Results 161-180 of 8,053 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In the public health sector, a temporary Special Scheme was put in place for 12 months in July 2022 to support eligible staff who were impacted by Long-Covid. At the request of my Department, approval to extend the Special Scheme was granted by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP and Reform (DPENDPR) a number of times, it was extended for a further 12 months at the end of June 2024 on...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Childhood Care and Education (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: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In the public health sector, a temporary Special Scheme was put in place for 12 months in July 2022 to support eligible staff who were impacted by Long-Covid. At the request of my Department, approval to extend the Special Scheme was granted by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP and Reform (DPENDPR) a number of times, it was extended for a further 12 months at the end of June 2024 on...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital 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.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Chair. I am delighted to be here with my colleagues, the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler, O'Donnell and Murnane O'Connor. I am joined by the following officials from my Department: Mr. Derek Tierney, assistant secretary; Ms Rachel Kenna, chief nursing officer; Ms Tracey Conroy, assistant secretary; Mr. Daniel Curry, principal officer; and Mr. Patrick McGlynn, principal...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are a couple of different things there. On digitalisation, I appreciate the Deputy has heard about it before. To be fair, we would not have been able to download the HSE health app unless a substantial body of work had gone into that. Approximately 75,000 people have downloaded it, and it is the first step in this. This comes down to the investment decisions in the NDP and being...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It was €25.336 billion and a little bit more.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry. That was the figure I had in my head for this year. It is the same number, pretty much.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is €7 million.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will have to ask my officials for that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The target was the same. The plan was revised to try to make sure to achieve the plan.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can go through it piece by piece. The HSE achieved €251 million in savings in 2024 across a number of areas, including medicines, €54 million; not doing management consultancy, €34 million; and other pay and non-pay savings across the system, €163 million. I can get a detailed breakdown of that for the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to reach the targets in the first instance. The Deputy is right to say that it is small with regard to the overall budget. However, it is tough to achieve each one of those. For example, the changes made this year in regard to the shift to email from post is a €30 million saving but that now has to be implemented. Another example is that there is an opportunity to save...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I know the Deputy is not.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not as much that. Part of the savings is about staying within profile. For example, the use of a virtual ward, while it might not be a saving cost that I can show the Deputy directly, saves 30 bed nights and those costs help stay within profile as well. All of those things are very important. The outpatient department, OPD, productivity measures, and the more quickly people are...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It has to be seen in the context. We want agency spend to go down. It is difficult to do that and there should be more conversions to whole-time equivalents, WTEs. At the same time, it is also recognised, as the Deputy has recognised, that there are a number of agency staff for whom it suits to work in agency and it is hard to convert.