Results 1-20 of 8,051 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am happy to meet with the group. This is something that I have worked with Epilepsy Ireland on in the past. I am familiar with the issues. I will very happily meet the group.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The area of dental services is a particular concern of mine. We are trying to expand the number of training places for more dentists. We also have a difficulty in the number of dentists offering services on the public side, which is impacting. We are trying to find a range of different innovative ways to get dental services to schools more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What a statement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is not true

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I could say about the summary that it is CHI's view that this is the best it can do, recognising some of the HR and legal constraints. I want to see the report published in the broader public interest but it is not necessarily the case that in every instance it should be published. In particular, I am concerned that this was a HR report where people who might be constituents of the Deputy,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I very much respect the Deputy's perspective on that and on the culture piece. I had a good meeting with the new CEO, Lucy Nugent, where I was very clear and reiterated that this is a new CHI for the future with a new executive management team, a new approach and a new culture. She needs that team around her to be able to implement that new culture. She is coming from Tallaght, where there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. I am a huge advocate for the reform and expansion of pharmacy services and the Government is committed to ensuring people can access as much care as possible in the community including in pharmacy, which will play a very large and expanded role in this. The report of the expert task force to support the expansion of the role of pharmacy was published in August 2024....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The first and most important thing is to take the steps forward to get this going. There was an inertia on that, if I may say, until recently. It has now been progressed and there are detailed negotiations to take the necessary steps forward. I would like to see this in place and operational and then be able to expand it appropriately. I have already said, I think, that the list of common...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree completely with the Deputy, and I thank her for that. While I do not have an update for her today - it was yesterday we discussed it - I have instructed my officials to see what can be done, and I will revert to her on it. I have to say Deputy Moynihan has got me. I do not know, and I am going to have to find out. I can tell him about estradot patches and so many different...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On 19 June, CHI advised the Joint Committee on Health that neither Temple Street nor Crumlin hospitals accepted the Dickson report when it was completed in 2017. My Department received a copy of the report on Friday, 20 June and my officials are reviewing it. I will be seeking assurance from CHI that the matters raised in the report have been addressed. In light of concerns raised in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What we are talking about is the continued need to expand GP services, as we have pushed more and more services into the community and that is where we want services, such as the chronic disease management programme we discussed, to be delivered. It is the case that the number of GPs is increasing, albeit at different rates in different regions, but we have a particular challenge in rural...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree on the delivery of primary care centres. It is difficult for me to speak in general terms about GPs or other medical staff leaving because there will always be a case of someone who has done that. It is not the general trend of what we are seeing. There is clearly work here. There is the opportunity to set up a business and work in one's own practice. There is the opportunity to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government is fully committed to the ongoing development of regional hospitals, including Cavan and Monaghan which operate as a single hospital entity, with integrated managerial and clinical governance systems, care pathways and support functions. Since July 2020, significant resources have been invested to meet the needs of patients using Cavan and Monaghan hospitals. The total budget...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Waiting times at Cavan Monaghan are improving a lot. Some 35% of outpatient appointments occurred within Sláintecare wait times compared with 25% in the same period last year, which is an improvement that needs to continue. Some 58% of inpatient day cases occur within the Sláintecare wait times, as do 95% of GI scopes, which is an improvement on 87% last year, and 94% to 100% of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sure the Deputy has discussed this in detail with the management group already. I wonder what response he got directly. As I said, staffing at-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputy Carthy is the local representative in Monaghan so I assume he has discussed this in detail with hospital management.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If the Deputy would like me to answer, I will do so. The reality is that staffing has increased in Cavan Monaghan General Hospital by 26% but the increase in Monaghan has been 70%, so Monaghan is not being left behind. I look forward to going there and discussing all these issues, including the business cases submitted or not submitted by Monaghan hospital, as I am sure the Deputy already has.