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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020, enacted on 2nd August 2020, provided for an increase to the gross medical card income limits for those aged 70 and over to €550 per week for a single person and to €1,050 per week for a couple. In recent days the Government has approved the necessary funding required to implement this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

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: Covid-19 Tests (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE is not currently using rapid antigen tests. However, it is continuously examining the issues involved in their potential use, including sensitivity, as many of the antigen tests developed to date have low sensitivity. The HSE advises that antigen testing may well have a potential role in testing of both symptomatic and asymptomatic people in the future. Studies of these tests,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Oct 2020)

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 Access (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As the HSE has responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres and other Primary Care facilities, the Executive has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020, enacted on 2nd August 2020, provided for an increase to the gross medical card income limits for those aged 70 and over to €550 per week for a single person and to €1,050 per week for a couple. In recent days the Government has approved the necessary funding required to implement this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy may wish to note that the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre has produced a range of guidance notes for COVID-19, including Guidance on building ventilation during COVID-19 which provides an overview of the current literature examining the association between ventilation and COVID-19, and provides recommendations based on the literature, specifically for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The 2013 Government Decision which approved the implementation of minimum unit pricing in Ireland envisaged that it would be introduced in the Republic and in Northern Ireland simultaneously. This was to allay concerns that its introduction in one jurisdiction only would impact on cross-border trade. Legislation to introduce a minimum unit price has not yet been introduced in Northern...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Quality-adjusted life Years (QALY) is the economic evaluation system which is used to set a threshold of cost-effectiveness when assessing medicines in Ireland. The QALY is a measure of the state of health of a person or group in which the benefits, in terms of length of life, are adjusted to reflect the quality of life. One QALY is equal to 1 year of life in perfect health. QALYs are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As the HSE has responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres and other Primary Care facilities, the Executive has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As the HSE has responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres and other Primary Care facilities, the Executive has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Disability services focus on enabling people with disabilities to achieve their full potential, living ordinary lives in ordinary places, as independently as possible while ensuring that the voices of service users and their families are heard, and that they are fully involved in planning and improving services to meet their needs. My primary concern as Minister for Health is to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Report of the Independent Review Group established to examine the role of voluntary organisations in publicly funded health and social services, published in February 2019, highlighted the important contribution that voluntary organisations have made and continue to make in the delivery of health and social care services across the country. The key finding in the Report is the need to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Oct 2020)

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 Provision (13 Oct 2020)

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: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I understand that the question raised by the Deputy concerns long term residential settings for people with a disability. People living in long-term residential care facilities are particularly vulnerable populations in the context of Covid-19 and have been identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be at a higher risk of being susceptible to infection from this disease and for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The report the Deputy refers to is prepared by the Critical Care Programme of the HSE. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 508 and 525 together. Background: In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the HSE committed to the provision of a National Self -Isolation Facility, to provide a service for people affected by Covid-19 (confirmed or suspected cases, or close contacts of confirmed cases) who have the capacity for self-management, are required to self-isolate, but are...