Results 581-600 of 8,239 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 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: Departmental Inquiries (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to assure the deputy that every measure is being taken to reduce the instances of patients on trolleys in Naas General Hospital and in all our Emergency Departments. We are making progress in reducing the number of patients on trolleys nationwide and intensive work is ongoing with the HSE in this regard. This reduction has been achieved despite a significant increase in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 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: Departmental Data (24 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: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 882, 883, 884, 885 and 886 together. Insourcing initiatives of the National Treatment Purchase Fun (NTPF), targeted at the longest waiting public patients, are arranged with the management of the public hospital concerned, in line with the relevant Waiting List Management Protocols, and on the basis of a strict Memorandum of Understanding. Under the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (24 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: Organ Donation (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Part 2 of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024, which commenced on 17 June 2025, provides for the first time a national legislative framework for organ donation and transplant services in Ireland. Under the legislation, all adults in Ireland are considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die unless they have...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (24 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: Departmental Investigations (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Scoliosis and Spina Bifida were identified as a priority in both the 2022 and 2023 Waiting List Action Plans with €19 million of current and capital funding committed to tackle these waiting lists by creating additional capacity. This investment funded a fifth operating theatre in Temple Street, a second MRI in Crumlin, and additional beds. The investment has supported a significant...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Deputy’s question relates to operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to provide a direct reply as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This Government is committed to ensuring ongoing improvements in paediatric orthopaedic services to ensure that children with scoliosis and spina bifida are treated quickly and safely. There has been significant additional investment to help tackle waiting lists for spinal procedures. This has resulted in a significant increase in the number of spinal procedures carried out in recent years....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Insourcing initiatives of the National Treatment Purchase Fun (NTPF), targeted at the longest waiting public patients, are arranged with the management of the public hospital concerned, in line with the relevant Waiting List Management Protocols, and on the basis of a strict Memorandum of Understanding. Under the insourcing agreement, the hospital confirms that the work is undertaken outside...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Investigations (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There have been a number of reviews into orthopaedic services at CHI. These include the Boston Review on Spinal Surgery for Patients with Spina Bifida (published September 2023), the HIQA Review on the use of surgical implants (published April 2025), the Developmental Dysplasia of the hip Audit (published May 2025), and the Nayagam review which is ongoing. In response to these reviews I...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (24 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: National Gender Service (24 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: Departmental Data (24 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. Please note that GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold at least one contract with the HSE for the provision of medical services on its behalf, such as the GMS contract for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 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: Departmental Budgets (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This PQ should be directed to the Department of Social protection as the topic raised is under their remit.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.