Results 181-200 of 11,063 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the EU Professional Qualifications Directive (Directive 2005/36/EC), I, as Minister for Health, am the competent authority for several health and social care professions. This includes those with clinical, counselling and educational psychology qualifications who wish to practise their profession in the publicly funded health sector in Ireland. Officials in my Department, in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A capital submission was made in 2021 for an interim modular building on the roof of the Palliative Care Unit and this was approved in February 2022 at an estimated total project cost of € 9.38 million. That capital submission was developed in response to impacts arising from the covid pandemic and the limited available footprint resulted in a compromised brief where accommodation was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Oct 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 Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. The Minister for Health is prohibited from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to the particular query raised, as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 701 and 702 together. The HSE QUIT Service is available to adults who are smoking and vaping (dual-use). In some local services (where there is capacity) behavioural support and advice may be provided to those clients who wish to stop vaping (only). For young people, the HSE Quit 4 Youth is a specific 7-week HSE programme to get help to stop smoking or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Oct 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: Hospital Services (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I and those working on my behalf (including officials and the HSE) are continuing to engage with a range of stakeholders in relation to the issues that the Deputy has raised. This includes through Parliamentary Questions, Ministerial Representations, and briefings. I have also visited Portiuncula University Hospital in person and met with families involved and staff working at the hospital....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (7 Oct 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: Misuse of Drugs (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy is aware that Regulation 7 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2017 (Statutory Instrument 173/2017) provides the statutory guidelines for the administration of controlled drugs to patients and only applies to those controlled drugs with a marketing authorisation as a medicine. Departmental officials continue to consider the matter of the administration of controlled drugs which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and medical devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 708 and 711 together. In 2017, the Health Service Executive (HSE) published a National Clinical Programme for Ophthalmology, which set out a model of care regarding how the realignment of eye services from an acute hospital setting to the community would be undertaken. The HSE has been developing multidisciplinary Integrated Eye Care Teams in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 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: Laboratory Facilities (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 710, 712 to 714, inclusive, 716 and 717 together. Currently, individual hospitals manage their own arrangements for processing genomic samples, with some sites sending them overseas while others have the capacity to process certain samples in-house. The Public and Private genetic laboratories in Ireland that are accredited to the EN ISO 15189:2022 standard...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Laboratory Facilities (7 Oct 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 Waiting Lists (7 Oct 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 Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am happy to update the House on the recently reached community pharmacy agreement and to take an opportunity in this House to recognise the very significant role that pharmacists play in delivering a more accessible and integrated health service across the country. Shortly after becoming Minister for Health in January, I began engaging with the Irish Pharmacy Union, IPU. It was the first...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. Our thoughts are with Aisling as she goes through her treatment programme. On endometriosis, I want to acknowledge the many different groups that have engaged with endometriosis sufferers and the importance of all of that advocacy work. It was a step change to invite women to come into the Department when many of them feel that the Irish health system has so badly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank both Deputies. There are an additional 320 new training places via the CAO in the different colleges. That is a significant expansion. I will speak to my good colleague the Minister for further and higher education, Deputy Lawless. My responsibility is, of course, in respect of the clinical training places that must go alongside the academic piece. We moved from a sort of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 87, 97 and 101 together. I thank the Deputy. Endometriosis has been under-considered by all of us, including the Department of Health and the HSE, but a significant body of work has happened in recent months. I am pleased to say that the national framework for endometriosis is now ready for publication. I am conscious that the budget is next week and we...