2184. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether a national written risk assessment has ever been completed in relation to winter patient transfer arrangements across the acute hospital system; and if so, to provide the date of completion and a copy of the assessment. [43223/26]
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32 questions from 12 TDs, between 5 February 2025 and 9 June 2026.
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2185. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health who holds responsibility for approving patient transfer escalation frameworks used during winter pressures. [43224/26]
2186. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any adverse incident review has identified patient transfer during winter pressures as a contributory factor in patient harm since 2020. [43225/26]
2187. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a national register of incidents, complaints, serious reportable events or adverse outcomes linked to inter-hospital transfers. [43226/26]
2188. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether HIQA has ever reviewed the governance of winter patient transfer arrangements. [43227/26]
2189. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any audit has been conducted comparing outcomes for patients transferred during periods of peak escalation against those who remained in their originating hospital. [43228/26]
204. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that were discharged from acute hospitals to nursing homes in each of the past five years where the person did not consent, objected to the placement, or where there was doubt as to consent; and if she will provide a breakdown by hospital group and community healthcare organisation. [35345/26]
205. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in acute hospitals who are clinically discharged, but whose discharge is delayed due to unresolved issues relating to consent, capacity, wardship, decision-support arrangements or deprivation of liberty. [35346/26]
206. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of court applications that have been initiated since 26 April 2023 concerning proposed or actual nursing-home placement where the person did not consent, objected to the placement, or where there was doubt as to consent; the number by year, hospital group, community healthcare organisation and applicant body; and the legal costs incurred by the State. […
208. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether any national protocol requires that a person’s will and preference, capacity, decision-support arrangements, advance healthcare directive, enduring power of attorney or decision-making representation order be checked before discharge to a nursing home; and whether such checks are recorded. [35349/26]
209. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether every adult subject to a contested nursing-home placement, proposed deprivation of liberty, or serious care-placement decision has access to independent advocacy; if not, whether she intends to provide for a statutory right to independent advocacy in such cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35350/26]
210. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has estimated the number of persons in nursing homes who may currently be deprived of liberty, or living there contrary to their expressed will and preference, without a specific statutory safeguards framework; and whether that estimate has informed the drafting of protection of liberty safeguards legislation. [35351/26]
211. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health when the protection of Liberty Safeguards Bill will be published; whether it will apply to nursing homes and other residential care settings where a person may be deprived of liberty in practice; and if she will provide a timeline for publication, pre-legislative scrutiny and enactment. [35352/26]
216. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has estimated the likely annual legal costs to the State of continuing to rely on High Court applications in cases involving contested nursing-home placements or deprivation of liberty in care settings in the absence of protection of liberty safeguards legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35362/26]
218. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether any analysis has been carried out comparing the cost of High Court proceedings in contested nursing-home placement or deprivation-of-liberty cases with the projected cost of establishing a statutory protection of liberty safeguards framework; and if she will publish that analysis. [35364/26]
401. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges, by category and hospital, in tabular form. [60557/25]
456. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting transfer from prison to the Central Mental Hospital Portrane, by prison and gender, in tabular from. [60780/25]
457. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the average wait time for a transfer from prison to the Central Mental Hospital Portrane; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60781/25]
797. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE and her Department on the transfer of patients in the first nine months of 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56804/25]
113. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the number of patients in Mayo University Hospital who have been clinically discharged but remain in hospital; and the length of time such patients have been in that situation. [52242/25]
213. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost due to delayed transfer of care, for each location, to end of September for each of the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form [52519/25]
245. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed transfers of care for the first nine months of each year 2023 to 2025, by each location, in tabular form; the number of delayed discharges and the number as a percentage of all discharges; and the number of bed days lost and the number as a percentage of all bed days available for the period. [52614/25]
847. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether it is normal procedure to transfer a public patient in a public hospital to a private hospital for care (details supplied). [34220/25]
848. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether it is normal procedure to transfer public health patients into private hospital care; and the annual cost of such transfer of care. [34221/25]
803. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will approve the funding to facilitate the transfer of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25283/25]