Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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2339. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commission a cost-benefit analysis of a potential policy decision that moves away from procuring insourcing activity in the health service, including any additional investment required to treat the same number of public patients on waiting lists via outsourcing activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45633/25]

Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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2340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer cases that have been diagnosed via insourcing activity between 2021 and 2024; the extent to which cancer appointments have been cancelled because of recent guidance from the Health Service Executive to senior hospital management to immediately limit insourcing activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45634/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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2341. To ask the Minister for Health when a policy decision on the future use of insourcing activity in the health service will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45635/25]

Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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2342. To ask the Minister for Health if she will instruct her officials and the HSE to carry out a detailed assessment of the impacts of a phasing out of insourcing activity in the health service, including for patients on hospital waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45636/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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2343. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to consult all relevant stakeholders in advance of making a policy decision on the future of insourcing activity, including hospital management, patient advocacy groups and insourcing providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45637/25]

Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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2344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients in each of the years 2021 to 2024 on waiting lists who have received care via insourcing activity, in tabular form; the extent to which this has actively reduced waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45638/25]