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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: While I agree with the Deputy, local issues that come up, including site selection and other questions like that, all delay the delivery of the different hospitals. We simply need to move forward with all of them in the most efficient way. In Cork, the HSE is progressing that enabling package in advance of the main construction, including pitch and putt relocation, site clearance and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (13 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government is committed to the implementation of the national cancer strategy and to improving the services patients receive. Infrastructural developments are a key enabler of timely cancer detection and treatment. Since the launch of the strategy in 2017, more than €140 million has been invested in capital infrastructure. This funding has improved cancer facilities throughout...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (13 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy raised a number of issues, which I will try to take in turn. On medicines, approval for reimbursement by the HSE was given for 74 cancer drugs between 2021 and 2024. The total spend on cancer drugs in that period exceeded €645 million. We have launched an application tracker and have recruited an additional 34 staff, which is a 100% increase. I expect to see that move...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (13 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with the Deputy. The point about diagnostics is important. It is one of the reasons it is important for me to visit different hospitals and understand the efficiency of their work. Sligo hospital, for example, has two CT machines beside each other, which allows staff to move back and forth between them and thereby increase the number of scans being conducted. Some hospitals use...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. In 2016 a capital programme for older persons residential centres was developed in response to the introduction of HIQA's national residential care standards for older people and the requirement that all facilities providing long-stay beds be registered with HIQA. This is a programme to replace, upgrade and refurbish community nursing units as appropriate at 89...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will address the delay, such as it is. We want to anticipate the workforce planning is there to ensure it is operational. The delay is one that is essential for HIQA. On the Deputy's question about the plan, when a HSE-owned property has been vacated by a health service, we have to determine whether it is surplus to health requirements in the area. That involves HSE engagement with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A scoping exercise with regard to the existing Midleton Community Hospital site is under way to identity possible future uses which align with existing service needs. My view is that we need healthcare capacity and we need to think about that in every way. There are multiple stakeholders. The Deputy's voice and view will be important in relation to that. With a rising population, we are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Disease Management (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Care Services (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Care Services (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP and Reform (DPENDPR) have been very clear that this was the final extension that would be granted, and as such, the Special Scheme will conclude on 30th June 2025. Any employee of the public health sector remaining unwell beyond that date, may utilise the full provisions of the Public Service Sick Leave Scheme which will provide further support. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Healthcare Policy (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Departmental Contracts (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My Department's procurement and sourcing of IT equipment is carried out in accordance with public procurement policy and national and European Union law. The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive, and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which ultimately delivers the best value for money. My officials are responsible for ensuring that the Department's public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 188 together. The proposals in the Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill stem from the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee in 2022, a large-scale public consultation held in 2023/2024 and specific regulatory impact analysis, based on the available data and research regarding the prevalence of vaping in young people and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 189 to 192, inclusive, together. Firstly, I want to be absolutely clear on what the intention was with regard to the Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) initiative. Budget 2025 aimed to continue the excellent ongoing work to improve women’s healthcare and, in particular to support women on their menopause journey. It was originally intended that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Medicinal Products (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Medicine shortages are, unfortunately, a feature of modern health systems worldwide and a global health problem. Issues surrounding security of medicines supply have been increasingly well characterised, both nationally and internationally, in recent years. The causes of such supply issues are multifaceted, ranging from pandemics, geopolitical events, perennial shortages of raw materials,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.