Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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1395. To ask the Minister for Health if any private companies have been contracted to answer calls to the information line established for families whose children have been identified for follow-up following publication of the developmental dysplasia of the hip audit by Children’s Health Ireland and the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh; if it is exclusively specialist developmental dysplasia of the hip nurses taking calls; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29491/25]

Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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1396. To ask the Minister for Health if any surgeons are contesting the findings of the developmental dysplasia of the hip audit by Children’s Health Ireland and the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh; if any of the 14 surgeons whose cases were audited have been placed on leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29492/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1395 and 1396 together.

As these are an operational matter for the Health Service Executive, I have asked the HSE to reply directly to the Deputy.