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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are examining all the various models across Europe to identify models that do just that, but there will still be a balance to be struck on the price we can achieve.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I completely agree. I will ask Mr. Tierney to come in on the specifics. That is a ridiculous inefficiency.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We also need the money.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy is right in his observation that there is nothing in the programme for Government in relation to this. It is an area that I am very interested in. I might ask Ms Conroy to comment on the hospitals' maternity units.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will repeat some of the things that have been said about recruitment. The numbers are up by 25% over that period. The pay and numbers strategy resulted in a net increase of 2,000 people into the health system, with 2,000 people who had temporary contracts made permanent, 2,000 vacancies and a net uplift of 2,000 people. I will be happy to provide the detail to the Deputy. ...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator Ní Chuilinn for raising this important topic and again apologise for the problem last week. The Government remains committed to providing continued investment in the health workforce, including public health nurses, and ensuring this incredibly important service is available for those who need it. Public health nurses are employed by the HSE to deliver safe, quality...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I know that the Senator has been a very strong advocate for this area. It is my privilege to be able to provide this update to her. I thank her for raising this so that I could provide this update to her very publicly and her constituents. Perhaps we might have a further conversation a number of months into their work from September 2025. I will certainly bring the Senator's suggestion...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator O’Reilly for raising this matter and for the opportunity to discuss this very important issue for Cavan but for people more generally. As we know, at a higher level, primary care therapy services generally, such as speech and language therapy, play an absolutely central role in enhancing the health and well-being of both children and adults in the community....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course we will look at the organisation of services more generally. It is very important to me that every hour a therapist works delivers therapeutic services. I do not want to see therapists in cars. That is one of the reasons the Minister, Helen McEntee, is doing such strong work to make sure there are therapists based in schools, where they can have the most effective and efficient...

Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all Senators who have spoken. I know that many more spoke on earlier Stages of the Bill and that there is a very strong interest among them all, correctly, in making this the easiest pathway for children to get the surgery they need when they need it. I really welcome the Bill. It is fantastic to have this collaboration here, and I totally appreciate the purpose, logic and...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for his comments on abolishing the means test for carers. We are systematically trying to get to the point where it has been abolished. I recognise the changes that have been made because what we want to see, as the Deputy said, is people staying in their own homes for as long as possible for their dignity, comfort and connection with their families and because that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It was very important to conduct the national assessment of insourcing, which I commissioned at the beginning of April because of my concerns, and to publish it. The Deputy has had an opportunity to consider it today. We have to use every lever to implement Sláintecare, including rostering for five over seven days, the public only consultant contract and making the best case possible...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is an issue for enterprise, social protection and health. GPs are private practitioners. Many of them have contracts with the HSE to provide public services. Services provided outside of these are a private matter. The Medical Council is there to protect the public. Part of this is registering doctors as quickly as may be, and part of it is making sure that doctors operate to a very...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In the public health sector, a temporary Special Scheme was put in place for 12 months in July 2022 to support eligible staff who were impacted by Long-Covid. At the request of my Department, approval to extend the Special Scheme was granted by the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation a number of times, on the existing terms for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputies for their queries in relation to the medical evacuations to Ireland of paediatric patients from Gaza. I can advise the Deputies that as an EU Member State, Ireland responded to a request from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assist in addressing the current health needs in Gaza. On 18 September 2024, the Minister for Health announced that Ireland would receive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Community Families Programme (formerly know as Community Mothers) is an HSE supported, home-visiting service. It aims to empower parents from pregnancy until their child's third birthday. It provides information and support and it builds friendships and connectivity in local communities. As your query regards an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. As of the 1st...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (1 Jul 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: Health Services (1 Jul 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: Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is an operational matter regarding an individual case, I have asked the HSE to look into the matter and reply to the Deputy directly. I have also been advised that Children's Health Ireland has contacted the Deputy directly regarding this case to say that they are liaising with key colleagues for assistance and a response will be issued via the HSE system in due course.