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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2024)

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: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Feb 2024)

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: Departmental Reviews (13 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The HPRA, in their 2017 report "Cannabis for Medical Use - A Scientific Review" stated that if cannabis products that are not capable of being authorised as medicines, are made available through an access programme, patients and healthcare professionals must recognise the limitations of the programme in assuring the safety, quality and effectiveness, as compared with what would be expected...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (13 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 604 and 605 together. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland are the organisation within the HSE responsible for organising national transplant services, and have provided the following statistics. Heart transplants are performed by the Heart and Lung Transplant Department in the Mater Hospital. To the end of January 2024, 3 such transplants have been performed.

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As flagged on Committee Stage, I am bringing forward a number of amendments to align the human tissue Bill with the Assist Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. These amendments include the insertion of definitions, including "Act of 2015", to refer to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; "capacity", which will be construed in accordance with the 2015 Act and provides for a...

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: These are technical amendments to update references to the Coroners Act throughout the human tissue Bill to take account of the recently passed legislation. They have no material impact on the provisions of the Bill.

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: These are technical amendments that rephrase provisions for clarity or update incorrect references to other provisions. They have no material impact on the provisions of the Bill.

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: These are technical amendments that update incomplete references to regenerative tissue and replace them with the term "regenerative tissues and cells". The latter is already defined in the legislation.

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: These are technical amendments to update references to the human tissue Bill that are being inserted into the Coroners Act. The human tissue Bill was previously referred to as the Act of 2023, and these references are being updated and replaced by the Short Title of the human tissue Bill. These amendments will have no material impact on the provisions of either piece of legislation.

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all Senators. It is great to see such cross-party support for the human tissue Bill. It is great that it is to be passed in the Seanad today. We will head back into the Dáil for one final session, hopefully next Wednesday, and then send the Bill to the President, hopefully to be signed. Then we need to get on with the important business of enacting the legislation and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government and I are fully committed to improving genetics services in Ireland. One of the key ambitions of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland is to build a strong patient and family-centred national genetics service that can be accessed equitably across the country and lifespan of patients. In 2023, the Government allocated €2.7 million...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 2024)

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 (15 Feb 2024)

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: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: In 2017, the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare in Ireland published the Sláintecare Report which set out a new vision for the future of healthcare in Ireland. Sláintecare is the most significant reform programme in Ireland’s Health Sector. The shared vision of Sláintecare is to introduce a universal health and social care system where everyone has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Feb 2024)

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: Nursing Homes (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Feb 2024)

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: Departmental Inquiries (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Work is actively ongoing in my Department in relation to sourcing an appropriate person to Chair the inquiry, and the Deputy will appreciate that this is a sensitive matter. The Chair is an essential role that needs careful consideration. The role requires an experienced person who will run a fair and independent process, and who can give the inquiry the time and attention it deserves. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. 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...