Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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2063. To ask the Minister for Health if the external expert panel review, established following the audit (details supplied) of hip surgeries in Children's Health Ireland (CHI), is commissioned and overseen by the HSE independently of CHI; and if CHI retains control over its remit, administration, or communications with families. [60040/25]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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2064. To ask the Minister for Health if all children who underwent pelvic or acetabular osteotomy procedures under the CHI orthopaedic service between 2010 and 2024 are included in the EEPR process, regardless of diagnostic category for example both 'stable' and 'dislocated' developmental dysplasia of the hip; and if not, the clinical or governance grounds on which exclusions were made. [60041/25]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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2065. To ask the Minister for Health the specific role Children's Health Ireland holds in the EEPR; if CHI staff are providing administrative, data or liaison support; and the way in which the independence of the panel is safeguarded in practice. [60042/25]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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2066. To ask the Minister for Health if the EEPR will include examination of governance, consent and decision-making processes leading to surgery, as stated in the CHI FAQ of 15 October 2025; and, if not, if it is confined solely to radiological and technical threshold review. [60043/25]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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2067. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which families will be informed about their inclusion or exclusion from the EEPR; and if each family will receive a written outcome from the review, given that many have received contradictory information about their child's status. [60044/25]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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2068. To ask the Minister for Health if any separate processes are being established by the HSE or her Department to examine systemic governance failures in CHI's orthopaedic services, distinct from the technical clinical review of X-rays and operations under the EEPR. [60045/25]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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2069. To ask the Minister for Health when the terms of reference, membership and final report of the EEPR will be published; and if those documents will be made available to families whose children are directly affected. [60046/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 263 to 269, inclusive, together.

As this is an operational matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE), the HSE has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.