Results 101-120 of 8,053 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Primary Care Centres are essential to expanding healthcare provision in our communities and represent a very real and substantial commitment to the objectives of both the Programme for Government and Sláintecare - to shift care away from acute hospitals and build the necessary infrastructure and capacity to provide care where we want it to be provided – as close to our own homes...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of the public health infrastructure, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Long-Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 conditions to be covered by the Scheme. These are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular dystrophies;...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE to provide medical services to medical card and GP visit card holders on their behalf. GPs who hold a GMS contract are reimbursed for the services they provide through capitation payments and fee-per-item payments for certain services. Practices also receive a range of financial supports. Under the GMS...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The process for the Beaumont ED proposal is being managed through the HSE capital development process rather than requiring direct submission to the Department of Health or Government for consent. This is in line with the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery, and Reform’s updated Infrastructure Guidelines. As such, I have asked the...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My current legislative priority, approved by Government on 10 September, is the further regulation of nicotine inhaling products. These proposals are now being drafted with the Office of the Attorney General. The General Scheme for a Nicotine Inhaling Products Bill contains a range of proposals to reduce youth use of nicotine inhaling products including restrictions on the display and...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Digital for Care: A Digital Health Framework for Ireland 2024-2030 reflects the changing landscape of health and social care in Ireland and sets out a roadmap to digitally transform health services and improve access for patients. This framework, combined with the corresponding HSE implementation roadmap, sets out a very clear path for the full digitisation of healthcare records and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (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: Health Services Waiting Lists (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Improving timely access to healthcare for all by reducing and reforming waiting lists, including primary care waiting lists, is a key focus of the Path to Universal Healthcare: Slaintecare and Programme for Government 2025+ and I fully acknowledge that there is an urgent need to reduce waiting times and waiting lists for primary care services and to improve consistency of patient experience...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (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: Medicinal Products (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I recognise the importance of timely access for patients to new medicines. Supported by 128 million euros of funding, in the last four years, the State has delivered access to 194 new medicines. Seventy-four (74) of these were for cancer and forty-nine (49) of these were for rare diseases. Budget 2025 allocated 30 million euro for new medicines to come from efficiencies to be...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Health Service Executive (HSE) holds responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is an operational matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE), the HSE has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE to provide medical services to medical card and GP visit card holders on their behalf. GPs who hold a GMS contract are reimbursed for the services they provide through capitation payments and fee-per-item payments for certain services. Practices also receive a range of financial supports. Under the GMS...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE have appointed a Design Team for the extension to Freshford Health Centre, Co. Kilkenny. These works will include an internal reconfiguration of the existing health centre, including minor upgrade works and a proposed new extension with new clinical rooms for practice nurses and GPs, an expansion of the carpark and entrance realignment. A planning application was submitted and a...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public health infrastructure, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Deputy is aware, the National Men’s Health Action Plan was launched on November 18th, 2024. To support the implementation of the actions contained within, the HSE received €200,000 in Budget 2024 to recruit a National Lead for Men’s Health and a further €100,000 to support programme development. The recruitment process to appoint the National Lead for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to thank the Deputy for raising this matter. 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...