429. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that clinical nursing grades (details supplied) are equally facilitated in accessing blended working and telemedicine-enabled remote consultation arrangements, in line with the HSE blended working policy; whether guidelines exist to assess which nursing-delivered patient contacts are appropriate for remote delivery; the extent to which approval of such arrangements varies by HSE health region or by local management discretion; and the measures in place to prevent grade-based or regional disparity in access to these arrangements. [66242/26]

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429. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that clinical nursing grades (details supplied) are equally facilitated in accessing blended working and telemedicine-enabled remote consultation arrangements, in line with the HSE blended working policy; whether guidelines exist to assess which nursing-delivered patient contacts are appropriate for remote delivery; the extent to which approval of such arrangements varies by HSE health region or by local management discretion; and the measures in place to prevent grade-based or regional disparity in access to these arrangements. [66242/26]

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1. 17 September 2026

   Flexible Work Practices

   429. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that clinical nursing grades (details supplied) are equally facilitated in accessing blended working and telemedicine-enabled remote consultation arrangements, in line with the HSE blended working policy; whether guidelines exist to assess which nursing-delivered patient contacts are appropriate for remote delivery; the extent to which approval of such arrangements varies by HSE health region or by local management discretion; and the measures in place to prevent grade-based or regional disparity in access to these arrangements. [66242/26]

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