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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (22 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 Services (22 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I fully acknowledge the distress and inconvenience for patients and their families when elective procedures are cancelled, particularly for clinically urgent procedures. While every effort is made to avoid cancellation or postponement of planned procedures, the HSE has advised that planned procedures and operations can be postponed or cancelled for a variety of reasons including capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 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: Medical Aids and Appliances (22 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: Ambulance Service (22 Feb 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (22 Feb 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (22 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: A Ministerial Licence issued pursuant to Section 14 for the Misuse of Drugs entitles the clinician licensee to prescribe, import, supply , possess and administer a cannabis-based product containing Tetrahydrocannabinol. The decision on what to prescribe is a clinical decision in which neither the Minister for Health nor the Department of Health has a role. As the products are Schedule 1...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Feb 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (22 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 (22 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: Medical Cards (22 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: Medical Cards (22 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: General Practitioner Services (22 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. 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 these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 89: In page 46, to delete lines 18 to 34, and in page 47, to delete lines 1 to 11 and substitute the following: “ “AHR treatment to which this Part applies” means— (a) PGT, (b) HLA matching, and (c) sex selection; “genetic counselling”, in relation to AHR treatment to which this Part applies, means a service provided by a...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: That would be the default anyway but I will ask the officials to look at it through that lens as well.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 118: In page 53, line 9, to delete “or agrees to offer, make or give” and substitute “, or agrees to offer, make or give,”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 120: In page 53, line 14, after “include” to insert “fees paid for legal advice referred to in section 50(4) or 58 or”. I beg the Chair's pardon but are we agreeing amendment No. 124 now as well?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: -----of the concept that mothers are the mothers of the children to whom they give birth. The Deputy is asking if that legal relationship exists where there is not a genetic relationship and the very clear legal advice we have is that it does. We will get the Deputy a note from the Attorney General providing chapter and verse, and we can ask for a reference to the Supreme Court judgment to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Right now, yes.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: That is my understanding.