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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The EU Digital COVID Certificate regulation lays down the framework for the issuance, verification and acceptance of interoperable COVID-19 vaccination, test and recovery certificates to facilitate free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic. How each individual Member State incorporates the EU Digital COVID Certificate as part of their international travel measures is a national decision. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Testing and contact tracing continues to be a key component of the Irish Government’s response to the pandemic. Currently, PCR testing is the gold standard for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection and it is essential that people who have symptoms of Covid-19 continue to be advised to self-isolate and seek a PCR test from the HSE. Rapid testing also has a role to play as another...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Research evidence consistently shows that exposure to alcohol advertising is associated with an increased likelihood that children will start to drink alcohol or will drink greater quantities if they already do. This is why our Public Health (Alcohol) Act contains strong measures to limit the exposure of our children to alcohol marketing. In November 2019, sections 14, 17 and 20 of the Act...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 639 and 752 together. I wish to advise that the HSE's National Clinical Programme (NCP) for Stroke final draft National Stroke Strategy 2021-2026 was presented at the HSE Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) Clinical Forum at its meeting last July 2021 and was subsequently clinically approved by the Forum, following some minor changes. The HSE advise that...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Information and Communications Technology (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: My Department has no computers using the detailed operating system. In respect of the HSE, as this is a service matter I have asked them to respond directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 Dec 2021)
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: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
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: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
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: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
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: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) collects, classifies, records and stores information in relation to each newly diagnosed individual cancer patient, and in relation to each tumour that occurs. The NCRI advises that figures for the number of women diagnosed with cervical cancer in Ireland for 2020 have not yet been fully validated. The most recently available 5-year data, from the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
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: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)
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: Health Services Staff (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, the attached table, provided by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, outlines the expenditure incurred by the NTPF in public and private hospitals to provide inpatient/daycase and outpatient services to patients in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Expenditure incurred by NTPF related to payments to private and public hospitals...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The information requested by the Deputy is not immediately available. I will ask my officials to collate the information and will respond to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health does not directly fund any charitable voluntary groups. Under Section 38 of the 2004 Health Act funding is provided by the Health Service Executive. I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly in relation to this matter. Please copy finance_unit@health.gov.ie in your reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health does not directly fund any charitable voluntary groups. Under Section 39 of the 2004 Health Act funding is provided by the Health Service Executive. I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly in relation to this matter. Please copy finance_unit@health.gov.ie in your reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, 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 (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, 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 (14 Dec 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The Department's total expenditure in the A7 subhead consultancy for the years requested since 2017 is as per the tables below. It is the policy in my Department only to engage the services of external consultants where highly specialised skills are not available within the Department and, in particular, when such an approach is felt to be more appropriate and cost-effective. The attached...