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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (25 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: Medical Cards (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Eligibility for a Medical Card is primarily based on a financial assessment which is conducted by the HSE in accordance with the Health Act 1970 (as amended). The HSE assesses each medical card application on a qualifying financial threshold. This is the amount of money that an individual can earn a week and still qualify for a card. It is specific to the individual’s own financial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Significant progress has been made by my department working in collaboration with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Higher Education Sector to increase the number of student training places across health-related disciplines to meet future demand for health services. The Programme for Government 2025 includes commitments to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 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: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is important to recognise the role that our healthcare workers played during the pandemic. They went beyond the call of duty, working in front-line environments, treating COVID-19 positive patients, particularly in the early days when the control measures that we now take for granted were not yet in place. In response to this, a Temporary Special Scheme was put in place for 12 months in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government recognises the risk that public health sector staff faced in management of the pandemic and in July 2022 introduced a Temporary Scheme of Paid Leave for Public Health Service Employees with Long-COVID that no other sector had. While the EU Advisory Committee on Health and Safety recommended the recognition of COVID-19 (not long-COVID) as an occupational illness in health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. Therefore, I have asked the HSE to provide an update in relation to treatments for SMA patients over 18 years of age. The HSE has advised that once a medicine is approved by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Decision-Making (25 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 Services (25 Jun 2025)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulatory Bodies (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 contains provisions to give HIQA a discretionary power to carry out an independent review of a defined type of a serious patient safety incident, where some or all of the care of a patient was carried out in a nursing home. A minor technical amendment to the Patient Safety Act is required so that it can be commenced at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 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: Pharmacy Services (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The State (the Department of Health and the HSE) has commenced formal contract negotiations with the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU), under the agreed Framework of Engagement, published on 23 May 2025 (see www.gov.ie/en/department-of-health/publications/framework-of -engagement-between-the-department-of-health-the-health-serv ice-executive-and-the-irish-pharmacy-union/). The current formal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The national immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The committee's recommendations are based on the prevalence of the relevant disease in Ireland and international best practice in relation to immunisation. It makes recommendations on vaccination policy to my Department. NIAC continues to revise recommendations to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and medical devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The primary focus of policy and action in relation to e-cigarettes is to reduce uptake by children and young people. The proposed measures in the Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill take into consideration the population-level impact of vaping and the need for a high level of health protection for young people. The proposals include a review structure to monitor the impact of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: To date my Department has not carried out specific research on nicotine pouches however it continues to monitor the national and international evidence on these products. There is currently little evidence on possible health harms which may be due to these being are a relatively recent product. The regulation of nicotine pouches is being discussed at EU level, both in terms of how these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Programme for Government contains a suite of measures on medicines, which we aim to progress over its lifetime. Access to medicines is the focus of a number of workstreams across my Department. Budgets 2021-2024 allocated €128 million for new drugs which has allowed the HSE to approve 194 new medicines. Seventy four (74) of these drugs were for treating cancer and forty-nine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241 and 242 together. The Hereditary Cancer Steering Group oversees the implementation of the NCCP Hereditary Cancer Model of Care. The NCCP are due to publish an implementation report on The Hereditary Cancer Model of Care by the end of this year. As such, I have referred the Deputy's individual questions to colleagues in the HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 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.