Results 47,001-47,020 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the very important part that Clinical Nurse and Midwife Managers play in our health sector. They have a key role in the effective coordination of care for patients in our Health Service. Recent increases applied to the Clinical Nurse/ Midwife Manager 2 (CNM2/CMM2) scale were the result of the implementation of recommendation 45 of the Expert Review Body...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 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 the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy will be aware, policy relating to testing for COVID-19 is based on public health advice. The current public health advice is not indicating any need for the HSE to provide free Covid-19 rapid antigen tests to all HSE employees. Instead, the HSE has adopted a targeted approach to COVID-19 testing based on a clinical assessment where a clinician requires the result to contribute...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 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 (9 Sep 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 (9 Sep 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 Waiting Lists (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: It is acknowledged that many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments. As part of the multi-annual approach to reducing waiting lists, and just as importantly the length of time that patients are waiting, I published the 2024 Waiting List Action Plan on 27th March. Total funding of €360 million has been provided for the plan this year which sets out...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Eligibility for a medical card is primarily based on a financial assessment which is conducted by the HSE in accordance with the Health Act 1970. The Act obliges the HSE to assess whether a person is unable, without due hardship, to arrange general practitioner services for himself or herself and his or her family, having regard to his or her overall financial position and reasonable...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Sep 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: Nursing Homes (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In order to ease the significant pressures at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), a decision has been made to utilise the new Nenagh Community Nursing Unit building, on an interim basis, as a step down sub-acute and rehabilitation facility for UHL, which will be run by a private provider with expertise in such services. This interim use of Nenagh CNU will greatly support the region pending...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government remains fully committed to improving services across the Mid-West region. I have engaged extensively with the University of Limerick Hospitals Group (ULHG) and the HSE regarding the challenges currently being experienced, particularly in University Hospital Limerick (UHL). On 4th April 2024, I visited UHL and met with management, including Regional Executive Officer Sandra...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (9 Sep 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: Primary Medical Certificates (9 Sep 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: Programme for Government (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Government: Our Shared Future document was published in June 2020, including the health-sector related mission, Universal Health Care. Goals in this section are grouped under seven headings: Delivery of Care in a COVID-19 Environment Sláintecare Promoting Women's Health Healthier Future Mental Health Health-led Approach to Drugs Misuse Age-Friendly Ireland Information...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 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 the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 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: National Development Plan (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Pension abatement has been a long-established principle of civil and public service pension schemes. It originally applied to retired public and civil servants who returned to an appointment within the same body or sector from which they retired. The Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 extended the principle of pension abatement to apply to retired public and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Sep 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.