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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 2024)
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: National Development Plan (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Pension abatement has been a long-established principle of civil and public service pension schemes. It originally applied to retired public and civil servants who returned to an appointment within the same body or sector from which they retired. The Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 extended the principle of pension abatement to apply to retired public and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Sep 2024)
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: Departmental Meetings (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1630 and 1647 together. The Government remains fully committed to improving services across the Mid West region. I have engaged extensively with the University of Limerick Hospitals Group (ULHG) and the HSE regarding the challenges currently being experienced, particularly in University Hospital Limerick (UHL). On 4th April 2024, I visited UHL and met with...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 2024)
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: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 2024)
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: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 2024)
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: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The call for applications for the Addiction Services component of the PEACEPLUS Programme opened on 14 March 2024 and closed on 23 May 2024. Applications received under that call are currently under assessment and I am therefore not in a position to provide any information on the status of individual applications. Once an application has been received the Joint Secretariat, the Special EU...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (9 Sep 2024)
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: Hospital Procedures (9 Sep 2024)
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: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The committee's recommendations are based on the prevalence of the relevant disease in Ireland and international best practice in relation to immunisation. It makes recommendations on vaccination policy to my Department. The ages at which vaccines are recommended in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 was commenced in May 2020, providing, for the first time in Ireland, legal recognition and pathways to parentage for same sex female couples. At its core, the 2015 Act seeks to ensure the safety of donor assisted human reproduction (DAHR) procedures, provide absolute certainty as regards parentage for donor conceived children, and maintain a high...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Sep 2024)
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: Departmental Schemes (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Long-Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 conditions covered by the Scheme. These are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular dystrophies; diabetes...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government recognises that menopause is a key health and wellbeing issue for women in Ireland today. There has been much work undertaken in relation to this issue, driven by the Women’s Health Taskforce and the Women’s Health Action Plan launched in 2022 (see gov.ie/en/publication/232af-womens-health-action-plan-2022-2 023/). The Women’s Health Action Plan 2024-2025...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 2024)
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: Hospital Services (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Sep 2024)
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.