Written answers
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Department of Health
Departmental Bodies
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1110. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of her Department, focusing particularly on those that may overlap in their missions and areas of operation (details supplied). [23817/25]
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1111. To ask the Minister for Health for each non-governmental organisation under the aegis of her Department, to provide a detailed breakdown of its core activities, geographical areas of operation, target demographics, and the specific services or programmes they provide (details supplied). [23835/25]
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1112. To ask the Minister for Health to specify the total amount of funding allocated to each of the identified non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under her Department’s aegis over the past five years, broken down by State funding directly administered through central government agencies, departments, or any other public bodies; grants provided by local authorities or regional entities; additional financial support from public sources, including any specific allocations through schemes designed to support NGOs, charities, and community organisations; and any external or private funding that NGOs may have received, specifically indicating where State funding is used to leverage additional private or philanthropic donations. [23853/25]
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1113. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of non-governmental organisations under her Department’s aegis that charge fees for their services, including membership fees, participation fees, or any other forms of charge to the public; to specify which of these organisations charge fees while also receiving public funding, and how this practice is monitored to ensure that taxpayer money is not indirectly supporting fee-based services. [23871/25]
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1116. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a summary of any specific steps taken to streamline non-governmental organisations under the aegis of her Department, eliminate redundancies, and prevent the duplication of services where organisations may be competing for similar grants or operating in the same areas with little coordination (details supplied). [23926/25]
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1117. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the total administrative costs associated with non-governmental organisations under the aegis of her Department, including the overhead costs related to compliance, reporting, and auditing requirements; and to compare these costs to the overall financial aid allocated to the organisations, identifying whether the administrative expenses are in proportion to the benefits delivered to the public. [23944/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1110 to 1113, inclusive, 1116 and 1117 together.
The table below outlines the agencies and bodies under the aegis of my Department, none of which are Non Governmental Organisations or NGOs.
If the Deputy has any queries related to the operational matters for the bodies concerned, the contact details for each body are also outlined below.
Agency | Oireachtas Contact Email |
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Health and Social Care Professionals Council | oireachtasquery@coru.ie |
Health Research Board | Oireachtasqueries@hrb.ie |
Irish Blood Transfusion Service | oireachtas@ibts.ie |
Medical Council | oireachtasqueries@mcirl.ie |
National Cancer Registry Board | oireachtasqueries@ncri.ie |
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland | oireachtas@nmbi.ie |
Dental Council | info@dentalcouncil.ie |
Food Safety Authority of Ireland | parliamentaryquestions@fsai.ie |
Food Safety Promotion Board – Safefood | parliamentary-questions@safefood.net |
Health Insurance Authority | press@hia.ie |
Health Information and Quality Authority | PQ@hiqa.ie |
Health Products Regulatory Authority | pqsandbriefings@hpra.ie |
Health Service Executive | pad@hse.ie |
Mental Health Commission | pad@mhcirl.ie |
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board | info@nph.ie |
National Treatment Purchase Fund | pq@ntpf.ie |
Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council | director@phecc.ie |
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland Council | PQ@psi.ie |
VHI Healthcare | Brighid.smyth@vhi.ie or sile.murphy@vhi.ie |
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1114. To ask the Minister for Health to identify any existing oversight mechanisms or audits that are conducted to assess the effectiveness of funding allocated to non-governmental organisations under the aegis of her Department (details supplied). [23890/25]
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1115. To ask the Minister for Health to state whether any review or audit has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness, redundancy, and administrative costs of State funding for non-governmental organisations, NGOs, under the aegis of her Department; if such a review has not yet been conducted, to request a detailed timeline and plan for implementing a comprehensive review of NGO funding under the aegis of the Department. [23908/25]
Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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1118. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a full and detailed explanation of how her Department monitors and ensures transparency in the use of public funds by non-governmental organisations under her aegis. (details supplied). [23962/25]
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