Results 4,961-4,980 of 5,018 for speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the timeframe for commencement of a new school building (details supplied). [41076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 2267. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when funding from TUSLA of €28,000 will be provided to an organisation (details supplied). [40977/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Department of Health is committed to strengthening integrated care pathways to meet the chronic health needs of people who are homeless, based on an inclusion health model. In line with this, the HSE capital plan 2025 will provide funding to expand healthcare facilities for people experiencing homelessness. HSE South West has developed a business case for an integrated inclusion...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2571 and 2572 together. There is an interactive map of publicly-funded drug treatment and drug-related family support services, which can be accessed at www.drugsandalcohol.ie/services_map . The online tool is a partnership between the Department of Health and the Health Research Board and marks the first time a visual database of services has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2811 and 2812 together. The drug market is constantly evolving, and new and dangerous substances are constantly emerging. There is no evidence that Ireland has been impacted by fentanyl and for some time the opioid market has remained stable. Ireland has, however, seen the emergence of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which first presented on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2898 to 2900, inclusive, together. Extensive consultations with stakeholders on the successor national drugs strategy took place earlier this year. These included drug and alcohol task forces, drug and alcohol service providers, alcohol advocacy groups and public health experts. The successor national drugs strategy will consider cross cutting issues...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Department of Health and HSE have provided healthcare services for more than 118,000 Ukrainian refugees (BOTPs) together with a further 52,000 International Protection applicants (IPAs), who have arrived in Ireland since 2022. A total of €174m has been made available for the provision of healthcare service for refugees and migrants since 2022, including €50 million for 2025....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: In alignment with the commitment in the Programme for Government, the Department of Health is tasked with exploring ways to ban commercial sunbed use in Ireland. To advance this commitment, Minister of State Jennifer Murnane O’Connor has established a Cross-Departmental Working Group. This Group will assess the feasibility and implications of a ban, evaluating public health,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 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: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: As part of the preparation of the new National Drugs Strategy, and independent evaluation of the previous National Drugs Strategy 'Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery 2017-2025' was commissioned. This evaluation was published by Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, and the Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: A Healthy Weight for Ireland, the current Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP), was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland Framework (Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025). OPAP covers a 10-year period up to 2025 and the overall aim is to reverse obesity trends, prevent health complications, and reduce the impact of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland (ASOI) developed clinical care guidelines “Obesity in Adults: A 2022 Adapted Clinical Practice Guideline for Ireland”. They were developed with the Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity (ICPO) and the HSE Obesity National Clinical Programme (NCP) alongside 70 specialists from all over Ireland have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The free contraception scheme was launched in September 2022, initially for those aged 17-25. It has been gradually expanded and now includes women aged 17-35 from July 1st, 2024. Approximately 2,400 GPs and 2,050 pharmacies have signed up to provide services and products under the scheme to date. The scheme is open to women, girls and other people identifying as transgender or non-binary,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 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 Promotion (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people for whom an applicant can seek carer's support; and if a maximum carer's grant allowance applies. [49585/25]

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Senator for her very passionate words as a cancer survivor. It is so important that the Senator, through her role, highlights these concerns. It is great to see her doing so well today. We all know how cancer can affect families. There is not a family in Ireland that has not been affected in some way by cancer. I thank her for her advocacy and hope that her health will be...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I will be delighted to follow up with the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, today. It is like everything in life. The Senator mentioned the good things that happened in the process but when someone has gone through the process, the only concern really is the timing of assessments, whether the scan, the biopsy or the test. I will definitely go back to the Minister on that. Early...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Senator for raising another important issue. More young people are vaping and it is also an issue for businesses. How we work on that will be very important. The Government promotes smoke- and aerosol-free environments through a variety of legislative and non-legislative measures, as set out in the tobacco-free Ireland policy. The Public Health (Tobacco) Act banned smoking...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Legislation is one tool we have and it is very important, but we are continuing to support the great voluntary initiatives being implemented by the local authorities and the HSE. They have also been funded to carry out a vaping prevention campaign for young people. Like the Senator, I am very mindful that it is not just young people who are vaping. Rather, it is across the board. We are...