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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Jul 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 cyberattack, 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 (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 470 and 488 together. 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 cyberattack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: My Department became aware of some irregular activity on its network on the afternoon of Thursday 13 May 2021, and immediately notified the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and implemented further security measures. The IT systems were the subject of an attempted ransomware attack on 14 May 2021. The attack was contained and prevented from executing across the IT infrastructure. All...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Jul 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 (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Strategy sets out a provisional list of groups for vaccination. The Strategy was developed by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) and my Department, endorsed by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), and approved by Government on 8 December 2020. On the 23rd of February, I announced an update to Ireland’s COVID-19 Vaccine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: There has been considerable progress in reducing infection levels since the peak of the wave of infection in late 2020/early 2021 because of the widespread adherence by the public to the public health measures in place, and this progress was sustained during recent phases of reopening in April, May, and June. While significant progress is being made in relation to the roll-out of our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last year as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While significant progress was made in reducing waiting times from June 2020 onwards, the surge in Covid-19 cases in the first quarter of 2021, and the resultant curtailment of acute hospital services, is reflected in the current...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 482, 489 and 490 together. As the Deputy will be aware, Saint John of God Community Services clg (SJOGCS), has given the HSE 12 months’ notice of its intention to terminate its Section 38 arrangement with a view to transferring responsibility for the provision of disability and mental health service to the State by 1 October 2021. The HSE has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Jul 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: Vaccination Programme (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the current public health travel measures, travellers arriving into Ireland from overseas are required to complete a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form, to present evidence of a negative / non-detected pre-departure RT-PCR test taken within 72 hours of arrival and to observe mandatory quarantine. These public health travel measures currently apply to all overseas arrivals, even vaccinated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Jul 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 (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The services provided at Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, include: - Emergency Medicine - Minor Injuries Unit; - Surgery – Elective surgical beds to provide day and 23-hour post-operative care for non-complex surgical patients. These include general surgical, gynaecology, urology, ENT, Ophthalmology and Dental; - Out-Patients – Endocrinology, ENT, Cataracts, Intraocular...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: - Year Number of Protected Disclosures received 2016 6 2017 18 2018 23 2019 5 2020 10 2021 year to date 4 Only one Protected Disclosure was received from an employee of the Department and the remainder relate to a worker or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE's National Cancer Control Programme, in conjunction with St. Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH), have confirmed that the patient in question was referred to SVUH from St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, and has subsequently had a liver biopsy carried out in St Vincent's.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: There have been no moneys returned unspent to the Exchequer from the HSE ophthalmic health budget between 2017 and 2020.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Jul 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 (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Section 39 agencies are agencies under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004 where the HSE provides a grant to allow the agency to provide services similar or ancillary to the HSE. They were not and are not party to the Public Service Agreements and are therefore not covered by the pay restoration provided for in these Agreements. In October 2018, an agreement was reached by the parties at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: There have been no moneys returned unspent to the Exchequer by the HSE from the HSE CAMHS budget between 2017 and 2020.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 501, 513 and 524 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 502, 512 and 523 together. Details of the proposed inquiry into the historical licensing and use of sodium valproate in Ireland are currently being considered by officials within the Department of Health.