Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 70458-25
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the clinical governance standards for gender identity services for minors. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and Public Affairs
Published: December 2025
Updated: January 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health to outline the Department’s safeguarding and clinical governance standards for gender identity services for minors; and to confirm whether these standards require full psychiatric assessment, developmental history, autism screening, and differential diagnosis before any medical intervention is considered.
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