Results 5,361-5,380 of 11,262 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (30 Apr 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 (30 Apr 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: Medicinal Products (30 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Pharmacists play a crucial role delivering many important services to support the health of our communities, offering expert advice, ensuring the safe supply of medicines, and delivering vaccines to the public. They are also among the most accessible healthcare professionals nationwide. There has been ongoing engagement between Department officials and the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU)...
- Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is completely wrong.
- Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is this deliberate?
- Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It has not been published.
- Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "recognises that: — Children's Health Ireland (CHI) was made aware through the protected disclosure process of a concern relating to the threshold criteria being used for surgical intervention in relation to development dysplasia of the hip (DDH) September 2023; — the...
- Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputies for all of their contributions, both in this debate tonight and in different ways as we work together. We are having this debate as a direct result of the HIQA report, which dealt with three cases of the incorrect insertion of non-surgical grade materials into the bodies of young children. I was asked this evening whether I had apologised to the families; it was the...
- Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----or oversight that it might otherwise have. For example, of the 12 members, four are nominated by the Minister, four are nominated by the board itself and approved by the Minister and the chairperson is chosen by the members of the board. Therefore, it is a bit different. My concern is that, whatever happens 16 or 18 months from now, we have a functional governance structure that...
- Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They do not.
- Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Forgive me. My focus is on the opening of the hospital, the detail of the work of improving capacity in spinal surgeries, making sure that the posts we have funded are recruited, making sure that communications are substantially improved that people are not let down in that way, and making sure that people can have confidence. Of course, I will come to the House at the earliest...
- Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are here today because the HIQA review has laid bare significant failures at Children’s Health Ireland, failures that I believe have put children at risk of harm. Children who deserved the very highest standards of care were failed in process, duty and responsibility. We must confront that failure openly, honestly and with a determination to make sure it does not happen again and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Pension Provisions (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The person in question has already been informed that any correspondence should go through their legal representative.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Staff (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Department of Health officials are engaging with the HSE regarding the provision of clinical placement supports in each of the five public radiotherapy facilities at Galway University Hospital, Cork University Hospital and three sites in Dublin through the St. Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network (SLRON). There are 5 sites providing radiation therapy and it is agreed that there...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am committed to supporting our population screening programmes, which are a valuable part of our health service, enabling early treatment and care for many people, and improving the overall health of our population. It is important to highlight that any decisions about changes to our national screening programmes, or the introduction of new programmes, will be facilitated through...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1979, 1988 and 1989 together. 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: CORU, Ireland’s multi-profession health and social care regulator, is committed to protecting the public by ensuring that all registrants meet a consistent, safe threshold of competence. To enable the opening of the division of the register for educational psychologists, the Psychologists Registration Board (the Board) must first establish its pre-registration education and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Dental Services (29 Apr 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Dental Services (29 Apr 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.