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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is an excellent question. It is exactly what I have asked Bernard Gloster to do. Of course, I have to wait for the report to be able to express my confidence in the quality of the work that has come back. The Deputy may take that as a reference example. As I said my opening reply, if there was underutilised capacity, that is, as the report states, other people in the hospital could...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy raised the issue I am concerned about, namely that there are incentives to be under productive during the working week with a view to, or which have the outcome of, very busy clinics on Saturdays or bank holiday Mondays. That is exactly the sort of incentive I need to see stop. I cannot speak to the relative activity because I do not have that data. The Deputy's example is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are nine HSE rapid access symptomatic breast disease clinics nationally, as the Deputy knows. The HSE has set a target of 95% of urgent referrals being seen within ten working days. Non-urgent referrals should be seen within 12 weeks. The HSE national cancer control programme monitors the performance of these clinics. Last year, national compliance with targets was 76% for urgent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As Minister, I cannot comment on individual surgeons in CHI, the appropriate avenues for addressing issues with individual health professionals is a matter for their employer and/or referral to the appropriate professional regulatory body. Following the publication of the Thomas audit report on DDH surgery, my Department wrote to the HSE to clarify if there are any issues relevant for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can assure the Deputy that commencing this complex and far-reaching legislation is a priority for Government. I also know, Deputy, that you share that objective. I would at this point like to acknowledge your supportive and collaborative approach to progressing work on this. As you will appreciate there are a number of moving parts involved and I am pleased to say that all are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This new hospital will be state of the art and will have an impact on children, young people, and their families in Ireland for decades to come. It will be the hub in a network of care across the country, working with the regional paediatric units in Cork, Galway, and Limerick and the local paediatric units. This approach will ensure that children and young people can receive care as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I recently visited the University Hospital Waterford and saw first-hand the state-of-the-art infrastructure supporting its cardiac services. Government is committed to progressing cardiac services at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) and has invested significantly in providing the resources required to support the delivery of enhanced and extended cardiac services. Construction...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There has been a succession of extant and pending reports which have raised corporate and clinical governance concerns at CHI. In response, I have moved to strengthen structures at CHI by appointing two members of the HSE Board to the Board of CHI. Work is also ongoing to ensure a smooth transition to a new chairperson and the filling of the other vacancies. Further, the Service Level...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The proposed relocation of the Rotunda hospital is at an early stage. As with all major capital developments, this project will need to progress through a series of approval stages. This is in keeping with the Infrastructure Guidelines, published in December 2023. In the meantime, the Government is investing to ensure the Rotunda continues to deliver quality care. For example, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand from information provided by the Deputy that a patient received a letter from the Mater Hospital Breast Clinic advising them that it was not possible to provide a date for an appointment. I appreciate that this must be extremely worrying for any patient receiving such a letter. I have asked officials from my Department to urgently liaise with the HSE to examine the situation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The ESRI report on future GP capacity requirements provides a welcome contribution to our general practice workforce planning. The report shows that as our population grows and ages over the next 15 years, and as we continue to provide more services in the community, we need to continue to increase our general practice workforce to meet the resulting additional demand for general practice...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 regulates the advertising of alcohol products. This is in order to reduce the enormous health harms associated with their consumption; non-alcohol products do not cause such harms. These products are relatively new to the market, therefore there is as yet insufficient evidence to determine whether they might have a positive health impact by encouraging...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to thank the Deputy for allowing me to update the house on this matter. The need for a new Primary Care Centre (PCC) in Portumna was identified as part of the HSE’s overall primary care centre development programme. As the Deputy is aware, the HSE had previously advertised and identified a preferred developer for this new centre and construction had commenced. However, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Programme for Government commits to work toward the full digitisation of healthcare records and to support increased capital investment in health digitalisation through the National Development Plan Review which is ongoing. The Digital for Care strategy sets out the path to a single digital health record for every person in Ireland and consists of three priority initiatives under...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ireland’s health insurance market is community-rated. Health insurance premiums are based on the average cost of providing the services covered by a particular product, rather than on an individual health’s status. Insurers make predictions based on their customer base and what services they will require in the coming year and price their premiums accordingly. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In late 2023, Saolta convened a Capital Programme Oversight Board to develop a clinically led, holistic master planning approach for its University Hospital Galway (UHG) campus. This master planning process has been informed by population health needs and clinical demand for the region and it is proposing a number of projects of significant scale on campus. When complete, UHG will provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Endometriosis is one of the most common gynaecological conditions in Ireland and affects approximately 1 in 10 women worldwide. It can be a difficult condition to diagnose and treat because of the variation of presentation, impacting the physical and mental well-being of patients at varying levels. The National Framework for Endometriosis is being developed by the HSE’s National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.