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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Apr 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 (25 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Apr 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.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: What appears to be proposed here is an opt-out for service providers. From the outset, there has been a core policy principle that the legislation would not forcibly highlight or identify the specific service sites where termination of pregnancy is being provided and it would allow them to continue in relative anonymity where preferred. To accept this amendment would risk undermining that...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: On a point of information, as with many things the Senator has said, what he has just said is entirely false. The evidence was presented from the HSE. It was not referencing civil society groups. It was a considered, formal submission to the Oireachtas by the HSE and it referenced widespread feedback from its own employees, doctors and nurses throughout the country. The record will show...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I will not respond on behalf of myself but the Senator has described me, the Government and all sorts of people as corrupt and liars and in the pockets of people for some bizarre reason. As the Minister for Health, I must object to the Senator describing officials within the HSE, and by association my Department, and our own doctors and nurses as corrupt. The Senator has just very clearly...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: -----I must be very clear on the record that while I am not interested in Senator Mullen's accusations against me or the Government, his accusations against my officials, against the HSE, against doctors and nurses, and against first-person testimony by GPs here, and that it is somehow cooked up and being brought by identifiable officials in the HSE as a lie that the Government is pressuring...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It is a public document.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Senator can google it.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Senator can google it. It is there.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to bring us back to what it is we are doing with this legislation. I would like to read first-person testimony from a Dublin midwife: Dear Stephen, I am a midwife working in a Dublin maternity hospital. Every day I am faced with anti-abortion protests. This morning I am looking at six men, for most of the time they are men - very rarely do I see a woman. They are being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Elections (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Neither myself nor any of my predecessors in the role of Minister for Health (and previously Minister for Health and Children) have made any orders designating any grade of public health sector staff ineligible to run for local election, in the context of the Local Government Act 2001.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (30 Apr 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: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 616, 617, 618, 619 and 620 together. As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, medical practitioners who practise medicine in the State must be registered with the Medical Council. Doctors are permitted to provide http services and the Medical Council has produced specific guidelines to assist doctors in understanding their obligations in this area. Telemedicine is referred to within the Medical Council’s 9th edition of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, medical practitioners who practise medicine in the State must be registered with the Medical Council. Doctors are permitted to provide telemedicine services and the Medical Council has produced specific guidelines to assist doctors in understanding their obligations in this area. Telemedicine is referred to within the Medical Council’s 9th...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.