The Taoiseach pushed back against whether the Government was partly to blame for governance failures at Children’s Health Ireland.

The surgeries were carried out by a surgeon at Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street hospital.

Poor governance was identified by the HIQA at three centres operated by Ability West.

Some of the centres had not attained the appropriate An Garda Síochána vetting.

Inspections of International Protection Accommodation services found asylum seekers living in "cramped, overcrowded, undignified and unsafe" accommodation

HIQA found that many children continued to experience significant delays in receiving a social worker-led service.

Poor governance was identified at four centres operated by St John of God Community Services CLG, which has centres in Dublin and Kildare.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) carried out an unannounced inspection of UHL last November

The Health Information and Quality Authority is appearing before the Oireachtas Health Committee on Wednesday to discuss its 2022 annual report

A new Hiqa report revealed that patients in EDs have been forced to wait 80 to 90 hours to get a hospital bed.

The State's healthcare system is under 'unprecedented strain' due to record emergency department attendances

The inspection report found that there were “at least 63 children overdue a statutory visit at the time of inspection”

The 11 consultants warned junior doctors at UHL are being put under "inordinate pressure" in order to maintain acceptable clinical standards at the hospital

The child protection and welfare service operated by Tusla in the Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan area was found to be not compliant with three of the six standards assessed