Question from Deputy Eoghan Kenny - PQ 12752-26

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the scheduled days and times of all HSE and NPTF "in-sourced" procedures in 2025, from 1 January to 31 December, broken down by specialist areas in Waterford University Hospital ( to provide evidence that all such procedures occurred outside core contracted hours of the consultants doing the insourced work (verified via consultant rosters); took place outside of core theatre and clinic hours (verified by theatre and clinic scheduling software systems) and were paid for via separate budget lines/cost centres (via financially coded payment systems); if the patients treated via an insourcing procedure were on a validated active waiting list waiting in all cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter.