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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all healthcare workers for their efforts during this most challenging period. The Government announced a COVID-19 recognition payment for frontline public sector healthcare workers, to recognise their unique role during the pandemic. The measure will be ring fenced to staff ordinarily onsite in COVID-19 exposed healthcare environments...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all healthcare workers for their efforts during this most challenging period. The Government announced a COVID-19 recognition payment for frontline public sector healthcare workers, to recognise their unique role during the pandemic. The measure will be ring fenced to staff ordinarily onsite in COVID-19 exposed healthcare environments...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 364 and 368 together. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to reply to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Many of the treatments and services that cancer patients avail of are not solely provided for cancer patients. It is therefore difficult to define the total cost of provision of cancer treatments in the public system, as it is spread across the entire acute hospitals funding allocation. While it does not comprise the total annual cost to the State of delivering cancer treatment in the public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The funding of voluntary organisations through Section 39 is administered by the HSE. As such, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Mar 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: Vaccination Programme (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is an operational 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 (24 Mar 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: Vaccination Programme (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Digital COVID Certificates for booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered in Ireland are currently being issued. Any persons who continue to wish to update their Digital COVID Certificate may contact the DCC helpline directly for urgent assistance. The DCC Service Centre can be contacted on 1800 807 008 or +353 1 903 6437 from outside Ireland. The helpline opening hours are Monday...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. While significant work continues to positively impact on waiting times and improve pathways to elective care, acute hospitals have been impacted by operational challenges arising from surges in cases related to the Delta and Omicron variants. The HSE has confirmed to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Government agreed in 2020 commits the government to ‘Introduce a statutory scheme to support people to live in their own homes, which will provide equitable access to high-quality, regulated home care’. Consequently, work is on-going within the Department of Health to progress the development of the new statutory scheme for the financing and regulation of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Mar 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: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Mar 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: Abortion Services (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As part of the Government’s ongoing efforts to protect public health and limit the spread of Covid-19, the Department of Health and the HSE worked together in 2020 to put arrangements in place to allow termination of pregnancy services in early pregnancy to be provided remotely. For the duration of the Covid-19 public health emergency, where the need for social distancing, reducing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (24 Mar 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: Hospital Services (24 Mar 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: Tobacco Control Measures (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 390 and 391 together. Heated tobacco products are tobacco products for the purposes of the Public Health (Tobacco) Acts 2002 - 2015, and as novel tobacco products within the EU Tobacco Products Directive, which was transposed into Irish law by the European Union (Manufacture, Presentation and Sales of Products) Regulations 2016. The regulation of nicotine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 Mar 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 (24 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The current rise in cases of COVID-19 reinforces the need for all of us to continue to adhere to the public health advice. Following the last meeting of the NPHET, and on the basis of the advice I received from the CMO, the Government removed the mandatory element of mask wearing in areas where it was regulated. The NPHET advice, that was accepted by Government, clearly stated that while...