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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government is committed to recognising the great dedication that frontline healthcare workers showed during the pandemic, and work is ongoing to determine how best we do that.  Concerning the detail of this specific question, I note that a conciliation process is under way between health service management and representative unions at the Workplace Relations Commission on this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE continues to operate the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS).  In the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic, persons seeking to utilise the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS), should review and adhere to the public health guidance and restrictions in place at any point in time.  The current guidance, S.I. No. 267 of 2021, provides that a person may not leave his or her place of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Between May 2020 and April 2021, the number of posts from my Department from the @RoinnSlainte accounts on social media were as follows: - 2,509 Twitter posts, 1% of them in Irish (27 in Irish). - 114 Instagram posts, 8% in Irish (9 in Irish). - 40 Facebook posts, none in Irish. My Department remains committed to meeting all its obligations under the Official Languages Act and to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy will be aware, drafting of a bill on assisted human reproduction (AHR) and associated areas of research, based on the published General Scheme of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill, is ongoing by officials in my Department, in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General. This comprehensive piece of legislation will encompass the regulation, for the first time in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: “As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 was signed into law on 20 December 2018 and commenced on 1 January 2019. Section 7 of the Act states that “The Minister shall, not later than 3 years after the commencement of this section, carry out a review of the operation of this Act.  The review is being progressed this year and will be led by an independent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Attached is the breakdown of funding the Department has disbursed to the NGO and Voluntary sector from 2000 - 2020.  Funding for NGOs is provided from subhead E.1 and relates to a small number of organisations. Most payments in this time period were for the Institute of Public Health, Dental Health Foundation and the International Society for Quality in Health Care. Funding for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Attached is the breakdown of funding the Department has disbursed to the NGO and Voluntary sector from 2000 - 2020. Funding for NGOs is provided from subhead E.1 and relates to a small number of organisations. Most payments in this time period were for the Institute of Public Health, Dental Health Foundation and the International Society for Quality in Health Care. Funding for the Voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Document 26658-21 contains details of funding provided to NGOs from 2010 to 2020. The remaining documents detail payments made under the National Lottery scheme to voluntary bodies, including charities from 2010 to 2016. From 01 January 2017, this scheme has continued through the HSE and the Department has no direct involvement in the award of funding under this scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...