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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is an issue for enterprise, social protection and health. GPs are private practitioners. Many of them have contracts with the HSE to provide public services. Services provided outside of these are a private matter. The Medical Council is there to protect the public. Part of this is registering doctors as quickly as may be, and part of it is making sure that doctors operate to a very...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It was very important to conduct the national assessment of insourcing, which I commissioned at the beginning of April because of my concerns, and to publish it. The Deputy has had an opportunity to consider it today. We have to use every lever to implement Sláintecare, including rostering for five over seven days, the public only consultant contract and making the best case possible...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for his comments on abolishing the means test for carers. We are systematically trying to get to the point where it has been abolished. I recognise the changes that have been made because what we want to see, as the Deputy said, is people staying in their own homes for as long as possible for their dignity, comfort and connection with their families and because that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator Ní Chuilinn for raising this important topic and again apologise for the problem last week. The Government remains committed to providing continued investment in the health workforce, including public health nurses, and ensuring this incredibly important service is available for those who need it. Public health nurses are employed by the HSE to deliver safe, quality...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I know that the Senator has been a very strong advocate for this area. It is my privilege to be able to provide this update to her. I thank her for raising this so that I could provide this update to her very publicly and her constituents. Perhaps we might have a further conversation a number of months into their work from September 2025. I will certainly bring the Senator's suggestion...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator O’Reilly for raising this matter and for the opportunity to discuss this very important issue for Cavan but for people more generally. As we know, at a higher level, primary care therapy services generally, such as speech and language therapy, play an absolutely central role in enhancing the health and well-being of both children and adults in the community....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course we will look at the organisation of services more generally. It is very important to me that every hour a therapist works delivers therapeutic services. I do not want to see therapists in cars. That is one of the reasons the Minister, Helen McEntee, is doing such strong work to make sure there are therapists based in schools, where they can have the most effective and efficient...

Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all Senators who have spoken. I know that many more spoke on earlier Stages of the Bill and that there is a very strong interest among them all, correctly, in making this the easiest pathway for children to get the surgery they need when they need it. I really welcome the Bill. It is fantastic to have this collaboration here, and I totally appreciate the purpose, logic and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will repeat some of the things that have been said about recruitment. The numbers are up by 25% over that period. The pay and numbers strategy resulted in a net increase of 2,000 people into the health system, with 2,000 people who had temporary contracts made permanent, 2,000 vacancies and a net uplift of 2,000 people. I will be happy to provide the detail to the Deputy. ...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am happy to meet with the group. This is something that I have worked with Epilepsy Ireland on in the past. I am familiar with the issues. I will very happily meet the group.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The area of dental services is a particular concern of mine. We are trying to expand the number of training places for more dentists. We also have a difficulty in the number of dentists offering services on the public side, which is impacting. We are trying to find a range of different innovative ways to get dental services to schools more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What a statement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is not true

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I could say about the summary that it is CHI's view that this is the best it can do, recognising some of the HR and legal constraints. I want to see the report published in the broader public interest but it is not necessarily the case that in every instance it should be published. In particular, I am concerned that this was a HR report where people who might be constituents of the Deputy,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I very much respect the Deputy's perspective on that and on the culture piece. I had a good meeting with the new CEO, Lucy Nugent, where I was very clear and reiterated that this is a new CHI for the future with a new executive management team, a new approach and a new culture. She needs that team around her to be able to implement that new culture. She is coming from Tallaght, where there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. I am a huge advocate for the reform and expansion of pharmacy services and the Government is committed to ensuring people can access as much care as possible in the community including in pharmacy, which will play a very large and expanded role in this. The report of the expert task force to support the expansion of the role of pharmacy was published in August 2024....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The first and most important thing is to take the steps forward to get this going. There was an inertia on that, if I may say, until recently. It has now been progressed and there are detailed negotiations to take the necessary steps forward. I would like to see this in place and operational and then be able to expand it appropriately. I have already said, I think, that the list of common...