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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jun 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: Pension Provisions (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is an operational matter for the HSE, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: In order to ensure the accuracy of waiting lists, good practice around the management of hospital waiting lists recommends periodic administrative validation. Validation is the process whereby hospitals contact patients on waiting lists in writing at pre-planned intervals during the year to ensure that patients are ready, willing, suitable and available to attend for hospital care or wish to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland is the statutory regulator of pharmacists and pharmacies in Ireland and maintains Registers in this regard in the interest of delivering on its vision and mandate to assure trust in pharmacy services. I would not have access to the information relating to the number of community pharmacists employed in the State. Notwithstanding that I can confirm...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Thank you for raising this issue.  This is a complex problem with many contributing factors and multiple stakeholders. Workforce challenges are being experienced in other sectors nationally, and in the pharmacy sector in a range of other countries.  However, robust data for Ireland is needed to be able to determine the current landscape, assess future health system needs and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Ireland’s employment permits system is managed by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. It is designed to attract highly skilled workers from outside the EEA to Ireland, to meet skills demand in the economy where those skills can’t be accessed through the resident labour force, in the short to medium term.  This objective must be balanced by the need to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The system of controls around prescribing and dispending of prescription controlled medicinal products for human use (excepting those products subject to additional parameters under the Misuse of Drugs Acts and Regulations) is derived from the framework of Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004, and is implemented nationally by the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Colleagues in the department and across the health sector continue to work to resolve the issues around supply of Hormone Replacement Therapies. On 19th May, I met with representatives of Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of products implicated in the recent HRT shortages, together with Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the Competent Authority in Ireland responsible for deciding the legal supply category for a medicine. The supply category is specific to the product and is part of the marketing authorisation. The system of controls around prescribing and dispending of prescription controlled medicinal products for human use (excepting those products...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I value the important role community pharmacists play in our Health Service in the delivery of holistic patient care. I also fully acknowledge that community pharmacists have played a vital role in responding to the health needs of the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community pharmacists have ensured the continued availability of a professional, accessible service for the public and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy will be aware, the HSE has proposed a process of planned service changes at Navan. The HSE advises these changes are necessary to support safe service delivery on a sustained basis, and are driven first and foremost by patient safety considerations and very real clinical concerns. While recognising the very real clinical concerns identified, the Government is clear...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I have had a number of discussions regarding Our Lady’s Hospital Navan in recent weeks. Recently, these include a meeting with consultants based in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda on 9 June where concern about the potential impact of the reconfiguration of Our Lady’s Hospital Navan on Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda was expressed. On 13 June, I invited local...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 421 and 429 together. The expansion of the National Newborn Bloodspot (NBS) Programme is a priority for me, and the National Screening Advisory Committee (NSAC) has been progressing work on this expansion. The NSAC is an independent, expert committee which makes recommendations to me and my Department on new screening programmes, as well as changes to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jun 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: Medical Aids and Appliances (23 Jun 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: Public Inquiries (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As was confirmed with the Deputy in a recent response, my colleague the Minister for Mental Health and Older People met with the Care Champions group on the 12th July 2021 and heard the concerns as set out at the meeting and in further correspondence received. The Taoiseach has indicated that a comprehensive evaluation of how the country managed COVID-19 will provide an opportunity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013.  In making a relevant reimbursement decision, the HSE is required under the Act to have regard to a number of criteria including efficacy, the health needs of the public, cost effectiveness and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess". Persons who hold a medical card or a GP visit card are not subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Jun 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.