-interest declarations or audits have been carried out to ensure that outsourcing decisions were made solely to benefit patients and reduce waiting times; and i…
869. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the mechanisms by which the National Treatment Purchase Fund are accountable to the Minister and to the Oireachtas; if she intends to ensure that the National Treatment Purchase Fund is directly accountable to the Oireachtas and Oireachtas Committees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32437/25]
900. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the NTPF suspending all insourcing work with a public hospital since 11 April 2025; the name of the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32618/25]
911. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the date on which her Department was alerted to potential financial irregularities in relation to National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) funded insourcing work at another public hospital, separate to Children’s Health Ireland; if she will identify which hospital the NTPF has suspended all insourcing work with since 11 April 2025; and if she will make a statement…
1311. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the NTPF from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Letterkenny University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [29148/25]
1446. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health to detail her recent engagement with the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29699/25]
1507. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she will outline all reports or correspondence she has received in relation to concerns about NTPF funding since she came into her post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29948/25]
1508. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if she has received a copy of an internal investigation into the use of NTFP funding at CHI as reported in a newspaper (details supplied); if she will publish the report, if she will ensure that the Oireachtas Committee on Health receives a copy, if not, the reasons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29949/25]
401. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of National Treatment Purchase Fund spending per speciality, per year, from 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22983/25]
404. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total spend by the National Treatment Purchase Fund on the treatment of Irish patients in Northern Ireland and the whole United Kingdom, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22986/25]
405. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of spending by the National Treatment Purchase Fund of private providers of care, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22987/25]
406. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total sum of money allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22988/25]
407. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total sum of money spent by the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22989/25]