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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North-South Implementation Bodies (29 May 2025)

Simon Harris: ...these, with each chaired by one, or more, member administrations - Transport; Social Inclusion; Planning and Places; Indigenous, Minority and Lesser-Used Languages; Housing; Environment; Energy; Early Years; Drugs and Alcohol; and, Creative Industries. The areas of activity and cooperation under the BIC are decided by consensus, and are kept under regular review. This ensures its work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy; phenylketonuria; haemophilia; spina bifida; hydrocephalus; and conditions arising from the use of Thalidomide. Under the LTI Scheme, patients receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness, free of charge. While there are currently no plans to extend the list of conditions, it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (29 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...of medical exists within a wider eligibility framework, for example: since 2015, every individual aged 70 and over has automatic eligibility for a GP visit cardunder the Long-Term Illness Scheme, patients receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness, free of charge.under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) no individual pays...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. Therefore, I have asked the HSE to provide an update in relation to treatments for SMA patients. The HSE has advised that once a medicine is approved by the European Medicines Agency,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 557. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an appeal under the community drug scheme for a continuous glucose monitoring sensor reimbursement was refused for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28585/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025)

David Cullinane: 586. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of returning funding for local and regional drug and alcohol taskforce to 2010 levels; and the cost to increase funding by 1% of these levels. [28679/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (29 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...to Community Pharmacy Contractors) Regulations 2019 – S.I. 639 of 2019 – which came into effect from 1 January 2020. Since then, the overall spend on fees paid to community pharmacists under the community drug schemes has continued to rise year-on-year. The Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) online system shows fees paid to pharmacies under the community drug...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 646. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drug payment scheme threshold in increments of €5 to €0, in tabular form. [28743/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if weight-loss drugs such as ozempic and mounjaro will be made available to medical card patients; her views on whether they should; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28848/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. Therefore, I have asked the HSE to provide an update in relation to treatments for SMA patients. The HSE has advised that once a medicine is approved by the European Medicines Agency,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I was aware of the briefing and was sorry I was not able to attend yesterday on an otherwise busy day. As the Deputy is aware, the process for processing, authorising and reimbursing drugs is managed by the HSE, which considers all of the different factors involved, including the European position and the effectiveness and broader reach of a drug at a given time. I will examine the case...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2025)

Gerard Craughwell: ...on their hands since then and has left us, a sovereign State, without an Air Corps at weekends. The Garda had to move its helicopter to Weston. The Garda is bringing in a fixed-wing aircraft for drug interdiction and it will have to be in Weston. We have to start getting real. We are awash with money in this country and we cannot keep the air force going 24-7, 365 days a year. We...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Paschal Donohoe: ...the customs arrangements we have on the island of Ireland in the aftermath of Brexit; and second, the work that customs does with regard to seizures and all of its efforts with regard to alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and mineral oil. I can give the Deputy further detail on that if he wishes. In regard to the interventions the Deputy referred to, that is basically when the Revenue looks at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy; phenylketonuria; haemophilia; spina bifida; hydrocephalus; and conditions arising from the use of Thalidomide. Under the LTI Scheme, patients receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness, free of charge. While there are currently no plans to extend the list of conditions, it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (28 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...been prescribed for the purposes of alleviating the symptoms of menopause. This measure is targeted at assisting women who do not have access to a medical card or whose HRT costs fall below the current Drugs Payment Scheme threshold of €80 per month. Prescription charges for medical card holders will no longer apply when such HRT products are dispensed to them. Reimbursement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: ...between Government and the Dublin Simon Community to improve access to healthcare services. The facility includes step-up and step-down beds for acute services, and inpatient treatment beds for drug stabilisation, detoxification and recovery. The Department of Health has provided an additional €5.9m to-date to meet the operational costs for 51 beds in the new facility and to...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Erin McGreehan: ...feel lost in bureaucracy and need to be given answers quickly and efficiently. There are children who are learning to walk again, who were discharged in agony and who were given incredibly strong drugs with no follow-up. It is incredibly upsetting. It is unbearable for me to think of the size of those wee people affected by it. Transparency, openness, flexibility and support for those...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Matt Carthy: ...Gridziuska was travelling was stopped by the Garda. There was no tax, no NCT and the insurance had been secured fraudulently. Driven by one known criminal, the passengers comprised of other known drug dealers, including Gridziuska, but there was no search, no arrests or no seizure of the car. Gridziuska was told to take the steering wheel and then he drove on down the road to hit Shane...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is a reality for public health patients that they have less access to lifesaving drugs compared to private patients and patients in the North, the UK and other countries. We know that only about one third of medicines approved by the EMA ever get authorisation to go on the market and onto the reimbursement lists here. An EU directive is aimed at broadening access to medicines. In...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Teresa Costello: ...as possible. Several steps were promised. We pledged to increased clinical trials and to better support clinicians, researchers and healthcare staff in these efforts. We committed to reviewing the drugs reimbursement process and implementing the Mazars review recommendations so that the entire approval pipeline would be properly resourced. We promised to explore early access schemes,...