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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: A new National Elective Ambulatory Care Strategy was agreed by Government on 21 December 2021. This new strategy aims to change the way in which day case, scheduled procedures, surgeries, scans and outpatient services can be better arranged to ensure greater capacity in the future and help to address waiting lists. The development of additional capacity will be provided through...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Departmental Reports (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy will be aware, the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 sets out the law governing access to termination of pregnancy in Ireland. Clinical practice in the area, including research on latest developments in the field, is a matter for the professional medical bodies involved. The purpose of the legislation is not to dictate the practice of obstetrics. Indeed,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1613 and 1618 together. Following the rollout of the EU Digital COVID Certificate in Ireland, and the successful COVID Booster Vaccination Programme, updated Digital COVID Certificates are now issuing to those who have received an additional vaccine dose. Over 2.2 million additional doses have already been administered in Ireland, and recipients of these...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I assume the Deputy is referring to a mention of “sexual and reproductive rights approach” made during the meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health on 8 December 2021. As the Deputy may be aware, in 1994 the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) recognised rights to reproductive and sexual health as being key to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 was signed into law on 20 December 2018 and commenced on 1 January 2019. Under section 7 of the Act, a review of the operation of the Act must be initiated within three years of the commencement of the Act, i.e., before January 2022. I have commenced the Review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Hospital Staff (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service issue the HSE has been asked to respond directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1622, 1623, 1624 and 1652 together. One official from my Department, the Secretary General, arranged on his substantive appointment to the post in April 2021 to waive a portion of his salary on a voluntary basis. The Secretary General was appointed on an interim basis in January 2021 on his existing annual gross salary of €211,742.In April 2021,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1626, 1695 and 1815 together. The HSE was requested, in 2019, to undertake an updated review of the epidemiology of TB in Ireland, considering the public health impact of having no BCG vaccination since April 2015. The review was completed and the National TB Advisory Committee (NTBAC) met to consider its findings on 16 December 2019. My Department has...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Jan 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: At the outset of the pandemic, substantial work was carried out to develop a critical care capacity plan, a key part of which was the provision of training to nurses to allow them to provide support to critical care as required. In order to ensure the Deputy receives a comprehensive answer, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to her with the information she has requested.