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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (16 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Diabetes is a complex condition that can have a profound impact on the quality of life of people living with the condition. If not well managed, it can lead to debilitating complications. Management of the condition is required across the entire spectrum of healthcare delivery including self-management support as well as care delivered through general practice, community specialist care and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (16 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Drafting of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel is ongoing and publication is expected during the Summer legislative session.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (16 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As the maintenance of the register of Nurses and Midwives is an operational matter for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI), I have referred the question to the NMBI for its attention and direct response to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 May 2023)

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 (16 May 2023)

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.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann resolves that the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023 be deemed to be read a second time this day twelve months, to allow for consideration by the Joint Committee on Health of the legislative proposals contained in the Report of the Review of the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I again thank colleagues for their time and for tabling this debate. I start by acknowledging the work of healthcare workers providing these services. Many statements have been made here today about the services not being sufficiently accessible and being flawed. They are not sufficiently accessible and there are improvements we can make but I can tell colleagues that I talk directly to...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: We have to bear that in mind. If we do a line-by-line comparison with the proposals in the Bill and the recommendations in the report, the Bill before us does not reflect the recommendations in the report. The Committee on Health is the appropriate place to put this. Various members of the committee have raised questions about this. I am surprised at that. It was an Oireachtas...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the House on Second Stage of the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022. The Bill was initiated in the Dáil in September of last year and passed all Stages on 10 May. The Bill is fundamentally about health practitioners, who are the individuals working tirelessly to deliver the health and social care services...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank colleagues for their support for the Bill and will address some issues raised. The first was whether CORU can do more and do it quicker. I would say most parts of the health service can do more and do it quicker. We have significantly increased the capacity in CORU for exactly these reasons. In 2018, it had 48 whole-time equivalents; now it has 79. There has been a big increase...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform provide for Special Leave with Pay (SLWP) for the recommended public health guidance duration, for civil and public servants nationally who contract COVID-19. At present the guidance on testing positive is to remain at home for 5 days. Those remaining unwell beyond the public health guidance timeframe may utilise the provisions of the Public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2023)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (18 May 2023)

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 Admissions (18 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to 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. This Government is doing a huge amount to increase capacity in our health service by funding an unprecedented increase in staff and beds. We are delivering on this although more needs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 May 2023)

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 (18 May 2023)

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: Pharmacy Services (18 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I recognise the significant role community pharmacists play in the delivery of patient care and acknowledge the potential for this role to be developed further in the context of health service reform. The regulations governing the pharmacy fee structure that were made under section 9 of the Financial Emergency Measures in Public Interests (FEMPI) Act 2009 expired at the end of 2019. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The process of developing the new tender is at an advanced stage. Officials in the Department of Health are engaging at a senior level with the HSE and the HSE has ongoing engagements with home care providers in order to progress the new tender as a matter of priority. The HSE 2018 Tender Framework for the provision of home support services was initially valid for the period 01 September...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Enhanced community response to cardiac arrest is critical to improving survival rates and this is wholly recognised in the National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy (OHCA) – Putting Survival at the Heart of the Community (2019). The National Ambulance Service for example, have a network of over 250 Community First Responder (CFR) Schemes, supported by a Community Engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly. I would also like to remind the Deputy that it is against Department policy to comment on individual cases.