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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disease Management (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Dental Services (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Dentists Act 1985 establishes the Dental Council as the regulatory body for the dental profession in Ireland. The Dental Council is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and publishing a Register of Dentists and a Register of Dental Specialists and other Dental auxiliary roles. As the regulator, issues concerning the registration of Dentist’s are a matter for the Dental...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Aids and Appliances (12 Jun 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is an operational matter for the Health Service Executive, the HSE has been asked to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: EU Meetings (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The table below includes the information requested in relation to the Health-related meetings of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO), which is a configuration of the Council of the European Union, since 27 June 2020. Council Date Attendee Format Informal Videoconference of Health Ministers 16...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Flexible Work Practices (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jun 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jun 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jun 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jun 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jun 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (12 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for the question and for his advocacy in this area. I have discussed this issue with him. Deputy Devlin is Chair of the all-party Oireachtas committee. We met with Diabetes Ireland before last year's budget. I assure the Deputy that this is a matter of great priority for the Government. There are various things we have done in the past few years. One is, in line with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. The technology is not cheap. The cost of one sensor is about €1,500 to €3,000 per year. They are expensive and, hence, the additional cost to the State would be €200 million to €400 million. If the Deputy is comfortable with sending me on details of the case or if his constituent is happy to send them on, I will take a look specifically at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I took another look into the current state of play when I received the question in preparation for this morning. The figures are as follows. There are 36 public or voluntary hospitals, 33 of which now charge €10 or less for parking. The Deputy quite rightly points to the figure of €15, which certainly can be a lot for parking, particularly for someone who...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. In nine hospitals, car parking is free. We have a bunch which charge up to €10 and then we have those three hospitals to which I referred. The latter will, understandably, tell us that this is all well and good but they need money to make it up. It is reasonable for them to state that there would be a funding shortfall in the context of the provision of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thought it was a very useful report. I have a lot of numbers here as I got into a lot of the numbers comparing our baseline with the OECD figures in preparation for this morning. The situation is better than the OECD comparison suggests. I will explain why. There is no question that we have had a shortage of intensive care beds. We know they are needed for very sick patients and for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I have been looking at the ratios. The OECD average is 12 beds per 100,000. When neonatal units, paediatric beds and level 1 beds are included, we get to approximately 11 beds per 100,000. It actually goes way up. For whatever reason, however, we do not count all of them in our OECD submission. We are going on the baseline, that is, the 2018 baseline set out in the report which examined...