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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I acknowledge the distress overcrowded Emergency Departments (EDs) cause to patients, their families, and frontline staff working in very challenging conditions in hospitals throughout the country. The current congestion in Emergency Departments is due to constrained bed capacity caused by combination of the high number of patients in hospital with COVID-19 (1624 nationally on Monday 28th...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 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: National Children's Hospital (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The new Children’s Hospital (NCH) project comprises the main hospital on a shared campus at St James’s, the Outpatient and Urgent Care Centre at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, and the Outpatient and Emergency Care Centre at Tallaght University Hospital. In 2018, Government approved a capital budget of €1.433bn for the NCH project. This included the capital costs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 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: National Maternity Hospital (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Let me begin by restating that I will not bring any proposal on ownership and governance of the new National Maternity Hospital to Government unless it provides assurances around full healthcare for women, including termination of pregnancy, being provided there. Under the proposed legal framework, neither the Vatican nor the Religious Sisters of Charity will play any role in the governance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The delivery of capital projects is a dynamic process and is subject to the successful completion of the various approval stages, in line with the new lifecycle approach of the updated Public Spending Code (PSC). The PSC is designed to ensure that investment decisions are underpinned by a clear policy rationale, and that costs are well understood. In 2019, the PSC was updated and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy is aware, in June 2018, the Government agreed to the establishment of an expert group to review the management of clinical negligence claims. It was chaired by the High Court judge, Mr. Justice Charles Meenan. The expert group examined the system from the perspective of the person who has made the claim to explore if there is a better way to deal effectively, yet more...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (31 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: Health Services Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As you will be aware, the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 provides for the protection of the public by promoting high standards of professional conduct and professional education, training and competence through statutory registration of health and social care professions designated under the Act. The professions of counsellor and psychotherapist were designated for regulation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: An independent capacity review of the evolving Irish healthcare landscape covering the period 2017 to 2031 was carried out and published in 2018. This Health Service Capacity Review involved assessing current levels of activity/utilisation of services and drivers of demand in order to identify future demand and capacity requirements across these health services until 2031. The Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (31 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: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: All capital investment proposals are subject to the requirements of the Public Spending Code (PSC). This is to ensure we achieve maximum value for money for the taxpayer through disciplined project evaluation, preparation, and implementation. The HSE is currently developing a Strategic Assessment Report (SAR) for the proposal to develop additional capacity at the National Orthopaedic Hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Working with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, and the National Virus Reference Laboratory, the Office of the Chief Medical Officer continues to monitor the latest epidemiological situation and the ongoing international disease trajectory, including as relates to existing and emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, drawing advice from international experts and agencies, such as the World...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (31 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: Health Services (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Refugees from Ukraine will be granted temporary protection status. Under this measure, refugees will be considered ordinarily resident in Ireland for a limited time period and therefore will be entitled to access health care services, in line with other refugee groups and Irish citizens. Refugees will be provided with rapid access to basic priority primary care in emergency accommodation. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, 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: Road Traffic Accidents (31 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 Facilities (31 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 Waiting Lists (31 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I acknowledge that the waiting times for elective procedures nationwide are too long, and that this has been a problem for some time. On 25 February this year I launched the 2022 Waiting List Action Plan that allocates €350 million to the NTPF and HSE to address waiting lists and waiting times for elective care. The Plan will reduce active waiting lists for elective care by more...