Questions from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 32885-26, 32886-26 & 32887-26
Deputy O'Flynn asked about procedures, outpatient appointments, and diagnostic interventions delivered through third-party insourcing. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and Public Affairs
Published: May 2026
Updated: July 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health to specify the total volume of procedures, outpatient appointments, and diagnostic interventions delivered through third-party insourcing in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the proportion this represented of total activity. [PQ 32885/26]
To ask the Minister for Health to outline the clinical specialties and procedures in which third-party insourcing was utilised prior to its reduction; and whether equivalent in-house capacity now exists in each category. [PQ 32886/26]
To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional theatre sessions, outpatient clinics, and diagnostic capacity units that have been added within the public system in 2025 and 2026 to replace insourcing activity. [PQ 32887/26]
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